I'm home by myself today, as my older sister is away, my parents are at work and my younger sister is at a volleyball tournament. So far, I haven't done much. I've half-packed for Duke of Ed, eaten a souvalaki, felt sick, watched just over a quarter of Pitch Perfect and played Pipe Roll numerous times. Fun times.
Fifty-two *eponyms:
1. Achilles - Greek mythological creature (Achilles tendon)
2. Adam - Biblical character (Adam's apple)
3. Thomas Addison (Addison's disease)
4. Adam Walsh - abduction/murder victim (Code Adam)
5. Alice Liddell (Alice in Wonderland/Alice in Wonderland syndrome)
6. Alois Alzheimer (Alzheimer's disease)
7. Hans Asperger (Asperger's syndrome)
8. Robert Atkins - nutritionist (Atkinds Diet)
9. Augustus Caesar - (month of August)
10. William Baffin (Baffin Bay/Island)
11. Barbara Handler, daughter of Ruth Handler - creator of Barbie (Barbie Doll)
12. Joseph Banks - botanist (The Banksia genus)
13. Francis Beaufort (Beaufort Scale)
14. Louis de Bechamel - a courtier to King Louis XIV (Bechamel Sauce)
15. Henri Bacquerel (Bacquerel - unit of radioactivity)
16. Juan de Bermudez (Bermuda)
17. Yogi Berra - Baseball player (Yogi Bear)
18. Laszlo Biro (Biro/Ballpoint pen)
19. Amelia Bloomer (Bloomers)
20. Boann - The Irish Goddess (The river Boyne)
21. William E. Boeing (Boeing Commercial Aeroplanes)
22. Louis Braille (Braille)
23. William Burke (Burked - to execute someone by suffocation)
24. Julius Caesar (Month of July)
25. John Cadbury (Cadbury Chocolate)
26. Caesar Cardini - restaurateur (Caesar Salad)
27. Gian Giacomo Girolamo Casanova (A Casanova, A womanizer)
28. Louis Chevrolet - founder (Chevrolet)
29. Andre Citroen - founder (Citroen)
30. Samuel Coly (Colt Revolver)
31. Thomas Crapper (Crapper, Bathroom)
32. Marie and Pierre Curie - Scientists (Curium, Curie - unit of radioactivity)
33. Pierre Curie (Pierre Point)
34. Harvey Cushing (Cushing Disease)
35. Adi Dassler - founder (Adidas)
36. Michael Dell - founder (Dell, computer company)
37. Melvil Dewey (Dewey Decimal System)
38. Thomas Edmund Dewey - American Politician (Dewey from Huey, Dewey and Louie)
39. Rudolf Diesel (The Diesel Engine)
40. Walt Disney - founder (The Walt Disney Company, Disneyland)
41. John Francis Dodge and Horace Dodge - founders (Dodge)
42. Donatello - Renaissance Painter (Donatello, one of the TMNT comic characters)
43. Gustav Eiffel - designer (Eiffel Tower)
44. Bartolomeno Eustachi (Eustachian Tube)
45. Sir George Everest (Mount Everest)
46. Guy Fawkes (Guy)
47. Gabriele Falloppio (Fallopian Tubes)
48. Enzo Ferrari - founder (Ferrari)
49. B.C. Forbes (Forbes Magazine)
50. Leonhart Fuchs - Fuchsia
51. King Camp Gillette - founder (Gillette)
52. Edmond Halley (Halley's Comet)
*A person after whom a discovery, invention, place, etc., is named
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