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An eponym is a person (real or fictitious) whose name has become identified with a particular object or activity. Here is a list of eponyms: L Rudolf Laban, Slovakian choreographer – labanotation. René Lacoste, French tennis player – Lacoste. Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Italian-French mathematician and astronomer - Lagrange point. Ferruccio Lamborghini, Italian car builder – Lamborghini. Vincenzo Lancia, Italian car builder – Lancia. Francesco Landini, Italian composer – Landini cadence, might be described in its most characteristic form as a variation on the harmonic progression in which an unstable sixth (usually major) expands to a stable octave. Edwin Henry Landseer, British painter and sculptor – Landseer (dog). Paul Langerhans, German biologist – Islets of Langerhans, Langerhans cell, Langerhans cell histiocytosis. Samuel Pierpont Langley, American astronomer and physicist – langley a measurement of solar radiation. Lev Davidovich Landau, Azerbaijani-Russian physicist – Landau pole, Landau damping. Chris Langton, American computer scientist – Langton's ant. A. C. Larrieu, French Moon observer - Larrieu's dam (a clair-obscur effect on the Moon's surface during local sunset conditions, appearing like a rectilinear scarp-like feature at crater Polybius K) Bent Larsen, Danish chess player – Larsen's Opening. Giovanni Paolo Lascaris, Italian nobleman – Lascaris towers, Lascaris Battery. Saint Lawrence of Rome, Italian Christian saint – Saint Lawrence River, San Lawrenz, and numerous other localities, churches and cathedrals. Ernest Lawrence, American physicist – lawrencium. Lazarus of Bethany, Biblical character – Lazarus sign, Lazarus syndrome, Lazarus taxon. Lech, Slavic mythological character – Lechites (Poles). Bruce Lee, American-Chinese actor – Bruceploitation. Peter Lee, English miner – Peterlee, a town in County Durham. Ernst Leitz, German businessman and photographer – Leica Camera. Alfredo di Lelio, Italian cook – Alfredo sauce. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Russian head of state – Leninism, Lenin's Testament, for various places see Lenino and List of places named after Lenin. John Lennard-Jones, British mathematician – Lennard-Jones potential Jules Léotard, French acrobat – leotard. Winford Lee Lewis, American chemist – lewisite. Lars Levi Læstadius, Swedish religious leader – Laestadianism. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German physicist, satirist, and Anglophile - Lichtenberg figure. Alice Liddell, British child – Alice in Wonderland syndrome Liechtenstein dynasty, Liechtensteinian royal family – Liechtenstein. Alphonsus Liguori, Italian theologian – Liguorists (another name for Redemptorists). Gösta Hjalmar Liljequist, Swedish meteorologist - Liljequist parhelion Abraham Lincoln, American president – Lincoln Records; ships USS Abraham Lincoln (SSBN-602), USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72); Lincoln is a slang term for the United States five-dollar bill. Charles Lindbergh, American pilot – Lindbergh Law. Teunis van der Linden, Dutch chemist – Lindane. Jules Antoine Lissajous, French physicist - Lissajous curve, Lissajous orbit. Joseph Lister, British physician – Listerine mouthwash. Little Goody Two-Shoes, British literary character – The English derogatory term "goody two-shoes" for someone who is irritatingly bland and nice. David Livingstone, Scottish explorer – Livingstone daisy, Livingstone, Zambia. Ignacio de la Llave, Mexican general and governor. – Veracruz-Llave Matthias de l'Obel (sometimes spelled as Lobel), Flemish physician and botanist – Lobelia. Sanford Lockwood Cluett, American businessman – Sanforization. Veronica Lodge, American comics character – the Veronica search engine. James Harvey Logan, American judge and horticulturist – loganberry. Fritz London, German physicist – London force. Ruy López de Segura, Spanish monk – Ruy Lopez opening in chess. Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist – Lorentz force, Lorentz transformation. Lothar, German-French emperor – Lorraine, French province. Allan Haines Loughead, American aviator – Lockheed Corporation later to become Lockheed Martin in 1995. Louis IX of France, French king – St. Louis, Missouri and dozens of other places named Saint Louis Louis XIV of France, French king – Louisiana Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis, French physician – Angle of Louis. Princess Louise Caroline Alberta, fourth daughter of Queen Victoria – Alberta H. P. Lovecraft, American novelist – Lovecraftian horror Johann Tobias Lowitz, German-born Russian apothecary and experimental chemist - Lowitz arc Hubert von Luschka, German anatomist – foramina of Luschka (outlets for cerebrospinal fluid in the brain); Luschka's crypts; Luschka's joints. Saint Lucy of Syracuse, Italian Christian saint – Saint Lucia. Rosa Luxemburg, German politician – Luxemburgism Martin Luther, German religious leader – Lutheranism Alois Lutz, Austrian figure skater – Lutz jump Willem Jacob Luyten, Dutch-American astronomer - Luyten's star, Luyten's flare star (L 726-8) Charles Lynch, American politician – lynching, lynch law. Trofim Lysenko, Ukrainian-Russian biologist – Lysenkoism. M John Macadam, Scottish-Australian chemist – Macadamia. Ernst Mach, Czech-Austrian physicist – Mach number. Karel Hynek Mácha, Czech novelist and poet – Lake Mácha (Czech: Máchovo jezero), in the Czech Republic Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian politician and writer – Machiavellianism. John Macdonald, New Zealand psychologist – Macdonald triad. Charles Macintosh, Scottish inventor – mackintosh Alexander Mackenzie, American explorer – Mackenzie River, Mackenzie Bay Colin Maclaurin, Scottish mathematician – Maclaurin series, Maclaurin's inequality, Sectrix of Maclaurin, Trisectrix of Maclaurin. Rowland Hussey Macy, American businessman – Macy's. Johann Heinrich von Mädler, German astronomer - the Mädler phenomenon (comet-tail like arcs near the observed image of bright planet Venus, the same entoptic phenomenon as Purkyne's blue arcs near an unsteady red-colored pointlike lightsource), Mädler's square (a more-or-less rectangle shaped formation near crater Fontenelle on the moon's surface) George Maduro, Dutch resistance fighter – Madurodam. Gaius Maecenas, Roman patron of literature and the arts – maecenas (arts patron) Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese explorer – Strait of Magellan, Large Magellanic Cloud, Small Magellanic Cloud François Magendie, French physiologist – foramen of Magendie. Pierre Magnol, French botanist – magnolia. Heinrich Gustav Magnus, German chemist – Magnus effect, Magnus's green salt. Jules Germain François Maisonneuve, French surgeon – Maisonneuve fracture. Nestor Makhno, Ukrainian revolutionary leader – Makhnovism. Mrs. Malaprop, a character in The Rivals, a play by Richard Brinsley Sheridan – malapropism. La Malinche, Aztec translator – Malinchism, Malinche (volcano). G. Kenneth Mallory American physician, and Soma Weiss, Hungarian physician – Mallory–Weiss syndrome. Marcello Malpighi, Italian surgeon – Malpighian corpuscles, Malpighian tubule system, Malpighian pyramid.... Discover the John R O Donnell James Rutherford popular books. Find the top 100 most popular John R O Donnell James Rutherford books.