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All answers to “Name something named after a person”
The complete list: 135 answers, 44 of them longer than one word, with the alternative spellings that also count. Rarity stays hidden.
A
- Alzheimer's
- America
- Ampere
- Asperger's
B
- Bakelite
- Battenberg
- Béchamel
- Becquerel
- Beef Wellington
- Beretta
- Bessemer converter
- Biro
- Bloomers
- Bluetooth
- Booker Prize
- Bowie knife
- Bowler hat
- Braille
- Bren
- Browning
- Bunsen burner
C
- Caesar salad
- Cardigan
- Carnot cycle
- Cassini
- Celsius
- Chandra
- Colt
- Copernicus
- Crohn's disease
- Curie
D
- Derringer
- Dewar flask
- Diesel
- Down syndrome
- Dr. Martens
E
- Earl Grey
- Edwin Hubble
- Eggs Benedict
- Emmy
- Encke
- Erlenmeyer flask
F
- Fahrenheit
- Farad
- Faraday cage
- Fedora
- Ferris wheel
G
- Gaia
- Galileo
- Garibaldi
- Gatling gun
- Gauss
- Geiger counter
- Giotto
- Glock
- Grammy
- Guillotine
H
- Hale–Boppalso Hale-Bopp
- Halley's Comet
- Heimlich manoeuvrealso Heimlich maneuver
- Henry
- Herschel
- Hertz
- Hipparcos
- Homburg
- Hoover
- Hubble
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Huygens
- Hyakutake
J
- Jacuzzi
- Joule
K
- Kalashnikov
- Kelvin
- Kepler
L
- Lee-Enfield
- Leotard
- Levi'salso Levis
- Leyden jar
- Liebig condenser
- Listeria
- Luger
M
- Mackintoshalso Mac
- Mae West
- Magellan
- Margherita pizza
- Mauser
- Maxim gun
- Maxwell
- Mesmerise
- Molotov cocktail
N
- Newton
- Nobel Prize
O
- Ohm
- Oscar
- Otto cycle
P
- Parkinson's
- Pascal
- Pasteurisationalso Pasteurization
- Pavlova
- Peach Melba
- Petri dish
- Planck
- Praline
- Pulitzer
R
- Raglan sleeve
- Rankine cycle
- Remington
S
- Salmonella
- Sam Browne belt
- Sandwich
- Shoemaker–Levy 9also Shoemaker-Levy 9
- Siemens
- Sievert
- Smith & Wesson
- Spitzer
- Sten
- Stetson
- Stirling engine
T
- Teddy bear
- Tesla
- Thompson submachine gunalso Tommy gun
- Tony
- Tourette's
U
- Ulysses
- Uzi
V
- Volt
W
- Wankel engine
- Watt
- Weber
- Wellington bootsalso Wellingtons
- Wilson cloud chamber
- Winchester
Z
- Zamboni
- Zeppelin
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