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List of eponyms (L-Z)
An eponym is a person (real or fictitious) whose name has become identified with a particular object or activity.
Here is a list of eponyms:
A - K - L - M - N - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - X - Z
L
- Ferruccio Lamborghini – founder, Lamborghini
- Paul Langerhans – Islets of Langerhans
- Lev Davidovich Landau – Landau pole, Landau damping
- Chris Langton – Langton's ant
- Ernest Lawrence – Lawrencium, chemical element
- Alfredo di Lelio – Alfredo sauce
- John Lennard-Jones – Lennard-Jones potential
- Jules Léotard - leotard
- Leudonus – Lothian
- Abraham Lincoln – Lincoln Records; ships USS Abraham Lincoln (SSBN-602), USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72); Lincoln is a slang term for the United States five dollar bill
- Charles Lindbergh, pilot – Lindbergh Law anti-kidnapping law
- Lisa, sister of Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons – Lisa Simpson, character in The Simpsons animated TV series
- Ignacio de la Llave – Veracruz-Llave
- Fritz London – London force
- Huey Pierce Long, American politician – Huey, one of "Huey, Dewey and Louie", animated cartoon characters
- Ruy López de Segura, Spanish monk – Ruy Lopez opening in chess
- John De Lorean – De Lorean
- Hendrik Lorentz – Lorentz force, Lorentz transformation
- Lothar – Lorraine
- King Louis XIV of France – Louisiana
- Princess Louise Caroline Alberta, fourth daughter of Queen Victoria – Alberta
- Hubert von Luschka – foramina of Luschka (outlets for cerebrospinal fluid in the brain); Luschka's crypts ; Luschka's joints
- Saint Lucy of Syracuse – Saint Lucia
- Martin Luther – the Lutheran Christian denomination
- Alois Lutz – Lutz, Figure skating jump
- Charles Lynch – lynching, lynch law
M
- Gaius Maecenas, a Roman patron of literature and the arts, a true "maecenas"
- François Magendie – foramen of Magendie (outlet for cerebrospinal fluid in the brain)
- Maggie, sister of Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons – Maggie Simpson, character in The Simpsons animated TV series
- Jules Germain François Maisonneuve - Maisonneuve fracture
- Benoît Mandelbrot – Mandelbrot set
- Antoine Marfan – Marfan syndrome
- Marge, mother of Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons – Marge Simpson, character in The Simpsons animated TV series
- Henrietta Maria de Bourbon, wife of Charles I – Maryland
- Pierre Marie – Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
- Saint Marinus – San Marino
- John Marshall – Marshall Islands
- Lionel Martin – Aston Martin
- John L. Mason – Mason jar
- Alonzo C. Mather – Mather Stock Car Company
- Harold "Matt" Matson and Elliot Handler – Mattel
- Jujiro Matsuda – founder, Mazda (also possibly inspired by Zoroastrian god Ahura Mazda)
- Maurice of Nassau – Mauritius
- Maussollus - mausoleum, a monumental tomb
- Hiram Maxim – Maxim gun
- James Clerk Maxwell – Maxwell, unit of magnetic flux
- Louis B. Mayer – founder of Louis B. Mayer Pictures which later merged into Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (or MGM)
- Dick McDonald and Mac McDonald – founders, McDonald's Corporation
- Meirion , son of Cunedda – Merionethshire
- Georg Meissner – Meissner corpuscles
- Walter Meissner (and Robert Ochsenfeld) – Meissner effect (or Meissner-Ochsenfeld effect)
- Lise Meitner – Meitnerium, chemical element
- Nellie Melba – Melba toast
- Dmitri Mendeleev – Mendelevium, chemical element
- Prosper Meniere – Meniere's disease
- Giuseppe Mercalli – Mercalli Intensity Scale of an earthquake
- Franz Mesmer (1734-1815) - mesmerism or hypnosis
- Robert Metcalfe – Metcalfe's law
- Methuselah – methuselah, large wine bottle
- Michelangelo, Renaissance painter – Michaelangelo, one of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic characters
- Hermann Minkowski – Minkowski space, Minkowski's theorem, Minkowski addition, Minkowski inequality
- Andrija Mohorovičić – Moho, (Mohorovičić's discontinuity )
- Pepe le Moko fictional character from the novel and movies of the same name – Pepe Le Pew Warner Bros. French skunk character
- Vyacheslav Molotov (1890-1986) - Molotov cocktail
- Robert Moog – Moog Synthesizer
- Gordon Moore – Moore's Law
- Jean Moreau de Sechelles – Seychelles
- José María Morelos – Morelos
- Prince Morgan the Old of Gwent – Glamorgan
- Samuel Morse – Morse code
- John Morton (1420-1500), Chancellor of England - Morton's Fork, a choice between two equally unpleasant alternatives
- Jerry Moss and Herb Alpert – A&M Records
- Rudolf Mössbauer – Mossbauer effect
- Lord Louis Mountbatten – Mountbatten pink, naval camouflage pigment
- W. Mueller – Geiger-Mueller tube
N - O
- John Napier – Neper, unit of relative power level, Napier's bones, method for performing multiplication
- Napoleon, emperor of France – Napoleonic code
- John Forbes Nash – Nash equilibrium, Nash embedding theorem
- Joachim Neander (1650-1680), poet, for whom the Neanderthal (valley) was named, and thus the Neandertal fossil found there
- Nebuchadnezzar – nebuchadnezzar, very large wine bottle
- Baby Face Nelson – Baby Face Finlayson, formerly from The Beano comic
- Henri Nestlé – created the milk-based food in 1867 which became Nestlé
- John von Neumann – Von Neumann machine, Von Neumann probe, Von Neumann architecture, John von Neumann Theory Prize, IEEE John von Neumann Medal
- Isaac Newton – Newton - unit of force, Newton's law of cooling, Newton's law of gravitation, Newton's laws of motion, Newton's rings
- Arthur Nielsen – Nielsen Ratings from the Nielsen Media Research, Inc. firm
- Alfred Nobel – Nobel Prizes, Nobelium, chemical element
- Emmy Noether – Noether's theorem, Noetherian rings
- Ian Norman and Gerald Harvey – Harvey Norman
- Robert Ochsenfeld and Walter Meissner – Meissner-Ochsenfeld effect (Meissner effect)
- William of Ockham – Occam's Razor
- King Oengus I of the Picts – Angus
- Georg Ohm – Ohm - unit of electrical resistance, Ohm's Law
- Ongull, a Scandinavian landowner – Anglesey
- Jan Oort – Oort Cloud
- Hans Christian Ørsted – Oersted, unit of magnetic field strength
P
- David Packard and William Hewlett – Hewlett-Packard
- Vilfredo Pareto – Pareto principle, Pareto efficiency, Pareto distribution, Pareto index
- James Parkinson – Parkinson's disease
- Rosa Parks – Rosa Parks Highway
- Blaise Pascal – Pascal - unit of pressure; Pascal's triangle, Pascal's Wager or Pascal's Gambit, Pascal programming language, Pascal's theorem
- Louis Pasteur – Pasteurization
- Wolfgang Pauli – Pauli exclusion principle
- Axel Paulsen – Axel, Figure skating jump
- Anna Pavlova – Pavlova
- Giuseppe Peano – Peano axioms
- Jean Charles Athanase Peltier – Peltier effect
- Slavoljub Eduard Penkala (ballpoint pen) – Penkalo
- William Penn – Pennsylvania
- J.C. Penney – JCPenney
- Roger Penrose – Penrose diagram, Penrose tiling, Penrose triangle, Penrose stairs
- Dom Perignon (1638-1715), a blind French Benedictine monk – Dom Perignon (wine)
- St. Peter – Saint-Pierre and Miquelon
- Philip II of Spain – Philippines
- Gerard Philips – founder, Philips
- Joseph Hubertus Pilates - Pilates
- Max Planck – Planck's constant, Planck's law of black body radiation
- Friedrich Carl Alwin Pockels – Pockels effect
- Joel Roberts Poinsett (1779-1851) - poinsettia
- Jean Louis Marie Poiseuille – Poise - unit of viscosity, Poiseuille's Law
- Charles Ponzi (1877-1949) - Ponzi scheme, a kind of fraud
- Ferry Porsche – founder, Porsche
- Percivall Pott – Pott's disease, Pott's fracture
- William Procter and James Gamble – Procter & Gamble
- Joseph Pulitzer – Pulitzer Prize
Q - R
- Vidkun Quisling (1887-1945), Norwegian traitor - the term "quisling" became a synonym in many European languages for traitor
- C. V. Raman – Raman spectroscopy, Raman effect
- William John Macquorn Rankine – Degree Rankine, unit of temperature
- Raphael, Renaissance painter – Raphael, one of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic characters
- John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh – Rayleigh scattering
- Maurice Raynaud, French physician – Raynaud's disease
- René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur – Réaumur, unit of temperature
- Dorothy Reed – Reed-Sternberg cell
- Arnold Reuben (possibly) – Reuben
- Cecil Rhodes – Northern Rhodesia (Now Zambia), Southern Rhodesia (Now Zimbabwe)
- Charles Richter – Richter magnitude scale
- Ron Rivest – the first letter of the name RSA, an asymmetric algorithm for public key cryptography, is taken from Rivest
- Romulus – Rome
- Count Karl Robert von Nesselrode – Nesselrode
- Alvah Roebuck and Richard Sears – Sears, Roebuck, now Sears
- Charles Rolls and Henry Royce – Rolls-Royce
- Wilhelm Röntgen – Röntgen, unit of dosage of X-rays or gamma radiation
- Andrés Quintana Roo – Quintana Roo
- Gioacchino Rossini – Tournedos Rossini
- Rota, a Saxon landowner ("Rota's land") – Rutland
- Henry Royce and Charles Rolls – Rolls-Royce
- Carle David Tolmé Runge – Runge's phenomenon
- Lord Rutherford – Rutherfordium, chemical element
- Johannes Rydberg – Rydberg constant
S
- Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade, or, the Marquis de Sade, whose writings gave the name to sadism.
- Sheikh Safi Al-Din Ardabili – Safavid Dynasty, Safavids
- Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, one of the first to write of the pleasures of pain and humiliation, now called masochism
- John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, who nibbled meat between slices of bread while playing cards, which became known as sandwiches
- Franz Sacher, Vienna – Sachertorte
- Ulrich Salchow – Salchow, Figure skating jump
- Colonel Samarski , a Russian mine official – samarskite, the mineral after which the chemical element Samarium has been named
- Sappho (630 BC - 612 BC), Greek poetess who wrote love poems addressed to women - sapphism or lesbianism
- Muhammad bin Saud – Saudi Arabia
- Adolphe Sax - the saxophone, a musical instrument
- Louie Schmitt , animator – Louie, one of "Huey, Dewey and Louie", animated cartoon characters
- Erwin Schrödinger – Schrödinger equation, Schrödinger's cat, Schrödinger's Kittens - a book
- Ed Scott – the second letter of the company name BEA Systems, is taken from Ed, a co-founder
- Robert Scott, Antarctic explorer – Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station
- Ebenezer Scrooge, fictional character in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol – Scrooge McDuck
- Glenn T. Seaborg – Seaborgium, chemical element
- Richard Sears and Alvah Roebuck – Sears, Roebuck; stores bear only the Sears name
- Chief Seattle – City of Seattle
- Thomas Seebeck – Seebeck effect
- Edgar Selwyn and Archibald Selwyn , who used the last three letters of their name alongwith the first four of Samuel Goldfish to create Goldwyn Picture Corporation, which later merged into Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (or MGM)
- Adi Shamir – the second letter of the name RSA, an asymmetric algorithm for public key cryptography, is taken from Shamir
- Roger Shepard – Shepard tone
- Henry S. Shrapnel (1761-1842) - shrapnel
- Werner von Siemens – Siemens - unit of electrical conductance; Siemens AG - company
- Rolf Sievert – Sievert, unit of radiation dose equivalent
- Etienne de Silhouette (1709-1767) - Silhouette
- Issac Merritt Singer, inventor, improvements in the design of the sewing machine – Singer Corporation
- Alexander Skene – Skene's gland
- Oliver R. Smoot: Smoot
- Hermann Snellen: Snellen chart
- Snot, a Saxon landowner ("Snot's home" + shire) – Nottinghamshire
- Solomon – Solomon Islands
- John Philip Sousa – Sousaphone
- William Archibald Spooner (1844-1930) - spoonerism
- Johannes Stark – Stark spectroscopy, Stark effect
- Jožef Stefan and Ludwig Boltzmann – Stefan-Boltzmann constant
- Carl von Sternberg (disputed) – Reed-Sternberg cell
- George M. Sternberg (disputed) – Reed-Sternberg cell
- John K. Stewart and Arthur P. Warner – Stewart-Warner
- George Gabriel Stokes – Stokes, unit of viscosity
- Antonio Stradivari – Stradivari violin
- Levi Strauss – Levi Strauss & Co.
- Count Stroganov (possibly Count Pavel Alexandrovitch Stroganov or Count Grigory Stroganov) – Stroganoff
- Rashid Sunyaev and Yakov B. Zeldovic – Sunyaev-Zeldovic effect
- Michio Suzuki – founder, Suzuki
- Cambu Svayambhuva – Cambodia
- Theodor Svedberg – Svedberg, unit of sedimentation rate
T
- Tarik-ibn-Ziyad (from Arabic djebl al-Tarik or "mountain of Tarik") – Gibraltar
- Abel Tasman – Tasmania
- J. R. D. Tata – founder, Tata
- Stéphanie Tatin and Caroline Tatin – Tarte Tatin
- Maria Teresa, the Grand Duchess of Luxembourg – Maria Teresa cocktail
- Nikola Tesla – Tesla effect , Tesla coil, Tesla - unit of magnetic flux density
- Luisa Tetrazzini, operatic soprano – Chicken Tetrazzini
- Leon Theremin – Theremin
- Saint Thomas – São Tomé and Príncipe
- John T. Thompson – Thompson submachine gun
- Johann Daniel Titius and Johann Elert Bode – Titius-Bode Law
- Howard Henry Tooth – Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
- Evangelista Torricelli – Torr, unit of pressure
- Linus Torvalds – Linus's law, Linux operating system (from Linus' Minix), Tux - mascot of Linux (from Torvald's Unix)
- Sakichi Toyoda – founder, Toyota
- Donald Trump – Trump Tower, the Trump International Tower and Hotel , etc.
- Alan Turing – Turing machine, Turing-complete, Turing tarpit, Turing test, Church-Turing thesis, Church-Turing-Deutsch principle
- J. M. W. Turner, English painter – Turner Prize in art
- Ted Turner, media mogul – Turner Entertainment, Turner Classic Movies, Turner Broadcasting System or TBS, TBS Superstation, WTBS (TV), Turner Network Television or TNT, Turner Tomorrow Fellowship Award
- Marie Tussaud – Madame Tussauds wax museum
U - V
- James Van Allen – Van Allen radiation belt
- George Vancouver – Vancouver, British Columbia, Vancouver, Washington, Vancouver Island
- Johannes Diderik van der Waals – Van der Waals force
- Amerigo Vespucci (1454-1512) - America
- Queen Victoria – Queensland, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, British Columbia, Victoria Island, Lake Victoria, Victoria Harbour
- Saint Vincent – Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Leonardo da Vinci, Renaissance painter – Leonardo, one of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic characters
- Vitruvius, Roman architect – Homo Vitruvianus or Vitruvian Man - famous drawing by Leonardo da Vinci
- Alessandro Volta - the volt, a unit of electromotive force
W
- Samuel Wallis, 18th century navigator – Wallis and Futuna
- Sam Walton – Wal-Mart
- the brothers Jack Warner, Sam Warner, Harold Warner and Albert Warner – Warner Bros
- Arthur P. Warner and John K. Stewart – Stewart-Warner
- George Washington – Washington and Washington D.C.
- James Watt (1736-1819) - the watt, a unit of power
- Wilhelm Eduard Weber – Weber, unit of magnetic flux
- Peter J. Weinberger – the second letter of the name awk, a computer pattern/action language, is taken from Weinberger
- Duke of Wellington – Beef Wellington, Wellington boot
- Mae West (1893-1980), busty actress for whom the flotation safety vest was named.
- Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr – Delaware
- George Hoyt Whipple – Whipple's disease
- Frederick Methvan Whyte (1865-1941) – Whyte notation
- Wilhelm Wien – Wien's law
- Eugene Wigner – Wigner's friend
- Erik Adolf von Willebrand – Von Willebrand disease, Von Willebrand factor
- Max Wilms , a German surgeon – Wilms' tumor
- Oliver F. Winchester – chief investor Winchester repeating rifle
- Caspar Wistar (1761-1818) - Wisteria
- Kaspar Friedrich Wolff – Wolffian duct
X - Z
An asterisk designates people who became eponyms despite their stated wishes not to.
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