Top 10 Things Named After People
Named after the guy who invented the snack in the 18th century - John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich (a British statesman)
The saxophone is a family of woodwind instruments. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. Named after Adolphe Sax - a Belgian musical instrument designer who invented it.
Named for Jean Nicot, the French ambassador to Portugal, who brought tobacco plants to France in 1559.
Named after Franz Mesmer, a German physician and scientist who used hypnosis as an alternative healing method. In the 19th century the word 'mesmerize' became a synonym for hypnosis.
Named in honor of Robert John Lechmere Guppy, a British naturalist who sent specimens of the species from Trinidad to London.
Named after Mausolus, a ruler in the Greek Empire (4th century B.C.E.). When he died, a monumental shrine was built for him - his burial chamber, known as the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, is one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
Named after John Loudon McAdam who invented this method of paving roads in the 1820s.
A flowering plant named after Leonhart Fuchs, a botanist of the 1500s
Named after Major General Henry Shrapnel, a British Army officer, who invented it before WW I
Named in honor of the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci (Latin: Americus Vespucius).
Most people know it and this was the reason I didn't put it higher. I began my list with some less known things.
Named after its creator, Louis Braille, a 19th century French educator, who was blind in both eyes.
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country situated in the northwest of South America, bordered to the northwest by Panama; to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; and it shares maritime limits with Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Jamaica, Dominican Republic and Haiti. Its name is derived from the last name of Christopher Columbus ( Italian : Cristoforo Colombo)
One decibel is one tenth of one bel, named in honor of Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the first practical telephone
This word has its origin in Charles Boycott, a British land agent of the 19th century
The Diesel engine was named after Rudolf Diesel who developed it in the late 19th century.
A flower discovered by Carl Linnaeus but was named for Dr. Alexander Garden.
Bloomers are underpants worn by women, named after Amelia Bloomer who popularized them although she didn't invent them
A flowering plant named after Michael Bégon, former governor of the French colony of Haiti and patron of botany
It was named after Marquis de Sade, a French aristocrat, politician, philosopher and writer, known for his violent sexuality and pornographic works
Named after Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch, an Austrian writer and journalist known for his sexual anomaly
Named after Luigi Galvani, an Italian pioneer of modern bioelectricity