eponym (W3)

Meaning: A personal name from which a regular word is derived

Notes: The eponyms of many words have been lost in the din of history. "Bedlam" originated as a Cockney pronunciation of "Bethlehem" for London's "Hospital of St. Mary of Bethlehem" for the insane. "Tsar" is an ancient Slavic rendition of "Caesar". The proclivity of "Captain William Lynch" of Virginia (1742-1820) to quickly hang those brought before his court gave us the verb, "lynch". Eponyms are not always fair. The very intelligent medieval philosopher "Duns" Scotus's criticism of Aquinas led to his detractors using his name to refer to stupid people, so today we have "dunce". The adjective is "eponymous", though "eponymic" is not unheard-of.

In Play: Many eponyms are obvious. "Plato" gave us "platonic" for one kind of love, "Romeo" gave us his name for another (Phil is quite a "Romeo"). "Franz Mesmer" lent his name to real hypnotism ("mesmerism") and "algorithm" is the English version of "al-Khowarizmi", the name of an Arabic mathematician (780-850), born in Baghdad, who showed that any mathematical problem can be solved by breaking it down into steps. (Browse hundreds more eponyms here.)

Word History: Today's word came a long way to us. We snipped it from French "éponyme". French inherited it from Latin, which had copied it from Greek "eponymos" "named after". The Greek word is made up of "epi" = "from" + "onyma" = "name". The PIE root "apo" = "off of", "away from" turned into "of" and its variant "off" in English. In German it emerged as "auf" = "on" and in Latin as "ab" = "away from". In Russian and other Slavic languages it can be found in "po" = "around", "about", used in adverbial phrases like "po-russky" = "in Russian", "in the Russian way".

spoonerism (W3)

"spoonerism", noun

A phrase in which the initial (usually consonantal) sounds of two or more of the main words are accidentally transposed.

The spoonerism "The queer old dean" (instead of "the dear old Queen") is attributed to Rev. Spooner.

Translations:

• French: contrepčterie
• German: Schüttelreim

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Word History: "Spoonerism" is yet another eponym, this one a gift of the Reverend W. A. Spooner (1844-1930), who lectured and served as dean and warden at Oxford University for 60 years. That is, the proper noun "Spooner" became a common one, "spooner", to which the suffix "-ism" was attached. For a more expansive discussion of "spoonerisms" and the origin of their name, enjoy our section devoted to them.

"spoonerism"

A speech error in which the first letters of two adjacent or close words are switched, as 'I hissed your mystery class'.

Reverend William Archibald Spooner (1844-1930), Anglican clergyman and educator, dean (1876-89) and warden (1903-1924) of New College, Oxford.

Spoonerisms

William Archibald Spooner was born in London on 22 July 1844. Eighteen years later he won a scholarship to New College, Oxford where he completed degrees in classics and humanities (divinity). He continued at New College for the remainder of his life, lecturing there from 1869 onward, serving as dean 1876-1889, and finally becoming its warden (president) after completing his Doctor of Divinity degree in 1903.
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SPOONERISMS

named after the Reverend William A. Spooner (1844–1930), an English clergyman who uttered them frequently and apparently involuntarily, are the amusing result of the transpositions of sounds in a pair of words or phrases: "I fool a little feelish." More commonly spoonerisms involve transposed initial sounds: one of Spooner’s most famous is said to have been "The Lord is a shoving leopard." These verbal pratfalls are one kind of "metathesis", and some of the most famous may be deliberate wit rather than inadvertent slips.

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2. "Spoonerism"

Spoonerisms are similar to malapropisms; the distinction is that a "spoonerism" is a case of "metathesis", in which parts of two words are exchanged, rather than one word substituted for another. This figure of speech was named after a nineteenth-century Oxford academician who appears to have been credited with various misstatements he did not make; one of the many apocryphal examples is “a well-boiled icicle” (in lieu of “a well-oiled bicycle”).
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10. Spoonerisms:

The term for expressions in which initial letters, or sometimes entire syllables or words, are transposed is based on the name of a British clergyman supposedly prone to such utterances, though many attributed to him were only inspired by him. Among them is “a well-boiled icicle” for “a well-oiled bicycle”; John Lennon is credited with coining a variation on “Time heals all wounds”: “Time wounds all heels.”
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Finally, spoonerisms result from transposing the initial sounds of words. Named after clergyman William Archibald Spooner, the resulting words usually provoke gales of laughter. Examples from Spooner himself include:

• It is now kisstomary to cuss the bride. (customary to kiss the bride)
• You have tasted two worms (wasted two terms)
• Our Lord is a shoving leopard (loving shepherd)

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spoonerism, noun

the transposition of initial or other sounds of words, usually by accident, as in "a blushing crow" for "a crushing blow".

ORIGIN OF SPOONERISM: First recorded in 1895–1900; after W. A. Spooner (1844–1930), English clergyman noted for such slips; see "-ism"

spoonerism

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"spoonerism" [verspreking door verwisseling van klanken] {na 1950} - engels "spoonerism", genoemd naar "William A. Spooner" (1844-1930), hoofd van New College in Oxford, die bekend stond om dit soort versprekingen.

"spoonerism", verspreking door verwisseling van klanken, bijvoorbeeld haswand in plaats van washand, naar dominee "W. A. Spooner" [1844-1930]. Spooner was huismeester van New College in Oxford en stond bekend om zijn vele versprekingen.

spoonerism verspreking door verwisseling van klanken 1984 [GVD] - Engels
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SPOONERISME - (VERSPREKING)
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spoonerism (n.)
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Spoonerisms

Durmstrang zählt neben Hogwarts und Beauxbatons zu einer der drei berühmten Zauberschulen in Europa. Es liegt wahrscheinlich verborgen vor allen Muggeln im Nord-Osten von Europa, z. B. Russland oder Schweden, ein genauer Ort jedoch ist nicht bekannt. Viele gehen auch davon aus, die Schule liege in Bulgarien.
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"spoonerism" - William A. Spooner, Eng clergyman & educator died 1930 - transposition of initial sounds of words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil)

"spoonerism" – The transposition of usually initial sounds in a pair of words

from the name of the Rev. William Archibald Spooner (1844-1930), a kindly but nervous Anglican clergyman and educationalist, who was famous for such mistakes. Some examples, all committed by (or attributed to) dear Reverend Spooner:
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The Monstrous Words Lurking in Your Language
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Whether Reverend Spooner ever said those actual words or not, it’s true that spoonerisms and other such slips of the tongue can reveal some pretty interesting things about language—how we associate and map words and sounds in our brains.

We’re often told we should use language “correctly” but in fact performance errors are a natural part of speaking language. Everyone makes speech errors, and not just while attempting tongue twisters.
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Goonerisms Spalore! - Spoonerisms Galore!

The page entirely dedicated to the listing of assorted, random & fun spoonerisms.

Spoonerism, n. the transposition of initial or other sounds of words, usually by accident. (1895-1900 after W. A. Spooner (1844-1930), English clergyman noted for such slips).

Assorted Spoonerisms

Special Spoonerisms

Spoonerism Fairy Tales

True Stories of Spoonerisms

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What is the origin of spoonerism?

Poor William Archibald Spooner! That British clergyman and educator, who lived from 1844 to 1930, often had to speak in public, but he was a nervous man and his tongue frequently got tangled up. He would say things like "a blushing crow" when he meant "a crushing blow." Spooner's sound reversals became the stuff of legend—and undoubtedly gave his listeners many a laugh. By the end of the 19th century, his name had inspired the term spoonerism, which lives on to this day.
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ORIGIN

"Spoonerisms" are named after the Reverend William Archibald Spooner (1844–1930), Warden of New College, Oxford, who was notoriously prone to this mistake. The term "Spoonerism" was well established in English by 1921.

Many spoonerisms attributed to Reverend Spooner were likely made up by others, such as his students, but we’ll never know for sure.
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What's the origin of the word "Spoonerism"

The Rev. William Archibald Spooner (1844–1930), who was a fellow and warden of New College, Oxford, is inextricably linked with the slips of the tongue that bear his name. "Spooner" was an albino and, more to the point for this piece, a sufferer of dysgraphia, which is a form of dyslexia that is characterised in the OED as 'a disturbance of the clear distinction of the sounds of words, confusion between closely related phonemes'. The albinoism may in fact have played a part in this as it is often associated with poor eyesight, which was certainly a symptom in Spooner's case.

Although his reputation for making what came to be called "spoonerisms" was widespread, most of the best known examples are inventions by others and it is impossible to tell which are genuine mistakes (by Spooner or otherwise) and which are made up for effect. For example, he is supposed to have said "I am a birdwatcher", which would un-spoonerise as "I am a word botcher". An excellent comic example should he ever have said it but, sadly, he didn't. The term "spoonerism" was known colloquially in Oxford in his lifetime and was first written down in this piece from the London newspaper The Globe, February 1900:

To one unacquainted with technical terms it sounds as if the speaker were guilty of a "spoonerism".

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As far as can be ascertained, the only example of a spoonerism actually said by Spooner is:

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Here's a list of spoonerisms that are often supposed to have been uttered by the reverend gentleman but come with the giveaway 'attributed to' label:
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Spoonerisms, Mondegreens, Eggcorns, and Malapropisms

When you mishear song lyrics, the resulting error is called a "mondegreen". We have the story about why and the run-down on similar funny errors.
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Spoonerisms

Now, back to the “little fit bunny” type of error I mentioned at the beginning. It’s called a spoonerism in honor of Reverend William Archibald Spooner, who taught at New College in Oxford in the 1800s and early 1900s, and had a reputation for mixing up words. Reports say that he was less than thrilled to be “honored” by having the error named after him.

A spoonerism is another particular kind of mix-up. It happens when you swap sounds between two words in a phrase. (2, 3) There are unintentional spoonerisms that don’t make sense, such as “goys and birls” (for “boys and girls”), and then there are spoonerisms that create new, funny meanings such as “keys and parrots” (for “peas and carrots”) and “better Nate than lever” (for “better late than never”).

I confess that on more than one occasion I have called my relatives Gail and Dave, Dale and Gave!

There are also intentional spoonerisms. For example, Keen James wrote a book called “Stoopnagle’s Tale Is Twisted: Spoonerisms Run Amok” that retells fairy tales using spoonerisms. Chapters include “Beeping Sleuty” and “Prinderella and the Since.” Christopher Manson wrote a book called “The Rails I Tote,” which has 45 spoonerism cartoons for readers to decipher (such as “bee tags” for “tea bags”). And Shel Silverstein authored a book called “Runny Babbit: A Billy Sook,” which obviously uses spoonerisms.

When I covered this topic a few years ago, a reader named Danielle told me about a story called “Rindercella” instead of “Cinderella.” She said her favorite part is the last line, which goes like this:

“Now the storal of the mory is this: If you ever go to a bancy fall, and you want a prandsome hince to lall in fove with you, don’t forget to slop your dripper.”

The original “Rindercella” skit appeared on the TV show “HeeHaw,” and you can watch the video at YouTube.

As I was researching this topic, I also came across spoonerisms that seemed to be intentional attempts to eliminate swear words while still getting the point across. Some of the less offensive examples include “nucking futs” (from the movie “Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star“), “biserable mastered” (from the video game “Escape from Monkey Island“), “bass ackwards,” and “no wucking furries.”

It makes me wonder if Reverend Spooner is grolling over in his rave!

Spoonerisms, mondegreens, eggcorns, and malapropisms are all instances where you get the words wrong. My brain is starting to hurt trying to keep the names straight, so I’ll summarize them again.

Spoonerisms are what you get when a speaker mixes up sounds, making phrases such as “better Nate than lever.” Remember William Spooner and his particular kind of mix up such as “The Lord is a shoving leopard” instead of “The Lord is a loving shepherd.”

Mondegreens are what you get when listeners mishear words; for example when people think the song lyrics are “Sweet dreams are made of cheese” instead of “Sweet dreams are made of this.” Think of Lady Mondegreen being laid on the green.

Eggcorns are what you get when people swap homophones in phrases, such as spelling “Hear! Hear!” H-E-R-E instead of H-E-A-R. Remember the woman who thought an acorn was an “eggcorn.”

Malapropisms are what you get when someone substitutes a similar-sounding word for another, such as “He’s the pineapple of politeness” instead of “He’s the pinnacle of politeness.” Remember funny Mrs. Malaprop from the Richard Sheridan play.
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English: "spoonerism" - French: "contrepčterie"

Related Term(s):

• metathesis
• pun
• slip of the tongue
• tongue-slip
• word play

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"SPOONERISM" - Rev. William Archibald Spooner (1844-1930), of New College, Oxford

Spoonerism

A spoonerism is an occurrence in speech in which corresponding consonants, vowels, or morphemes are switched (see metathesis) between two words in a phrase.[1][a] These are named after the Oxford don and ordained minister William Archibald Spooner, who reputedly did this.

They were already renowned by the author François Rabelais in the 16th century, and called contrepčteries.[2] In his novel Pantagruel, he wrote "femme folle ŕ la messe et femme molle ŕ la fesse" ("insane woman at mass, woman with flabby buttocks").

An example is saying "The Lord is a shoving leopard" instead of "The Lord is a loving shepherd" or "runny babbit" instead of "bunny rabbit." While spoonerisms are commonly heard as slips of the tongue, they can also be used intentionally as a play on words.
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Etymology

Spooner as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, April 1898

Spoonerisms are named after the Reverend William Archibald Spooner (1844–1930), Warden from 1903 to 1924 of New College, Oxford, who was notoriously prone to this mistake. The Oxford English Dictionary records the word as early as 1900. The term spoonerism was well established by 1921. An article in The Times from that year reports that:

The boys of Aldro School, Eastbourne, ... have been set the following task for the holidays: Discover and write down something about: The Old Lady of Threadneedle-street, a Spoonerism, a Busman's Holiday...

An article in the Daily Herald in 1928 reported spoonerisms to be a "legend". In that piece Robert Seton, once a student of Spooner's, admitted that Spooner:

...made, to my knowledge, only one "Spoonerism" in his life, in 1879, when he stood in the pulpit and announced the hymn: 'Kinkering Kongs their Titles Take' ["Conquering Kings their Titles Take"]...Later, a friend and myself brought out a book of "spoonerisms"'

In 1937, The Times quoted a detective describing a man as "a bricklabourer's layer" and used "Police Court Spoonerism" as the headline.

A spoonerism is also known as a "marrowsky" or "morowski", purportedly after an 18th-century Polish count who suffered from the same impediment.]
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Favorite Spoonerisms

Reverend William Archibald Spooner was known for transposing sounds, like raising a glass “to our queer old dean” instead of “to our dear old queen.” A caller shares some favorite "spoonerisms".

Off Like a Herd of Turtles or a Turd of Hurtles

Daniel in Youngstown, Ohio, reports that his grandfather used an odd expression when the whole family left the house: We’re off like a herd of turtles — or a turd of hurtles! The first part of the expression is one of several similarly silly phrases, and the second is a "Spoonerism", in which the initial letters of words are transposed, either accidentally or on purpose, to humorous effect.

Spoonerisms with Greg Pliska

This week, our puzzle guy Greg Pliska joins us for a game of “Spoonerisms,” or the shifting of the initial consonant sounds in a pair of words. For example, common undergraduate college degree and online auction site. Got it?

Spoonerism Game

Our Quiz Guy Greg Pliska feeds us a game of "spoonerisms", or rhyming phrase pairs where the first sounds are swapped. For example, what do a stream of information in 140 characters and a better-tailored suit have in common? Or how about a Michael Lewis book about baseball and a shopping destination for rabbits?

A "spoonerism" is an occurrence in speech in which corresponding consonants, vowels, or morphemes are switched (see "metathesis") between two words in a phrase. These are named after the Oxford don and ordained minister "William Archibald Spooner", who reputedly did this.

They were already renowned by the author François Rabelais in the 16th century, and called "contrepčteries". In his novel Pantagruel, he wrote "femme folle ŕ la messe et femme molle ŕ la fesse" ("insane woman at mass, woman with flabby buttocks").

An example is saying "The Lord is a shoving leopard" instead of "The Lord is a loving shepherd" or "runny babbit" instead of "bunny rabbit". While spoonerisms are commonly heard as slips of the tongue, they can also be used intentionally as a play on words.
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ETYMOLOGY:

After William Archibald Spooner (1844-1930), clergyman and educator, who was prone to this. Earliest documented use: 1900.
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Spoonerism
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Wordplay of the type that we now call "Spoonerisms" was rife among Oxford undergraduates from about the middle of the nineteenth century. It appears in "The Adventures of Mr Verdant Green" (1854-1857) by Cuthbert Bede, the pseudonym of another Oxford don, the Reverend Edward Bradley (“‘Will you poke a smipe, Pet?’ asked Mr. Bouncer, rather enigmatically.”)
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Spoonerism

Spoon and Spoonerism

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Eponyms

An eponym is a word derived from someone's name. For example, the "sandwich" is named for the "Earl of Sandwich" who, not wishing to be called away from a lively game of cards, bid a servant to bring him a serving of meat between two slices of bread so as, informally, to sate his hunger. Well, this site presents my personal collection of eponyms. To see the words, please visit "The List" below.

| abelia n. | adamsite n. | Addisonian adj. | albertype n. | Aldine n. | aldrin n. | alexandrite n. | algorithm n. | America n. | ammeter / amp / ampere / amperage | angstrom n. | baud n. | begonia | Benedict Arnold n. | bloomers n. | Bolivia n. | bowdlerize v. | boycott v. | braille n., adj. | brougham | buhlwork n. | cardigan n., adj. | Caesarian / C-section n., adj. | Celsius adj. | chauvinism / -ist / -istic n., adj. | Columbia n. | coulomb n. | curie n. | curium n. | daguerreotype n. | dahlia n. | damoclean / sword of Damocles adj., n. | Darwinian / Darwinism adj., n. | decibel n. | derrick n. | derringer n. | Dickensian adj. | diesel adj., n. | doberman n. | dobro n. | draconian adj. | dunce n. | einsteinium | epicurean | farad / faraday / faradize | farenheit | Fosbury | frangipani | frisbee | fuschia | galvanize / galvanic | gerrymander / gerryrig | grahamite | grangerize | Granny Smith | guillotine | guy | Heimlich | Hobson's choice | Horatio Alger | Jack Rose | jacquard | Jesus Christ | jimson weed | John Hancock | joule | Kafkaesque | Kelvin | lambert | leotard | loganberry | ludditte | lynch | macabre | macadam / macadamia | mach | Machiavellian | mackintosh | Mae West | marialite | masochism / -ist | Matthew Walker | maudlin | maverick | maxwell | mazarine | Mc- | McCarthyism | McCleod | McIntosh | mesmerize | mirandize | Molotov coctail | murcott | napoleon | Nehru | newton | nicotine / nocotinia | ohm | Orwellian | Oscar | pasteurize | peeping Tom | poinsettia | Ponzi | Pullman | Pyrrhic | Queen Anne | Queen Anne's lace | quisling | raglan | rammelsbergite | Reaganomics | rickettsia | roentgen | Roy Rogers | Rube Goldberg | ruy lopez | sadism / -ist | sally lunn | salmonella | sandwich | sarrusaphone | saxaphone | Shirley Temple | shrapnel | sideburns | silhouette n. | simens | sousaphone | | stishovite n. | stomach Steinway n. | stroganoff n. | talbotype n. | tarmac n. | Tasmania / Tasmanian devil n. | tawdry adj. | Teddy-bear n. | tetrazinni n. | theramin n. | thespian adj., n. | Tom Collins n. | Tommy-gun n. | tontine n. | Tony n. | valentine n. | valentinite n. | Van der Hum | vernier | Victorian adj. | vivianite n. | volt n. | zinnia n.

The etymologies for the following eponyms are not yet accepted by my dictionary, The RHDEL 2d E, so I've refrained from putting them on the list. Perhaps you can find a citation?

| August | Bismark | bogart | camellia | crapper | Dorothy Hammil | dukes | Farrah flip | fudge | gardenia | gibberish | Hitler Youth | Homer | July | magnolia | Peavey | Pulaski | real McCoy | sequoia | stetson | Veronica Lake | Windsor / double Windsor | wisteria

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List of eponyms

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

• Achilles, Greek mythological character — Achilles' heel, Achilles tendon
• Adam, Biblical character — Adam's apple
• Adam Walsh, Abduction-Murder Victim — Code Adam
• Alvin Adams (1804-1877) — Adams Express
• Thomas Addison — Addison's disease
• Queen Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen (wife of King William IV) - the city of Adelaide in Australia
• 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
• Semyon Alapin — Alapin's Opening
• Adolf Albin — Albin Countergambit
• Alexander Alekhine — Alekhine's Defence
• Matthew Algie — tea and coffee merchant company
• Alice Liddell — 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; Alberta (Canada)
• Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss — A&M Records
• Arthur Cecil Alport — Alport syndrome
• Bruce Ames — Ames Test, which tests for carcinogens
• André-Marie Ampčre — ampere — unit of electric current, Ampčre'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 Ĺngström — angstrom, unit of distance
• Adolf Anderssen — Anderssen's Opening
• Virginia Apgar — the Apgar score, used to determine the general health of neonates
• Antoninus Pius - Antonine Wall
• Saint Thomas Aquinas — many educational institutions
• Rafael Moreno Aranzadi, nicknamed Pichichi — The Pichichi Trophy
• Archimedes — Archimedes' screw, Archimedes' principle, Archimedean point
• William George Armstrong — Armstrong breech-loading gun
• Hans Asperger — Asperger syndrome
• Robert Atkins (nutritionist) — Atkins Diet
• Atlas, a Titan who carried the sky on his shoulders — atlas
• Aurélio Buarque de Holanda Ferreira — Aurélio's Brazilian Portuguese Dictionary.
• 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
• Lauren Bacall, American actress - Bogart-Bacall syndrome
• Karl Baedeker — Baedeker's
• Leo Baekeland — Bakelite
• Bahram V Gur — bahramdipity
• Balthazar traditional name for one of the Three Wise Men — 12 litre wine bottle (see Wine bottle#Sizes)
• J. G. Ballard — Ballardian
• János Balogh — Balogh Defense
• Heinrich Band — inventor of the Bandoneón, a free-reed instrument particularly popular in Argentina. It plays an essential role in the orquesta tipica, the tango orchestra.
• Peter Bang and Svend Olufsen - Bang and Olufsen
• Joseph Banks — Banks Peninsula, Banksia genus
• Barbara, daughter of Ruth Handler, creator of Barbie — Barbie doll
• Joseph Barbera and William Hanna — Hanna-Barbera Productions
• Thomas Wilson Barnes — Barnes Opening
• 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
• Béla Bartók - Bartok pizzicato
• Karl Adolph von Basedow — Graves-Basedow disease
• George Bass - Bass Strait
• Tomas Bata — founder of Bata Shoes; Bata Shoe Museum, Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Batawa, Ontario; Batanagar, India; Batapur, Punjab, Pakistan
• Bryce Bayer - Bayer filter
• The Beatles - Beatlesque, Beatle boot
• Francis Beaufort — Beaufort scale.
• Heinrich Beck — Beck's beer, Beck's Futures art prize
• Louis de Béchamel, a courtier to King 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
• Pal Benko — Benko Gambit
• Arnold Bennett - Omelette Arnold Bennett, dish developed at the Savoy Hotel, London.
• Carl Benz — Benz & Cie. (later Daimler-Benz)
• Hiram Berdan — 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; Yogiisms
• Henry Bessemer — Bessemer converter
• Pierre Bézier, French engineer and creator of the Bézier curve
• Bieda, a Saxon landowner ("Bieda's ford" + shire) — Bedfordshire
• Henry Bird — Bird's Opening
• 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
• Benjamin Blumenfeld — Blumenfeld Gambit
• Boann the Irish Goddess — The river Boyne
• Johann Elert Bode and Johann Daniel Titius — Titius-Bode Law
• William E. Boeing — Boeing Commercial Airplanes
• Humphrey Bogart - Bogart-Bacall syndrome
• Efim Bogoljubov — Bogo-Indian Defence
• 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, 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 Havlícek Borovský - Havlíckuv Brod
• B J T Bosanquet — bosie, the Australian term for the googly
• Satyendra Nath Bose — bosons, Bose-Einstein statistics, Bose-Einstein condensates
• Professor Amar Bose — Bose Speakers
• Dr. Elbert Dysart Botts, 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 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
• Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza - Brazzaville
• Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
• Thomas Brisbane - Brisbane and Brisbane River
• Robert Brown — Brownian motion
• John Browning — Browning firearms, including the Browning Automatic Rifle and Browning Hi-Power
• Prince Brychan — Brecknockshire
• Hans-Joachim Bremermann - Bremermann's limit
• Bucca, a Saxon landowner ("Bucca's home" + shire) — Buckinghamshire
• David Dunbar Buick - founder, Buick
• Professor Robert Wilhelm Bunsen (1811-1899) — Bunsen burner
• General Ambrose Burnside — sideburns
• William Burke - burked - To execute someone by suffocation
• Lord Byron - byronic - Someone particularly melancholic and melodramatic.

C

• John Cadbury — opened his shop in 1824 which became the company Cadbury
• Julius Caesar — 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, 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
• Horatio Caro — Caro-Kann Defence
• 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
• Laurent Cassegrain - Cassegrain reflecting telescope
• Jean Dominique Cassini - Cassini division
• Empress Catherine I of Russia - Yekaterinburg
• Augustin-Louis Cauchy — List of things named after Augustin-Louis Cauchy
• Eduard Cech - Cech cohomology, Cech complex, Cech homology, Stone-Cech compactification
• Anders Celsius — degree Celsius (unit of temperature) Celsius (Moon crater)
• Ceredig — son of Cunedda — Cardigan
• Clyde Cessna — Cessna Aircraft
• Carlos Chagas — Chagas disease
• 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 — 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 — Law of Charles and Gay-Lussac (frequently called simply Charles' Law)
• Bobby Charlton — the "Bobby Charlton" comb over hairstyle
• Augustin-Louis Cauchy — List of things named after Augustin-Louis Cauchy
• Nicolas Chauvin — chauvinism
• Vitaly Chekhover — Sicilian Defence, Chekhover Variation
• Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov — Cherenkov effect
• Louis Chevrolet - founder, Chevrolet
• Jesus Christ, "The Saviour" — El Salvador, Christianity, Christmas
• Saint Christopher — Saint Kitts and Nevis
• Walter Chrysler — founder of Chrysler, DaimlerChrysler, Chrysler Building
• 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)
• André Citroën - founder, Citroën
• 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
• Edgard Colle — Colle System
• Samuel Colt — Colt revolver
• Christopher Columbus — Egg of Columbus; many places and territories, see Columbus, Colombia, Colombo, British Columbia in Canada
• Arthur Compton — Compton effect
• Confucius — Confucianism
• 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 (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 — 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 MIke and TErry's Lawnmowers)
• Thomas Crapper - Crapper
• Seymour Cray — Cray Research
• Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt and Alfons Maria Jakob — Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
• Burrill Bernard Crohn — Crohn's disease
• Cunedda — Gwynedd
• 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
• Saint Cuthbert ("church of Cuthbert") — Kirkcudbright
• Saint Cyril - Cyrillic alphabet

D

• Jacques Daguerre — Daguerreotype
• Anders Dahl (1751-1789) — Dahlia
• Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz — Daimler-Benz (later DaimlerChrysler)
• Dalek — Popular nickname for the Bridgewater Place, Dalekmania
• John Dalton — dalton, non-SI unit of atomic mass, Daltonism
• Pedro Damiano — Damiano Defence
• 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 and William Harley — Harley-Davidson
• Humphry Davy — Davy lamp
• Richard Dawkins — Dawkinsia, Richard Dawkins Award
• Paul de Casteljau — de Casteljau's algorithm
• Michael Dell — founder of Dell, the computer company
• Delmonico, America's first restaurant — Delmonico steak (boneless Prime rib)
• David Eisenhower, grandson of US President Dwight Eisenhower — Camp David US presidential retreat
• Thomas Derrick (c. 1600), British hangman — Derrick (lifting device)
• Thomas Edmund Dewey, American politician — 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 fermion, Dirac spinor, Dirac equation, Dirac delta function, Dirac sea, Dirac Prize, Fermi-Dirac statistics
• Walt Disney — founder, The Walt Disney Company, Disneyland, Disneyfication
• Jeremiah Dixon and Charles Mason — Mason-Dixon Line
• John Francis Dodge and Horace Dodge - founders, Dodge
• Doily family (c. 1700)
• Donatello, Renaissance painter — Donatello, one of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic characters
• Christian Doppler — Doppler radar, Doppler effect
• Donald Wills Douglas, Sr. — Douglas Aircraft Company
• Charles Dow and Edward Jones — Dow Jones & Company
• Herbert Dow — The Dow Chemical Company
• John Langdon Down, English physician - Down's Syndrome
• Robin Dunbar — Dunbar's number
• Guillaume Dupuytren — Dupuytren's contracture, Dupuytren's fracture
• Dr. August Dvorak — Dvorak Simplified Keyboard
• Draco (lawgiver) - Draconian laws
• Henry Draper - Draper (crater), lunar impact crater
• John William Draper- Draper point, 977° F (525° C, 798 K)

E

• Thomas Edison — 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
• Gustave Eiffel — Eiffel Tower, designer
• Albert Einstein — Einstein refrigerator, einsteinium — chemical element, Bose-Einstein statistics, Bose-Einstein condensates
• Queen Elizabeth I of England, the "Virgin Queen" and "Wingina", a Native American regional king — Virginia, West Virginia, Elizabethan sonnet, Elizabethan era, Elizabethan theatre, Elizabethan architecture, Elizabethan government
• Saint Elmo — St. Elmo's fire
• Arpad Elo — Elo rating system
• Loránd Eötvös — eotvos, gravitational gradient
• Sir Anthony Epstein and Yvonne Barr — Epstein-Barr virus
• Lars Magnus Ericsson — Ericsson
• Agner Krarup Erlang (1878-1929) — in telecommunications and queueing theory, the Erlang (unit) and Erlang distribution are widely used; in computing, the concurrent-processing Erlang (programming language)
• Leonhard Euler — Euler's formula, Eulerian path, Euler equations; see also: List of topics named after Leonhard Euler
• Europa — Europe
• Bartolomeo Eustachi — Eustachian tube
• William Davies Evans — Evans Gambit
• Ewale a Mbedi — Duala people, Douala (from a variant of his name, Dwala)

F

• Johannes Fabry — Fabry disease
• Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686-1736) — the Fahrenheit scale
• Ernst Falkbeer — Falkbeer Countergambit
• 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 — fermions, Fermi energy, Fermilab, 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 Cruthin — Fife
• Bobby Fischer — Fischer Defense
• Robert Fisk - Fisking
• Matthew Flinders - Flinders Bay, Flinders Chase National Park, Flinders Island, Flinders Ranges, Flinders River, Flinders Street Station, Flinders University, Flinders, Victoria (Australia)
• 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
• Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria-Hungary - Franz Josef Land
• Benjamin Franklin — Franklin stove, franklin — cgs unit of electric charge
• William Fox — 20th Century Fox
• Sigmund Freud — Freudian slip
• Guido Fubini (1879-1943), Math/Measurements - Fubini's Theorem
• Leonhart Fuchs (1501-1566) — Fuchsia
• Tetsuya "Ted" Fujita (1920-1998) — Fujita Scale
• Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) — 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 — galileo or 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 — Procter & Gamble
• Henry Laurence Gantt — Gantt chart
• John Garand — M1 Garand rifle
• Alexander Garden (naturalist) - after whom the gardenia was named.
• Giuseppe Garibaldi — Garibaldi biscuits, Italian aircraft carrier Giuseppe Garibaldi
• Gideon Gartner — Gartner
• Hermann Treschow 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, American Baseball player — Lou Gehrig's Disease
• Hans Geiger — Geiger counter, Geiger-Müller tube
• King George I of Great Britain — Georgia (U.S. state)
• King George VI of Great Britain — George Cross
• Elbridge Gerry - gerrymandering
• Domingo Ghirardelli — Ghirardelli Chocolate Company
• Josiah Willard Gibbs — Gibbs free energy, Gibbs phenomenon
• Thomas Gilbert — Kiribati
• King Camp Gillette - founder, Gillette
• Gaston Glock — GLOCK GmbH and its best-known product, the Glock pistol
• Kurt Gödel — Gödel's incompleteness theorem, Gödel's ontological proof
• Maria Goeppert-Mayer - 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.
• Ernst Gräfenberg — 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 — 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

• Hadrian - Hadrian's Wall and Hadrian's Wall Path
• 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
• Edmond Halley — Halley's Comet
• 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 — Hansen's disease
• William Harley and Arthur Davidson — Harley-Davidson
• Alexis Hartmann — Hartmann's solution, given via the IV route to patients
• Douglas Hartree — Hartree energy
• Gerry Harvey and Ian Norman — Harvey Norman
• Hashimoto Hakaru — 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
• Henry Heimlich - Heimlich Maneuver
• Joseph Henry — henry, unit of inductance
• William Henry — Henry's law
• Milton S. Hershey - Hershey Company
• Heinrich Rudolf Hertz — hertz, unit of frequency
• Ejnar Hertzsprung and Henry Norris Russell — Hertzsprung-Russell diagram
• Edward C. Heyde — Heyde's syndrome
• Miguel Hidalgo — 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 philosopher — 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 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), Robin of the Batman series
• Robert Hooke — Hooke's law
• William Henry Hoover (1849-1932) — 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 — founder of Audi (audi is Latin for horch. It means listen in English)
• Leslie Hore-Belisha - Belisha beacon
• 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 (1803-1852) — Howe truss bridges
• Hroc, an ancient landowner ("Hroc's fortress" + shire) — Roxburghshire
• Henry Hudson - Hudson Bay, Hudson River, Hudson Strait
• 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 (Czech: Jan Hus) — Hussite, Czechoslovak Hussite Church

I-J

• Max Immelmann — Immelmann turn used in aviation.
• Eleuthčre Irénée du Pont — DuPont
• Joseph Marie Jacquard — Jacquard loom
• Jacob — Israel
• Candido Jacuzzi — inventor of the jacuzzi whirlpool bath.
• Maharajah Jai Singh - Jaipur
• Alfons Maria Jakob and Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt — Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
• Thomas James (sea captain) - James Bay
• 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
• Jessica Lunsford - Jessica's Law
• Jesus Christ - Jesus and Christianity
• Tommy John - Tommy John surgery
• Jonathan Carey - Jonathan's Law
• Barry Jones - Barry Jones Bay, Yalkaparidon jonesi
• 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
• Judas Iscariot — Judas
• Justinian I — Codex Justinianus

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-74)
• 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
• Yevgeny Kaspersky — Kaspersky Anti-Virus
• Shozo Kawasaki — founder, Kawasaki Heavy Industries
• Tomisaku Kawasaki — Kawasaki disease
• Grace Kelly — Hermčs Kelly bag
• 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
• Paul Keres — Keres Defence
• Brian W. Kernighan — the third letter of the name awk, a computer pattern/action language, is taken from Kernighan
• John Kerr (physicist) — Kerr effect
• John Maynard Keynes — Keynesian economics
• Wilhelm Killing — Killing vector field
• Gustav Kirchhoff — Kirchhoff's Laws
• Donald Knuth — Knuth-Morris-Pratt algorithm
• Zoltán Kodály - Kodály Method
• Alexander Konstantinopolsky — Konstantinopolsky Opening
• Wladimir Peter Köppen — Köppen climate classification
• Alfried Krupp - founder of Krupp, now ThyssenKrupp
• Gerard Kuiper — Kuiper Belt

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

List of eponyms (L-Z)

An eponym is a person (real or fictitious) whose name has become identified with a particular object or activity.

Here is a list of eponyms:

L

• Rudolf Laban — choreographer, created labanotation.
• Ferruccio Lamborghini — founder, Lamborghini
• Vincenzo Lancia - founder, Lancia
• Francesco Landini — Landini cadence, might be described in its most characteristic form as a variation on the harmonic progression in which an unstable sixth (usually major) expands to a stable octave.
• Edwin Henry Landseer - Landseer (dog)
• Paul Langerhans — Islets of Langerhans, Langerhans cell, Langerhans cell histiocytosis
• Samuel Pierpont Langley — langley a measurement of solar radiation.
• Lev Davidovich Landau — Landau pole, Landau damping
• Chris Langton — Langton's ant
• Bent Larsen — Larsen's Opening
• Ernest Lawrence — lawrencium, chemical element
• Peter Lee — Peterlee, a town in County Durham
• Alfredo di Lelio — Alfredo sauce
• Vladimir Ilyich Lenin — Leninism, Lenin's Testament, for various places see Lenino and List of places named after Lenin
• John Lennard-Jones — Lennard-Jones potential
• Jules Léotard—leotard
• Leudonus — Lothian
• Lars Levi Lćstadius — Laestadianism
• Abraham Lincoln — Lincoln Records; ships USS Abraham Lincoln (SSBN-602), USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72); Lincoln is a slang term for the United States five dollar bill
• Charles Lindbergh, pilot — Lindbergh Law anti-kidnapping law
• Lisa, sister of Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons — Lisa Simpson, character in The Simpsons animated TV series
• David Livingstone - Livingstone daisy, Livingstone, Zambia
• Ignacio de la Llave — Veracruz-Llave
• Veronica Lodge, fictional character in Archie Comics - the Veronica search engine
• Fritz London — London force
• Huey Pierce Long, American politician — Huey, one of "Huey, Dewey and Louie", animated cartoon characters
• Ruy López de Segura, Spanish monk — Ruy Lopez opening in chess
• John De Lorean — De Lorean
• Hendrik Lorentz — Lorentz force, Lorentz transformation
• Lothar — Lorraine, French province
• Allan Haines Loughead - Lockheed Corporation later to become Lockheed Martin in 1995
• King Louis XIV of France — Louisiana
• Princess Louise Caroline Alberta, fourth daughter of Queen Victoria — Alberta
• H. P. Lovecraft, Among the most famous horror authors. Inspired the term Lovecraftian.
• Hubert von Luschka — foramina of Luschka (outlets for cerebrospinal fluid in the brain); Luschka's crypts; Luschka's joints
• Saint Lucy of Syracuse — Saint Lucia
• Martin Luther — the Lutheran Christian denomination
• Alois Lutz — Lutz, Figure skating jump
• Charles Lynch — lynching, lynch law
• Trofim Lysenko — Lysenkoism

M

• Ernst Mach — Mach number
• Karel Hynek Mácha — Máchovo jezero (Mácha's Lake), in the Czech Republic
• Niccolo Machiavelli — Machiavellian—attempting to achieve what one wants by cunning, scheming and unscrupulous methods.
• Alexander Mackenzie — Mackenzie River, Mackenzie Bay
• Colin Maclaurin - Maclaurin series, Maclaurin's inequality, Sectrix of Maclaurin, Trisectrix of Maclaurin,
• Gaius Maecenas, a Roman patron of literature and the arts, a true "maecenas"
• Ferdinand Magellan — Strait of Magellan, Large Magellanic Cloud, Small Magellanic Cloud
• François Magendie — foramen of Magendie (outlet for cerebrospinal fluid in the brain)
• Maggie, sister of Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons — Maggie Simpson, character in The Simpsons animated TV series
• Pierre Magnol — magnolia
• Martin Mailman - American composer
• Jules Germain François Maisonneuve — Maisonneuve fracture
• Thomas Malthus — Malthusian, Malthusianism, Malthusian Growth Model, Malthusian catastrophe
• Benoît Mandelbrot — Mandelbrot set
• Vinoo Mankad - Mankaded or to be run out at the bowler's end in cricket.
• Antoine Marfan — Marfan syndrome
• Marge, mother of Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons — Marge Simpson, character in The Simpsons animated TV series
• Henrietta Maria of France, wife of Charles I — Maryland
• Queen Mariana of Austria or Marie-Anne of Austria — Mariana Islands, Mariana Trench
• Pierre Marie — Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
• Saint Marinus — San Marino
• Benjamin Markarian — Markarian galaxies
• Michael Marks - Marks and Spencer
• Géza Maróczy — Maróczy Bind
• Marplot, the main character in Susanna Centlivre's plays The Busy Body and Marplot in Lisbon - marplot (an officious meddler or busybody who disrupts the plans of others)
• Frank Marshall — Marshall Defense
• John Marshall — Marshall Islands
• Lionel Martin — Aston Martin
• Glenn Luther Martin founded The Glenn L. Martin Company which several decades and mergers later became Lockheed Martin
• Jean Martinet — martinet; a disciplinarian
• Maurice Martenot — Ondes Martenot, an electronic musical instrument with a keyboard and slide invented in 1928.
• Mary, mother of Jesus - numerous communities and geographic features (either named St. Mary or having the word Lady in them), a large number of cathedrals, churches, and religious orders, the ladybird
• Mary the Jewess, ancient alchemist invented the Bain-marie to warm substances such as Elixir to germinate precious metals
• Maserati brothers - founders, Maserati
• Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon — Mason-Dixon Line
• John L. Mason — Mason jar
• Alonzo C. Mather — Mather Stock Car Company
• Harold "Matt" Matson and Elliot Handler — Mattel
• Jujiro Matsuda — founder, Mazda (also possibly inspired by Zoroastrian god Ahura Mazda)
• Queen Maud of Norway - Queen Maud Gulf (Canada), Queen Maud Land in Antarctica
• Maurice of Nassau — Mauritius
• Maussollus—mausoleum, a monumental tomb....
• Hiram Maxim — Maxim gun
• James Clerk Maxwell — maxwell, unit of magnetic flux
• Louis B. Mayer — founder of Louis B. Mayer Pictures which later merged into Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (or MGM)
• John Loudon McAdam — macadam process of road construction, tarmac (tar+macadam) road surface
• Dick McDonald and Mac McDonald — founders, McDonald's Corporation
• James Smith McDonnell founder McDonnell Aircraft Corporation, later to become McDonnell Douglas
• Giuseppe Meazza — Stadio Giuseppe Meazza, a football stadium in Italy
• Megan Kanka - Megan's Law
• Georg Meissner — Meissner's corpuscles
• Walter Meissner (and Robert Ochsenfeld) — Meissner effect (or Meissner-Ochsenfeld effect)
• Lise Meitner — meitnerium, chemical element
• Nellie Melba — Melba toast; Peach Melba; Melba, a suburb of Canberra, Australia
• Viscount Melbourne - Melbourne
• Gregor Mendel — Mendelian inheritance, Mendel Polar Station, lunar crater Mendel
• Dmitri Mendeleev — mendelevium, chemical element
• Prosper Méničre — Méničre's disease
• Mentor (Greek mythology) — mentor: a trusted friend, counselor or teacher, usually a more experienced person, mentoring programs
• Giuseppe Mercalli — Mercalli intensity scale of an earthquake
• Meirion, son of Cunedda — Merionethshire
• Franz Mesmer (1734-1815)—Mesmerism
• Robert Metcalfe — Metcalfe's law
• Methuselah — 6 litre wine bottle see Wine bottle#Sizes
• Michelangelo, Renaissance painter — Michelangelo, one of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic characters
• Jacques Mieses — Mieses Opening
• Caspar Milquetoast — Milquetoast, "a weak, ineffectual or bland person."
• Hermann Minkowski — Minkowski addition, Minkowski inequality, Minkowski space, Minkowski diagram, Minkowski's theorem
• Ernesto Miranda — Miranda Warning
• Andrija Mohorovicic — Mohorovicic discontinuity
• Pépé le Moko fictional character from the novel and movies of the same name — Pepe Le Pew Warner Bros. French skunk character
• Vyacheslav Molotov (1890-1986) — Molotov cocktail
• James Monroe — Monroe Doctrine, Monrovia
• Monty Python's Flying Circus - Pythonesque, spam (derived from one of their sketches: Spam)
• Robert Moog — Moog synthesizer, an analog synthesizer
• Gordon Moore — Moore's Law
• Jean Moreau de Sechelles — Seychelles
• José María Morelos — Morelos
• Prince Morgan the Old of Gwent — Glamorgan
• Ernst Moro — Moro reflex
• Samuel Morse — Morse code
• John Morton (1420-1500), Chancellor of England — Morton's Fork, a choice between two equally unpleasant alternatives
• Jerry Moss and Herb Alpert — A&M Records
• Rudolf Mössbauer — Mössbauer effect
• Lord Louis Mountbatten — Mountbatten pink, naval camouflage pigment
• Mickey Mouse - Mickey Mousing, Mickey Mouse degrees
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Mozartkugel, Mozart effect, Mozart Medal, the word 'Mozart' became synonymous for '(musical) child prodigy' and 'virtuoso'
• Erasto B. Mpemba — Mpemba effect
• Antonín Mrkos — four comets carry his name: 18D/Perrine-Mrkos, 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova, 124P/Mrkos and 143P/Kowal-Mrkos
• Walther Müller — Geiger-Müller tube
• David, John A. or Thomas Mulligan - Mulligan
• Baron Münchhausen — Münchausen syndrome, Münchausen syndrome by proxy
• Ian Murdock and Debra Murdock — Debian project for free software, made after combining Ian's and his wife's name Debra.

N-O

• Ashot Nadanian — Grünfeld Defence, Nadanian Variation
• Oskar Naegeli — Naegeli-Franceschetti-Jadassohn syndrome
• Miguel Najdorf — Sicilian Defence, Najdorf Variation
• Fridtjof Nansen — Nansen passport
• John Napier — neper, unit of relative power level, Napier's bones, method for performing multiplication
• Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, — Napoleonic code and Napoleonic Wars
• Napoleon I of France — Napoleon Opening
• Narcissus - Narcissism
• John Forbes Nash — Nash equilibrium, Nash embedding theorem
• Joachim Neander (1650-1680), poet, for whom the Neanderthal (valley) was named, and thus the Neandertal fossil found there
• Nebuchadnezzar — nebuchadnezzar, 15 litre wine bottle
• Jawaharlal Nehru — Nehru jacket, Nehru Planetarium
• Baby Face Nelson — Baby Face Finlayson, formerly from The Beano comic
• Horatio Nelson - Nelson (New Zealand)
• Henri Nestlé — created the milk-based food in 1867 which became Nestlé
• Nestorius, Patriarch of Constantinople — nestorianism
• John von Neumann — Von Neumann machine, Von Neumann probe, Von Neumann architecture, John von Neumann Theory Prize, IEEE John von Neumann Medal
• Rolf Nevanlinna — Nevanlinna theory,
• Isaac Newton — newton — unit of force, Newton's law of cooling, Newton's law of gravitation, Newton's laws of motion, Newton's rings, Newtonian reflecting telescope
• Jean Nicot - Nicotine
• Arthur Nielsen — Nielsen ratings from the Nielsen Media Research, Inc. firm
• Mike Nifong — Nifonged
• Aron Nimzowitsch — Nimzo-Indian Defence
• Alfred Nobel — Nobel Prizes, nobelium, chemical element
• Emmy Noether — Noether's theorem, Noetherian rings
• Ian Norman and Gerry Harvey — Harvey Norman
• Robert Ochsenfeld and Walter Meissner — Meissner-Ochsenfeld effect (Meissner effect)
• King Oengus I of the Picts — Angus
• Georg Ohm — ohm — unit of electrical resistance, Ohm's Law
• Onan - onanism
• Ongull, a Scandinavian landowner — Anglesey
• Jan Oort — Oort cloud
• Adam Opel — founder of the car manufacturing company Opel
• Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery — orrery, a mechanical model of the solar system
• Hans Christian Řrsted — oersted, unit of magnetic field strength
• George Orwell - Orwellian
• Robert Bayley Osgood and Carl B. Schlatter - Osgood-Schlatter disease
• John Owen — Owen's Defence

P

• František Palacký — Palacký University, Olomouc
• Pan (mythology) - panflute, the word panic, Peter Pan
• Paparazzo, a press photographer in Federico Fellini's film La Dolce Vita — paparazzi press photographers
• Vilfredo Pareto — Pareto principle, Pareto efficiency, Pareto distribution, Pareto index
• Bernard Parham — Parham Attack
• James Parkinson — Parkinson's disease
• Rosa Parks — Rosa Parks Highway
• Blaise Pascal — pascal — unit of pressure; Pascal's triangle, Pascal's Wager or Pascal's Gambit, Pascal programming language, Pascal's theorem
• Louis Pasteur — Pasteurization
• Wolfgang Pauli — Pauli exclusion principle
• Axel Paulsen — Axel, Figure skating jump
• Ivan Petrovich Pavlov — Pavlovian conditioning
• Anna Pavlova — Pavlova
• Jean Charles Athanase Peltier — Peltier effect
• William Penn — Pennsylvania
• James Cash Penney — J.C. Penney
• Roger Penrose — Penrose diagram, Penrose tiling, Penrose triangle, Penrose stairs, Penrose chickens
• Dom Pérignon (1638-1715), a blind French Benedictine monk — Dom Pérignon (wine)
• St. Peter — Saint-Pierre and Miquelon
• Alexander Petrov — Petrov's Defence
• Armand Peugeot - founder, Peugeot
• François-André Danican Philidor — Philidor Defence
• King Philip II of Spain — Philippines
• Gerard Philips — founder, Philips
• Joseph Pilates — the Pilates Method
• James Pimm - Pimm's
• Pinocchio - Pinocchio Syndrome
• Vasja Pirc — Pirc Defence
• William Pitt — Pittsburgh
• Max Planck — Planck's constant, Planck's law of black body radiation
• Joseph Plateau - Plateau's laws, Plateau's problem
• Henry Stanley Plummer — Plummer's disease
• Friedrich Carl Alwin Pockels — Pockels effect
• Joel Roberts Poinsett (1779-1851) — poinsettia
• Jean Louis Marie Poiseuille — poise — unit of viscosity, Poiseuille's Law
• Joseph Polchinski - Polchinski's paradox concerning free will and traversable wormholes
• Charles Ponzi (1877-1949) — Ponzi scheme, a kind of fraud
• Domenico Lorenzo Ponziani — Ponziani Opening
• Eugčne Poubelle (1831-1907), French lawyer, administrator and diplomat — poubelle, French word for "dustbin"
• Pierre Poujade (1920-2003) — Poujadism
• Ferry Porsche — founder, Porsche
• Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin — Potemkin village
• Percivall Pott — Pott's disease, Pott's fracture
• Elvis Presley - Elvis impersonator
• Priapus - priapism
• Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn - Prince Edward Island
• Procrustes — Procrustean bed
• William Procter and James Gamble — Procter & Gamble
• Nikolay Przhevalsky - Przewalski's horse
• James Puckle inventor of The Defense Gun, better known as the Puckle gun
• Joseph Pulitzer — Pulitzer Prize
• Jan Evangelista Purkyne — Purkinje cell
• Pyrrhus of Epirus — Pyrrhic victory
• Pythagoras - Pythagorean theorem

Q-R

• Vidkun Quisling (1887-1945), Norwegian traitor — the term "quisling" became a synonym in many European languages for traitor
• Thomas Stamford Raffles - Rafflesia
• C. V. Raman — Raman spectroscopy, Raman effect
• Srinivasa Ramanujan — Ramanujan prime, Ramanujan theta function, Ramanujan's sum, Ramanujan's master theorem, Landau-Ramanujan constant, Ramanujan-Soldner constant, Ramanujan-Petersson conjecture, Rogers-Ramanujan identities, Hardy-Ramanujan number
• William John Macquorn Rankine — degree Rankine, Rankine cycle
• Raphael, Renaissance painter — Raphael, one of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic characters
• John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh — Rayleigh scattering
• Maurice Raynaud, French physician — Raynaud's disease
• Ronald Reagan, 40th U.S. president - Reagan Era, Reaganomics, Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76), Ronald Reagan Trail
• René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur — degree Réaumur, unit of temperature
• Dorothy Reed — Reed-Sternberg cell
• Rehoboam — 4.5 litre wine bottle (see Wine bottle#Sizes)
• Louis Renault - founder, Renault
• Richard Réti — Réti Opening
• Arnold Reuben (possibly) — Reuben
• Paul Reuter — Reuters news agency
• Douglas Reye — Reye's syndrome
• Cecil Rhodes — Northern Rhodesia (Now Zambia), Southern Rhodesia (Now Zimbabwe), Rhodes Scholarship
• Vasco Ronchi - Ronchi test
• Victor A. Rice - Varity Corporation
• Isaac Rice — Rice Gambit
• Charles Richter — Richter magnitude scale
• Sydney Ringer — Ringer's solution and Lactated Ringer's solution given via the IV route to patients
• César Ritz — Ritz Hotel, Hôtel Ritz
• Ron Rivest — the first letter of the name RSA, an asymmetric algorithm for public key cryptography, is taken from Rivest
• John D. Rockefeller — Oysters Rockefeller
• John D. Rockefeller Jr. — Rockefeller Center
• Romulus — Rome
• Count Karl Robert von Nesselrode — Nesselrode
• Alvah Roebuck and Richard Sears — Sears, Roebuck, now Sears
• Charles Rolls and Henry Royce — Rolls-Royce
• Wilhelm Röntgen — röntgen, unit of dosage of X-rays or gamma radiation
• Andrés Quintana Roo — Quintana Roo
• Theodore Roosevelt, jr. (1858-1919) — Teddybear
• Gioacchino Rossini — Tournedos Rossini
• Eugčne Rousseau — Rousseau Gambit
• Rota, a Saxon landowner ("Rota's land") — Rutland
• Karl Rove - Rovian (dirty) campaign tactics
• Henry Isaac Rowntree - founder, Rowntree's
• Henry Royce and Charles Rolls — Rolls-Royce
• Erno Rubik — Rubik's Cube, Rubik's Clock, Rubik's Magic, Rubik's Revenge
• Carle David Tolmé Runge — Runge's phenomenon
• Henry Norris Russell and Ejnar Hertzsprung — Hertzsprung-Russell diagram
• Lord Rutherford — rutherfordium, chemical element
• Johannes Rydberg — Rydberg constant

S

• Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade, or, the Marquis de Sade, whose writings gave the name to sadism.
• Sheikh Safi-ad-din Ardabili — Safavid Dynasty, Safavids
• Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, one of the first to write of the pleasures of pain and humiliation, now called masochism
• Ulrich Salchow — Salchow, Figure skating jump
• Salmanazar biblical king — 9 litre wine bottle (see Wine bottle#Sizes)
• Vasili Samarsky-Bykhovets, a Russian mine official — samarskite, the mineral after which the chemical element samarium has been named.
• Sappho (630 BC-612 BC), Greek poetess who wrote love poems addressed to women — sapphism or lesbianism
• Sarah Payne - Sarah's Law
• Muhammad bin Saud — Saudi Arabia
• Pierre Auguste Sarrus — Sarrusophone, a double-reed woodwind instrument made of brass or silver.
• Adolphe Sax — the saxophone, a musical instrument he invented
• Bernhard Schmidt - Schmidt camera telescope
• Louie Schmitt, animator — Louie, one of "Huey, Dewey and Louie", animated cartoon characters
• Walter H. Schottky, German physicist — Schottky diode
• Erwin Schrödinger — Schrödinger equation, Schrödinger's cat, Schrödinger's Kittens — a book
• Ed Scott — the second letter of the company name BEA Systems, is taken from Ed, a co-founder
• Robert Scott, Antarctic explorer — Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station
• Ebenezer Scrooge, fictional character in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol — Scrooge McDuck
• Glenn T. Seaborg — seaborgium, chemical element
• Richard Sears and Alvah Roebuck — Sears, Roebuck; stores bear only the Sears name
• Chief Seattle — City of Seattle
• Thomas Johann Seebeck — Seebeck effect
• Josef Sekanina — mineral Sekaninaite
• Edgar Selwyn and Archibald Selwyn, who used the last three letters of their name along with the first four of Samuel Goldfish to create Goldwyn Picture Corporation, which later merged into Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (or MGM)
• Serendip — serendipity
• Otep Shamaya - Otep, a Los Angelean heavy metal band
• Adi Shamir — the second letter of the name RSA, an asymmetric algorithm for public key cryptography, is taken from Shamir
• Sherlock - short for Sherlock Holmes, anyone who solves a mystery or a difficult problem, based on the fictional character by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Roger Shepard — Shepard tone
• Henry S. Shrapnel (1761-1842) — shrapnel
• Henry Miller Shreve (1785-1851) Steamboat captain for whom the city of Shreveport, Louisiana is named.
• Jean Sibelius (composer) — Sibelius notation program, and its developer Sibelius Software Ltd
• Ambrose Burnside (1824-1881) — Sideburns
• Werner von Siemens — siemens — unit of electrical conductance; Siemens AG — company
• Rolf Sievert — sievert, unit of radiation dose equivalent
• Etienne de Silhouette (1709-1767) — Silhouette
• Issac Merritt Singer, inventor, improvements in the design of the sewing machine — Singer Corporation
• Alexander Skene — Skene's gland
• BF Skinner - behaviorist who created the operant conditioning chamber -- which is often called the Skinner box
• Emil Škoda - founder, Škoda
• Horace Smith and Daniel B. Wesson - Smith & Wesson
• Maria Ann Smith - Granny Smith
• Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby - Derby (horse race), particularly the Epsom Derby
• Oliver R. Smoot — smoot
• Hermann Snellen — Snellen chart
• Snot, a Saxon landowner ("Snot's home" + shire) — Nottinghamshire
• Socrates - Socratic Method
• Alexey Sokolsky — Sokolsky Opening
• Solomon — Solomon Islands, Judgement of Solomon which has become a proverb and metaphor in many languages.
• John Philip Sousa — the Sousaphone musical instrument
• Thomas Spencer - Marks and Spencer
• Joseph Stalin — Stalinism and Neo-Stalinism (also see De-Stalinization), see List of places named after Joseph Stalin, Joseph Stalin Museum, Stalinist architecture, Stalin Society, Stalin Prize, Stalin Peace Prize, Iosif Stalin tank
• Johannes Stark — Stark spectroscopy, Stark effect
• Howard Staunton — Staunton Gambit
• Jozef Stefan and Ludwig Boltzmann — Stefan-Boltzmann constant
• Carl von Sternberg (disputed) — Reed-Sternberg cell
• George M. Sternberg (disputed) — Reed-Sternberg cell
• John K. Stewart and Arthur P. Warner — Stewart-Warner
• George Gabriel Stokes — stokes, unit of viscosity
• Marshall Harvey Stone — Stone-von Neumann theorem, Stone-Cech compactification, Stone's representation theorem for Boolean algebras, Stone space, Stone-Weierstrass theorem, Stone's representation theorem for distributive lattices, Stone duality, Stone's theorem on one-parameter unitary groups, Banach-Stone theorem
• Levi Strauss — Levi Strauss & Co.
• Barbra Streisand - Lent name to the Streisand effect, censorship that has the unintended consequence of publicizing the information more widely.
• Count Stroganov (possibly Count Pavel Alexandrovitch Stroganov or Count Grigory Stroganov) — Stroganoff
• John McDouall Stuart - Stuart Highway, Central Mount Stuart
• Rashid Sunyaev and Yakov B. Zel'dovich — Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect
• Michio Suzuki — founder, Suzuki
• Sage Kambu Swayambhuva — Cambodia
• Shirley Temple - Shirley Temple Soda
• Theodor Svedberg — svedberg, unit of sedimentation rate

T

• Tan Aik Kah- TAN (Tegumental Angiomyxoma-Neurothekeoma) syndrome
• James Mourilyan Tanner — Tanner stage
• Tarik-ibn-Ziyad (from Arabic djebl al-Tarik or "mountain of Tarik") — Gibraltar
• Siegbert Tarrasch — Tarrasch Defense
• Abel Tasman — Tasmania, Tasman Sea, Tasman Region, Abel Tasman National Park, Tasman Bay
• J. R. D. Tata — founder, Tata
• Temujin (Genghis Khan) — Chinggis Khaan International Airport
• Maria Teresa, the Grand Duchess of Luxembourg — Maria Teresa cocktail
• Nikola Tesla — Tesla coil, tesla — unit of magnetic flux density
• Luisa Tetrazzini, operatic soprano — Chicken Tetrazzini
• Leon Theremin — Theremin
• Lou Thesz — "Lou Thesz punches," a professional wrestling maneuver involving using primarily your legs to tackle an opponent to the ground, then delivering a series of punches while straddling your opponent.
• August Thyssen - founder of Thyssen, ThyssenKrupp
• Christopher Titus — Titus, an Emmy nominated TV series broadcast on FOX from 2000-2002.
• Saint Thomas — Săo Tomé and Príncipe
• John T. Thompson — Thompson submachine gun
• Miloš Tichý — comet P/2000 U6 Tichý
• Johann Daniel Titius and Johann Elert Bode — Titius-Bode Law
• James Tobin — the proposed Tobin tax
• John Ronald Reuel Tolkien — Tolkien Estate, 2675 Tolkien, Tolkienology
• Howard Henry Tooth — Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
• Carlos Torre Repetto — Torre Attack
• Evangelista Torricelli — torr, unit of pressure
• Linus Torvalds — Linus's law, Linux operating system (from Linus' Minix), Tux — mascot of Linux (from Torvald's Unix)
• Charles Townshend — Townshend Acts
• Sakichi Toyoda — founder, Toyota
• Trillian — Trillian (software), Project Trillian
• Octavio Trompowsky — Trompowsky Attack
• The Troubadour (London) founded 1954 - The Troubadour (Los Angeles) founded 1957
• Alan Turing — Turing machine, Turing-complete, Turing tarpit, Turing test, Church-Turing thesis, Church-Turing-Deutsch principle
• J. M. W. Turner, English painter — Turner Prize in art
• Marie Tussaud — Madame Tussauds wax museum

U-V

• Saint Valentine — Valentine's Day
• James Van Allen — Van Allen radiation belt
• Eddie Van Halen and Alex Van Halen — creators of band Van Halen
• George Vancouver — Vancouver, British Columbia, Vancouver, Washington, Vancouver Island
• Johannes Diderik van der Waals — Van der Waals force
• Robert J. Van de Graaff — Van de Graaff generator
• Publius Quinctilius Varus — Varian disaster (The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest)
• Jules Verne - Verneshot
• Amerigo Vespucci (1454-1512) — America, North America, South America, Central America, Latin America
• Queen Victoria — Queensland, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, British Columbia, Victoria Island, Victoria Strait, Great Victoria Desert, Lake Victoria, Victoria Harbour, London Victoria station, Victoria line, Victorian era, Queen Victoria Street, London, Victoria Cross, Victoria Land, Victoria and Albert Museum, Victorian architecture, Victorian house, Victoria, Seychelles
• Saint Vincent — Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
• Leonardo da Vinci, Renaissance painter — Leonardo, one of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic characters, The Da Vinci Code, a fiction book by Dan Brown and a movie by the same name
• Andrew Viterbi (born 1935), Qualcomm Corp. - Viterbi Algorithm
• Vitruvius, Roman architect — Homo Vitruvianus or Vitruvian Man — famous drawing by Leonardo da Vinci
• Alessandro Volta — the volt, a unit of electromotive force, the Volta Prize, and Volta Crater of the moon

W

• Robert Wade — Wade Defence
• Richard Wagner — Wagner tuba, a brass instrument that combines elements of both the French horn and the tuba.
• Samuel Wallis, 18th century navigator — Wallis and Futuna
• Sam Walton — Wal-Mart and Sam's Club
• Preston Ware — Ware Opening
• the brothers Jack Warner, Sam Warner, Harold Warner and Albert Warner — Warner Bros.
• Arthur P. Warner and John K. Stewart — Stewart-Warner
• George Washington — Washington and Washington D.C.
• James Watt (1736-1819) — the watt, a unit of power
• Wilhelm Eduard Weber — weber, unit of magnetic flux
• Friedrich Wegener — Wegener's granulomatosis
• Peter J. Weinberger — the second letter of the name awk, a computer pattern/action language, is taken from Weinberger
• Duke of Wellington — Beef Wellington, Wellington boot, Wellington (New Zealand), Wellingtonia (tree)
• Eudora Welty — Eudora, an e-mail client.
• Mae West (1893-1980), busty actress for whom the flotation safety vest was named.
• Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr — Delaware
• George Hoyt Whipple — Whipple's disease
• Gough Whitlam, Australian Prime Minister - The Whitlams pop group
• Frederick Methvan Whyte (1865-1941) — Whyte notation
• Wilhelm Wien — Wien's displacement law
• Eugene Wigner — Wigner's friend
• Erik Adolf von Willebrand — Von Willebrand disease, Von Willebrand factor
• Max Wilms, a German surgeon — Wilms' tumor
• Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson — Wilson's disease, Wilson disease protein
• Oliver F. Winchester — chief investor Winchester repeating rifle
• Caspar Wistar (1761-1818) — Wisteria
• Kaspar Friedrich Wolff — Wolffian duct
• Frank Winfield Woolworth - Woolworth Building

X-Z

• James, Duke of York — New York, New York State
• Pops Yoshimura — Yoshimura motorcycle tuning company
• Walter J. Zable — Zable Stadium for college football
• Frank J. Zamboni - Zamboni ice resurfacer
• Frank Zappa - zappa-esque

See also

• Lists of etymologies
• List of people

Beeching, Cyril Leslie (Autor)
A Dictionary of Eponyms

Kurzbeschreibung

The English language contains a large number of eponymic words - words derived from the names of people because of their close association with the product, service, or concept. Eponymic words fall into three categories: those derived from mythological or fictitious names; those which describe the person or his works (as, for example Shakespearian or Shavian); and the "true" eponymic words which come from the names of people who actually exist or once existed.

This lively, compact, and entertaining reference book presents four hundred "true" eponyms that cover virtually every field of human activity, originating from a vast cross-section of foreign, as well as English, names. Cyril Leslie Beecher, the compiler of the dictionary, informs us that the term "ampere" comes from the name of the French scientist, André Marie Ampčre; that the "cardigan" gets its name from James Thomas Brudenell, the seventh Earl of Cardigan; that the "zeppelin" comes from the name of a German soldier and airship designer and manufacturer, Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin; and the list goes on. A short account of the originator's history and claim to this unusual form of immortality accompanies the definition for each word. The dictionary also includes a subject index which enables readers to satisfy their curiosity about specific areas. Presenting a wide variety of eponymic words whose human association makes them particularly fascinating, this highly readable and comprehensive dictionary provides the perfect opportunity for browsing and obtaining a vast amount of unusual information.

Synopsis

This reference guide covers the topic of eponyms - those words in the English language which are also the names of people who have become so associated with a product, service or concept that their proper names have been given to them. Each of the 400 eponyms is defined and is accompanied by a short account of its originator, its history and claim to this unusual form of immortality. This book may be of interest to those wanting to browse as well as its reference value.

Über den Autor

Cyril Leslie Beeching is a freelance writer and broadcaster.

Ehrlich, Eugene
What's in a Name? - How Proper Names Became Everday Words

A fun and informative guide to the how and why of proper names and their haphazard entry into common English language by the author of the bestselling Amo, Amas, Amat and More.

Mining the English language to turn up a colorful cast of characters, Eugene Ehrlich finds the historic and literary figures who have given their names to the English language in the interest of keeping it vibrant and their names alive. In "What's in a Name?" Ehrlich traces the history of eponymous words and their progenitors, illuminating the legacy of "Louis Braille", inventor of the system of embossed printing for the blind; the verbal acrobatics of "Baron Munchausen"; the sadism of the "Marquis de Sade"; and much more. "What's in a Name?" will amuse and enlighten word buffs, history lovers, and trivia pursuers alike as Ehrlich, in his inimitable way, uncovers an exhaustive assemblage of characters who have left an indelible mark on the English language.

Freeman, Morton S. (Autor)
A New Dictionary of Eponyms

Kurzbeschreibung

Do you approve of censoring the works of great writers? Some might contend that to bowdlerize a great writer's work would be to diminish its overall quality. Others, like Thomas Bowdler, whose eraser danced over every Shakespeare play, would argue that all modest people should be able to read a great work without blushing. For attacking the classics, "Mr. Bowdler" has been immortalized as the world's best-known, self-appointed literary censor. And because of his efforts the term "bowdlerize" has become eponymous with his name. Alternatively, the word "bikini" - defined as a two-piece bathing suit for women - has been a linguistic mystery since 1947 when these suits were first seen on the beaches of the French Riviera, a year after the United States began testing atom bombs on the "Bikini atoll" of the Marshall Islands. Some shocked people said that the impact of the scanty swimsuit on male beach loungers was like the devastating effect of the atomic bomb. Whoosh! A simpler and more credible notion is that the daring swimsuits resembled the attire worn by women on the "Bikini atoll".

Created about a century ago, the term "eponym" is itself a coinage from two Greek words, "epi", "on" or "upon," and "onuma", "a name." But its broadened meaning, as dictionaries set it out, refers to a word derived from a proper name. For instance, "Salisbury steak" - a popular diner menu item created from common hamburger and dressed up with brown gravy to make it more appealing - is named after "James H. Salisbury", an English physician who promoted a diet of ground beef. A Dictionary of Eponyms explores the origins of hundreds of these everyday words from Argyle socks to zeppelins. Written in an entertaining and anecdotal style, and with a foreword by Edwin Newman, the book includes a brief biography of the individual whose name became associated with an item or concept as well as information on how and when the name entered the language. If you've ever wondered just where terms like "cardigan sweater", "pamphlet", and "robot" come from, Morton Freeman does more than simply define them - he brings them to life.

Über den Autor

Morton S. Freeman, a retired lawyer and formerly Director of Publications, American Law Institute-American Bar Association, is the author of many books, including The Grammatical Lawyer, which was named book of the year by the American Society of Legal Writers, and The Word Watcher's Guide To GoodWriting and Grammar. His column, "Word Watcher," appears in a number of newspapers, including The Philadelphia Inquirer, Buffalo News, and St. Louis Post Dispatch.

Graham-Barber, Lynda (Autor)
A Chartreuse Leotard in a Magenta Limousine
And Other Words Named After People and Places

This is a splendid gift idea for curious kids of all ages. Even kids too young to read comfortably on their own will sit still for these compact, highly readable stories about the origin of eponyms and toponyms. Because each colorful history is just about a paragraph long, they can make fine bathroom reading. The truly wonderful thing about eponyms and toponyms is how they aid recall of historical facts. I'm sure my son won't forget where the word berserk came from: "bear-sarks" or "bear coats", a term used to describe those wild Norse warriors who frazzled so many nerves a thousand years ago.

Hendrickson, Robert (Autor)
The Dictionary of Eponyms
Names That Became Words