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- Achilles , Greek mythological character – Achilles' Tendon ; Achilles' Heel
- Adam , Biblical character – Adam's Apple
- Alvin Adams (1804–1877) – Adams Express
- Len Adleman – the third letter of the name RSA , an asymmetric algorithm for public key cryptography, is taken from Adleman
- Al-Khwarizmi , Persian mathematician of the 9th century – Algorithm , Algorism
- Alfred V. Aho – the first letter of the name Awk , a computer pattern/action language, is taken from Aho
- Matthew Algie – Tea and Coffee merchant company
- Alice Liddell – Alice In Wonderland , Alice In Wonderland Syndrome
- Alois Alzheimer – Alzheimer's Disease
- Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss – A&M Records
- André-Marie Ampère – Ampere - unit of electric current, Ampère's Law
- Roald Amundsen – Amundsen Sea ; Amundsen Crater , a crater on the Moon; Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station
- José De Anchieta - Anchieta Island , Anchieta Highway , in Brazil
- Anders Jonas Ångström – Angstrom , unit of distance
- Rafael Moreno Aranzadi , nicknamed Pichichi - The Pichichi Trophy
- Archimedes – Archimedes' Screw , Archimedes' Principle
- William George Armstrong – Armstrong Breech-loading Gun
- Benedict Arnold – traitor
- Hans Asperger – Asperger's Syndrome
- Robert Atkins (nutritionist) – Atkins Diet
- Aurélio Buarque De Holanda – Aurélio's Brazilian Portuguese Dictionary .
- Caesar Augustus – month August ; Zaragoza (a Spanish city)
- R. Stanton Avery – Avery Dennison Corporation
- Amedeo Avogadro – Avogadro's Number , Avogadro's Law
- Joseph Jules François Félix Babinski , French neurologist – Babinski reflex or Babinski sign, common name for Plantar Reflex
- Tomas Bata – founder of Bata Shoes ; Bata Shoe Museum , Tomas Bata University In Zlín , Batawa, Ontario ; Batanagar , India
- Karl Baedeker – Baedeker's
- Bowman's Capsule , named for Sir William Bowman , a British anatomist
- 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
- Adrian Bejan – Bejan Number
- Alexander Graham Bell – Bel - unit of relative power level; Bell Labs , BellSouth , Bellcore , Regional Bell Operating Company - companies. Also gave birth to a slang term i.e. give James a bell, call James on the telephone.
- 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
- Henry Bessemer – Bessemer Converter
- Pierre Bézier , French engineer and creator of the Bézier Curve
- Bieda, a Saxon landowner ("Bieda's ford" + shire) – Bedfordshire
- Laszlo Biro – Biro , ( Ballpoint Pen )
- Otto Von Bismarck , first German Chancellor – Bismarck Archipelago and Bismarck Sea near New Guinea ; German Battleship Bismarck as well as two ships of the Imperial Navy ('' Kaiserliche Marine ''); Bismarck, North Dakota
- Fisher Black and Myron Scholes – Black-Scholes model of options pricing
- Amelia Bloomer (1818-1894), popularizer of modest, practical trousers for women, called " Bloomers "
- Boann the Irish Goddess – The river Boyne
- Johann Elert Bode and Johann Daniel Titius – Titius-Bode Law
- Niels Bohr – Bohr Magneton , Bohr Radius , Bohrium , chemical element
- Lecoq De Boisbaudran – Gallium , chemical element. Although named after ''Gallia'' (Latin for France), Lecoq de Boisbaudran, the dicoverer of the metal, subtly attached an association with his name. ''Lecoq'' (rooster) in Latin is ''gallus''.
- Simón Bolívar – Bolivia , Bolîvar Department, Colombia , varous cities and tows named Bolívar en Venezuela and Colombia
- Ludwig Boltzmann – Boltzmann Constant , Stefan-Boltzmann Constant , Stefan-Boltzmann Law
- James Bond , the Ornithologist – James Bond , the fictional spy character
- Satyendra Nath Bose – Boson s, Bose-Einstein Statistics , Bose-Einstein Condensate s
- Professor Amar Bose – Bose Speakers
- 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 , Brahmagupta's Trapezium , Brahmagupta's Problem , Brahmagupta's Polynomial
- 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
- John Cadbury – opened his shop in 1824 which became the company Cadbury
- Julius Caesar – month July, Caesarean Section , Caesar Cipher , titles Kaiser and Tsar
- John Calvin , 16th century theologian – the religious doctrine of Calvinism , Calvin from "Calvin and Hobbes" comic strip
- Caesar Cardini , restaurateur – Caesar Salad
- Sam Carr, neighbour of David Berkowitz also known as "Son of Sam" – Son Of Sam Law
- Hendrik Casimir – Casimir Effect
- Anders Celsius – Celsius (unit of temperature) Celsius (Moon crater)
- 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)
- Bobby Charlton – the "Bobby Charlton" Comb Over hairstyle
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- Jacques Daguerre – Daguerreotype
- Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz – Daimler-Benz (later DaimlerChrysler )
- John Dalton – Dalton , non-SI unit of atomic mass
- 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
- Paul De Casteljau , De Casteljau's Algorithm
- Michael Dell – founder of Dell , the computer company
- David Eisenhower, grandson of US President Dwight Eisenhower – Camp David US presidential retreat
- Thomas Derrick (c. 1600), British Hangman - Derrick (lifting Device)
- 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
- Bo Diddley - Popularizer of the Bo Diddley beat
- Rudolf Diesel - the Diesel Engine
- Paul Dirac – Dirac's Constant , Dirac Equation , Dirac Delta Function , Dirac Sea , Dirac Prize , Fermi-Dirac Statistics
- Walt Disney – founder, The Walt Disney Company , Disneyland
- Doily family (c. 1700)
- Ray Dolby – Dolby Stereo, Dolby Surround and Dolby Pro Logic
- Donatello , Renaissance painter – Donatello , 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
- Thomas Edison – Edison Effect , Edison Records , Edisonian Approach , Edison, Georgia , Edison, New Jersey , Edisonade
- 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 Condensate s
- Queen Elizabeth I Of England , the "Virgin Queen" – Virginia and West Virginia
- Saint Elmo – St. Elmo's Fire
- Loránd Eötvös – Eotvos , gravitational gradient
- M. A. Epstein – Epstein-Barr Virus
- Lars Magnus Ericsson – Ericsson
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- Bartolomeo Eustachi – Eustachian Tube
- Sir George Everest – Mount Everest
- Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686-1736) - the Fahrenheit scale
- Gabriele Falloppio – Fallopian Tube
- Michael Faraday – Farad - SI unit of capacitance, Faraday - cgs unit of current Faraday Constant , Faraday Effect , Faraday's Law Of Induction , Faraday's Law Of Electrolysis
- Guy Fawkes – guy
- Enrico Fermi – Fermion s, Fermi Energy , Fermi Paradox , Fermium - chemical element, Fermi-Dirac Statistics . fermi (obsolete name for femtometre)
- Enzo Ferrari – founder, Ferrari
- George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr. – Ferris Wheel
- Richard Feynman – Feynman Diagram
- Fib of the Picts , one of the seven sons of Cruithe – Fife
- B.C. Forbes – Forbes magazine
- Henry Ford – Ford Motor Company
- Matthias N. Forney – Forney Locomotive
- Charles Fort – Forteana , Fortean Society , Fortean Times
- Benjamin Franklin – Franklin Stove , Franklin - cgs unit of electric charge
- William Fox – 20th Century Fox
- Sigmund Freud – Freudian Slip
- Leonard Fuchs (1501-1566) - Fuchsia
- 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
- Giuseppe Garibaldi – Garibaldi Biscuits , Italian aircraft carrier ''Giuseppe Garibaldi''
- Gideon Gartner – Gartner
- Hermann Gartner – Gartner's Duct
- Richard J. Gatling – Gatling Gun
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- 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 – Gore-Tex
- 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
- Otto Hahn – hahnium, chemical element. This element name is not accepted by IUPAC . See Element Naming Controversy
- Edwin Hall – Hall Effect
- Hugh Halligan – Halligan Bar
- Laurens Hammond – Hammond Organ
- Hamo, a 6th century Saxon settler and landowner – Hampshire
- John Hancock , signatory of the US Declaration of Independence – John Hancock , a signature
- Elliot Handler and Harold "Matt" Matson – Mattel
- William Hanna and Joseph Barbera – Hanna-Barbera Productions
- Gerhard Armauer Hansen – 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
- Hassan-i-Sabah , leader of the murderous Hashshashin cult – Assassin from ''hassansin'' (this etymology is disputed)
- 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
- 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
- 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". The word "hoover" has also come to mean anything that is sucked up at a great rate ("They hoovered their way through the banquet").
- August Horch – founder of Audi (''audi'' is Latin for ''horch''. It means ''listen'' in English)
- James Horlick and William Horlick – founded the company Horlicks in 1873
- William Howe (1803-1852) - Howe truss bridges
- Hroc, an ancient landowner ("Hroc's fortress" + shire) – Roxburghshire
- Howard Hughes – Hughes Aircraft company, Howard Hughes Medical Institute , Hughes Airwest airlines, Hughes Glomar Explorer ship
- Howard R. Hughes, Sr. – Hughes Tool Company , Baker Hughes company
- 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 )
- Ingvar Kamprad – the first two letters of IKEA , the home furnishings retailer he founded
- Gaetano Kanizsa , Italian psychologist – Kanizsa Triangle
- Moritz Kaposi , Hungarian dermatologist – Kaposi's Sarcoma
- Theodore Von Kármán – Karman Line
- Tadao Kashio – founder of Casio
- Shozo Kawasaki – founder, Kawasaki Heavy Industries
- Lord Kelvin – Kelvin , unit of thermodynamic temperature
- John F. Kennedy – John F. Kennedy International Airport , John F. Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts , Kennedy Center Honors , John F. Kennedy University
- Arthur Edwin Kennelly and Oliver Heaviside – Kennelly-Heaviside Layer
- Brian W. Kernighan – the third letter of the name Awk , a computer pattern/action language, is taken from Kernighan
- John Kerr (physicist) – Kerr Effect
- Wilhelm Killing – Killing Vector Field
- Gustav Kirchhoff – Kirchhoff's Laws
- Donald Knuth – Knuth-Morris-Pratt Algorithm
- Wladimir Peter Köppen – Köppen Climate Classification
- Gerard Kuiper – Kuiper Belt
See List Of Eponyms (L-Z)
An asterisk designates people who became eponyms despite their stated wishes not to.
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