More islands in Canada: René-Levasseur Island, Mackenzie King Island, Ellef Ringnes Island, Jens Munk Island, Byam Martin Island (middle and last names of Thomas Byam Martin)
In Chile: Patricio Lynch Island (after naval officer Patricio Javier de los Dolores Lynch y Solo de Zaldívar) and Jorge Montt Island (after naval officer Jorge Montt Álvarez)
Also James Ross Island near Antarctica and Dirk Hartog Island in Australia (after its Dutch discoverer)
There are a lot of reservoirs that fit the bill, many of them named for politicians. Just a few of them:
Cordell Hull Lake (Tennessee), after the Secretary of State
Glenn Cunningham Lake (Nebraska), after a congressman
Robert S. Kerr Reservoir (Oklahoma), after the governor and senator
Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake (Washington), after the president
Speaking of places named after politicians, Robert C. Byrd, the late Senator from West Virginia, must hold some kind of record for getting things named after him. Most, however, probably wouldn’t meet most people’s definition of “place”. Wikipedia has a whole article about such things: List of places named after Robert Byrd - Wikipedia
It’s more like New York, London or any other large metropole. There’s one mayor over all, I don’t think counties have mayors, do they?.
While there’s going to be a head administrator/political leader to any local government, their title is irrelevant. The wikipage describing South African metropoles said they were much like a merged city-county in the US. So one or the other, I don’t care that much. I’m collecting names for both.
Phil Campbell, Alabama (named for a railroad engineer). Susan Morris, Alabama (founders’ relative).
Almost: Lily Flagg, Alabama (no longer exists, named for a champion Jersey milch cow); Glen Allen, Alabama (named for two railroad engineers).
Most people would probably assume that the name of the district of Glasgow called Maryhill comes from a hillock associated with someone called Mary. But it actually fits the OP exactly - it is named after the land owner in the 18th century, Mary Hill.
Can’t find any evidence this place exists. It doesn’t have a wikipage and GNIS doesn’t turn up anything either. There is a Morris, AL, but it’s named after some other woman. (And that’s a rare instance of a town named for a woman’s last name.)
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I totally should have remembered that one. A colleague named Phil Campbell at the college newspaper I worked at organized a “Phil Campbell reunion” at Phil Campbell, AL, and wrote about it for the paper. I wonder if I can dig it up somewhere.
OK, I found a PDF archive of it here, but I don’t know if it’s freely accessible to the world or only me. I was wrong about who wrote it; another colleague named Mandy Stadtmiller wrote the article, and Phil organized the reunion (actually, I guess I mean “convention/meetup” not reunion, which would suggest the Phil Campbells being united at some point) of 23 Phil Campbells. There was a previous article in the same newspaper about a year back that was written by him about the town, but that was just a first person account of him visiting the town by himself and ends with the germ of an idea of getting a “Phil Campbell” meetup in the town.
Ah, yes, there is a town-ish in Klickitat county with that name. Sam Hill named it after his daughter. And no, he was not that Sam Hill.
Hey, I’ve been there, visited the Stonehedge replica he had made, although I didn’t go into the museum. Didn’t realize that was the origin of the town name. Wikipedia says it’s named for both daughter and wife, btw.
Who in the Sam Hill are you talking about?
South Africa has quite a trend of naming municipalities with people’s full names, Nelson Mandela Bay Metro being the most prominent. A scan of the list here will find quite a few - besides the aforementioned metro I count at least 14 districts and 13 local municipalities named in that way. (IIRC there are a couple more created in consequence of recent local government elections that are not listed there.) However the names of municipalities in South Africa are mostly used only for administrative/political purposes - one municipality can contain multiple towns and people generally use the names of the towns.
As for actual towns named with first and last names, South Africa has:
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[li]Charl Cilliers, named for a Voortrekker leader.[/li][li]Harrismith, named for colonial governor Harry Smith. (There are also two towns named Ladysmith and Ladismith, both named after his wife, but you excluded titles.)[/li][li]Jan Kempdorp, named for cabinet minister Jan Kemp (“dorp” meaning town in Afrikaans).[/li][li]Louis Trichardt, named for a Voortrekker leader. It was supposed to be renamed to Makhado but this appears to have got caught up in legal wranglings.[/li][li]Piet Retief, named for yet another Voortrekker leader. Was renamed to eMkhondo but Wikipedia and Google Maps don’t seem to have caught up.[/li][li]Paul Roux, named for the pastor who founded the town.[/li][li]Petrus Steyn, named for the owner of the farm where the town was laid out.[/li][/ul]
Jane Lew, West Virginia, population, 409
In Montana:
Homer Youngs Peak (10,621’)
Bob Marshall Wilderness
Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge
For some reason, I don’t think anyone’s mentioned Chevy Chase, MD.
Actually someone did as an example of a potentially misleading name. That is, a name which people may mistakenly think is from a personal name. I did ask for such in the OP.
I want to thank everyone who contributed to this thread. You guys have done a great job and I now have a much longer list than before.
I’m contemplating turning it into a Wikipedia List (like they don’t have a zillion of them already), but we’ll have to see about that. I’ve never created a Wiki page before, so it would be a learning experience for me.
In the high country of Victoria is a hamlet, actually not much more than a campsite called Tom Groggin.
The only problem relating to the OP is nobody seems to know who Tom Groggin was.
It may just be a corruption of an aboriginal word for some geological or wildlife.
On the other side of the country in WA’s Pilbarra region is the mining town of Tom Price, named after Thomas Moore Price, of the North American steel company Kaiser Steel.
When I first heard of The Forest of Nisene Marks I assumed the name referred to something like petroglyphs, and that “Nisene” was the name of a historical or geological era. Nope. Nisese Marks was a woman whose family donated the land that makes up the park.
Oh I just remembered one but I don’t know if it would fit.
In the little desert known as the Bardenas Reales, in northern Spain, there is a Meseta de Sancho Abarca and atop it an Ermita de Sancho Abarca, named not after the image which presides it but after the king who built it, Sancho II “Abarca” (“he reaches”, which is also the name of the shoes he invented in the same adventure in which the mesa got its name and the promise to build the hermitage was made). Abarca is a surname but a personal one. His patronymic was Garcés or García (his family kept alternating Sancho and García as firstnames, so Garcés/García and Sánchez as patronymics).
The mesa is ridiculously cold. It can be 40ºC down at its foot and 10ºC or less above; it’s not unusual for it to have snow all through the year.
The backstory:
This was back when “going downriver to have a few battles with the Muslims” was part of the summer routine. The border kept moving north and south of Caparroso. That August, the Moors were already on the way back to Saragossa and they were taking horses they’d stolen from the Christians (tch, guys! It’s not like a horse is a small thing you can lose easily!). Note than transporting a bunch of ill-tempered mountain horses isn’t all that easy, plus the army had its usual train. They were moving faster than a group of frustrated soldiers on foot but not that much faster. At the time the low areas of Bardenas were still forest (the forest was burned down by Cardenal Cisneros, who to this day isn’t very popular with the locals; that pyromaniac churchman also burned other things such as the castle where the country’s records were kept). The forest also made the goings more slow than the current clear desert would have been.
The Navarrese thought there was no way they’d be able to catch up to the Moors, until the king said “we can cut through the high mesa”. “Are you nuts, that place is fucking cold even now!” “Oh ye of little faith 
You plan on letting a little bit of white fluff stop you?” They were wearing espadrilles or nothing, neither of which is very good cold gear. So the king had them use whatever leather they had to wrap up their feet, tying it up so they’d have impermeable shoes. The shoes didn’t have to last long, just long enough to get up to the mesa and down the other way in time to ambush the retreating army.
It worked.