List of eponyms (A–K)#J

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".

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Shinzō Abe, Japanese Prime Minister – Abenomics
Niels Henrik Abel, Norwegian mathematician – Abelian group, Abel's theorem, Abel–Ruffini theorem
Helmut Abt, German-born American astrophysicist - Abt's star (SV Crateris/ β 600/ ADS 8115/ HD 98088, in the constellation Crater)
Allama Iqbal, Indian Muslim philosopher, and poet of Urdu, Persian language, Arabic languages, national poet and ideological father of Pakistan — Allama Iqbal Town, Allama Iqbal Town, Muzaffargarh, Allama Iqbal International Airport, Allama Iqbal Medical College, Allama Iqbal Open University, Iqbal Academy Pakistan.
Achaemenes, Persian king – Achaemenid dynasty
Achilles, Greek mythological character – Achilles' heel, Achilles tendon
Ada Lovelace, first person to describe computer programming (for the Babbage engine) – Ada programming language
Adam, Biblical character – Adam's apple
Gilbert-Joseph Adam, French mineralogist – adamite
Alvin Adams, American businessman – Adams Express
Adamson, Swedish comics character – Adamson Award
Thomas Addison, British physician – Addison's disease, Addisonian crisis, Addison–Schilder syndrome
Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, British queen – the city of Adelaide in Australia, Queen Adelaide, Cambridgeshire, Adelaide Archipelago, Adelaide Island
Adhemar, Belgian comics character – Bronzen Adhemar{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/s/sleen.htm|title=Marc Sleen|website=lambiek.net}}
Adonis, Greek mythological character – adonis (a good looking, handsome young boy),{{cite web|url=http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Adonis|title=Adonis}} adonism, Adonis, adonis (species of skink),{{cite book|author1=Bo Beolens|author2=Michael Watkins|author3=Michael Grayson|title=The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0F758vNQ0UUC&pg=PT22|date=6 September 2011|publisher=JHU Press|isbn=978-1-4214-0227-7|pages=22–}} Adonis belt
Aeolus, Greek mythological character – Aeolian harp
Adam Afzelius, Swedish botanist – Afzelius's disease, afzelia
Agag, biblical king – Agagites
Agatha of Sicily, Italian Christian martyr – St. Agatha's Tower
Agrippina the Younger, Roman empress – Cologne, Germany (formerly Colonia Agrippina)
Ahasuerus, Biblical character – the term "ahasverus" is used to describe a "restless person" in certain languages, Ahasverus (genus of beetle)
Alfred V. Aho, Canadian computer scientist – the first letter of the name AWK, a computer pattern/action language, is taken from Aho
George Biddell Airy, English mathematician and astronomer - Airy disk
Ajax, Greek mythological character – Ajax Amsterdam, Ajax dish detergent
Akademos, Greek mythological character – academy
Akela, British literary character – Akela, another term for 'scoutsleader'
Rabbi Akiva, Judean rabbi – Bnei Akiva
Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, Latinized as "Algoritmi", Persian mathematician – algorithm.{{Cite book|last=Daffa|first=Ali Abdullah al-|author-link=Ali Abdullah Al-Daffa|title=The Muslim contribution to mathematics|date=1977|publisher=Croom Helm|location=London|isbn= 978-0-85664-464-1}}
Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi, Persian astronomer - al-Sufi's cluster (an easy-to-observe asterism in the constellation Vulpecula which looks like a coathanger, also known as Brocchi's Cluster and Collinder 399).
Semyon Alapin, Lithuanian chess player – Alapin's Opening
King Albert I, Belgian king – Albert Canal, Albert premetro station, Alberteum Aedes Scientiae, King Albert Park, Albertine, King Albert Medal, Albertina markers.
Albert, Prince Consort, British prince – Prince Albert piercing, a form of male genital piercing; Alberta (Canada), Albert Bridge, London, Albert Bridge, Glasgow, Royal Albert Dock, Liverpool, Royal Albert Dock, London, Royal Albert Hall, Albert Memorial, Lake Albert, Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Albert Medal
Adolf Albin, Romanian chess player – Albin Countergambit
Alcaeus, Greek poet – Alcaic stanza
Alexander Alekhine, Russian chess player – Alekhine's Defence
Alexander of Aphrodisias, Greek philosopher – Alexandrism, Alexander's band
Alexander the Great, Greek-Macedonian conqueror – Alexandria, İskenderun, Kandahar, alexandrine, Iskanderkul
Matthew Algie, Scottish businessman – "Matthew Algie" (company)
Alice, British literary character – Alice in Wonderland syndrome
Thomas Allinson, British physician – Allinson bread
Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss, American musicians – A&M Records
Arthur Cecil Alport, South African physician – Alport syndrome
Walter C. Alvarez, American physician − Alvarez' syndrome; Alvarez-waves; Walter C. Alvarez Memorial Award
Alois Alzheimer, German neurologist – Alzheimer's disease
Amanullah Khan, Afghan king – The Dutch term "ammehoela" (which means "yeah, right!" or "what do I care?"){{Cite web|url=http://taaladvies/ammehoela|title=ammehoela (herkomst) | Genootschap Onze Taal|website=Onze Taal}}{{Dead link|date=December 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
Amaryllis, Roman literary character from Virgil's pastoral Eclogues – amaryllis
Amazons, Greek mythological tribe – Amazon River, Amazon.com, Inc
Adelbert Ames Jr., American scientist — Ames room, Ames trapezoid
Bruce Ames, American biochemist – Ames test
Jakob Ammann, Swiss-American religious leader – Amish
André-Marie Ampère, French scientist – ampere – unit of electric current, Ampère's law, amp
Amun, Egyptian god – ammonia{{cite web|title = Ammonia| work = h2g2 Eponyms|publisher = BBC.CO.UK|date = 11 January 2003|url = http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A632990| access-date =8 November 2007| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20071102023049/http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A632990| archive-date= 2 November 2007 | url-status= live}}
Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer – Amundsen Sea; Amundsen crater, a crater on the Moon; Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station
Ignacio "Nacho" Anaya – inventor of nachos{{Cite web|url=http://oed.com/learning/word-stories/nachos.html |title=Nachos, anyone? – Word stories – Oxford English Dictionary |date=2 January 2010 |access-date=24 October 2016 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100102004746/http://oed.com/learning/word-stories/nachos.html |archive-date= 2 January 2010 }}
José de Anchieta, Spanish priest – Anchieta Island, Anchieta, Espírito Santo, Anchieta, Santa Catarina, Rodovia Anchieta
Andromeda, Greek mythological character – Andromeda constellation, Andromeda Galaxy, Andromeda polifolia
Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist – angstrom, unit of distance
Adolf Anderssen, German chess player – Anderssen's Opening
Saint Andrew, Christian apostle – Order of Saint Andrew, Saint Andrew's Cross, St Andrews, Scotland, San Andreas Fault, and numerous other localities, churches and cathedrals
Jimmie Angel, American aviator - Angel Falls
Anne of Denmark, Scottish queen – Queen Anne's Men
Anne, Queen of Great Britain, British queen – Queen Anne style architecture, Queen Anne style furniture, Statute of Anne, Queen Anne's Bounty
Antoninus Pius, Roman emperor – Antonine Wall
Virginia Apgar, American physician and anesthesiologist – Apgar score
Aphrodite, Greek mythological character – aphrodisiac
Apollinaris of Ravenna – Apollinaris (water)
Apollo, Greek mythological character – Apollonian and Dionysian, Apollo archetype, Apollo's belt
Apollonius of Perga, Greek mathematician and astronomer – Apollonian circles, Apollonian gasket, Apollonian network, Apollonius' theorem, Problem of Apollonius
Saint Thomas Aquinas, Italian philosopher – Thomism, many educational institutions
Yasser Arafat, Palestinian politician and activist – Arafat scarf (nickname for a Palestinian keffiyeh)
Rafael Moreno Aranzadi, nicknamed Pichichi, Spanish association football player – Pichichi Trophy
Archimedes, Greek mathematician – Archimedes' screw, Archimedes' principle, Archimedean point, Claw of Archimedes, Archimedean solid
Henryk Arctowski, Polish scientist and explorer – Arctowski's arc (a rare halo phenomenon)
Argus Panoptes, Greek mythological character – argus-eyed,{{Cite web|url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Argus-eyed|title=Definition of ARGUS-EYED|website=www.merriam-webster.com}} great argus (pheasant species), scatophagus argus (fish species)
Albert Wojciech Adamkiewicz, Polish pathologist – Artery of Adamkiewicz
Ariadne, Greek mythological character – Ariadne's thread (logic)
Aristoteles, Greek mathematician and philosopher – Aristotelianism, Aristotelian ethics, Aristotelian physics, Aristotelian Society, Aristotelian theology, Aristotelia, Aristotle Mountains, Aristotle's wheel paradox, Aristotle's theory of universals, Pseudo-Aristotle
Jacobus Arminius, Dutch theologian – Arminianism
Louis Armstrong, American jazz musician, who was nicknamed Satchmo – Satchmo's syndrome
William George Armstrong, British inventor and business man – Armstrong breech-loading gun
Arthur, British-Welsh mythological king – Arthurian fantasy, Arthurian heraldry, Arthurian legend
José Gervasio Artigas, Uruguayan revolutionary leader – Artiguism
Asclepius, Greek mythological character – rod of Asclepius, therapeutae of Asclepius
Hans Asperger, Austrian psychologist – Asperger syndrome
Atalanta, Greek mythological character – Atalanta butterfly
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Turkish president – Kemalism (also known as Atatürkism)
Athena, Greek goddess – The Greek city Athens, atheneum, Athens, Athene (bird)
Robert Atkins, American nutritionist – Atkins diet
Atlas, Greek mythological character – atlas, Atlas, atlas, Atlas, Atlas, Atlas, Atlas bear, Atlas beetle, Atlas cedar, Atlas pied flycatcher, Atlas moth, Atlas turtle
Atthis, Greek mythological character – Atthis, Attica{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H-qCAgAAQBAJ&q=adonis+eponym&pg=PT135|title=Who's Who in Classical Mythology|isbn=978-1-134-50942-3|last1=Grant|first1=Michael|last2=Hazel|first2=John|date=2 August 2004|publisher=Routledge }}
Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, Israeli rabbi and theologist – Ramat Shlomo
Aurélio Buarque de Holanda Ferreira, Brazilian lexicographer – Aurélio's Brazilian Portuguese Dictionary, nicknamed the "Big Aurélio" in Portuguese.
Augeas, Greek mythological king – Augean stable{{cite web|url=http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Augean%20stable|title=Augean Stable – Definition of Augean stable by Merriam-Webster}}{{cite book|author=Morton S. Freeman|title=A New Dictionary of Eponyms|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dujiiVP2KJIC&pg=PA122|date=18 December 1997|publisher=Oxford University Press, USA|isbn=978-0-19-509354-4|pages=122–}}
Augustus Caesar, Roman emperor – the month of August; the city of Zaragoza (originally Caesaraugustus); the city of Caesarea in Israel; numerous other cities once named Caesarea; Augustan age
R. Stanton Avery, American inventor and businessman – Avery Dennison Corporation
Amedeo Avogadro, Italian chemist – Avogadro constant, Avogadro's law
Nnamdi Azikiwe, Nigerian president – Zikism

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B

Bebot, Mother of Kenneth John – Bebot
Báb, Persian religious leader – Bábism
Charles Babbage, British mathematician and inventor – Babbage engine, Babbage
Isaac Babbitt, American inventor – Babbitt metal
Joseph Babinski, French neurologist – Babinski's sign, Anton–Babinski syndrome, Babinski–Fröhlich syndrome, Babinski–Froment syndrome, Babinski–Nageotte syndrome, Babinski–Vaquez syndrome, Babinski–Weil test, Babinski–Jarkowski rule.
Lauren Bacall, American actress – Bogart–Bacall syndrome
Facundo Bacardi, Spanish-Cuban business man – Bacardi, Bacardi cocktail, Bacardi Breezer
Bacchus, Greek-Roman mythological character – Bacchic, Bacchic art, Bacchanalia
Edward Bach, British physician – Bach flower remedies
Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer – BACH motif
John Backus, American computer scientist – Backus–Naur form
Karl Baedeker, German business man – Baedeker
Leo Baekeland, Belgian inventor – Bakelite
William Baffin, British explorer – Baffin Bay, Baffin Island
Bahá'u'lláh, Persian religious leader – Baháʼí Faith
Bahram V Gur, Persian king – bahramdipitySommer, Toby J. [http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/19271/title/-Bahramdipity--and-Scientific-Research/ 'Bahramdipity' and Scientific Research], The Scientist, 1999, 13(3), 13.Sommer, Toby J. [http://www.bmartin.cc/dissent/documents/Sommer.pdf Bahramdipity and Nulltiple Scientific Discoveries], Science and Engineering Ethics, 2001, 7(1), 77–104.
Donald Bailey, British engineer and inventor – Bailey bridge
Francis Baily, British astronomer – Baily's beads
René Baire, French mathematician – Baire category theorem, Baire function, Baire measure, Baire set, Baire space, Baire space, Property of Baire
John Randal Baker{{Cite web|url=https://biologicalstaincommission.org/bscglossary.html#baker|title=Glossary of Staining Methods, Reagents, Immunostaining and Eponyms}} (1900–1984), English zoologist and anthropologist – Microscopic staining merthods: for lipids, Baker's acid-haematein,{{Cite web|url=https://biologicalstaincommission.org/bscglossary.html#Acid-hematein_method|title=Glossary of Staining Methods, Reagents, Immunostaining and Eponyms}} and for mucins his mucicarmine{{Cite web|url=https://biologicalstaincommission.org/bscglossary.html#Mucicarmine_for_mucins|title = Glossary of Staining Methods, Reagents, Immunostaining and Eponyms}}
Italo Balbo, Italian aviator and politician – Balbo, Seventh Street Balbo Drive (street in Chicago){{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eblfCoh5Mh8C&q=Seventh+Street+Balbo+Italo+Balbo&pg=PA243|title=Italo Balbo|isbn=978-0-520-91069-0|last1=Segre|first1=Claudio G|date=9 August 1990|publisher=University of California Press }}
Ed Balducci, Italian-American illusionist – Balducci levitation
J. G. Ballard, British author – Ballardian, Ballardesque
János Balogh, Hungarian-Romanian chess master – Balogh Defense
Balthazar, Biblical character – 12-litre wine bottle (see Wine bottle#Sizes)
Honoré de Balzac, French author – Balzac Prize
Bambi, Austrian literary character – Bambi effect, Bambi effect, Bambi Award
Heinrich Band, German inventor and music instrument builder– Bandoneón
Bernhard Bang, Danish physician – Bang's disease
Peter Bang and Svend Olufsen, Danish businesspeople – Bang and Olufsen
Joseph Banks, British botanist – Banks Peninsula, genus Banksia
Baphomet, demon character – Sigil of Baphomet
Barbara, daughter of American business woman Ruth Handler – Barbie doll
Joseph Barbera and William Hanna, American animators – Hanna-Barbera
Willem Barentsz, Dutch explorer – Barents Sea, Barentsz bridge, Barents Region
Francis Baring, British businessman – Barings Bank
Heinrich Barkhausen, German physicist – Barkhausen effect, Barkhausen stability criterion, Barkhausen–Kurz tube
Peter Barlow, English mathematician and physicist — Barlow lens
Thomas Wilson Barnes, British chess master – Barnes Defence, Barnes Opening
P. T. Barnum, American circus entertainer – Barnum effect{{cite web|url=http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/barnum-effect|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130715082109/http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/Barnum-effect|url-status=dead|archive-date=15 July 2013|title=Barnum effect – definition of Barnum effect in English from the Oxford dictionary}}
Murray Barr, Canadian physician – Barr body
Yvonne Barr and Sir Anthony Epstein, British physicians – Epstein–Barr virus
Jean Alexandre Barré, French neurologist – Guillain–Barré syndrome, Barré test
Caspar Bartholin the Younger, Danish physician – Bartholin's gland
Béla Bartók, Hungarian composer – Bartok pizzicato
Basarab I of Wallachia – Bessarabia
Earl W. Bascom, American-Canadian rodeo inventor – Bascom's rigging
John U. Bascom, American surgeon – Bascom cleft lift procedure
Karl Adolph von Basedow, German physician – Graves–Basedow disease
John Baskerville, British typographer – Baskerville
George Bass, British explorer – Bass Strait
Tomáš Baťa, Czech businessman – Bata Shoes; Bata Shoe Museum, Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Batawa; Batanagar, India; Batapur, Punjab, Pakistan
Henry Walter Bates, British biologist – Batesian mimicry
Émile Baudot, French engineer – Baudot alphabet, Baudot code
Antoine Baumé, French engineer – Baumé scale
Bavo of Ghent, Southern-Dutch/Walloon Roman Catholic saint – Bamberg, Germany
Donald E. Baxter and Delia B. Baxter – Baxter International
Bryce Bayer, American scientist – Bayer filter{{cite web|url=http://www.fotoflock.com/learn-photography/history-of-photography/54-history/9225-in-fond-remembrance-of-bryce-bayer-the-father-of-digital-imaging|title=Bidding adieu to a master inventor|date=4 March 2024 }}
Friedrich Bayer, German business man – Bayer AG
Herbert Bayer, Austrian-American graphic designer and architect – Bayer Universal, Architype Bayer
William Bayliss, British physician – Bayliss effect
The Beatles, British rock group – Beatlesque, Beatle boot, Beatle haircut, Beatlemania
Francis Beaufort, Irish captain – Beaufort scale
Louis de Béchamel, a courtier of Louis XIV – Béchamel sauce
Alison Bechdel, American cartoonist – Bechdel test
Carl Bechstein, German businessman – C. Bechstein
Warren A. Bechtel, American businessman – Bechtel
Heinrich Beck, German businessman – Beck's beer, Beck's Futures art prize
John Bruce Beckwith, American physician – Beckwith–Wiedemann syndrome
Henri Becquerel, French physicist – becquerel
John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford, British politician – Bedfordite
Michel Bégon, French politician – begonia
Hulusi Behçet, Turkish dermatologist – Behçet's disease
Adrian Bejan, Romanian-American mathematician – Bejan number
Léon Bekaert, Belgian businessman – Bekaert
Jacob Bekenstein, Israelian-American theoretical physicist – Bekenstein bound
Édouard Belin, French-Swiss inventor – Belinograph
Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish inventor – bel – unit of relative power level; Bell Labs, Bell System, BellSouth, Bellcore (now Telcordia Technologies), Regional Bell Operating Company, Bell Canada – companies.
Glen Bell, American restaurateur - Taco Bell
Francis Bellamy, American religious leader – Bellamy salute
Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Estonian-German explorer – Bellingshausen Sea
Nikos Beloyannis, Greek resistance leader – Beloiannisz (village in Hungary)
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Litvak lexicographer – Ben Yehuda Street, Ben Yehuda Street (Tel Aviv)
Benedick, British theatrical character – benedick
Benedict of Nursia, Italian priest – Benedictine
Edvard Beneš, Czech president – Beneš decrees
Luciano Benetton, Italian business man – Benetton Group, Benetton Formula
Charles Benham, English journalist - Benham's top / Benham's disc (a rotating black-and-white disc to show the Fechner color effect)
Benjamin, Biblical character – a Benjamin (in some languages the youngest son of a family is referred to by this name)
Pal Benko, Hungarian chess player – Benko Gambit, Benko's Opening
Arnold Bennett, British novelist – Omelette Arnold Bennett, dish developed at the Savoy Hotel, London
Floyd Bennett, NASA trajectory designer — Bennett Hill (a lunar mountain, west of the landing site of Apollo 15)
Linn Boyd Benton, American typographer – Benton Pantograph
Karl Benz, German businessman – Benz & Cie. (later Daimler-Benz)
Hiram Berdan, American inventor – Berdan Sharps rifle, Berdan centerfire primer
Hans Berenberg and Paul Berenberg, German businessman – Berenberg Bank
Vitus Bering, Danish-born Russian explorer – Bering Strait, Commander Islands
Busby Berkeley, American choreographer – "Busby Berkeley choreography", "Busby Berkeley number" (an elaborate sing and dance number with many people involved, usually in a geometrical arrangement)
David Berkowitz also known as "Son of Sam", American criminal – Son of Sam law
Emile Berliner, German-American inventor and businessman – Berliner Gramophone
Maximilian Berlitz, German-American businessman – Berlitz Language Schools
Juan de Bermúdez, Spanish explorer – Bermuda
Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch mathematician – Bernoulli's principle
Sergei Natanovich Bernstein, Russian mathematician – Bernstein polynomial, Bernstein algebra, Bernstein's inequality, Bernstein inequalities in probability theory, Bernstein polynomial, Bernstein's problem, Bernstein's theorem, Bernstein's theorem on monotone functions, Bernstein–von Mises theorem
Yogi Berra, American baseball player – Yogi Bear, Yogiisms
Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist – Berthollide
Alphonse Bertillon, French police officer – Bertillon method/system.
Henry Bessemer, British inventor – Bessemer converter, Bessemer steel
Aneurin Bevan, British politician – Bevanism
Pierre Bézier, French engineer and mathematician – Bézier curve, Bézier surface
Wilhelm von Bezold, German physicist and meteorologist — Bezold effect, Bezold-Brücke shift
Marcel Bich, French-Italian businessman – Bic
Joe Biden, 46th president of the United States – Bidenomics
Bieda, a Saxon landowner ("Bieda's ford" + shire) – Bedfordshire
Max Bielschowsky{{Cite web|url=https://biologicalstaincommission.org/bscglossary.html#Bielschowsky|title = Glossary of Staining Methods, Reagents, Immunostaining and Eponyms}} (1869–1940), German neuropathologist – Bielschowsky's silver stain for nerve fibres{{Cite web|url=https://biologicalstaincommission.org/bscglossary.html#Silver_staining|title = Glossary of Staining Methods, Reagents, Immunostaining and Eponyms}}
Big Brother, British literary character – "Big Brother society" (a society where government surveillance is omnipresent), Big Brother Awards
Félix Billet, French physician - Billet's rose (a disc shaped scheme, showing the distribution and radii of the first nineteen order rainbows created by an optically infinite pointlike lightsource shining in and through perfect sphere shaped transparent water droplets) Carl B. Boyer: The Rainbow, from myth to mathematics, Figure 66
Alfred Binet, French mathematician – Stanford-Binet IQ test
Meyer Herman Bing and Frederik Vilhelm Grøndahl, Danish business people – Bing & Grøndahl
Bintje Jansma, Dutch pupil – Bintje
Forrest Bird, American inventor – Bird Innovator
Henry Bird, British chess player – Bird's Opening
Clarence Birdseye, American businessman – Captain Birdseye
Jane Birkin, British pop singer and actress – Birkin bag.
László Bíró, Hungarian inventor – Biro, (ballpoint pen)
Sereno Edwards Bishop, scientist, Presbyterian minister and publisher - Bishop's Ring
Otto von Bismarck, German chancellor – Bismarck Archipelago and Bismarck Sea near New Guinea; German battleship Bismarck as well as two ships of the Imperial Navy (Kaiserliche Marine); Bismarck, North Dakota, Bismarck herring
Fischer Black and Myron Scholes, American economists – Black–Scholes formula, Black–Scholes equation
S. Duncan Black and Alonzo G. Decker, American business men – Black & Decker
Tony Blair, British Prime Minister – Blairism, Blatcherism
William Blair - Blair Cuspids (so-called needle shaped objects on the Moon's surface, created by long shadows of boulders lit by a low sun)
Louis Auguste Blanqui, French politician and activist – Blanquism
Louis Blériot, French aviator – Recherches Aéronautiques Louis Blériot.
Charles K. Bliss, Ukrainian-Austrian engineer – Blissymbols.
André Bloch, French mathematician, Bloch space, Bloch's theorem (complex variables)
Felix Bloch, Swiss-American physician – Bloch wall, Bloch sphere, Bloch's theorem
Charles Blondin, French acrobat – Blondin (quarry equipment)
Amelia Bloomer, American activist – bloomers
Benjamin Blumenfeld, Belarusian chess player – Blumenfeld Gambit
Boann, Irish mythological character – The River Boyne
Johann Elert Bode and Johann Daniel Titius, German astronomers – Titius–Bode law
David Bodian{{Cite web|url=https://biologicalstaincommission.org/bscglossary.html#Bodian|title = Glossary of Staining Methods, Reagents, Immunostaining and Eponyms}} (1910–1992), – American medical scientist – Bodian's protargol stain{{Cite web|url=https://biologicalstaincommission.org/bscglossary.html#Protargol|title = Glossary of Staining Methods, Reagents, Immunostaining and Eponyms}}
Giambattista Bodoni, Italian typographer – Bodoni
William Boeing, American aviator – Boeing Commercial Airplanes
Herman Boerhaave, Dutch physician – Boerhaave syndrome
Humphrey Bogart, American actor – Bogart–Bacall syndrome
Efim Bogoljubov, Russian-German chess player – Bogo-Indian Defence
Bogomil, Bulgarian religious leader – Bogomilism
Niels Bohr, Danish physicist – Bohr magneton, Bohr radius, bohrium
Lecoq de Boisbaudran, French chemist – gallium, chemical element. Although named after Gallia (Latin for France), Lecoq de Boisbaudran, the discoverer of the metal, subtly attached an association with his name. Lecoq (rooster) in Latin is gallus.
Bart Jan Bok, Dutch astronomer – Bok globules
Simón Bolívar, Bolivian general and president – Bolivia, Bolívar Department, Colombia, various cities and tows named Bolívar en Venezuela and Colombia, Venezuelan bolívar, Bolívar, Bolivarism
Jean Bolland, Belgian priest – Bollandists
Lucas Bols, Dutch businessman – Bols (brand)
Ludwig Boltzmann, German mathematician – Boltzmann constant, Stefan–Boltzmann constant, Stefan–Boltzmann law
Napoleon Bonaparte, French general and emperor – Bonapartism, Napoleonic Code, Napoleon Empire, Napoleonic Wars, Napoleon complex, Napoleon Opening, Napoleon's theorem, Napoleon's problem, Napoleon snake eel, Napoleon fish, Napoleon, Napoleon points, Napoleonka
George Alan Bond, American-Australian business man – Bonds
George Boole, British mathematician – Boolean algebra
Gail Borden, American business man – "Borden Condensed Milk", Borden County, Texas
Jules Bordet, Belgian physicist – Bordetella
Amadeo Bordiga, Italian politician – Bordigism
Armand Borel, French mathematician – Borel–Weil–Bott theorem, Borel conjecture, Borel fixed-point theorem, Borel's theorem
Émile Borel, French mathematician – Borel algebra, Borel's lemma, Borel's law of large numbers, Borel measure, Borel–Kolmogorov paradox, Borel–Cantelli lemma, Borel–Carathéodory theorem, Heine–Borel theorem, Borel summation, Borel distribution
Alexander Borodin, Russian composer and chemist – Borodin reaction
Karel Havlíček Borovský, Czech novelist – Havlíčkův Brod
Giuseppe Borsalino, Italian businessman – Borsalino
Bernard Bosanquet, British cricketer – bosie, the Australian term for the cricket technique googly
Hieronymus Bosch, Dutch painter – Boschian{{cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/b/bosch_hieronymus.htm|title=Hieronymus Bosch|publisher=Lambiek|access-date=16 July 2019|quote=The word "Boschian" has become an eponym for any artistic depiction of Hell or the Middle Ages that resembles his work.}}
Robert Bosch, German business man and inventor – Robert Bosch GmbH
Amar Bose, American business man and inventor – Bose Corporation, Bose speaker packages
Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian physicist – bosons, Bose–Einstein statistics, Bose–Einstein condensate
Jean-Marc Bosman, Belgian association football player – Bosman ruling
C. F. Bottlinger - Bottlinger's rings (ellipse shaped rings around the Subsun)
Elbert Dysart Botts, American engineer and inventor – Botts' dots, a street and highway lane separator
Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French navigator – the bougainvillea plant, which he discovered.
Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician, geophysicist, geodesist, and astronomer - Bouguer's halo (aka Ulloa's circle, the Fog bow)
Georges Boulanger, French politician – Boulangism
Étienne-Louis Boullée, French neoclassicist architect – Boulléesque
Matthew Boulton and James Watt, British inventors and business people – Boulton and Watt
Habib Bourguiba, Tunesian president – Bourguibism
Thierry Boutsen, Belgian car racer – Boutsen Aviation
Sir Frank Bowden, 1st Baronet, British businessman – Bowden cable.
Thomas Bowdler, British publisher – to bowdlerize
Jim Bowie, American inventor – Bowie knife
Sir William Bowman, British anatomist – Bowman's capsule
Charles Boycott, Irish politician – boycott
Robert Boyle, Irish chemist – Boyle's law
Rudolph Boysen, American horticulturist – boysenberry
Silvius Brabo, Belgian mythological character – Brabant, Brabo Fountain.
Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer – Tychonic system, Tycho Brahe days
Tom Bradley, American politician – Bradley effect.Payne, Gregory(1986). Tom Bradley: The Impossible Dream : A Biography Roundtable Pub. The chapter about Bradley Effect (Chapter 16 / pp. 243 – 288) is available online at {{cite web|url=http://www.gregorypayne.net/bradleybio.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=16 October 2008 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090120231055/http://www.gregorypayne.net/bradleybio.pdf |archive-date=20 January 2009 }}
Brahma, Hindu deity – Brahmanism
Brahmagupta, Indian mathematician and astronomer – Brahmagupta's formula, Brahmagupta's identity, Brahmagupta's trapezium, Brahmagupta's problem, Brahmagupta's polynomial
Johannes Brahms, German composer – Brahms guitar
Louis Braille, French inventor – braille writing
Matthew Bramley, British butcher – Bramley apple
Karl Ferdinand Braun, German physicist – "Braun tube" (in some languages the cathode-ray tube is referred to as such) Karl Ferdinand Braun Prize
Auguste Bravais, French physicist known for his work in crystallography - Bravais arc (aka the Circumzenithal arc)
Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, Italian explorer – Brazzaville, De Brazza's monkey
Abraham-Louis Breguet, Swiss watch maker – Breguet (brand)
Louis Charles Breguet, French aviator – Breguet Aviation, Breguet 14, Breguet's range equation
Jacques Brel, Belgian singer – Brelian crescendo{{Cite web|url=https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2008/12/brel-d15.html|title=30 years since the death of Jacques Brel: his life, his art, his legacy|first1=Louis|last1=Girard|first2=Hiram|last2=Lee|website=www.wsws.org|date=15 December 2008 }}
Hans-Joachim Bremermann, German-American mathematician and biophysicist – Bremermann's limit
Jack Elton Bresenham, American computer scientist – Bresenham's line algorithm
Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, British lexicographer – Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Leonid Brezhnev, Russian head of state – Brezhnev Doctrine
Richard Bright, British physician – Bright's disease
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, French gastronomer – Brillat-Savarin cheese, Gâteau Savarin
Thomas Brisbane, British politician – Brisbane and Brisbane River
Paul Broca, French neurologist – Broca's aphasia, Broca's area
Dalmero Francis Brocchi, amateur astronomer and chart maker for the American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO) - Brocchi's Cluster
Henry James Brooke, British crystallographer – Brookite
Mel Brooks, American film director and actor – Brooksfilms
Gordon Brown, British Prime Minister – Brownism
Robert Brown, Scottish botanist – Brownian motion
John Browning, American inventor – Browning firearms, including the M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle and Browning Hi-Power
Archibald Bruce, American mineralogist – Brucite.{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fl4sdCYrq3cC&q=brucine+james+bruce&pg=PA56 |title = Elsevier's Dictionary of Chemoetymology: The Whys and Whences of Chemical Nomenclature and Terminology|isbn = 978-0-08-048881-3|last1 = Senning|first1 = Alexander|date = 30 October 2006| publisher=Elsevier }}
Catherine Wolfe Bruce, American humanitarian activist – Bruce Medal.
David Bruce, Australian-Scottish pathologist and microbiologist – Brucella, brucellosis.
James Bruce, Scottish explorer – brucine.
R. H. Bruck, American mathematician – Bruck–Ryser–Chowla theorem
Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer – Bruckner rhythm
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Flemish painter – Bruegelian (a jolly eat- and drink festivity which resembles scenes from his paintings.), Bruegel, Brueghel's syndrome, "Bruegel Ancienne" (a Belgian beer brand{{Cite web|url=http://www.bierebel.com/bieres-belges/bruegel|title=Bruegel / Les bières belges • Bierebel, La bière en Belgique|website=www.bierebel.com|date=14 October 2021}})
Johannes Brugman, Dutch priest – "praten als Brugman" ("to talk like Brugman", indicating a powerful speech){{Cite web|url=http://taaladvies/praten-als-brugman|title=praten als Brugman (herkomst en betekenis) | Genootschap Onze Taal|website=Onze Taal}}{{Dead link|date=December 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
Marcus Junius Brutus, Italian politician – brutal, brutality, brute
Prince Brychan, British king – Brecknockshire
Bucca, Saxon landowner ("Bucca's home" + shire) – Buckinghamshire
Bucephalus, horse of Alexander the Great – Bucephala (city), Bucephala (bird)
Buddha, Nepalese religious leader – Buddhism
Semyon Budyonny, Russian general – Budyonny horse
Ettore Bugatti, Italian businessman – Bugatti
Muhammadu Buhari, Nigerian president – Buharism
David Dunbar Buick, American businessman – Buick
Dagwood Bumstead, American comics character – Dagwood sandwich
Archie Bunker, American TV character – the Bunker vote (political term describing the affiliations of mainly white, lower class voters who share conservative, bigoted viewpoints with Bunker)
Robert Bunsen, German inventor – Bunsen burner
Viktor Bunyakovsky, Russian mathematician – Bunyakovsky conjecture
Johan Burgers Dutch businessman — Royal Burgers' Zoo
Jean Buridan, French philosopher – Buridan's ass
William Burke, Irish criminal – to burke (to execute someone by suffocation)
Robert Burns, Scottish poet – Burns stanza
Ambrose Burnside, American general – sideburns
Wilhelm Busch, German comics artist and illustrator – Wilhelm Busch Prize{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/b/busch.htm|title=Wilhelm Busch|website=lambiek.net}}
George W. Bush, American president – Bush Doctrine, Bushism
Lord Byron, British poet – Byronic; Byronism

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John Cadbury, British businessman – Cadbury
Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, French explorer – Cadillac
Julius Caesar, Roman consul and general – the month of July, Caesar cipher, the titles Czar, Tsar, and Kaiser, the Bloody Caesar cocktail. An urban legend also erroneously credits Julius Caesar as having given his name to the caesarean section; the two are likely unrelated, however.
Cain, Biblical character – Cain's mark
Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish physician – Cajal's cell
Calimero, Italian cartoon character – Calimero complex (used to denote people who are staunchly convinced that their position as an underdog is due to their smaller size, either literally or symbolically, which covers up for their own shortcomings). In some languages, like Italian and Israeli Hebrew the word "calimero" is also used to refer to biker helmets.Saverio Tomasella, Le Syndrome de Calimero, 2017, Albin Michel {{ISBN|9782226324870}}
John Calvin, Swiss theologian – Calvinism.
Calypso, Greek mythological character – calypso (plant), calypso music, calypso (camera).
Pierre Cambronne, French general – The French word "cambronniser" and the expression "le mot de Cambronne" ("The word of Cambronne"), which both refer to the vulgar expression "merde"!" ("shit!") he uttered during the Battle of Waterloo
Gaspare Campari, Italian businessman – Campari
Joseph A. Campbell, American businessman – Campbell Soup Company
Canaan (son of Ham), biblical character – Canaan
Myrtelle Canavan, American physician – Canavan's disease
Candaules, Lydian king – candaulism
Stanislao Cannizzaro (1826–1910), Italian chemist – Cannizzaro reaction
Georg Cantor, German mathematician – Cantor algebra, Cantor cube, Cantor function, Cantor space, Cantor's back-and-forth method, Cantor–Bernstein theorem, Heine–Cantor theorem
Joseph Capgras, French psychologist – Capgras delusion
Frank Capra, American film director – Capraesque
Caran d'Ache, French cartoonist – Caran d'Ache
Gerolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician and physician – cardan joint, Cardan grille, Cardano's Rings
Caesar Cardini, Italian-American restaurateur – Caesar salad
Jonathan Carey, American autistic child – Jonathan's Law
Carl Carl, Polish-born actor and theatre director – Carltheater{{cite wikisource|author=August Förster|title=Bernbrunn, Carl|wslink=ADB:Bernbrunn,_Carl|wslanguage=de}}
Infante Carlos, Count of Molina, Spanish king – Carlism
Carlota Joaquina of Spain, Portuguese queen – Carlotism, Teatro Nacional de São Carlos
Horatio Caro, British chess player – Caro–Kann Defence
Vittore Carpaccio, Italian painter – carpaccio
Philip Carteret, British explorer – Carteret Islands
Sam Carr, neighbour of American serial killer David Berkowitz also known as "Son of Sam" – Son of Sam law
Enrico Caruso, Italian opera tenor – Caruso Sauce
Giacomo Casanova, Italian adventurer and diarist – casanova (a womanizer)
Hendrik Casimir, Dutch physicist – Casimir effect
Cassandra, Greek mythological character – Cassandra
Laurent Cassegrain, French inventor – Cassegrain reflecting telescope
John Cassell, English publisher and businessman – his eponymous product 'Cazzoline' was the origin of the word 'gasoline'.
Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian astronomer and mathematician – Cassini Division, Cassini oval, Cassini's laws, Cassini and Catalan identities, Cassini's moon maiden (a pareidolia in Promontorium Heraclides near Sinus Iridum), Cassini's bright spot (a high-albedo craterlet with bright nimbus on the floor of the walled plain Deslandres on the moon)
Paul de Casteljau, French physicist and mathematician – De Casteljau's algorithm
Fidel Castro, Cuban president – Castroism
Catherine of Alexandria, Christian martyr – Catherine wheel.
Catherine I of Russia, Russian empress – Yekaterinburg, Catherine Palace, Catherine Park
Augustin-Louis Cauchy, French mathematician – List of things named after Augustin-Louis Cauchy
Eduard Čech, Czech mathematician – Čech cohomology, Čech complex, Čech homology, Stone–Čech compactification
Hugh Cecil, 1st Baron Quickswood, British politician – Hughligans
Celadon, French literary character – celadonGompertz, G.St.G.M., Chinese Celadon Wares, 1980 (2nd edn.), Faber & Faber, page 21. {{ISBN|0571180035}}
Anders Celsius, Swedish physicist and astronomer – degree Celsius (unit of temperature) Celsius (Moon crater)
Cerberus, Greek mythological character – Cerberus (protein), Cerberus (snake)
Ceredig, British Celtic chieftain – Cardigan
Clyde Cessna, American aviator and businessman – Cessna Aircraft.
Mr. Chadband, British literary character – Chadband{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SBlK4QrLmiIC&q=scrooge+eponym&pg=PT69|title=The Dord, the Diglot, and an Avocado or Two|isbn=978-1-4406-2309-7|last1=Garg|first1=Anu|date=30 October 2007|publisher=Penguin }}
Carlos Chagas, Brazilian physician – Chagas disease
Harry Chamberlin, American inventor — Chamberlin
Jacques-François de Chambray, French governor – Fort Chambray
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-American astronomer and physicist – Chandrasekhar limit, Chandra X-ray Observatory
Coco Chanel, French fashion designer – Chanel, Chanel No. 5
Chaos, Greek mythological character – chaos.
Charlie Chaplin, British comedian, film actor and director – Chaplinesque, Chaplin moustache.
Jean-Antoine Chaptal, French chemist – chaptalization
Jean-Martin Charcot, French neurologist – Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease; Maladie de Charcot, the French name for motor neurone disease
Charles I of England, English king – North Carolina and South Carolina
Charles III of Monaco, Monegasque king – Monte Carlo
Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor – places called Carlsbad, Karlstein Castle, Karlovy Vary, Charles University, Charles Bridge
Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor – château Karlova Koruna
Jacques Charles and Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French physicists – Law of Charles and Gay-Lussac (frequently called simply Charles' Law)
Carl Charlier, Swedish astronomer and physicist – Charlier polynomials
Bobby Charlton, British association football player – the "Bobby Charlton" comb over hairstyle.
Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, British queen – Queen Charlotte Islands, Queen Charlotte City, Queen Charlotte Sound, Fort Charlotte, Charlottesville, Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
Michel Chasles, French mathematician – Chasles' theorem
François-René de Chateaubriand, French writer – Chateaubriand steak
Nicolas Chauvin, French soldier – chauvinism
Hugo Chávez, Venezuelan president – Chavismo
Anton Chekhov, Russian playwright – Chekhov's gun
Vitaly Chekhover, Russian chess player – Sicilian Defence, Chekhover Variation
Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov, Russian physicist – Cherenkov effect
Louis Chevrolet, French businessman – Chevrolet
Chewbacca, film character – Chewbacca defense
Chimaera, Greek mythological character – Chimaera The term "chimaera" has come to describe any mythical or fictional animal with parts taken from various animals, or to describe anything composed of very disparate parts, or perceived as wildly imaginative, implausible, or dazzling.
Thomas Chippendale, British furniture designer – Chippendale furniture.
Ernst Chladni, German physicist – Chladni patterns
Jesus Christ, Biblical prophet – Christianity, Christmas, Christ complex (also known as Messianic complex), Christchurch, Jesuit Jesus' nickname "The Saviour" also inspired the name of El Salvador.
Agatha Christie, British novelist – Agatha Christie indult
James Christie, British auctioner – Christie's
Saint Christopher, Christian martyr – Saint Kitts and Nevis.
Walter Chrysler, American businessman – Chrysler, DaimlerChrysler, Chrysler Building
Alfred Chuang, Chinese-American computer scientist – The third letter of the company name BEA Systems, is taken from his first name.
Alonzo Church, American mathematician – Church–Turing thesis, Church–Turing–Deutsch principle
Charles Churchill, American-British businessman – Churchill Machine Tool Company
Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister – Churchill tank, Churchill cigars, Churchill (cocktail)
Cincinnatus, Roman politician – Cincinnati (indirectly)
Cinderella, European fairy tale character – Cinderella, Cinderella complex, Cinderella effect
André Citroën, French businessman – Citroën
Senator Claghorn, character on the Fred Allen radio show – Foghorn Leghorn
Claude of France, French queen – Reine Claude
Claudius, Roman emperor – the city of Kayseri, formerly Caesarea Mazaca, in Turkey.
Moses Cleaveland, American politician – Cleveland
Gaëtan Gatian de Clérambault, French psychologist – Kandinsky–Clérambault syndrome
Ruth Cleveland, daughter of American president Grover Cleveland – Baby Ruth candy bars.
Bill Clinton, American president – Clintonomics, Clintonism, Clintonian
Henri Coandă, Romanian inventor – Coandă effect
John Robert Cobb, American physician – Cobb angle
Richard Cobden, British politician – Cobdenism
Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, British politician and soldier – Cobhamite
John Cockerill, British businessman – Cockerill-Sambre
William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody, American frontiersman and entertainer – Cody, Wyoming
Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French politician – Colbertism, Colbert coat, sauce Colbert
William T. Coleman III, American businessman – the first letter of the company name BEA Systems, is taken from his first name.
Edgard Colle, Belgian chess player – Colle System
Samuel Colt, American gun inventor – Colt revolver.
Christopher Columbus, Italian explorer – Egg of Columbus; many places and territories, see Columbus, Colombia, Colombo, British Columbia in Canada
Arthur Compton, American physicist – Compton scattering
Nicolas de Condorcet, French mathematician and philosopher – Condorcet method
Confucius, Chinese philosopher – Confucianism
Constantine I, Roman Emperor – Constantinople
Nicolas-Jacques Conté, French inventor – Conté crayon
James Cook, British explorer – Cook Islands; Cooktown, Queensland; James Cook University (Townsville); Cook (suburb of Canberra; co-named for Sir Joseph Cook); Cooks River; Cook (Federal electorate); James Cook University Hospital (Marton, Middlesbrough, England); Aoraki / Mount Cook; Cook Strait
D. B. Cooper, American criminal – Cooper vane
Kenneth H. Cooper, American physician – Cooper test
Ralph Copeland, English astronomer - Copeland Septet
Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish astronomer – Copernican heliocentrism, Copernican Revolution, Copernican principle, copernicium
Godfrey Copley, British art collector – Copley Medal
Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis, French mathematician – Coriolis effect
Pierre Corneille, French playwright – Cornelian dilemma
Nicolas Cotoner, Maltese prince – Cottonera Lines
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist – coulomb, Coulomb's law
Thomas Cowling, British mathematician and astronomer – Cowling model
William Cowper, British anatomist – Cowper's gland
Michael Cowpland, British businessman – Corel (the first two letters were lifted from his first name), Mitel with Terry Matthews (Mitel stands MIke and TErry's Lawnmowers)
Richard Cox, British horticulturist – Cox's Orange Pippin
Bettino Craxi, Italian Prime Minister – Craxism
Seymour Cray, American computerengineer and inventor – Cray Research
Elliott Cresson, American businessman – Elliott Cresson Medal
Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt and Alfons Maria Jakob, German physicians – Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease
Burrill Bernard Crohn, American physician – Crohn's disease
Jim Crow, American theatrical character – Jim Crow law
Robinson Crusoe, British literary character – Robinsonade, Robinson Crusoe economy
Johan Cruyff, Dutch association football player – Cruijffiaans
Cunedda, Welsh king – Gwynedd
Cupid, Greek-Roman mythological character – Cupid's bow
Marie and Pierre Curie, French physicists – Curie, curium
Pierre Curie, French physicist – Curie point
Haskell Curry, American mathematician – currying, Curry's paradox, Curry–Howard correspondence
Robert E. Curtiss - Curtiss' cross (a clair-obscur effect on the moon's surface, created by low western sunlight shining on the Fra Mauro Zeta complex (Fra Mauro ζ complex), showing some sort of Maltese cross) Sky & Telescope, June 1958, page 414
Mary Curzon, Baroness Curzon of Kedleston, British noblewomen – Lady Curzon Soup{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1977/09/19/archives/de-gustibus-more-on-lady-curzons-turtle-soup.html|title=De Gustibus: More on Lady Curzon's Turtle Soup|first=Craig|last=Claiborne|newspaper=The New York Times|date=19 September 1977}}
Cush (Bible), biblical character – Kingdom of Kush
Harvey Cushing, American physician – Cushing's syndrome
Saint Cuthbert, Celtic priest ("church of Cuthbert") – Kirkcudbright
Saint Cyril, Greek missionary – Cyrillic alphabet

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Dactyl, Greek mythological character – dactyly, syndactyly, polydactyly.
Daedalus, Greek mythological character – Daedala
Adolf Daens, Belgian priest and politician – Daensism
Louis Daguerre, French photographer and inventor – Daguerreotype
Anders Dahl, Swedish botanist – Dahlia
Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz, German businesspeople – DaimlerBenz (later DaimlerChrysler)
Dalek, British TV character – Popular nickname for the Bridgewater Place, Dalekmania
Salvador Dalí, Spanish painter – Dalí moustache, Dalíesque
John Dalton, British physicist and chemist – dalton, non-SI unit of atomic mass, Daltonism
Tadd Dameron, American jazz musician – Tadd Dameron turnaround
Pedro Damiano, Portuguese chess player – Damiano Defence
Damocles, Greek mythological character – Sword of Damocles
Glenn Danzig – Danzig (band)
Daphne, Greek mythological character – Daphne, daphnia
Henry Darcy, French engineer – darcy, Darcy's law
Charles Darwin, British biologist – Darwinism, Neural Darwinism, Social Darwinism, Darwinian Happiness, Darwin's theory of evolution, Darwinian selection, Non-darwinian evolution, Darwinian medicine, Darwin, Northern Territory, Darwin Mounds, Charles Darwin University, Darwin College, Cambridge, Charles Darwin National Park, Darwin Awards, Darwin's finches, Darwin Island, another Darwin Island, Charles Darwin Research Station, Darwin Bay, Lecocarpus darwinii (a tree species), Charles Darwin Foundation, Darwin's Arch
Adi Dassler, German businessman – adidas
David, biblical character – Star of David, City of David, David's harp
Jean-Baptist David, Belgian activist – Davidsfonds
Arthur Davidson and William S. Harley, American businesspeople – Harley–Davidson
John Davis, British explorer – Davis quadrant
Humphry Davy, British chemist and inventor – Davy lamp
Richard Dawkins, British scientist and activist – Dawkinsia, Richard Dawkins Award
Gene Day, Canadian comics artist – Howard E. Day Prize
Deborah, biblical character – Deborah number (dimensionless number in rheology)
Paul de Casteljau, French mathematician – de Casteljau's algorithm
Daniel De Leon, American trade union leader – De Leonism
John DeLorean, American car inventor – DeLorean.
Michael Dell, American businessman – founder of Dell, the computer company
John and Peter Delmonico, Swiss-American restaurant holders – Delmonico steak
Demosthenes, Greek orator – Demosthenic{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K0zrsHO27-wC&q=eponym+trotskyism&pg=PA620|title=From Aristotelian to Reaganomics|isbn=978-0-313-27961-4|last1=Trahair|first1=R. C. S|year=1994|publisher=Bloomsbury Academic }}
Deng Xiaoping, Chinese head of state – Deng Xiaoping Theory
Arnaud Denjoy, French mathematician – Denjoy integral
Thomas Derrick (c. 1600), British hangman – Derrick (lifting device)
René Descartes, French philosopher – Cartesian coordinate system, Cartesianism
David Deutsch, Israeli-British physicist – Church–Turing–Deutsch principle
Melvil Dewey, American librarian – Dewey Decimal System
Thomas Dewey, American politician – Dewey, one of "Huey, Dewey and Louie", animated cartoon characters
Porfirio Díaz, Mexican dictator – Porfiriato
Charles Dickens, British novelist – Dickensian{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dujiiVP2KJIC&q=eponym+mae+west+jacket&pg=PA154|title=A New Dictionary of Eponyms|isbn=978-0-19-509354-4|last1=Freeman|first1=Morton S|date=18 December 1997}}
Saint Didacus, Spanish priest – San Diego
Bo Diddley, American blues/rock and roll singer and guitarist – Bo Diddley beat
Rudolf Diesel, German inventor – diesel engine
Milovan Đilas, Yugoslav politician Đilasism
Diogenes, Greek philosopher – Diogenes syndrome
Dionysus, Greek mythological character – Dionysia
Paul Dirac, French mathematician – Dirac fermion, Dirac spinor, Dirac equation, Dirac delta function, Dirac sea, Dirac Prize, Fermi–Dirac statistics
Johann Dirichlet, German mathematician – Dirichlet function, Dirichlet's theorem on arithmetic progressions
Walt Disney, American animator and film producer – The Walt Disney Company, Disneyland, Disneyfication, Disneyism
Edward Divers, British chemist – Divers's solution
François Divisia, French economist – divisia index
Jeremiah Dixon and Charles Mason, British astronomers – Mason–Dixon Line
Albert Döderlein, German physician – Döderlein's bacilli
John Francis Dodge and Horace Dodge, American businesspeople – Dodge
Dogberry, British theatrical character – dogberryism (synonym for malapropism)
Karl Gottfried Paul Döhle, German pathologist – Döhle bodies
Doily, British draper – doily
Ray Dolby, American inventor – Dolby Stereo, Dolby Surround and Dolby Pro Logic
Domhnall mac Raghnaill, Hebridean magnate – Clann Domhnaill
Don Juan, Spanish theatrical character – don juan (womanizer), Don Juanism
Don Quixote, Spanish literary character – Don Quixote character, Don Quixote complex, Quixotism
Donatello, Italian painter – Donatello, one of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic characters
Christian Doppler, Austrian physicist – Doppler radar, Doppler effect
Donald Wills Douglas, Sr., American aviator – Douglas Aircraft Company
Charles Dow and Edward Jones, American businesspeople – Dow Jones & Company
Herbert Dow, Canadian-American businessman – Dow Chemical Company
John Langdon Down, English physician – Down syndrome
Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle, American literary character – Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen[https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/25/business/25copeland.html?ref=obituaries Martin, Douglas. "Al Copeland, a Restaurateur Known for Spice and Speed, Dies at 64"]. The New York Times, 25 March 2008Hoffman, Ken, "Chicken Cordon Bleu est TACO tres magnifique", King Features Syndicate, published in The Gazette of Cedar Rapids-Iowa City, Iowa, 19 June 1998, p. 2, ("chain was named for Popeye Doyle, the cop in The French Connection") [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=CR&z=CRGB&p_theme=cr&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EAFE97540B025E0&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM Archived online at newsbank.com]. Retrieved 27 March 2008 and not the comic and cartoon character Popeye the Sailor.
Draco, Greek lawmaker – Draconian laws (very severe or cruel laws.{{Cite web|url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/draconian|title=Definition of DRACONIAN|website=www.merriam-webster.com|date=5 July 2023 }})
Henry Draper, American astronomer – Draper, lunar impact crater
John William Draper, English-American physician, chemist and photographer – Draper point{{cite journal

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Willem Drees, Dutch Prime Minister – "van drees trekken" (Dutch term for receiving an old age pension financed by the government.{{Cite web|url=https://www.historischnieuwsblad.nl/nl/artikel/26220/zo-kwam-de-aow-tot-stand.html|title=Zo kwam de AOW tot stand|website=Historisch Nieuwsblad|date=14 December 2009}}){{Cite web|url=http://www.npogeschiedenis.nl/speeches/nederlandsespeeches/wederopbouw-en-vernieuwing/Verdediging-in-Tweede-Kamer-door-premier-Drees-voor-wetsontwerp--Noodregeling-Ouderdomsvoorziening-.html|title = Home}}{{cite web |url=http://innl.nl/nl-NL/verhaal/14941/trekken-van-drees |title=Innl / Trekken van Drees |access-date=3 September 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160914105359/http://innl.nl/nl-NL/verhaal/14941/trekken-van-drees |archive-date=14 September 2016 }}
Fritz E. Dreifuss, American physician – Emery–Dreifuss muscular dystrophy
Dubgall mac Somairle, King of the Isles – Clann Dubgaill
Donald Duck, American cartoon character – Donald Duck voice, Donaldism
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Dulcinea, Spanish literary character – a dulcinea (synonym for mistress, sweetheart or an unrequited/platonic love.){{Cite web|url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dulcinea|title=Definition of DULCINEA|website=www.merriam-webster.com}}
John Saumarez Dumaresq, British naval officer - Dumaresq (a mechanical computer)
Dumbo, American cartoon character – Dumbo ears (derogatory term for big ears)
Robin Dunbar, British anthropologist – Dunbar's number
John Duns Scotus, Scottish theologist – Dunce cap
Guillaume Dupuytren, French physician – Dupuytren's contracture, Dupuytren's fracture
August Dvorak, American psychologist – Dvorak keyboard layout

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Jay Earley, American computer scientist – Earley parser
Echo, Greek mythological character – echo
Thomas Edison, American inventor – Edison and Swan Electric Light Company, Edison effect, Edison Gower-Bell Telephone Company of Europe, Ltd., Edison Hotel (Sunbury, Pennsylvania), Edison Illuminating Company, Edison Machine Works, Edison Manufacturing Company, Edison Ore-Milling Company, Edison Portland Cement Company, Edison Records, Edison screw, Edison Storage Battery Company, Edison Studios, Edison, Georgia, Edison, New Jersey, Edisonade, Edisonian approach, Edison–Lalande cell, Hotel Edison, Thomas A. Edison, Inc., Thomas Alva Edison silver dollar
Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (younger brother of King George IV and King William IV), commander of British forces in Halifax – Prince Edward Island
Edward VII, British king – Edwardian
Gustave Eiffel, French architect – Eiffel Tower
Egeria, Roman mythological character – Egeria (female advisor), Egeria (genus)
Albert Einstein, German mathematician and physicist – Einstein refrigerator, einsteinium, Bose–Einstein statistics, Bose–Einstein condensates, Einstein tensor
David Eisenhower, American presidential relative – Camp David
Dwight D. Eisenhower, American general and president – Eisenhower Doctrine, Eisenhower jacket
Will Eisner, American comics artist – Eisner Award
Biblical Elam, biblical character – Elam
Electra, Greek mythological character – Electra complex
Elizabeth I of England, English queen, nicknamed the "Virgin Queen" and "Wingina", a Native American regional king – Virginia, West Virginia, Elizabethan sonnet, Elizabethan era, Elizabethan theatre, Elizabethan architecture, Elizabethan government
Saint Elmo, Christian martyr – St. Elmo's fire
Arpad Elo, Hungarian chess player – Elo rating system
Loránd Eötvös, Hungarian physicist – eotvos, Lorándite, Eötvös effect, Eötvös number, Eötvös rule
Epicurus, Greek philosopher – epicureanism, Epikoros
Michael Anthony Epstein and Yvonne Barr, British physicians – Epstein–Barr virus
Eratosthenes, Greek mathematician – Sieve of Eratosthenes
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkish president – Erdoğanism
Lars Magnus Ericsson, Swedish businessman – Ericsson
Ériu, Irish mythological character – Éire
Agner Krarup Erlang, Danish mathematician – Erlang, Erlang distribution, Erlang (programming language)
Emil Erlenmeyer, German chemist – Erlenmeyer flask
Eros, Greek mythological character – eroticism, erotomania, erotophobia
Euclid, Greek mathematician – Euclidean geometry, Euclidean algorithm, Euclidean vector
Euhemerus, Greek writer – euhemerism
Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician – Euler's formula, Eulerian path, Euler equations; see also: List of topics named after Leonhard Euler
Europa, Greek mythological character – Europe
Bartolomeo Eustachi, Italian biologist – Eustachian tube
Eutyches, Greek religious leader – eutychian
William Davies Evans, Welsh-British chess player – Evans Gambit
George Everest, Welsh explorer – Mount Everest
Ewale a Mbedi, Cameroonian king – Duala people, Douala (from a variant of his name, Dwala)
Edward Eyre, British explorer – Lake Eyre, Eyre Peninsula, Eyre Highway, Eyre Creek, Mount Eyre, Eyre Mountains (New Zealand)
Abraham ibn Ezra, Jewish biblical commentator and philosopher – Abenezra (crater)

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Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus, Roman general – Fabian, Fabian Society, Fabianism, Fabian strategy
Johannes Fabry, German physician – Fabry disease
Carl Fabergé, Russian artist – Fabergé egg
Fagin, British literary character – fagin (criminal who trains young thieves)
Gabriel Fahrenheit, German physicist – the Fahrenheit scale
Ernst Falkbeer, Austrian chess player – Falkbeer Countergambit
Gabriele Falloppio, Italian physician – Fallopian tube
Falstaff, British theatrical character – Fallstaffian (being fat, jolly and debauched{{Cite web|url=https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/falstaffian|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161122153330/https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/falstaffian|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 November 2016|title=Falstaffian | Definition of Falstaffian by Lexico|website=Lexico Dictionaries | English}})
Guido Fanconi, Swiss physician – Fanconi syndrome, Fanconi anemia, Fanconi syndrome
Michael Faraday, British physicist – farad, faraday – cgs unit of current Faraday constant, Faraday effect, Faraday's law of induction, Faraday's law of electrolysis
Nigel Farage, British politician – Faragism
Fatima, daughter of the Islamic prophet Muhammad – Fatimid
Fauna, Roman mythological character – fauna
Faust, German folklore character – Faustian, Faustian deal (a situation in which an ambitious person surrenders moral integrity to achieve power and success for a delimited term{{Cite EB1911 |last=Phillips |first=Walter Alison |authorlink=Walter Alison Phillips |wstitle=Faust }}Faustian – pertaining to or resembling or befitting Faust or Faustus especially in insatiably striving for worldly knowledge and power even at the price of spiritual values; "a Faustian pact with the Devil". http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Faustian)
Guy Fawkes, British criminal – guy
Februus, Etruskian-Roman mythological character – February
Federico Fellini, Italian film director – Fellinesque, Fellinian{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/f/fellini_federico.htm|title=Federico Fellini|website=lambiek.net}}
Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician – Fermat's Last Theorem, Fermat's little theorem, Fermat's principle, Fermat's factorization method
Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist – fermions, Fermi energy, Fermilab, Fermi paradox, fermium – chemical element, Fermi–Dirac statistics fermi (obsolete name for femtometre)
Enzo Ferrari, Italian businessman – Ferrari
George Washington Gale Ferris Jr., American inventor – Ferris wheel
Richard Feynman, American physicist – Feynman diagram
Fiacre, Irish missionary – Fiacre
Fib of the Picts, one of the seven sons of Cruthin – Fife
Leonardo Fibonacci, Italian mathematician – Fibonacci Numbers
Figaro, French theatrical character – figaro (a hairdresser and/or a cunning servant), figaro chain, Figaro
Bill Finger, American comics writer – Bill Finger Award
Bobby Fischer, American chess player – Fischer Defense
Horace Fletcher, American diet guru – Fletcher technique, Fletcherizing (masticate repeatedly before swallowing nutrition)
Matthew Flinders, British explorer – Flinders Bay, Flinders Chase National Park, Flinders Island, Flinders Park, South Australia, Flinders Ranges, Flinders River, Flinders Street railway station, Flinders University, Flinders, Victoria (Australia), Flinders bar, Flindersia
Flora, Roman mythological character – flora, flower
Pietro Paolo Floriani, Italian architect – Floriana, Floriana Lines
Vladimir Fock, Russian physicist – Fock space, Fock state, Hartree-Fock method
Marie Angélique de Scorailles, Duchess of Fontanges, French courtesan – fontange (a type of haircut)
B.C. Forbes, Scottish-American journalist – Forbes magazine
Henry Ford, American businessman – Ford Motor Company
Matthias N. Forney, American inventor – Forney locomotive
William Forsyth, Scottish botanist – Forsythia
Charles Fort, American writer – Forteana, Fortean Society, Fortean Times
Pim Fortuyn, Dutch politician – Fortuynism
Dick Fosbury, American athlete – Fosbury flop
Charles Fourier, French philosopher – Fourierism
Charles James Fox, British politician – Foxite
William Fox, American film producer – 20th Century Fox
Francis of Assisi, Italian religious founder – San Francisco.
Francisco Franco, Spanish general and president – Francoism
Frankenstein's Monster, British literary character – Frankenstein (a monstrous creation that ruins its creator{{Cite web|url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Frankenstein|title=Definition of FRANKENSTEIN|website=www.merriam-webster.com|date=10 July 2023 }}), Frankensteinian, frankenfood, Frankenstrat
Benjamin Franklin, American inventor – Franklin stove, franklin, Ben Franklin effect.
Franz Joseph I of Austria, Austrian-Hungarian emperor – Franz Josef Land
Célestin Freinet, French pedagogue – Freinet education, Freinet classification
Henry Flagg French, American agriculturalist - French drain
Augustin Fresnel, French engineer, physicist and inventor – Fresnel lens
Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychologist – Freudian, Freudian slip, Freudian psychology, Freudo-Marxism, Neo-Freudianism
Robert Fripp, English musician – Frippertronics
Friedrich Fröbel, German pedagogue – Froebel gifts, Fröbel school
Fu Manchu, British literary character – Fu Manchu moustache
Guido Fubini, Italian mathematician – Fubini's theorem
Leonhart Fuchs, German botanist – Fuchsia
Alberto Fujimori, Peruvian president – Fujimorism
Tetsuya "Ted" Fujita, Japanese meteorologist – Fujita scale
J. William Fulbright, American politician – Fulbright scholarship
Buckminster Fuller, American inventor – Fullerene

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Gabriel, Biblical character – Gabriel's Horn.
Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist and geologist – gadolinite, the mineral after which the chemical element gadolinium has been named.
Matilda Joslyn Gage, American activist – Matilda effect{{cite journal|last1=Rossiter|first1=Margaret W.|title=The Matthew Matilda Effect in Science|journal=Social Studies of Science|date=1993|volume=23|issue=2|pages=325–341|jstor=285482|issn=0306-3127|doi=10.1177/030631293023002004|s2cid=145225097}}
Thomas Gage, British botanist – greengage
Gaget, French businessman – Gaget, Gauthier & Cie, gadget
Hugh Gaitskell, British politician – Gaitskellism
Uziel Gal, Israeli inventor – the Uzi submachine gun
Galen, Greek physician – galenical.
Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer – galileo or gal, unit of acceleration.
Israel Galili, Israeli politician – the IMI Galil assault rifle
Rory Gallagher, Irish pop musician – Gallagher shirt.
George Gallup, American businessman – Gallup poll
Luigi Galvani, Italian physician – galvanization
James Gamble and William Procter – Procter & Gamble
Sarah Gamp, British literary character – gamp
Mahatma Gandhi, Indian activist – Gandhism, Gandhian socialism, Gandhian economics, Gandhi cap
Henry Laurence Gantt, American engineer – Gantt chart
John Garand, Canadian-American inventor – M1 Garand rifle
Alexander Garden, Scottish botanist – after whom the gardenia was named.
Gargantua, French literary character – "gargantuan" (colossal, gigantic{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YZ8Pza5f0-QC&q=gargantua+eponym&pg=PA156 |title = Storied Words: The Writer's Vocabulary and Its Origins|isbn = 978-0-595-31376-1|last1 = Jeske|first1 = Jeff|date = March 2004| publisher=iUniverse }}), Gargantua (solitaire)
Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian politician – Garibaldi biscuits, Italian aircraft carrier Giuseppe Garibaldi, Garibaldi shirt, Garibaldi (fish)
Gideon Gartner, American businessman – Gartner
Hermann Treschow Gartner, Danish surgeon and anatomist – Gartner's duct
Marcus Garvey, Jamaican activist – Garveyism
Martin Garzez, Maltese knight – Garzes Tower
Béla Gáspár, Hungarian chemist - Gasparcolor
Richard J. Gatling, American inventor – Gatling gun
Charles de Gaulle, French general and president – Charles de Gaulle Airport, Gaullism
Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician – gauss – unit of magnetic induction, Gauss's law; see also: List of topics named after Carl Friedrich Gauss
Enola Gay Tibbets, mother of Paul Tibbets, American pilot – Enola Gay
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac and Jacques Charles, French physicists and chemists – Law of Charles and Gay-Lussac
Lou Gehrig, American baseball player – Lou Gehrig's disease
Hans Geiger, German inventor – Geiger counter, Geiger–Müller tube
Genius, Greek mythological character – genius, genie
Gentius, Illyrian king – gentian
George I, English king – Georgia (U.S. state)
George V, British king – King George Street, King George Street, King George V Dock
George VI, British king – George Cross, George Medal
Henry George, American political economist – Georgism
Saint George, Christian saint – Order of Saint George, Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Saint George's Cross, Georgia, Saint George's, Grenada, and numerous other localities, churches and cathedrals
Adrien de Gerlache, Belgian naval officer and explorer – Gerlachea, Pic de Gerlache, Mount Gerlache, Gerlache Strait, Gerlache Inlet, De Gerlache Seamounts, Gerlache Island, de Gerlache, Cape Gerlache.
Sophie Germain, French mathematician – Sophie Germain prime
Samuel German, English-American chocolate maker - German chocolate cake
Hugo Gernsback, Luxembourgian-American publisher, inventor and writer – Hugo Award .{{cite web|url=http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Hugo.html |title=Hugo Awards |work=The Locus Index to SF Awards: About the Awards |publisher=Locus Publications |access-date=24 March 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100103034223/http://locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Hugo.html |archive-date=3 January 2010 }}{{cite web|title=Minutes of the Business Meeting 1991 |url=http://www.timill.co.uk/smofs/w1991.htm |publisher=World Science Fiction Society |access-date=24 March 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110507072847/http://www.timill.co.uk/smofs/w1991.htm |archive-date= 7 May 2011 |url-status=dead }} Preliminary Session No. 1, Item E.2; Main Session No. 1, Item F.3 ( 30/31 August 1991)
Elbridge Gerry, American politician – gerrymandering
Domingo Ghirardelli, American businessman – Ghirardelli Chocolate Company
Gianduja, Italian theatrical character – Gianduja chocolate spread.
Josiah Willard Gibbs, American chemist, mathematician and physicist – Gibbs free energy, Gibbs phenomenon
Gideon, Biblical character – a "gideon".
The Gigantes, Greek mythological characters – giant, gigantic
Leonardo Gigli, Italian obstetrician – Gigli saw
Saint Gilbert, English saint – Gilbertine
Augustin Nicolas Gilbert, French physician – Gilbert's syndrome
Thomas Gilbert, British sea captain – Kiribati.
William S. Gilbert, British playwright – Gilbertian.
Lillian Gilbreth, American Motion Studies expert – Therblig unit of movement (surname backwards more or less)
King Camp Gillette, American inventor and businessman – Gillette
Terry Gilliam, American animator and film director – Gilliamesque.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/g/gilliam_tery.htm|title=Terry Gilliam|website=lambiek.net}}
Charles William Gilpin, American businessman – Gilpin Airlines
William Gladstone, British Prime Minister – Gladstone bag, Gladstonian liberalism
John Glas, Scottish religious leader – Glasite
Johann Rudolf Glauber, German-Dutch chemist – Glauber's salt
Gaston Glock, Austrian businessman and inventor – Glock and the Glock pistol
Jehan Gobelin, French tapestry weaver – gobelin
Kurt Gödel, Austrian-American mathematician – Gödel's incompleteness theorem, Gödel's ontological proof
Godred Crovan, King of Dublin and the Isles – Crovan dynasty
Mike Godwin, American writer – Godwin's law
Godzilla, Japanese film monster – Godzilla roar (a soundbite which originated in the movies, but has become a recognizable stock sound effect on its own)
Lamme Goedzak, Belgian literary character – "lamme goedzak" (Dutch expression to describe a "good, loveable, but naïve person, prone to being taken advantage of."{{Cite web|url=http://www.vlaamswoordenboek.be/definities/term/lamme+goedzak|title=Het Vlaams woordenboek » lamme goedzak|website=www.vlaamswoordenboek.be}} The term is also used for obese, jolly people who enjoying eating and drinking.)
Maria Goeppert-Mayer, Polish physicist – Goeppert-Mayer (GM) unit for the cross section of two-photon absorption
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet, playwright, writer and scientist – Goethian, Goethite
Marcel J.E. Golay, Swiss mathematician – Binary Golay code, Savitzky–Golay filter
Rube Goldberg, American comics artist and cartoonist – Reuben Award, Rube Goldberg machine.
Goldilocks, British fairy tale character – Goldilocks principle.
Samuel Goldwyn, American film producer – Goldwyn Picture Corporation, later merged into Metro–Goldwyn–Mayer Inc. (or MGM), Goldwynism
Goliath, Biblical character – "goliath", Goliath frog, Goliath birdeater, Goliath shrew
Golliwog, American literary character – golliwog, golliwog doll.
Franciscus Gomarus, Dutch theologist – gomarism.
Luis de Góngora y Argote, Spanish poet – Gongorism
Goofy, American cartoon character – Goofy holler
Gordias, Greek mythological king – Gordian knot
Alexander Gordon, Scottish nobleman – Gordon setter
Wilbert Gore, American businessman – Gore-Tex
The Gorgons, Greek mythological characters – gorgonopsia, gorgonacea, gorgoneion
Johannes Goropius Becanus, Dutch philosopher and physician – goropism
Klement Gottwald, Czechoslovak politician – Zlín, a city in Moravia, the Czech Republic, was renamed Gottwaldov during 1949–1990.
Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician – Graafian follicle
Thomas Gradgrind, British literary character – gradgrind
Ernst Gräfenberg, German physician – Gräfenberg spot (G-spot)
Sylvester Graham, American inventor – Graham crackers, Graham flour, Graham bread
Thomas Graham, Scottish chemist – Graham's law
James Granger, British writer – grangerise
Marcel Grateau, French hairdresser – Marcelling, a Marcel haircut.
Robert James Graves, Irish surgeon – Graves–Basedow disease
Louis Harold Gray, British physicist – gray, unit of absorbed dose of radiation
Gregory I, Italian pope – Gregorian music
Gregory XIII, Italian pope – Gregorian calendar
Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple, British politician – Grenvillite
Thomas Gresham, English merchant – Gresham's law
Victor Grignard (1871–1935), French chemist – Grignard reagent and Grignard reaction
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, German folklorists, storytellers and linguist – Grimm's law, Grimmification
Henri Grob, Swiss chess player – Grob's Attack
Homer Groening, father of Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons – Homer Simpson, character in The Simpsons animated TV series
Franz von Paula Gruithuisen, Bavarian physician and astronomer - Gruithuisen's lunar city (a clair-obscur/ trompe l'oeil effect on the moon's surface, north of crater Schröter, created by partially sunlit formations which have a somewhat artificial look).
Ernst Grünfeld, Austrian chess player – Grünfeld Defence
Vicente Guerrero, Mexican general – Guerrero
Ché Guevara, Argentine revolutionary leader – Guevarism
Guido of Arezzo, Italian musicologist – Guidonian hand, GUIDO music notation.
Georges Guillain, French physician – Guillain–Barré syndrome
Dr. Joseph Ignace Guillotin, French inventor – guillotine
Henry C. Gunning, Canadian geologist – gunningite
Robert John Lechmere Guppy, British biologist – guppy or guppie
Louis Guttman, American psychologist and mathematician – Guttman scale

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Fritz Haber, German chemist – Haber process{{cite journal |last1=Smil |first1=Vaclav |year=1999 |title=Detonator of the population explosion |url=http://www.vaclavsmil.com/wp-content/uploads/docs/smil-article-1999-nature7.pdf |journal=Nature |volume=400 |issue= 6743|page=415 |doi=10.1038/22672|bibcode=1999Natur.400..415S |s2cid=4301828 }}
Hadrian, Roman emperor – Hadrian's Wall and Hadrian's Wall Path
Amber Hagerman, American kidnapping and murder victim – AMBER Alert
Otto Hahn, German physicist – hahnium, chemical element. This element name is not accepted by IUPAC (See element naming controversy)
Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, Austrian mineralogist - Haidinger's brush
Edwin Hall, American physicist – Hall effect
Monty Hall, Canadian TV presenter – Monty Hall problem
Edmond Halley, British astronomer – Halley's Comet
Hugh Halligan, American police officer – Halligan bar
Haman, Biblical figure – Hamantash
Alexander Hamilton, American politician – Hamiltonianism
Laurens Hammond, American inventor – Hammond organ
Hamo, a 6th-century Saxon settler and landowner – Hampshire
John Hancock, American politician– Since he signed the American Declaration of Independence his name became an eponym for "signature" in the U.S.A.
Elliot Handler and Harold "Matt" Matson, American businesspeople – Mattel
William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, American animators – Hanna-Barbera
Gerhard Armauer Hansen, Norwegian physician – Hansen's disease
Joseph Aloysius Hansom, British inventor – Hansom cab
William S. Harley and Arthur Davidson, American businesspeople – Harley-Davidson
Fletcher Harper, American publisher – Harper's Weekly
Rodney Harrington, British literary and TV character – Harrington jacket{{cite web |url=http://www.baracuta-g9.com/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050501210712/http://www.baracuta-g9.com/ |archive-date=1 May 2005 |title=Baracuta G9}}
David Harris (protester) – David's Album
Charles Henry Harrod, British businessman – Harrods
Alexis Hartmann, American paediatrician – Hartmann's solution
Douglas Hartree, British mathematician – Hartree energy, Hartree equation, Hartree–Fock method
Gerry Harvey and Ian Norman, Australian businesspeople – Harvey Norman
Hashimoto Hakaru, Japanese physician – Hashimoto's thyroiditis
Hassan-i-Sabah Persian religious leader – Hashshashin, assassin from hassansin (this etymology is disputed)
Victor Hasselblad, Swedish photographer – Hasselblad, medium format photographic camera system
Hawaii-loa, Polynesian chief who first led settlers to Hawaii – Hawaii
Stephen Hawking, British astronomer and mathematician – Hawking radiation
Paul Hawkins, British mathematician – Hawk-Eye tracking system used in cricket and other sports.
Sadie Hawkins, American comics character – Sadie Hawkins dance, Sadie Hawkins Day
Howard Hawks, American film director – Hawksian woman.
Frank Hawthorne, Canadian mineralogist – Frankhawthorneite
Haxtur, Spanish comics character – Haxtur Award
Friedrich Hayek, Austrian economist – Hayekian economics
Leonard Hayflick, American anatomist – Hayflick limit
Will H. Hays, American film censor – Hays Code
Oliver Heaviside, British physicist, and Arthur Edwin Kennelly, American physicist– Kennelly–Heaviside layer
Henry Heimlich, American physician – Heimlich Maneuver
Gerard Adriaan Heineken, Dutch beer brewer – Heineken
Jimi Hendrix, American rock singer and guitarist – Hendrix riff
John Henry, American folkloric character – John Henryism
Joseph Henry, American physicist – henry, unit of inductance
William Henry, British chemist – Henry's law
James Curtis Hepburn, American translator – Hepburn romanization
Herblock, American newspaper cartoonist – Herblock Prize
Hercules, Greek mythological character – Herculean task
Hergé, Belgian comics artist – "Hergéan" (comics in Hergé's graphic style, usually meaning the ligne claire)
Milton S. Hershey, American businessman – Hershey Company
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, German physicist – hertz, unit of frequency
Ejnar Hertzsprung, Danish astronomer, and Henry Norris Russell, American astronomer – Hertzsprung–Russell diagram
Theodor Herzl, Austro-Hungarian journalist and writer – Mount Herzl
William Hewlett and David Packard, American businessmen – Hewlett-Packard
Edward C. Heyde, American physician – Heyde's syndrome
Miguel Hidalgo, Mexican priest and military leader – Hidalgo (state), Ciudad Hidalgo (Michoacán), Ciudad Hidalgo (Chiapas), Hidalgo (Texas).
David Hilbert, German mathematician and physicist – Hilbert's program
Paul von Hindenburg, German general and politician – Hindenburg airship
Eugen von Hippel, German physician, and Arvid Lindau, Swedish physician – Von Hippel–Lindau disease
Hippocrates, Greek physician – Hippocratic Oath
Harald Hirschsprung, Danish physician – Hirschsprung's disease
Alfred Hitchcock, British film director – Hitchcockian suspense, Hitchcock cameos (often used to refer to any cameo by a creator in his own work)
Adolf Hitler, Austrian-German dictator – Hitlerite, Hitler salute, Hitler moustache, Hitlerjugend, Hitlerism, Anophthalmus hitleri beetle
Thomas Hobbes, 17th century philosopher – Hobbes from "Calvin and Hobbes" comic strip
Thomas Hobson, British stable manager and carrier– Hobson's choice
Thomas Hodgkin, British physician – Hodgkin's disease, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
William Hogarth, British painter, illustrator and cartoonist – Hogarthian{{Cite web|url=https://www.history.org/foundation/journal/Winter14_Treesaver/cartoon.cfm|title=Ingenious and Inimitable, Artist William Hogarth Chided Authority, Ridiculed Pomposity, Mocked Religion, Pointed Out Misbehavior, and Invented the Satirical Comic Strip : The Colonial Williamsburg Journal|website=www.history.org}}
Sherlock Holmes, British literary character – a "sherlock" (anyone who solves a mystery or a difficult problem. Sometimes also used in a sarcastic context, when something obvious has been pointed out.),{{Cite web|url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sherlock|title=Definition of SHERLOCK|website=www.merriam-webster.com}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.thefreedictionary.com/sherlock|title=sherlock|via=The Free Dictionary}} Sherlockian game, a Sherlock Holmes hat (nickname for a deerstalker)
Soichiro Honda, Japanese businessman – Honda
Mark Honeywell, American businessman – Honeywell
Robin Hood, English folk hero – Robin Hood effect, Robin Hood Foundation, Robin Hood Flour, Robin Hood Hills, Robin Hood hat, Robin Hood index, Robin Hood Gardens, Robin Hood plan, Robin Hood tax, Robin Hood test, Robin Hood character (someone who steals money to give it to the poor or a criminal who becomes a folk hero), Robin of the Batman series
Robert Hooke, British physicist – Hooke's law
William Henry Hoover, American business man – The Hoover Company; in British English, the verb "hoover" means "to vacuum a floor" while the noun is the vacuum cleaner. The word "hoover" has also come to mean anything that is sucked up at a great rate ("They hoovered their way through the banquet")
August Horch, German businessman – Horch and Audi carmakers (audi is Latin for I listen; horch has the same meaning in old German)
Leslie Hore-Belisha, British politician – Belisha beacon
James Horlick and William Horlick, British-American business people – Horlicks
Shemp Howard, American actor and comedian – Fake Shemp
William Howe, American architect and engineer – Howe truss bridges
Enver Hoxha, Albanian president – Hoxhaism
Hroc, an ancient landowner ("Hroc's fortress" + shire) – Roxburghshire
Edwin Hubble, American astronomer – Hubble Space Telescope
Henry Hudson, British explorer – Hudson Bay, Hudson River, Hudson Strait
Howard Hughes, American aviator and businessman – Hughes Aircraft company, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Hughes Airwest airlines, Hughes Glomar Explorer ship
Howard R. Hughes Sr., American businessman – Hughes Tool Company, Baker Hughes company
Alexander von Humboldt, German explorer – Humboldt Bay, Humboldt Current, Humboldt Falls, Humboldt Glacier, Humboldt lily, Humboldt Peak, Humboldt penguin, Humboldt Range, Humboldt River, Humboldt Sink, Humboldt squid, Pico Humboldt, Humboldt University of Berlin, Humboldt State University, Humboldtian science, Humboldt's hog-nosed skunk
Gustáv Husák, Czechoslovakian president – Husakism, Husák's Children
John Huss ({{langx|cs|Jan Hus}}), Czech priest – Hussites, Czechoslovak Hussite Church
Hypnos, Greek mythological character – hypnosis.James H. Mantinband. Concise Dictionary of Greek Literature. New York: Philosophical Library, 1962.

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Icarus, Greek mythological character – Icarus paradox
Ignatz Mouse – American comics character – Ignatz Award
Max Immelmann, German aviator – Immelmann turn, Immelmann loop
Éleuthère Irénée du Pont, French-American businessman – DuPont
Iris, Greek mythological character – Iris (anatomy)
Otto Isakower, Austrian-American psychiatrist - Isakower phenomenon
Italus, Roman/Greek mythological character – Italy.
Iustitia, Roman mythological character – justice.{{cite web|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/iustitia_(Enciclopedia-dell'-Arte-Antica)/|title=IUSTITIA|work=treccani.it}}

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Andrew Jackson, American president – Jacksonian democracy
Jacob (also known as Israel), Biblical character – Israel, Jacob's ladder (electricity), Jacob's ladder (knife), Jacob's ladder (manifold), Jacob's ladder (nautical), Jacob's Ladder (ropes course), Jacob's ladder (toy), Jacob's Ladder (piercing)
Joseph Marie Jacquard, French inventor – Jacquard loom
Candido Jacuzzi, Italian inventor – jacuzzi
Gustav Jäger, German naturalist – Jaeger
Maharajah Jai Singh, Indian maharajah – Jaipur
Alfons Maria Jakob and Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt, German physicians – Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease
Saint James, Christian martyr – Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Chile, Jacobin, in several languages (like French, German and Dutch) the word scallop is referred to as a "mussel/clam/shell/cockle of St. James".
Thomas James, British-Welsh explorer – James Bay
James, Duke of York, English king – New York City, New York State
Calamity Jane, nickname of Martha Jane Canary, American frontierswoman and professional scout – Calamity James
Cornelius Jansen, Flemish-Dutch theologian – Jansenism
Karl Jansky, American astronomer – jansky, unit of flux density.
Janus, Roman mythological character – January
Robert Jarvik, American inventor – Jarvik artificial heart
Javan, biblical character – Ionians
Thomas Jefferson, American president – Jeffersonian, relating to Thomas Jefferson; more specifically, Jeffersonian architecture, Jeffersonian democracy; also, Jefferson Bible
Jehovah, Biblical Deity – Jehovah's Witnesses
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, British literary character – a "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" personality is used to describe a split personality{{Cite web|url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Jekyll+and+Hyde|title=Definition of JEKYLL AND HYDE|website=www.merriam-webster.com|date=2 March 2024 }}
Georges Jenny, French musician, poet, and electronic instrument builder — Jenny Ondioline
Jeremiah, Biblical prophet – jeremiad
Jeroboam, Israelian king – Jeroboam wine bottle
Jessica Lunsford, American rape and murder victim – Jessica's Law
Jiggs, American comics character – Jiggs dinner
John of Austria, Austrian field marshal – Johannite
John the Baptist, Biblical character – Order of Saint John, San Ġwann
Tommy John, American baseball player – Tommy John surgery
Jonah, Biblical character – Turkish yunus baligi (Jonas fish) for dolphins; Jonah, a sailor who brings bad luck
The Joneses, American comics characters from Arthur R. "Pop" Momand's comic strip Keeping up with the Joneses – The idiom keeping up with the Joneses.
Barry Jones, Australian activist and politician – Barry Jones Bay, Yalkaparidon jonesi.
Edward Jones and Charles Dow, American businesspeople – Dow Jones & Company
Joseph II, Austrian-Hungarian emperor – Josephinism
Brian David Josephson, Welsh physicist – Josephson junction, Josephson effect
James Prescott Joule, British physicist – joule
Judah, Biblical character (Hebrew: יהודה, Yehuda) – Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv F.C., Kingdom of Judah
Judas Iscariot, Biblical character – Judas
Julian the Hospitaller, Christian martyr – St. Julian's, St. Julian's Tower, various locations named "San Julián"
Julius of Caerleon, Christian martyr – St Julians, Newport
Juno, Roman mythological character – June
Jupiter, Roman mythological character – jovial, jovian, Jovian system
Justinian I, Byzantine king – Codex Justinianeus

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János Kádár, Hungarian president – Kadarism
Franz Kafka, Czech-German author – Kafkaesque
Meir Kahane, American-Israeli activist – Kahanism
Mikhail Kalashnikov, Russian gun inventor – the Avtomat Kalashnikova series of weapons, including the AK-47, the Kalashnikov Handheld Machine Gun or Ruchnoi Pulemet Kalashnikova obraztsa 1974 g (RPK-74)
Ingvar Kamprad, Swedish businessman – the first two letters of IKEA
Victor Kandinsky, Russian physician – Kandinsky–Clérambault syndrome
Gaetano Kanizsa, Italian psychologist – Kanizsa triangle
Megan Kanka, American rape and murder victim – Megan's Law
Moritz Kaposi, Hungarian dermatologist – Kaposi's sarcoma
D. R. Kaprekar, Indian mathematician – Kaprekar constant, Kaprekar number
Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer – Kapteyn's Star
Anna Karenina, Russian literary character – Anna Karenina principle
Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian mathematician – Kármán line, von Kármán constant, von Kármán ogive, Kármán vortex street
Tadao Kashio, Japanese businessman – Casio
Yevgeny Kaspersky, Russian computer scientist and businessman – Kaspersky Lab, Kaspersky Anti-Virus
Túpac Katari, Bolivian resistance leader – Katarismo
Shozo Kawasaki, Japanese businessman – Kawasaki Heavy Industries
Tomisaku Kawasaki, Japanese physician – Kawasaki disease
Ryan Keenan, Amy Barger, Lennox Cowie, astronomers - KBC Void (Keenan-Barger-Cowie Void, an immense empty region of space)
Grace Kelly, American actress – Kelly bag
Lord Kelvin, Irish-British physicist – kelvin (unit of thermodynamic temperature)
John F. Kennedy, American president – John F. Kennedy International Airport, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Kennedy Center Honors, John F. Kennedy University, Kennedy Doctrine
Arthur E. Kennelly, American physicist, and Oliver Heaviside, British physicist – Kennelly–Heaviside layer
Johannes Kepler, German astronomer – Kepler's laws of planetary motion, Kepler conjecture
Paul Keres, Estonian chess player – Keres Defence
H. F. A. Kern, Dutch observer of sky phenomena - Kern arc (a very rare halo phenomenon, probably the complete annular appearance of the Circumzenithal arc)
Brian Kernighan, Canadian computer scientist – the third letter of the name AWK, a computer pattern/action language, is taken from his last name.
John Kerr, Scottish physicist – Kerr effect
John Maynard Keynes, British economist – Keynesian economics
Nikita Khrushchev, Russian head of state – Khrushchevism, Khrushchev dough, Khrushchyovka
Wilhelm Killing, German mathematician – Killing vector field
Petrus Jacobus Kipp, Dutch chemist – Kipp apparatus
Jack Kirby, American comics artist – Kirby dots{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/k/kirby.htm|title=Jack Kirby|website=lambiek.net}}
Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist – Kirchhoff's Laws
Néstor Kirchner, Argentine president – Kirchnerism
Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, British general – Kitchener bun
Lawrence Klein, American curator – Klein Award
Sebastian Kneipp, German priest – Kneipp cure.
Diedrich Knickerbocker, American literary character – knickerbockers{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Diedrich-Knickerbocker|title=Diedrich Knickerbocker | fictional character|website=Encyclopedia Britannica}}
Donald Knuth, American computer scientist – Knuth–Morris–Pratt algorithm
Ed Koch, American politician – Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge
Helge von Koch, Swedish mathematician – Koch snowflake.
Robert Koch, German physician – Koch's postulates
Ludwig Ritter von Köchel, Austrian musicologist – Köchel catalogue, K-numbers.
Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer – Kodály method
Simon bar Kokhba, Jewish resistance leader – Bar Kokhba game (Hungarian game){{cite web |url=http://hhrf.org/szabadsag/archivum/2002/12/2dec-23.htm |title=2dec-23.HTM |website=hhrf.org |access-date=12 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040129125743/http://hhrf.org/szabadsag/archivum/2002/12/2dec-23.htm |archive-date=29 January 2004 |url-status=dead}}
Alexander Konstantinopolsky, Ukrainian-Russian chess player – Konstantinopolsky Opening
Abraham Isaac Kook, Russian rabbi – Mossad Harav Kook
Wladimir Köppen, Russian-German meteorologist – Köppen climate classification
Kazimierz Kordylewski, Polish astronomer - Kordylewski cloud
Sergei Korsakoff, Russian psychologist – Korsakoff's syndrome
Aharon Kotler, Belarusian rabbi – Ramat Aharon
Alfried Krupp, German businessman – Krupp, now ThyssenKrupp
Gerard Kuiper, Dutch astronomer – Kuiper belt
August Kundt, German physicist – Kundt's tube
Harvey Kurtzman, American comics artist – Harvey Award
Kyi, Kyivan legendary founder – Kyiv

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