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Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies

"Giwis", seemingly a supposed eponymous ancestor of the Gewisse (a name given to the early West Saxons) appears instead of a similarly eponymous ancestor of the Bernicians (Old English, Beornice), Benoc in the Chronicle and (slightly rearranged in order) Beornic or Beornuc in other versions.

Apamea gabrieli

It is not named for the mountains themselves, but for their eponym, Gabriel.

Artery of the pterygoid canal

The eponym, Vidian artery, is derived from the Italian surgeon and anatomist Vidus Vidius.

Cesar Virata

He is the eponym of the Cesar Virata School of Business, the business school of the University of the Philippines Diliman.

Charles Emery Cate

Charles Emery Cate is the eponym for Cate Street in the city center (a historic district) and the Charles Emery Cate Teacher Education Center (see insets) at Southeastern Louisiana University.

Eaghra Poprigh mac Saorghus

Eaghra Poprigh mac Saorghus, eponym and ancestor of the clan Ó hEaghra, King of Luighne Connacht, died 928.

Epaminondas and His Auntie

The eponymous character is a young black boy, and the stories are based on a folk tales from the Southern states of the U.S. Like Helen Bannerman's The Story of Little Black Sambo, which was originally written about a boy from Southern India but was later illustrated in many printings with stereotypes of African-Americans, the Epaminondas books have been criticised as having racist overtones and stereotypes.

Fort Laramie National Historic Site

The fort's site is located on the opposite bank of the location of the town of Fort Laramie, Wyoming, and both were later renamed to match the rivers eponym.

Haberman

Martin Haberman (contemporary), American educator, university dean, and author; eponym of The Haberman Educational Foundation

Joop van Oosterom

His other daughter was the eponym to the Crystal Kelly Cup, a three-cushion tournament, which has been held between 1994 and 2011 mostly in Monte Carlo and Nice.

Kvívík

Kvívík (Danish: Kvivig, older Qvivig) is a village on the west coast of Streymoy in the Faroe Islands, in the eponymous municipality of Kvívík.

Levine scale

The eponym is from researcher Samuel A. Levine who studied the significance of systolic heart murmurs.

Lino Landolfi

In 1969 he started a collaboration with the children magazine Il Giornalino, for which Landolfi, in addition to having made several comic adaptations from literary such as Gulliver's Travels and Father Brown, co-created with writer Claudio Nizzi the popular "Piccolo Dente", leading character of a long lasting eponym comic strip.

Maecenas-Ehrung

Gaius Maecenas, Roman advisor and eponym of the Maecenas distinction

Manton, Providence, Rhode Island

The eponymous Edward Manton was one of the original land owners, whose family would accumulate a huge tract of land.

Minyans

Greek mythographers gave the Minyans an eponymous founder, Minyas, perhaps as legendary as Pelasgus (the founding father of the Pelasgians), which was a broader category of pre-Greek Aegean peoples.

Oechsle

Ferdinand Oechsle (1774–1852), German mechanical workshop owner, goldsmith, and inventor; eponym of the Oechsle scale

Philander

Philander Smith (1809–1882), American philanthropist and eponym of Philander Smith College

Rand formula

Supreme Court of Canada Justice Ivan Rand, the eponym of this law, introduced this formula in 1946 as an arbitration decision ending the Ford Strike of 1945 in Windsor, Ontario.

Remi

A founding myth preserved or invented by Flodoard of Reims (d. 966) makes Remus, brother of Romulus, the eponymous founder of the Remi, having escaped their fraternal rivalry instead of dying in Latium.

Sertoli cell

Sertoli cells are called so because of their eponym Enrico Sertoli, an Italian physiologist who discovered them while studying medicine in the University of Pavia, Italy.

Shalmaneser IV

According to the eponym canon, he led several campaigns against Urartu.

Sirmium

The Triballian King Syrmus was later considered the eponymous founder of Sirmium, but the roots are different, and the two words only became conflated later.

Solymus

A possibly different Solymus is mentioned by Ovid as a Phrygian companion of Aeneas and eponym of Sulmona.

Ten Inch Men

After the bands final disbandment in 1993, Mark Templin married Carrie Hamilton, the daughter of Joe Hamilton and Carol Burnett, and former Ten Inch Men singer Dave Coutts joined members of the Stone Temple Pilots to create the band Talk Show, who released their eponymously named album in 1997.

The Attenborough Prize

The Prize was announced in June 2007 by Lord Attenborough (whose name lends itself to the Prize’s eponym) and the leader of Leicester City Council.

Vallis Planck

This cleft in the surface crosses the western part of the huge walled plain Planck, and it was named after that feature (which has an eponym of Max Planck).

Weddell

James Weddell (1787–1834), English navigator and Antarctic explorer; eponym of Weddell Sea, Weddell Island, Weddell Glacier, and Weddell seal

Zulu Hart

Zulu Hart is a historical novel by British author Saul David, set in the late Victorian Era, and focussed around the early military career of its eponym, George Hart.

Þorgerðr Hölgabrúðr and Irpa

According to Skáldskaparmál chapter 42, Hölgi (a traditional eponym of the northernmost Norwegian province Hålogaland) is also Þorgerðr's father.


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