A namesake (or eponym) is someone for whom people, places or things are named for. The
Examples[]
Juan de Bermudez--Bermuda
Amelia Bloomer--Bloomers--Seneca Falls, NY
Charles Boycott--Lough Mask, Co. Mayo
Thomas Bowdler--bowdlerize--Isle of Wight
Louis Braille--National Institute for Blind Youth, Paris
Ambrose Burnside--sideburns--Battle of Fredericksburg
Anders Celsius--Uppsala University
Nicolas Chauvin--chauvinism--Rochefort, 1780
Samuel Colt--revolver--Connecticut
Thomas Crapper--Thorne, Yorkshire
Louis Daguerre--daguerreotype
Melvil Dewey--Dewey decimal system--Amherst?
Draco--Aegina
Gustave Eiffel--Paris
St. Elmo--Formiae--d. 296 in Illyrica
Gabriel Fahrenheit--Amsterdam (Hague?)
Enzo Ferrari
George Ferris--Ferris Wheel--1318 Arch Street, Central Northside Pittsburgh
Uzi Gal--Kibbutz Yagur
Richard Gatling--Gatling gun, 1861--Indianapolis
Elbridge Gerry
Sylvester Graham -- Graham crackers
Joseph-Ignace Guillotin
Edmond Halley
Thomas Hobson -- Hobson's choice
Charles Lynch
Trofim Lysenko
Ernst Mach
Mrs. Malaprop
Vyacheslav Molotov
Robert Moog
Mentor (Greek mythology)
Caspar Milquetoast
Samuel Morse
Alfred Nobel
Onan
Georg Ohm
Paparazzo
Dom Pérignon
Charles Ponzi
Joseph Pulitzer
Pyrrhus of Epirus
Vidkun Quisling
Charles Richter
César Ritz
Wilhelm Röntgen
Ernő Rubik
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
James Henry Salisbury
Adolphe Sax
Erwin Schrödinger
Henry S. Shrapnel
Étienne de Silhouette
Granny Smith
Leon Theremin
Marie Tussaud
George Vancouver
Robert J. Van de Graaff
John Venn
Alessandro Volta
James Watt
Oliver Winchester
Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin
External Link[]
Wikipedia: Eponym