People Who Have Way Too Many Things Named After Them

Where I’m from (Dearborn, MI) it’s the Ford family.

Schools:
Henry Ford Community College
Edsel Ford High School-- named after Henry’s son
Fordson High School-- named after Henry and his son
Clara Bryant Middle School-- named after Henry’s wife
Clara Ford High School (now closed)
William Ford Elementary
Henry Ford Elementary

Libraries:
Henry Ford Centennial
Bryant Library

Roads:
Ford Road-- named after Henry’s father, William

Parks & Rec:
Ford Field
Ford Woods Park
Ford Community & Performing Arts Center
The Henry Ford (Greenfield Village & The Henry Ford Museum)

Business:
Ford Motor Company (obviously)
Fairlane Town Center-- named after Henry & Clara’s estate
The Fairlane Club
Fairlane Car Wash
Fairlane Ford New & Used cars
Ford-Wyoming Drive-in (named after the road which is named after his father)

Misc.:
Historic Ford Homes-- homes built by Henry for his engineers

Queen Victoria,off the top of my head in London theres a museum,street,bus station,train station,theatre and embankment named after her,the Victorian age,theres a Victoria in Canada,Victoria falls in Africa and Isuspect there may be a few more Victorian places scattered around the world.

Lots of streets in my country and at least one river are named after Governor Sir George Grey. Even though these days his record is historically controversial.

Me, too. Just seeing the thread title made me know this was going to be about Byrd.

Don’t forget the Robert Byrd radiotelescope at Green Bank!

Philadelphia has a pretty heavy Franklin saturation. There’s of course the Franklin Institute, not far from Benjamin Franklin Parkway, and the Franklin Bridge, not to mention the various museum-y places that are in fact about Franklin. If Philadelphia had a secular patron saint it would definitely be the fine Mr. Franklin.

I remember seeing a chart that said that in sheer area, Queen Victoria had the second-largest proportion of the Earth’s surface named after her – after Amerigo Vespucci.

I am always surprised by the number of school buildings named after William H. Taft. What gives?

Vespucci got 28% of the Earth’s total land mass, spread out over two continents, what the hell more could he want?

I know. I was kidding. Well, I didn’t know it was Alexander, but I did know it wasn’t Bob and Doug.

Why yes, there are a lot of things named “Ford” around here!

-Trevor, from Dearborn Heights

IIRC there are 5 completely separate townships in New Jersey named Washington Township spread out across the state. It can be confusing.

In Canada, there are many places, schools, hospitals, museums etc named after David Thompson. He was an explorer in our early days, probably our equivelent of Lewis and Clark

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In Saskatchewan, we have a number of places named after John Diefenbaker, a locally-grown lawyer-turned-Prime-Minister.

In South Carolina, so many things are named after Strom Thurmond that they should really just name the state after him and have done with it.

Nothing named after Paul Revere?

You surprise me, after all he was the guy that warned you fellers we were after ya

And what about Betsy Ross?

Doesn’t surprise me that good 'ol Benedict Arnold aint mentioned :smiley:

I think you have to change that to “used to be”. My home town was one of them, and theuy changed the name from Washington to a geographical precisely to eliminate the confusion due to havig the same name. I think the others were changed as well.

You know who’s got too many things named after him? Leonhard Euler. It’s bad enough the man was brilliant in one area, but his expertise extends over many disciplines, so when someone brings up the “Euler Equations” you have to ask if they mean the thermodynamic ones or the ones about mechanical rotation or ones in some random paper he wrote.

Isaac Newton is just as bad.

At least if you hear that someone’s studying Chomsky, you’d be able to narrow down, depending on their major, whether their referring to his grammatical, linguistic, or political works/books.

He has a whole town in Massachusetts named after him, and his picture graces the bottles of Samuel Adams beer, the real Sam Adams being a comparatively ugly spud.

Here in northern California we have a lot of stuff named for John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club, among other accomplishments. Not so much streets, but plenty of schools and parks.