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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

Jim Bowie

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

Charles Fort

Uzi Gal--Kibbutz Yagur

Richard Gatling--Gatling gun, 1861--Indianapolis

Hans Geiger

Elbridge Gerry

Sylvester Graham -- Graham crackers

Joseph-Ignace Guillotin

Edmond Halley

Thomas Hobson -- Hobson's choice

Charles Lynch 

Trofim Lysenko

Ernst Mach 

Mrs. Malaprop

Thomas Malthus 

Vyacheslav Molotov

Robert Moog

Mentor (Greek mythology)

Caspar Milquetoast

Samuel Morse 

Baron Munchausen

Narcissus 

Alfred Nobel

Onan

Georg Ohm

Paparazzo

Dom Pérignon

Charles Ponzi

Grigory Potemkin

Procrustes 

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

Alan Turing 

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