List of eponyms Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

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:

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

A

• Achilles, Greek mythological character – Achilles' tendon
• Adam, Biblical character – Adam's apple
• Len Adleman – the third letter of the name RSA, an asymmetric algorithm for public key cryptography, is taken from Adleman
• Alfred V. Aho – the first letter of the name awk, a computer pattern/action language, is taken from Aho
• Alice Liddell – Alice in Wonderland, Alice in Wonderland syndrome
• Alois Alzheimer – Alzheimer's disease
• Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss – A&M Records;
• 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
• Anders Jonas Ĺngström – Angstrom, unit of distance
• Archimedes – Archimedes' screw, Archimedes' principle
• William George Armstrong – Armstrong breech-loading gun
• Aurélio Buarque de Holanda – Aurélio's Brazilian Portuguese Dictionary.
• R. Stanton Avery – Avery Dennison
• Amedeo Avogadro – Avogadro's number, Avogadro's Law

B

• Joseph Jules François Félix Babinski, French neurologist – Babinski reflex or Babinski sign, common name for Plantar reflex
• Karl Baedeker – Baedeker's
• Barbara, daughter of Ruth Handler, creator of Barbie – Barbie doll
• Joseph Barbera and William Hanna – Hanna-Barbera Productions
• Y. M. Barr – Epstein-Barr virus
• Jean Alexandre Barré – Guillain-Barré syndrome
• Caspar Bartholin the Younger – Bartholin's gland
• Basarab I – Bessarabia
• Karl Adolph von Basedow – Graves-Basedow disease
• 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
• Alexander Graham Bell – Bel - unit of relative power level; Bell Labs, BellSouth, Bellcore, Regional Bell operating company - companies
• Carl Benz – Benz & Cie; (later Daimler-Benz)
• David Berkowitz also known as "Son of Sam" – Son of Sam laws
• Juan de Bermudez – Bermuda
• Daniel Bernoulli – Bernoulli's principle
• Yogi Berra, baseball player – Yogi Bear, a bear in animated cartoons
• Henry Bessemer – Bessemer converter
• Bieda, a Saxon landowner ("Bieda's ford" + shire) – Bedfordshire
• Laszlo Biro – Biro, (ballpoint pen)
• Amelia Bloomer (1818-1894), popularizer of modest, practical trousers for women, called "bloomers"
• Johann Elert Bode and Johann Daniel Titius – Titius-Bode Law
• Niels Bohr – Bohr magneton, Bohr radius, Bohrium, chemical element
• Lecoq de Boisbaudran – Gallium, chemical element. Although named after Gallia (Latin for France), Lecoq de Boisbaudran, the dicoverer of the metal, subtly attached an association with his name. Lecoq (rooster) in Latin is gallus.
• Simón Bolívar – Bolivia
• Ludwig Boltzmann – Boltzmann constant, Stefan-Boltzmann constant, Stefan-Boltzmann law
• Napoleon Bonaparte – Napoleon
• James Bond, the ornithologist – James Bond, the fictional spy character
• Satyendra Nath Bose – Bosons, Bose-Einstein statistics, Bose-Einstein condensates
• Louis Antoine de Bougainville - French navigator who found the bougainvillea plant
• 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
• Brahmagupta – Brahmagupta's formula, Brahmagupta's identity
• Louis Braille (1809-1852) - the braille writing system for the blind
• Robert Brown – Brownian motion
• John Browning – Browning firearms, including the Browning Automatic Rifle
• Prince Brychan – Brecknockshire
• Bucca, a Saxon landowner ("Bucca's home" + shire) – Buckinghamshire
• Professor Robert Wilhelm Bunsen (1811-1899) - Bunsen burner
• General Ambrose Burnside - had distinctive whiskers which became known as sideburns

C

• John Cadbury – opened his shop in 1824 which became the company Cadbury
• John Calvin, 16th century theologian – Calvin from "Calvin and Hobbes" comic strip
• Sam Carr, neighbour of David Berkowitz also known as "Son of Sam" – Son of Sam laws
• Hendrik Casimir – Casimir effect
• Anders Celsius – Degree Celsius, unit of temperature
• Ceredig, son of Cunedda – Cardigan
• Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar – Chandrasekhar limit, Chandra X-ray Observatory
• Jean-Martin Charcot, French neurologist – Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, Maladie de Charcot, French name for Motor Neurone Disease
• King Charles I of England – North Carolina and South Carolina
• Jacques Charles and Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac – Law of Charles and Gay-Lussac (frequently called simply Charles' Law)
• Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov – Cherenkov effect
• Jesus Christ, "The Saviour" – El Salvador, Christianity, Christmas
• Saint Christopher – Saint Kitts and Nevis
• Walter Chrysler – founder of Chrysler, DaimlerChrysler
• Alfred Chuang – the third letter of the company name BEA Systems, is taken from Alfred, a co-founder
• Alonzo Church – Church-Turing thesis, Church-Turing-Deutsch Principle
• Cincinnatus, Roman statesman – Cincinnati, Ohio (indirectly)
• Senator Claghorn, regular character on the Fred Allen radio show – Foghorn Leghorn, Warner Bros. cartoons
• Ruth Cleveland, daughter of Pres. Grover Cleveland – Baby Ruth candy bars
• Bill Coleman – the first letter of the company name BEA Systems, is taken from Bill, a co-founder
• Samuel Colt – Colt revolver
• Christopher Columbus - many places and territories, see Columbus, Colombia, Colombo, British Columbia in Canada
• Arthur Compton – Compton effect
• Captain James Cook – Cook Islands
• Chic Corea, Jazz musician – Chic-fil-a, a sandwich
• Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis – Coriolis effect
• Charles-Augustin de Coulomb – Coulomb - unit of electric charge, Coulomb's Law
• Seymour Cray – Cray Research
• Cunedda – Gwynedd
• Marie and Pierre Curie – Curie, unit of radioactivity, Curium, chemical element
• Pierre Curie – Curie point
• Saint Cuthbert ("church of Cuthbert") – Kirkcudbright

D

• Jacques Daguerre – Daguerreotype
• Adi Dassler – founder of adidas
• Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz – Daimler-Benz (later DaimlerChrysler)
• Arthur Davidson and William Harley – Harley-Davidson
• Humphry Davy – Davy lamp
• David, grandson of US President Dwight Eisenhower – Camp David US presidential retreat
• Thomas Derrick (c. 1600), British hangman
• Melvil Dewey – Dewey Decimal System
• Thomas Edmund Dewey, American politician – Dewey, one of "Huey, Dewey and Louie", animated cartoon characters
• David Deutsch – Church-Turing-Deutsch Principle
• Rudolf Diesel - the diesel engine
• Paul Dirac – Dirac's constant, Dirac equation, Dirac delta function, Dirac sea, Dirac Prize, Fermi-Dirac statistics
• Walt Disney – founder, The Walt Disney Company, Disneyland
• Doily family (c. 1700)
• Ray Dolby – Dolby Stereo, Dolby Surround and Dolby Pro Logic
• Donatello, Renaissance painter – Donatello, one of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic characters
• Christian Doppler – Doppler radar, Doppler effect
• Charles Dow and Edward Jones – Dow Jones & Company;
• Herbert Dow – The Dow Chemical Company
• Guillaume Dupuytren - Dupuytren's contracture, Dupuytren's fracture
• Dr. August Dvorak – Dvorak Simplified Keyboard

E

• Thomas Edison – Edison effect, Edison Records, Edisonian approach, Edison, Georgia, Edison, New Jersey
• Prince Edward, Duke of Kent (brother of George III of the United Kingdom), 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" – Virginia and West Virginia
• Saint Elmo – St. Elmo's fire
• Roland Eötvös – Eotvos, gravitational gradient
• M. A. Epstein – Epstein-Barr virus
• Lars Magnus Ericsson – Ericsson
• Bartolomeo Eustachi – Eustachian tube

F

• Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686-1736) - the Fahrenheit scale
• Gabriele Falloppio – Fallopian tube
• Michael Faraday – Farad - unit of capacitance, Faraday constant, Faraday effect, Faraday's law of induction, Faraday's law of electrolysis
• Enrico Fermi – Fermions, Fermi energy, Fermi paradox, Fermium - chemical element, Fermi-Dirac statistics
• Enzo Ferrari – founder, Ferrari
• George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr – Ferris wheel
• Fib of the Picts, one of the seven sons of Cruithe – Fife
• B.C. Forbes – Forbes magazine
• Henry Ford – Ford Motor Company
• William Fox – 20th Century Fox
• Benjamin Franklin – Franklin stove, Franklin - the unit of electric charge
• Leonard Fuchs (1501-1566) - Fuchsia

G

• Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist and geologist – gadolinite, the mineral after which the chemical element Gadolinium has been named
• Uziel Gal – the Uzi submachine gun*
• Galileo Galilei – Galileo, 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;
• John Garand – M1 Garand rifle
• Giuseppe Garibaldi – Garibaldi biscuits, MM Giuseppe Garibaldi Italian aircraft carrier
• Gideon Gartner – Gartner
• Hermann Gartner – Gartner's duct
• Richard J. Gatling – Gatling gun
• Carl Friedrich Gauss – Gauss - unit of magnetic induction, Gauss' law, see also a 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-Mueller tube
• King George I of Great Britain – Georgia
• Domingo Ghirardelli – Ghirardelli Chocolate Company
• Josiah Willard Gibbs – Gibbs free energy, Gibbs phenomenon
• Thomas Gilbert – Kiribati
• Gaston Glock – Glock
• Kurt Gödel – Gödel's incompleteness theorem, Gödel's ontological proof
• Samuel Goldwyn – Goldwyn Picture Corporation, later merged into Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. (or MGM)
• Wilbert Gore – Goretex
• 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
• Vicente Guerrero – Guerrero
• Georges Guillain – Guillain-Barré syndrome
• Dr. Joseph Ignace Guillotin (1738-1814) - advocate of what came to be called the guillotine,

H

• Otto Hahn – Hahnium, chemical element. This element name is not accepted by IUPAC. See element naming controversy
• Edwin Hall – Hall effect
• Hugh Halligan – Halligan bar
• Laurens Hammond – Hammond Organ
• Hamo, a 6th century Saxon settler and landowner – Hampshire
• 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
• Douglas Hartree – Hartree energy
• Gerald Harvey and Ian Norman – Harvey Norman
• Hakaru Hashimoto – Hashimoto's thyroiditis
• Paul Hawkins - Hawk-Eye tracking system used in cricket and other sports
• Oliver Heaviside and Arthur Edwin Kennelly – Kennelly-Heaviside layer
• Joseph Henry – Henry, unit of inductance
• William Henry – Henry's law
• Heinrich Rudolf Hertz – Hertz, unit of frequency
• William Hewlett and David Packard – founders, Hewlett-Packard
• Edward C. Heyde – Heyde's syndrome
• Miguel Hidalgo – Hidalgo
• David Hilbert – Hilbert's program
• Eugen von Hippel – Von Hippel-Lindau disease
• Harald Hirschsprung, Danish physician – Hirschsprung's disease
• 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
• Soichiro Honda – founder, Honda
• Mark Honeywell – founder, Honeywell
• Robin Hood, English folk hero – Robin of the Batman series
• Robert Hooke – Hooke's law
• William Henry Hoover (1849-1932) - The Hoover Company; in British English, the word "hoover" became a verb meaning "to vacuum a floor".
• August Horch – founder of Audi (audi is Latin for horch. It means listen in English)
• James Horlick and William Horlick – founded the company Horlicks in 1873
• Hroc, an ancient landowner ("Hroc's fortress" + shire) – Roxburghshire
• Howard Hughes – Hughes Aircraft company, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Hughes Airwest airlines, Hughes Glomar Explorer ship
• Howard R. Hughes, Sr – Hughes Tool Company, Baker Hughes company

I - J

• Eleuthčre Irénée du Pont – DuPont
• Ivan the Terrible – Ivy the Terrible from The Beano comic
• Joseph Marie Jacquard – Jacquard loom
• Jacob – Israel
• Roy Jacuzzi - inventor of the jacuzzi whirlpool bath.
• Calamity Jane – Calamity James from The Beano comic
• Karl Jansky – Jansky, unit of flux density
• 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

K

• Mikhail Kalashnikov – the Avtomat Kalashnikova series of weapons, including the AK-47
• Moritz Kaposi, Hungarian dermatologist – Kaposi's sarcoma
• Tadao Kashio – founder of Casio
• Shozo Kawasaki – founder, Kawasaki Heavy Industries
• Lord Kelvin – Kelvin, unit of thermodynamic temperature
• John F. Kennedy – John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Kennedy Center Honors
• Arthur Edwin Kennelly and Oliver Heaviside – Kennelly-Heaviside layer
• Brian W. Kernighan – the third letter of the name awk, a computer pattern/action language, is taken from Kernighan
• John Kerr (physicist) – Kerr effect
• Gustav Kirchhoff – Kirchhoff's Laws
• Donald Knuth – Knuth-Morris-Pratt algorithm
• Wladimir Peter Köppen – Köppen climate classification
• Gerard Kuiper – Kuiper Belt

L - Z

See List of eponyms (L-Z)

An asterisk designates people who became eponyms despite their stated wishes not to.

See also

• Lists of etymologies
• List of people

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