List of eponyms 737958 225710262 2008-07-15T00:52:08Z Timurite 7326591 /* F */ he seven sons of [[Cruithne]] — [[Fife]] * [[Robert Fisk]] - An [[eponym]] is a person (real or fictitious) from whom something is said to take its name. The word is back-formed from "eponymous", from the Greek "eponymos" meaning "giving name". __NOTOC__ Here is a '''list of eponyms''': '''[[#A|A]] - [[#B|B]] - [[#C|C]] - [[#D|D]] - [[#E|E]] - [[#F|F]] - [[#G|G]] - [[#H|H]] - [[#I–J|I–J]] - [[#K|K]] - [[List of eponyms (L-Z)|L–Z]]''' ==A== * [[Achilles]], Greek mythological character — [[Achilles' tendon]]; [[Achilles' heel]] * [[Adam (Bible)|Adam]], Biblical character — [[Adam's apple]] * [[Adam Walsh]], Abduction-Murder Victim -[[Code Adam]] * [[Alvin Adams]] (1804–1877) — [[Adams Express Company|Adams Express]] * [[Len Adleman]] — the third letter of the name [[RSA]], an asymmetric algorithm for public key cryptography, is taken from Adleman * [[Agrippina the Younger]] — [[Cologne]], [[Germany]] (formerly Colonia Agrippina) * [[Alfred V. Aho]] — the first letter of the name [[awk]], a computer pattern/action language, is taken from Aho * [[Matthew Algie]] — [[tea]] and [[coffee]] merchant company * [[Alice Liddell]] — [[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland|Alice in Wonderland]], [[Alice in Wonderland syndrome]] * [[Alice Roosevelt]] - Alice blue, said to be the color of her eyes * [[Alois Alzheimer]] — [[Alzheimer's disease]] * [[Albert, Prince Consort]] — [[Prince Albert piercing]], a common form of male genital piercing * [[Herb Alpert]] and [[Jerry Moss]] — [[A&M Records]] * [[André-Marie Ampère]] — [[ampere]] — unit of electric current, [[Ampère's law]] * [[Roald Amundsen]] — [[Amundsen Sea]]; [[Amundsen crater]], a crater on the Moon; [[Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station]] * [[José de Anchieta]] — [[Anchieta Island]], [[Anchieta Highway]], in Brazil * [[Anders Jonas Ångström]] — [[angstrom]], unit of distance * [[Virginia Apgar]] — the [[Apgar score]], used to determine the general health of neonates * [[Thomas Aquinas|Saint Thomas Aquinas]] — many [[Institutions named after Thomas Aquinas|educational institutions]] * [[Rafael Moreno Aranzadi]], nicknamed Pichichi — [[The Pichichi Trophy]] * [[Archimedes]] — [[Archimedes' screw]], [[Buoyancy|Archimedes' principle]] * [[William George Armstrong]] — [[Armstrong breech-loading gun]] * [[Benedict Arnold]] — traitor * [[Hans Asperger]] — [[Asperger's syndrome]] * [[Robert Atkins (nutritionist)]] — [[Atkins Diet]] * [[Atlas (mythology)|Atlas]], a Titan who carried the sky on his shoulders — [[atlas]] * [[Aurélio Buarque de Holanda]] — [[Dicionário Aurélio|Aurélio's Brazilian Portuguese Dictionary]]. * [[Augustus Caesar]] — the month of August; the city of [[Zaragoza]] (originally ''Caesaraugustus''); the city of [[Caesarea Maritima|Caesarea]] in Israel; numerous other cities once named Caesarea, the Caesarian section, because he was supposedly born in this manner * [[R. Stanton Avery]] — [[Avery Dennison Corporation]] * [[Amedeo Avogadro]] — [[Avogadro's number]], [[Avogadro's Law]] ==B== * [[Isaac Babbitt]] — [[Babbitt metal]]. * [[Joseph Jules François Félix Babinski]], French neurologist — Babinski reflex or Babinski sign, common name for [[Plantar reflex]] * [[Karl Baedeker]] — [[Baedeker's]] * [[Leo Baekeland]] — [[Bakelite]] * [[Balthazar]] traditional name for one of the [[Three Wise Men]] — 12 litre wine bottle (see [[Wine bottle#Sizes]]) * Barbara, daughter of [[Ruth Handler]], creator of Barbie — [[Barbie doll]] * [[Joseph Barbera]] and [[William Hanna]] — [[Hanna-Barbera Productions]] * [[Yvonne Barr]] and Sir [[Anthony Epstein]] — [[Epstein-Barr virus]] * [[Jean Alexandre Barré]] — [[Guillain-Barré syndrome]] * [[Caspar Bartholin the Younger]] — [[Bartholin's gland]] * [[Basarab I]] — [[Bessarabia]] * [[Karl Adolph von Basedow]] — [[Graves-Basedow disease]] * [[Tomas Bata]] — founder of [[Bata Shoes]]; [[Bata Shoe Museum]], [[Tomas Bata University in Zlín]], [[Batawa, Ontario]]; [[Batanagar]], India * [[Francis Beaufort]] — [[Beaufort scale]]. * [[Heinrich Beck]] — [[Beck's]] beer, [[Beck's Futures]] art prize * [[Louis de Béchamel]], a courtier to [[monarch|King]] [[Louis XIV of France|Louis XIV]] — [[Béchamel sauce]] * [[Henri Becquerel]] — [[becquerel]], unit of radioactivity * [[Hulusi Behçet]], Turkish dermatologist — [[Behçet's disease]] * [[Adrian Bejan]] — [[Bejan number]] * [[Alexander Graham Bell]] — [[bel]] — unit of relative power level; [[Bell Labs]], [[BellSouth]], [[Bellcore]] (now [[Telcordia Technologies]]), [[Regional Bell operating company]] — companies. Also gave birth to a slang term i.e. give James a bell, call James on the telephone. * [[Edvard Beneš]] - [[Beneš decrees]] * [[Carl Benz]] — [[Benz & Cie.]] (later [[Daimler-Benz]]) * [[Hiram Berdan]] — [[Berdan Sharps rifle|Berdan Sharps Rifle]] * [[David Berkowitz]] also known as "Son of Sam" — [[Son of Sam law]] * [[Juan de Bermudez]] — [[Bermuda]] * [[Daniel Bernoulli]] — [[Bernoulli's principle]] * [[Sergei Natanovich Bernstein]], [[Bernstein polynomial]] * [[Yogi Berra]], baseball player — [[Yogi Bear]], a bear in animated cartoons; [[Yogi Berra#Quotes|Yogiisms]] * [[Henry Bessemer]] — [[Bessemer converter]] * [[Pierre Bézier]], French engineer and creator of the [[Bézier curve]] * Bieda, a [[Saxon people|Saxon]] landowner ("Bieda's ford" + shire) — [[Bedfordshire]] * [[Laszlo Biro]] — [[Biro]], ([[ballpoint pen]]) * [[Otto von Bismarck]], first German Chancellor — [[Bismarck Archipelago]] and [[Bismarck Sea]] near [[New Guinea]]; [[German battleship Bismarck]] as well as two ships of the Imperial Navy (''[[Kaiserliche Marine]]''); [[Bismarck, North Dakota]] * [[Fischer Black]] and [[Myron Scholes]] — [[Black-Scholes]] model of options pricing * [[Amelia Bloomer]] (1818–1894) — [[bloomers (clothing)|bloomers]] * [[Boann]] the Irish Goddess — The river [[Boyne]] * [[Johann Elert Bode]] and [[Johann Daniel Titius]] — [[Titius-Bode Law]] * [[Niels Bohr]] — [[Bohr magneton]], [[Bohr radius]], [[bohrium]], chemical element * [[Lecoq de Boisbaudran]] — [[gallium]], chemical element. Although named after ''Gallia'' (Latin for France), Lecoq de Boisbaudran, the discoverer of the metal, subtly attached an association with his name. ''Lecoq'' (rooster) in Latin is ''gallus''. * [[Simón Bolívar]] — [[Bolivia]], [[Bolívar (Department)|Bolîvar department, Colombia]], various cities and tows named Bolívar en Venezuela and Colombia, [[Venezuelan bolívar]], [[Bolívar (cigar brand)]] * [[Ludwig Boltzmann]] — [[Boltzmann constant]], [[Stefan-Boltzmann constant]], [[Stefan-Boltzmann law]] * [[Karel Havlíček Borovský]] - [[Havlíčkův Brod]] * [[Bernard Bosanquet (cricketer)|B J T Bosanquet]] — [[googly|bosie]], the [[Australia]]n term for the [[googly]] * [[Satyendra Nath Bose]] — [[boson]]s, [[Bose-Einstein statistics]], [[Bose-Einstein condensate]]s * Professor [[Amar Bose]] — Bose Speakers * Dr. [[Elbert Dysart Botts]], [[California Department of Transportation|Caltrans]] engineer - Bott's Dots, a street and highway lane separator * [[Louis Antoine de Bougainville]], French navigator - the [[bougainvillea]] plant, which he discovered * Captain [[Charles Cunningham Boycott]] (1832–1897) — [[boycott]] * [[Robert Boyle]] — [[Boyle's Law]] * [[Thomas Bowdler]] (1754–1825), published an edition of [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]] without words or expressions unsuitable to family reading, hence ''bowdlerize'' * [[Jim Bowie]] — [[Bowie knife]] * [[Bowman's Capsule]], named for [[Sir William Bowman]], a British anatomist * [[Brahmagupta]] — [[Brahmagupta's formula]], [[Brahmagupta's identity]], [[Brahmagupta's trapezium]], [[Brahmagupta's problem]], [[Brahmagupta's polynomial]] * [[Louis Braille]] (1809–1852) — the [[braille]] writing system for the blind * [[Robert Brown (botanist)|Robert Brown]] — [[Brownian motion]] * [[John Browning]] — Browning firearms, including the [[Browning Automatic Rifle]] * Prince [[Brychan]] — [[Brecknockshire]] * Bucca, a Saxon landowner ("Bucca's home" + shire) — [[Buckinghamshire]] * Professor [[Robert Wilhelm Bunsen]] (1811–1899) — [[Bunsen burner]] *General [[Ambrose Burnside]] — [[sideburns]] ==C== * [[John Cadbury]] — opened his shop in 1824 which became the company [[Cadbury-Schweppes|Cadbury]] * [[Julius Caesar]] — the month of July, [[Caesar cipher]], the titles [[Czar]], [[Tsar]], and [[Kaiser]], the [[Caesar (cocktail)|Bloody Caesar]] cocktail. An urban legend also erroneously credits Julius Caesar as having given his name to the [[Caesarian section]]; the two are likely unrelated, however. * [[John Calvin]], 16th century theologian — the religious doctrine of [[Calvinism]]; Calvin's name (with [[Thomas Hobbes]]) inspired name of the [[Calvin and Hobbes]] comic strip * [[Caesar Cardini]], restaurateur — [[Caesar salad]] * [[Giacomo Casanova|Gian Giacomo Girolamo Casanova]] — [[casanova]], a [[womanizer]] * Sam Carr, neighbour of [[David Berkowitz]] also known as "Son of Sam" — [[Son of Sam law]] * [[René Descartes]], also known as Cartesius — [[Cartesian coordinate system]] * [[Hendrik Casimir]] — [[Casimir effect]] * [[Eduard Čech]] - [[Čech cohomology]], [[Čech complex]], [[Čech homology]], [[Stone–Čech compactification]] * [[Anders Celsius]] — [[degree Celsius]] (unit of temperature) [[Celsius (crater)|Celsius]] (Moon crater) * [[Ceredig]], son of [[Cunedda]] — [[Cardigan, Ceredigion|Cardigan]] * [[Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar]] — [[Chandrasekhar limit]], [[Chandra X-ray Observatory]] * [[Jean-Martin Charcot]], French neurologist — [[Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease]]; ''Maladie de Charcot'', the French name for [[motor neurone disease]] * King [[Charles I of England]] — [[North Carolina]] and [[South Carolina]] * [[Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor]] — castle [[Karlštejn]], city [[Karlovy Vary]], [[Charles University]], [[Charles Bridge]], asteroid [[16951 Carolus Quartus]] * [[Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor]] — château [[Karlova Koruna]] * [[Jacques Charles]] and [[Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac]] — [[Law of Charles and Gay-Lussac]] (frequently called simply Charles' Law) * [[Bobby Charlton]] — the "Bobby Charlton" [[comb over]] hairstyle * [[Nicolas Chauvin]] — [[chauvinism]] * [[Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov]] — [[Cherenkov effect]] * [[Jesus]] [[Christ]], "The Saviour" — [[El Salvador]], [[Christianity]], [[Christmas]] * [[Saint Christopher]] — [[Saint Kitts and Nevis]] * [[Walter Chrysler]] — founder of [[Chrysler]], [[DaimlerChrysler]] * [[Alfred Chuang]] — the third letter of the company name [[BEA Systems]], is taken from Alfred, a co-founder * [[Alonzo Church]] — [[Church-Turing thesis]], [[Church-Turing-Deutsch principle]] * [[Cincinnatus]], Roman statesman — [[Cincinnati, Ohio]] (indirectly) * [[Senator Claghorn]], regular character on the [[Fred Allen]] radio show — [[Foghorn Leghorn]], Warner Bros. cartoons * [[Claudius]], Roman emperor — the city of [[Kayseri]], formerly Caesarea Mazaca, in Turkey * [[Ruth Cleveland]], daughter of Pres. [[Grover Cleveland]] — [[Baby Ruth]] candy bars * [[Bill Coleman]] — the first letter of the company name [[BEA Systems]], is taken from Bill, a co-founder * [[Samuel Colt]] — [[Colt Firearms|Colt]] revolver *[[Christopher Columbus]] — many places and territories, see [[Columbus]], [[Colombia]], [[Colombo]], [[British Columbia]] in Canada * [[Arthur Compton]] — [[Compton effect]] * [[Constantine I]] - Roman Emperor who in 330 moved the capital of the Empire to [[Constantinople]] * Captain [[James Cook]] — [[Cook Islands]]; [[Cooktown]] ([[Queensland]]); [[James Cook University]] ([[Townsville]]); [[Cook, Australian Capital Territory|Cook]] (suburb of [[Canberra]]; co-named for Sir [[Joseph Cook]]); [[Cooks River]]; [[Division of Cook|Cook (Federal electorate)]]; [[James Cook University Hospital]] ([[Marton, Middlesbrough|Marton]], [[Middlesbrough]], [[England]]) * [[Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis]] — [[Coriolis effect]] * [[Charles-Augustin de Coulomb]] — [[coulomb]] — unit of electric charge, [[Coulomb's law]] * [[Michael Cowpland]] — founded the software company [[Corel]] (from Cowpland's Research Laboratory). Cowpland also co-founded the [[PBX]] Design / Build Company [[Mitel]] with [[Terry Matthews]]. (Mitel stands '''MI'''ke and '''TE'''rry's '''L'''awnmowers) * [[Seymour Cray]] — [[Cray Research]] * [[Cunedda]] — [[Gwynedd]] * [[Maria Sklodowska-Curie|Marie]] and [[Pierre Curie]] — [[curie]], unit of radioactivity, [[curium]], chemical element * [[Pierre Curie]] — [[Curie point]] * [[Harvey Cushing]] — [[Cushing Disease]], a pituitary tumor producing adrenocorticotropic hormone that causes excessive cortisol production * [[Harvey Cushing]] — [[Cushing's Syndrome]], a clinical condition characterized by excessive production of cortisol * [[Cuthbert of Lindisfarne|Saint Cuthbert]] ("church of Cuthbert") — [[Kirkcudbright]] ==D== * [[Jacques Daguerre]] — [[Daguerreotype]] * [[Anders Dahl]] (1751-1789) — [[Dahlia]] * [[Gottlieb Daimler]] and [[Karl Benz]] — [[Daimler-Benz]] (later [[DaimlerChrysler]]) * [[John Dalton]] — [[dalton (unit)|dalton]], non-SI unit of atomic mass * [[Glenn Danzig]] -- [[Danzig]], founder of the Heavy Metal band Danzig * [[Charles Darwin]] — [[Darwinism]], [[Neural Darwinism]], [[Social Darwinism]], [[Darwinian Happiness]], [[Darwin's theory of evolution]], [[Darwinian selection]], [[Non-darwinian evolution]], [[Darwinian medicine]], [[Darwin's Dangerous Idea]], [[Darwin, Northern Territory]], [[Darwin Mounds]], [[Charles Darwin University]], [[Darwin College, Cambridge]], [[Charles Darwin National Park]], [[Adelaide-Darwin railway]], [[Darwin Awards]], [[Darwin's finches]], Darwin Island, Charles Darwin Research Station, Darwin Bay, ''Lecocarpus darwinii'' (a tree species) in ([[Galápagos Islands]]), [[Charles Darwin Foundation]] * [[Adi Dassler]] — founder of [[adidas]] * [[Arthur Davidson (Harley-Davidson co-founder)|Arthur Davidson]] and [[William Harley (Harley-Davidson co-founder)|William Harley]] — [[Harley-Davidson]] * [[Humphry Davy]] — [[Davy lamp]] * [[Paul de Casteljau]], [[de Casteljau's algorithm]] * [[Michael Dell]] — founder of [[Dell]], the computer company * [[David Eisenhower]], grandson of US President [[Dwight Eisenhower]] — [[Camp David]] US presidential retreat *[[Thomas Derrick]] (c. 1600), British [[capital punishment|hangman]] — [[Derrick]] (lifting device) * [[Melvil Dewey]] — [[Dewey Decimal System]] * [[Thomas Dewey|Thomas Edmund Dewey]], American politician — [[Huey, Dewey and Louie|Dewey]], one of "Huey, Dewey and Louie", animated cartoon characters * [[David Deutsch]] — [[Church-Turing-Deutsch Principle]] *[[Bo Diddley]] — Popularizer of the Bo Diddley beat *[[Rudolf Diesel]] — the [[diesel engine]] * [[Paul Dirac]] — [[Dirac's constant]], [[Dirac equation]], [[Dirac delta function]], [[Dirac sea]], [[Dirac Prize]], [[Fermi-Dirac statistics]] * [[Walt Disney]] — founder, [[The Walt Disney Company]], [[Disneyland]] *[[Doily]] family (c. 1700) * [[Ray Dolby]] — Dolby Stereo, Dolby Surround and Dolby Pro Logic * [[Donatello]], [[Renaissance]] painter — [[Donatello (TMNT)|Donatello]], one of the [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]] comic characters * [[Christian Doppler]] — [[Doppler radar]], [[Doppler effect]] * [[Charles Dow]] and [[Edward Jones (statistician)|Edward Jones]] — [[Dow Jones & Company]] * [[Herbert Dow]] — [[Dow Chemical Company|The Dow Chemical Company]] * [[Guillaume Dupuytren]] — [[Dupuytren's contracture]], [[Dupuytren's fracture]] * Dr. [[August Dvorak]] — [[Dvorak Simplified Keyboard]] * [[Dylan Dog]] - Italian comic series ==E== * [[Thomas Edison]] — [[thermionic emission|Edison effect]], [[Edison Records]], [[Edisonian approach]], [[Edison, Georgia]], [[Edison, New Jersey]], [[Edisonade]] * [[Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn]] (younger brother of [[George IV of the United Kingdom|King George IV]] and [[William IV of the United Kingdom|King William IV]]), commander of British forces in [[City of Halifax|Halifax]] — [[Prince Edward Island]] * [[Gustave Eiffel]] — [[Eiffel Tower]], designer * [[Albert Einstein]] — [[Einstein refrigerator]], [[einsteinium]] — chemical element, [[Bose-Einstein statistics]], [[Bose-Einstein condensate]]s * Queen [[Elizabeth I of England]], the "Virgin Queen" — [[Virginia]] and [[West Virginia]] * [[Erasmus of Formiae|Saint Elmo]] — [[St. Elmo's fire]] * [[Loránd Eötvös]] — [[eotvos (unit)|eotvos]], gravitational gradient * Sir [[Anthony Epstein]] and [[Yvonne Barr]] — [[Epstein-Barr virus]] * [[Lars Magnus Ericsson]] — [[Ericsson]] * [[Leonhard Euler]] — [[Euler's formula]], [[Eulerian path]], [[Euler equations]]; ''see also'': [[List of topics named after Leonhard Euler]] * [[Bartolomeo Eustachi]] — [[Eustachian tube]] * Sir [[George Everest]] — [[Mount Everest]] * [[Ewale a Mbedi]] — [[Duala people]], [[Douala]] (from a variant of his name, Dwala) ==F== * [[Gabriel Fahrenheit]] (1686–1736) — the [[Fahrenheit]] scale * [[Gabriele Falloppio]] — [[Fallopian tube]] * [[Michael Faraday]] — [[farad]] — [[SI]] unit of capacitance, [[faraday]] — cgs unit of current [[Faraday constant]], [[Faraday effect]], [[Faraday's law of induction]], [[Faraday's law of electrolysis]] * [[Guy Fawkes]] — guy * [[Enrico Fermi]] — [[fermion]]s, [[Fermi energy]], [[Fermi paradox]], [[fermium]] — chemical element, [[Fermi-Dirac statistics]]. fermi (obsolete name for femtometre) * [[Enzo Ferrari]] — founder, [[Ferrari]] * [[George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr.]] — [[Ferris wheel]] * [[Richard Feynman]] — [[Feynman diagram]] * Fib of the [[Picts]], one of the seven sons of [[Cruithne]] — [[Fife]] * [[Robert Fisk]] - [[Fisking]] * [[B.C. Forbes]] — [[Forbes]] magazine * [[Henry Ford]] — [[Ford Motor Company]] * [[Matthias N. Forney]] — [[Forney locomotive]] * [[William Forsyth]] (1737-1804) — [[Forsythia]] * [[Charles Fort]] — [[Forteana]], [[Fortean Society]], [[Fortean Times]] * [[Benjamin Franklin]] — [[Franklin stove]], [[statcoulomb|franklin]] — cgs unit of electric charge * [[Wilhelm Fried|William Fox]] — [[20th Century Fox]] * [[Sigmund Freud]] — [[Freudian slip]] * [[Leonhart Fuchs]] (1501–1566) — [[Fuchsia]] * [[Tetsuya "Ted" Fujita]] (1920–1998) — [[Fujita Scale]] * [[Buckminster Fuller]] (1895–1983) — [[Fullerene]] ==G== * [[Johan Gadolin]], [[Finland|Finnish]] chemist and geologist — [[gadolinite]], the mineral after which the chemical element [[gadolinium]] has been named * [[Thomas Gage (botanist)]] — [[greengage]] * [[Uziel Gal]] — the [[Uzi submachine gun]] * [[Galileo Galilei]] — galileo or [[gal (unit)|gal]], unit of acceleration * [[Israel Galili]] — the [[Galil]] assault rifle *[[Luigi Galvani]] (1737–1798), discovered the Galvanic response of muscles to electricity. The process of [[galvanization]] is also named after him. * [[James Gamble]] and [[William Procter (candlemaker)|William Procter]] — [[Procter & Gamble]] * [[Henry Laurence Gantt]] — [[Gantt chart]] *[[John Garand]] — [[M1 Garand]] rifle *[[Alexander Garden (naturalist)]] - after whom the [[gardenia]] was named. * [[Giuseppe Garibaldi]] — [[Garibaldi biscuit]]s, Italian aircraft carrier [[Giuseppe Garibaldi (551)|''Giuseppe Garibaldi'']] * [[Gideon Gartner]] — [[Gartner]] * [[Hermann Gartner]] — [[Gartner's duct]] * [[Richard J. Gatling]] — [[Gatling gun]] * [[Carl Friedrich Gauss]] — [[gauss]] — unit of magnetic induction, [[Gauss' law]]; ''see also'': [[List of topics named after Carl Friedrich Gauss]]. * [[Enola Gay Tibbets]] — [[Enola Gay]], the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb. Tibbets' son Paul Tibbets, pilot of the plane, named it after his mother. * [[Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac]] and [[Jacques Charles]] — [[Law of Charles and Gay-Lussac]] * [[Lou Gehrig]], [[United States|American]] [[Baseball]] player — [[Motor neurone disease|Lou Gehrig's Disease]] * [[Hans Geiger]] — [[Geiger counter]], [[Geiger-Müller tube]] * King [[George I of Great Britain]] — [[Georgia (U.S. state)]] * [[Elbridge Gerry]] - [[gerrymandering]] * [[Domingo Ghirardelli]] — [[Ghirardelli Chocolate Company]] * [[Willard Gibbs|Josiah Willard Gibbs]] — [[Gibbs free energy]], [[Gibbs phenomenon]] * [[Thomas Gilbert]] — [[Kiribati]] * [[Gaston Glock]] — [[Glock|GLOCK GmbH]] * [[Kurt Gödel]] — [[Gödel's incompleteness theorem]], [[Gödel's ontological proof]] * [[Samuel Goldwyn]] — [[Goldwyn Picture Corporation]], later merged into [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] Inc. (or MGM) * [[Wilbert Gore]] — [[Gore-Tex]] * [[Klement Gottwald]] — [[Zlín]], a city in [[Moravia]], the [[Czech Republic]], was renamed Gottwaldov during 1949—1990. * [[Ernst Gräfenberg]] — [[Gräfenberg spot]] (G-spot) * [[Sylvester Graham]] — [[Graham crackers]], [[Graham flour]] * [[Thomas Graham (chemist)|Thomas Graham]] — [[Graham's Law]] * [[Robert James Graves]] — [[Graves-Basedow disease]] * [[Louis Harold Gray]] — [[Gray (unit)|gray]], unit of absorbed dose of radiation * [[Vicente Guerrero]] — [[Guerrero]] * [[Georges Guillain]] — [[Guillain-Barré syndrome]] * Dr. [[Joseph Ignace Guillotin]] (1738–1814) — advocate of what came to be called the [[guillotine]] * [[Henry C. Gunning]] — mineral [[Gunningite]] * [[Robert John Lechmere Guppy]] (1836–1916) — [[Guppy]] or guppie ==H== * [[Amber Hagerman]], abducted child - [[AMBER Alert]] * [[Otto Hahn]] — hahnium, chemical element. This element name is not accepted by [[IUPAC]]. See [[element naming controversy]] * [[Edwin Hall]] — [[Hall effect]] * [[Hugh Halligan]] — [[Halligan bar]] * [[Laurens Hammond]] — [[Hammond Organ]] * Hamo, a 6th century Saxon settler and landowner — [[Hampshire]] * [[John Hancock]], signatory of the US Declaration of Independence — [[John Hancock]], a signature * Elliot Handler and Harold "Matt" Matson — [[Mattel]] * [[William Hanna]] and [[Joseph Barbera]] — [[Hanna-Barbera Productions]] * [[Gerhard Armauer Hansen]] — [[Leprosy|Hansen's disease]] * [[William Harley]] and [[Arthur Davidson]] — [[Harley-Davidson]] * [[Douglas Hartree]] — [[Hartree energy]] * [[Gerry Harvey]] and [[Ian Norman]] — [[Harvey Norman]] * [[Hakaru Hashimoto]] — [[Hashimoto's thyroiditis]] * [[Hassan-i-Sabah]], leader of the murderous Hashshashin cult — [[assassin]] from ''hassansin'' (this etymology is disputed) * [[Victor Hasselblad]] — [[Hasselblad]], medium format photographic camera system * [[Stephen Hawking]] — [[Hawking radiation]] * [[Paul Hawkins]] — [[Hawk-Eye]] tracking system used in [[cricket]] and other sports * [[Frank Hawthorne]] — mineral [[Frankhawthorneite]] * [[Oliver Heaviside]] and [[Arthur Edwin Kennelly]] — [[Kennelly-Heaviside layer]] * [[Joseph Henry]] — [[Henry (unit)|henry]], unit of inductance * [[William Henry (chemist)|William Henry]] — [[Henry's law]] * [[Heinrich Rudolf Hertz]] — [[hertz]], unit of frequency * [[William Hewlett]] and [[David Packard]] — founders, [[Hewlett-Packard]] * [[Edward C. Heyde]] — [[Heyde's syndrome]] * [[Miguel Hidalgo]] — [[Hidalgo (state)|Hidalgo]] * [[David Hilbert]] — [[Hilbert's program]] * [[Eugen von Hippel]] — [[Von Hippel-Lindau disease]] * [[Harald Hirschsprung]], Danish physician — [[Hirschsprung's disease]] * [[Paul von Hindenburg]] — after whom the Hindenburg airship was named * [[Thomas Hobbes]], 17th century pahilosopher — [[Calvin and Hobbes|Hobbes]] from "Calvin and Hobbes" comic strip * [[Thomas Hobson]] (1544–1630), stable manager in England — [[Hobson's choice]], an only apparently free choice that is no choice at all * [[Thomas Hodgkin]] — [[Hodgkin's disease]], [[Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma]] * Homer, father of [[Matt Groening]], creator of [[The Simpsons]] — [[Homer Simpson]], character in The Simpsons animated TV series * [[Sherlock Holmes]] - anyone who solves a mystery or a difficult problem, based on the fictional character by [[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]] * [[Soichiro Honda]] — founder, [[Honda]] * [[Mark Honeywell]] — founder, [[Honeywell]] * [[Robin Hood]], English folk hero — [[Robin (comics)|Robin]] of the [[Batman]] series * [[Robert Hooke]] — [[Hooke's law]] * [[William Henry Hoover]] (1849–1932) — [[The Hoover Company]]; in British English, the word "hoover" became a verb meaning "to vacuum a floor". The word "hoover" has also come to mean anything that is sucked up at a great rate ("They hoovered their way through the banquet"). * [[August Horch]] — founder of [[Audi]] (''audi'' is Latin for ''horch''. It means ''listen'' in English) * [[James Horlick]] and [[William Horlick]] — founded the company [[Horlicks]] in 1873 * [[Frank Hornby]] - inventor of [[Meccano]], Hornby and Hornby-Dublo train sets, and Dinky Toys * [[William Howe (engineer)|William Howe]] (1803–1852) — Howe truss bridges * Hroc, an ancient landowner ("Hroc's fortress" + shire) — [[Roxburghshire]] * [[Howard Hughes]] — [[Hughes Aircraft]] company, [[Howard Hughes Medical Institute]], [[Hughes Airwest]] airlines, [[Hughes Glomar Explorer]] ship * [[Howard R. Hughes, Sr.]] — [[Hughes Tool Company]], [[Baker Hughes]] company * [[John Huss]] ({{lang-cs|Jan Hus}}) — [[Hussite]], [[Czechoslovak Hussite Church]] ==I–J== * [[Max Immelmann]] — [[Immelmann turn]] used in aviation. * [[Eleuthère Irénée du Pont]] — [[DuPont]] * [[Ivan the Terrible]] — [[Ivy the Terrible]] from The Beano comic * [[Joseph Marie Jacquard]] — [[Jacquard loom]] * [[Jacob]] — [[Israel]] * [[Candido Jacuzzi]] — inventor of the [[jacuzzi]] whirlpool bath. * [[Calamity Jane]] — [[Calamity James]] from [[The Beano]] comic * [[Karl Jansky]] — [[jansky]], unit of flux density * [[Robert Jarvik]], MD - Jarvik [[artificial heart]] * [[Jeremiah]], the Biblical prophet — [[jeremiad]] * [[Jeroboam]], first king of the Northern Kingdom of Israel — [[jeroboam]] wine bottle * [[Edward Jones (statistician)|Edward Jones]] and [[Charles Dow]] — [[Dow Jones & Company]] * [[Brian David Josephson]] — [[Josephson junction]], [[Josephson effect]] * [[James Prescott Joule]] — [[joule]], unit of energy, unit of work, unit of heat * [[Jerry Seinfeld]] - co-wrote T.V. sitcom ''[[Seinfeld]]'' ==K== * [[Franz Kafka]] — adjective [[Kafkaesque]] * [[Mikhail Kalashnikov]] — the Avtomat Kalashnikova series of weapons, including the [[AK-47]], the Kalashnikov Handheld Machine Gun or ''Ruchnoi Pulemet Kalashnikova obraztsa 1974g'' ([[RPK|RPK-74]]) * [[Kamen Rider (franchise)|Kamen Rider]] - The main protagonists of the various series in this Japanese TV franchise are named after their corresponding TV series. * [[Ingvar Kamprad]] — the first two letters of [[IKEA]], the home furnishings retailer he founded * [[Gaetano Kanizsa]], Italian psychologist — [[Kanizsa triangle]] * [[Megan Kanka]], abducted child - [[Megan's Law]] * [[Moritz Kaposi]], Hungarian dermatologist — [[Kaposi's sarcoma]] * [[Theodore von Kármán]] — [[Karman line]] * [[Anna Karenina]] * [[Tadao Kashio]] — founder of [[Casio]] * [[Shozo Kawasaki]] — founder, [[Kawasaki Heavy Industries]] * [[Lord Kelvin]] — [[kelvin]], unit of thermodynamic temperature * [[John F. Kennedy]] — [[John F. Kennedy International Airport]], [[John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts]], [[Kennedy Center Honors]], [[John F. Kennedy University]] * [[Arthur Edwin Kennelly]] and [[Oliver Heaviside]] — [[Kennelly-Heaviside layer]] * [[Brian W. Kernighan]] — the third letter of the name [[awk]], a computer pattern/action language, is taken from Kernighan * [[John Kerr (physicist)]] — [[Kerr effect]] * [[Wilhelm Killing]] — [[Killing vector field]] *[[Gustav Kirchhoff]] — [[Kirchhoff's Laws]] * [[Donald Knuth]] — [[Knuth-Morris-Pratt algorithm]] * [[Wladimir Peter Köppen]] — [[Köppen climate classification]] * [[Gerard Kuiper]] — [[Kuiper Belt]] ==L–Z== See [[List of eponyms (L-Z)]] An asterisk designates people who became eponyms despite their stated wishes not to. ==See also== * [[Lists of etymologies]] * [[List of eponymous adjectives in English]] * [[List of eponymous laws]] * [[List of adages named after people]] * [[List of places named after people]] * [[List of people]] * [[List of toponyms]] [[Category:Lists of English words|Eponyms]] [[Category:Lists of people by name feature|Eponyms]] [[Category:Eponyms|*]] [[Category:Lists of eponyms|*]] [[de:Liste der Eponyme]] [[nl:Lijst van eponiemen]] [[pl:Lista eponimów]] [[ro:Listă de cuvinte derivate de la nume de persoane]] [[sv:Lista över eponymer]]