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[QUOTE=rogue;535732][URL="https://www.cjr.org/language_corner/eponyms.php"]Words you may not have known were named after people[/URL][/QUOTE]
There are many more you could add to that list.
Hooligans, vandals, ...

[QUOTE=Nick;535735]There are many more you could add to that list.
Hooligans, vandals, ...[/QUOTE]
A few that some to mind...

algorithm -- Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
atlas -- Atlas (mythology)
gerrymander -- Elbridge Gerry
guillotine -- Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin
martinet -- Jean Martinet
pyrrhic -- King Pyrrhus
sandwich -- John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich
spoonerism -- Reverend William Archibald Spooner

macadam, and the macadamia nuts.. hehe
(in Romanian, we also call a large boulder, or the construction material resulted from breaking stones of different sizes, "macadam" too)

would not surprise me if a lot of people have no idea about this stuff; maybe I told this story, I had an American colleague who didn't know laser is an acronym, which, for a technical guy working in domain, was a bit of a shame (my opinion). He was a normal guy, well prepared in his job, and a good colleague, but this didn't stop me to make fun of him later, haha. He also made fun of me because I am speaking English "like a robot" (well, English, especially pronunciation, was never my strong point, because I mostly learned my English by arguing with computer programs and datasheets, and when I am speaking I have to think of every word, it does not "come fluently to me", which indeed makes my speech "jerky").

we also suspect that some of these words are so old that nobody remembers they were ever "sourced" from a proper name; examples: kaiser and pylon.

[QUOTE=Dr Sardonicus;535748]algorithm -- Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi[/QUOTE]

...and here I thought it was due to former US vice president Al Gore, most famous for [url=https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2011/0603/Political-misquotes-The-10-most-famous-things-never-actually-said/I-invented-the-Internet.-Al-Gore]having invented the Internet[/url]. :)

[QUOTE=Dr Sardonicus;535748]algorithm -- Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi[/QUOTE]
Anyone interested in documentation of this can read further [URL="http://www.jphogendijk.nl/khwarizmi.html"]here[/URL] (from Prof. Jan Hogendijk's website).

[QUOTE=Dr Sardonicus;535748]A few that some to mind...

algorithm -- Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
atlas -- Atlas (mythology)
gerrymander -- Elbridge Gerry
guillotine -- Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin
martinet -- Jean Martinet
pyrrhic -- King Pyrrhus
sandwich -- John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich
spoonerism -- Reverend William Archibald Spooner[/QUOTE]
Another one: [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Crapper[/url]

[spoiler]I´m well aware that ¨crap¨ predates Crapper[/spoiler]

[QUOTE=xilman;535883]Another one: [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Crapper[/URL]
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[QUOTE]
The company owned the world's first bath, toilet and sink showroom in King's Road.
[/QUOTE]I can't help feeling there should be a comma in there somewhere.

[QUOTE=Nick;535886]I can't help feeling there should be a comma in there somewhere.[/QUOTE]Must be someone from Cambridge wrote it, not Oxford (or Walken).

[QUOTE=Nick;535862]Anyone interested in documentation of this can read further [URL="http://www.jphogendijk.nl/khwarizmi.html"]here[/URL] (from Prof. Jan Hogendijk's website).[/QUOTE]

Speaking of al-Kwārizmī, he also appears to be responsible for the word algebra in relation to mathematics:

ORIGIN late Middle English : from Italian, Spanish, and medieval Latin, from Arabic al-jabr ‘the reunion of broken parts,’ ‘bone setting,’ from jabara ‘reunite, restore.’ The original sense, [the surgical treatment of fractures,] probably came via Spanish, in which it survives; the mathematical sense comes from the title of a book, [i]עilm al-jabr wa'l-muḳābala[/i] ‘the science of restoring what is missing and equating like with like,’ by the mathematician al-Kwārizmī (see algorithm ).

As posted earlier, kaiser (also czar, tsar) from Caesar. I drew a blank on [i]pylon[/i] as being named for person.

I tried to recollect the most common words I could which are named for persons, real or fictional. Here are some I came up with.

cereal -- from Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture and harvest
chronic, chronicle, chronometer, etc. -- prefix [i]chron-[/i] from Chronos, the ancient Greek personification of time
echo -- from a mountain nymph of Greek mythology, punished by Hera, limiting her speech so as only to be able to repeat the last words of others.
iris -- (flower, colored part of eye) from Iris, the Greek goddess of the rainbow
jovial -- from Roman god Jove, or Jupiter
mackintosh (raincoat) -- named for its inventor, Charles Macintosh. The "k" was added later, and eventually stuck.
martial -- from Mars, Roman god of war
mercurial -- from the Roman god Mercury
volcano -- from Vulcan, the Roman god of fire