List of eponyms (A–K)

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".

Here is a list of eponyms:

A – B – C – D – E – F – G – H – I J – K – L–Z

A

• Shinzo Abe, Japanese Prime Minister – Abenomics
• Niels Henrik Abel, Norwegian mathematician – Abelian group, Abel's theorem, Abel-Ruffini theorem
• Acantha, Greek mythological character – the plant genus acanthus
• Achaemenes, Persian king - Achaemenid dynasty
• Achilles, Greek mythological character – Achilles' heel, Achilles tendon
• Adam, Biblical character – Adam's apple, adamite
• Alvin Adams, American businessman – Adams Express
• Thomas Addison, British physician - Addison's disease, Addisonian crisis, Addison-Schilder syndrome
• Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, British queen – the city of Adelaide in Australia, Queen Adelaide, Cambridgeshire, Adelaide Archipelago, Adelaide Island
• Adonis, Greek mythological character – adonis (a good looking, handsome young boy),^[1] adonism, Adonis (plant), adonis (species of skink) ^[2]
• Len Adleman, American computer scientist – the third letter of the name RSA, an asymmetric algorithm for public key cryptography, is taken from Adleman
• Agatha of Sicily, Italian Christian martyr – St. Agatha's Tower
• Agrippina the Younger, Roman empress – Cologne, Germany (formerly Colonia Agrippina)
• Alfred V. Aho, Canadian computer scientist – the first letter of the name awk, a computer pattern/action language, is taken from Aho
• Ajax, Greek mythological character – Ajax Amsterdam
• Akademos, Greek mythological character - academy
• Rabbi Akiva, Judean rabbi – Bnei Akiva
• Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, latinized as "Algoritmi", Persian mathematician - algorithm
• Semyon Alapin, Lithuanian chess player – Alapin's Opening
• Albert, Prince Consort, British prince – Prince Albert piercing, a common form of male genital piercing; Alberta (Canada), Albert Bridge, London, Albert Bridge, Glasgow, Royal Albert Dock, Royal Albert Hall, Albert Memorial, Lake Albert, Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Albert Medal
• Adolf Albin, Romanian chess player – Albin Countergambit
• Alexander Alekhine, Russian chess player – Alekhine's Defence
• Alexander the Great, Greek-Macedonian conqueror – Alexandria, İskenderun, Kandahar
• Matthew Algie, Scottish businessman – tea and coffee merchant company
• Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss, American musicians – A&M Records
• Thomas Allinson, British physician - Allinson bread
• Amun, Egyptian god – ammonia ^[3]
• Arthur Cecil Alport, South African physician – Alport syndrome
• Walter C. Alvarez, American physician − Alvarez' syndrome; Alvarez-waves; Walter C. Alvarez Memorial Award
• Alois Alzheimer, German neurologist – Alzheimer's disease
• Amazon, Greek mythological tribe – Amazon River
• Bruce Ames, American biochemist – Ames Test
• André-Marie Ampère, French scientist – ampere – unit of electric current, Ampère's law, amp
• Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer – Amundsen Sea; Amundsen crater, a crater on the Moon; Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station
• José de Anchieta, Spanish priest – Anchieta Island, Anchieta Highway, in Brazil, Anchieta, Espírito Santo, Anchieta, Santa Catarina
• Andromeda, Greek mythological character - andromeda (genus), Andromeda Galaxy
• Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist – angstrom, unit of distance
• Adolf Anderssen – Anderssen's Opening
• Saint Andrew – Order of Saint Andrew, Saint Andrew's Cross, St Andrews, Scotland, San Andreas Fault, and numerous other localities, churches and cathedrals
• Virginia Apgar – the Apgar score, used to determine the general health of neonates
• Antoninus Pius – Antonine Wall
• Saint Thomas Aquinas, Italian philosopher – many educational institutions
• Rafael Moreno Aranzadi, nicknamed Pichichi – The Pichichi Trophy
• Archimedes, Greek mathematician – Archimedes' screw, Archimedes' principle, Archimedean point
• Ariadne, Greek mythological character – Ariadne's thread (logic)
• Aristoteles, Greek mathematician and philosopher – Aristotelianism, Aristotelia (moth)
• William George Armstrong, American inventor – Armstrong breech-loading gun
• Hans Asperger, Austrian psychologist – Asperger syndrome
• Robert Atkins (nutritionist), American nutriotinist – Atkins Diet
• Atlas, Greek mythological character – atlas, Atlas (anatomy), atlas (architecture), Atlas (crater), Atlas (moon), Atlas (star), Atlas bear, Atlas beetle, Atlas cedar, Atlas pied flycatcher, Atlas moth, Atlas turtle
• Athena, Greek goddess – The Greek city Athens , atheneum (school), Athens (typeface), Athene (owl)
• Atthis, Greek mythological character – Atthis (bird), Attica (region) ^[4]
• Shlomo Zalman Auerbach – Ramat Shlomo
• Aurélio Buarque de Holanda Ferreira – Aurélio's Brazilian Portuguese Dictionary.
• Augeas, Greek mythological king – Augean stable ^[5][6]
• Augustus Caesar, Roman emperor – the month of August; the city of Zaragoza (originally Caesaraugustus); the city of Caesarea in Israel; numerous other cities once named Caesarea; the Caesarean section, because he was supposedly born in this manner. Augstan age
• R. Stanton Avery – Avery Dennison Corporation
• Amedeo Avogadro – Avogadro's number, Avogadro's Law

B

• Báb, Persian religious leader – Bábism
• Isaac Babbitt, American inventor – Babbitt metal.
• Joseph Babinski, French neurologist – Babinski's sign, Anton-Babinski syndrome, Babinski-Fröhlich syndrome, Babinski-Froment syndrome, Babinski-Nageotte syndrome, Babinski-Vaquez syndrome, Babinski-Weil test, Babinski-Jarkowski rule.
• Lauren Bacall, American actress – Bogart–Bacall syndrome
• Facundo Bacardi, Spanish-Cuban business man – Bacardi, Bacardi cocktail, Bacardi Breezer
• Bacchus, Greek-Roman mythological character – Bacchic, Bacchic art, Bacchanalia
• Edward Bach, British physician – Bach flower remedies
• Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer – BACH motif
• John Backus, American computer scientist – Backus-Naur Form
• Karl Baedeker, German business man – Baedeker's
• Leo Baekeland, Belgian inventor – Bakelite
• William Baffin, British explorer – Baffin Bay, Baffin Island, William Baffin Rose
• Bahá'u'lláh, Persian religious leader – Bahá'i Faith
• Bahram V Gur, Persian king – bahramdipity ^[7][8]
• Donald Bailey, British engineer and inventor – Bailey bridge
• Francis Baily, British astronomer – Baily's beads
• René Baire, French mathematician – Baire category theorem, Baire function, Baire measure, Baire set, Baire space, Baire space (set theory), Property of Baire
• Italo Balbo, Italian aviator and politician – Balbo, Seventh Street Balbo Drive (street in Chicago, Illinois) ^[9]
• Ed Balducci, Italian-American illusionist – Balducci levitation
• Balthazar, Biblical character – 12 litre wine bottle (see Wine bottle#Sizes)
• J. G. Ballard, British author – Ballardian, Ballardesque
• János Balogh, Hungarian-Romanian chess master – Balogh Defense
• Honoré de Balzac, French author – Balzac Prize
• Heinrich Band, German inventor and music instrument builder– Bandoneón
• Bernhard Bang, Danish physician – Bang's disease
• Peter Bang and Svend Olufsen, Danish businesspeople – Bang and Olufsen
• Joseph Banks, British botanician – Banks Peninsula, Banksia genus
• Baphomet, demon character – Sigil of Baphomet
• Barbara, daughter of American business woman Ruth Handler – Barbie doll
• Joseph Barbera and William Hanna, American animators – Hanna–Barbera Productions
• Willem Barentsz, Dutch explorer – Barents Sea, Barentsz bridge, Barents region
• Francis Baring, British businessman – Barings Bank
• Heinrich Barkhausen, German physicist – Barkhausen effect, Barkhausen stability criterion, Barkhausen-Kurz tube
• Thomas Wilson Barnes, British chess master – Barnes Defence, Barnes Opening
• P.T. Barnum, American circus entertainer – Barnum effect ^[10]
• Murray Barr, Canadian physician – Barr body
• Yvonne Barr and Sir Anthony Epstein, British physicians – Epstein–Barr virus
• Jean Alexandre Barré, French neurologist – Guillain–Barré syndrome, Barré test
• Caspar Bartholin the Younger, Danish physician – Bartholin's gland
• Basarab I, Wallachian king – Bessarabia
• Béla Bartók, Hungarian composer – Bartok pizzicato
• Karl Adolph von Basedow, German physician – Graves–Basedow disease
• John Baskerville, British typographer – Baskerville (typeface)
• George Bass, British explorer – Bass Strait
• Tomas Bata, Czech businessman – Bata Shoes; Bata Shoe Museum, Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Batawa; Batanagar, India; Batapur, Punjab, Pakistan
• Henry Walter Bates, British biologist – Batesian mimicry
• Emile Baudot, French engineer – Baudot alphabet, Baudot code
• Antoine Baumé, French engineer – Baumé scale
• Bavo of Ghent, Southern-Dutch/Walloon Roman Catholic saint – Bamberg, Germany
• Bryce Bayer, American scientist – Bayer filter ^[11]
• Friedrich Bayer, German business man – Bayer AG
• Herbert Bayer, Austrian-American graphic designer and architect – Bayer Universal, Architype Bayer
• William Bayliss, British physician – Bayliss effect
• Donald E. Baxter and Delia B. Baxter – Baxter International
• The Beatles, British rock group – Beatlesque, Beatle boot, Beatle haircut
• Francis Beaufort, French captain – Beaufort scale.
• Heinrich Beck, German businessman – Beck's beer, Beck's Futures art prize
• John Bruce Beckwith, American physician – Syndrome of Beckwith-Wiedemann
• Louis de Béchamel, a courtier of Louis XIV – Béchamel sauce
• Warren A. Bechtel, American businessman – Bechtel Corporation
• Carl Bechstein, German businessman – C. Bechstein
• Henri Becquerel, French physicist – becquerel, unit of radioactivity
• Michel Bégon, French politician – begonia
• Hulusi Behçet, Turkish dermatologist – Behçet's disease
• Adrian Bejan, Romanian-American mathematician – Bejan number
• Léon Bekaert, Belgian businessman – Bekaert
• Jacob Bekenstein, Israelian-American theoretical physicist – Bekenstein bound
• Édouard Belin, French-Swiss inventor – Belinograph
• Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish inventor – bel – unit of relative power level; Bell Labs, BellSouth, Bellcore (now Telcordia Technologies), Regional Bell operating company – companies.
• Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Estonian-German explorer – Bellingshausen Sea
• Nikos Beloyannis, Greek resistance leader – Beloiannisz (village in Hungary)
• Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Litvak lexicographer – Ben Yehuda Street (Jerusalem), Ben Yehuda Street (Tel Aviv)
• Benedick, British theatrical character – benedick
• Benedict of Nursia, Italian priest – Benedictine
• Edvard Beneš, Czech president – Beneš decrees
• Luciano Benetton, Italian business man – Benetton Group, Benetton Formula
• Benjamin, Biblical character – a Benjamin (in some languages the youngest son of a family is referred to by this name)
• Pal Benko, Hungarian chess player – Benko Gambit, Benko's Opening
• Arnold Bennett, British novelist – Omelette Arnold Bennett, dish developed at the Savoy Hotel, London.
• Linn Boyd Benton, American typographer – Benton (typeface)
• Karl Benz, German businessman – Benz & Cie. (later Daimler-Benz)
• Hiram Berdan, American inventor – Berdan Sharps Rifle, Berdan centerfire primer
• Hans Berenberg and Paul Berenberg, German businessman – Berenberg Bank
• Vitus Bering, Danish explorer – Bering Strait
• Busby Berkeley, American choreographer - "Busby Berkeley choreography", "Busby Berkeley number" (a elaborate sing and dance number with lots of people involved, usually in a geometrical arrangement)
• David Berkowitz also known as "Son of Sam", American criminal – Son of Sam law
• Emile Berliner, German-American inventor and businessman – Berliner Gramphone
• Maximilian Berlitz, German-American businessman – Berlitz Language Schools
• Juan de Bermudez, Spanish explorer – Bermuda
• Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch mathematician – Bernoulli's principle
• Sergei Natanovich Bernstein, Russian mathematician – Bernstein polynomial, Bernstein algebra, Bernstein's inequality (mathematical analysis), Bernstein inequalities in probability theory, Bernstein polynomial, Bernstein's problem, Bernstein's theorem (approximation theory), Bernstein's theorem on monotone functions, Bernstein–von Mises theorem
• Yogi Berra, American baseball player – Yogi Bear, Yogiisms
• Claude-Louis Berthollet, French chemist – Berthollide
• Henry Bessemer, British inventor – Bessemer converter, Bessemer steel
• Pierre Bézier, French engineer and mathematician – Bézier curve, Bezier surface
• Marcel Bich, French-Italian businessman – Bic
• Bieda, a Saxon landowner ("Bieda's ford" + shire) – Bedfordshire
• Big Brother, British literary character - "Big Brother society" (a society where government surveillance is omnipresent), Big Brother Awards
• Alfred Binet, French mathematician – Stanford-Binet IQ test
• Meyer Herman Bing and Frederik Vilhelm Grøndahl, Danish business people – Bing & Grøndahl
• Bintje Jansma, Dutch pupil – Bintje
• Forrest Bird, American inventor – Bird Innovator
• Henry Bird, British chess player – Bird's Opening
• Clarence Birdseye, American businessman – Captain Birdseye
• Laszlo Biro, Hungarian inventor – Biro, (ballpoint pen)
• Otto von Bismarck, 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, Bismarck herring
• Fischer Black and Myron Scholes, American economists – Black–Scholes formula, Black-Scholes equation
• S. Duncan Black and Alonzo G. Decker, American business men – Black & Decker
• Louis Blériot, French aviator – Recherches Aéronautiques Louis Blériot
• Felix Bloch, Swiss-American physician – Bloch wall, Bloch's Theorem, Bloch Function, Bloch sphere
• Charles Blondin, French acrobat – Blondin (quarry equipment)
• Amelia Bloomer, American activist – bloomers
• Benjamin Blumenfeld, Belarussian chess player – Blumenfeld Gambit
• Boann, Irish mythological character – The river Boyne
• Johann Elert Bode and Johann Daniel Titius, German astronomers – Titius–Bode Law
• Giambattista Bodoni, Italian typographer – Bodoni
• William E. Boeing, American aviator – Boeing Commercial Airplanes
• Herman Boerhaave, Dutch physician – Boerhaave syndrome
• Humphrey Bogart, American actor – Bogart–Bacall syndrome
• Efim Bogoljubov, Russian-German chess player – Bogo-Indian Defence
• Bogomil, Bulgarian religious leader – Bogomilism
• Niels Bohr, Danish physicist – Bohr magneton, Bohr radius, bohrium
• Lecoq de Boisbaudran, French chemist – 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.
• Bart Jan Bok, Dutch astronomer – Bok globules
• Freerk Klaaseszoon Bokma, Dutch businessman – Bokma
• Simón Bolívar, Bolivian general and president – Bolivia, Bolívar Department, Colombia, various cities and tows named Bolívar en Venezuela and Colombia, Venezuelan bolívar, Bolívar (cigar brand)
• Jean Bolland, Belgian priest – Bollandists
• Lucas Bols, Dutch businessman – Bols (brand)
• Ludwig Boltzmann, German mathematician – Boltzmann constant, Stefan–Boltzmann constant, Stefan–Boltzmann law
• Napoleon Bonaparte, French general and emperor – Bonapartism
• George Alan Bond, American-Australian busines man – Bonds (clothing)
• Gail Borden, American business man - "Borden Condensed Milk", Borden County, Texas.
• Jules Bordet, Belgian physicist – Bordetella
• Armand Borel, French mathematician – Borel-Weil-Bott theorem, Borel conjecture, Borel fixed-point theorem, Borel's theorem
• Émile Borel, French mathematician – Borel algebra, Borel's lemma, Borel's law of large numbers, Borel measure, Borel-Kolmogorov paradox, Borel-Cantelli lemma, Borel-Carathéodory theorem, Heine-Borel theorem, Borel summation, Borel distribution
• Alexander Borodin, Russian composer – Borodin reaction
• Karel Havlíček Borovský, Czech novelist – Havlíčkův Brod
• Giuseppe Borsalino, Italian businessman – Borsalino
• B J T Bosanquet, British cricketer – bosie, the Australian term for the cricket technique googly
• Robert Bosch, German business man and inventor – Robert Bosch GmbH
• Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian physicist – bosons, Bose–Einstein statistics, Bose–Einstein condensates
• Amar Bose, American business man and inventor – Bose Corporation, Bose speaker packages
• Jean-Marc Bosman, Belgian association football player – Bosman ruling
• Elbert Dysart Botts, American engineer and inventor – Bott's dot, a street and highway lane separator
• Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French navigator – the bougainvillea plant, which he discovered.
• Georges Boulanger, French politician – Boulangism
• Matthew Boulton and James Watt, British inventors and business people – Boulton & Watt
• Thierry Boutsen, Belgian car racer – Boutsen Aviation
• Thomas Bowdler, British publisher – to bowdlerize
• Jim Bowie, American inventor – Bowie knife
• Sir William Bowman, British anatomist – Bowman's Capsule
• Charles Cunningham Boycott, Irish politician – boycott
• Robert Boyle, Irish chemist – Boyle's Law
• Brahma, Hindu deity – Brahmanism
• Brahmagupta, Indian mathematician and astronomer – Brahmagupta's formula, Brahmagupta's identity, Brahmagupta's trapezium, Brahmagupta's problem, Brahmagupta's polynomial
• Johannes Brahms, German composer – Brahms guitar
• Louis Braille, French inventor – braille writing
• Matthew Bramley, British butcher – Bramley apple
• Karl Ferdinand Braun, German phycicist - "Braun tube" (in some languages the cathode ray tube is referred to as such) Karl Ferdinand Braun Prize
• Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, Italian explorer – Brazzaville, De Brazza's monkey
• Abraham-Louis Breguet, Swiss watch maker – Breguet (watch)
• Louis Charles Breguet, French aviator – Breguet Aviation, Breguet 14, Breguet's range equation
• Jack Elton Bresenham, American computer scientist – Bresenham's line algorithm
• Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, British lexicographer – Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
• Leonid Brezhnev, Russian head of state – Brezhnev doctrine
• Richard Bright, British physician – Bright's disease
• Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, French gastronomer – Brillat-Savarin (cheese), Gâteau Savarin
• Thomas Brisbane, British politician – Brisbane and Brisbane River
• Henry James Brooke, British crystallographer – Brookite
• Mel Brooks, American film director and actor – Brooksfilms
• Robert Brown, Scottish botanist – Brownian motion
• John Browning, American inventor – Browning firearms, including the Browning Automatic Rifle and Browning Hi-Power
• Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Flemish painter – Bruegelian
• Catherine Wolfe Bruce, American humanitarian activist – Bruce Medal
• R. H. Bruck, American mathematician – Bruck-Ryser-Chowla theorem
• Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer – Bruckner rhythm
• Marcus Junius Brutus, Italian politician – brutal, brutality, brute
• Prince Brychan, British king – Brecknockshire
• Hans-Joachim Bremermann, German-American mathematician and biophysicist – Bremermann's limit
• Johannes Brugman, Dutch priest - "praten als Brugman" ("to talk like Brugman", indicating a powerful speech)
• Bucephalus, horse of Alexander the Great – Bucephala (city), Bucephala (bird)
• Bucca, Saxon landowner ("Bucca's home" + shire) – Buckinghamshire
• Buddha, Nepalese religious leader – Buddhism
• Semyon Budyonny, Russian general – Budyonny horse
• Ettore Bugatti, Italian businessman – Bugatti
• David Dunbar Buick, American businessman – Buick
• Archie Bunker, American TV character – the Bunker vote, political term describing the affiliations of mainly white, lower class voters, such as the fictitious Archie Bunker
• George W. Bush, American president – Bush doctrine, bushism
• Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, German inventor – Bunsen burner
• Viktor Bunyakovsky, Russian mathematician – Bunyakovsky conjecture
• Jean Buridan, French composer – Buridan's donkey
• Ambrose Burnside, American general – sideburns
• William Burke, Irish criminal – to burke (to execute someone by suffocation)
• Lord Byron, British poet – Byronic; Byronism

C

• John Cadbury, British businessman – Cadbury
• Julius Caesar, Roman consul and general – the month of July, Caesar cipher, the titles Czar, Tsar, and Kaiser, the 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, Swiss theologian – Calvinism
• Gerolamo Cardano – the cardan joint, or Universal joint
• Caesar Cardini, restaurateur – Caesar salad
• Horatio Caro – Caro–Kann Defence
• Gian Giacomo Girolamo Casanova, Italian adventurer and diarist – casanova (a womanizer).
• Sam Carr, neighbour of American serial killer David Berkowitz also known as "Son of Sam" – Son of Sam law
• René Descartes, French philosopher – Cartesian coordinate system
• Hendrik Casimir, Dutch physicist – Casimir effect
• Laurent Cassegrain – Cassegrain reflecting telescope
• Jean Dominique Cassini – Cassini division
• Catherine I of Russia, Russian empress – Yekaterinburg
• Augustin-Louis Cauchy – List of things named after Augustin-Louis Cauchy
• Eduard Čech – Čech cohomology, Čech complex, Čech homology, Stone–Čech compactification
• Anders Celsius, Danish physicist and astronomer – degree Celsius (unit of temperature) Celsius (Moon crater)
• Ceredig – son of Cunedda – Cardigan
• Clyde Cessna – Cessna Aircraft
• Mr. Chadband, British literary character – Chadband ^[12]
• Carlos Chagas – Chagas disease
• Jacques François de Chambray – Fort Chambray
• 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
• Charles I of England, English king – North Carolina and South Carolina
• Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor – places called Carlsbad, Karlstein Castle, 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, French physicists – Law of Charles and Gay-Lussac (frequently called simply Charles' Law)
• Bobby Charlton, British football player – the "Bobby Charlton" comb over hairstyle
• Nicolas Chauvin, French soldier – chauvinism
• Anton Chekhov, Russian playwright – Chekhov's gun
• Vitaly Chekhover – Sicilian Defence, Chekhover Variation
• Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov, Russian physicist – Cherenkov effect
• Louis Chevrolet, French business man - Chevrolet
• Chewbacca, American film character - Chewbacca defense
• Jesus Christ, Biblical prophet - Christianity, Christmas (the festivity itself was pagan in origin. Christ's name was added to it later). Jesus' nickname "The Saviour" also inspired the name of El Salvador.
• Saint Christopher, Christian martyr – Saint Kitts and Nevis
• Walter Chrysler, American businessman – Chrysler, DaimlerChrysler, Chrysler Building
• Alfred Chuang – the third letter of the company name BEA Systems, is taken from Alfred, a co-founder
• Alonzo Church, American mathematician – Church–Turing thesis, Church–Turing–Deutsch principle
• Cincinnatus, Roman politician – Cincinnati, Ohio (indirectly)
• André Citroën, French businessman – Citroën
• Claudius, Roman emperor – the city of Kayseri, formerly Caesarea Mazaca, in Turkey
• Moses Cleaveland – the city of Cleveland, Ohio
• Gaëtan Gatian de Clérambault, French psychologist - Kandinsky-Clérambault syndrome
• Ruth Cleveland, daughter of American president Grover Cleveland – Baby Ruth candy bars
• Bill Clinton, American president – Clintonomics
• Henri Coandă, Romanian inventor - Coandă effect
• William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody, American frontiersman and entertainer – Cody, Wyoming
• Bill Coleman – the first letter of the company name BEA Systems, is taken from Bill, a co-founder
• Edgard Colle – Colle System
• Samuel Colt, American gun inventor – Colt revolver
• Christopher Columbus, Italian explorer – Egg of Columbus; many places and territories, see Columbus, Colombia, Colombo, British Columbia in Canada
• Arthur Compton, American physicist – Compton effect
• Confucius, Chinese philosopher – Confucianism
• Constantine I, Roman Emperor - Constantinople
• James Cook, British explorer – Cook Islands; Cooktown (Queensland); James Cook University (Townsville); Cook (suburb of Canberra; co-named for Sir Joseph Cook); Cooks River; Cook (Federal electorate); James Cook University Hospital (Marton, Middlesbrough, England); Aoraki/Mount Cook; Cook Strait
• Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, French mathematician – Coriolis effect
• Nicolas Cotoner – Cottonera Lines
• Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist – 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 MIke and TErry's Lawnmowers)
• Richard Cox (horticulturist) – Cox's Orange Pippin
• Seymour Cray – Cray Research
• Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt and Alfons Maria Jakob, German physicians – Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease
• Burrill Bernard Crohn – Crohn's disease
• Cunedda – Gwynedd
• Marie and Pierre Curie, French physicists – curie, curium
• Pierre Curie, French physicist – Curie point
• Harvey Cushing, American physician – Cushing Disease, Cushing's Syndrome
• Saint Cuthbert ("church of Cuthbert") – Kirkcudbright
• Saint Cyril – Cyrillic alphabet

D

• Louis Daguerre, French photographer and inventor – Daguerreotype
• Anders Dahl, Swedish botanist – Dahlia
• Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz, German businesspeople – Daimler–Benz (later DaimlerChrysler)
• Dalek, British TV character – Popular nickname for the Bridgewater Place, Dalekmania
• John Dalton, British phycisist and chemist – dalton, non-SI unit of atomic mass, Daltonism
• Pedro Damiano – Damiano Defence
• Glenn Danzig – Danzig, founder of the Heavy Metal band Danzig
• Charles Darwin, British biologist – Darwinism, Neural Darwinism, Social Darwinism, Darwinian Happiness, Darwin's theory of evolution, Darwinian selection, Non-darwinian evolution, Darwinian medicine, Darwin, Northern Territory, Darwin Mounds, Charles Darwin University, Darwin College, Cambridge, Charles Darwin National Park, Darwin Awards, Darwin's finches, Darwin Island, another Darwin Island, Charles Darwin Research Station, Darwin Bay, Lecocarpus darwinii (a tree species), Charles Darwin Foundation, Darwin's Arch
• Adi Dassler – founder of adidas
• David, Biblical king – City of David, David's harp
• Arthur Davidson and William Harley, American businesspeople – Harley–Davidson
• Humphry Davy, British chemist and inventor – Davy lamp
• Richard Dawkins, British scientist and activist – Dawkinsia, Richard Dawkins Award
• Paul de Casteljau, French mathematician – de Casteljau's algorithm
• Michael Dell, American businessman – founder of Dell, the computer company
• John and Peter Delmonico, Swiss-American restaurant holders – Delmonico steak
• Demosthenes, Greek orator – Demosthenic ^[13]
• Thomas Derrick (c. 1600), British hangman – Derrick (lifting device)
• Melvil Dewey – Dewey Decimal System
• David Deutsch – Church–Turing–Deutsch principle
• Charles Dickens, British novelist – Dickensian^[14]
• Saint Didacus – San Diego
• Bo Diddley, American blues/rock and roll singer and guitarist – Bo Diddley beat
• Rudolf Diesel, German inventor – the diesel engine
• Paul Dirac, French mathematician – Dirac fermion, Dirac spinor, Dirac equation, Dirac delta function, Dirac sea, Dirac Prize, Fermi–Dirac statistics
• Walt Disney, American animator and film producer – The Walt Disney Company, Disneyland, Disneyfication, Disneyism ^[13]
• Jeremiah Dixon and Charles Mason, British astronomers – Mason–Dixon Line
• François Divisia, French economist – divisia index ^[13]
• John Francis Dodge and Horace Dodge, American businesspeople – Dodge
• Doily, British draper - doily
• Dogberry, British theatrical character – dogberryism (synonym for malapropism)
• Ray Dolby, American inventor – Dolby Stereo, Dolby Surround and Dolby Pro Logic
• Christian Doppler, Austrian physicist – Doppler radar, Doppler effect
• Donald Wills Douglas, Sr., American aviator – Douglas Aircraft Company
• Charles Dow and Edward Jones, American businesspeople – Dow Jones & Company
• Herbert Dow, Canadian-American businessman – The Dow Chemical Company
• John Langdon Down, English physician – Down syndrome
• Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle, American literary character - Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen^[15][16] and not the comic and cartoon character Popeye the Sailor.
• Robin Dunbar, British anthropologist – Dunbar's number
• Guillaume Dupuytren, French physician – Dupuytren's contracture, Dupuytren's fracture
• August Dvorak, American psychologist – Dvorak Simplified Keyboard
• Draco, Greek lawgiver – Draconian laws
• Henry Draper, American astronomer – Draper (crater), lunar impact crater
• John William Draper, English-American physician, chemist and photographer – Draper point ^[17][18]
• John Duns Scotus, Scottish theologist – Dunce cap

E

• Jay Earley, American computer scientist – Earley parser
• Echo, Greek mythological character - echo
• Thomas Edison, American inventor – Edison effect, Edison Records, Edisonian approach, Edison, Georgia, Edison, New Jersey, Edisonade
• Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (younger brother of King George IV and King William IV), commander of British forces in Halifax – Prince Edward Island
• Edward VII, British king – Edwardian ^[13]
• Gustave Eiffel, French architect – Eiffel Tower
• Egeria, Roman mythological character - Egeria (female advisor), Egeria (genus)
• Albert Einstein, German mathematician and physicist – Einstein refrigerator, einsteinium, Bose–Einstein statistics, Bose–Einstein condensates, Einstein tensor
• David Eisenhower, American presidential relative – Camp David
• Dwight D. Eisenhower, American general and president – Eisenhower doctrine ^[13]
• Electra, Greek mythological character – Electra complex ^[13]
• Elizabeth I of England, English queen, nicknamed the "Virgin Queen" and "Wingina", a Native American regional king – Virginia, West Virginia, Elizabethan sonnet, Elizabethan era, Elizabethan theatre, Elizabethan architecture, Elizabethan government ^[13]
• Saint Elmo, Christian martyr – St. Elmo's fire
• Arpad Elo, Hungarian chess player – Elo rating system
• Loránd Eötvös, Hungarian physicist – eotvos, Lorándite, Ëotvös number, Ëotvös number
• Epicurus, Greek philospher - epicureanism
• Michael Anthony Epstein and Yvonne Barr, British physicians – Epstein–Barr virus
• Eratosthenes, Greek mathematician - Sieve of Eratosthenes
• Lars Magnus Ericsson, Swedish businessman – Ericsson
• Agner Krarup Erlang, Danish mathematician – Erlang (unit), Erlang distribution, Erlang (programming language)
• Emil Erlenmeyer, German chemist – Erlenmeyer flask
• Eros, Greek mytholotical character - eroticism, erotomania, erotophobia
• Euclid, Greek mathematician - Euclidean geometry, Euclidean algoritm, Euclidean vector
• Euhemerus, Greek writer - euhemerism
• Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician – Euler's formula, Eulerian path, Euler equations; see also: List of topics named after Leonhard Euler ^[13]
• Europa, Greek mythological character – Europe
• Bartolomeo Eustachi, Italian biologist – Eustachian tube
• Eutyches, Greek religious leader – eutychian ^[13]
• William Davies Evans, Welsh-British chess player – Evans Gambit
• George Everest, Welsh explorer – Mount Everest
• Ewale a Mbedi, Cameroonian king – Duala people, Douala (from a variant of his name, Dwala)
• Edward Eyre, British explorer – Lake Eyre, Eyre Peninsula, Eyre Highway, Eyre Creek, Mount Eyre, Eyre Mountains (New Zealand)

F

• Fabius Maximus, Roman general – Fabian, Fabian Society,^[13] Fabianism, Fabian strategy
• Johannes Fabry, German physician – Fabry disease
• Fagin, British literary character – fagin (criminal who trains young thieves) ^[13]
• Gabriel Fahrenheit, German physcist – the Fahrenheit scale
• Ernst Falkbeer, Austrian chess player – Falkbeer Countergambit
• Gabriele Falloppio, Italian phyician – Fallopian tube
• Falstaff, British theatrical character – fallstaffian
• Michael Faraday, British physicist – farad – SI unit of capacitance, faraday – cgs unit of current Faraday constant, Faraday effect, Faraday's law of induction, Faraday's law of electrolysis
• Fatima, daughter of the prophet Muhammad – Fatimid ^[13]
• Fauna, Roman mythological character - fauna
• Guy Fawkes, British criminal – guy ^[14]
• Februus, Etruskian-Roman mythological character - February
• Federico Fellini, Italian film director - Felliniesque, Fellinian
• Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist – fermions, Fermi energy, Fermilab, Fermi paradox, fermium – chemical element, Fermi–Dirac statistics. fermi (obsolete name for femtometre)
• Enzo Ferrari, Italian businessman – Ferrari
• George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr., American inventor – Ferris wheel
• Richard Feynman, American physicist – Feynman diagram
• Fib of the Picts, one of the seven sons of Cruthin – Fife
• Leonardo Fibonacci, Italian mathematician – Fibonacci Numbers
• Bobby Fischer, American chess player – Fischer Defense
• Robert Fisk, British journalist – Fisking
• Matthew Flinders, British explorer – Flinders Bay, Flinders Chase National Park, Flinders Island, Flinders Ranges, Flinders River, Flinders Street Station, Flinders University, Flinders, Victoria (Australia), Flinders bar, Flindersia
• Flora, Roman mythological character - flora, flower
• Pietro Paolo Floriani, Italian architect – Floriana, Floriana Lines
• Vladimir Fock, Russian physicist - Fock space, Fock state, Hartree-Fock method
• B.C. Forbes, Scottish-American journalist – Forbes magazine
• Henry Ford, American businessman – Ford Motor Company
• Matthias N. Forney, American inventor – Forney locomotive
• William Forsyth, Scottish botanist – Forsythia
• Charles Fort, American writer – Forteana, Fortean Society, Fortean Times
• Dick Fosbury – American athlete - Fosbury flop
• William Fox, American film producer – 20th Century Fox
• Francis of Assisi, French religious founder – San Francisco
• Francis Joseph of Austria-Hungary, Austrian-Hungarian emperor – Franz Josef Land
• Benjamin Franklin, American inventor – Franklin stove, franklin – cgs unit of electric charge
• Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychologist – Freudian, Freudian slip ^[13]
• Friedrich Fröbel, German pedagogue – Fröbel school ^[13]
• Guido Fubini Italian mathematician – Fubini's theorem
• Leonhart Fuchs, German botanist – Fuchsia
• Tetsuya "Ted" Fujita, Japanese meteorologist – Fujita scale
• Buckminster Fuller, American inventor – Fullerene

G

• Johan Gadolin, 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, Italian astronomer – galileo or gal, unit of acceleration
• Israel Galili – the Galil assault rifle
• George Gallup, American businessman - Gallup poll
• Luigi Galvani, Italian physician - galvanization
• James Gamble and William Procter – Procter & Gamble
• Mrs. Gamp, British literary character – gamp ^[12]
• Henry Laurence Gantt – Gantt chart
• John Garand – M1 Garand rifle
• Alexander Garden (naturalist) – after whom the gardenia was named.
• Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian politician – Garibaldi biscuits, Italian aircraft carrier Giuseppe Garibaldi, Garibaldi shirt, Garibaldi fish ^[14]
• Gideon Gartner – Gartner
• Hermann Treschow Gartner – Gartner's duct
• Marcus Garvey, Jamaican activist – Garveyism
• Martin Garzez – Garzes Tower
• Richard J. Gatling, American inventor – Gatling gun ^[14]
• Charles de Gaulle, French general and president – Charles de Gaulle Airport
• Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician – gauss – unit of magnetic induction, Gauss' law; see also: List of topics named after Carl Friedrich Gauss.^[14]
• Enola Gay Tibbets, mother of Paul Tibbets, American pilot – Enola Gay
• Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac and Jacques Charles, French physicists and chemists – Law of Charles and Gay-Lussac
• Lou Gehrig, American baseball player – Lou Gehrig's disease
• Hans Geiger, German inventor – Geiger counter, Geiger–Müller tube ^[14]
• George I, English king – Georgia (U.S. state)
• George V, English king – King George Street (Jerusalem), King George Street (Tel Aviv), King George V Dock
• George VI, English king – George Cross, George Medal
• Saint George – Order of Saint George, Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Saint George's Cross, Georgia (country), Saint George's, Grenada, and numerous other localities, churches and cathedrals
• Sophie Germain, French mathematician – Sophie Germain prime
• Elbridge Gerry, American politician – gerrymandering ^[14]
• Domingo Ghirardelli – Ghirardelli Chocolate Company
• Josiah Willard Gibbs – Gibbs free energy, Gibbs phenomenon
• Saint Gilbert, English saint – Gilbertine ^[13]
• Thomas Gilbert – Kiribati
• King Camp Gillette, American inventor and businessman – Gillette
• Charles William Gilpin – Gilpin Airlines
• William Gladstone, British Prime Minister – Gladstone bag ^[14]
• John Glas, Scottish religious leader – Glasite ^[13]
• Gaston Glock – GLOCK GmbH and its best-known product, the Glock pistol
• Samuel Goldwyn, American film producer – Goldwynism ^[14]
• Goliath, Biblical character - "goliath" ^[14]
• Gregory XIII, Italian pope – Gregorian calendar ^[14]
• Thomas Gresham, English merchant – Gresham's Law ^[14]
• Kurt Gödel, Austrian-American mathematician – Gödel's incompleteness theorem, Gödel's ontological proof
• Maria Goeppert-Mayer, Polish physicist – Goeppert-Mayer (GM) unit for the cross section of two-photon absorption
• 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
• Thomas Gradgrind, British literary character – gradgrind ^[12]
• Ernst Gräfenberg, German physician – Gräfenberg spot (G-spot)
• Sylvester Graham – Graham crackers, Graham flour
• Thomas Graham – Graham's Law
• Robert James Graves – Graves–Basedow disease
• Louis Harold Gray – gray, unit of absorbed dose of radiation
• Henri Grob – Grob's Attack
• Ernst Grünfeld – Grünfeld Defence
• Vicente Guerrero – Guerrero
• Georges Guillain, Fench physciain – Guillain–Barré syndrome
• Dr. Joseph Ignace Guillotin, French inventor – guillotine ^[13]
• Henry C. Gunning – mineral gunningite
• Robert John Lechmere Guppy, British biologist – guppy or guppie ^[14]

H

• Hadrian, Roman emperor – Hadrian's Wall and Hadrian's Wall Path
• Amber Hagerman, American kidnapping and murder victim – AMBER Alert
• Otto Hahn, German physicist – hahnium, chemical element. This element name is not accepted by IUPAC. (See element naming controversy)
• Edwin Hall, American physicist – Hall effect
• Edmond Halley, British astronomer – Halley's Comet
• Hugh Halligan, American police officer – Halligan bar
• Alexander Hamilton, American politician – Hamiltonianism ^[13]
• Laurens Hammond, American inventor – Hammond Organ
• Hamo, a 6th-century Saxon settler and landowner – Hampshire
• John Hancock, American politician– Since he signed the American Declaration of Independence his name became an eponym for "signature" in the U.S.A.
• Elliot Handler and Harold "Matt" Matson, American businesspeople – Mattel
• William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, American animators – Hanna–Barbera Productions
• Gerhard Armauer Hansen, Norwegian physician – Hansen's disease
• Joseph Aloysius Hansom, British inventor – Hansom cab ^[14]
• Charles Henry Harrod, British businessman - Harrods
• William Harley and Arthur Davidson, American businesspeople – Harley–Davidson
• Alexis Hartmann, American paediatrician – Hartmann's solution
• Douglas Hartree, British mathematician – Hartree energy, Hartree equation, Hartree-Fock method
• Gerry Harvey and Ian Norman, Australian businesspeople – Harvey Norman
• Hashimoto Hakaru, Japanese physician – Hashimoto's thyroiditis
• Hassan-i-Sabah Persian religious leader - Hashshashin, assassin from hassansin (this etymology is disputed)
• Victor Hasselblad, Swedish photographer – Hasselblad, medium format photographic camera system
• Hawaii-loa, Polynesian chief who first led settlers to Hawaii – Hawaii
• Stephen Hawking, British astronomer and mathematician – Hawking radiation
• Paul Hawkins, British mathematician – Hawk-Eye tracking system used in cricket and other sports
• Frank Hawthorne, Canadian mineralogist – Frankhawthorneite
• Friedrich Hayek, Austrian economist – Hayekian economics ^[13]
• Will H. Hays, American film censor – Hays Code ^[13]
• Oliver Heaviside, British physicist, and Arthur Edwin Kennelly, American physicist– Kennelly–Heaviside layer
• Henry Heimlich, American physician – Heimlich Maneuver
• Gerard Adriaan Heineken, Dutch beer brewer – Heineken
• John Henry, American folkloric character – John Henryism
• Joseph Henry, American physicist – henry, unit of inductance ^[14]
• William Henry, British chemist – Henry's law
• Hercules, Greek mythological character – Herculean task ^[14]
• Milton S. Hershey, American businessman – Hershey Company
• Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, German physicist – hertz, unit of frequency
• Ejnar Hertzsprung, Danish astronomer, and Henry Norris Russell, American astronomer – Hertzsprung–Russell diagram
• William Hewlett and David Packard, American businesspeople – Hewlett–Packard
• Edward C. Heyde, American physician – Heyde's syndrome
• Miguel Hidalgo, Mexican priest and activist – Hidalgo
• David Hilbert, German mathematician and physicist – Hilbert's program
• Eugen von Hippel, German physician, and Arvid Lindau, Swedish physician – Von Hippel–Lindau disease
• Hippocrates, Greek physician – Hippocratic oath ^[14]
• Harald Hirschsprung, Danish physician – Hirschsprung's disease
• Adolf Hitler, Austrian-German dictator – Hitlerite, Hitler salute, Hitler moustache, Hitlerjugend, Hitlerism
• Paul von Hindenburg, German general and politician – Hindenburg airship
• Thomas Hobson British stable manager and carrier– Hobson's choice
• Thomas Hodgkin, British physician – Hodgkin's disease, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
• Sherlock Holmes, British literary character – a "sherlock" (anyone who solves a mystery or a difficult problem. Sometimes also used in a sarcastic context, when something obvious has been pointed out.)
• Soichiro Honda, Japanese businessman – Honda
• Mark Honeywell, American businessman - Honeywell
• Robin Hood, English folk hero – Robin Hood effect, Robin Hood Foundation, Robin Hood Flour, Robin Hood Hills, Robin Hood hat, Robin Hood index, Robin Hood Gardens, Robin Hood plan, Robin Hood tax, Robin Hood test, Robin Hood character (someone who steals money to give it to the poor or a criminal who becomes a folk hero)
• Robert Hooke, British physicist – Hooke's law
• William Henry Hoover, American business man – The Hoover Company; in British English, the verb "hoover" means "to vacuum a floor" while the noun is the vacuum cleaner. 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, German businessman – Audi (audi is Latin for horch. It means listen in English)
• Leslie Hore-Belisha, British politician – Belisha beacon
• James Horlick and William Horlick, British-American business people – Horlicks
• William Howe, American architect and engineer – Howe truss bridges
• Hroc, an ancient landowner ("Hroc's fortress" + shire) – Roxburghshire
• Henry Hudson, British explorer – Hudson Bay, Hudson River, Hudson Strait
• Howard Hughes, American aviator and businessman – Hughes Aircraft company, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Hughes Airwest airlines, Hughes Glomar Explorer ship
• Howard R. Hughes, Sr. – Hughes Tool Company, Baker Hughes company
• Alexander von Humboldt, German explorer – Humboldt Bay, Humboldt Current, Humboldt Falls, Humboldt Glacier, Humboldt lily, Humboldt Peak, Humboldt penguin, Humboldt Range, Humboldt River, Humboldt Sink, Humboldt squid, Pico Humboldt, Humboldt University of Berlin, Humboldt State University, Humboldtian Science, Humboldt's hog-nosed skunk
• John Huss (Czech: Jan Hus), Czech priest – Hussite, Czechoslovak Hussite Church

I

• Icarus, Greek mythological character - Icarus paradox
• Max Immelmann, German aviator – Immelmann turn, Immelmann loop
• Iris, Greek mythological character - Iris (anatomy)
• Eleuthère Irénée du Pont, French-American businessman – DuPont

J

• Joseph Marie Jacquard, French inventor – Jacquard loom
• Jacob (also known as Israel), Biblical character – Israel
• Candido Jacuzzi, Italian inventor - jacuzzi
• Maharajah Jai Singh, Indian maharajah – Jaipur
• Alfons Maria Jakob and Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt, German physicians – Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease
• Saint James, Christian martyr – Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Chile
• Thomas James, British-Welsh explorer – James Bay
• James, Duke of York, English king – New York, New York State
• Karl Jansky, American astronomer – jansky, unit of flux density
• Robert Jarvik, American inventor – Jarvik artificial heart
• Thomas Jefferson, American president – Jeffersonian, relating to Thomas Jefferson; more specifically, Jeffersonian architecture, Jeffersonian democracy; also, Jefferson Bible
• Jeremiah, Biblical prophet – jeremiad
• Jeroboam, -Israelian king – Jeroboam wine bottle
• Jessica Lunsford, American rape and murder victim – Jessica's Law
• John the Baptist, Biblical character – Order of Saint John, San Ġwann
• Tommy John, American baseball player – Tommy John surgery
• Jonathan Carey, American autistic child – Jonathan's Law
• Barry Jones, Australian activist and politician – Barry Jones Bay, Yalkaparidon jonesi
• Edward Jones and Charles Dow, American businesspeople – Dow Jones & Company
• Brian David Josephson, Welsh physicist – Josephson junction, Josephson effect
• James Prescott Joule, British physicist – joule
• Judah, Biblical character (Hebrew: יהודה, Yehuda) – Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv F.C., Kingdom of Judah
• Judas Iscariot, Biblical character – Judas
• Julius of Caerleon, Christian martys – St Julians, Newport
• Julian the Hospitaller, Christian martyr – St. Julian's, St. Julian's Tower, various locations named "San Julián".
• Justinian I, Byzantine king – Codex Justinianus

K

• Franz Kafka, Czech-German author – Kafkaesque
• Mikhail Kalashnikov, Russian gun inventor – the Avtomat Kalashnikova series of weapons, including the AK-47, the Kalashnikov Handheld Machine Gun or Ruchnoi Pulemet Kalashnikova obraztsa 1974 g (RPK-74)
• Ingvar Kamprad, Swedish businessman – the first two letters of IKEA.
• Victor Kandinsky, Russian physician - Kandinsky-Clérambault syndrome
• Gaetano Kanizsa, Italian psychologist – Kanizsa triangle
• Megan Kanka, American rape and murder victim – Megan's Law
• Moritz Kaposi, Hungarian dermatologist – Kaposi's sarcoma
• D.R. Kaprekar, Indian mathematician - Kaprekar constant, Kaprekar number
• Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer - Kapteyn's Star
• Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian mathematician – Karman line, von Kármán constant, von Kármán ogive, von Kármán vortex street
• Anna Karenina, Russian literary character - Anna Karenina principle
• Tadao Kashio, Japanese businessman – Casio
• Yevgeny Kaspersky, Russian computer scienist and businessman – Kaspersky Lab, Kaspersky Anti-Virus
• Shozo Kawasaki, Japanese businessman – Kawasaki Heavy Industries
• Tomisaku Kawasaki, Japanese physician – Kawasaki disease
• Grace Kelly, American actress – Kelly bag
• Lord Kelvin, Irish-British phycist – kelvin (unit of thermodynamic temperature)
• John F. Kennedy, American president – John F. Kennedy International Airport, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Kennedy Center Honors, John F. Kennedy University, Kennedy Doctrine
• Arthur Edwin Kennelly, American physicist, and Oliver Heaviside, British physicist – Kennelly–Heaviside layer
• Johannes Kepler, German astronomer - Kepler's laws of planetary motion, Kepler conjecture
• Paul Keres, Estonian chess player – Keres Defence
• Brian W. Kernighan, Canadian computer scientist – the third letter of the name awk, a computer pattern/action language, is taken from his last name.
• John Kerr, Scottish physicist – Kerr effect
• John Maynard Keynes, British economist – Keynesian economics
• Wilhelm Killing, German mathematician – Killing vector field
• Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist – Kirchhoff's Laws
• Diedrich Knickerbocker, American literary character - knickerbockers ^[19]
• Donald Knuth, American computer scientist – Knuth–Morris–Pratt algorithm
• Ed Koch, American politician – Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge
• Robert Koch, German physician – Koch's postulates
• Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer – Kodály method
• Simon bar Kokhba, Jewish resistance leader – Bar Kokhba game (Hungarian game) ^[20]
• Alexander Konstantinopolsky, Ukranian-Russian chess player – Konstantinopolsky Opening
• Abraham Isaac Kook, Russian rabbi – Mossad Harav Kook
• Wladimir Peter Köppen, Russian-German meteorologist – Köppen climate classification
• Sergei Korsakoff, Russian psychologist – Korsakoff's syndrome
• Aharon Kotler, Belarussian rabbi – Ramat Aharon
• Alfried Krupp, German businessman – Krupp, now ThyssenKrupp
• Gerard Kuiper, Dutch astronomer – Kuiper Belt
• August Kundt, German physicist – Kundt's tube

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 places named after people
• List of people
• List of toponyms

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