# People Who Have Way Too Many Things Named After Them **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 13, 2007, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-have-way-too-many-things-named-after-them/411708 "2007-07-13T21:21:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2007, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-have-way-too-many-things-named-after-them/411708/21 "2007-07-14T04:36:44Z")
[QUOTE=Antinor01] Martin Luther King Jr. There are [streets named for him](http://www.journalnow.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WSJ%2FMGArticle%2FWSJ_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1128769304355&path=!living&s=1037645509005) in at least 730 cities in the US. And that isn’t counting the hospitals, schools and such. Yes, he did a lot of good things but that is some serious saturation. [/QUOTE] Not only that, but you notice how Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. in virtually every urban district is a place of poverty? ---
**Author:** ![Mosier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2007, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-have-way-too-many-things-named-after-them/411708/22 "2007-07-14T05:26:21Z")
Is there a major American city without a Martin Luthor King street? ---
**Author:** ![Auntbeast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Auntbeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Auntbeast)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2007, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-have-way-too-many-things-named-after-them/411708/23 "2007-07-14T05:37:41Z")
Wow, I’m the first one to mention Kennedy? (John F. Not Teddy) I’m pretty sure that every third street in Atlanta is named Peachtree. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2007, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-have-way-too-many-things-named-after-them/411708/24 "2007-07-14T06:15:58Z")
Not a person but a place. Ytterby, Sweden has \*\*FOUR \*\* elements named for it! ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2007, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-have-way-too-many-things-named-after-them/411708/25 "2007-07-14T07:10:53Z")
[QUOTE=Mosier] Is there a major American city without a Martin Luthor King street? [/QUOTE] Metropolis? ---
**Author:** ![Rich\_Mann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ce73a5/32.png) [@Rich\_Mann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rich_Mann)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2007, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-have-way-too-many-things-named-after-them/411708/26 "2007-07-14T08:02:48Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] Most Confederate leaders of course, particularly Jefferson Davis (inspiration for any number of counties, high schools, and people throughout the south in spite of the fact he was soundly hated by most southerners towards the end of the war)…\… [/QUOTE] I was rather surprised to find out that’s what the ‘J. D.’ in J. D. Tippett stood for (the Dallas cop that Oswald supposedly killed). ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Socks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a8b319/32.png) [@Captain\_Socks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Socks)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2007, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-have-way-too-many-things-named-after-them/411708/27 "2007-07-14T12:02:05Z")
[QUOTE=Mosier] Is there a major American city without a Martin Luther King street? [/QUOTE] There was a thread about that, but I can’t find a link to it. :smack: :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2007, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-have-way-too-many-things-named-after-them/411708/28 "2007-07-14T12:24:24Z")
[QUOTE=Sunspace] There are a fair number of things named after some “Dawson” person in western Canada. I think he was a geographer or explorer or mapmaker or something. [/QUOTE] [George Mercer Dawson](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Mercer_Dawson), a geologist and surveyor and explorer and mapmaker. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2007, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-have-way-too-many-things-named-after-them/411708/29 "2007-07-14T12:43:58Z")
If you go to Canada’s North, there’s a whooooole lot of Franklin and Mackenzie names on streets and the like. Around Baltimore, there are a lot of Patapsco. Also, living benefactors the Meyerhoff families have built or contributed to many many places, so their names show up quite a bit. ---
**Author:** ![Dervorin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Dervorin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dervorin)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2007, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-have-way-too-many-things-named-after-them/411708/30 "2007-07-15T00:11:28Z")
[QUOTE=Cunctator] To be fair, Macquarie was an \*extremely \* significant and influential person in the development of the colony of New South Wales. [/QUOTE] Oh, I don’t doubt that. I was just being a little tongue in cheek there, since he appears to have named some of them himself. I mock but in jest. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2007, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-have-way-too-many-things-named-after-them/411708/31 "2007-07-15T00:15:35Z")
[QUOTE=Frank] [George Mercer Dawson](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Mercer_Dawson), a geologist and surveyor and explorer and mapmaker. [/QUOTE] And Dawson College in Montreal is named after his _fatber_. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2007, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-have-way-too-many-things-named-after-them/411708/32 "2007-07-15T00:19:39Z")
[QUOTE=Mosier] Is there a major American city without a Martin Luthor King street? [/QUOTE] I was going to say Orlando- it’s a local fable that we’re the city without one. Then I checked my trusty streetfinder, and it turns out there is one. But it’s only about a mile long, and it’s someone unique in that nobody sells crack nearby. \*this is not a racial thing- if you ask someone who smokes crack how they find it in unfamiliar cities, they will all tell you that MLK is where the rocks are. Don’t ask how I know. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2007, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-have-way-too-many-things-named-after-them/411708/33 "2007-07-15T02:00:09Z")
If you believe wikipedia, there are a number of places named after American Revolutionary War General [“Mad” Anthony Wayne](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Wayne) . ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2007, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-have-way-too-many-things-named-after-them/411708/34 "2007-07-15T02:05:27Z")
[QUOTE=GingerOfTheNorth] If you go to Canada’s North, there’s a whooooole lot of Franklin and Mackenzie names on streets and the like. Around Baltimore, there are a lot of Patapsco. Also, living benefactors the Meyerhoff families have built or contributed to many many places, so their names show up quite a bit. [/QUOTE] Mackenzie? After Bob and Doug? ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2007, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-have-way-too-many-things-named-after-them/411708/35 "2007-07-15T02:21:14Z")
[QUOTE=Least Original User Name Ever] Mackenzie? After Bob and Doug? [/QUOTE] Alexander, an explorer. Confusingly, the second Prime Minister of Canada was also named Alexander Mackenzie, but it’s not the same guy. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2007, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-have-way-too-many-things-named-after-them/411708/36 "2007-07-15T02:36:55Z")
Montana had so much crap named after [C. M. Russel](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Marion_Russell), I up and left. Tripler I’m sick of his art too. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2007, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-have-way-too-many-things-named-after-them/411708/37 "2007-07-15T02:43:24Z")
The winner has to be JFK. How many things would be named after him if he hadn’t been assassinated? He was about as successful a president as Millard Fillmore, and what was named after him? Plus, Kennedy’s still on the half-dollar. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2007, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-have-way-too-many-things-named-after-them/411708/38 "2007-07-15T03:15:13Z")
Lincoln. Here in IL, it’s endemic. Reagan creep has also come here-ugh. Columbus, Washington. We have a Robert Frost elementary school not far from here. That gave me pause for a bit (New England poet on the south side of Chicago?) 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Baffle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dec6dc/32.png) [@Baffle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baffle)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2007, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-have-way-too-many-things-named-after-them/411708/39 "2007-07-15T03:30:41Z")
In southern Alberta, you can’t walk six steps without running into a Peter Lougheed Something. (He was a Premier of Alberta, and he’s still alive, at that.) ---
**Author:** ![aerodave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f08c70/32.png) [@aerodave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aerodave)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2007, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-have-way-too-many-things-named-after-them/411708/40 "2007-07-15T03:31:55Z")
When I saw the title of this thread, I was going to nominate Robert C. Byrd. But I got beat to it…by the OP no less! Let’s go Mountaineers!! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-have-way-too-many-things-named-after-them/411708.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-have-way-too-many-things-named-after-them/411708.md?page=3)