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. For other lists of eponyms (names derived from people) see
eponym An eponym is a person, a place, or a thing after whom or which someone or something is, or is believed to be, named. The adjectives which are derived from the word eponym include ''eponymous'' and ''eponymic''. Usage of the word The term ''epon ...
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Continents

* Americas (North America and South America) – Amerigo Vespucci


Countries

This is a summary of country name etymologies. *
Bharat Bharat, or Bharath, may refer to: * Bharat (term), the name for India in various Indian languages ** Bharata Khanda, the Sanskrit name for the Indian subcontinent (or South Asia) * Bharata, the name of several legendary figures or groups: ** Bhara ...
– original name for India, derived from either Dushyanta's son Bharata or Rishabha's son Bharata *
Bolivia , image_flag = Bandera de Bolivia (Estado).svg , flag_alt = Horizontal tricolor (red, yellow, and green from top to bottom) with the coat of arms of Bolivia in the center , flag_alt2 = 7 × 7 square p ...
Simón Bolívar Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar y Palacios (24 July 1783 – 17 December 1830) was a Venezuelan military and political leader who led what are currently the countries of Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Panama and B ...
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Cambodia Cambodia (; also Kampuchea ; km, កម្ពុជា, UNGEGN: ), officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country located in the southern portion of the Indochinese Peninsula in Southeast Asia, spanning an area of , bordered by Thailand t ...
Kambu Svayambhuva *
Colombia Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...
Christopher Columbus Christopher Columbus * lij, Cristoffa C(or)ombo * es, link=no, Cristóbal Colón * pt, Cristóvão Colombo * ca, Cristòfor (or ) * la, Christophorus Columbus. (; born between 25 August and 31 October 1451, died 20 May 1506) was a ...
(after the Italian version of his name,
Cristoforo Colombo Christopher Columbus * lij, Cristoffa C(or)ombo * es, link=no, Cristóbal Colón * pt, Cristóvão Colombo * ca, Cristòfor (or ) * la, Christophorus Columbus. (; born between 25 August and 31 October 1451, died 20 May 1506) was a ...
) *
Cook Islands ) , image_map = Cook Islands on the globe (small islands magnified) (Polynesia centered).svg , capital = Avarua , coordinates = , largest_city = Avarua , official_languages = , lan ...
Captain James Cook *
Dominican Republic The Dominican Republic ( ; es, República Dominicana, ) is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean region. It occupies the eastern five-eighths of the island, which it shares wit ...
Saint Dominic Saint Dominic ( es, Santo Domingo; 8 August 1170 – 6 August 1221), also known as Dominic de Guzmán (), was a Castilian Catholic priest, mystic, the founder of the Dominican Order and is the patron saint of astronomers and natural scientis ...
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El Salvador El Salvador (; , meaning " The Saviour"), officially the Republic of El Salvador ( es, República de El Salvador), is a country in Central America. It is bordered on the northeast by Honduras, on the northwest by Guatemala, and on the south b ...
– "The Saviour", referring to
Jesus Jesus, likely from he, יֵשׁוּעַ, translit=Yēšūaʿ, label=Hebrew/Aramaic ( AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ or Jesus of Nazareth (among other names and titles), was a first-century Jewish preacher and religious ...
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Eswatini Eswatini ( ; ss, eSwatini ), officially the Kingdom of Eswatini and formerly named Swaziland ( ; officially renamed in 2018), is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. It is bordered by Mozambique to its northeast and South Africa to its no ...
- Mswati II *
Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...
Jacob Jacob (; ; ar, يَعْقُوب, Yaʿqūb; gr, Ἰακώβ, Iakṓb), later given the name Israel, is regarded as a patriarch of the Israelites and is an important figure in Abrahamic religions, such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. J ...
(alternative name) *
Kiribati Kiribati (), officially the Republic of Kiribati ( gil, ibaberikiKiribati),Kiribati
''The Wor ...
Thomas Gilbert *
Liechtenstein Liechtenstein (), officially the Principality of Liechtenstein (german: link=no, Fürstentum Liechtenstein), is a German-speaking microstate located in the Alps between Austria and Switzerland. Liechtenstein is a semi-constitutional monarchy ...
Anton Florian of Liechtenstein Anton Florian (28 May 1656 – 11 October 1721) was the Prince of Liechtenstein between 1718 and 1721. Anton Florian was born in Wilfersdorf, in what is now Lower Austria. During the War of the Spanish Succession, he went to Spain, where he was ...
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Marshall Islands The Marshall Islands ( mh, Ṃajeḷ), officially the Republic of the Marshall Islands ( mh, Aolepān Aorōkin Ṃajeḷ),'' () is an independent island country and microstate near the Equator in the Pacific Ocean, slightly west of the Internati ...
John Marshall John Marshall (September 24, 1755July 6, 1835) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the fourth Chief Justice of the United States from 1801 until his death in 1835. He remains the longest-serving chief justice and fourth-longes ...
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Mauritius Mauritius ( ; french: Maurice, link=no ; mfe, label=Mauritian Creole, Moris ), officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean about off the southeast coast of the African continent, east of Madagascar. It incl ...
Maurice of Nassau *
Mozambique Mozambique (), officially the Republic of Mozambique ( pt, Moçambique or , ; ny, Mozambiki; sw, Msumbiji; ts, Muzambhiki), is a country located in southeastern Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi ...
Mussa Bin Bique Mussa Bin Bique ( ar, موسى بن بيك), other names ''Musa Al Big'' or ''Mossa Al Bique'' or ''Mussa Ben Mbiki'' or ''Mussa Ibn Malik'', was ruler of the Island of Mozambique and wealthy merchant, before the Portuguese took over the island in ...
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Philippines The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no), * bik, Republika kan Filipinas * ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas * cbk, República de Filipinas * hil, Republ ...
Philip II of Spain Philip II) in Spain, while in Portugal and his Italian kingdoms he ruled as Philip I ( pt, Filipe I). (21 May 152713 September 1598), also known as Philip the Prudent ( es, Felipe el Prudente), was King of Spain from 1556, King of Portugal from ...
* Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Christopher Saint Christopher ( el, Ἅγιος Χριστόφορος, ''Ágios Christóphoros'') is veneration, venerated by several Christianity, Christian denominations as a martyr killed in the reign of the 3rd-century Roman Empire, Roman emperor Deciu ...
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Saint Lucia Saint Lucia ( acf, Sent Lisi, french: Sainte-Lucie) is an island country of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean. The island was previously called Iouanalao and later Hewanorra, names given by the native Arawaks and Caribs, two Amerindian ...
Lucy of Syracuse ''(?)'' *
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Saint Vincent and the Grenadines () is an island country in the Caribbean. It is located in the southeast Windward Islands of the Lesser Antilles, which lie in the West Indies at the southern end of the eastern border of the Caribbean Sea wh ...
Saint Vincent *
San Marino San Marino (, ), officially the Republic of San Marino ( it, Repubblica di San Marino; ), also known as the Most Serene Republic of San Marino ( it, Serenissima Repubblica di San Marino, links=no), is the fifth-smallest country in the world an ...
Saint Marinus *
São Tomé and Príncipe São Tomé and Príncipe (; pt, São Tomé e Príncipe (); English: " Saint Thomas and Prince"), officially the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe ( pt, República Democrática de São Tomé e Príncipe), is a Portuguese-speaking i ...
Saint Thomas *
Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in Western Asia. It covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and has a land area of about , making it the fifth-largest country in Asia, the second-largest in the A ...
Muhammad bin Saud *
Seychelles Seychelles (, ; ), officially the Republic of Seychelles (french: link=no, République des Seychelles; Creole: ''La Repiblik Sesel''), is an archipelagic state consisting of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean. Its capital and largest city, V ...
Jean Moreau de Sechelles *
Solomon Islands Solomon Islands is an island country consisting of six major islands and over 900 smaller islands in Oceania, to the east of Papua New Guinea and north-west of Vanuatu. It has a land area of , and a population of approx. 700,000. Its capita ...
Solomon Solomon (; , ),, ; ar, سُلَيْمَان, ', , ; el, Σολομών, ; la, Salomon also called Jedidiah (Hebrew language, Hebrew: , Modern Hebrew, Modern: , Tiberian Hebrew, Tiberian: ''Yăḏīḏăyāh'', "beloved of Yahweh, Yah"), ...
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Uzbekistan Uzbekistan (, ; uz, Ozbekiston, italic=yes / , ; russian: Узбекистан), officially the Republic of Uzbekistan ( uz, Ozbekiston Respublikasi, italic=yes / ; russian: Республика Узбекистан), is a doubly landlocked cou ...
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Öz Beg Khan Öz is a Turkish surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Doğan Öz (1934–1978), Turkish prosecutor assassinated during his investigation of the Turkish deep state. * Emanuel Öz (born 1979), Swedish politician * Mehmet Öz Meh ...
of
Golden Horde The Golden Horde, self-designated as Ulug Ulus, 'Great State' in Turkic, was originally a Mongols, Mongol and later Turkicized khanate established in the 13th century and originating as the northwestern sector of the Mongol Empire. With the fr ...


Former countries

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Principality of Antioch The Principality of Antioch was one of the crusader states created during the First Crusade which included parts of modern-day Turkey and Syria. The principality was much smaller than the County of Edessa or the Kingdom of Jerusalem. It extende ...
, now part of
Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...
Antiochus Antiochus is a Greek male first name, which was a dynastic name for rulers of the Seleucid Empire and the Kingdom of Commagene. In Jewish historical memory, connected with the Maccabean Revolt and the holiday of Hanukkah, "Antiochus" refers spec ...
, father of
Seleucus I Nicator Seleucus I Nicator (; ; grc-gre, Σέλευκος Νικάτωρ , ) was a Macedonian Greek general who was an officer and successor ( ''diadochus'') of Alexander the Great. Seleucus was the founder of the eponymous Seleucid Empire. In the po ...
* Lotharingia (Lorraine), now part of
Belgium Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to th ...
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France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pac ...
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Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...
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Luxembourg Luxembourg ( ; lb, Lëtzebuerg ; french: link=no, Luxembourg; german: link=no, Luxemburg), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, ; french: link=no, Grand-Duché de Luxembourg ; german: link=no, Großherzogtum Luxemburg is a small lan ...
, and the
Netherlands ) , anthem = ( en, "William of Nassau") , image_map = , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Kingdom of the Netherlands , established_title = Before independence , established_date = Spanish Netherl ...
Lothair I Lothair I or Lothar I (Dutch and Medieval Latin: ''Lotharius''; German: ''Lothar''; French: ''Lothaire''; Italian: ''Lotario'') (795 – 29 September 855) was emperor (817–855, co-ruling with his father until 840), and the governor of Bavar ...
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Northern Rhodesia Northern Rhodesia was a British protectorate in southern Africa, south central Africa, now the independent country of Zambia. It was formed in 1911 by Amalgamation (politics), amalgamating the two earlier protectorates of Barotziland-North-West ...
, now
Zambia Zambia (), officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Central Africa, Central, Southern Africa, Southern and East Africa, although it is typically referred to as being in Southern Africa at its most cent ...
Cecil Rhodes Cecil John Rhodes (5 July 1853 – 26 March 1902) was a British mining magnate and politician in southern Africa who served as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony from 1890 to 1896. An ardent believer in British imperialism, Rhodes and his Br ...
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Southern Rhodesia Southern Rhodesia was a landlocked self-governing British Crown colony in southern Africa, established in 1923 and consisting of British South Africa Company (BSAC) territories lying south of the Zambezi River. The region was informally kn ...
, now
Zimbabwe Zimbabwe (), officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country located in Southeast Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the south-west, Zambia to the north, and Mozam ...
Cecil Rhodes Cecil John Rhodes (5 July 1853 – 26 March 1902) was a British mining magnate and politician in southern Africa who served as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony from 1890 to 1896. An ardent believer in British imperialism, Rhodes and his Br ...
* Terra Mariana ("Land of Mary"), now
Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...
and
Latvia Latvia ( or ; lv, Latvija ; ltg, Latveja; liv, Leţmō), officially the Republic of Latvia ( lv, Latvijas Republika, links=no, ltg, Latvejas Republika, links=no, liv, Leţmō Vabāmō, links=no), is a country in the Baltic region of ...
Mary, mother of Jesus Mary; arc, ܡܪܝܡ, translit=Mariam; ar, مريم, translit=Maryam; grc, Μαρία, translit=María; la, Maria; cop, Ⲙⲁⲣⲓⲁ, translit=Maria was a first-century Jews, Jewish woman of Nazareth, the wife of Saint Joseph, Jose ...


British Overseas Territories The British Overseas Territories (BOTs), also known as the United Kingdom Overseas Territories (UKOTs), are fourteen dependent territory, territories with a constitutional and historical link with the United Kingdom. They are the last remna ...

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Bermuda ) , anthem = "God Save the King" , song_type = National song , song = " Hail to Bermuda" , image_map = , map_caption = , image_map2 = , mapsize2 = , map_caption2 = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = , e ...
Juan de Bermúdez Juan de Bermúdez (; ; died 1570) was a Spanish navigator of the 16th century. Early life Juan Bermúdez was born in Palos de la Frontera, Province of Huelva, Crown of Castile. Voyages In 1505, while sailing back to Spain from a provisioning v ...
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Falkland Islands The Falkland Islands (; es, Islas Malvinas, link=no ) is an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean on the Patagonian Shelf. The principal islands are about east of South America's southern Patagonian coast and about from Cape Dubouzet ...
Anthony Cary, 5th Viscount Falkland Anthony Cary, 5th Viscount Falkland PC (16 February 1656 – 24 May 1694; the surname is spelt Carey in some sources) was an English born, Scottish nobleman and English politician. He was born at Farley Castle, Somerset, the son of Henry Cary, ...
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Gibraltar ) , anthem = " God Save the King" , song = " Gibraltar Anthem" , image_map = Gibraltar location in Europe.svg , map_alt = Location of Gibraltar in Europe , map_caption = United Kingdom shown in pale green , mapsize = , image_map2 = Gib ...
Tariq ibn Ziyad (from ar, جبل طارق, Jabal Tariq, Mountain of Tariq) * Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
Helena of Constantinople Flavia Julia Helena ''Augusta'' (also known as Saint Helena and Helena of Constantinople, ; grc-gre, Ἑλένη, ''Helénē''; AD 246/248– c. 330) was an '' Augusta'' and Empress of the Roman Empire and mother of Emperor Constantine th ...
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Tristão da Cunha Tristão da Cunha (sometimes misspelled Tristão d'Acunha; ; c. 1460 – c. 1507) was a Portuguese explorer and naval commander. In 1499, he served as ambassador from King Manuel I of Portugal to Pope Leo X, leading a luxurious embassy presentin ...
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South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands ) , anthem = "God Save the King" , song_type = , song = , image_map = South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands in United Kingdom.svg , map_caption = Location of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands in the southern Atlantic Oce ...
George III George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 173829 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and of Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of the two kingdoms on 1 January 1801, after which he was King of the United Kingdom of Great Br ...
and
John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, PC, FRS (13 November 1718 – 30 April 1792) was a British statesman who succeeded his grandfather Edward Montagu, 3rd Earl of Sandwich as the Earl of Sandwich in 1729, at the age of ten. During his life ...
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"Lands" of Antarctica

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Adélie Land Adélie Land (french: Terre Adélie, ) is a claimed territory on the continent of Antarctica. It stretches from a portion of the Southern Ocean coastline all the way inland to the South Pole. France has administered it as one of five districts ...
Adèle Dumont d'Urville Adèle Dumont d'Urville ( née Adèle Dorothée Pépin, also spelled as Adélie , 1798 – 8 May 1842) was the wife of French explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville, after whom Adélie Land, Adele Island, Adélie penguin and Cape Pepin are named. Wh ...
* Edward VII Land
King Edward VII Edward VII (Albert Edward; 9 November 1841 – 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Emperor of India, from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910. The second child and eldest son of Queen Victoria a ...
* Queen Maud LandQueen Maud of Norway * Ross DependencyJames Clark Ross *
Victoria Land Victoria Land is a region in eastern Antarctica which fronts the western side of the Ross Sea and the Ross Ice Shelf, extending southward from about 70°30'S to 78°00'S, and westward from the Ross Sea to the edge of the Antarctic Plateau. It ...
Queen Victoria Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until Death and state funeral of Queen Victoria, her death in 1901. Her reign of 63 years and 21 ...


Towns and cities

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Caesarea Caesarea () ( he, קֵיסָרְיָה, ), ''Keysariya'' or ''Qesarya'', often simplified to Keisarya, and Qaysaria, is an affluent town in north-central Israel, which inherits its name and much of its territory from the ancient city of Caesare ...
(various cities in various countries) –
Julius Caesar Gaius Julius Caesar (; ; 12 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC), was a Roman general and statesman. A member of the First Triumvirate, Caesar led the Roman armies in the Gallic Wars before defeating his political rival Pompey in a civil war, and ...
or Roman emperors


Afghanistan

* Ahmad Abad, Afghanistan
Ahmad Shah Massoud ) , branch = Jamiat-e Islami / Shura-e Nazar Afghan Armed Forces United Islamic Front , serviceyears = 1975–2001 , rank = General , unit = , commands = Mujahideen commander during the Soviet–Afghan Wa ...
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Ahmad Shah Baba Mina Ahmad Shah Baba Mina ( ps, احمدشاه بابا مېنه), formerly known as Arzan Qimat (ارزان قیمت), is a neighborhood in far eastern Kabul (District 12), nearby the Pul-e-Charkhi prison. Formerly a village, the area has become a mo ...
Ahmad Shah Durrani Ahmad Shāh Durrānī ( ps, احمد شاه دراني; prs, احمد شاه درانی), also known as Ahmad Shāh Abdālī (), was the founder of the Durrani Empire and is regarded as the founder of the modern Afghanistan. In July 1747, Ahm ...
* Ai-Khanoum, formerly named ''Alexandria on the Oxus'' –
Alexander the Great Alexander III of Macedon ( grc, wikt:Ἀλέξανδρος, Ἀλέξανδρος, Alexandros; 20/21 July 356 BC – 10/11 June 323 BC), commonly known as Alexander the Great, was a king of the Ancient Greece, ancient Greek kingdom of Maced ...
* Ayub Khan Mena (Kabul) –
Ayub Khan (Emir of Afghanistan) Ghazi Mohammad Ayub Khan ( ps, ; Dari: ) (1857 – 7 April 1914) also known as The Victor of Maiwand or The Afghan Prince Charlie was, for a while, the governor of Herat Province in the Emirate of Afghanistan. He was Emir of Afghanistan from ...
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Ghaziabad, Kunar Ghāzīābād ( fa, غازی آباد) is a District in Kunar Province, in eastern Afghanistan. Named after the khan of Ghaziabad, Amir Muhammad Ghazi Khan Shaheed.National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency The National Geospatial-Intelligence A ...
– Amir Muhammad Ghazi Khan Shaheed (died in 1980s) * Ghazi Amanullah Khan Town
Amanullah Khan Ghazi Amanullah Khan (Pashto and Dari: ; 1 June 1892 – 25 April 1960) was the sovereign of Afghanistan from 1919, first as Emir and after 1926 as King, until his abdication in 1929. After the end of the Third Anglo-Afghan War in August 1919, ...
* Jalalabad
Jalal-ud-Din Muhammad Akbar Abu'l-Fath Jalal-ud-din Muhammad Akbar (25 October 1542 – 27 October 1605), popularly known as Akbar the Great ( fa, ), and also as Akbar I (), was the third Mughal emperors, Mughal emperor, who reigned from 1556 to 1605. Akbar succeede ...
* Jamal Mena, Kabul – Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī *
Kandahar Kandahar (; Kandahār, , Qandahār) is a List of cities in Afghanistan, city in Afghanistan, located in the south of the country on the Arghandab River, at an elevation of . It is Afghanistan's second largest city after Kabul, with a population ...
Alexander the Great Alexander III of Macedon ( grc, wikt:Ἀλέξανδρος, Ἀλέξανδρος, Alexandros; 20/21 July 356 BC – 10/11 June 323 BC), commonly known as Alexander the Great, was a king of the Ancient Greece, ancient Greek kingdom of Maced ...
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Khwaja Bahauddin District Khwaja Bahauddin District is a district of Takhar Province, Afghanistan. The district was created from a portion of Yangi Qala District in 2005. 25 villages are located in Khwaja Bahauddin. Geography Khwaja Bahauddin has an area of 178.2 square ...
- Khwaja Bahauddin, Naqshband of Turkistan *
Khushal Khan Mena Khushal Khan Mena ( ps, خوشحال خان مېنه) is located in the western suburbs of Kabul, Afghanistan, adjacent to Kabul University.http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/pdfid/4b6fe1140.pdf It is an old area that is mostly populated by ethnic Pas ...
Khushal Khattak *
Mohammad Agha District Mohammad Agha District (Pashto: د محمد اغه ولسوالی; Dari: ولسوالی محمد آغا) is a district of Logar Province, Afghanistan. It lies just south of Kabul Province. The district capital is Mohammad Agha. The Afghan governm ...
Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar ( fa, آقا محمد خان قاجار, translit=Âqâ Mohammad Xân-e Qâjâr; 14 March 1742 – 17 June 1797), also known by his regnal name of Agha Mohammad Shah (, ), was the founder of the Qajar dynasty of Iran, rul ...
, a founder of the Qajar dynasty *
Nadir Shah Kot District Nadir Shah Kot District ( ps, نادر شاه کوټ ولسوالۍ, fa, ولسوالی نادرشاه کوت) is situated in the western part of Khost Province, Afghanistan. It borders Paktia Province and Shamal District to the west, Qalandar D ...
Mohammed Nadir Shah Mohammed Nadir Shah (Persian and ps, محمد نادر شاه – born Mohammed Nadir Khan; 9 April 1883 – 8 November 1933) was King of Afghanistan from 15 October 1929 until his assassination in November 1933. Previously, he served as Minist ...
* Sheberghan
Shapur II Shapur II ( pal, 𐭱𐭧𐭯𐭥𐭧𐭥𐭩 ; New Persian: , ''Šāpur'', 309 – 379), also known as Shapur the Great, was the tenth Sasanian King of Kings (Shahanshah) of Iran. The longest-reigning monarch in Iranian history, he reigned fo ...
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Sher Khan Bandar Sher Khan or Shir Khan ( ps, شیر خان بندر; prs, شیرخان بندر) is a border town in the northern Kunduz Province of Afghanistan, next to the Panj River. The town's main attraction is the Sher Khan Bandar, which is a dry port and ...
Sher Khan Nashir Sher Khan Nashir (also: Nasher) was the hereditary Grand Khan (Loy Khan) of the Nashir clan of the Kharoti (Ghilji) tribe and governor (Wali) of Northern Afghanistan in the 1930s, known as the "father of Kunduz. He was apparently poisoned by the K ...
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Wazir Akbar Khan, Kabul Wazir Akbar Khan () is a neighbourhood in northern Kabul, Afghanistan, forming part of District 10. It is named after the 19th century Afghan Emir Wazir Akbar Khan. It is one of the wealthiest parts of Kabul. Many foreign embassies were located the ...
and Wazirabad, KabulWazir Akbar Khan


Albania

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Ali Demi (neighborhood) The Ali Demi neighborhood () is a neighborhood located in Tirana, Albania.Jeroen van Marle, Alwyn Thomson, ''Tirana In Your Pocket'', p.19 The neighborhood is named after Ali Demi, a World War II hero. The street with the same name is its main art ...
Ali Demi * Asim Zeneli (Albania) –
Asim Zeneli Asim Zeneli (3 May 1916 – 2 July 1943) was an Albanian partisan during World War II. His death against Italian troops in 1943 in Mezhgoran became a rallying point for LANÇ. Posthumously he was awarded the highest honour of the country, Her ...
, Albanian hero *
Bajram Curri (town) Bajram Curri (), formerly known as Kolgecaj, is a town and administrative unit in the municipality of Tropojë, northeastern Albania, within the historical ethnographic region of the Gjakova Highlands. The town is located in a remote and mounta ...
– Albanian activist of Independence
Bajram Curri Bajram Curri (16 January 1862 – 29 March 1925) was an Albanian chieftain, politician and activist who struggled for the independence of Albania, later struggling for Kosovo's incorporation into it following the 1913 Treaty of London. He wa ...
* Blloku Vasil Shanto –
Vasil Shanto Vasil Shanto (17 August 1913 – 1 February 1944), called Vasko was one of the founders of the Albanian Communist Party. He was the leader, along with Qemal Stafa, of the Shkodër communist group. One of the delegates of the party, he was freque ...
, Albanian hero * Don Bosco (Tirana) –
John Bosco John Melchior Bosco ( it, Giovanni Melchiorre Bosco; pms, Gioann Melchior Bòsch; 16 August 181531 January 1888), popularly known as Don Bosco , was an Catholic Church in Italy, Italian Catholic priest, educator, writer and saint of the 19t ...
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Kastriot, Albania Kastriot ( sq-definite, Kastrioti) is a village and a former municipality in the Dibër County, northeastern Albania Albania ( ; sq, Shqipëri or ), or , also or . officially the Republic of Albania ( sq, Republika e Shqipërisë), is a c ...
George Kastrioti Skanderbeg , reign = 28 November 1443 – 17 January 1468 , predecessor = Gjon Kastrioti , successor = Gjon Kastrioti II , spouse = Donika Arianiti , issue = Gjon Kastrioti II , royal house = Kastrioti , father ...
* Mihal Grameno (neighborhood) –
Mihal Grameno Mihal Grameno (13 January 1871 – 5 February 1931) was an Albanian nationalist, politician, writer, freedom fighter, and journalist. He was one of the four initial appointed delegates from Korçë to the Albanian National Congress that proc ...
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Skënderbegas Skënderbegas is a village and a former municipality in the Elbasan County, central Albania Albania ( ; sq, Shqipëri or ), or , also or . officially the Republic of Albania ( sq, Republika e Shqipërisë), is a country in Southeastern Eu ...
George Kastrioti Skanderbeg , reign = 28 November 1443 – 17 January 1468 , predecessor = Gjon Kastrioti , successor = Gjon Kastrioti II , spouse = Donika Arianiti , issue = Gjon Kastrioti II , royal house = Kastrioti , father ...


Algeria

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Abdelkader Azil Metkaouak is a town in north-eastern Algeria ) , image_map = Algeria (centered orthographic projection).svg , map_caption = , image_map2 = , capital = Algiers , coordinates ...
– Abdelkader Azil (1927–1959), Algerian activist *
Abou El Hassen Abou El Hassen is a town and commune in Abou El Hassan District, Chlef Province, lying on the Mediterranean Sea, northern Algeria ) , image_map = Algeria (centered orthographic projection).svg , map_caption = , image ...
– Abu al-Hassan (1934–1962), Algerian independence hero *
Ahmed Rachedi, Mila Ahmed Rachedi is a town and commune in Mila Province, Algeria ) , image_map = Algeria (centered orthographic projection).svg , map_caption = , image_map2 = , capital = Algiers , coord ...
– Ahmed Rachedi (1930–1957), Algerian revolutionary martyr *
Assi Youcef At vu gherdan is a town and Communes of Kabylia, Algeria, commune in Tizi Ouzou Province in northern Algeria. References

Communes of Tizi Ouzou Province {{TiziOuzou-geo-stub ...
– Bouiri Boualem (Youcef) (1927–1960), Algerian military *
Bekkouche Lakhdar Bekkouche Lakhdar is a town and commune in Skikda Province in north-eastern Algeria ) , image_map = Algeria (centered orthographic projection).svg , map_caption = , image_map2 = , capital ...
– Bekkouche Lakhdar (d.1958), Algerian martyr *
Belouizdad, Algiers Mohamed Belouizdad ( ar, بلوزداد) is a quarter of Algiers, Algeria in Algiers Province. The quarter was formerly known as Belcourt during the French colonisation period. It was renamed as Hamma-El Annasser ( ar, الحامة-العناصر) ...
– Algerian militant and nationalist Mohamed Belouizdad * Benabdelmalek Ramdane – Abdelmalek Ramdane (d.1954), first martyr of the revolution * Bennasser Benchohra – Al-Nasser Bin Fameh (1804–1884) * Bordj Badji Mokhtar – Badji Mokhtar (1919–1954), Algerian revolutionary *
Bordj Emir Khaled Bordj Emir Khaled Chikh is a town in northern Algeria ) , image_map = Algeria (centered orthographic projection).svg , map_caption = , image_map2 = , capital = Algiers , coordinates ...
Khalid ibn Hashim Khaled ibn Hashimi ibn Hajj Abd al Qadir (1875 – January 1936) was the grandson of the military leader Abd al Qadir and was for a time a prominent opponent of the nature of French colonial rule in Algeria. Early years Khaled ibn Hashimi was born ...
, grandson of the military leader Abd al Qadir * Bordj Omar Driss – Commander Omar Driss (1931–1959) *
Bouraoui Belhadef Bouraoui Belhadef is a town and Communes of Algeria, commune in Jijel Province, Algeria. According to the 2002 census it has a population of 10,965. Bouraoui Belhadef is a commune named after Bouraoui Ali ben cherif, a local hero of the liberatio ...
– Bouraoui Ali Ben Cherif, a local hero of the national liberation war *
Constantine (Algeria) Constantine ( ar, قسنطينة '), also spelled Qacentina or Kasantina, is the capital of Constantine Province in northeastern Algeria. During Roman times it was called Cirta and was renamed "Constantina" in honor of emperor Constantine the Gre ...
Constantine the Great Constantine I ( , ; la, Flavius Valerius Constantinus, ; ; 27 February 22 May 337), also known as Constantine the Great, was Roman emperor from AD 306 to 337, the first one to Constantine the Great and Christianity, convert to Christiani ...
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Didouche Mourad Didouche Mourad is a town and commune in Constantine Province, Algeria ) , image_map = Algeria (centered orthographic projection).svg , map_caption = , image_map2 = , capital = Algiers ...
Mourad Didouche Mourad Didouche (1927–1955 in Kabyle: Diduc Muṛad, Arabic: ديدوش مراد ) was a veteran of the Algerian War of independence (1954–1962). Biography Mourad Didouche, nicknamed si Abdelkader, was born on July 13, 1927 at ...
, a veteran of the Algerian War of independence * El Emir Abdelkader, Aïn Témouchent and
Emir Abdelkader, Jijel Emir Abdelkader, Jijel is a town and commune in Jijel Province, Algeria ) , image_map = Algeria (centered orthographic projection).svg , map_caption = , image_map2 = , capital = Algi ...
Emir Abdelkader *
Hassani Abdelkrim Hassani Abdelkrim ( ar, حساني ﻋﺒﺪ اﻟﻜﺮﻳﻢ) is a town and commune in Debila District, El Oued Province, Algeria. According to the 2008 census it has a population of 22,755, up from 17,207 in 1998, with a population growth rate ...
– Hassani Abdul Karim (d.1960) *
Hussein Dey (commune) Hussein Dey is a suburb of the city of Algiers in northern Algeria, named after Hussein Dey, the last of the Ottoman provincial rulers of Algiers. Notable people * Mohamed Arkab Mohamed Arkab (born 19 February 1966) is an Algerian politic ...
Hussein Dey Hussein Dey (real name Hüseyin bin Hüseyin; 1765 – 1838; ar, حسين داي) was the last Dey of the Deylik of Algiers. Early life He was born either in İzmir or Urla in the Ottoman Empire. He went to Istanbul and joined the Canoneers ( ...
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Méchraâ Houari Boumédienne Méchraâ Houari Boumédienne ( ar, مشرع ھوارى بومدين) is a town and commune in Abadla District, Béchar Province, in western Algeria. According to the 2008 census its population is 3,091, down from 3,133 in 1998, with an annual gro ...
Houari Boumédiène Houari Boumédiène ( ar,  ; ALA-LC: ''Hawwārī Būmadyan''; born Mohammed Ben Brahim Boukherouba; 23 August 1932 – 27 December 1978) was an Algerian politician and army colonel who served as Chairman of the Revolutionary Council of Alge ...
, President of Algeria * Messaoud Boudjeriou – Messaoud Boudjeriou (1930–1961), Algerian revolutionary * Mohammed Boudiaf (M'Sila)
Mohamed Boudiaf Mohamed Boudiaf (23 June 1919 – 29 June 1992, ar, محمد بوضياف; ALA-LC: ''Muḥammad Bū-Ḍiyāf''), also called Si Tayeb el Watani, was an Algerian political leader and one of the founders of the revolutionary National Liberat ...
, President of Algeria *
Mostefa Ben Brahim, Sid Bel Abbés Mostefa Ben Brahim is a town and Communes of Algeria, commune in Sidi Bel Abbès Province in northwestern Algeria. References

Communes of Sidi Bel Abbès Province {{SidiBelAbbès-geo-stub ...
– Mostefa Ben Brahim (1800–1867), Algerian poet *
Ramdane Djamel Ramdane Djamel is a town and commune in Skikda Province in north-eastern Algeria. The town is home to football club WA Ramdane Djamel, which currently plays in the Ligue Nationale du Football Amateur Ligue Nationale du Football Amateur commonl ...
– Ramdane Ahcène (1934–1962), hero of the national liberation *
Salah Bey (town) Salah Bey is a town and commune in Sétif Province in north-eastern Algeria. The town is named after Salah Bey, the bey of Constantine Constantine most often refers to: * Constantine the Great, Roman emperor from 306 to 337, also known as Cons ...
Salah Bey ben Mostefa Salah Bey ben Mostefa ( ar, صالح باي; born 1725 in Izmir, died 1792 in Constantine), was the bey of the Beylik of Constantine in the Deylik of Algiers from 1771 to 1792, and one of the most famous in the province. Salah Bey's governance ...
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Salah Bouchaour Salah Bouchaour is a town and commune in Skikda Province in north-eastern Algeria ) , image_map = Algeria (centered orthographic projection).svg , map_caption = , image_map2 = , capital = ...
– Salah Bouchaour (1933–1962), Algerian revolutionary martyr * Sidi Bel Abbès – Sidi Bel Abbès El Bouzidi (d.1780), a Muslim marabout * Sidi M'Hamed
Sidi M'hamed Bou Qobrine Muhammad ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Gashtuli al-Jurjuri al-Azhari Abu Qabrayn (; died in 1793/1794), mostly known as Sidi M'hamed Bou Qobrine ( ar, سيدي محمد بو قبرين) was a Berber ash'ari alim'', founder of the Rahmaniyya Sufi order ...
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Zighoud Youcef (Town) Zighoud Youcef ( ar, زيغود يوسف) is a town and commune in Constantine Province, Algeria. According to the 2008 census it has a population of 28,764. The town was formerly known as Smendou, and was renamed to its current name in honor of Yo ...
Youcef Zighoud Youcef Zighoud ( ar, يوسف زيغود February 18, 1921 – September 25, 1956), also known as Colonel Si Ahmed, was an Algerian FLN party fighter during the Algerian War. On August 20, 1955, he planned a resistance and struggle against the ...
, guerrilla leader *
Zmalet El Emir Abdelkader Zmalet El Emir Abdelkader is a town and Communes of Algeria, commune in Tiaret Province in north-western Algeria. References

Communes of Tiaret Province {{Tiaret-geo-stub ...
Emir Abdelkader


Angola

* Comandante Valódia (Luanda) – Joaquim Domingos Augusto "Valódia" (died 1975), one of the prominent generals during the Angolan War of Independence * Moçâmedes – Governor General of Angola, José D'Almeida Vasconcelos de Oliveira de Soveral e Carvalho, Baron of Mossâmedes (died 1805) * Nelito Soares (Luanda) – Nelito Soares (1943–1975), Angolan revolutionary * Patrice Lumumba, Luanda – Patrice Lumumba, Congolese Prime Minister *
Porto Alexandre, Angola Porto Alexandre, occasionally known in English as ''Port Alexander'', is a bay in Angola. It is located in the Namibe Province. Geography Porto Alexandre is a very well-sheltered bay of the South Atlantic Ocean. The bay is facing east, with high ...
- James Edward Alexander * Rocha Pinto (Luanda) –
João Teixeira Pinto João Teixeira da Rocha Pinto (22 March 1876 – 25 November 1917) was a Portuguese military officer who served throughout his career in the administration of Portuguese colonies of Africa. João Pinto bore the nickname ''The Devil's Chief'' ( ...
* Sá da Bandeira (Huambo) - Bernardo de Sá Nogueira de Figueiredo, 1st Marquis of Sá da Bandeira * Viana, Luanda – Governor General of Angola, Horácio José de Sá Viana Rebelo (1910–1995) Former: * ''Carmona'' was the name of
Uíge Uíge ( kg, Wizidi), formerly Carmona, is a provincial capital city in northwestern Angola, with a population of 322,531 (2014 census), and a municipality, with a population of 519,196 (2014 census), located in the province of the same name. I ...
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Oscar Carmona Oscar, OSCAR, or The Oscar may refer to: People * Oscar (given name), an Irish- and English-language name also used in other languages; the article includes the names Oskar, Oskari, Oszkár, Óscar, and other forms. * Oscar (Irish mythology) ...
, Portuguese President * ''Henrique de Carvalho'' was the name of
Saurimo Saurimo, formerly known as Henrique de Carvalho, is a city in Angola, capital of the Lunda Sul Province :''Lunda Sul Province is not to be confused with Luanda Sul, a satellite city of Luanda, the capital of Angola.'' Lunda Sul ("South Lunda" ...
- Henrique de Carvalho (1844-1909) * ''Sá da Bandeira'' was the name of
Lubango Lubango, formerly known as Sá da Bandeira, is a municipality in Angola, capital of the Huíla Province, with a population of 914,456 in 2022. The city center had a population of 600,751 in 2014 making it the second-most populous city in Angola af ...
- Bernardo de Sá Nogueira de Figueiredo, 1st Marquis of Sá da Bandeira * ''Serpa Pinto'' was the name of
Menongue Menongue, formerly Serpa Pinto, is a town, a municipality, and the capital of Cuando Cubango Province in Angola. The municipality had a population of 320,914 in 2014. It is one of the four municipalities in Angola whose inhabitants are predominan ...
- Alexandre de Serpa Pinto, Portuguese explorer * ''Silva Porto'' was the name of Cuito -
António da Silva Porto António Francisco Ferreira da Silva Porto (24 August 1817 – 2 April 1890) was a Portuguese trader and explorer in Angola, in the Portuguese West Africa. Biography Silva Porto was born to a poor family in Porto in continental Portugal; h ...
* ''Vila Arriaga'' was the name of
Bibala Bibala (known as Vila Arriaga until 1975) is a town, with a population of 10,500 (2014), and a municipality in southern Angola. It lies in Namibe Province. The municipality of Bibala covers with a population of 64,504 (2014). It is bordered to ...
- Portuguese President
Manuel José de Arriaga Manuel José de Arriaga Brum da Silveira e Peyrelongue (; 8 July 1840 – 5 March 1917) was a Portuguese lawyer, the first attorney-general and the first elected president of the First Portuguese Republic, following the deposition of King Man ...
* ''Vila Gago Coutinho'' was the name of
Lumbala N'guimbo Lumbala N'guimbo is a commune of Angola, located in the province of Moxico. See also * Communes of Angola The Communes of Angola ( pt, comunas) are Administrative division, administrative units in Angola after Municipalities of Angola, mun ...
- Carlos Viegas Gago Coutinho * ''Villa João de Almeida'' was the name of
Chibia Chibia is a town and Municipalities of Angola, municipality in the province of Huíla Province, Huíla, Angola. The municipality had a population of 190,670 in 2014. It is served by a station on the southern network of the national railway networ ...
- João de Almeida (1873-1953), Portuguese military * ''Vila Pereira d'Eça'' was the name of Ondjiva -
António Júlio da Costa Pereira de Eça António Júlio da Costa Pereira de Eça GCIC (Lisbon, 31 March 1852 — 6 November 1917) - commonly known as Pereira d'Eça - was a general of the Portuguese Army The Portuguese Army ( pt, Exército Português) is the land component of the ...
* ''Vila Robert Williams'' was the name of
Caála Caála is a town and a municipality located 23 km west of the city of Huambo, in the namesake province in Angola. It was known as Vila Robert Williams while Angola was a Portuguese colony, after the famous railroad developer and mining magna ...
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Sir Robert Williams, 1st Baronet, of Park Sir Robert Williams, 1st Baronet, (21 January 1860 – 25 April 1938) was a Scottish mining engineer, pioneering explorer of Africa, entrepreneur, and railroad developer who was chiefly responsible for the discovery of the vast copper deposits ...
* ''Vila Roçadas'' was the name of
Xangongo Xangongo (pre-1975: ''Vila Roçadas'') is a town, with a population of 35,000 (2014), and a commune in the municipality of Ombadja, province of Cunene, Angola. It is also the seat of that municipality and is located at around . It was also the s ...
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José Augusto Alves Roçadas José Augusto Alves Roçadas (Vila Real, Portugal, Vila Real, 6 April 1865 – Lisbon, 28 April 1926) was an officer of the Portuguese Army and a colonial administrator. In 1907 troops under his command in Portuguese Angola put down a revolt by t ...
* ''Vila Salazar'' was the name of
N'dalatando N'dalatando, formerly Vila Salazar, is a town, with a population of 161,584 (2014), and a commune in the municipality of Cazengo, province of Cuanza Norte, Angola. It is also the seat of the Cazengo municipality and the provincial capital. H ...
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António de Oliveira Salazar António de Oliveira Salazar (, , ; 28 April 1889 – 27 July 1970) was a Portuguese dictator who served as President of the Council of Ministers from 1932 to 1968. Having come to power under the ("National Dictatorship"), he reframed the re ...
, Portuguese dictator * ''Vila Teixeira da Silva'' was the name of
Bailundo Bailundo (pre-1975 Vila Teixeira da Silva) is a municipality, with a population of 294,494 (2014), and a town, with a population of 70,481 (2014), in the province of Huambo, Angola. In the 1990s, Bailundo was the location of the headquarters of ...
- Francisco Teixeira da Silva (1826-1894), Portuguese colonial administrator


Andorra

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Meritxell Meritxell () is a village in Andorra, located in the parish of Canillo in the north of the country near the French border. Our Lady of Meritxell is the patron saint A patron saint, patroness saint, patron hallow or heavenly protector is ...
Our Lady of Meritxell Our Lady of Meritxell ( ca, Mare de Déu de Meritxell, ) is an Andorran Roman Catholic statue depicting an apparition of the Virgin Mary. Our Lady of Meritxell is the patron saint of Andorra. The original statue dated from the late 12th century. ...


Antigua and Barbuda

* Codrington, Antigua and BarbudaChristopher Codrington


Argentina

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Avellaneda Avellaneda (, ) is a port city in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and the seat of the Avellaneda Partido, whose population was 342,677 as per the . Avellaneda is located within the Greater Buenos Aires metropolitan area, and is connected ...
Nicolás Avellaneda *
Doctor Atilio Oscar Viglione Doctor Atilio Oscar Viglione is a village and municipality in Chubut Province in southern Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America ...
– Atilio Oscar Viglione (1914–2010), Governor of Chubut * (General) Belgrano – Many cities and towns after
Manuel Belgrano Manuel José Joaquín del Corazón de Jesús Belgrano y González (3 June 1770 – 20 June 1820), usually referred to as Manuel Belgrano (), was an Argentine public servant, economist, lawyer, politician, journalist, and military leader. He ...
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Castelli Castelli may refer to: Places Argentina * Castelli, Buenos Aires, city in Buenos Aires Province * Castelli Partido, partido in Buenos Aires Province * Juan José Castelli, Chaco, in Chaco Province * Villa Castelli, Argentina, in La Rioja Provi ...
– Many places after Juan José Castelli * Ciudad Evita (means ''Evita City'') – Eva Perón, First Lady of Argentina * General Pueyrredón
second-level administrative subdivision Administrative division, administrative unit,Article 3(1). country subdivision, administrative region, subnational entity, constituent state, as well as many similar terms, are generic names for geographical areas into which a particular, ind ...
named after Juan Martín de Pueyrredón * Las Heras – Many places after Juan Gregorio de las Heras *
Presidencia de la Plaza Presidencia de la Plaza or simply Plaza, is a town in Chaco Province, Argentina. It is the head town of the Presidencia de la Plaza Department. The area was first settled in 1911 and was officially founded in 1921 and named in honour of the form ...
Victorino de la Plaza, President of Argentina *
Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña (normally known as Sáenz Peña) is a city in the . It is the second largest in the province. It is located west-northwest of the provincial capital Resistencia, on the main rail and road route across northern Arg ...
Roque Sáenz Peña, President of Argentina *
Presidente Perón Partido Presidente Perón Partido is a partido located in the Greater Buenos Aires urban area in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. The provincial subdivision has a population of about 60,000 inhabitants in an area of , and its capital city is Guernica ...
Juan Domingo Peron ''Juan'' is a given name, the Spanish and Manx versions of ''John''. It is very common in Spain and in other Spanish-speaking communities around the world and in the Philippines, and also (pronounced differently) in the Isle of Man. In Spanish, t ...
, President of Argentina * Pueblo Illia (Misiones) – Arturo Umberto Illia, President of Argentina *
Rafaela Rafaela () is a city in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina, about 96 km from the provincial capital. It is the head town of the Castellanos Department. It has a population of 99,150 per the . The city was established in 1881 by Guillermo ...
, Santa Fe Province – Rafaela Rodríguez de Egusquiza *
Rawson Rawson may refer to: Places *Rawson, Chubut, the capital of Chubut Province, Argentina *Rawson Department, Chubut, Argentina *Rawson Department, San Juan, Argentina **Villa Krause, also named Rawson, the capital city of the department * Rawson, Vic ...
Guillermo Rawson Guillermo Rawson (24 June 1821 – 20 January 1890) was a medical doctor and politician in nineteenth-century Argentina. In 1862, when he was the Interior Minister of Argentina, he met Captain Love Jones-Parry and Lewis Jones, who were on ...
* Rivadavia Department – Many cities and towns after
Bernardino Rivadavia Bernardino de la Trinidad González Rivadavia (May 20, 1780 – September 2, 1845) was the first President of Argentina, then called the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata, from February 8, 1826 to June 27, 1827. He was educated at th ...
, First President of Argentina * Rosario Vera Peñaloza Department – Rosario Vera Peñaloza (1873–1950), Argentine teacher * (General) San Martín – Many cities and towns after José de San Martín *
Sarmiento Sarmiento may refer to: Places Argentina *Sarmiento Department, San Juan, a subdivision of the San Juan Province *Sarmiento Department, Santiago del Estero, a subdivision of the Santiago del Estero Province *Sarmiento Department, Chubut, a subdivi ...
– Many
municipalities A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
and cities after Domingo Faustino Sarmiento *
Trelew Trelew (, from cy, tref "town" and the name of the founder, Lewis Jones) is a city in the eastern part of the Chubut Province of Argentina. Located in Patagonia, the city is the largest and most populous in the low valley of the Chubut River, wit ...
Lewis Jones * Uriburu, La Pampa
Jose Felix Uriburu Jose is the English transliteration of the Hebrew and Aramaic name ''Yose'', which is etymologically linked to ''Yosef'' or Joseph. The name was popular during the Mishnaic and Talmudic periods. *Jose ben Abin *Jose ben Akabya *Jose the Galilean ...
, President of Argentina * Vicente López, Buenos Aires
Vicente López y Planes Alejandro Vicente López y Planes (May 3, 1785 – October 10, 1856) was an Argentine writer and politician who acted as interim President of Argentina from July 7 to August 18, 1827. He also wrote the lyrics of the Argentine National Anthe ...
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Villa General Mitre Villa General Mitre is a neighborhood, or '' barrio'', of Buenos Aires. The ward has a land area of , and a population of 36,000. It was named after General Bartolomé Mitre, President of Argentina from 1862 to 1868. Villa Mitre was developed ...
Bartolomé Mitre Bartolomé Mitre Martínez (26 June 1821 – 19 January 1906) was an Argentine statesman, soldier and author. He was President of Argentina from 1862 to 1868 and the first president of unified Argentina. Mitre is known as the most versatile ...
* ''formerly:
Ciudad Eva Perón La Plata () is the capital city of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. According to the , it has a population of 654,324 and its metropolitan area, the Greater La Plata, has 787,294 inhabitants. It is located 9 kilometers (6 miles) inland from th ...
(means ''Eva Perón City'') – Eva Perón, First Lady of Argentina''; now
La Plata La Plata () is the capital city of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. According to the , it has a population of 654,324 and its metropolitan area, the Greater La Plata, has 787,294 inhabitants. It is located 9 kilometers (6 miles) inland from th ...


Armenia

* Abovyan and
Abovyan, Ararat Abovyan ( hy, Աբովյան) is a village in the Artashat Municipality of the Ararat Province of Armenia Armenia (), , group=pron officially the Republic of Armenia,, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of Western Asia.T ...
Khachatur Abovyan Khachatur Abovian ( hy, Խաչատուր Աբովյան, Khach’atur Abovyan; (disappeared)) was an Armenian writer and national public figure of the early 19th century who mysteriously vanished in 1848 and was eventually presumed dead. He was ...
, writer * Anushavan – Dr. Anushavan Galoyan (1901–1945), World War II hero *
Artashat Artashat ( hy, Արտաշատ); Hellenized as Artaxata ( el, Ἀρτάξατα) and Artaxiasata ( grc, Ἀρταξιάσατα), was a large commercial city and the capital of ancient Armenia during the reign of king Artaxias I; the founder of t ...
(Artaxata) –
Artaxias I Artaxias I (from gr, Άρταξίας; in hy, Արտաշէս, translit=Artašēs) was the founder of the Artaxiad dynasty of Armenia, ruling from 189 BC to 160 BC. Artaxias was a member of a branch of the Orontid dynasty, the earlier ruling d ...
, Armenian king *
Baghramyan, Ararat Baghramyan ( hy, Բաղրամյան) is a village in the Artashat Municipality of the Ararat Province of Armenia. It is named after the Soviet Armenian military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union Hovhannes Baghramyan Ivan Khristoforov ...
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Baghramyan, Armavir Baghramyan ( hy, Բաղրամյան ) is a village in the Armavir Province of Armenia. It is named after the Soviet Armenian military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union Ivan Bagramyan Ivan Khristoforovich Bagramyan,; russian: Ива ...
and Baghramyan, EchmiadzinHovhannes Bagramyan, Armenian marshal and military commander *
Bagratashen Bagratashen ( hy, Բագրատաշեն) is a village in the Tavush Province of Armenia. The village is located near the border to Georgia, with the Georgian village of Sadakhlo being located on the other side of the border. Etymology The vil ...
– Bagrat Vardanian (1894–1971), hero of Socialist Labor *
Beniamin Beniamin ( hy, Բենիամին) is a village and rural community (municipality) in the Shirak Province of Armenia. The town was renamed in 1945 in honor of Beniamin Galstian, a World War II general and native of the town. According to Ghevont Ali ...
– Beniamin Galstian (1902–1942), World War II general *
Charentsavan Charentsavan ( hy, Չարենցավան), is a town and urban municipal community in the Kotayk Province of Armenia. It was founded in 1947 as ''Lusavan'', and renamed in 1967 after the poet Yeghishe Charents. According to the 2011 census, the po ...
Yeghishe Charents Yeghishe Charents (; March 13, 1897 – November 27, 1937) was an Armenian poet, writer and public activist. Charents' literary subject matter ranged from his experiences in the First World War, socialist revolution, and frequently Armenia an ...
, poet * Chkalov, Armenia and ChkalovkaValery Chkalov, Russian pilot * David Bek, Armenia
Davit Bek Davit Bek or David Beg (; died 1728) was an Armenian military commander and the leader of an Armenian rebellion against invading Ottoman forces and implanted Safavid Muslim tribes in the mountainous region of Zangezur (today the Armenian provin ...
, Armenian patriot *
Dimitrov, Armenia Dimitrov ( hy, Դիմիտրով), or Ghuylasar Nerkin until 1949,Kiesling, ''Rediscovering Armenia'', at thUS embassy to Armenia's website is a village in the Artashat Municipality of the Ararat Province of Armenia. It is renamed in 1949 in ho ...
Georgi Dimitrov Georgi Dimitrov Mihaylov (; bg, Гео̀рги Димитро̀в Миха̀йлов), also known as Georgiy Mihaylovich Dimitrov (russian: Гео́ргий Миха́йлович Дими́тров; 18 June 1882 – 2 July 1949), was a Bulgarian ...
, Bulgarian Communist leader * Ferik – Ferik Polatbekov (1897–1918), revolutionary and poet *
Fioletovo Fioletovo ( hy, Ֆիոլետովո) is a village in the Lori Province of Armenia. Toponymy The village was known as ''Nikitino'' until 1936, when it was renamed ''Fioletovo'' in honour of the Russian Communist activist and one of the 26 Baku ...
Ivan Fioletov, socialist martyr and Baku Commissar *
Gagarin, Armenia Gagarin ( hy, Գագարին) is a village in the Sevan Municipality of the Gegharkunik Province of Armenia. It was founded in 1955 and named after the cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin; Gagarin's first name is sometimes ...
Yuri Gagarin, Russian cosmonaut * Gharibjanian – Bagrat Gharibjanian (1890–1920), Bolshevik martyr *
Ghukasavan Ghukasavan ( hy, Ղուկասավան) is a village in the Masis Municipality of the Ararat Province of Armenia. It was renamed in 1949 in honor of Ghukas Ghukasian, founder of the Armenian Communist Youth Movement. Kiesling, ''Rediscovering Arm ...
– Ghukas Ghukasian (1899–1920), founder of Armenia's Communist Youth Movement *
Griboyedov, Armenia Griboyedov ( hy, Գրիբոյեդով; until 1978, Aralikh Kyolanlu) is a town in the Armavir Province of Armenia. The town is named in honor of Russian writer and diplomat Alexandr Griboyedov. See also *Armavir Province Armavir ( hy, wikt: ...
Alexandr Griboyedov Alexander Sergeyevich Griboyedov (russian: Александр Сергеевич Грибоедов, ''Aleksandr Sergeevich Griboedov'' or ''Sergeevich Griboyedov''; 15 January 179511 February 1829), formerly romanized as Alexander Sergueevich Gri ...
, Russian diplomat and author *
Gusanagyugh Gusanagyugh ( hy, Գուսանագյուղ) is a village in the Ani Municipality of the Shirak Province of Armenia. In 1977, it was renamed after the bard "Gusan" Nakhshikar Sargis. Development programs Gusanagyush village became part of COAF- ...
– "Gusan" (given name: Nakhshikar Sargis), bard *
Imeni Kirova, Armenia Imeni Kirova is a town in the Ararat Province of Armenia. The town is named after Sergey Kirov. See also * Ararat Province Ararat ( hy, Արարատ, ), is a province ('' marz'') of Armenia. Its capital and largest city is the town of Artas ...
Sergey Kirov Sergei Mironovich Kirov (né Kostrikov; 27 March 1886 – 1 December 1934) was a Soviet politician and Bolshevik revolutionary whose assassination led to the first Great Purge. Kirov was an early revolutionary in the Russian Empire and membe ...
, Bolshevik leader *
Imeni Tairova Imeni Tairova is a neighbourhood in the Yerevan Province of Armenia. The location is named after theatre director Alexander Tairov Alexander Yakovlevich Tairov (russian: Александр Яковлевич Таиров; uk, Олександ ...
Alexander Tairov Alexander Yakovlevich Tairov (russian: Александр Яковлевич Таиров; uk, Олександр Якович Таїров; 6 July 1885 – 5 September 1950) was a leading innovator and theatre director in Russia before and durin ...
, Armenian theater director *
Isahakyan Isahakyan ( hy, Իսահակյան) is a village in the Shirak Province of Armenia. It was formerly named after ''Ghazar Agha'' who organized the defense of the town against the Persians in 1826–1828; later named after poet Avetik Isahakyan Av ...
Avetik Isahakyan, poet * Kamo, Armenia
Kamo (Bolshevik) Simon Arshaki Ter-Petrosian (russian: Симон "Камо" Аршакович Тер-Петросян; hy, Սիմոն «Կամօ» Տէր Պետրոսեան; 27 May 1882 – 14 July 1922), better known by his ''nom de guerre'' of Kamo, was an O ...
(1882–1922), ''nom de guerre'' of Simon Ter-Petrossian * Khanjian, Armenia
Aghasi Khanjian Aghasi Ghevondi Khanjian ( hy, Աղասի Ղևոնդի Խանջյան; russian: Агаси Гевондович Ханджян, ''Agasi Gevondovich Khandzhyan'') (January 30, 1901 – July 9, 1936) was First Secretary of the Communist Party ...
, first secretary of the Armenian Communist Party *
Kuchak Kuchak ( hy, Քուչակ) formerly known as Alikuchak, is a village in the Aragatsotn Province of Armenia. It was founded in 1829-30 and named after Nahapet Kuchak, a 16th-century Armenian poet.Kiesling, ''Rediscovering Armenia'', p. 22, availab ...
Nahapet Kuchak Nahapet Kuchak (Kouchak) ( hy, Նահապետ Քուչակ) (died 1592) was an Armenian medieval poet, considered one of the first ''ashughs''. He is best known for his ''hairens'' (հայրեն), "four lines of couplets with a single coherent them ...
, 16th-century bard *
Kuybyshev, Armenia Urasar ( hy, Ուրասար) is a town in Armenia's Lori Province Lori ( hy, Լոռի, ), is a province ('' marz'') of Armenia. It is located in the north of the country, bordering Georgia. Vanadzor is the capital and largest city of the provi ...
Valerian Kuybyshev, Russian politician * Lermontovo –
Mikhail Lermontov Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov (; russian: Михаи́л Ю́рьевич Ле́рмонтов, p=mʲɪxɐˈil ˈjurʲjɪvʲɪtɕ ˈlʲɛrməntəf; – ) was a Russian Romantic writer, poet and painter, sometimes called "the poet of the Caucas ...
, Russian writer and poet *
Lukashin Lukashin ( hy, Լուկաշին; formerly, Imeni Mikoyana), is a village in the Armavir Province of Armenia Armenia (), , group=pron officially the Republic of Armenia,, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of Western Asi ...
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Lukashin, Yerevan Lukashin ( hy, Լուկաշին) is a neighbourhood in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia. It was named after Sargis Lukashin Sargis Lukyani Lukashin ( hy, Սարգիս Լուկյանի Լուկաշին; russian: Сергей Лукьянов ...
Sargis Lukashin Sargis Lukyani Lukashin ( hy, Սարգիս Լուկյանի Լուկաշին; russian: Сергей Лукьянович Лукашин, born Sargis Srapionyan (Սրապիոնյան); 1883 or 1885 – 1937) was an Armenian Bolshevik politician an ...
, Armenian prime minister *
Martiros, Vayots Dzor Martiros ( hy, Մարտիրոս) is a village in the Vayk Municipality of the Vayots Dzor Province of Armenia Armenia (), , group=pron officially the Republic of Armenia,, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of Western ...
– Armenian Prince Martireni, who was martyred against Persian forces *
Martuni, Armenia Martuni ( hy, Մարտունի), is a town and urban municipal community in the Gegharkunik Province of Armenia, located on the southern shores of Lake Sevan. As of the 2011 census, the town had a population of 12,894. As per the 2016 official e ...
, Martuni (village) and Myasnikyan
Aleksandr Myasnikyan Alexander Fyodori Miasnikian or Myasnikov; russian: Алекса́ндр Фёдорович Мяснико́в. Also spelled Myasnikyan. His patronymic is variously given as Asatur, Astvatsatur, Fyodor and Bogdan. (28 January February1886 – ...
, first Communist president of Armenia, whose ''nom de guerre'' was "Martuni" *
Mayakovski, Armenia Mayakovski ( hy, Մայակովսկի, also ''Mayakawvsky'') is a village in the Kotayk Province of Armenia. Etymology The village was named in honor of the Soviet poet Vladimir Mayakovsky Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky (, ; rus, В ...
Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russian poet * Mergelyan (Yerevan) – Sergey Mergelyan, Armenian scientist * Mikhaylovka, ArmeniaTimofei Mikhailov, Russian revolutionary and regicide * Mkhchyan – after an Armenian commander * Musayelyan, Ashotsk – Capt. Sargis Musayelian (1882–1920), Bolshevik military leader * Nagapetavan – Nahapet Kurghinian (1900-1937), participant in the Bolshevik uprising in May 1920 *
Nalbandyan, Armenia Nalbandyan ( hy, Նալբանդյան, also Romanized as Nalbandian; formerly Shahriar), is a major village in the Armavir Province of Armenia near the Armenia–Turkey border. It is named after poet Mikael Nalbandian. 20% of the population (aroun ...
Mikael Nalbandian Mikayel Nalbandian ( hy, Միքայել Նալբանդյան; ) was a Russian-Armenian writer, poet, political theorist and activist. Nalbandian was born in Nakhichevan-on-Don, an Armenian town in southern Russia, and traveled extensively, al ...
, writer *
Narek, Ararat Narek ( hy, Նարեկ) is a village in the Artashat Municipality of the Ararat Province of Armenia Armenia (), , group=pron officially the Republic of Armenia,, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of Western Asia.The U ...
Grigor Narekatsi Grigor Narekatsi ( hy, Գրիգոր Նարեկացի; anglicized: Gregory of Narek) ( – 1003/1011) was an Armenian mystical and lyrical poet, monk, and theologian. He is venerated as a saint in the Armenian Apostolic and Catholic Churches and ...
, medieval monk and poet *
Nizami, Armenia Nizami ( hy, Նիզամի) is a village in the Ararat Province of Armenia Armenia (), , group=pron officially the Republic of Armenia,, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of Western Asia.The UNbr>classification of world ...
Nizami Ganjevi Nizami Ganjavi ( fa, نظامی گنجوی, lit=Niẓāmī of Ganja, translit=Niẓāmī Ganjavī; c. 1141–1209), Nizami Ganje'i, Nizami, or Nezāmi, whose formal name was ''Jamal ad-Dīn Abū Muḥammad Ilyās ibn-Yūsuf ibn-Zakkī'',Mo'in, ...
, Persian poet *
Paruyr Sevak, Armenia Paruyr Sevak ( hy, Պարույր Սևակ) is a village in the Ararat Municipality of the Ararat Province of Armenia Armenia (), , group=pron officially the Republic of Armenia,, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of Wes ...
Paruyr Sevak, poet *
Poselok Imeni Kalinina Poselok Imeni Kalinina (also, Posëlok Imeni Kalinina) is an abandoned village in the Ararat Province of Armenia. See also * Ararat Province Ararat ( hy, Արարատ, ), is a province ('' marz'') of Armenia. Its capital and largest city is ...
Mikhail Kalinin, Soviet leader *
Pushkino, Armenia Pushkino ( hy, Պուշկինո; formerly, Gerger Russkiy), is a village in the Lori Province of Armenia Armenia (), , group=pron officially the Republic of Armenia,, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of Western Asia.Th ...
Alexander Pushkin Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (; rus, links=no, Александр Сергеевич ПушкинIn pre-Revolutionary script, his name was written ., r=Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin, p=ɐlʲɪkˈsandr sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈpuʂkʲɪn, ...
, Russian author and poet *
Sarukhan Sarukhan ( hy, Սարուխան) is a village in the Gegharkunik Province of Armenia Armenia (), , group=pron officially the Republic of Armenia,, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of Western Asia.The UNbr>classificat ...
– Hovhannes Sarukhanian (1882–1920), Communist revolutionary *
Sayat-Nova, Armenia Sayat-Nova ( hy, Սայաթ-Նովա; az, Aşağı Necili) is a village in the Masis Municipality of the Ararat Province of Armenia. The town was populated by Azerbaijanis before the exodus of Azerbaijanis from Armenia after the outbreak of the N ...
Harutyun Sayatyan, poet *
Shahumyan, Ararat Shahumyan ( hy, Շահումյան) is a village in the Artashat Municipality of the Ararat Province of Armenia. It is named after Stepan Shahumyan Stepan Georgevich Shaumian (; , ''Step’an Ge'vorgi Shahumyan''; 1 October 1878 – 20 Septe ...
,
Shahumyan, Armavir Shahumyan ( hy, Շահումյան) formerly known as ''Molla Dursun'', is a village in the Armavir Province of Armenia. It was renamed after Stepan Shahumyan, an Armenian Bolshevik commissar. See also *Armavir Province *Armavir, Armenia A ...
,
Shahumyan, Lori Shahumyan ( hy, Շահումյան) is a town in the Lori Province of Armenia Armenia (), , group=pron officially the Republic of Armenia,, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of Western Asia.The UNbr>classification of w ...
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Shahumyan, Yerevan Shahumyan ( hy, Շահումյան, also, Imeni Shaumyana, Imeni Beriya, Shaumyan, and Posëlok Imeni Shaumyana) is a town in the Yerevan Province of Armenia. The town was named after Stepan Shahumyan Stepan Georgevich Shaumian (; , ''Step ...
and Stepanavan
Stepan Shahumyan Stepan Georgevich Shaumian (; , ''Step’an Ge'vorgi Shahumyan''; 1 October 1878 – 20 September 1918) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and politician active throughout the Caucasus. Arzumanyan, M. Շահումյան, Ստեփան Գևորգի. ...
, Bolshevik commissar *
Spandaryan, Shirak Spandaryan ( hy, Սպանդարյան) is a village in the Artik Municipality of the Shirak Province of Armenia. The village was renamed in 1946 in honor of Armenian revolutionary Suren Spandaryan Suren Spandari Spandaryan ( hy, Սուրեն Սպ ...
,
Spandaryan, Syunik Spandaryan ( hy, Սպանդարյան) is a village in the Gorayk Municipality of the Syunik Province in Armenia. The area around the village contains the Spandaryan Hydro Power Plant The Vorotan Cascade, or the ContourGlobal™ Hydro Cascade, i ...
and
Surenavan Surenavan ( hy, Սուրենավան) is a village in the Ararat Municipality of the Ararat Province of Armenia Armenia (), , group=pron officially the Republic of Armenia,, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of Western ...
Suren Spandaryan Suren Spandari Spandaryan ( hy, Սուրեն Սպանդարի Սպանդարյան; 1882 in Tiflis – 24 September 1916 in Krasnoyarsk) was an Armenian revolutionary in the Russian Empire, literatary critic, publicist and one of the founders of th ...
, Armenian revolutionary *
Sverdlov, Armenia Sverdlov ( hy, Սվերդլով; formerly, Aydarbek) is a village in the Lori Province of Armenia. Sverdlov is situated on the Urut River, 12 km north-east of Alaverdi and 48 km from Vanadzor. The village dates back to 18th century, ...
Yakov Sverdlov, Bolshevik leader *
Tumanyan, Armenia Tumanyan ( hy, Թումանյան), is a town and urban municipal community in Armenia's northern Lori Province, on the banks of the Debed River and in the middle of the Debed Canyon. It's 149 km north of the capital Yerevan, and 131km from ...
Hovhannes Tumanyan, writer * Yenokavan – Enok Mkrtumian (1896–1920), early Communist *
Zhdanov, Lori Zhdanov (also, Kishlag) is a town in the Lori Province of Armenia. The town was renamed in honor of Andrei Zhdanov. References

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Andrei Zhdanov Former: * ''Akhundov'' was the name of Punik
Mirza Fatali Akhundov Mirza Fatali Akhundov ( az, Mirzə Fətəli Axundov; fa, میرزا فتحعلی آخوندزاده), also known as Mirza Fatali Akhundzade, or Mirza Fath-Ali Akhundzadeh (12 July 1812 – 9 March 1878), was a celebrated Azerbaijani author, pla ...
, author * ''Azizbekov'' was the name of
Aregnadem Aregnadem ( hy, Արեգնադեմ) is a village in the Amasia Municipality of the Shirak Province of Armenia. History Aregnadem village was founded at end of 17th century and was called Gharachanta (Latinized Armenian spelling of ''Karaçanta'', ...
Meshadi Azizbekov, Soviet revolutionary * ''Azizbekov'' was the name of
Vayk Vayk ( hy, Վայք) is a town and the center of the Vayk Municipality of the Vayots Dzor Province in southern Armenia. As per the 2016 official estimate, Vayk had a population of around 4,700. However, as of the 2011 census, the population of t ...
– Meshadi Azizbekov * ''Azizbekov'' was the name of Zarritap – Meshadi Azizbekov * ''Batikian'' was the name of Gandzak, Armenia
Batik Batikian The May Uprising ( hy, Մայիսյան ապստամբություն, translit=Mayisyan apstambutyun) was a coup d'état attempt by the Armenian Bolsheviks that started in Alexandropol (modern-day Gyumri) on May 10, 1920. It was eventually suppr ...
(1892–1920), Communist martyr * ''Danushavan'' was the name of AygehatDanush Shahverdian, Armenian politician and diplomat * ''Ghukasyan'' was the name of
Ashotsk Ashotsk ( hy, Աշոցք, also Romanized as Ashoc’k’ and Ashotsq; formerly, Verin-Gukasyan, Gukasyan, Ghukasyan) is a village and rural community (municipality) in the Shirak Province of Armenia Armenia (), , group=pron officially the R ...
Ghukas Ghukasian, founder of Armenia's Communist Youth Movement * ''Imeni Beriya'' was the name of
Shahumyan, Ararat Shahumyan ( hy, Շահումյան) is a village in the Artashat Municipality of the Ararat Province of Armenia. It is named after Stepan Shahumyan Stepan Georgevich Shaumian (; , ''Step’an Ge'vorgi Shahumyan''; 1 October 1878 – 20 Septe ...
Lavrentiy Beria Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (; rus, Лавре́нтий Па́влович Бе́рия, Lavréntiy Pávlovich Bériya, p=ˈbʲerʲiə; ka, ლავრენტი ბერია, tr, ;  – 23 December 1953) was a Georgian Bolshevik ...
, Soviet politician and head of the secret police * ''Imeni Beriya'' was the name of Zhdanov, Armavir – Lavrentiy Beria * ''Imeni Stalina'' was the name of Sovkhoz Nomer Shest
Joseph Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet political leader who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held power as General Secreta ...
* ''Imeni Voroshilova'' was the name of
Hatsik, Armavir Hatsik ( hy, Հացիկ, also Romanized as Hats’ik and Atsik; until 1963, Imeni Voroshilova, from 1963 to 1991, Nairi) is a town in the Armavir Province of Armenia. The town was founded in 1933. It was named in honor of Kliment Voroshilov ...
Kliment Voroshilov, Marshal of the Soviet Union * ''Kalinin'' was the name of
Noramarg Noramarg ( hy, Նորամարգ) is a village in the Masis Municipality of the Ararat Province of Armenia Armenia (), , group=pron officially the Republic of Armenia,, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of Western Asia.The ...
Mikhail Kalinin, Soviet leader * ''Kalinino'' was the name of Tashir – Mikhail Kalinin * ''Kamo'' was the name of Gavar
Kamo (Bolshevik) Simon Arshaki Ter-Petrosian (russian: Симон "Камо" Аршакович Тер-Петросян; hy, Սիմոն «Կամօ» Տէր Պետրոսեան; 27 May 1882 – 14 July 1922), better known by his ''nom de guerre'' of Kamo, was an O ...
(1882–1922), ''nom de guerre'' of Simon Ter-Petrossian * ''Kirov'' was the name of
Amrakits Amrakits ( hy, Ամրակից) formerly known as ''Nikolayevka'' and later as ''Kirov'',Kiesling, ''Rediscovering Armenia'', p. 63, available online at thUS embassy to Armenia's website is a village in the Lori Province of Armenia Armenia () ...
Sergey Kirov Sergei Mironovich Kirov (né Kostrikov; 27 March 1886 – 1 December 1934) was a Soviet politician and Bolshevik revolutionary whose assassination led to the first Great Purge. Kirov was an early revolutionary in the Russian Empire and membe ...
, early Bolshevik leader * ''Kirov'' was the name of
Taperakan Taperakan ( hy, Տափերական,also Romanized as Tap’erakan; formerly, KirovKiesling, ''Rediscovering Armenia'', p. 27, available online at thUS embassy to Armenia's website) is a town in the Ararat Province of Armenia. The town used to be ...
– Sergey Kirov * ''Kirovakan'' was the name of Vanadzor – Sergey Kirov * ''Kirovka'' was the name of
Mamai, Armenia Mamai (also Mamay; formerly Kirovka) is a town in the Tavush Province of Armenia near the border to Georgia Georgia most commonly refers to: * Georgia (country), a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia * Georgia (U.S. state), a state in the ...
– Sergey Kirov * ''Kuybyshev'' was the name of
Haghartsin, Armenia Haghartsin ( hy, Հաղարծին) is a village in the Dilijan Municipality of the Tavush Province of Armenia. The 13th-century Haghartsin Monastery is located around 8 km northwest of the village. Toponymy It was founded in 1815 as ''Jarkhech ...
Valerian Kuybyshev, Soviet leader * ''Maksim Gorkiy'' was the name of
Bovadzor Bovadzor ( hy, Բովաձոր; formerly, Maksim Gorkiy, Maksim Gorki, and Maksim Gor’kiy; originally, Aleksandrovka) is a town in the Lori Province of Armenia Armenia (), , group=pron officially the Republic of Armenia,, is a landlocke ...
Maxim Gorky Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (russian: link=no, Алексе́й Макси́мович Пешко́в;  – 18 June 1936), popularly known as Maxim Gorky (russian: Макси́м Го́рький, link=no), was a Russian writer and social ...
, Soviet author * ''Mikoyan'' was the name of
Yeghegnadzor Yeghegnadzor ( hy, Եղեգնաձոր) is a town and urban municipal community in southern Armenia, serving as the provincial capital of Vayots Dzor Province. It is located at a road distance of 123 km south of the capital Yerevan, on the s ...
Anastas Mikoyan Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan (; russian: Анаста́с Ива́нович Микоя́н; hy, Անաստաս Հովհաննեսի Միկոյան; 25 November 1895 – 21 October 1978) was an Armenian Communist revolutionary, Old Bolshevik an ...
, Soviet leader * ''Mravyan'' was the name of
Yeghipatrush Yeghipatrush ( hy, Եղիպատրուշ), is a village in the Aparan Municipality of the Aragatsotn Province of Armenia. During the Soviet period, the town was renamed in honor of Askanaz Mravyan Askanaz Harutyuni Mravyan ( hy, Ասքանազ Հ ...
Askanaz Mravyan Askanaz Harutyuni Mravyan ( hy, Ասքանազ Հարությունի Մռավյան, – October 23, 1929) was a Soviet Armenian statesman and political activist. He was one of the early leaders of Soviet Armenia. Biography Askanaz Mravyan wa ...
, leader of Soviet Armenia * ''Ordzhonikidze'' was the name of Vahan, Armenia
Sergo Ordzhonikidze Sergo Konstantinovich Ordzhonikidze,, ; russian: Серго Константинович Орджоникидзе, Sergo Konstantinovich Ordzhonikidze) born Grigol Konstantines dze Orjonikidze, russian: Григорий Константино ...
, Soviet leader * ''Samed Vurgun'' was the name of
Hovk Hovk ( hy, Հովք; az, Haqqıxlı) is a village in the Dilijan Municipality of the Tavush Province in Armenia. The village was populated by Azerbaijanis before the exodus of Azerbaijanis from Armenia after the outbreak of the Nagorno-Karabakh ...
Samad Vurgun Samad Vurgun ( az, Səməd Vurğun ; born Samad Yusif oghlu Vekilov;, . March 21, 1906 – May 27, 1956) was an Azerbaijani and Soviet poet, dramatist, public figure, first People's Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR (1943), academician of Azerbaijan Na ...
, Soviet poet * ''Shavarshavan'' was the name of
Koti, Armenia Koti ( hy, Կոթի) is a village in the Tavush Province of Armenia near the border with Azerbaijan. The village is located 5 kilometres east of Saint Sargis Monastery. Etymology The village was known in 1920 as ''Kotikend'' () or ''Kotigegh'' ...
Shavarsh Amirkhanian, leader of the precursor to the Armenian KGB * ''Spandaryan'' was the name of
Silikyan Silikyan, formerly Spandaryan, is a neighbourhood of the Ajapnyak District of the Armenian capital Yerevan Yerevan ( , , hy, Երևան , sometimes spelled Erevan) is the capital and largest city of Armenia and one of the world's List of ol ...
Suren Spandaryan Suren Spandari Spandaryan ( hy, Սուրեն Սպանդարի Սպանդարյան; 1882 in Tiflis – 24 September 1916 in Krasnoyarsk) was an Armenian revolutionary in the Russian Empire, literatary critic, publicist and one of the founders of th ...
, Armenian revolutionary * ''Tumanyan'' was the name of
Dsegh Dsegh ( hy, Դսեղ), known as Tumanyan between 1938 and 1969, is a village in the Lori Province of Armenia. Dsegh is the birthplace of one of the most celebrated of Armenian poets Hovhannes Tumanyan from which took the name from 1938 to 1969. ...
Hovhannes Tumanyan, writer * ''Vagharshapat'' was the name of Echmiadzin – King Vologases I (Vagharsh I) * ''Vorontsovka'' was the name of Tashir – Prince
Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov Prince Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov (russian: Князь Михаи́л Семёнович Воронцо́в, tr. ; ) was a Russian nobleman and field-marshal, renowned for his success in the Napoleonic wars and most famous for his participati ...
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Maria Amalia, Duchess of Parma Maria Amalia, Duchess of Parma (Maria Amalia Josepha Johanna Antonia; 26 February 1746 – 18 June 1804) was Duchess of Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla by marriage to Ferdinand, Duke of Parma. She was born an archduchess of Austria as the daugh ...
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Arnoldstein Arnoldstein ( sl, Podklošter, it, Oristagno) is a market town in the district of Villach-Land in the Austrian state of Carinthia. Geography Location Arnoldstein is located at Austria's southern border between the Carnic Alps and the Karawanke ...
– Austrian knight and founder named Arnold * Elisabeth-Vorstadt (Salzburg) –
Empress Elisabeth of Austria Duchess Elisabeth Amalie Eugenie in Bavaria (24 December 1837 – 10 September 1898) was Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary from her marriage to Emperor Franz Joseph I on 24 April 1854 until her assassination in 1898. Elisabeth was ...
* Hugo Breitner Hof (Vienna) – Hugo Breitner (1873–1946), Social Democrat politician *
Jakomini Jakomini () is the 6th district of Austrian city of Graz. It is named after Kaspar Andreas Ritter von Jacomini and covers an area of 4,06 square kilometers. With a population of 31,412 in 2023 it is the most populous of the districts of Graz. Th ...
– Kaspar Andreas von Jacomini (1726–1805), speculator *
Josefstadt Josefstadt (; Central Bavarian: ''Josefstod'') is the eighth district of Vienna (german: 8. Bezirk, Josefstadt). It is near the center of Vienna and was established as a district in 1850, but borders changed later. Josefstadt is a heavily po ...
Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor * Josef-Rautmann-Hof (Vienna) – Josef Rautmann (1890–1970) *
Kaisersdorf Kaisersdorf ( hr, Kalištrof, hu, Császárfalu) is a town in the district of Oberpullendorf in the Austrian state of Burgenland Burgenland (; hu, Őrvidék; hr, Gradišće; Austro-Bavarian: ''Burgnland;'' Slovene: ''Gradiščanska'') is t ...
Franz Joseph I of Austria Franz Joseph I or Francis Joseph I (german: Franz Joseph Karl, hu, Ferenc József Károly, 18 August 1830 – 21 November 1916) was Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary, and the Grand title of the Emperor of Austria, other states of the Habsburg m ...
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Leopoldsdorf Leopoldsdorf is a municipality in the district of Bruck an der Leitha in the Austrian state of Lower Austria Lower Austria (german: Niederösterreich; Austro-Bavarian: ''Niedaöstareich'', ''Niedaestareich'') is one of the nine states of Austria, ...
Archduke Leopold Ferdinand of Austria * Leopoldskron-Moos (Salzburg) – Leopold Anton von Firmian (1679–1744), Archbishop of Salzburg * LeopoldstadtLeopold I Holy Roman Emperor * Per-Albin-Hansson-Siedlung (Wien) –
Per Albin Hansson Per Albin Hansson (28 October 1885 – 6 October 1946) was a Swedish politician, chairman of the Social Democrats from 1925 and two-time Prime Minister in four governments between 1932 and 1946, governing all that period save for a short-lived ...
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Karl Renner Karl Renner (14 December 1870 – 31 December 1950) was an Austrian politician and jurist of the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Austria. He is often referred to as the "Father of the Republic" because he led the first government of German-A ...
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Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus () is the 15th municipal District of Vienna, Austria (german: 15. Bezirk). It is in central Vienna, west of Innere Stadt. It borders Neubau and Mariahilf in the east, Meidling and Hietzing in the south, Penzing in the wes ...
Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria *
St. Pölten ST, St, or St. may refer to: Arts and entertainment * Stanza, in poetry * Suicidal Tendencies, an American heavy metal/hardcore punk band * Star Trek, a science-fiction media franchise * Summa Theologica, a compendium of Catholic philosophy ...
– The name ''Sankt Pölten'' is derived from Hippolytus of Rome. The city was renamed to ''Sankt Hippolyt'', then ''Sankt Polyt'' and finally ''Sankt Pölten''. *
Sankt Wolfgang-Kienberg Sankt Wolfgang-Kienberg is a former municipality in the district of Murtal in Styria, Austria. Since the 2015 Styria municipal structural reform, it is part of the municipality Obdach Obdach is a municipality in the district of Murtal in Styr ...
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Wilhelmsburg, Austria Wilhelmsburg is a municipality in the district of Sankt Pölten-Land District in the Austrian state of Lower Austria Lower Austria (german: Niederösterreich; Austro-Bavarian: ''Niedaöstareich'', ''Niedaestareich'') is one of the nine states of ...
William, Duke of Austria William ( – 15 July 1406), known as William the Courteous (german: Wilhelm der Freundliche), a member of the House of Habsburg and Wilhelm, was Duke of Austria from 1386. As head of the Leopoldian line, he ruled over the Inner Austrian duchies o ...
* Wilhelmsdorf (Wien) – Father Wilhelm Sedlaczek (1793–1848)


Azerbaijan


Bahamas

* George Town, Bahamas
George III George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 173829 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and of Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of the two kingdoms on 1 January 1801, after which he was King of the United Kingdom of Great Br ...
of Great Britain * Matthew Town
George Buckley-Mathew Sir George Benvenuto Buckley-Mathew (4 August 1807 – 22 October 1879) was a British diplomat and Conservative politician. Life Born in 1807 as George Byam Mathew, Buckley-Mathew was the son of George Mathew (1760–1846) of the Coldstr ...
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Nassau, Bahamas Nassau ( ) is the capital and largest city of the Bahamas. With a population of 274,400 as of 2016, or just over 70% of the entire population of the Bahamas, Nassau is commonly defined as a primate city, dwarfing all other towns in the country. ...
William III of England William III (William Henry; ; 4 November 16508 March 1702), also widely known as William of Orange, was the sovereign Prince of Orange from birth, Stadtholder of County of Holland, Holland, County of Zeeland, Zeeland, Lordship of Utrecht, Utrec ...
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Nicholls Town Nicholls Town is a town located in North Andros, part of Andros, Bahamas, Andros island in the Bahamas. The town features a sweeping beachfront. It is named for Edward Nicolls, an Anglo-Irish military leader in the Caribbean in the early 19th cent ...
Edward Nicolls Sir Edward Nicolls ( – 5 February 1865) was an Anglo-Irish officer of the Royal Marines. Known as "Fighting Nicolls", he had a distinguished military career. According to his obituary in ''The Times'', he was "in no fewer than 107&nb ...


Bahrain

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Hamad Town Madinat Hamad or ''Hamad Town'' ( ar, مدينة حمد, Madīnat Ḥamad) is a primarily commuter city within northern Bahrain. It was a municipality of Bahrain in the central part of the country. Split from the municipality of Ar Rifa' wa al Mi ...
Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifah Hamad bin Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa ( ar, حمد بن عيسى بن سلمان آل خليفة '; 28 January 1950) is King of Bahrain since 14 February 2002, after ruling as Emir of Bahrain from 6 March 1999. He is the son of Isa bin Salman ...
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Isa Town Isa Town ( ar, مدينة عيسى, ''Madīnat ʿĪsā'') is a middle class town located in Bahrain, in the north central part of the country. Etymology The name ''Isa'' refers to Isa ibn Salman Al Khalifah, the ruler of Bahrain from 1961 to 1999 ...
Isa ibn Salman Al Khalifah Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa (; 3 June 1931 – 6 March 1999) was the first emir of Bahrain from 1961 until his death in 1999. Born in Jasra, Bahrain, he became emir upon the death of his father, Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa. Early life and reig ...


Bangladesh

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Cox's Bazar Cox's Bazar (; bn, কক্সবাজার, Kôksbajar; ) is a city, fishing port, tourism centre, and district headquarters in Southeastern Bangladesh. It is located south of the city of Chittagong. Cox's Bazar is also known by the na ...
– Captain
Hiram Cox Captain Hiram Cox (1760–1799) was a British diplomat, serving in Bengal and Burma in the 18th century. The city of Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh is named after him. Biography As an officer of the East India Company, Captain Cox was appointed Supe ...
* Faridpur District – Sufi saint Shah Fariduddin Masud, follower of the Chishti order of Ajmer * Madaripur District – Sufi saint 'Sayed Badiuddin Zinda Shah Madar *
Mostafapur Union Mostafapur Union ( bn, মোস্তফাপুর ইউনিয়ন) is a Union Parishad under Moulvibazar Sadar Upazila of Moulvibazar District in the division of Sylhet, Bangladesh. It has an area of 21 square kilometres and a populati ...
– Sufi saint
Shah Mustafa Syed Shāh Muṣṭafā al-Baghdādi ( ar, سید شاه مصطفى البغدادي), popularly known as Shah Mustafa ( bn, শাহ মোস্তফা), is a Sufi Muslim figure in the Sylhet region. Mustafa's name is associated with the s ...
* Moulvibazar,
Moulvibazar Sadar Moulvibazar Sadar ( bn, মৌলভীবাজার সদর) is an upazila of Moulvibazar District in the Division of Sylhet, Bangladesh. History In ancient times, the region was known as Chandrapur or Chandrarajya. After the Conquest of Go ...
, Moulvibazar District – Syed Moulvi Qudratullah Munsef, Muslim cleric and judge * MujibnagarSheikh Mujibur Rahman, President of Bangladesh *
Osmani Nagar Upazila Osmani Nagar ( bn, ওসমানীনগর) is an upazila of Sylhet District in the Division of Sylhet, Bangladesh. Etymology “Osmani Nagar” is a compound of two words, ''Osmani'' and ''nagar'' (city), which literally means “the city of ...
– General M.A.G Osmani *
Pirojpur District Pirojpur () is a district (zilla) in southern-western Bangladesh. It is a part of Barisal Division. Etymology According to myth, the second son of Subedar Shah Shuja, Firoz Shah, died in this area, and the area became known subsequently as 'Fi ...
– Firoz Shah * Rajshahi District – the Puthia Raj family * Shariatpur DistrictHaji Shariatullah, eminent Islamic reformer of the Indian subcontinent in British India * Sher-e-Bangla Nagar
A. K. Fazlul Huq Abul Kasem Fazlul Huq ( bn, আবুল কাশেম ফজলুল হক, ur, ; 26October 1873 — 27 April 1962), popularly known as Sher-e-Bangla (''Lion of Bengal''), was a British Indian and Pakistani lawyer and writer who present ...
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Sherpur District Sherpur district ( bn, শেরপুর জেলা, ''Sherpur Jela'' also ''Sherpur Zila'') is a district in Northern Bangladesh. It is a part of Mymensingh Division. Sherpur district was a sub-division of Jamalpur District before 1984. It was ...
– Sher Ali Gazi, the last jaghirdar of the Gazi dynasty


Barbados

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Speightstown Speightstown (), also known as ''Little Bristol'', is the second largest City centre of Barbados. It is situated north of the capital city of Bridgetown, in the northern parish of Saint Peter. The City is named after William Speight, a member o ...
– William Speight (legislator)


Belarus

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Barysaw Barysaw ( be, Барысаў, ) or Borisov (russian: Борисов, ) is a city in Belarus near the Berezina River in the Minsk Region 74 km north-east from Minsk. Its population is around 145,000. History Barysaw is first mentioned in t ...
– Boris- Rogvolod Vseslavich *
Braslaw Braslaw or Braslav ( be, Браслаў, Braslaŭ; russian: Браслав, Braslav) is a town in the Vitebsk Region of Belarus, an administrative center of the Braslaw District. History The town was first mentioned in 1065 as a castle in the b ...
Bryachislav of Polotsk * Budenovka (Minsk) -
Semyon Budyonny Semyon Mikhailovich Budyonnyy ( rus, Семён Миха́йлович Будённый, Semyon Mikháylovich Budyonnyy, p=sʲɪˈmʲɵn mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪdʑ bʊˈdʲɵnːɨj, a=ru-Simeon Budyonniy.ogg; – 26 October 1973) was a Russian ca ...
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Davyd-Haradok Davyd-Haradok ( be, Давыд-Гарадок, ; russian: Давид-Городок, pl, Dawidgródek) is a city in the southwestern Belarusian voblast (province) of Brest. It has 5991 inhabitants (2021 estimate). History Within the Grand Duchy ...
– Prince David Igorevich *
Dzyarzhynsk Dzyarzhynsk or Dzerzhinsk, formerly Koidanova or Koydanava ( be, Дзяржы́нск, Dziaržynsk, formerly , ; russian: Дзержи́нск, Dzerzhinsk, formerly , ; pl, Kojdanów; yi, קוידאַנאָוו, Koydanov; lt, Kaidanava), in t ...
Felix Dzerzhinsky Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky ( pl, Feliks Dzierżyński ; russian: Фе́ликс Эдму́ндович Дзержи́нский; – 20 July 1926), nicknamed "Iron Felix", was a Bolshevik revolutionary and official, born into Poland, Polish n ...
* Gusarovka (Gomel) –
Nikolai Gusarov Nikolai Ivanovich Gusarov (russian: Никола́й Ива́нович Гуса́ров, be, Мікала́й Іва́навіч Гуса́раў; 16 August 1905 – 17 March 1985) was the first secretary of the Communist Party of Byelorussia ...
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Kirawsk Kirawsk ( be, Кіраўск, russian: Кировск, Kirovsk, pl, Kirowsk) is an urban settlement (Belarus), urban settlement in Mogilev Region, Belarus, the administrative center of Kirawsk District. As of 2009, its population was 8,756. Refe ...
Sergey Kirov Sergei Mironovich Kirov (né Kostrikov; 27 March 1886 – 1 December 1934) was a Soviet politician and Bolshevik revolutionary whose assassination led to the first Great Purge. Kirov was an early revolutionary in the Russian Empire and membe ...
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Vladimir Lenin Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov. ( 1870 – 21 January 1924), better known as Vladimir Lenin,. was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 19 ...
* Molotovki (Mogilev) –
Vyacheslav Molotov Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Molotov. ; (;. 9 March Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates">O._S._25_February.html" ;"title="Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates.html" ;"title="nowiki/>Old Style and New Style dates">O. S. 25 February">Old_Style_and_New_Style_dat ...


Belgium

* Albert Canal
Albert I of Belgium Albert I (8 April 1875 – 17 February 1934) was King of the Belgians from 23 December 1909 until his death in 1934. Born in Brussels as the fifth child and second son of Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders and Princess Marie of Hohenzollern-S ...
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Charleroi Charleroi ( , , ; wa, Tchålerwè ) is a city and a municipality of Wallonia, located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. By 1 January 2008, the total population of Charleroi was 201,593.
Charles II of Spain *
Geraardsbergen Geraardsbergen (; french: Grammont, ) is a city and municipality located in the Denderstreek and in the Flemish Ardennes, the hilly southern part of the Belgian province of East Flanders. The municipality comprises the city of Geraardsbergen prop ...
– Geraard van Hunnegem, a manor local *
Leopoldsburg Leopoldsburg (; french: Bourg-Léopold, ; li, Leopolsbörch) is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Limburg. On January 1, 2006, Leopoldsburg had a total population of 14,403. The total area is 22.49 km² (8.68 sq mi) which ...
– Leopold I of Belgium and Bourg, urban planner of the city * MartelangeMartelius *
Philippeville Philippeville (; wa, Flipveye) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Namur, Belgium. The Philippeville municipality includes the former municipalities of Fagnolle, Franchimont, Jamagne, Jamiolle, Merlemont, Ne ...
Philip II of Spain Philip II) in Spain, while in Portugal and his Italian kingdoms he ruled as Philip I ( pt, Filipe I). (21 May 152713 September 1598), also known as Philip the Prudent ( es, Felipe el Prudente), was King of Spain from 1556, King of Portugal from ...
* Quartier Marais-Jacqmain (Brussels) – Émile Jacqmain (1860–1933), Belgian engineer * Quartier Midi-Lemonnier (Brussels) –
Charles Lemonnier Baron Charles Jean Maurice Lemonnier (12 January 1860 – 11 September 1930) was a Belgian liberal politician and mayor of the City of Brussels. Charles Lemonnier was a lawyer, mining engineer and as a politician he was alderman ad-interim bur ...
, Belgian liberal politician * Saint-Georges-sur-Meuse
Saint George Saint George (Greek: Γεώργιος (Geórgios), Latin: Georgius, Arabic: القديس جرجس; died 23 April 303), also George of Lydda, was a Christian who is venerated as a saint in Christianity. According to tradition he was a soldier ...
* Saint-Gilles
Saint Giles Saint Giles (, la, Aegidius, french: Gilles), also known as Giles the Hermit, was a hermit or monk active in the lower Rhône most likely in the 6th century. Revered as a saint, his cult became widely diffused but his hagiography is mostly lege ...
* Saint-Hubert
Hubertus Hubertus or Hubert ( 656 – 30 May 727 A.D.) was a Christian saint who became the first bishop of Liège in 708 A.D. He is the patron saint of hunters, mathematicians, opticians and metalworkers. Known as the "Apostle of the Ardennes", he was ...
* Saint-Nicolas
Saint Nicholas Saint Nicholas of Myra, ; la, Sanctus Nicolaus (traditionally 15 March 270 – 6 December 343), also known as Nicholas of Bari, was an early Christian bishop of Greeks, Greek descent from the maritime city of Myra in Asia Minor (; modern-da ...
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Sint-Agatha-Berchem Berchem-Sainte-Agathe ( French, ) or Sint-Agatha-Berchem (Dutch, ), often simply called Berchem, is one of the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium. Located in the north-western part of the region, it is bordered by Gansh ...
Agatha of Sicily * Sint-AmandsSaint Amand * Sint-Gillis-Waas
Saint Giles Saint Giles (, la, Aegidius, french: Gilles), also known as Giles the Hermit, was a hermit or monk active in the lower Rhône most likely in the 6th century. Revered as a saint, his cult became widely diffused but his hagiography is mostly lege ...
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Sint-Laureins Sint-Laureins (; Dutch for Saint Lawrence) is a municipality located in the Flemish province of East Flanders, in Belgium Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Eur ...
Lawrence of Rome *
Sint-Martens-Latem Sint-Martens-Latem () is a municipality located in the Belgian province of East Flanders, in Belgium. The municipality comprises the towns of Deurle and Sint-Martens-Latem proper. In 2021, Sint-Martens-Latem had a total population of 8,285. The t ...
Martin of Tours Martin of Tours ( la, Sanctus Martinus Turonensis; 316/336 – 8 November 397), also known as Martin the Merciful, was the third bishop of Tours. He has become one of the most familiar and recognizable Christian saints in France, heralded as the ...
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Sint-Niklaas Sint-Niklaas (; french: Saint-Nicolas, ) is a Belgian city and municipality located in the Flemish province of East Flanders. The municipality comprises the city of Sint-Niklaas proper and the towns of Belsele, Nieuwkerken-Waas, and . Sint-Nikl ...
Saint Nicholas Saint Nicholas of Myra, ; la, Sanctus Nicolaus (traditionally 15 March 270 – 6 December 343), also known as Nicholas of Bari, was an early Christian bishop of Greeks, Greek descent from the maritime city of Myra in Asia Minor (; modern-da ...
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Sint-Pieters-Leeuw Sint-Pieters-Leeuw (; french: Leeuw-Saint-Pierre) is a Dutch-speaking municipality of Belgium located in the province of Flemish Brabant (Flemish Region). The municipality comprises the towns of Oudenaken, Ruisbroek, Sint-Laureins-Berchem, Sint ...
Saint Peter Saint Peter; he, שמעון בר יונה, Šimʿōn bar Yōnāh; ar, سِمعَان بُطرُس, translit=Simʿa̅n Buṭrus; grc-gre, Πέτρος, Petros; cop, Ⲡⲉⲧⲣⲟⲥ, Petros; lat, Petrus; ar, شمعون الصفـا, Sham'un ...
* Sint-TruidenTrudo *
Woluwe-Saint-Lambert Woluwe-Saint-Lambert () or Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe (Dutch, ) is one of the nineteen municipalities in the Brussels-Capital Region of Belgium. It is a prosperous residential area, with a mixture of flats and detached, semi-detached and terraced hous ...
Lambert of Maastricht * Woluwe-Saint-Pierre
Saint Peter Saint Peter; he, שמעון בר יונה, Šimʿōn bar Yōnāh; ar, سِمعَان بُطرُس, translit=Simʿa̅n Buṭrus; grc-gre, Πέτρος, Petros; cop, Ⲡⲉⲧⲣⲟⲥ, Petros; lat, Petrus; ar, شمعون الصفـا, Sham'un ...


Belize

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Albert (Belize House constituency) Albert is an electoral constituency in the Belize District of Belize. History The Albert constituency was created for the 1961 general election as part of a major nationwide redistricting. Albert is named after the principal street (Albert Stre ...
Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (Albert Victor Christian Edward; 8 January 1864 – 14 January 1892) was the eldest child of the Prince and Princess of Wales (later King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra) and grandson of the re ...
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Flowers Bank Flowers Bank is a village in Belize in Belize District. It is a famous place in Belizean history due to its defence of the then British Honduras by not fleeing in the face of Spanish invasion from Yucatán. History Before "The Battle of St. Geo ...
– William Flowers (d.1786) *
Fort George (Belize House constituency) Fort George is an electoral constituency in the Belize District represented in the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belize represented by Henry Usher since 2020. It was previously represented by Usher’s father and former Prime ...
George III of the United Kingdom George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 173829 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and of Monarchy of Ireland, Ireland from 25 October 1760 until Acts of Union 1800, the union of the two kingdoms on 1 January 1801, after which he was ...
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Victoria Peak (Belize) Victoria Peak within the Maya Mountains is the second highest mountain in Belize. The highest peak in the country, Doyle's Delight, at a height of , is located southwest of Victoria Peak. Victoria Peak is situated in the Cockscomb Basin Wildlife ...
Queen Victoria Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until Death and state funeral of Queen Victoria, her death in 1901. Her reign of 63 years and 21 ...


Benin

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Malanville Malanville is a city, arrondissement and commune in the Alibori Department of northeastern Benin, located across the River Niger from Niger. It is known as a centre of cross-border trade and has a major market. Malanville is also a centre for rice ...
– Henri Malan, French Governor of Dahomey


Bermuda

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Hamilton Hamilton may refer to: People * Hamilton (name), a common British surname and occasional given name, usually of Scottish origin, including a list of persons with the surname ** The Duke of Hamilton, the premier peer of Scotland ** Lord Hamilt ...
Henry Hamilton


Bhutan

* Jigme Dorji – King Jigme Dorji Wangchuck *
Wangdue Phodrang Wangdue Phodrang (, Dzongkha 'Wangdi Phodr'a) is a town and capital (dzongkhag thromde) of Wangdue Phodrang District in central Bhutan. It is located in Thedtsho Gewog. History The town shares its name with the Wangdue Phodrang Dzong built in 1 ...
– Wangdi, boy playing in a river


Bolivia

* Abel Iturralde Province – Abel Iturralde Palacios (1869–1935), Bolivian politician *
Alonso de Ibáñez Province Alonso de Ibáñez is a province in the northern parts of the Bolivian Potosí Department. Its capital is Sacaca (1,862 inhabitants in 2001). Location Alonso de Ibáñez province is one of sixteen provinces in the Potosí Department. It is locate ...
– José Alonso de Ibáñez, resistance hero from Potosi *
Andrés Ibáñez Province Andrés Ibáñez Province is one of the fifteen provinces of the Bolivian Santa Cruz Department, situated in the western part of the department. Its capital is Santa Cruz de la Sierra which is also the capital of the department. The province was ...
– Andrés Ibáñez (1844–1877), leader of the federal revolution in Santa Cruz * Ángel Sandoval Province – Dr. Angel Sandoval Peña (1871–1941) * Aniceto Arce Province
Aniceto Arce Ruiz Aniceto Arce Ruiz de Mendoza (15 April 1824, in Tarija – 14 August 1906) was a Bolivian lawyer and politician who served as the 22nd president of Bolivia from 1888 to 1892. He also served as the fourth vice president of Bolivia from 1880 to ...
, President of Bolivia *
Antonio Quijarro Province Antonio Quijarro is a province in the central parts of the Bolivian Potosí Department situated at the Salar de Uyuni. Its seat is Uyuni. Location Antonio Quijarro province is one of sixteen provinces in the Potosí Department. It is located be ...
– Dr. Antonio Quijarro Quevedo (1831–1903), Bolivian politician * Azurduy Province
Juana Azurduy de Padilla Juana Azurduy de Padilla (July 12, 1780 – May 25, 1862) was a guerrilla military leader from Chuquisaca, Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata (now Sucre, Bolivia).Pallis, Michael “Slaves of Slaves: The Challenge of Latin American Women” (Lon ...
, revolutionary guerrilla * Bautista Saavedra ProvinceBautista Saavedra Mallea, President of Bolivia *
Belisario Boeto Province Belisario Boeto is a province in the Bolivian department of Chuquisaca. Subdivision The province consists of only one municipality, Villa Serrano Municipality, which is identical to the province. Belisario Boeto Province is further subdivided ...
– Belisario Boeto (1841–1900), Bolivian diplomat during a War of the Pacific *
Bernardino Bilbao Province Bernardino Bilbao (or: ''General Bernardino Bilbao Rioja'') is a province in the Northern parts of the Bolivian department of Potosí. It has its name after Bernardino Bilbao Rioja, Bolivian general and politician. Location Bernardino Bilbao pro ...
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Bernardino Bilbao Rioja Bernardino Bilbao Rioja (20 May 1895 in Arampampa – 13 May 1983 in La Paz) was a Bolivian officer who served during the Chaco War (1932–35). He pioneered the use of air forces in combat (the first to be used in this capacity in South A ...
(1895–1983), Bolivian military figure and politician * Bolívar Province, Cochabamba
Simon Bolivar Simon may refer to: People * Simon (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the given name Simon * Simon (surname), including a list of people with the surname Simon * Eugène Simon, French naturalist and the genus ...
, Venezuelan military and political leader * Burdett O'Connor Province
Francisco Burdett O'Connor Francisco Burdett O'Connor (12 June 1791 - 5 October 1871) was an officer in the Irish Legion of Simón Bolívar's army in Venezuela. He later became Chief of Staff to Antonio José de Sucre and Minister of War of Bolivia. Aside from Simón Bol ...
, chronicler of the South American War of Independence and the making of Tarija * Carlos Medinaceli (Potosi) – Carlos Medinaceli Lizarazu (1789–1841), Bolivian military *
Carrasco Province Carrasco is a province in the Cochabamba Department in central Bolivia. Its capital is Totora. Geography Some of the highest mountains of the province are listed below: Subdivision Carrasco Province is divided into six municipalities whic ...
– Dr. Jose Carrasco Torrico (1863–1921), Vice president of Bolivia *
Cornelio Saavedra Province Cornelio Saavedra is a province in the north-eastern parts of the Bolivian Potosí Department. The capital of the province is Betanzos with 4,168 inhabitants in the year 2001.Cornelio Saavedra, president of the Argentine First Junta *
Daniel Campos Province Daniel Campos is a province in the north-western parts of the Bolivian Potosí Department. It is named after the poet Daniel Campos who originated from this area. The capital of the province is Llica. Location Daniel Campos province is one of s ...
– Daniel Campos Cortes (1829–1902), Bolivian poet *
Eduardo Abaroa Province Eduardo Abaroa, also Eduardo Avaroa, or Challapata is a province in the southeastern parts of the Bolivian department of Oruro. Its seat is Challapata. The province was named after Colonel Eduardo Abaroa, Bolivia's hero of the War of the Pacific ...
– Colonel Eduardo Abaroa, hero of the War of the Pacific * El Carmen Rivero Tórrez (Santa Cruz) – Juan Rivero Tórres (1897–1951), a Bolivian engineer *
Eliodoro Camacho Province Eliodoro Camacho is a province in the La Paz Department in Bolivia situated at Lake Titicaca. Its seat is Puerto Acosta. Camacho Province is situated in the western region of the La Paz Department bordered to the north by the Muñecas Province, t ...
Eliodoro Camacho Eliodoro Camacho (1831–1899) was a noted Bolivian politician, party leader, and presidential candidate. The Eliodoro Camacho Province is named after him. Camacho was born in Inquisivi, Department of La Paz, but grew up in Cochabamba. He founded ...
, Bolivian politician, party leader, and presidential candidate *
Enrique Baldivieso Province Enrique Baldivieso (or: Enrique Valdivieso) is a province in the Bolivian department of Potosí. It is named after the former vice president Enrique Baldivieso. Its seat is San Agustín with a population of 533 during the census of 2001
Enrique Baldivieso Enrique Baldivieso Aparicio (born 1902 in Tupiza, d. 1957) served as the 24th vice president of Bolivia from 1938 to 1939, during the presidency of Germán Busch Víctor Germán Busch Becerra (23 March 1903 – 23 August 1939) was a Bolivia ...
, Vice president of Bolivia under German Busch *
Esteban Arce Province Esteban Arce is a province in Cochabamba Department, Bolivia. Its capital is Tarata. Many people from the Esteban Arze province (Tarata and Arbieto) have migrated abroad,mainly to Argentina and to the Washington DC area (Arlington county, Fairfax ...
– General Esteban Arce (1765–1815), Bolivian independence hero * Eustaquio Méndez Province – Eustaquio Méndez Arenas (1784–1841), warrior leader of Tarija * Franz Tamayo Province
Franz Tamayo Franz Tamayo Solares (28 February 1879 in La Paz – 29 July 1956) was a Bolivian intellectual, writer, and politician. The Franz Tamayo Province is named after him. He was renowned for his oratory. A prominent Bolivian poet and philosopher, he w ...
, Bolivian intellectual, writer and politician *
Federico Román Province Federico Román (or: ''General Federico Román'') is one of the five provinces of the Bolivian department of Pando and is situated in the department's northeastern parts. Its name honours General Federico Román. Location ''Federico Román' ...
– General Federico Roman Calderon (1875–1943), Hero of the Chaco War *
Germán Busch Province Germán Busch is a province in the Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia. Most of the surface is covered by the Pantanal, the largest wetland area in the world. History The province was founded on 30 November 1984 by rearranging the provinces of Ánge ...
Germán Busch Becerra, former Bolivian military officer, hero of the Chaco War, and President of Bolivia *
Germán Jordán Province Germán Jordán is a province in the Cochabamba Department, Bolivia. Its capital is Cliza. Many people from Germán Jordán province, along with people from neighboring Esteban Arze and Punata province have migrated to Argentina and to the Washin ...
– Germán Jordán (1890–1932), a hero of the Chaco War *
Gualberto Villarroel Province Gualberto Villarroel is a province in the La Paz Department, Bolivia. Its capital is San Pedro de Curahuara de Carangas. Subdivision The province is divided into three municipalities A municipality is usually a single administrative divisi ...
Gualberto Villarroel, President of Bolivia, who was killed in 1946 under his presidency *
Hernando Siles Province Hernando Siles is a province of the department of Chuquisaca, Bolivia. In the 2001 census it had a population of 36,511. It covers an area of 5,473 km², giving it a population density of 6.67/km². Its capital is Monteagudo. Subdivision ...
Hernando Siles Reyes Hernando Siles Reyes (5 August 1882 – 23 November 1942) was a Bolivian politician who served as the 31st president of Bolivia from 1926 to 1930. The founder of the Nationalist Party, he soon gravitated toward the Saavedrista faction of th ...
, President of Bolivia *
José Ballivián Province José Ballivián is a province of the Beni Department in northern Bolivia. It is named for José Ballivián, a general and former president of Bolivia who lived from 1805 until 1852. The province has a north-south extent. To the west the provin ...
José Ballivián José Ballivián Segurola (5 May 1805 – 6 October 1852) was a Bolivian general during the Peruvian-Bolivian War. He also served as the ninth president of Bolivia from 1841 to 1847. Early life Born in La Paz to wealthy parents, Ballivián ha ...
, President of Bolivia *
José Manuel Pando Province José Manuel Pando is a province in the La Paz Department in Bolivia. It was founded on April 22, 1986, during the presidency of Víctor Paz Estenssoro. The province was named after José Manuel Pando (1848-1917) who was the president of Bolivi ...
José Manuel Pando José Manuel Inocencio Pando Solares (27 December 1849 – 17 June 1917) was a Bolivian soldier, politician and explorer. He was also the 25th President of Bolivia from 1899 to 1904. During his government, the Acre War (1899-1903) began, in wh ...
(1848–1917) president of Bolivia * José María Avilés Province – General José María Avilés (1784–1838), a hero who was fighting during the Peru-Bolivian Confederation campaign *
José María Linares Province José María Linares is a province in the eastern parts of the Bolivian department of Potosí. Its capital is Puna. Location José María Linares province is one of sixteen provinces in the Potosí Department. It is located between 19° 30' and ...
José María Linares José María Linares Lizarazu (10 July 1808 – 23 October 1861) was a Bolivian lawyer and politician who served as the 13th president of Bolivia from 1857 to 1861. Early life and education He was born in Tical, Potosí, in his family's hacie ...
, President of Bolivia *
Ladislao Cabrera Province Ladislao Cabrera is a province in the southern parts of the Bolivian department of Oruro. It is named after Ladislao Cabrera (1830 – 1921). Its seat is Salinas de Garci Mendoza. Location Ladislao Cabrera is one of sixteen provinces in the Oruro ...
Ladislao Cabrera Ladislao Cabrera (May 23, 1830 – 1921) was a Bolivian hero during the War of the Pacific. Born in Totora, Cochabamba Department, Carrasco Province, he is famous for organising the defence of Calama against the Chilean invaders in the War of t ...
, Bolivian hero during the War of the Pacific *
Loayza Province Loayza or José Ramón Loayza is a province in the La Paz Department, Bolivia. Its seat is Luribay. Geography The Kimsa Cruz mountain range traverses the province. Some of the highest mountains of the province are listed below: Subdivisio ...
– Jose Ramon Loayza (1751–1839), President of Bolivia *
Luis Calvo Luis Calvo is a province in the Bolivian department of Chuquisaca. Subdivision The province is divided into three municipalities A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-governm ...
– Luis Calvo Calvimontes (1879-1944), Bolivian lawyer and senator *
Manco Kapac Province Manco Kapac is a province in the Bolivian department of La Paz. Its capital is Copacabana. Subdivision Manco Kapac Province is divided into three municipalities which are partly further subdivided into cantons. Places of interest * Chink ...
Manco Capac * Manuel María Caballero Province – Manuel María Caballero (1819–1865), one of the signatories of the Bolivian constitution of 5 August 1861 * Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz (Cochabamba) -
Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz (13 March 1931 – 17 July 1980) was a noted writer, dramatist, journalist, social commentator, university professor, and socialist political leader from Bolivia. In 1964 Marcelo won the ''PEN/Faulkner Award for Fictio ...
* Maximiliano Paredes (Cochabamba) - Maximiliano Paredes (1879-1900), Bolivian soldier *
Modesto Omiste Province Modesto Omiste is a province in the south of the Bolivian Potosí Department. Its capital is Villazón. The province is named after the Bolivian writer and politician Modesto Omiste Tinajeros. Location Modesto Omiste province is one of sixteen ...
Modesto Omiste Tinajeros, Bolivian writer and politician * Monseñor Salvatierra (Santa Cruz) – José Andrés de Salvatierra (1772–1862), Bolivian priest and independence hero *
Monteagudo, Bolivia Monteagudo is a small town in South Eastern Bolivia. Its name is dedicated to Bernardo de Monteagudo Cáceres (1789-1825) who took part in the Chuquisaca revolution of 25 May 1809. Location Monteagudo is administrative center of the Herna ...
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Bernardo de Monteagudo Bernardo de Monteagudo (1789–1825) was a political activist and revolutionary. He took part in the liberation struggles in South America, particularly in Argentina. He was born in Tucumán in Argentina, and was assassinated in Lima. He w ...
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Muñecas Province Muñecas is a province in the Bolivian department of La Paz. Its capital is Chuma. Subdivision The province is divided into three municipalities which are further subdivided into cantons. Places of interest * Iskanwaya Iskanwaya is a pr ...
– Idelfonso de las Muñecas (1776–1816), priest and leader of the War of Independence *
Narciso Campero Province Narciso Campero is a province in the Cochabamba Department, Bolivia. Its capital is Aiquile. Aiquile lies on one transportation route between the cities of Cochabamba, Sucre and Santa Cruz. Subdivision The province is divided into three muni ...
Narciso Campero Narciso Campero Leyes (29 October 1813 – 12 August 1896) was a Bolivian general and politician who served as the 20th president of Bolivia from 1880 to 1884. The Narciso Campero Province was named after him. Early life and family The Ca ...
, President of Bolivia *
Nicolás Suárez Province Nicolás Suárez is one of the five provinces of the Bolivian Pando department and is situated in the department's northwestern parts. Its name honors Nicolás Suárez Callaú (1861-1940) who owned major parts of today's ''Pando'' and ''Beni'' ...
Nicolás Suárez Callaú Nicolás Suárez Callaú (1851 in Portachuelo – 1940 in Cachuela Esperanza) set up a multinational rubber empire in South America at the beginning of the 20th century. Attracted by the rubber boom, Nicolas Suárez with his six brothers cros ...
* Ñuflo de Chávez Province – conquistador Ñuflo de Chaves *
Obispo Santistevan Province Obispo Santistevan (or: ''Santiesteban'') is one of the fifteen provinces of the Bolivian Santa Cruz department and is situated in the department's western parts. The province was founded on 2 December 1941, and its name honors Obispo Santistev ...
– Monseñor José Belisario Santistevan Seoane (1843–1931) *
Oropeza Province Oropeza is a province in the Chuquisaca Department, Bolivia. Its seat is Sucre which is also the constitutional capital of Bolivia and the capital of the Chuquisaca Department. Geography Some of the highest mountains of the province are listed ...
– Samuel Oropeza (d.1907), an illustrious Bolivian statesman *
Padilla, Bolivia Padilla (originally, San Miguel de La Laguna; subsequently, San Juan de Rodas, and La Laguna) is a small town in the Chuquisaca Department of Bolivia, located southeast by road from Tomina Province. It is the centre of the municipality of the sam ...
Manuel Ascencio Padilla Commandante Manuel Ascencio Padilla (or Manuel Ascensio Padilla) (September 26, 1774 – September 14, 1816) was an Upper Peruvian guerrilla chief who fought in the Bolivian War of Independence with his wife, Juana Azurduy de Padilla who s ...
, an Upper Peruvian guerrilla chief * Paz Estenssoro Viejo (Santa Cruz) – Victor Paz Estenssoro, President of Bolivia *
Puerto Siles Puerto Siles is a town in the Mamoré Province in the Beni Department of northern Bolivia. It is the capital of the Puerto Siles Municipality. It is located around a lake A lake is an area filled with water, localized in a basin, surr ...
Hernando Siles Reyes Hernando Siles Reyes (5 August 1882 – 23 November 1942) was a Bolivian politician who served as the 31st president of Bolivia from 1926 to 1930. The founder of the Nationalist Party, he soon gravitated toward the Saavedrista faction of th ...
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Puerto Villarroel Puerto Villarroel is a locality in the Cochabamba Department Cochabamba ( ay, Quchapampa Jach'a Suyu, es, Departamento de Cochabamba , qu, Quchapampa Suyu), from Quechua ''qucha'' or ''qhucha'', meaning "lake", ''pampa'' meaning "plain", is ...
Gualberto Villarroel, President of Bolivia *
Rafael Bustillo Province Rafael Bustillo is a province in the Bolivian Potosí Department. Its name honors the Bolivian diplomat and foreign secretary Rafael Bustillo († 1886). The capital of the province is Uncía with a population of 5,709 in the year 2001, the larg ...
– Rafael Bustillo (1813–1873), Bolivian diplomat and foreign secretary * Ramón Darío Gutiérrez (Itenez, Beni) – Ramón Darío Gutiérrez (1907–1987), minister of the interior * Rufino Carrasco (Potosi) – Rufino Carrasco (1817–1891), Bolivian military during the war of the pacific *
San Ignacio de Velasco San Ignacio de Velasco, is the capital of the José Miguel de Velasco Province and the San Ignacio de Velasco Municipality in the Santa Cruz Department of Bolivia. History The Jesuit mission of San Ignacio de Velasco was founded in 1748 by the ...
José Miguel de Velasco Franco José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced differently in each language: Spanish ; Portuguese (or ). In French, the name ''José'', pronounced , is an old vernacu ...
, President of Bolivia *
Sebastián Pagador Province Sebastián Pagador is a province in the southeastern parts of the Bolivian department of Oruro. Its seat is Santiago de Huari. Location Sebastián Pagador province is one of sixteen provinces in the Oruro Department. It is located between 18° ...
– Sebastián Pagador Miranda (1733–1781), patriot of Upper Peru *
Sucre Sucre () is the Capital city, capital of Bolivia, the capital of the Chuquisaca Department and the List of cities in Bolivia, 6th most populated city in Bolivia. Located in the south-central part of the country, Sucre lies at an elevation of . T ...
Antonio José de Sucre * Tarija - Tariq ibn Ziyad * Teniente Bullaín (Oruro) - José Bullaín (1907-1934), Hero of the Chaco war * Tomas Barrón Province – Colonel Tomas Barrón (d.1810), an Independence hero *
Tomás Frías Province Tomás Frías is a province in the northern parts of the Bolivian Potosí Department. Its capital is Potosí which is also the capital of the department. The province is named after the former president Tomás Frías Ametller. Location Tomás ...
Tomás Frías Ametller Tomás may refer to: * Tomás (given name) * Tomás (surname) Tomás is a Spanish and Portuguese surname, equivalent of '' Thomas''. It may refer to: * Antonio Tomás (born 1985), professional Spanish footballer * Belarmino Tomás (1892–1950) ...
, President of Bolivia * Tupac Katari, Santa Cruz -
Tupac Katari Tupac Amaru Shakur ( ; born Lesane Parish Crooks, June 16, 1971 – September 13, 1996), also known as 2Pac and Makaveli, was an American rapper. He is widely considered one of the most influential rappers of all time. Shakur is among the b ...
* Uriondo – Francisco Uriondo (1784–1822) * Urriolagoitia, Chuquisaca – Mamerto Urriolagoitía * Vaca Díez Province – Antonio Vaca Diez (1840–1897) *
Villa Abecia Villa Abecia, also Camataqui, is a small town in Bolivia. References Populated places in Chuquisaca Department {{Chuquisaca-geo-stub ...
– Dr. Valentin Abecia (1846–1910) * Villa Banzer, Beni - Hugo Banzer * Villa Barrientos (La Paz) -
René Barrientos René Barrientos Ortuño (30 May 1919 – 27 April 1969) was a Bolivian military officer and politician who served as the 47th president of Bolivia twice nonconsecutively from 1964 to 1966 and from 1966 to 1969. During much of his first term, ...
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Villa Vaca Guzmán Villa Vaca Guzmán is a small town in Bolivia , image_flag = Bandera de Bolivia (Estado).svg , flag_alt = Horizontal tricolor (red, yellow, and green from top to bottom) with the coat of arms of Bolivia in the ce ...
- Santiago Vaca Guzmán (1847-1896) * Villamontes
Ismael Montes Ismael Montes Gamboa (5 October 1861 – 16 October 1933) was a Bolivian general and political figure who served as the 26th president of Bolivia twice nonconsecutively from 1904 to 1909 and from 1913 to 1917. During his first term, the Tre ...
, President of Bolivia *
Villazón Villazón is a town in southern Bolivia, on the border with Argentina. It sits directly across La Quiaca River from La Quiaca in Argentina. The town is a busy trading hub, with large quantities of goods flowing north. It is also a heavily used ...
Eliodoro Villazón Eliodoro Villazón Montaño (22 January 1848 – 12 September 1939) was a Bolivian lawyer and politician who served as the 27th president of Bolivia from 1909 to 1913 and as the 15th vice president of Bolivia from 1904 to 1909. Early life Vill ...
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Waldo Ballivián Municipality Waldo Ballivián Municipality is the sixth municipal section of the Pacajes Province in the La Paz Department, Bolivia. Its seat is Tumarapi (or Waldo Ballivián). See also * Ch'alla Jawira * Janq'u Apachita Janq'u Apachita (Aymara ''jan ...
- Waldo Ballivián Soria-Galvarro (1917-1946) *
Warnes, Bolivia Warnes is a town in Bolivia, named after Colonel Ignacio Warnes, a military leader in the South American war of independence. It is located 24 kilometers north of Santa Cruz de la Sierra Santa Cruz de la Sierra (; "Holy Cross of the Mountain ...
Ignacio Warnes José Ignacio Warnes y García de Zúñiga (Buenos Aires, 1772 – El Parí, 1816) was an Argentine soldier who fought in the Argentine War of Independence. Son of the mayor of the city of Buenos Aires Manuel Antonio Warnes y Durango and Ana Jac ...
, military leader in the South American war of independence * Zudáñez -
Jaime de Zudáñez Jaime de Zudáñez (25 July 1776, in Chuquisaca – 1832, in Montevideo) was a Bolivian politician and hero of the independence of three countries in South America. Biography Zudáñez was born in the city of La Plata, Chuquisaca, in present-day ...


Bosnia and Herzegovina

* Mrkonjić Grad – King Peter I of Serbia who had taken the nom de guerre "Mrkonjić" while fighting against the Ottoman Empire * Tomislavgrad – King Tomislav of Croatia or Prince
Tomislav of Yugoslavia Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia ( sr-cyr, Томислав Карађорђевић, Tomislav Karađorđević; 19 January 1928 – 12 July 2000) was a member of the House of Karađorđević, the second son of King Alexander I and Queen Maria of Yu ...


Botswana

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Francistown Francistown is the second largest city in Botswana, with a population of about 103,417 and 147,122 inhabitants for its agglomeration at the 2022 census. and often described as the "''Capital of the North''" or as the natives would have it “''T ...
– Daniel Francis (1840-1921), English prospector *
Gaborone Gaborone ( , , ) is the capital and largest city of Botswana with a population of 246,325 based on the 2022 census, about 10% of the total population of Botswana. Its agglomeration is home to 421,907 inhabitants at the 2011 census. Gaboron ...
Chief Gaborone Gaborone (c. 1825 – 1931) was a ''kgosi'' (chief) of the Tlokwa, a tribe of the larger Tswana people in what is now Botswana. He became the tribe's chief around 1880, after the death of his father, and secured the Tlokwa's status as the "smalles ...


Brazil

''For a longer list, please see List of places in Brazil named after people.'' *
Salvador Salvador, meaning "salvation" (or "saviour") in Catalan, Spanish, and Portuguese may refer to: * Salvador (name) Arts, entertainment, and media Music *Salvador (band), a Christian band that plays both English and Spanish music ** ''Salvador'' ( ...
, Brazil – Jesus (the Christian Savior) * São Luís, Maranhão, Brazil –
Louis IX of France Louis IX (25 April 1214 – 25 August 1270), commonly known as Saint Louis or Louis the Saint, was King of France from 1226 to 1270, and the most illustrious of the Direct Capetians. He was crowned in Reims at the age of 12, following the ...
(Saint Louis) * São Paulo (city), São Paulo – Paul of Tarsus, Saint Paul


Brunei

* Bandar Seri Begawan – Omar Ali Saifuddien III


Bulgaria

* Anton, Sofia Province – partisan Stefan Minev "Anton" (1917–1944) * Antonovo – Anton Krastev, who died in a battle of 1944 * Asenovgrad – Tsar Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria, Ivan Asen II * Aksakovo, Bulgaria, Aksakovo – Russian littérateur Ivan Aksakov * Benkovski, Kardzhali Province – revolutionary Georgi Benkovski * Blagoevgrad – Bulgarian Workers' Social Democratic Party founder Dimitar Blagoev * Botevgrad – Revolutionary and National Hero Hristo Botev * Bratya Daskalovi – The Daskalovi brothers Dimitar, Ivan and Nikola * Chervenkovtsi (Veliko Tarnovo) – Valko Chervenkov, Prime Minister of Bulgaria * Dimitrovgrad, Bulgaria, Dimitrovgrad – Communist leader and Prime Minister
Georgi Dimitrov Georgi Dimitrov Mihaylov (; bg, Гео̀рги Димитро̀в Миха̀йлов), also known as Georgiy Mihaylovich Dimitrov (russian: Гео́ргий Миха́йлович Дими́тров; 18 June 1882 – 2 July 1949), was a Bulgarian ...
* Dimovo – partisan Zhivko (Dimo) Puev * Dobrich – 14th-century Dobrujan ruler Dobrotitsa * Dospat – Despot Alexius Slav * Dulovo, Bulgaria – early medieval Bulgarian Dulo clan * Elena (town), Elena, Bulgaria – Bulgarian bride Elena * Elin Pelin (town), Elin Pelin – writer Elin Pelin * General Toshevo – General Stefan Toshev * Georgi Damyanovo – Georgi Damyanov, President of Bulgaria in 1950 until 1958 * Georgi Dobrevo – Georgi Dobrev (1893–1966), Bulgarian political figure * Gotse Delchev (town), Gotse Delchev – revolutionary Gotse Delchev * Gurkovo – Iosif Gurko, one of Russian commanders in Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) * Hadzhidimovo – leftist Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO) revolutionary Dimo Hadzhidimov * Isperih – Khan Asparuh of Bulgaria * Ivaylovgrad – Tsar Ivaylo of Bulgaria * Kableshkovo (disambiguation) – revolutionary Todor Kableshkov * Kapitan Andreevo – Bulgarian officer Nikola Kolev Andreev * Krumovgrad – Khan Krum of Bulgaria * Kubrat (town), Kubrat – Khan Kubrat of Bulgaria * Kyustendil – 14th-century local feudal Constantine Dragaš * Levski (town) – revolutionary and National Hero Vasil Levski * Madzharovo – revolutionary Dimitar Madzharov (1882–1949) * Momchilgrad – medieval Bulgarian ruler Momchil * Nikola Kozlevo – Bulgarian National Revival revolutionary and writer Nikola Kozlev * Omurtag (town), Omurtag – Khan Omurtag of Bulgaria * Pavel Banya – St. Pavel (Paul) and Russian Tsar-Liberator's brother Prince Pavel * Radomir (town) – Gavril Radomir of Bulgaria * Rakovski (town), Rakovski – revolutionary Georgi Sava Rakovski * Roman, Bulgaria – Tsar Roman of Bulgaria * Samuil (village) – Tsar Samuil of Bulgaria * Sandanski – revolutionary Yane Sandanski * Shumen – Bulgarian emperor Simeon the Great * Simeonovgrad – Tsar Simeon I of Bulgaria * St. Anastasia Island – Anastasia of Sirmium * St. Ivan Island – St. John the Baptist * Stamboliyski – Prime Minister of Bulgaria Aleksandar Stamboliyski * Stambolovo, Haskovo Province – Prime Minister of Bulgaria Stefan Stambolov * Stefan Karadzhovo – Bulgarian Revolutionary Stefan Karadzha * Suvorovo – Alexander Suvorov, one of the famous Russian military commanders * Tervel (town), Tervel – Khan Tervel of Bulgaria * Thompson, Bulgaria, Thompson – British officer William Frank Thompson * Tsar Kaloyan, Razgrad Province, Tsar Kaloyan – Tsar Kaloyan of Bulgaria * Tsarevo – Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria * Tsenovo, Ruse Province – Influential Svishtov merchant Dimitar Apostolov Tsenov (1852–1932) * Velingrad – Bulgarian communist revolutionary Vela Peeva * Yambol – Roman Emperor Diocletian * Zhivkovo (Sofia) – Georgi Zhivkov (1844–1899), minister of education Former: * ''Borisovgrad'' was the name of Parvomay – Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria * ''Kolarovgrad'' was the name of Shumen – Vasil Kolarov * ''Stalin'' was the name of Varna, Bulgaria, Varna –
Joseph Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet political leader who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held power as General Secreta ...
* ''Stanke Dimitrov'' was the name of Dupnitsa – revolutionary Stanke Dimitrov * ''Tolbukhin'' was the name of Dobrich – Soviet marshal Fyodor Tolbukhin


Burkina Faso

* Sankara, Burkina Faso – Thomas Sankara, Military, Revolutionary and President of Burkina Faso


Cambodia

* Phnom Penh – said to be named for Lady Penh * Sihanoukville (city) – King Norodom Sihanouk


Canada

* Abbotsford, British Columbia – Harry Abbott (Canadian Pacific Railway superintendent) * Abbotsford, Quebec – Rev. Joseph Abbott * Alberta – Princess Louise Caroline Alberta * Barkerville, British Columbia – William Barker (prospector), Billy Barker English Prospecting, prospector * Barrie, Ontario – Sir Robert Barrie or Captain A. Barry * Bathurst, New Brunswick – Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst * Brantford, Ontario – Joseph Brant * Brockville, Ontario and Brock, Ontario – Isaac Brock * Brooks, Alberta – Noel Edgell Brooks (railway engineer) * Burnaby, British Columbia – Robert Burnaby * Charlemagne, Quebec – Romuald-Charlemagne Laurier * Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island – Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, consort of King
George III of the United Kingdom George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 173829 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and of Monarchy of Ireland, Ireland from 25 October 1760 until Acts of Union 1800, the union of the two kingdoms on 1 January 1801, after which he was ...
* Churchill, Manitoba – John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough * Churchill Falls – Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of United Kingdom * Collingwood, Ontario – Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood * Dawson City – George Mercer Dawson * Dollard-des-Ormeaux – Adam Dollard des Ormeaux * Drummondville, Quebec – Gordon Drummond * Edmundston, New Brunswick – Edmund Walker Head * Fredericton, New Brunswick – Prince Frederick, Duke of York * Halifax Regional Municipality, Halifax – George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax * Hamilton, Ontario – George Hamilton (city founder), George Hamilton * Huntsville, Ontario – Captain George Hunt (settler) * Joliette, Quebec – Barthélemy Joliette * King George, Saskatoon – George VI of United Kingdom * Kirkland, Quebec – Charles-Aimé Kirkland, a Canadian politician * Kirkland Lake, Ontario – Ms. Winnifred Kirkland, secretary at the Ontario Department of Mines * Kitchener, Ontario – Horatio Kitchener * Lethbridge, Alberta – William Lethbridge * Maberly, Ontario – William Maberly * Markham, Ontario – William Markham (archbishop), William Markham * Mont-Laurier, Quebec – Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Prime Minister of Canada * Morrisburg, Ontario – James Morris (Canada West politician), James Morris * Patricia, Alberta – Princess Patricia * Peterborough, Ontario – Peter Robinson (1785–1838), Peter Robinson * Port Alberni, British Columbia – Captain Pere d'Alberní * Port Hope Simpson – John Hope Simpson, British liberal politician * Port Moody, British Columbia – Richard Moody, first Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony of British Columbia (1858-1866), Colony of British Columbia. * Prince Albert, Saskatchewan – Albert, Prince Consort, Prince Albert * Prince George, British Columbia – King
George III George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 173829 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and of Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of the two kingdoms on 1 January 1801, after which he was King of the United Kingdom of Great Br ...
* Prince Rupert, British Columbia – Prince Rupert of the Rhine * Sackville, New Brunswick - George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville * Queen Elizabeth, Saskatoon – Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother * Regina, Saskatchewan –
Queen Victoria Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until Death and state funeral of Queen Victoria, her death in 1901. Her reign of 63 years and 21 ...
* Robert-Cliche Regional County Municipality – Robert Cliche, a Quebec politician, writer, lawyer and judge * Selkirk, Manitoba – Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk * Sherbrooke, Quebec and Sherbrooke, Nova Scotia – John Coape Sherbrooke * Sydney, Nova Scotia – Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney, Thomas Townshend, Lord Sydney * Thompson, Manitoba – Dr. John F. Thompson (1881–1968), Inco's chairman * Timmins, Ontario – Noah Timmins * Vancouver, British Columbia – Captain George Vancouver, English explorer of Dutch descent
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* Victoria, British Columbia –
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* Victoriaville, Quebec –
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* Wolfville, Nova Scotia – Elisha DeWolf


Central African Republic

* Barthélemy Boganda Stadium – Barthélemy Boganda, First Prime Minister * Carnot, Central African Republic – Marie François Sadi Carnot, Sadi Carnot, French President * Possel – Marshal Possel-Deydier, who was killed in combat against Rabih az-Zubayr at Kouno the year before * Sibut – Adolphe Pierre Sibut


Chad

* Faya-Largeau – French Colonel, Étienne Largeau (1867–1916) Former: * ''Fort Archambault'' was the name of Sarh – Gustave Archambaud (1872–1899), French topographer * ''Fort-Lamy'' was the name of N'Djamena – Amédée-François Lamy, an army officer


Chile

* Capitán Prat Province – Arturo Prat, naval hero * Candelario Mancilla – José Candelario Mancilla Uribe (1900–1967), Chilean inhabitant of Lake O'Higgins * Cardenal Caro Province – José María Caro Rodríguez, first Cardinal of Chile * Cochrane, Chile, Cochrane – Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, captain * Diego de Almagro, Chile – Diego de Almagro * Galvarino, Chile, Galvarino – Galvarino, Mapuche leader during the War of Arauco * Gorbea, Chile, Gorbea – Andrés Antonio de Gorbea (1792-1852), founder and first dean of the Faculty of Mathematical and Exact Sciences of the University of Chile * General Lagos – General Pedro Lagos, commander of Chilean troops in the Battle of Arica * Lautaro, Chile, Lautaro – Lautaro (toqui), Lautaro, Mapuche leader during the War of Arauco * Molina, Chile – Juan Ignacio Molina, Jesuit * Osorno, Chile – Ambrosio O'Higgins, founder and Marquis of Osorno * Padre José Fernandez Perez (Puerto Montt) - José Fernandez Perez (1919-2000), spanish priest * Padre Hurtado – Saint Alberto Hurtado * Pedro Aguirre Cerda, Chile – Pedro Aguirre Cerda, President * Puerto Ingeniero Ibáñez – Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, President * Puerto Montt – Manuel Montt, President * Puerto Saavedra, Chile, Puerto Saavedra – Cornelio Saavedra Rodríguez, military figure who played a major role in the Occupation of the Araucanía * Puerto Varas – Antonio Varas, minister of the interior * Puerto Williams, Chile, Puerto Williams – Juan Williams Rebolledo, Chilean admiral * San Fernando, Chile, San Fernando – Saint Ferdinand * San Pedro de Atacama, Chile, San Pedro de Atacama –
Saint Peter Saint Peter; he, שמעון בר יונה, Šimʿōn bar Yōnāh; ar, سِمعَان بُطرُس, translit=Simʿa̅n Buṭrus; grc-gre, Πέτρος, Petros; cop, Ⲡⲉⲧⲣⲟⲥ, Petros; lat, Petrus; ar, شمعون الصفـا, Sham'un ...
* Santiago, Chile, Santiago – James, son of Zebedee, James, son of Zebedee (Saint James) * Teodoro Schmidt, Chile, Teodoro Schmidt – Teodoro Schmidt * Valdivia (city), Valdivia – Pedro de Valdivia, conqueror of Chile * Vicuña, Chile – Colonel Joaquín Vicuña Larraín, founder of a city * Villa Frei (Coyhaique) – Eduardo Frei Montalva, President * Villa O'higgins, Chile, Villa O'Higgins – Bernardo O'Higgins, libertador of Chile


China

* Gensi Township – Yang Gensi, Chinese military hero * Huanghua - :zh:黄骅, Huang Hua, Chinese communist revolutionary * Jingyu, Jilin – General Yang Jingyu * Leifeng Subdistrict – Lei Feng, Chinese hero * Maoming – Chinese scholar and doctor Pan Maoming * Qinhuangdao – Qin Shi Huang, First emperor of China * :zh:佟麟阁路, Tong Linge Road, :zh:赵登禹路, Zhao Dengyu Road, :zh:张自忠路 (北京), Zhang Zizhong Road – Tong Linge, Zhao Dengyu, Zhang Zizhong, martyrs in the Second Sino-Japanese War * Yingjun – Liu Yingjun (1945–1966), a Chinese military hero * Zhidan County – Liu Zhidan, military strategist and high-ranking leader of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army * Zhongshan, Guangdong – Dr. Sun Yat-sen, President of the Republic of China * Zichang County – Xie Zichang (1897–1935), Communist martyr * Zuoquan County – Zuo Quan, a general in the Red Army during the Chinese revolution


Colombia


Democratic Republic of the Congo

* Cité Maman Mobutu (Kinshasa) – Marie-Antoinette Mobutu (1941–1977), First Lady of the Democratic Republic of the Congo * Cité Mzee Laurent Désiré Kabila (Kinshasa) – Laurent-Désiré Kabila, President * Kasa-Vubu, Kinshasa - Joseph Kasa-Vubu * Lumumba (Lodja) – Patrice Lumumba, First Prime Minister Former: * ''Albertville'' was the name of Kalemie –
Albert I of Belgium Albert I (8 April 1875 – 17 February 1934) was King of the Belgians from 23 December 1909 until his death in 1934. Born in Brussels as the fifth child and second son of Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders and Princess Marie of Hohenzollern-S ...
* ''Coquilhatville'' was the name of Mbandaka – Camille-Aimé Coquilhat * ''Élisabethville'' was the name of Lubumbashi – Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Belgium, Queen Elizabeth of Belgium * ''Jadotville'' was the name of Likasi – Jean Jadot * ''Léopoldville'' was the name of Kinshasa – Leopold II of Belgium * ''Ponthierville'' was the name of Ubundu – Pierre Ponthier * ''Stanleyville'' was the name of Kisangani – Henry Morton Stanley


Republic of the Congo

* Brazzaville – Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza * Lumumba (Point Noire) – Patrice Lumumba


Costa Rica

* Abangares (canton) – Cacique Avancari * Acosta (canton) – Tomás de Acosta y Hurtado de Mendoza (1747–1821), Governor of Province of Costa Rica * Alfaro (Alajuela) – Juan Alfaro Ruiz (1810–1856), Costa Rican military and hero of the Filibuster war * Alvarado (canton) – Presbyter Joaquin Alvarado Ruiz (d.1890) * Anselmo Llorente District and Llorente District – Anselmo Llorente y La Fuente (1800–1871), Costa Rican Bishop * Aserrí (canton) – Cacique Aczarri * Bagaces – Cacique Bagatzi * Barva – Cacique Barvak * Biolley (Puntarenas) – Paul Biolley (1862–1908), Swiss educator and naturalist * Bolívar District, Grecia -
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* Cañas (canton) - José María Cañas, Salvadoran military figure * Carmona District, Nandayure - José Daniel Carmona Briceño (1869-1929) * Carrillo (canton) – Braulio Carrillo Colina, a head of state of Costa Rica * Cervantes District – Juan de Cervantes * Ciudad Cortés – León Cortés Castro. President of Costa Rica * Ciudad Neily – Ricardo Neily Jop (1912–2000), a Lebanese citizen and founder of a city * Curridabat – Cacique Corriava * Daniel Oduber (Liberia) – Daniel Oduber Quirós * Dota (canton) – Cacique Ota * El Guarco (canton) – Cacique El Guarco * Flores (canton) – Don Juan J.Flores Umaña (1843–1903), a Costa Rican physician * Garcia Flamenco (Guanacaste) – Marcelino Garcia Flamenco (1888–1919), a Salvadoran teacher * Goicoechea (canton) – Fray José Antonio de Liendo y Goicoechea * Gutiérrez Braun District – Hernán Gutiérrez Braun (1902–1979), Costa Rican engineer * Heredia, Costa Rica – Alonso Fernández de Heredia, a President of the Real Audiencia of Guatemala * Jiménez (canton) – Jesús Jiménez Zamora President of Costa Rica * León Cortés (canton) – León Cortés Castro * Llano Brenes (Alajuela) - Alberto Manuel Brenes (1870-1948) * Mayorga de Liberia - Francisco Mayorga Rivas (1864-1940) * Montes de Oca (canton) – Don Faustino Montes de Oca (1860–1902), a former congressional representative from the area * Montezuma, Costa Rica – Moctezuma II, an Aztec Emperor * Mora (canton) – Juan Rafael Mora Porras and Juan Mora Fernández * Moravia (canton) – Juan Rafael Mora Porras, President of Costa Rica and National Hero * Morazan (Alajuela), Morazan (San Jose) and Morazan (Limon) – Francisco Morazan * Naranjito de Aguirre – Rolando Aguirre Lobo (1918–1948) * Oreamuno (canton) – Francisco María Oreamuno Bonilla, President of Costa Rica * Orlich (Alajuela) - Francisco Orlich Bolmarcich * Orotina - Gurutina, indigenous king of the chorotega ethnic * Osa (canton) – Cacique Osa * Pérez Zeledón (canton) – Pedro Perez Zeledon (1854–1930), Jurist and diplomat * Pittier District – Henri François Pittier * Pococí (canton) – Cacique Pococi * Puerto Jiménez and Jiménez, Pococí – Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno President of Costa Rica * Puerto Soley (Guanacaste) - Tomás Soley Güell (1875-1943), Costa Rican economist * Puerto Thiel (Guanacaste) - Monseñor Bernardo Augusto Thiel (1850-1901) * Puerto Vargas (Limon) - Balvanero Vargas Molina (1833-1905), Governor of Limon * Quesada, San Carlos – Napoleon Quesada Salazar (1873–1937), Poet * Rincón Ulate (Sarchi) – Otilio Ulate Blanco * Rivas, Costa Rica – Domingo Rivas Salvatierra (1836–1900) * Rodríguez District - Herminio de Jesus Rodriguez Gonzalez (1892-1960) * Santa Bárbara de Heredia – Saint Barbara * Santa Ana (canton) – Saint Anne * San Carlos (canton) – Saint Charles Borromeo * Santo Domingo (canton), Costa Rica –
Saint Dominic Saint Dominic ( es, Santo Domingo; 8 August 1170 – 6 August 1221), also known as Dominic de Guzmán (), was a Castilian Catholic priest, mystic, the founder of the Dominican Order and is the patron saint of astronomers and natural scientis ...
* San Isidro (canton) – Saint Isidro Labrador * San Isidro de El General - Saint Isidro Labrador and General Bernardo Soto Alfaro, President of Costa Rica * San José, Costa Rica – Saint Joseph * San Mateo de Alajuela – Saint Matthew * San Pablo (canton) – Saint Paul of Tarsus * San Rafael (canton) – Saint Raphael * San Ramón, Costa Rica – Saint Raymond Nonnatus or Ramon Salas Sandoval (1838-1902) and Ramon Rodriguez Solorzano (1818-1893), two prominent figures in San Ramon * San Vito (Costa Rica) - Saint Vitus or Vito Sansonetti (1916-1999), Italian marine and founder of San Vito de Java * Valverde (San Ramon) – Carlos Luis Valverde (1903–1948), Costa Rican physician and revolutionary * Vázquez de Coronado (canton) – Conquistador Juan Vázquez de Coronado * Volio District - Julián Volio Llorente Former: * Aguirre (now Quepos (canton), Quepos) – Rolando Aguirre Lobo: a hero of Revolution of 1948 * Alfaro Ruiz (now Zarcero (canton), Zarcero) – Colonel Juan Alfaro Ruiz, a hero of the National Campaign of 1856 * Valverde Vega (now Sarchí (canton), Sarchí) – Dr. Carlos Luis Valverde Vega, a physician and founder of the Unión Médica Nacional (National Medical Union).


Croatia

* Dinko Simunovic (Zagreb) – Dinko Simunovic, Croatian writer * Ernestinovo – Mrs. Ernestina Klein * Eugen Kvaternik (Zagreb) – Eugen Kvaternik, Croatian nationalist politician * Ferdinandovac – Ferdinand I of Austria, President of the German Confederation, King of Hungary * Generalski Stol – General Vuk Krsto Frankopan * Ivan Mazuranic (Zagreb) – Ivan Mazuranic, Croatian poet, lawyer and politician * Karlovac – King Charles II of Austria * Maksimir – Maksimilijan Vrhovac, bishop of Zagreb * Ošljak (island), Ošljak – Known in Italian and historical documents as ''Calugerà'' or ''Calogerà'', after the Calogerà family who owned it * Oton Zupancic (Zagreb) – Oton Zupancic, Slovene poet * Tomislavovac –
Tomislav of Yugoslavia Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia ( sr-cyr, Томислав Карађорђевић, Tomislav Karađorđević; 19 January 1928 – 12 July 2000) was a member of the House of Karađorđević, the second son of King Alexander I and Queen Maria of Yu ...
Former: * ''Kardeljevo'' was the name of Ploče from 1950 through 1954 and from 1980 through 1990 – Edvard Kardelj * ''Titova Korenica'' was the name of Korenica from 1945 through 1997 – Josip Broz Tito


Cuba

* Bartolomé Masó, Cuba – Bartolomé Masó, a Cuban patriot and President of Cuba * Briones Montoto (Cuba) – Antonio Briones Montoto (1940–1967), Cuban revolutionary * Calixto García, Cuba – Calixto García Iñiguez, an independence war hero * Camilo Cienfuegos (Santa Cruz del Norte) – Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban revolutionary * Cárdenas, Cuba – Mateo de Cárdenas y Vélez de Guevara * Central José Smith Comas (Cárdenas) – José Smith Comas (1932–1956) * Cespedes, Cuba – Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Father of the Cuban Fatherland and first President of Cuba * Cienfuegos, Cuba, Cienfuegos – José Cienfuegos Jovellanos, Captain General of Cuba * Ciro Redondo – Ciro Redondo, a Cuban revolutionary * Colón, Cuba –
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* Emilio Córdova (Encrucijada) – Emilio Córdova Garcia (1938–1958) * Frank País, Cuba – revolutionary Frank País * Héctor Molina (San Nicolás) – Héctor Molina Riaño (1922–1958) * Hermanos Saíz (San Juan y Martínez) – The Saiz Brothers who died in action in 1957 * Heriberto Orellanes (La Sierpe) – Heriberto Felipe Orellana (1926–1959) * Holguín – Captain García Holguín, Spanish military officer * Jesús Menéndez – Cuban trade unionist Jesús Menéndez Larrondo * Juan Gualberto Gómez (Matanzas) – Juan Gualberto Gómez * Loynaz Hechavarría (Holguin) – Loynaz Hechavarría Cordovés (1911–1956) * Manuel Sanguily (Ciego de Avila) – Manuel Sanguily (1848–1925) * Mariel, Cuba – Cacique Marien * Martí, Cuba – Cuban Independence Hero José Martí * Niceto Pérez – Cuban peasant Niceto Perez Garcia * Pablo de la Torriente Brau (Bahía Honda) – Pablo de la Torriente Brau (1901–1936) * Pedro Betancourt – Pedro Betancourt Dávalos * Piti Fajardo (Trinidad) – Manuel "Piti" Fajardo (1930–1960) * Ramon Balboa (Cienfuegos) – Ramon Balboa Monzon (1939–1958) * Raúl Hernández Vidal (San Antonio de los Baños) – Raúl Hernández Vidal (1948–1978), Cuban pilot * Reynold García (Calimete) – Reynold García García (1922–1956) * Sabino Hernández (Santo Domingo) – Sabino Hernandez Casal (died in 1959) * Sandino, Cuba – Nicaraguan revolutionary Augusto César Sandino * Santiago de Cuba – James, son of Zebedee * Silvio Caro (Bahía Honda) – Silvio Nestor Caro (1943–1966)


Curaçao

* Willemstad – William II, Prince of Orange or his son
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Cyprus

* Agios Athanasios, Cyprus – Athanasius of Alexandria * Ayios Dhometios – Saint Dometius of Persia * Ethnomártyras Kyprianós (Strovolos) – Kyprianos of Cyprus * Makarios (Kato Polemidia) – Makarios III * Paphos – Paphos, daughter of Pygmalion (mythology)


Czech Republic

* Adamov (Blansko District) – Josef Johann Adam of Liechtenstein, Adam Josef, Prince of Liechtenstein, ironworks owner * Alojzov – Alois I, Prince of Liechtenstein * Barrandov, Prague – Joachim Barrande * Františkovy Lázně – Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor * Golčův Jeníkov – Martin Maxmillian Goltz, general of the Habsburg army * Havlíčkův Brod – Karel Havlíček Borovský * Jáchymov – Joachim, St. Joachim * Jindřichův Hradec – Jindřich z Hradce, owner of the castle in the town * Fortress Josefov and Josefov (Prague) – Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor * Halasovo Kunštátsko – František Halas * Karlín – Caroline Augusta of Bavaria * Karlovy Vary – Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor * Karlštejn Castle and Karlštejn (Beroun District), village – Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor * Mladá Boleslav – Boleslaus II of Bohemia * Špindlerův Mlýn – Spindler, a miller * Švermova (Bruntál) – Jan Šverma * Stará Boleslav – Boleslaus I of Bohemia * Terezín – Empress Maria Theresa of Austria * Vítkov (Opava District), Vítkov – Vítek z Kravař * Žižkov – Jan Žižka Former: * ''Gottwaldov'' was the name of Zlín from 1948 through 1990 – Klement Gottwald


Denmark

* Albertslund – Albert de Rault de Ramsault de Tortonval (1778–1855), a French noble * Augustenborg, Denmark, Augustenborg – Auguste, duchess of Schleswig-Holstein * Carlsberg (district) – Carl Jacobsen, a Danish brewer, art collector and philanthropist * Charlottenlund – Princess Charlotte Amalie of Denmark * Oslo, Christiania – Christian IV of Denmark * Christiansfeld – Christian VII of Denmark * Christianshavn – Christian IV of Denmark * Dronninglund – Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel , Queen Charlotte Amalie * Fredericia – King Frederick III of Denmark * Frederiks – King Frederick VI of Denmark * Frederiksberg – King Frederick IV of Denmark * Frederikshavn – King Frederick VI of Denmark * Frederikssund – Frederick III of Denmark * Frederiksværk – King Frederick V of Denmark * Karlslunde – Kalf Skurfa * Liseleje – Elisabeth (Lise) Classen * Mariager – Blessed Virgin Mary * Marielyst – Marie Kørgensen In Greenland: * Christianshåb (Inuit: Qasigiannguit) – King Christian VI of Denmark * Frederikshåb (Inuit: Paamiut) – King Frederick V of Denmark * Jakobshavn (Inuit: Ilulissat) – Jakob Severin, a fur trader In Bornholm: * Gudhjem – God


Dominica

* Salisbury, Dominica – Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury * Scotts Head, Dominica – Colonel George Scott (British Army officer)


Dominican Republic

* Cabral, Dominican Republic – José María Cabral * Cabrera, María Trinidad Sánchez – General Jose Cabrera (d.1884), hero of the Dominican Restoration * Castillo, Dominican Republic – General Manuel María Castillo, hero of the Dominican Restoration * Cayetano Germosén – a Dominican patriot and martyr * Ciudad Juan Bosch (Santo Domingo) – Juan Bosch (politician), Dominican President * Colonia Libertador (Dajabon) – Rafael Trujillo (libertator) * Comendador, Dominican Republic – Nicolás de Ovando y Cáceres * Duarte Province – Juan Pablo Duarte, founder of the Dominican Republic * Duvergé – General Antonio Duvergé, Dominican independence hero * Espaillat Province – Ulises Francisco Espaillat, 19th-century author and President * Emma Balaguer Viuda Vallejo (Azua) – Emma Balaguer Vallejo (1911–1992), Joaquin Balaguer's sister * Elupina Cordero de Las Cañitas (Hato Mayor) – Elupina Cordero (1892–1939), a Dominican catholic religious * Gaspar Hernández – Gaspar Hernandez, a famous Dominican Priest in the war of independence from Haiti * Galván, Dominican Republic – Manuel de Jesús Galván (1834–1910), Dominican writer * Hermanas Mirabal Province – Mirabal sisters * Hostos – Eugenio María de Hostos * Imbert, Dominican Republic – José María Imbert * Jimaní – Cacique Ximani * Jose Francisco Pena Gomez (Pedernales) – Jose Francisco Pena Gomez, Dominican lawyer and politician * Juan de Herrera, Dominican Republic – Juan de Herrera (Spanish farmer) * Juan Rodríguez (La Vega) – General Juan Rodriguez Garcia (1886–1960), Dominican military and politician * Loma de Cabrera and Cabrera, María Trinidad Sánchez – José Cabrera Gómez (1810–1884), Dominican independence hero * Las Matas de Farfán – Bartolome Farfan de los Godos, Spanish merchant * Luperón, Dominican Republic, Luperón – Gregorio Luperón, Dominican general and statesman * Mamá Tingó (Monte Plata) – Mamá Tingó, Dominican activist leader * María Trinidad Sánchez Province – María Trinidad Sánchez, a female soldier in the wars of independence * Mella, Independencia – Matías Ramón Mella * Monseñor Nouel Province – Monseñor Dr. Adolfo Alejandro Nouel y Bobadilla, Archbishop of Santo Domingo and President * Padre Las Casas, Dominican Republic – Bartolome de las Casas * Pedro Brand – Peter Dorse Brand, a Californian miner * Pedro Santana, Dominican Republic – Pedro Santana, first President of Dominican Republic * Pepillo Salcedo, Dominican Republic – General José Antonio Salcedo * Pimentel, Dominican Republic – Pedro Antonio Pimentel * Presidente Don Antonio Guzmán Fernández (Duarte) – Antonio Guzman Fernandez, President of the Republic * Ramón Santana – twin brother of Pedro Santana * Salcedo, Dominican Republic – Francisco Antonio Salcedo * San Antonio de Guerra – Hernando Guerra (founder) * Sánchez, Dominican Republic – Francisco del Rosario Sánchez * Sánchez Ramírez Province – Juan Sánchez Ramírez, hero of the Battle of Palo Hincado (1808) * Santiago Rodríguez Province – Santiago Rodríguez Masagó, Santiago Rodríguez, an officer of the Dominican army in the Dominican War of Independence * Santo Domingo –
Saint Dominic Saint Dominic ( es, Santo Domingo; 8 August 1170 – 6 August 1221), also known as Dominic de Guzmán (), was a Castilian Catholic priest, mystic, the founder of the Dominican Order and is the patron saint of astronomers and natural scientis ...
* Valverde Province – José Desiderio Valverde * Vicente Noble – General Vicente Noble, Dominican military * Villa González – Manuel de Jesus Gonzalez Estevez (1862–1912), founder * Villa Riva – Gregorio Riva (1833–1889), Dominican pioneer * Villa Tapia – Doroteo Antonio Tapia (1844–1901), Hero of the Dominican Restoration War * Villa Vásquez – Horacio Vásquez, President of the Dominican Republic Former: * ''Benefactor Province'' was the name of San Juan Province (Dominican Republic) – Rafael Trujillo * ''Ciudad Trujillo'' was the name of Santo Domingo – Rafael Trujillo * ''José Trujillo Valdez Province'' was the name of Peravia Province – José Trujillo Valdez (1864–1935), Rafael Trujillo's father * ''Julia Molina Province'' was the name of María Trinidad Sánchez Province – Altagracia Julia Molina (1863–1964), Rafael Trujillo's mother * ''Pacificador Province'' was the name of Duarte Province – Ulises Heureaux (Peacemaker) * ''San Rafael Province'' was the name of Elías Piña Province – Rafael Trujillo * ''Villa José Trujillo Valdez'' was the name of Villa Jaragua – José Trujillo Valdez * ''Villa Julia Molina'' was the name of Nagua – Altagracia Julia Molina


East Timor

* Dom Aleixo Administrative Post – Aleixo Corte-Real * Vila Salazar (Baucau) –
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, a Portuguese statesman Former: * ''Vila Armindo Monteiro'' was the name of Bobonaro - Armindo Monteiro (1896-1955), Portuguese university professor, businessman, diplomat, and politician * ''Vila Eduardo Marques'' was the name of Bazartete - Eduardo Marques (1867-1944), Portuguese military and officer * ''Vila Filomeno da Câmara'' was the name of Same, East Timor - Filomeno da Câmara de Melo Cabral (1873-1934), Governor of Portuguese Timor * ''Vila General Carmona'' was the name of Aileu -
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, Portuguese president * ''Vila Salazar'' was the name of Baucau -
António de Oliveira Salazar António de Oliveira Salazar (, , ; 28 April 1889 – 27 July 1970) was a Portuguese dictator who served as President of the Council of Ministers from 1932 to 1968. Having come to power under the ("National Dictatorship"), he reframed the re ...


Ecuador


Egypt

* Alexandria, Egypt, Alexandria –
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* El Mahmoudiyah – Muhammad Ali of Egypt * Faiyum: ** formerly named ''Arsinoe'' – Arsinoe II of Egypt ** formerly named ''Ptolemais Euergetis'' – Ptolemy III Euergetes * Ismailia – Isma'il Pasha * Kafr El Sheikh – Sheikh Talha al-Tilmisani * Port Fouad – Fuad I of Egypt * Port Said – Sa'id of Egypt * Suez, Port Tawfik – Tewfik Pasha * Nasser, Egypt – Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser * Sadat City – Egyptian President Anwar Sadat * Saint Catherine, Egypt – Catherine of Alexandria * Sheikh Zayed City – Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan * Sheikh Zuweid – Sheikh Zuweid commander of the Rashidun Islamic army who fought during the Muslim conquest of Egypt * Victoria (neighborhood) –
Queen Victoria Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until Death and state funeral of Queen Victoria, her death in 1901. Her reign of 63 years and 21 ...


El Salvador

* Alegría, Usulután – Presbyter José Miguel Alegria (d.1859) * Aguilares, El Salvador, Aguilares – Manuel Aguilar y Bustamante and his brothers Nicolas and Vicente Aguilar * Bolívar, La Unión –
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* Cabañas Department – José Trinidad Cabañas * Carolina, San Miguel – Charles IV of Spain * Ciudad Arce – Manuel José Arce, Salvadorian Independence hero * Ciudad Barrios – General Gerardo Barrios, President of El Salvador * Col. Borja Moran (Ahuachapan) – Dr. Alfonso Borja Moran (1897–1986), Salvadorian deputy * Col Francisco Gavidia (San Miguel) – Francisco Gavidia, Salvadorian writer * Col. Isidro Menendez (San Salvador) – Isidro Menendez (1795–1858) * Colón, La Libertad –
Christopher Columbus Christopher Columbus * lij, Cristoffa C(or)ombo * es, link=no, Cristóbal Colón * pt, Cristóvão Colombo * ca, Cristòfor (or ) * la, Christophorus Columbus. (; born between 25 August and 31 October 1451, died 20 May 1506) was a ...
* Comunidad Farabundo Martí (Santa Ana) – Farabundo Martí, Salvadorian revolutionary * Delgado, San Salvador – José Matías Delgado, Salvadorian Independence hero * La Reina, Chalatenango – Guatemalan resident, Maria Reina * Morazán Department – Francisco Morazán * Santa Ana, El Salvador – Saint Anne * Santiago de María – Santiago González (politician), President of El Salvador with his daughter Maria Concepcion Gonzalez Fortis (1872–1943) * San Antonio Pajonal – Antonio Gutiérrez y Ulloa * San Cayetano Istepeque – Dr. Cayetano Molina, President of El Salvador * San Fernando, Chalatenango – King Ferdinand VII of Spain * San Fernando, Morazán – Ferdinand III of Castile * San Francisco Menéndez – Francisco Menéndez, President of El Salvador * San Francisco Morazán – Francisco Morazán * San Gerardo – Gerardo Barrios, President of El Salvador * San Ildefonso, San Vicente – Saint Ildephonsus of Toledo * San Jorge, San Miguel – Jorge Meléndez, President of El Salvador * San Luis La Herradura - Luis Chávez y González * San Rafael, San Miguel – Dr. Rafael Zaldivar, President of El Salvador * San Rafael Cedros – Dr. Rafael Zaldivar * San Rafael Obrajuelo – Dr. Rafael Zaldivar * San Ramón, Cuscatlán – Presbyter Ramon Garcia * San Salvador, El Salvador –
Jesus Jesus, likely from he, יֵשׁוּעַ, translit=Yēšūaʿ, label=Hebrew/Aramaic ( AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ or Jesus of Nazareth (among other names and titles), was a first-century Jewish preacher and religious ...
(the Christian Savior) * San Vicente, El Salvador – Saint Vincent of Saragossa * Segundo Montes, Morazán – Segundo Montes, a Jesuit priest and scholar at the Universidad Centroamericana "José Simeón Cañas" * Victoria, Cabañas – Guadalupe Victoria, first President of Mexico * Zaragoza, La Libertad – Emperor Caesar Augustus


Equatorial Guinea

* Bioko – Adolfo Bioko, son of the King Möókáta * Luba, Equatorial Guinea – Botuku Luba, who led a revolt against the Spanish in 1910 * Malabo – Malabo Lopelo Melaka * Moka, Equatorial Guinea – King Möókáta (d.1898)


Estonia

* Anna, Estonia, Anna – Saint Anne * Järva-Jaani – John the Baptist * Juhkentali – Lorenz Jauch, local landowner * Kadriorg – Catherine I of Russia * Karlova, Tartu, Karlova – Carl Gustav von Krüdener, local landowner * Katleri – the Kattler family, local landowners * Klooga, Estonia, Klooga and Kloogaranna – the Klugen noble family, local landowners * Kolga-Jaani – John the Evangelist * Kristiine – Christina, Queen of Sweden * Maarja-Magdaleena – Mary Magdalene * Maarjamäe – Marie, wife and/or daughter of Orlov family, Anatol Orlov-Davydov * Madise, Harju County, Madise – Saint Matthias * Manilaid and Manilaid, Manija – Magnus, Duke of Holstein * Peetri, Harju County, Peetri – Peter Peter, an 18th-century local farmer * Pildiküla – Feliks Pilt (1906–1979), founder of a local housing estate * Pirita – Bridget of Sweden * Suure-Jaani – John the Evangelist * Tondi, Tallinn, Tondi and Tondiraba – Jobst Dunte, Tallinn Burgermeister * Tartu – possibly after Tharapita, God of Estonian mythology * Valga, Estonia, Valga (Latvian: Valka) – possibly after the de Walko (de Walco) family, local landowners Former: * ''Harju-Jaani'' was the name of Raasiku – John the Baptist * ''Kingissepa'' was the name of Kuressaare – Viktor Kingissepp, Estonian revolutionary and communist


Eswatini (Swaziland)

* Mbabane – Chief Mbabane Kunene * Piggs Peak – William Pigg (Early resident)


Ethiopia

* Debre Marqos – Saint Mark the Evangelist * Habete Giorgis (Addis Adeba) – Habte Giyorgis Dinagde, Ethiopian military commander * Lalibela – Gebre Mesqel Lalibela, Emperor of Ethiopia * Ras Makonnen (Addis Adeba) – Haile Selassie (Ras Tafari Makonnen), Emperor of Ethiopia * Sheikh Hussein – Sheikh Hussein (saint), a 13th-century Somali Muslim proselytizer * Shire Inda Selassie – Imru Haile Selassie, Acting Prime Minister of Ethiopia * Waliso – son of Liban, Waliso, an Oromo clan


Falkland Islands

* Darwin, Falkland Islands, Darwin – Charles Darwin * Stanley, Falkland Islands, Stanley – Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby * Weddell Island – James Weddell * Keppel Island – Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel * Saunders Island, Falkland Islands, Saunders Island – Charles Saunders (Royal Navy officer)


Finland

* Brahestad (Finnish: Raahe) – Peter Brahe, Governor-General of Finland * Fredrikshamn (Finnish: Hamina) – King Frederick I of Sweden * Hermanni (Helsinki) (Swedish: Hermanstad) – Herman Standertskjöld-Nordenstam (1854–1934) * Jakobstad (Finnish: Pietarsaari) – Jacob De la Gardie (The city was founded by his widow – Ebba Brahe) * Kaarina (Swedish: Sankt Karins) – Catherine of Alexandria * Kristinestad (Finnish: Kristiinankaupunki) – Queen Christina of Sweden * Loviisa (Swedish: Lovisa) – Louisa Ulrika of Prussia, Lovisa Ulrika, Queen of Sweden * Mariehamn (Finnish: Maarianhamina) – Empress Maria Alexandrovna (Marie of Hesse), Maria Alexandrovna of Russia * Mikkeli (Swedish: Sankt Michel) – Archangel Michael * Ullanlinna (Swedish: Ulrikasborg) – Ulrika Eleonora, Queen of Sweden * Vaasa (Swedish: Vasa) – King Gustav I of Sweden


France

* Albertville – Charles Albert of Sardinia * Apatou - Apatou (captain) * Carla-Bayle – Pierre Bayle (1647–1706), philosopher and writer * Charleville-sous-Bois – Charles III, Duke of Lorraine * Châtillon-Coligny – Gaspard II de Coligny, Gaspard de Coligny * Crillon-le-Brave (''the brave'') – Louis des Balbes de Berton de Crillon * Decazeville – Élie, duc Decazes, Prime Minister * Descartes, Indre-et-Loire, Descartes – René Descartes * Elisabethville (Yvelines) - Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of the Belgians * Ferney-Voltaire – Voltaire * Flavigny-sur-Ozerain – possibly named after a Roman general Flavius * Frédéric-Fontaine – named after Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg * Grenoble ( la, Gratianopolis (antique city), Gratianopolis) – Roman Emperor Gratian * Guisanbourg - Jean Samuel Guisan * La Louptière-Thénard – Louis Jacques Thénard * Mont-Louis – Louis XIV of France * Papaïchton-Pompidouville – Georges Pompidou, President of France * Place Léon-Blum (Paris) – Léon Blum, a French socialist politician * Quartier De Gaulle (Cayenne) - Charles de Gaulle * Régina – Louis Athanase Theophane Régina (1868–1922) * Saint-Amans-Soult – Jean-de-Dieu Soult, Prime Minister * Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni – Auguste Baudin, Governor of French Guiana * Saint-Léger-Vauban – Vauban * Saint-Louis, Haut-Rhin – Louis XIV of France * Vendays-Montalivet – Jean-Pierre Bachasson, comte de Montalivet


Gabon

* Bongoville – Omar Bongo, President of Gabon * Lastoursville – François Rigail de Lastours * Port-Gentil – Émile Gentil


Germany

* Augsburg (state of Bavaria) – Roman Caesar Augustus * Brunswick, Germany, Brunswick (state of Lower Saxony) – Bruno, Duke of Saxony * Charlottenburg (state of Berlin) – Princess Sophia Charlotte of Hanover, queen consort of King Frederick I of Prussia (est. 13th century, incorporated into Berlin on 1 October 1920) * Cologne (state of North Rhine-Westphalia; german: link=no, Köln, la, Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium, CCAA) – Roman Emperor Claudius and Agrippina the Younger, empress consort (lit. ''Claudian colony and sacrificial altar of the Agrippinensians'') * Konstanz, Constance (state of Baden-Württemberg; german: link=no, Konstanz) – Roman Emperor Constantius Chlorus * Friedrichstadt (Berlin), Friedrichstadt (state of Berlin) – King Frederick I of Prussia (est. 1688, incorporated into Berlin on 1 January 1710) * Hildesheim (state of Lower Saxony) – farmer Hildwin (landowner in the 10th century) * Karlsruhe (state of Baden-Württemberg) – Margrave Charles III William, Margrave of Baden-Durlach * Leverkusen (state of North Rhine-Westphalia) – pharmacist Carl Leverkus * Ludwigsburg (state of Baden-Württemberg) – Eberhard Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg * Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Ludwigshafen upon Rhine (state of Rhineland-Palatinate) – King Ludwig I of Bavaria, Louis I of Bavaria * Saarlouis (state of Saarland) – King Louis XIV of France * St. Pauli, Sankt Pauli (state of Hamburg) – Paul of Tarsos, (Saul) Paul of Tarsos * Trier (state of Rhineland-Palatinate; la, Augusta Treverorum) – Caesar Augustus, Augustus (lit. ''City of Augustus in the lands of the Treveri people'') * Wilhelmshaven (state of Lower Saxony) – King William I of Prussia, later also German Emperor (lit. ''William's harbour'') Former: * ''Karl-Marx-Stadt'' (state of Saxony) was the name of Chemnitz – Karl Marx * ''Stalinstadt'' (state of Brandenburg) was the name of Eisenhüttenstadt –
Joseph Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet political leader who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held power as General Secreta ...


Georgia

* Agmashenebeli (Batumi) – David IV of Georgia * Andriatsminda (Akhaltsikhe) – Saint Andrew * Asatiani Settlement (Kutaisi) - Lado Asatiani, Georgian poet * Atarbekovka (Abkhazia) – Georgi Atarbekov * Bagrationi (Batumi) – Pyotr Bagration * Chavchavadze Settlement (Kutaisi) - Ilia Chavchavadze * Dedoplistsqaro, Tamariani (Lagodekhi) and Tamarisi – Queen Tamar of Georgia * Eliatsminda (Akhaltsikhe) – Saint Elijah * Filippovka (Akhalkalaki) – Filipp Makaradze, President of Georgia during the soviet era * Gabashvili Hill (Kutaisi) - Revaz Gabashvili, Georgian writer and politician * Georgiashvili (Tetritskaro) – Arsen Georgiashvili (1881–1906) * Giorgitsminda (Sagarejo) –
Saint George Saint George (Greek: Γεώργιος (Geórgios), Latin: Georgius, Arabic: القديس جرجس; died 23 April 303), also George of Lydda, was a Christian who is venerated as a saint in Christianity. According to tradition he was a soldier ...
* Iliatsminda (Signagi) - Ilia Chavchavadze * Javakhishvili (Batumi) – Ivane Javakhishvili, one of the founding fathers of the Tbilisi State University * Kalinino (Gardabani) – Mikhail Kalinin * Kazbegi Municipality – Alexander Kazbegi, a Georgian writer * Khimshiashvili (Batumi) – Sherip Khimshiashvili * Kirov (Zugdidi), Kirovka (Marneuli) –
Sergey Kirov Sergei Mironovich Kirov (né Kostrikov; 27 March 1886 – 1 December 1934) was a Soviet politician and Bolshevik revolutionary whose assassination led to the first Great Purge. Kirov was an early revolutionary in the Russian Empire and membe ...
* Leselidze (town) – General Konstantin Leselidze, a Georgian Colonel-General and National hero * Mikeltsminda (Akhaltsikhe) – Saint Michael * Mtskheta – Mtskhetos, epic hero of Georgian mythology * Myasnikiani (Akhalkalaki) –
Aleksandr Myasnikyan Alexander Fyodori Miasnikian or Myasnikov; russian: Алекса́ндр Фёдорович Мяснико́в. Also spelled Myasnikyan. His patronymic is variously given as Asatur, Astvatsatur, Fyodor and Bogdan. (28 January February1886 – ...
, first Communist President of Armenia * Nikoloz Baratashvili district (Rustavi) - Nikoloz Baratashvili * Nikortsminda –
Saint Nicholas Saint Nicholas of Myra, ; la, Sanctus Nicolaus (traditionally 15 March 270 – 6 December 343), also known as Nicholas of Bari, was an early Christian bishop of Greeks, Greek descent from the maritime city of Myra in Asia Minor (; modern-da ...
* Ninoshvili (Guria) and Ninoshvili (Samtredia) – Egnate Ninoshvili, a Georgian writer * Ninotsminda – Saint Nino, an Equal to the Apostles and the Enlightener of Georgia * Nutsubidze Plato (Tbilisi) – Shalva Nutsubidze * Pirosmani (Dedoplistskaro) - Niko Pirosmani * Rustaveli (Batumi) – Shota Rustaveli * Saakadze (Gardabani) – Giorgi Saakadze, a Georgian politician and military commander * Stalinisubani (Kobuleti) –
Joseph Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet political leader who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held power as General Secreta ...
* Stepantsminda – Saint Stephen or a Georgian Orthodox monk named Stephan * Shaumiani –
Stepan Shahumyan Stepan Georgevich Shaumian (; , ''Step’an Ge'vorgi Shahumyan''; 1 October 1878 – 20 September 1918) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and politician active throughout the Caucasus. Arzumanyan, M. Շահումյան, Ստեփան Գևորգի. ...
, a Georgian revolutionary * Shaumyanovka (Abkhazia) –
Stepan Shahumyan Stepan Georgevich Shaumian (; , ''Step’an Ge'vorgi Shahumyan''; 1 October 1878 – 20 September 1918) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and politician active throughout the Caucasus. Arzumanyan, M. Շահումյան, Ստեփան Գևորգի. ...
* Tamar (Batumi) – Queen Tamar of Georgia * Tsereteli (Marneuli) - Akaki Tsereteli, Georgian poet * Vakhtangisi (Gardabani) – King Vakhtang I of Iberia * Vazha-Pshavela (Tbilisi) – Vazha-Pshavela, Georgian writer * Vorontsovi (Tbilisi) -
Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov Prince Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov (russian: Князь Михаи́л Семёнович Воронцо́в, tr. ; ) was a Russian nobleman and field-marshal, renowned for his success in the Napoleonic wars and most famous for his participati ...
* Zhdanovakani (Ninotsminda) – Andrey Zhdanov * Zhiuli Shartava district (Rustavi) - Zhiuli Shartava Former: * ''Gegechkori'' was the name of Martvili – Sasha Gegechkori * ''Kazbegi'' was the name of Stepantsminda – Alexander Kazbegi * ''Leningori'' was the name of Akhalgori –
Vladimir Lenin Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov. ( 1870 – 21 January 1924), better known as Vladimir Lenin,. was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 19 ...
* ''Luxemburg'' was the name of Bolnisi – Rosa Luxemburg * ''Macharadze'' was the name of Ozurgeti – Filipp Makaradze * ''Mayakovsky'' was the name of Baghdati – Vladimir Mayakovsky * ''Orjonikidze'' was the name of Kharagauli –
Sergo Ordzhonikidze Sergo Konstantinovich Ordzhonikidze,, ; russian: Серго Константинович Орджоникидзе, Sergo Konstantinovich Ordzhonikidze) born Grigol Konstantines dze Orjonikidze, russian: Григорий Константино ...
* ''Stalinsi'' was the name of Khashuri –
Joseph Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet political leader who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held power as General Secreta ...
* ''Tskhakaya'' was the name of Senaki – Mikhail Tskhakaya (1865–1950) * ''Tsulukidze'' was the name of Khoni – Alexander Tsulukidze


Ghana

* Osu Castle, Christiansborg – King Christian IV of Denmark * Gwolu – Gwolu, Gwollu (or Gbollu) Koro Limann * Kofi Pare – Kofi Pare, a migrant cocoa farmer * Queen Anne's Point – Anne, Queen of Great Britain * Techiman – Nana Takyi Firi


Greece

* Alexandreia, Greece –
Alexander the Great Alexander III of Macedon ( grc, wikt:Ἀλέξανδρος, Ἀλέξανδρος, Alexandros; 20/21 July 356 BC – 10/11 June 323 BC), commonly known as Alexander the Great, was a king of the Ancient Greece, ancient Greek kingdom of Maced ...
* Alexandroupoli – King Alexander of Greece * Aristotelis (municipality) – Aristotle, ancient philosopher * Athens – Athena * Dimitrios Ypsilantis (municipality) – Demetrius Ypsilanti, a 19th-century leader of the Greek struggle for independence * Dionysos, Greece – Dionysus, god of the grape harvest, winemaking and wine, of ritual madness, fertility * Emmanouil Pappas (municipality) – Emmanouil Pappas, leader in the Greek War of Independence * Filippoi – Philip II of Macedon * Georgios Karaiskakis (municipality) – Georgios Karaiskakis, a leader of the Greek War of Independence * Glaraki – George Glarakis (1789–1855) * Gypareika (Athens) – Pavlos Gyparis, Greek army officer * Gyzi – Nikolaos Gyzis * Heraklion – Heracles * Ion Dragoumis (municipality) – Ion Dragoumis, Greek diplomat and protagonist of the Macedonian Struggle * Kountouriotika – President of Greece Pavlos Kountouriotis * Kypriadou – Epameinondas Kypriadis (1888–1958) * Ladopoulou, Patras – Evangelos G. Ladopoulos (1883–1966) * Makrygianni, Athens – Yannis Makriyannis * Megas Alexandros, Pella –
Alexander the Great Alexander III of Macedon ( grc, wikt:Ἀλέξανδρος, Ἀλέξανδρος, Alexandros; 20/21 July 356 BC – 10/11 June 323 BC), commonly known as Alexander the Great, was a king of the Ancient Greece, ancient Greek kingdom of Maced ...
* Nafplion – Nauplius (mythology), Nauplius * Nikiforos Fokas – 10th century Byzantine Emperor Nikephoros II Phokas * Nikolaos Skoufas (municipality) – Nikolaos Skoufas, a leader of the Greek independence movement * Nikos Kazantzakis (municipality) – Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek writer * Orestiada – Orestes * Pavlos Melas (municipality) – Pavlos Melas, a Greek hero of Macedonian struggle * Probonas – Dimitrios Probonas (1874–1949) * Ptolemaida – Ptolemy I Soter * Pythagoreio – Pythagoras * Santorini – Irene of Thessalonica, Saint Irene * Skagiopouleio – Panagiotis Skagiopoulos * Theodoros Ziakas (municipality) – Theodoros Ziakas, a 19th-century leader of the Greek struggle for independence * Thessaloniki – Thessalonike of Macedon, Thessalonike, sister of
Alexander the Great Alexander III of Macedon ( grc, wikt:Ἀλέξανδρος, Ἀλέξανδρος, Alexandros; 20/21 July 356 BC – 10/11 June 323 BC), commonly known as Alexander the Great, was a king of the Ancient Greece, ancient Greek kingdom of Maced ...
* Traianoupoli – Roman emperor Trajan * Vironas – Lord Byron, English poet and writer, National hero of Greece


Grenada

* Grenville, Grenada – George Grenville, Prime Minister of United Kingdom * Victoria, Grenada –
Queen Victoria Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until Death and state funeral of Queen Victoria, her death in 1901. Her reign of 63 years and 21 ...


Guatemala

* Aguilar Batres (Zacapa) – Raúl Aguilar Batres, Guatemalan civil engineer * Aparicio (Suchitepequez) – Francisca Aparicio de Barrios, First lady of Guatemala * Asentamiento Mario Alioto (Guatemala) – Mario Alioto Lopez Sanchez (1973–1994), Guatemalan student who was killed during a protest * Barberena – Lic. Jose Barberena, Guatemalan secretarian under President Justo Rufino Barrios * Barrancas de Gálvez (San Marcos) - Mariano Galvez * Cabañas, Zacapa – José Trinidad Cabañas, a Honduran Politician * Ayutla, San Marcos, Ciudad Tecun Uman, San Marcos – Cacique Tecun Uman * Ciudad Pedro de Alvarado (Jutiapa) – Pedro de Alvarado * Colomba – María Colomba Barillas Robles (1874–1975), daughter of Manuel Barillas * Col. Martinez de Lejarza (Guatemala) - Juan José Martínez de Lejarza (1785-1824) * Col. Miguel Angel Asturias (Quetzaltenango) – Miguel Angel Asturias, Guatemalan diplomatic and writer * Col. Monseñor Gerardi (Guatemala) - Monseñor Juan José Gerardi Conedera * Col. Perez Guisasola (Guatemala) - Roberto Perez Guisasola (1918-1986) * Col. Ulises Rojas (Guatemala) - Dr. Ulises Rojas (1881-1959), botanist * Comunidad Hermogenes Lopez (Chimaltenango) – Hermógenes López Coarchita * Cooperativa Mario Mendez (Peten) – Mario Mendez Montenegro (1910–1965), political leader * Chicacao – Francisco Chicajau, indigenous villager * Fraijanes – Two Missioners Juan Milán y Juan Álvarez * Francisco Vela (Retahuleu) – Ing. Francisco Vela (1859–1909), Guatemalan cartographer * Fray Bartolomé de las Casas – 15th-century Spanish priest, bishop, and writer Bartolomé de Las Casas * Flores, El Petén – Dr. Cirlio Flores Estrada, a Guatemalan physician * Flores Costa Cuca – Jose Felipe Flores, Physician and Maria Josefa Barrios y Aparicio "Maruca or Cuca" (1878–1959), daughter of Justo Rufino Barrios * Galvez (Quetzaltenango) – Mariano Gálvez, Guatemalan Independence hero * Granados, Baja Verapaz – former president Miguel García Granados * Godinez (Solola) – Juan Godinez, Spanish conquistador * Horno de Vides (Chiquimula) – Jose Maria Ignacio Ortiz Vides (1941–1983), a Guatemalan guerrilla * Jerez, Jutiapa – Máximo Jerez, a 19th-century Nicaraguan politician, lawyer and military leader * Juarez (Quetzaltenango) – Benito Juarez, Mexican President * Kaibil Balám (Quiche) – Kaybʼil Bʼalam, a 16th-century leader of the Mam people * La Gomera, Escuintla – Antonio Peraza de Ayala y Rojas, conde de la Gomera * La Reforma, San Marcos – Justo Rufino Barrios the reformer * La Union Barrios (Baja Verapaz) – Justo Rufino Barrios * Livingston, Guatemala – American jurist and politician Edward Livingston * Los Ochoa (San Marcos) - Bonifacio Ochoa Barrios (1888-1964) and Victor Maria Ochoa Barrios (1872-1951) * Melchor de Mencos – Sergeant Major, Melchor de Mencos y Barón de Berrieza (1715-1787) * Modesto Méndez (Izabal) – Modesto Méndez (1801–1863), Guatemalan military * Morazán, El Progreso – Francisco Morazán, a Central American leader * Morales, Guatemala – Guatemalan Lawyer and colonel Próspero Morales * Nuevo San Carlos – King Charles III of Spain * Palencia, Guatemala – Don Matias de Palencia, Founder * Puerto Barrios – Justo Rufino Barrios, President of Guatemala * Quirio Cataño (Chiquimula) - Quirio Cataño, Spanish sculptor * Recuerdo a Barrios (Quetzaltenango) – Justo Rufino Barrios * San Carlos Sija – King Charles III of Spain * San Jacinto, Chiquimula – Hyacinth of Poland, Bishop of Cracovia * San Joaquin (Alta Verapaz) – Joaquina Cabrera, a former president's mother * San Jorge (Zacapa) – Jorge Ubico, president * San Luis Jilotepeque – King
Louis IX of France Louis IX (25 April 1214 – 25 August 1270), commonly known as Saint Louis or Louis the Saint, was King of France from 1226 to 1270, and the most illustrious of the Direct Capetians. He was crowned in Reims at the age of 12, following the ...
* San Miguel Dueñas – Don Miguel Dueñas, founder * Santa Catarina Barahona – Saint Catherine of Alexandria and Sancho de Barahona, Founder * Santa Cruz Barillas, Santa Elena Barillas (Guatemala) – General Manuel Barillas, president of Guatemala * Santa Lucía La Reforma – Saint Lucy and Justo Rufino Barrios the liberal reformer * Santa Rosa Cuilapa – Rose of Lima * Santo Domingo Suchitepéquez – Dominic of Guzman * Zaragoza, Chimaltenango – Roman Emperor Caesar Augustus


Guinea Bissau

* São Domingos (Guinea-Bissau) – Saint Dominic of Guzman * São Vicente, Guinea-Bissau – Vincent of Saragossa


Guyana

* Anna Regina – Anne, Queen of Great Britain * Buxton, Guyana – Fowell Buxton * Campbelltown, Guyana – Stephen Campbell, first Amerindian member of Parliament in Guyana * Fort Wellington, Guyana – Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington * Georgetown, Guyana, Georgetown – George III of the United Kingdom, King George III of the United Kingdom * Jonestown – Jim Jones, American religious and cult leader * Lethem, Guyana, Lethem – Gordon James Lethem, Sir Gordon James Lethem * Linden, Guyana – Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham, Linden Forbes Burnham Sampson, a Prime Minister and President of Guyana * Matthews Ridge, Guyana – Matthew Young (1905–1996) * Stabroek, Guyana – Nicholaas Geelvinck, Lord of Stabroek, and President of the Dutch West India Company * Stewartville, Guyana – John Stewart (1789–1860) * Victoria, Guyana –
Queen Victoria Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until Death and state funeral of Queen Victoria, her death in 1901. Her reign of 63 years and 21 ...


Haiti

* André, Ouest – André Rigaud * Bombardopolis – German benefactor, Monsieur de Bombarde * Dessalines – Jean-Jacques Dessalines, a leader of the Haitian Revolution and the first ruler of independent Haiti * Dr. Francois Duvalier (Hinche) – François Duvalier * Cite Simone (Port-au-Prince) – Simone Duvalier, First lady of Haiti * Ennery, Artibonite – Victor-Therese Charpentier, marquis of Ennerry, Governor General of Saint-Domingue * Gressier – Edmond Vallery Gressier * Justin, Ouest – Justin Lhérisson, Haitian writer, lawyer, journalist, and teacher * Killick Stenio Vincent (Port-au-Prince) – Sténio Vincent, President of Haiti * Leclerk Bidonville (Port-au-Prince) – Charles Leclerc (general, born 1772) , Charles Leclerc (general), a French Army general * Louverture, (Pétion-ville) – Toussaint Louverture * Morne Boyer (Haiti) – Jean-Pierre Boyer, leader of the Haitian Revolution * Nan Lavaud (Ouest) - Franck Lavaud * Ouanaminthe – Juana Mendez (1788–1873), mother of Buenaventura Baez, a Dominican president * Pétion-Ville – Alexandre Sabès Pétion, President of Haiti * Simon (Sud) - Tirésias Simon Sam * Simone (Dessalines) – Simone Duvalier * Thomas, Ouest – Thomas Madiou * Village Lumane Casimir (Haiti) – Lumane Casimir (1920–1955), Hatian singer Former: * ''Cite Simone'' was the name of Cité Soleil – Simone Duvalier * ''Duvalierville'' was the name of Cabaret, Ouest – François Duvalier and Jean-Claude Duvalier


Honduras

* Alfonso XIII (Santa Barbara) – Alfonso XIII of Spain * Asentamiento Juan Benito Montoya (Copan) – Juan Benito Montoya, peasant leader who was killed in Los Horcones in 1975 * Barrio Paz Barahona (Cortes) – Miguel Paz Barahona * Cabañas, Copán –José Trinidad Cabañas, President of Honduras * Cabañas (Danli) – José Trinidad Cabañas * Cabañas, La Paz – General José Trinidad Cabañas * Col. Alfonso Guillen (Yoro) – Alfonso Guillen Zelaya (1887–1947), Honduran Poet * Col. Alfonso Lacayo (Cortes) – Dr. Alfonso Lacayo (1923–1985), Garifuna physician * Col. Amaya Amador (Yoro) – Ramon Amaya Amador, Honduran author * Col. Francisco J. Mejía (Yoro) – Francisco J. Mejía, Honduran teacher * Col. Francisco Murillo Soto (Yoro) – Prof. Francisco Murillo Soto (1893–1982) * Col. Jacobo V. Carcamo (Yoro) – Jacobo Carcamo (1916–1959), Honduran Poet * Col. Jesús Aguilar Paz (Tegucigalpa) – Jesús Aguilar Paz, Honduran Chemist * Col. Medardo Mejia (Olancho) – Medardo Mejia (1907–1981), Honduran poet * Col. Rodas Alvarado (Ocotepeque) – Modesto Rodas Alvarado, President of the National Congress * Col. Terencio Sierra (Cortes) – Terencio Sierra * Col. Víctor F. Ardón (Tegucigalpa) – Víctor F. Ardón (1896–1976), Honduran educator * Froylan Turcios (Olancho) – Froylan Turcios, Honduran Poet * Guadalupe Carney (Colon) – James Carney (American priest), also known as Father Guadalupe Carney * Grupo Villeda Morales (Atlantida) – Ramon Villeda Morales * Juan Francisco Bulnes – Juan Francisco Bulnes (1808–1878), Garifuna soldier * Jesús de Otoro – Fray Juan Félix de Jesús Zepeda y Zepeda (1808–1885), bishop of Comayagua * José Santos Guardiola –José Santos Guardiola, President of Honduras * Kennedy (Tegucigalpa) – John F. Kennedy, American President * Marcovia – Marco Aurelio Soto, President of Honduras * Marcelino Champagnat (Choluteca) – Saint Marcellin Champagnat * Melgar Castro (Marcala, La Paz) – Juan Alberto Melgar Castro, former Head of State of Honduras * Monseñor Fiallos (Tegucigalpa) – Monseñor Ernesto Fiallos (1857–1946), Honduran priest * Morazán, Yoro – Francisco Morazán, Honduran liberal politician * Policarpo Paz Garcia (Yoro) – Policarpo Paz Garcia * Puerto Cortés – Hernán Cortés, Spanish Conquistador * Puerto Lempira – cacique Lempira (Lenca ruler), Lempira * Ramón Villeda Morales (municipality) – Dr. Ramón Villeda Morales, President of Honduras * Rodas Alvarado (Danli) – Modesto Rodas Alvarado, Honduran lawyer * San Esteban, Olancho – Fray Esteban Verdelete * San Francisco, Atlántida – Francisco Matute, Benefactor of the town. * San Francisco del Valle – Francis of Assisi, Saint Francis and José Cecilio del Valle * San Jerónimo, Copán – Lic. Jerónimo J.Reina (1876–1918), Honduran poet and journalist * San Jorge, Ocotepeque –
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* San Luis, Comayagua – King
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* San Pedro Sula –
Saint Peter Saint Peter; he, שמעון בר יונה, Šimʿōn bar Yōnāh; ar, سِمعَان بُطرُس, translit=Simʿa̅n Buṭrus; grc-gre, Πέτρος, Petros; cop, Ⲡⲉⲧⲣⲟⲥ, Petros; lat, Petrus; ar, شمعون الصفـا, Sham'un ...
* Santa Rosa de Aguán – Saint Rose of Lima * Villeda Morales (Danli) – Ramón Villeda Morales


Hong Kong

* Aberdeen Harbour, Hong Kong, Aberdeen – George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen * Belcher Bay – Edward Belcher * - Sir John Bowring * Cape D'Aguilar – George Charles D'Aguilar * Cho Yiu Chuen - Sir Cho Yiu Kwan * Jat Min Chuen - Tan Jat Min * Kellet Island - Henry Kellett * Kennedy Town – Arthur Edward Kennedy * Lai Tak Tsuen - Michael Wright (architect), Michael Wright * The University of Hong Kong, Lee Chung Yin Road * Morrison Hill - Robert Morrison (missionary), Robert Morrison * Mount Davis, Hong Kong – John Francis Davis * Tsing Yi Fishermen Village and St. Paul's Village, St. Paul's Village - St. Paul * Stanley, Hong Kong, Stanley – Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby * Victoria, Hong Kong, Victoria City –
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* - John Wesley


Hungary

* Abasár – King Sámuel Aba of Hungary * Adyváros – Endre Ady * Ambrózfalva – Lajos Ambrózy * Antalhegy – István Antal, Hungarian politician * Árpádhalom – Árpád, father of the Hungarian fatherland * Benczúrfalva (Szécsény) – Gyula Benczúr, Painter * Bocskaikert – Stephen Bocskay, aristocrat * Cholnokyváros – Jenő Cholnoky (1870–1950) * Éhen Gyula-lakótelep – Gyula Éhen (1853–1932) * Erzsébetváros – Queen Elisabeth of Bavaria * Ferencszállás – Baron Ferenc Gerliczy * Ferencváros – Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor * Harkakötöny – Köten, Kötöny * Hunyadfalva – Hunyady family * Izsófalva – Miklós Izsó, sculptor * Jánoshalma – John Hunyadi, commander * Józsefváros – Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor * József Attila lakótelep (Budapest) – Attila József * Katonatelep – Zsigmond Katona (1828–1902) * Kossuthfalva (Budapest) – Lajos Kossuth, Governor-President of Hungary * Krepuska Géza-telep – Géza Krepuska * Krisztinaváros (Budapest) – Archduchess Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen, Archduchess Maria Christina * Lipótváros (Budapest) – Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor, Leopold II * Nyírtass – Tas, grandson of Árpád * Petőfibánya – Sándor Petőfi, poet * Petőfiszállás – Sándor Petőfi * Rákóczibánya – Francis II Rákóczi, Hungarian National hero * Rákóczifalva – Francis II Rákóczi * Rákócziújfalu – Francis II Rákóczi * Rudolftelep – Rudolf Cohacht, Hungarian miner * Sándorfalva – Viscount Sándor Pallavicini * Solt – Zoltán of Hungary, Solt * Taksony – Taksony of Hungary * Tass, Hungary, Tass – Tas, grandson of Árpád * Terézváros – Queen Maria Theresa * Tiborszállás – Tibor Károlyi (politician), Tibor Károlyi, Hungarian politician * Törökbálint – Bálint Török * Újlipótváros (Budapest) – Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor, Leopold II * Üllő – Üllő, son of Árpád * Zalaszentgrót – Gerard Sagredo Former: * ''Koháryszentlőrinc'' was the name of Nyárlőrinc – House of Koháry, Koháry family * ''Leninváros'' was the name of Tiszaújváros –
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* ''Prónayfalva'' was the name of Tázlár – Prónay family * ''Sztálinváros'' was the name of Dunaújváros –
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Iceland

* Grímsey – Grími Ingjaldsson, who have a winter residence in their island * Ólafsfjörður – Ólafur Bekkur Karlsson


India

* Kadapa district, YSR district - Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh


Indonesia

* Hatta, Bakauheni, Lampung – Mohammad Hatta, 1st Vice President of Indonesia * Jayawijaya Regency – Jaya-Vijaya, two gatekeepers (Dwarapalaka) of the abode of Vishnu * Kartini, Sawah Besar, Jakarta – Kartini, Javanese women's rights figure * Sudirman, Tanralili, Maros, South Sulawesi – Sudirman, Indonesian military officer Former: * ''Sukarnopura'' was the name of Jayapura – Sukarno, 1st President of Indonesia


Iran

* Ahmadabad-e Mosaddeq – Mohammad Mosaddegh * Amadegah Shahid Mohammad Montazeri – Mohammad Montazeri * Apamea (Media) – Apama, mother of Antiochus I Soter * Apamea Ragiana – a royal woman named Apama among the Seleucids * Bandar-Abbas – Abbas I of Persia, Shah Abbas I * Bandar-e Emam Khomeyni – Ruhollah Khomeini a Supreme leader, philosopher, revolutionary, and politician * Hamidaniyeh – Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani, 14th century Poet and Scholar * Hasanabad, Tehran – Mostowfi ol-Mamalek, Prime Minister of Iran * Jammi – 15th century Persian Poet Abdurahman Jami * Kabak Mohammad Reza – Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, last king * Kermanshah – King Bahram IV * Khomeyni Shahr – Ruhollah Khomeini * Masjed Soleyman –
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, a major prophet of Islam * Nahavand: ** formerly named ''Laodicea'' – Laodice of Macedonia ** formerly named ''Antiochia'' – Antiochus I Soter * Naser Khosrow, Iran – Nasir Khusraw an 11th-century poet * Piranshahr – Piran, son of Viseh * Rezaiyeh, Razavi Khorasan – Rezā Shāh, Reza Shah Pahlavi * Rudaki, Iran – Rudaki, Persian poet * Seleucia (Susiana) –
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* Seleucia (Susiana) – a Seleucus of the Seleucid dynasty * Shahrak-e Ayatollah Madani – Mir Asadollah Madani, Iranian politician * Susa, formerly named ''Seleucia'' – Seleucus I Nicator * Yazd – Yazdegerd I, a Sasanian King of Kings of Iran from 399 to 420 * Yusef Abad – Mirza Yusef Ashtiani (1813–1887) Former: * ''Bandar-e Pahlavi'' was the name of Bandar-e Anzali – Rezā Shāh, Reza Shah Pahlavi * ''Rezā'īyeh'' was the name of Urmia – Rezā Shāh, Reza Shah Pahlavi


Iraq

* Al-Aziziyah, Iraq, Al-Aziziyah – Abdülaziz, Ottoman Sultan * Al-Sadiyah – Sa`d ibn Abi Waqqas, commander who led the Arabs to conquer Mesopotamia from the Sasanian Empire * Antiochia in Sittacene – Antiochus I Soter * Apamea (Babylonia) – a royal woman named Apama among the Seleucids * Apamea (Sittacene) – Apama, mother of Antiochus I Soter * Charax Spasinu: ** formerly named ''Alexandria'' –
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** formerly named ''Antiochia in Susiana'' – Antiochus IV ** formerly named ''Charax of Hyspaosines'' – Hyspaosines * Hamza, Iraq, Hamza – Bahraini Shia cleric "Ahmad Ibn Hashim Al-Ghurifi" (a.k.a. Hamza) * Al Hashimiyah – Named after the Hashemites * Al-Hindiya – "Yahya Asif Al-Dawla Bahadur Al-Hindi", who was a vizier of Bahadur Shah Zafar * Iskandariya –
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* Kadhimiya – Musa al-Kadhim * Laodicea (Mesopotamia) – a royal woman named Laodice among the Seleucids * Al Midhatiya – Midhat Pasha * Nasiriyah – "Nasir al-Saadun Pasha", the sheikh ("chief") of the Muntafiq tribal confederation * An Numaniyah, Al Numaniyah – al-Nu'man III ibn al-Mundhir * Al-Qasim, Iraq, Al-Qasim – "Al-Qasim" son of Musa al-Kadhim * Sadr City – Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr * Seleucia –
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* Seleucia (Sittacene) – Seleucus I Nicator * Sulaymaniyah – Sulaiman Baba, the first Baban prince to gain control of the province of Shahrizor and its capital, Kirkuk * Yusufiyah – Yūsuf (Joseph (Genesis), Joseph) * Az Zubayr – Zubayr ibn al-Awwam


Ireland (Republic of)

* Bellewstown – Darren Bellew * Binghamstown – Richard Bingham * Enniskeane – "island of Cian", Cian Murphy of Cork * Canningstown – George Canning, 1st Baron Garvagh * Charlestown, County Mayo, Charlestown – Charles Strickland (Town Planner), Charles Strickland, Land Agent and Town Planner * Charleville, Count Cork – Charles II of England * Connacht – Conn Cétchathach * County Kerry – Ciar * Cork (city), Cork – Corc * Dún Laoghaire – Lóegaire mac Néill * Edgeworthstown – the Anglo-Irish Edgeworth family, such as Henry Essex Edgeworth de Firmont, local rector, Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, economist, Michael Pakenham Edgeworth, botanist, Richard Lovell Edgeworth, politician, and Maria Edgeworth, writer * Jamestown, County Leitrim – James VI and I * Louisburgh, County Mayo – Louis XIV of France * Rochfortbridge, County Westmeath – Robert Rochfort Former: * ''Maryborough'' was the name of Portlaoise – Mary I of England * ''Philipstown'' was the name of Daingean –
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* ''Kingwilliamstown'' was the name of Ballydesmond – William IV of the United Kingdom * ''Queenstown'' was the name of Cobh –
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Israel

* Acre, Israel, Acre, formerly named ''Antiochia Ptolemais'' –
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and Ptolemy Soter * Balfourya – Arthur James Balfour, British Prime Minister * Even Shmuel – Samuel Bronfman * Givat Brenner – Yosef Haim Brenner * Givat Shapira – Hermann Schapira * Herzliya – Theodor Herzl, a leader of Zionist movement * Hippos, Israel, Hippos, formerly named ''Antiochia Hippos'' – an
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of the Seleucid dynasty * Kfar Haim – Haim Arlosoroff * Kfar Hess – Moses Hess * Kfar HaRif – Isaac Alfasi * Kfar Maimon – Yehuda Leib Maimon * Kfar Masaryk – Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk * Kfar Menahem – Menachem Ussishkin * Kfar Netter – Charles Netter * Kfar Ruppin – Arthur Ruppin * Kfar Shmuel – Stephen Samuel Wise * Kfar Silver – Abba Hillel Silver * Kfar Sirkin – Nachman Syrkin * Kfar Truman – Harry S. Truman * Kfar Vitkin – Yosef Vitkin * Kfar Warburg – Felix M. Warburg * Kfar Yavetz – Ze'ev Yavetz * Kiryat Wolfson – Isaac Wolfson * Kiryat Shmuel, Jerusalem – Shmuel Salant, the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem in 1878–1909 * Kokhav Michael – Michael Sobell * Mishmar David – Mickey Marcus * Netanya – Nathan Strauss * Neve Granot – Avraham Granot, a Zionist activist and signatory of the Israeli Declaration of Independence * Neve Yaakov – Yitzchak Yaacov Reines * Qiryat Bialik – writer Hayyim Nahman Bialik * Ramat Aharon – Rabbi Aharon Kotler * Ramat Eshkol – Levi Eshkol, Prime Minister of Israel * Ramat Sharett – Moshe Sharett, Prime Minister of Israel in 1953–1955 * Ramat Shlomo – Shlomo Zalman Auerbach * Sde David – Zalman David Levontin (1856–1940) * Sde Eliezer – Robert Rothschild * Sdei Avraham – Avraham Herzfeld * Seleucia Samulias – a Seleucus among the Seleucid dynasty * Talmei Eliyahu – Eliyahu Krauze (1878–1962) * Talmei Yaffe – Leib Yaffe * Tiberias – Tiberius, Tiberius Caesar Augustus * Tzur Yitzhak – Yitzhak Rabin Former: * ''Wilhelma, Palestine, Wilhelma'' (colloquially; formally: Hamîdije Wilhelma) was the name of Bnei Atarot – Sultan Abdul Hamid II, King William II of Württemberg and William II, German Emperor


Italy


Ivory Coast

* Bingerville – Louis-Gustave Binger, former French colonial governor * Jean-Baptiste Mockey (Abidjan) - Jean-Baptiste Mockey * Marie Koré (Abidjan) - Marie Koré (1912-1953), Ivorian independence activist * Port-Bouët – Édouard Bouët-Willaumez, French admiral * San-Pédro, Ivory Coast –
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* Treichville – Marcel Treich-Laplène, French resident in Ivory Coast * Yamoussoukro – Queen Yamoussou


Jamaica

* Aberdeen, Jamaica – George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen * Albert Town, Jamaica - Albert, Prince Consort * Alexandria, Jamaica – Alexander Bustamante, First Prime Minister of Jamaica * Berry Hill (Manchester) - Curtis Philip Berry * Brown's Town - Hamilton Brown, Scots-Irish planter * Darlingford, Jamaica - Charles Henry Darling, Governor of Jamaica * Denham Town - Edward Brandis Denham, Governor of Jamaica * Gordon Town, Jamaica - George William Gordon * Granville, Jamaica – Granville Sharp * Kingston, Jamaica – King
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* Mandeville, Jamaica - George Montagu, 6th Duke of Manchester, viscount Mandeville * Moore Town, Jamaica - Sir Henry Moore, 1st Baronet * Nanny Town - Nanny of the Maroons * Norman Gardens (Kingston) - Norman Manley * Petersfield, Jamaica – Peter Beckford (colonial administrator), Peter Beckford, Governor of Jamaica * Queensborough, Kingston -
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* Saint Ann's Bay, Jamaica – Lady Anne Hyde * Trenchtown - Daniel Power Trench (1813-1884)


Japan

* Asaka, Saitama – Prince Asaka Yasuhiko, a founder of a collateral branch of the Japanese imperial family * Date, Hokkaidō – Date Kunishige, a Japanese samurai * Hiroshima – Ōe no Hiromoto, Ōe no Hiromoto + Fukushima Motonaga (disputed) * Imakane, Hokkaidō – Imamori Tōjirō (1870–1952) + Kanamori Tōjirō (1865–1909) * Imamura, Saga – Hitoshi Imamura, a Japanese general * Ina, Saitama – Ina Tadatsugu, a civil officer * Kyōgoku, Hokkaidō – Kyōgoku Takanori (1858–1928), a former noble of the Kyōgoku clan * Maeda, Aichi – Tadashi Maeda (admiral) * Masaki, Ehime – Jinzaburō Masaki, Japanese general * Narashino, Chiba – Shinohara Kunimoto (died 1877), a prominent military commander * Niki, Hokkaidō – Niki Takeyoshi (1834–1915), a Japanese pioneer * Noda, Chiba – Noda Umanosuke, Japanese military commander during the Muromachi period * Ono, Fukushima – Ono no Takamura, Japanese poet * Sanjō, Niigata – Sanjo Saemon, a legendary hero during the Edo period * Tadaoka, Osaka – Taira no Tadayuki, son of a Japanese warrior * Tendō, Yamagata – Kitabatake Tendōmaru, owner of Tendō castle during the Muromachi period * Torahime, Shiga – Tora Gozen, a late Heian period prostitute * Tsukigata, Hokkaidō – Tsukigata Kiyoshi (1847–1895), Japanese Samurai * Tsuruga, Fukui – Tsunuga Arashito, Japanese Samurai * Uchiyama, Aichi – Eitaro Uchiyama, a lieutenant general * Wake, Okayama – Wake no Kiyomaro, a high-ranking Japanese official during the Nara period * Yamamoto, Kagawa – Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese Marshal Admiral


Jordan

* Abila (Decapolis), Abila, formerly named ''Seleucia'' – a Seleucus among the Seleucid dynasty * Al-Abdali –King Abdullah I of Jordan * Amman – Ammon (nation), Ammon * Umm Qais: ** formerly named ''Antiochia'' – Antiochus III the Great ** formerly named ''Seleucia'' – Seleucus II Callinicus


Kazakhstan


Kenya

* Karen, Kenya – Karen Blixen, a Danish author of the colonial memoir Out of Africa * Kenyatta, Nairobi – Jomo Kenyatta * Machakos – Masaku wa Munyati, an Akamba chief who arrived in the area in 1816 from the area around Sultan Hamud * Port Victoria (Kenya) –
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* Thomson's Falls – Joseph Thomson (explorer)


Kosovo

* Ferizaj – Feriz Shasivari * Obilić – Miloš Obilić * Skenderaj – Skanderbeg, George Kastrioti Skanderbeg Former: *Đeneral Janković was the name of Elez Han – Božidar Janković


Kuwait

* Abdullah as-Salim suburb – Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah * Al Ahmadi, Kuwait – Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah * Fahd al-Ahmad Suburb – Fahad Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah * Jabir al-Ahmad City – Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah * Sabah al-Ahmad City – Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah * Sabah as-Salim suburb – Sabah Al-Salim Al-Sabah


Kyrgyzstan

* Аbdrakhmanov (Issyk-Kul) – Yusup Abdrakhmanov (1901–1938), Kirghiz politician * Abdy-Suerkulov (Toktogul) – Abdy Suerkulov (1912–1992), Kirghiz Prime Minister * Absamat Masaliev (Kadamjay) – Absamat Masaliyev * Aldashev (Jeti-Ögüz) – Abdulkhai Aldashev (1918–2003), Kirghiz pharmacologist, toxicologist and translator * Alla-Anarov (Aravan) – Alla Anarov (1907–1979), cotton producer * Aydaraliev (Talas) – Rysbek Aidaraliev (1922–1998), Kirghiz public figure * Amanbayevo – Akhmat Amanbayev (1920–1964), Kirghiz compositor * Anan'yevo – one of the Panfilov's Twenty-Eight Guardsmen, Nikolay Yakovlevich Anan'yev (1912–1941) * Baetov – Kirghiz singer and composer Musa Baetov (1902–1949) * Baytik - Baytik Baatyr (1823-1886), one of the leaders of the Solto tribe who fought the Kokand Khanate * Bishkek - Bishkek Baatyr (1700-1757), Commander of the Kyrgyz army in the war against the invaders of Dzungar in the 18th century. * Bokonbayevo – Kirghiz poet and dramatist, Dzhoomart Bokonbaev (1910–1944) * Dokturbek Kurmanaliev (Ysyk-Ata) – Dokturbek Kurmanaliev (1948–2004) * Ibraimov – Kyrgyz Prime Minister Sultan Ibraimov * Imeni Aliaskara Toktonalieva (Ysyk-Ata) – Aliaskar Toktonaliev (1929–1990), Finance Minister * Imeni Suymenkula Chokmorova – Kyrgyz film actor Suimenkul Chokmorov * Imeni Toktomata Zulpueva (Nookat) – Toktomat Zulpuev (1925–1995) * Isanov (Osh) – Nasirdin Isanov * Jalal-Abad –
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* Jayyl District - Jayyl Baatyr (1692-1780), one of the heroes of the Solto tribe * Karasaev (Tüp) – Kusein Karasaev (1901–1998), Kirghiz linguist * Kochubaev (Osh) – Toi'chu Tagaevich Kochubaev (1922–1981), Kirghiz Socialist workers' hero * Kulatov (Nookat) – Turabay Kulatov (1908–1984), Kirghiz Prime Minister * Kurmanbek (Suzak) – Kurmanbek Batyr, mythical hero * Lenin District, Bishkek –
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* Manas District – Epic of Manas, Manas, mythical Kyrgyz national hero * Mavlyanov (Aksy) – Junai Mavlyanov (1923–2003), writer and poet * Mombekovo (Nooken) – Yusup Mombekov (1926–1983), Kirghiz socialist workers' hero * Nazaraliev (Aksy) – Orozaaly Nazaraliev (1898–1957), Kirghiz educator * Nurzhanov (Talas) – Akmatbek Nurzhanov (1922–1987), Kirghiz socialist workers' hero * Orozbekovo (Batken) – Abdykadyr Orozbekov (1889–1938), Kirghiz statesman * Osmonkulov (Talas) – Iskender Osmonkulov (1907–1992), Kirghiz socialist workers' hero * Panfilov District, Kyrgyzstan – Ivan Panfilov * Pristan'-Przheval'sk - Nikolay Przhevalsky * Semyonovka, Issyk Kul - Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky * Sverdlov District, Bishkek – Yakov Sverdlov * Shopokov – Kyrgyz World War II hero Duyshenkul Shopokov (1915–1941) * Toktogul – Kyrgyz Musician Toktogul Satilganov * Zharkynbayevo – Kyrgyz hero Kazak Zharkynbaev (1911–1969) Former: * ''Frunze'' was the name of Bishkek from 1926 through 1991 – Mikhail Frunze * ''Przhevalsk'' was the name of Karakol from 1888 through 1921 and 1939 through 1991 – Nikolai Przhevalsky


Laos

* Kaysone Phomvihane District, Savannakhet Province – Kaysone Phomvihane, President of Laos


Latvia

* Jēkabpils – Jacob Kettler, Duke of the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia * Lucavsala – Klauss Lucavs * Pāvilosta – after Paul von Lilienfeld, governor of Courland, Kurzeme * Pētersala-Andrejsala – Peter the Great * Valdemārpils – Krišjānis Valdemārs, writer and politician * Valka (Estonian: Valga) – possibly after the de Walko (de Walco) family Former: * ''Stučka'' was the name of Aizkraukle – Pēteris Stučka, Latvian revolutionary and communist


Lebanon

* Foch-Allenby district (Beirut) – Ferdinand Foch and Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby Former: * ''Laodicea in Phoenicia'' was an ancient name of Beirut – royal woman named Laodice among the Seleucid dynasty


Lesotho

* Mohale's Hoek – Mohale, a King Moshoeshoe I's brother


Liberia

* A.B. Tolbert Community – Adolphus Benedict Tolbert (died in 1980), a former President's son * Arthington, Liberia – Robert Arthington, an attorney and philanthropist from Leeds, England * Barclayville – Edwin Barclay, President of Liberia * Buchanan, Liberia, Buchanan – Thomas Buchanan (Governor of Liberia), Thomas Buchanan * Careysburg – Lott Carey, a Baptist minister * Clay-Ashland – Henry Clay, an American lawyer, planter, and statesman * Greenville, Liberia – Judge James Green * Harper, Liberia – Robert Goodloe Harper, American politician * Monrovia – James Monroe, President of the United States * Robertsport – Joseph Jenkins Roberts, First President of Liberia * Samuel K. Doe Community (Monrovia) - Samuel Doe * Tubmanburg – William Tubman, President of Liberia


Libya

* ʽAziziya – Abdulaziz, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire * Benghazi – Sidi Ghazi, Benefactor of the city * Ptolemais (Cyrenaica), Ptolemais – a king of the Ptolemies, probably Ptolemy III Euergetes * Qaryat ‘Umar al Mukhtar – Omar Mukhtar, Libyan resistance leader


Lithuania

* Grigiškės – Hryhoriy Kurec, Belarusian architect * Janapolė – Jan Długosz * Jonava – Jono Eustachijaus * Kaišiadorys – a Tatar noble, Khaishadar * Kudirkos Naumiestis – Vincas Kudirka, Lithuanian poet * Marijampolė – Blessed Virgin Mary Former: * ''Sniečkus'' was the name of Visaginas – Antanas Sniečkus, Lithuanian communist politician


Luxembourg

* Ettelbruck – Etzel (Attila the Hun)


Macedonia

* Čučer-Sandevo – Aleksandar Urdarevski-Sande (1920–1943), participant in the National Liberation War * Dame Gruev (Skopje) – Dame Gruev * Delčevo – Goce Delčev, revolutionary hero * Gazi Baba Municipality – Ottoman poet Aşık Çelebi * Gjorče Petrov Municipality – revolutionary Gjorče Petrov * Jane Sandanski (Skopje) – Yane Sandanski * Josifovo – Josif Josifovski (1915–1943) * Sveti Nikole –
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* Titov Vrv – Josip Broz Tito, Josip Broz, President of Yugoslavia Former: * ''Titov Veles'' (meaning: "Tito's Veles") was the name of Veles (city), Veles – Josip Broz Tito, Josip Broz


Malaysia

* Beaufort, Malaysia – Leicester Paul Beaufort, colonial governor of North Borneo * Bandar Dato' Onn – Onn Jaafar, Malayan politician * Bandar Menjalara – Paduka Seri Cik Menjalara (d.1941) * Bandar Muadzam Shah – Abu Bakar of Pahang * Bandar Seri Putra – Tunku Abdul Rahman * Bandar Tun Abdul Razak – Abdul Razak Hussein, 2nd Prime Minister of Malaysia * Bandar Tun Hussein Onn – Hussein Onn, 3rd Prime Minister of Malaysia * Bandar Tun Razak – Abdul Razak Hussein * Bandar Tun Razak, Jengka – Abdul Razak Hussein * Butterworth, Penang – William John Butterworth, governor of the Straits Settlements * Cameron Highlands – William Gordon Cameron, William Cameron, British geologist * Carey Island – Edward Valentine John Carey, English planter in Malaya * FELDA L.B. Johnson – Lyndon B. Johnson, American president * FELDA Soeharto – Soeharto, Indonesian president * Fraser's Hill – Louis James Fraser, Scottish pioneer * George Town, Penang –
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* Gohtong Jaya – Lim Goh Tong, Malaysian Chinese businessman & entrepreneur * Hang Tuah Jaya – Hang Tuah, legendary hero * Kampung Gandhi – Mahatma Gandhi * Pekan Gurney – Henry Gurney, British colonial administrator * Port Dickson – John Frederick Dickson, British colonial administrator * Putrajaya – Tunku Abdul Rahman, father of Malayan independence * Seri Iskandar – Iskandar of Perak, 30th Sultan of Perak * Shah Alam – Hisamuddin of Selangor * Taman Tun Dr Ismail – Ismail Abdul Rahman * Taman Tun Sardon – Sardon Jubir, governor of Penang * Taman Tun Teja – Princess Tun Teja * Taman U-Thant – U Thant, UN General Secretary from 1961 until 1971, * Templer's Park – Gerald Templer, senior British Army officer * Victoria, Labuan –
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* Weston, Sabah, Weston – A.J. West, British North Borneo railway engineer


Malawi

* Aaron, Malawi – biblical prophet Aaron * Banda (Central) – Hastings Banda * Cape Maclear – Thomas Maclear * Fort Maguire (Southern) – Captain Cecil Montgomery Maguire (died on 1891) * Livingstonia, Malawi – David Livingstone * Liwonde – Chief Liwonde (died on 1921) Former: *''Fort Anderson'' was the name of Mulanje - Sir Henry Percy Anderson (1831-1896), Harry Johnston´s father-in-law *''Fort Hill'' was the name of Chitipa - Clement Lloyd Hill, British diplomat *''Fort Johnston'' was the name of Mangochi - Harry Johnston, British botanist and colonial administrator *''Fort Lister'' was the name of Phalombe - Thomas Villiers Lister, British diplomat *''Fort Manning'' was the name of Mchinji - William Manning (colonial administrator), Governor of Nyasaland


Mali

* Ouezzindougou – Daniel Ouezzin Coulibaly, Burkinabé politician * Timbuktu – Buktu, a malian old woman who lived in that region


Malta

* Cottonera – Grandmaster Nicolas Cotoner * Floriana – architect Pietro Paolo Floriani * Manoel Island – Grandmaster António Manoel de Vilhena * Paola, Malta, Paola – Grandmaster Antoine de Paule * Paceville – Dr. Giuseppe Pace (1890–1971) * Qormi (Città Pinto) – Grandmaster Manuel Pinto da Fonseca * San Ġiljan – Julian the Hospitaller, St. Julian * San Ġwann – John the Evangelist, St. John * San Lawrenz – St. Lawrence * San Pawl il-Baħar – Paul the Apostle * Santa Luċija – St. Lucy * Santa Venera – St. Venera * Senglea – Grandmaster Claude de la Sengle * Siġġiewi (Città Ferdinand) – Grandmaster Ferdinand von Hompesch * Valletta – Grandmaster Jean Parisot de Valette * Victoria, Gozo, Victoria –
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* Żabbar (Città Hompesch) – Grandmaster Ferdinand von Hompesch * Żebbuġ, Malta, Żebbuġ (Città Rohan) – Grandmaster Emmanuel de Rohan-Polduc * Żejtun (Città Beland) – Ferdinand von Hompesch's mother


Mauritania

* Boubacar Ben Amer – Abu Bakr Ibn Omar (d.1087)


Mauritius

* Mahébourg – Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais * Port Louis – Louis XV of France * Souillac, Mauritius, Souillac – François de Souillac


Mexico

* Ciudad Juárez – Benito Juárez, president * Ciudad López Mateos – Adolfo López Mateos, president * Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl – Nezahualcoyotl (tlatoani), Nezahualcoyotl, poet * Ciudad Obregón – Álvaro Obregón, president * Ciudad Victoria – Guadalupe Victoria, first president * General Escobedo – Mariano Escobedo * Hermosillo – José María González Hermosillo * Guadalupe, Zacatecas and other communities named Guadalupe – Our Lady of Guadalupe (Mary) * Guerrero state and several other localities – Vicente Guerrero, Mexican War of Independence, independence leader and president * Hidalgo (state), Hidalgo, state and several other localities – Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, independence leader and Father of the Nation * Morelia – José María Morelos, independence leader * Morelos state and several other localities – José María Morelos, independence leader * San Luis Potosí City and state – King
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* San Nicolas de los Garza – Pedro de la Garza, benefactor of the town * Tuxtla Gutiérrez – Joaquín Miguel Gutiérrez, independence leader * Quintana Roo – Andrés Quintana Roo, politician


Moldova

* Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Cahul – Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Prince of Moldavia * Cantemir, Moldova – Dimitrie Cantemir * Ciorescu, Chisinau – Ion Gheorghe Ciorescu (founder) * Frunză, Ocnița – Mikhail Frunze * Ion Vodă, Florești – John III the Terrible * Lazo, Ștefan Vodă – Sergey Lazo, Moldavian revolutionary * Lebedenco, Cahul – Nikita Lebedenko, Soviet military leader * Miciurin – Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin * Regina Maria, Soroca – Marie of Romania * Ștefan Vodă – Stephen III of Moldavia Former: * "Kotovsk" was the name of Hîncești – Grigory Kotovsky * "Kutuzov" was the name of Ialoveni – Mikhail Kutuzov * "Lazovsk" was the name of Sîngerei – Sergey Lazo * "Suvorovo" was the name of Ștefan Vodă – Alexander Suvorov


Mongolia

* Choibalsan (city), Choibalsan city, Dornod Province, Dornod – Khorloogiin Choibalsan * Choibalsan (sum), Dornod, Choibalsan sum, Dornod Province, Dornod – Khorloogiin Choibalsan * Khutag-Öndör – Jalkhanz Khutagt Sodnomyn Damdinbazar * Magsarjav (Khovd) – Khatanbaatar Magsarjav * Öndörkhaan (now Chinggis Khot) – Genghis Khan * Renchinlkhümbe – Jambyn Lkhümbe * Sükhbaatar (city), Sükhbaatar city – Damdin Sükhbaatar, Mongolian independence hero * Sükhbaatar (district), Sükhbaatar district – Damdin Sükhbaatar * Sükhbaatar Province – Damdin Sükhbaatar * Ulaanbaatar – Damdin Sükhbaatar


Montenegro

* Danilovgrad – Danilo I, Prince of Montenegro * Herceg Novi – Duke (''Herceg'') Stjepan Vukčić Kosača * Petrovac (Montenegro), Petrovac – King Peter I of Serbia * Tomaševo – Tomaš Žižić, Montenegrin national hero Former: * ''Titograd'' was the name of Podgorica from 1946 to 1992 – Josip Broz Tito * ''Ivangrad'' was the name of Berane from 1946 to 1992 – Ivan Milutinovic


Morocco

* Mohammedia – King Mohammed V of Morocco * Moulay Rachid (district) – Prince Moulay Rachid of Morocco


Mozambique

* Beira, Mozambique - Luís Filipe, Prince Royal of Portugal (titled Prince of Beira) * Maputo - Chief Maputsu I of the Tembe clan * Mozambique Island –
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, a Arab Muslim chief of the early 16th century * Ilha Josina Machel (Manhiça) – Josina Machel, a former President's wife * Manhiça District – Manacusse, a Tchaka chief, who moved here after some conflict in his native area * Ressano Garcia – Frederico Ressano Garcia (1847-1911), Portuguese politician and engineer * Chicualacuala, Vila Eduardo Mondlane – Eduardo Mondlane, President of the Mozambican Liberation Front (FRELIMO) Former: * ''António Enes'' was the name of Angoche - António José Enes (1848-1901), Portuguese journalist and colonial administrator * ''Augusto Cardoso'' was the name of Metangula - Augusto Cardoso (1859-1930), Portuguese explorer * ''Caldas Xavier '' was the name of Cambulatsitse - Alfredo Augusto Caldas Xavier (1852-1896), Portuguese colonial administrator * ''Cidade Salazar'' was the name of Matola -
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* ''João Belo'' was the name of Xai-Xai - João Belo (1878-1928), Portuguese military * ''Lourenço Marques'' was the name of Maputo - Lourenço Marques (explorer) * ''Malvernia'' was the name of Chicualacuala (Vila Eduardo Mondlane) - Godfrey Huggins, 1st Viscount Malvern * ''Porto Amélia'' was the name of Pemba, Mozambique - Queen Amélie of Orléans * ''Vila Coutinho'' was the name of Ulongué - João António de Azevedo Coutinho Fragoso de Sequeira (1865-1944) * ''Vila Fontes'' was the name of Caia, Mozambique - Fontes Pereira de Melo * ''Vila Gomes da Costa'' was the name of Alto Changane - Manuel Gomes da Costa, Portuguese president * ''Vila Gouveia'' was the name of Catandica - Manuel António de Sousa, Portuguese military captain * ''Vila Junqueiro'' was the name of Gurúè - Manuel Saraiva Junqueiro (d.1959) * ''Vila Machado'' was the name of Nhamatanda - Joaquim José Machado * ''Vila Paiva de Andrada'' was the name of Gorongosa - Joaquim Carlos Paiva de Andrada (1846-1928) * ''Vila Pery'' was the name of Chimoio - João Pery de Lind (1861-1930), Governor of Mozambique Company Territories of Manica and Sofala * ''Vila Pinto Teixeira'' was the name of Mabalane - Francisco dos Santos Pinto Teixeira (1887-1983), Portuguese military engineer * ''Vila Trigo de Morais'' was the name of Chokwe, Mozambique - António Trigo de Morais (1895-1966), Portuguese engineer * ''Vila Vasco da Gama'' was the name of Chiputo - Vasco da Gama


Myanmar

* Maha Bandula Park – General Maha Bandula * Mindon, Myanmar – Mindon Min, King of Burma * Thibaw, Shan State – Thibaw Min, King of Burma


Namibia

* Caprivi Strip – Leo von Caprivi, German general and statesman * Henties Bay, Namibia – Major Hentie van der Merwe (1871-1954) * John Pandeni Constituency – John Pandeni, a member of the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) * Judea Lyaboloma Constituency – Judea Lyaboloma (died in 1968), a former People's Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN) guerrilla * Keetmanshoop – Johann Keetman, German trader * Lüderitz – Adolf Lüderitz * Mariental, Namibia – Maria, the wife of the first colonial settler of the area, Hermann Brandt * Moses ǁGaroëb Constituency – Moses ǁGaroëb, a Namibian Politician * Nehale lyaMpingana Constituency – Nehale Mpingana, Namibian National hero * Samora Machel Constituency – Samora Machel, President of Mozambique * Tobias Hainyeko constituency – Tobias Hainyeko, a guerrilla war hero Former: * ''Caprivi Region'' was the name of Zambezi Region, named after Leo von Caprivi * Luhonono, Schuckmannsburg – Bruno von Schuckmann (since 2013 called Luhonono)


Nepal

* Bhimdatta – Bhimdatta Panta, a revolutionary farmer leader * Birendranagar – King Birendra of Nepal * Birendranagar, Chitwan – King Birendra of Nepal * Birgunj – Bir Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana, Nepali statesman * Byans (rural municipality), Byans – Vyas, legendary author of Hinduism * Dasharathchand – Dashrath Chand, a martyr of Nepalese Democratic Movement * Janakpur – King Janak, an ancient Indian king of Videha, * Jaya Prithvi Municipality, Jaya Prithvi – Jaya Prithvi Bahadur Singh, a humanist, peace advocate, writer and social activist * K.I. Singh Rural Municipality – Kunwar Inderjit Singh, 20th Prime Minister of Nepal * Krishnapur, Nepal – Krishna * Mahendrakot, Mahendranagar, Dhanusha, Mahendranagar, Sunsari – Mahendra of Nepal * Ramprasad Rai – Ram Prasad Rai, a Nepali revolutionary who was disappeared and killed in 1951 * Siddharthanagar – from Buddha's given name Siddhartha * Tribhuwannagar, Sarlahi, Tribhuwannagar – Tribhuvan of Nepal * Vyas Municipality, Vyas – Sage Vyasadeva (Vyas)


Netherlands

* Anna Paulowna – Anna Pavlovna of Russia * Emmaberg – Queen Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont * Geertruidenberg – Gertrude of Nivelles * 's-Gravenzande (lit. ''The Count's Sand'') – William, King of the Romans (and Count of Holland) * Heerhugowaard – lord ('heer') Hugo of Assendelft * 's-Hertogenbosch (lit. ''The Duke's Forest'') – Henry I, Duke of Brabant * Julianadorp – Queen Juliana of the Netherlands * Koningsbosch (lit. ''King's Forest'') – Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor * Koningsoord (Het Hogeland) - William III of the Netherlands * Mariaparochie -
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* Lelystad – ir. Cornelis Lely * Odiliapeel - Odilia of Cologne * Oud-Beijerland, Nieuw-Beijerland and Zuid-Beijerland - Sabina, Duchess of Bavaria (Dutch: ''Sabina van Beieren'') * Philippine, Netherlands - Philip I of Castile * Prins Alexander – Alexander, Prince of Orange * Sint Annaparochie – Saint Anne * Sint Jacobiparochie – James, son of Zebedee * Sint Maarten, North Holland, Sint Maarten –
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* Sint Nicolaasga –
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* Sint-Oedenrode – Saint Oda * Sint Pancras – Pancras of Rome, Saint Pancras * Sint Willebrord – Saint Willibrord * Van Ewijcksluis – Daniël Jacob van Ewijck van Oostbroek van de Built (1786-1858), Dutch Politician * Wilhelminadorp, Best – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands * Wilhelminadorp, Goes – Wilhelmine of Prussia, Queen of the Netherlands * Wilhelminaoord – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands * Willemsdorp – King William I of the Netherlands * Willemsoord, Steenwijkerland – King William II of the Netherlands * Willemstad, North Brabant – William the Silent, Father of the Dutch fatherland


New Zealand

* Addisons Flat, West Coast Region, West Coast – unknown African American gold prospector * Aidanfield – Mother Aidan Phelan (1858–1958) * Albert Town, New Zealand, Albert Town – Albert, Prince Consort, Prince Albert * Alexandra, New Zealand, Alexandra – Alexandra of Denmark * Allanton, New Zealand, Allanton – James Allan * Alfredton, New Zealand, Alfredton – Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha * Andersons Bay – James Anderson and family * Arthurs Point – Thomas Arthur * Ashburton, New Zealand, Ashburton – Francis Baring, 3rd Baron Ashburton, Francis Baring, Baron Ashburton * Auckland – George Eden, Earl of Auckland * Ballance, New Zealand, Ballance – John Ballance * Bell Block, New Zealand, Bell Block – Dillon Bell * Benneydale – Matt Benney and Tom Dale * Blaketown – Isaac Blake * Brockville, New Zealand, Brockville – Hollinshead Hall, Frederick Brock-Hollinshead * Bronte, New Zealand, Bronte – Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, Admiral Lord Nelson, Dukedom of Bronté, Duke of Bronté * Brunner, New Zealand, Brunner – Thomas Brunner * Brydone, Southland, Brydone – Thomas Brydone * Carterton, New Zealand, Carterton – Charles Carter (New Zealand politician), Charles Carter * Charleston, New Zealand, Charleston – Captain Charles Bonner * Christchurch – Jesus Christ (indirectly via Christ Church, Oxford, Christ Church, a college of the University of Oxford in England) * Clarkville, New Zealand, Clarkville – Joseph Clark * Clive, New Zealand, Clive – Robert Clive ("Clive of India") * Clinton, New Zealand, Clinton – Henry Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle * Clyde, New Zealand, Clyde – Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde, Lord Clyde * Coatesville, New Zealand, Coatesville – Gordon Coates, Prime Minister * Cobden, New Zealand, Cobden – Richard Cobden * Collingwood, New Zealand, Collingwood – Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood * Colville, New Zealand, Colville – Alexander Colville, 7th Lord Colville of Culross * Cromwell, New Zealand, Cromwell – possibly Oliver Cromwell * Dargaville – Joseph Dargaville * Days Bay – George Day * Denniston, New Zealand, Dennison – R.B. Denniston * Dobson, New Zealand, Dobson – George Dobson * Duders Beach – Thomas Duder * Evansdale, New Zealand, Evansdale – William Evans * Eyreton – Edward John Eyre * Featherston, New Zealand, Featherston – Isaac Featherston * Feilding – William Feilding (British Army officer, born 1836), William Feilding * Fendalton – Walpole Chesshyre Fendall (1830–1913) * Fordlands – Harry Ford * Foxton, New Zealand, Foxton – William Fox (politician), William Fox, Premier * Franz Josef / Waiau –
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* Frasertown – Major James Fraser * Gabriel's Gully – Gabriel Read * Gisborne, New Zealand, Gisborne – William Gisborne * Gladstone, New Zealand, Gladstone – William Ewart Gladstone * Godley Head – John Robert Godley * Gore, New Zealand, Gore – William Gisborne, Thomas Gore Browne * Greerton – Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Harpur Greer * Grey River (New Zealand), Grey River / Māwheranui, Greymouth, Greytown, New Zealand, Greytown – George Grey, Governor * Haast, New Zealand, Haast – Julius von Haast * Halswell – Edmund Halswell, Edmund Storr Halswell QC (1790–1874) * Hamilton, New Zealand, Hamilton – John Fane Charles Hamilton * Hampden, New Zealand, Hampden – John Hampden * Hanmer Springs – Thomas Hanmer * Harrisville, New Zealand, Harrisville – Benjamin Harris (New Zealand politician), Benjamin Harris * Hastings, New Zealand, Hastings – Warren Hastings * Havelock, New Zealand, Havelock – Henry Havelock * Havelock North – Henry Havelock * Helensville – Helen McLeod, wife of John McLeod * Hinds, New Zealand, Hinds – Samuel Hinds (bishop), Samuel Hinds * Hope, New Zealand, Hope – Jane Hope * Hunterville, New Zealand, Hunterville – George Hunter (politician, born 1859), George Hunter * Hyde, New Zealand, Hyde – John Hyde Harris * Invercargill – William Cargill (New Zealand politician), William Cargill * Jack's Point – "Maori Jack" Tewa * Jacksons, New Zealand, Jacksons – Michael Jackson * Kennedys Bush – Thomas Kennedy * Kimbell, New Zealand, Kimbell - Frederick J. Kimbell * Levin, New Zealand, Levin – William Levin, William Hort Levin * Lincoln, New Zealand, Lincoln – Henry Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle, Earl of Lincoln * Linton, New Zealand, Linton – James Linton * Lower Hutt – William Hutt (politician), Sir William Hutt * Lyell, New Zealand, Lyell – Charles Lyell * Lyttelton, New Zealand, Lyttelton – the Lyttelton family * Macraes – John MacRae * Mackenzie Basin – James Mckenzie (outlaw), James Mckenzie * Mackenzie District – James Mckenzie (outlaw), James Mckenzie * Macetown – brothers Charles, Harry, and John Mace * Mairtown – Gilbert Mair and family * Martinborough – John Martin (New Zealand politician), John Martin * Massey, New Zealand, Massey – William Massey, Prime Minister * Masterton – Joseph Masters * Mauriceville, New Zealand, Mauriceville – Maurice O'Rorke, Maurice O'Rourke * Pākaraka, Maxwell (now Pākaraka) – Sergeant George Maxwell * McLaren Park, New Zealand – Bruce McLaren * Melville, New Zealand, Melville – James Dougal Melville (1841–1909) * Mercer, New Zealand, Mercer – Captain Henry Mercer * Moncks Bay – John Stanley Monck * Millers Flat – Walter Miller * Murchison, New Zealand, Murchison – Roderick Murchison * Napier, New Zealand, Napier – Charles James Napier * Nelson, New Zealand, Nelson – Horatio Nelson, Admiral Horatio Nelson * Ormondville – John Davies Ormond * Palmerston, New Zealand, Palmerston – Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston * Palmerston North – Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston * Picton, New Zealand, Picton – Thomas Picton * Plimmerton – John Plimmer * Port Albert, New Zealand, Port Albert – Albert, Prince Consort, Prince Albert * Port Chalmers – Thomas Chalmers * Port Levy – Solomon Levey * Port Underwood – Joseph Underwood * Prestons, New Zealand, Prestons – Thomas Herbert Preston * Pyes Pa – Charles Pye, Victoria Cross, VC * Queenstown, New Zealand, Queenstown –
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* Raglan, New Zealand, Raglan – Lord Raglan (1st Baron Raglan), Lord Raglan * Rātana Pā – T. W. Ratana * Renwick, New Zealand, Renwick – Thomas Renwick * Ross, New Zealand, Ross – George Ross (farmer), George Ross * Saint Arnaud, New Zealand, Saint Arnaud – Jacques Leroy de Saint-Arnaud * Seddon, New Zealand, Seddon – Richard Seddon, Prime Minister * Seddonville – Richard Seddon, Prime Minister * Sumner, New Zealand, Sumner – John Bird Sumner * Tasman (settlement), Tasman – Abel Tasman * Upper Hutt – William Hutt (politician), Sir William Hutt * Victoria, New Zealand, Victoria –
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* Vogeltown, Wellington, Vogeltown – Julius Vogel, Premier * Wakefield, New Zealand, Wakefield – Arthur Wakefield * Waldronville – Bill Waldron (1909–1976) * Ward, New Zealand, Ward – Joseph Ward * Wellington – Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Duke of Wellington * Wellsford – an acronym derived from the surnames of the first European families who settled in the region * West Eyreton – Edward John Eyre * Whitford, New Zealand, Whitford – Richard Whitford * Winton, New Zealand, Winton – Thomas Winton * Wyndham, New Zealand, Wyndham – Charles Ash Windham


Nicaragua

* Ahmed Campos Correa (Chontales) – Ahmed Campos Correa (1956–1982), a Nicaraguan Poet * Arlen Siu (Granada) – Arlen Siu, a guerrilla revolutionary heroine * Bernardino Diaz Ochoa (Granada) – Bernadino Diaz Ochoa (1941–1971), a Nicaraguan peasant and revolutionary * Bluefields – Abraham Blauvelt, a Dutch privateer, pirate and explorer of Central America in the 1630s * Carazo Department – Evaristo Carazo, President of Nicaragua * Cárdenas, Rivas, Cárdenas – Adán Cárdenas, President of Nicaragua * Ciudad Darío – Rubén Dario, Nicaraguan poet * Ciudad Sandino – Revolutionary Augusto César Sandino * El Viejo – Cacique Agateyte * Filiberto Morales (Chinandega) – Filiberto Morales Darce (d.1979) * German Pomares (Jinotega), German Pomares (Nueva Segovia) – German Pomares Ordonez (1936–1979), a Nicaraguan national hero * Greytown, Nicaragua – Charles Edward Grey, a British judge and colonial governor * Gaspar García (Rivas) – Gaspar García Laviana * Hilario Sanchez (Managua) – Hilario Sánchez Vásquez (1953–1983), a Nicaraguan military * Jesus Rivera (Jinotega) – Manuel de Jesus Rivera "La Mascota" (1965–1978), a Nicaraguan revolutionary kid * Jose Benito Escobar (Matagalpa) and Jose Benito Escobar (South Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region) – Jose Benito Escobar (1936–1978), revolutionary * La Concepción, Masaya – Immaculate Conception of Mary * Larreynaga – Miguel Larreynaga, Nicaraguan philosopher * Leon Diaz (Jinotega) – General Jose Leon Diaz, Salvadoran military of one of 30 militaries during the Nicaraguan Revolution * Leonel Rugama (Esteli) – Jose Leonel Rugama (1949–1970), Nicaraguan poet * Macario Brenes (Masaya) – Macario Brenes Alvarez (died in 1979) * Madriz Department – Jose Madriz, President of Nicaragua * Marlon Zelaya (Rio San Juan) – Marlon Zelaya Cruz (1962–1983), a student martyr * Monseñor Madrigal (Nueva Segovia) – Monseñor Nicolás Antonio Madrigal y García (1898–1977) * Pablo Ubeda (Boaco) – Rigoberto Cruz (died in 1967), also known as Pablo Ubeda, one of the founders of the FSLN * Padre Ramos (Chinandega) – Father Francisco Ramos, Nicaraguan priest * Puerto Benjamin Zeledon – Benjamin Zeledon, national hero of Nicaragua * Puerto Cabezas – Rigoberto Cabezas, journalist, military figure and politician * Puerto Diaz, Chontales – Adolfo Díaz, President of Nicaragua * Puerto Morazán – Francisco Morazán, a Honduran Politician * Puerto Salvador Allende (Managua) – Salvador Allende * Ricardo Morales Avilés (Granada) – Ricardo Morales Avilés (1939–1973) * Rigoberto Lopez Perez (Managua) – Rigoberto Lopez Perez, Nicaraguan poet * Rivas Department – Patricio Rivas, President of Nicaragua * Rivas, Nicaragua – Francisco Rodriguez de Rivas (1674–1743), Captain General of Guatemala * Roman Esteban Toledo (Carazo) – Roman del Carmen Esteban Toledo (1950–1979), revolutionary * Ruben Dario (South Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region) – Ruben Dario * San Dionisio, Matagalpa – Dionisio de Herrera, president of Nicaragua * San Fernando, Nueva Segovia – King Ferdinand III of Spain * San Francisco Chontales (Villa Sandino) - Rev. Frank Setzer (1911-2000) * San Francisco del Norte – Saint Francis * San Jose de Cusmapa – José Dolores Estrada * San José de los Remates – José María Guerrero de Arcos y Molina, director of the State of Nicaragua * San Lorenzo, Boaco, San Lorenzo de los Tellez – Saint Lawrence and Josefa Tellez, owner of a small farm in the vicinity of the area * Santa Lucía, Boaco – Saint Lucy * Santa María, Nueva Segovia – Saint Mary * San Nicolás, Estelí –
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* San Pedro del Norte –
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* San Ramón, Matagalpa – Saint Raymond Nonnatus * Santa Teresa, Carazo – Saint Teresa of Ávila * Santo Tomás del Norte – Tomas Ruiz Romero (1777–1819), Priest and independence hero * Socrates Sandino (Masaya) – Socrates Sandino Tiffer (1875–1935), a Sandino's paternal brother * Villa Carlos Fonseca – Carlos Fonseca Amador, founder of the Sandinista National Liberation Front * Villa Sandino – revolutionary Augusto César Sandino


Niger

* Cité Fayçal (Niamey) – Faisal of Saudi Arabia


Nigeria

* Port Harcourt – Lewis Vernon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt * Victoria Island, Lagos –
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North Korea

* Kimchaek – Korean People's Army (KPA) general, Kim Chaek * Kimhyonggwon County – Korean revolutionary Kim Hyong-gwon * Kimhyongjik County – Korean independence activist Kim Hyong-jik * Kimjongsuk County – Korean anti-Japanese guerrilla and Kim Il-sung's first wife Kim Jong-suk


Norway

* Edgeøya – Thomas Edge * Eydehavn – Sam Eyde, an industrial pioneer * Filipstad, Norway – pharmacist Philip Moth * Fredrikstad – King Frederick II of Denmark and Norway * Jan Mayen – Captain Jan Jacobszoon May van Schellinkhout * Kongsberg – King Christian IV of Denmark and Norway * Kongsvinger – King Christian V of Denmark and Norway * Kristiansand – King Christian IV of Denmark and Norway * Kristiansund – King Christian VI of Denmark and Norway * Longyearbyen – world's northernmost town – John Munroe Longyear Former: * ''Christiania'' (from 1624 through 1877) and then ''Kristiania'' (from 1877 through 1925) were the names of Oslo – King Christian IV of Denmark and Norway * ''Fredrikshald'' was the name of Halden from 1665 through 1928 – King Frederick III of Denmark and Norway * ''Fredriksvern'' was the name of Stavern from 1799 through 1930 – King Frederick V of Denmark and Norway * ''Victoriahavn'' was the name of Narvik from 1887 through 1902 – Crown princess of Norway, Victoria of Baden


Oman

* Madinat Al Sultan Qaboos – Sultan Qaboos


Pakistan

* Abbottabad – James Abbott (Indian Army officer), James Abbott * Aliabad, Hunza - Ali, cousin of the prophet Muhammad * Aziz Bhatti Town – Raja Aziz Bhatti, Pakistani military officer * Bahawalnagar – Bahawal Khan V * Bahawalpur – Nawab Mohammad Bahawal Khan Abbasi (1715–1749) * Chowk Sarwar Shaheed Tehsil - Raja Muhammad Sarwar, Pakistani army officer * Dera Allah Yar – Political Leader Mir Allahyar Khan Khosa (d.1984) * Dera Ismail Khan – Ismail Khan * Dera Murad Jamali – Mir Muhammad Murad Jamali, an assassinated Pakistani leader * Faisalabad – Faisal of Saudi Arabia, King Faisal of Saudi Arabia * Fatehpur Thakiala – Sardar Fateh Muhammad Khan Karelvi (d.1988) * Fort Abbas - Abbas Abbasi, Amir of the Bahawalpur State and former governor of Punjab * Haripur, Pakistan - Hari Singh Nalwa * Haroonabad, Bahawalnagar - Sahibzada Muhammad Haroon-ur-Rashid Ahmad Abbasi (1924-1972), son of Nawab of Bahawalpur sir Sadeq Mohammad Khan V * Hayatabad – Hayat Sherpao * Iqbal Town, Lahore – Muhammad Iqbal, Pakistani national poet * Jacobabad – John Jacob (British army officer), John Jacob * Jafarabad District – Jafar Khan Jamali, a Muslim League veteran from Balochistan * Jamshed Town – Jamshed Nusserwanjee Mehta, first elected Mayor of Karachi * Jauharabad – Mohammad Ali Jauhar, one of several prominent leaders of the Pakistan Movement * Jinnahabad (Abbottabad) – Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Father of the nation * Khairpur Nathan Shah – Sufi Saint Hazrat Nathan Shah (d.1983) * Kot Ghulam Muhammad – Ghulam Muhammad Khan Bhurgri, one of the pioneers of the Pakistan Movement * Liaquatabad Town and Liaquatpur – Liaquat Ali Khan, Pakistani statesman * Minchinabad - Colonel Charles Minchin (1829-1898), British political Agent * Miranshah - Miran Shah * Muzaffarabad – Sultan Raja Muzaffar Khan * Muzaffargarh – Nawab Muzaffar Khan (d.1818), Afghan Popalzai governor of Multan * Nankana Sahib – Guru Nanak * Nasirabad District - Muhammad Nasir Khan I (1710-1794), ruler of Kalat * Nazimabad – Khawaja Nazimuddin, Governor-General of Pakistan * Nishtar Town – Abdur Rab Nishtar, a Pakistan movement leader * Phool Nagar - Phool Muhammad Khan, former Minister of the area * Port Qasim – Muhammad bin Qasim, an Arab Commander * Qilla Abdullah – Sardar Abdullah Khan Ahmedzai, a Khan of Kalat * Quaidabad - Muhammad Ali Jinnah * Rahim Yar Khan – Crown Prince Rahim Yar Khan, who died by burns in a fire at the age of four * Rajanpur – Makhdoom Sheikh Rajan Shah * Sadiqabad, Punjab, Sadiqabad – Amīr Sadiq Mohammad Khan V * Safdarabad - Safdar-Ul-Haq Dogar (d.1989) * Shaheed Benazirabad District – Shaheed Benazir Bhutto, a two-time prime minister of Pakistan * Shaheed Sikandarabad District, Balochistan - Mir Sikandar Khan Zehri (d.2013), son of the Chief Minister of Balochistan, Sanaullah Khan Zehri * Shaheed Fazil Rahu - Fazil Rahu * Sheikhupura – Jahangir's nickname Shekhu * Shujabad – Nawab Shuja Khan * Tando Muhammad Khan – Mir Muhammad Khan Talpur Shahwani * Toba Tek Singh – Tek Singh, Sikh religious figure Former: * ''Edwardesabad'' was the name of Bannu – Herbert Benjamin Edwardes, Sir Herbert B. Edwardes * ''Fort Sandeman'' was the name of Zhob – Robert Groves Sandeman, Sir Robert Sandeman * ''Lyallpur'' was the name of Faisalabad – Alfred Comyn Lyall * ''Montgomery'' was the name of Sahiwal – Sir Robert Montgomery


Panama


Papua New Guinea

* Finschhafen – Otto Finsch * Hatzfeldhafen – Paul von Hatzfeldt * Heldsbach – German missioner Friedrich Held, who died of malaria in 1901 * Lake Murray Rural LLG – Hubert Leonard Murray * Marienberg Rural LLG – Marie von Bismarck (1848–1926) * Markham District – Albert Hastings Markham * Mount Hagen – Curt von Hagen (1859–1897) * Mount Wilhelm Rural LLG – Wilhelm von Bismarck * Port Moresby – Admiral Sir Fairfax Moresby * Queen Carola Harbour – Carola of Vasa * West Ferguson Rural LLG – Sir James Fergusson, 6th Baronet


Paraguay

Former: * ''Doña Heriberta Stroessner de Iglesias'' was the name of Alto Verá – Heriberta Stroessner de Iglesias, Alfredo Stroessner's sister * ''Domingo Robledo'' was the name of Natalio – Domingo Robledo (1911–1972), Intendent of Encarnacion * ''Fortin Lopez de Filippis'' was the name of Mariscal Estigarribia – Captain Cesar Lopez de Filippis, Paraguayan military who died during the Chaco War on 1933 * ''Puerto Presidente Stroessner'' was the name of Ciudad del Este – Alfredo Stroessner


Peru


Philippines


Poland


Portugal

* Costa Cabral (Porto) – António Bernardo da Costa Cabral, 1st Marquis of Tomar * Doutor Augusto de Castro (Lisboa) - Augusto de Castro (1883-1971), lawyer, diplomat and politician * Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo – count Rodrigo González Girón * Gomes da Costa (Porto) – Manuel Gomes da Costa * Guerra Junqueiro (Porto) - Guerra Junqueiro * Guimarães – Vímara Peres * Lisbon (Latin, ''Olisipo'', ''Olisipo Felicitas Iulia'', ''Felicitas Julia Olissipo'', ''Ulyssipolis'', ''Ulisseia'') – Odysseus, Ulysses * Marechal Carmona (Lisboa) – Óscar Carmona, President * Marques de Pombal (Lisboa) - Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal * Montijo e Afonsoeiro – King Afonso I of Portugal * Norton de Matos (Coimbra) – José Norton de Matos, a Portuguese general and politician * Porto Moniz – Francisco Moniz * Padre Cruz (Lisbon) – Francisco Rodrigues da Cruz (1859–1948), Portuguese priest * Rainha D. Leonor (Albufeira) – Eleanor of Viseu * Santa Joana (parish) – Joanna, Princess of Portugal * São Vicente, Madeira – Vincent of Saragossa * Vale de Afonsinho – Afonso I of Portugal * Vila Boa do Bispo – D. Sisnando, bishop of Porto * Vila do Bispo – Bishop Fernando Coutinho * Vila do Conde – Mumadona Dias * Vila Real – King Denis of Portugal * Vila Real de Santo António – Joseph I of Portugal


Puerto Rico

* Amalia Marin (Ponce) – Amalia Marín Castilla (1876–1957) * Baldorioty De Castro (Ponce) – Román Baldorioty de Castro * Betances (Cabo Rojo) – Ramón Emeterio Betances, Puerto Rican lawyer * Bolívar (Santurce) –
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* Caguas, Puerto Rico – chief Caguax * Carolina, Puerto Rico – King Charles II of Spain * Cataño, Puerto Rico – Hernando de Cataño * Eleanor Roosevelt (Hato Rey) – Eleanor Roosevelt, American Politician * Fajardo, Puerto Rico – Juan Antonio Fajardo (founder) * Fernando L.Garcia (Utuado) – Fernando Luis García * Gobernador Piñero, San Juan, Puerto Rico – Jesús T. Piñero, Governor of Puerto Rico * Isabela, Puerto Rico – Queen Isabella I of Castile * Isabel Segunda, Puerto Rico – Isabella II of Spain * Jaime L. Drew (Ponce) – Jaime L. Drew, Puerto Rican educator * John F. Kennedy (Mayaguez) – John F. Kennedy * Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico – Doña Juana Díaz * Lares, Puerto Rico – Don Amador de Lariz, Spanish nobleman * Levittown, Puerto Rico – William Levitt * López Sicardó (Oriente) – Dr. Rafael Lopez Sicardo (1875–1937) * Luis Llorens Torres (Santurce) – Luis Lloréns Torres * Manuel A. Pérez (San Juan) – Manuel Pérez (teacher) * Marín (Patillas) and Luis Muñoz Marín (San Lorenzo) – Luis Muñoz Marín, 1st Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico * Morel Campos (Ponce) – Juan Morel Campos * Muñoz Rivera (Patillas) – Luis Muñoz Rivera, Puerto Rican poet, journalist and politician * Nemesio Canales (San Juan) – Nemesio Canales * Ponce, Puerto Rico – Juan Ponce de León or Juan Ponce de León y Loayza, great-grandson of Spanish * Rafael Hernández (Aguadilla) – Rafael Hernández Marín * Roosevelt Roads (Ceiba) – Franklin D. Roosevelt * San Germán, Puerto Rico – Germaine of Foix, the new queen of King Fernando or Saint Germanus of Auxerre * Villa Georgetti (Barceloneta) – Eduardo Georgetti


Qatar

* Umm Salal Ali – Ali bin Jassim Al Thani, a son of Qatar's former ruler * Umm Salal Mohammed – Sheikh Mohammed bin Jassim Al Thani


Romania


Russia


Saint Kitts and Nevis

* Charlestown, Nevis – Charles II of England


Saint Lucia

* Castries – Charles Eugene Gabriel de La Croix, Marquis de Castries, French Marshal * Rodney Bay – British naval officer George Brydges Rodney


Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

* Charlestown, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines – Charles II of England * Georgetown, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines –
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* Port Elizabeth, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines – Queen Elizabeth II


São Tomé e Príncipe

* Agostinho Neto (São Tomé) – Agostinho Neto, Angolan President


Saudi Arabia

* King Abdul Aziz Port – Ibn Saud * King Abdullah Economic City – Abdullah of Saudi Arabia * King Khalid Military City – Khalid of Saudi Arabia


Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha

* Edinburgh of the Seven Seas – Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, The Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh * Jamestown, Saint Helena, Jamestown – James II of England, James, Duke of York * Georgetown, Ascension Island, Georgetown – George III of the United Kingdom, George III


Senegal

* Djily Mbaye (Dakar) – El Hadj Djily Mbaye (1927–1991) * Richard Toll – Jean Michel Claude Richard, French botanist * Saint-Louis, Senegal, Saint-Louis – Louis XIV of France


Serbia


Seychelles

* Mahé, Seychelles, Mahé - largest island in the country, named after Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais, the French naval officer * Victoria, Seychelles, Victoria - capital of Seychelles, named after
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Sierra Leone

* Aberdeen, Sierra Leone – George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen * Bureh Town – Bai Bureh, a Sierra Leonean pro independent leader * Charlotte, Sierra Leone – Princess Charlotte of Wales (1796–1817), Princess Charlotte of Wales * Granville Town, Province of Freedom – Granville Sharp * Newton, Sierra Leone – British abolitionist John Newton * Ricketts, Sierra Leone – Henry Ricketts * Samuel Town, Sierra Leone – Pa Samai, great Mende warrior from the south of Sierra Leone * Wellington, Freetown – Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington


Singapore

* Alexandra, Singapore – Alexandra of Denmark * Balestier – Joseph Balestier * Clementi, Singapore – Cecil Clementi * MacPherson, Singapore – Lieutenant Colonel Ronald MacPherson (1837–1869) * Mount Faber – Captain Charles Edward Faber * Mount Vernon, Singapore – British Royal Navy Vice Admiral Edward Vernon * Newton, Singapore – Howard Newton (engineer), Alfred Howard Vincent Newton * Queenstown, Singapore – Queen Elizabeth II * Thomson, Singapore – John Turnbull Thomson


Slovakia

* Bernolákovo – Anton Bernolák, Slovak linguist and Catholic priest * Bratislava – Braslav, Duke of Lower Pannonia * Gabčíkovo – Jozef Gabčík, a Slovak soldier involved in Operation Anthropoid * Golianovo – Ján Golian, Slovak Brigade General * Hamuliakovo – Martin Hamuljak, Slovak Writer * Hurbanovo – Jozef Miloslav Hurban, Slovak writer * Kalinkovo – Joachim Kalinka (1601–1678), Slovak poet and priest * Leopoldov – Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor * Malinovo, Slovakia – Soviet Marshal Rodion Malinovsky * Martin, Slovakia – Saint Martin of Tours * Michalovce – Saint Michael * Mojzesovo – Štefan Moyses * Nálepkovo – Ján Nálepka, anti-fascist Slovak captain * Palárikovo – Ján Palárik (1822–1876), Slovak playwright * Sládkovičovo – Andrej Sládkovič, Slovak poet * Štefanovičová – Dr. Miloš Štefanovič (1854–1904), Slovak lawyer * Štúrovo – Ľudovít Štúr, 19th-century Slovak national leader * Svätoplukovo – Svätopluk II, Prince of Moravia * Tešedíkovo – Samuel Tešedík, Slovak Lutheran priest * Tomášikovo – Samo Tomášik, Slovak poet


Slovenia

* Kidričevo – Boris Kidrič, Prime Minister of Slovenia * Primoži – Primož Trubar, Father of the Slovenian nation * Semič – Stanko Semič (1915–1985), Slovenian national hero


Somalia

Former: * ''Bandar Qassim'' was the name of Bosaso – named after city's founder Qassim * ''Villaggio Duca degli Abruzzi'' was the former name of Jowhar - named after HRH Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi of Savoy


South Africa

* Benoni, Gauteng, Benoni – the original name of the Biblical Benjamin * Durban – Sir Benjamin d'Urban * Johannesburg – Johannes Rissik; Johannes Meyer * Pietermaritzburg – Pietermaritzburg#Name, Two theories exist. ** In the theory officially accepted today by the city, it bears the name of Voortrekkers, Voortrekker leaders Piet Retief and Gerrit Maritz, Gert Maritz. ** In another theory, the city was originally named after Retief alone, initially "Pieter Mouriets Burg" (after his given names) and transformed to its current form. * Port Elizabeth – Elizabeth Donkin (wife of acting governor Sir Rufane Shaw Donkin) * Pretoria – Andries Pretorius


South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

* King Edward Point – Edward VII * Prince Olav Harbour – Olav V of Norway, Crown Prince Olav of Norway


South Korea

* Danwon-gu – Gim Hongdo * Myeongseongsan – Empress Myeongseong * Sejong City – Sejong the Great * Chumgmu-ro – Admiral Yi Sun-sin * Euljiro – General Eulji Mundeok


Spain

) * Llanos del Caudillo – Francisco Franco * Los Cinco de la Riuela (Sevilla) – Manuel Lama Suárez (1886–1936), Francisco Ponce Martín (1898–1936), José Vargas Garrido (1905–1936), José Blanco Osuna (1907–1936) and Antonio González de la Rosa (1905–1936), Five journalists who are assassinated in 1936 * Medellín (Spain), Medellín ( la, Metellinum) – Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius (founder) * Miguel Ángel Blanco (Albacete) – Miguel Ángel Blanco (1968–1997), councilor of the People's Party of Ermua * Molins de Rei – Alfonso II of Aragon * Monterrei – Ferdinand IV of Castile * Morales de Rey – Alfonso VII of Leon * Moscardó (Madrid) – José Moscardó Ituarte, 1st Count of the Alcázar of Toledo, Grandee of Spain * Mulhacén – Abu l-Hasan Ali, Sultan of Granada * Nava del Rey – Alfonso XII of Spain * Olías del Rey – Philip V of Spain * Olmeda del Rey – Charles II of Spain * Pamplona ( la, Pompaelo) – Pompey the Great (founder) * Pedro Lamata (Albacete) – Pedro Lamata (1912–1974), trade unionst, writer and journalist * Pedro Martínez, Granada – Pedro Martinez, Captain General of Duke of Gor * Pedro Muñoz – Pedro Muñoz, archdeacon of Alcaraz * Pío XII (Jerez de la Frontera) – Pope Pius XII * Pizarro (Cáceres) – Francisco Pizarro * Puebla de Don Fadrique – Fadrique Álvarez de Toledo, 2nd Duke of Alba * Puerto Banus – Jose Banus (1906–1984), businessman and builder * Puerto Seguro - Luis Carvajal y Melgarejo, marquis of Puerto Seguro (1871-1937) * Quintanilla de Onésimo – Onésimo Redondo, a Spanish Politician * San Enrique de Guadiaro (Cadiz) – Enrique Crooke y Larios (1857–1938) * San Fernando de Henares, Madrid, San Fernando de Henares – Ferdinand VI of Spain * San Fernando, Cádiz, San Fernando – Ferdinand VII of Spain * San Fulgencio – Fulgentius of Cartagena, Bishop of Ecija (Astigi) * San Leonardo de Yagüe – Juan Yagüe, a Spanish army officer * San Martín del Rey Aurelio – King Aurelius of Asturias * San Sebastián – Saint Sebastian * San Sebastián de los Reyes – Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile, the Catholics Kings * Sant Carles de la Ràpita – Charles III of Spain * Sant Lluís – Louis XV of France * Santiago de Compostela – Saint James the Great * Santo Domingo de la Calzada – Dominic de la Calzada (founder) * Santa Marina del Rey – Ferdinand II of Leon * Sos del Rey Catolico – lit. "You are a Catholic King", Ferdinand II of Aragon * Talavera de la Reina – Maria of Portugal, Queen of Castile * Torrejón del Rey – Alfonso VI of León and Castile * Torrelavega – Garci Lasso de la Vega I (the elder) * Valderrodrigo – Conde Rodrigo Gonzalez Giron * Valencia de Don Juan – John, Duke of Valencia de Campos * Valladolid ( ar, بلد الوليد) – Al-Walid I * Villa de Don Fadrique – Fadrique Alfonso of Castile * Es Castell, Villacarlos – Charles III of Spain * Villacarrillo – Alfonso Carrillo de Acuña * Villafranco del Guadalhorce – Francisco Franco * Villafranco del Guadiana – Francisco Franco * Villamanrique – Rodrigo Manrique de Lara * Villamanrique de la Condesa – Princess Marie Isabelle of Orléans * Villanueva de la Reina – Queen Isabella II of Spain * Villanueva del Arzobispo – Pedro Tenorio (archbishop), Pedro Tenorio, archbishop of Toledo * Villares de la Reina – Berengaria of Castile * Villarreal – James I of Aragon * Villarreal de San Carlos – Charles III of Spain * Urretxu, Villareal de Urrechu – John I of Castile * Villarrodrigo – Maestre de Santiago Don Rodrigo Manrique (1474–1476) * Viso del Marqués – Álvaro de Bazán, 2nd Marquis of Santa Cruz * Vivar del Cid – Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, El Cid * Zaragoza ( la, Caesaraugusta) – Emperor Augustus Former: * ''El'' Ferrol, Spain, Ferrol ''del Caudillo'' – Francisco Franco's birthplace (now restored its original name Ferrol) * Barbate ''de Franco'' – one of the many towns where Francisco Franco spent his holidays * Guadiana, Badajoz, Guadiana ''del Caudillo'' – Francisco Franco (now given a new name, Guadiana)


Sudan

* Abu Hamad – Sheikh Abu Hamed * Suakin, formerly named ''Ptolemais Theron'' – Ptolemy II Philadelphus


Suriname

* Albina, Suriname - Albina Josefine Liezenmaier (1815-1904) * Bernharddorp - Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld or Saint Bernard of Clairvaux * Brownsweg – John Brown, 19th century gold miner * Cabendadorp - Chief Joseph Cabenda (1925-2012) * Corneliskondre - Chief Cornelis Tapopi * Donderskamp - Peter Donders * Julianatop – Queen Juliana of the Netherlands * Lelydorp – Cornelis Lely (the Dutch governor of Suriname in 1905) * Marshallkreek – Captain Marshall, who explored in Marshall's Creek, Suriname


Sweden

* Borstahusen – Rasmus Andersson Borste and Jöns Andersson Borste, fishermen * Charlottenberg – Charlotta Larsson (1797–1856) (wife of the founder of the industry) * Dorotea – Frederica Dorothea Wilhelmina of Baden, Swedish queen * Eskilstuna – Saint Eskil * Filipstad – Karl Filip, the son of King Charles IX of Sweden * Flemingsberg – Henrik Klasson Fleming, Lord Marshal, owner, 16th century * Fredrika, Sweden, Fredrika – Frederica Dorothea Wilhelmina of Baden, Swedish queen * Gustavsberg, Värmdö, Gustavsberg – Gustaf Oxenstierna, father of Gabriel Oxenstierna, the owner, 17th century * Jakobsberg – Jakob Lilliehöök, owner, 17th century * Karlsborg (Västra Götaland) – King Charles XIV John of Sweden * Karlsborg, Kalix Municipality – King Charles XV of Sweden * Karlshamn – King Charles X Gustav of Sweden * Karlskoga – King Charles IX of Sweden * Karlskrona – King Charles XI of Sweden * Karlstad – King Charles IX of Sweden * Katrineholm – Catharina von der Linde, daughter of the estate owner, 17th century * Kramfors – Christoffer Kramm (1690–1752) * Kristianopel – King Christian IV of Denmark * Kristianstad – King Christian IV of Denmark * Kristinehamn – Queen Christina of Sweden * Kungens Kurva – King Gustav V of Sweden * Kungsängen – King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden * Mariefred –
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* Mariestad – Queen Mary, wife of Charles IX of Sweden * Örnsköldsvik – Per Abraham Örnsköld, county governor of Västernorrland County, 1762–1769 * Oskarshamn – King Oscar I of Sweden * Ulricehamn – Queen Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden * Vilhelmina – Frederica Dorothea Wilhelmina of Baden, Swedish queen


Switzerland

* Augst (near the ancient city of Augusta Raurica) – Roman Emperor Augustus * Kaiseraugst (also near Augusta Raurica) – Augustus * St. Gallen – Saint Gall


Syria

* Abu Kamal – the Kamal Family * Al-Bitariyah – Salah al-Din al-Bitar * Al-Malikiyah – Adnan al-Malki, a Syrian Army officer * Al-Qadmus – Cadmus, Phoenician prince * Apamea (Syria) – Apama, wife of
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* Arwad, formerly ''Antiochia in Pieria'' – Antiochus I Soter * Dahiyat al-Assad – Hafez al-Assad, President of Syria * Latakia, formerly ''Laodicea'' – Laodice of Macedonia, mother of Seleucus I Nicator * Mount Simeon District – Simeon Stylites * Muadamiyat al-Sham – Al-Mu'azzam Isa, Kurds, Kurdish Sultan from Ayyubid dynasty * Palmyra (modern) (Tadumr) – named after a daughter of one of Noah's distant descendants, who was buried in a city * Qura al-Assad – Hafez al-Assad * Salaheddine District – Saladin * Sayyidah Zaynab – Zaynab bint Ali Former: * ''Laodicea ad Libanum'' was the name of a Hellenistic settlement – a woman named Laodice of Macedonia, Laodice among the Seleucids * ''Seleucia ad Belum'' was the name of a Hellenistic settlement – a Seleucus of the Seleucid dynasty


Tajikistan

* Avicenna District (Dushanbe) – Avicenna, Persian Polymath * Ayni District – Tajik national poet Sadriddin Ayni * Devashtich District - Divashtich, a medieval Sogdian ruler in Transoxiana * Dustmurod Aliev (jamoat) – Dustmurod Aliev (1950–1989), Tajik musician and singer * Dzhami District – 15th century Tajik-Persian Poet Abdurahman Jami * Ferdowsi district (Dushanbe) – Ferdowsi, Persian Poet * Ghafurov – Tajik historian and President of Tajikistan during the soviet era, Bobojon Ghafurov * Gojo Berdiboev (Murghob) - Gojo Berdiboev (1940-2001), President of the Murgab region * Hamadoni District – 14th-century Persian poet Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani * Ismoili Somoni – Isma'il ibn Ahmad * Jabbor Rasulov District – Prime Minister of Tajikistan during the Soviet era, Jabbor Rasulov * Mirsaid Mirshakar (town or jamoat) – Mirsaid Mirshakar, a Tajik administrator, author, playwright and poet * Muminsho Abdulvosiev (Rushon) – Muminsho Abdulvosiev (1933–1992), Tajik statesman * Nazarsho Dodhudoev (Rushan) – Nazarsho Dodhudoev (1915–2000), Tajik statesman * Nosiri Khusrav District – 11th century Persian-Tajik poet Nosiri Khusrav * Rahimzoda – Boki Rahimzoda (1910–1980), Tajik Poet * Rudaki, Tajikistan – Rudaki, a Persian Poet * Rumi District – Tajik-Persian poet and philosopher Jaloliddin Rumi * Safar Amirshoev – Safar Amirshoev (1912–1944), World War II hero * Shah Mansur district (Dushanbe) – King Mansur I * Shamsiddin Shohin District – Tajik Poet Shamsiddin Shohin * Shogadoev – Munavvar Shogadoev (1898–1974), President of Tajikistan during the soviet era * Spitamen District – Spitamenes, a Sogdian warlord leader of the uprising * Temurmalik District – Tajik Medieval hero Timur Malik * Tursunzoda – Tajik national poet Mirzo Tursunzoda * Tursun Uljaboev – Tursun Uljabayev, Prime Minister of Tajikistan during the soviet era Former: * ''Alexandria Eschate'' was the name of Khujand in antiquity –
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* ''Leninabad'' was the name of Khujand from 1936 through 1991 –
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* ''Stalinabad'' was the name of Dushanbe from 1929 through 1961 –
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Tanzania

* Nyerere (Ward of Zanzibar City) – Julius Nyerere, President of Tanzania


Thailand

* Chaophraya Surasak – Chaophraya Surasakmontri * Chulabhorn District, Nakhon Si Thammarat Province – Princess Chulabhorn * Galyani Vadhana District, Chiang Mai Province – Princess Galyani Vadhana * Mae Fa Luang District – Princess Mother Srinagarindra (Mae Fa Luang) * Phaya Mengrai District, Chiang Rai Province – Mangrai, King Mangrai (Mengrai) * Prachaksinlapakhom District – Prince Prachaksinlapakhom (1856–1924) * Sirindhorn District, Ubon Ratchathani Province – HRH Princess Sirindhorn * Srinagarindra District, Phatthalung Province – HRH Princess Srinagarindra * Ubolratana District, Khon Kaen Province – Princess Ubol Ratana * Vibhavadi District, Surat Thani Province – Princess Vibhavadi Rangsit * Wachirabarami District, Phichit Province – Prince Vajiralongkorn (, now Vajiralongkorn, King Vajiralongkorn) * Watthana District, Bangkok – Princess Galyani Vadhana, alternative transliteration


Trinidad and Tobago

* Charlotteville – Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz * Diego Martin – Don Diego Martin (explorer) * Princes Town – Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and King George V


Tunisia

* Mansouria, Tunisia, El-Mansuriya – al-Mansur bi-Nasr Allah * Mahdia, formerly ''Aphrodisium'' – Abdullah al-Mahdi Billah * Menzel Bourguiba – Habib Bourguiba, first President of Tunisia


Turkey


Turkmenistan

* Ashgabat – Arsaces I of Parthia * Aşyr Kakabaýew adyndaky (Dashoguz) - Aşyr Kakabaýew (1909-1968), Turkmen cotton grower * Babadaýhan - Bābā-Dihqān, Iranian mythological figure * Balyş Öwezow (Görogly) – Balysh Ovezov, Prime Minister of Turkmenistan during the soviet era * Durdyýew adyndaky (Mary) - Ýylgaý Durdyýew (1934-1997), Turkmen writer and poet * Görogly (city) - Koroghlu, a semi-mystical hero * Gurbansoltan Eje District – Gurbansoltan Eje, former president Saparmurat Niyazov's mother * Jumanyýaz Hudaýbergenow adyndaky (Dashoguz) - Jumanyýaz Hudaýbergenow (1912-1943), World War II hero * Kerbabayeva – Berdy Kerbabayev, Turkmen writer * Kulyýewa adyndaky (Lebap) - Gylyç Kulyýew (1913-1990), Turkmen writer and diplomat * Kurbanow Daýhan Birleşigi (Ahal) - Abdylla Kurbanow (1913-1985), Turkmen scientist * Magtymguly District – Magtymguly Pyragy, Turkmen poet * Magtymguly Garlyýew (Gurbansoltan Eje) – Magtymguly Garly (1889–1957), Turkmen musician * Mollanepes – Turkmen National writer, Mollanepes (1810–1862) * Nurmuhammet Andalyp (Gurbansoltan Eje) – Nurmuhammet Andalyp (1660–1740), Turkmen philosopher * Oguzhan (town) - Oghuz Khagan, the mythical progenitor of the Turkic nations * Orazgeldi Ärsaryýew adyndaky (Dashoguz) - Orazgeldi Ärsaryýew (1900-1978), Turkmen hero * Saparmyrat Nyýazow District – Saparmurat Niyazov, President of Turkmenistan * Saparmyrat Türkmenbaşy – Saparmurat Niyazov * Serdar (city) – Saparmurat Niyazov * Seýdi – Seitnazar Seidi (1775–1836), Turkmen patriot and poet * Şabende adyndaky (Dashoguz) - Abdylla Şabende (1720-1800), Turkmen writer * Şükür bagşy adyndaky (Ahal) - Şükür bagşy (1831-1928), Turkmen folk bard * Tagan Baýramdurdyýew adyndaky (Ahal) - Tagan Baýramdurdyýew (1909-1977), Turkmen hero * Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan, Turkmenbashi – Saparmurat Niyazov, Saparmurat "Turkmenbashi" Niyazov * Zelili adyndaky (Lebap) - Zelili (1779-1836), Turkmen poet Former: * ''Alexandria'' was given the name of Merv –
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* ''Antiochia in Margiana'' was given the name of Merv – Antiochus I Soter * ''Atamyrat'' was given the name of Kerki – Atamyrat Niyazov, Father of Saparmurat Niyazov who died during World War II * ''Kalinin'' was given the name of Boldumsaz - Mikhail Kalinin * ''Kirovsk'' was given the name of Babadaýhan - Sergei Kirov * ''Leninsk'' was given the name of Turkmenabat –
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* ''Stalin'' was given the name of Murgap, Turkmenistan -
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* ''Telmansk'' was given the name of Gubadag - Ernst Thälmann * ''Voro’silovabad'' was given the name of Boldumsaz - Kliment Voroshilov


Uganda

* Fort Portal – Sir Gerald Portal (British commissioner) * Port Bell – Sir Henry Hesketh Bell, Hesketh Bell (British commissioner)


Ukraine


United Arab Emirates

* Khalifa City – Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates * Port Rashid – Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum, ruler of Dubai * Zayed City – Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan


United Kingdom


Great Britain


Northern Ireland

* County Tyrone – Eógan mac Néill, son of Niall of the Nine Hostages * Craigavon, County Armagh, Craigavon – Lord Craigavon, former Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, Prime Minister * Helen's Bay – Lady Helen Dufferin * Randalstown – Randal MacDonnell, 1st Marquess of Antrim (1645 creation), Randal MacDonnell * Victoria Bridge, County Tyrone –
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United States


United States Virgin Islands

* Charlotte Amalie, United States Virgin Islands, Charlotte Amalie – Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel) * Christiansted, U.S. Virgin Islands, Christiansted – Christian VI of Denmark * Frederiksted, U.S. Virgin Islands, Frederiksted – Frederick V of Denmark


Uruguay

* Andresito, Uruguay, Andresito – Andrés Guazurary * Artigas, Uruguay, Artigas – José Artigas * Baltasar Brum, Artigas, Baltasar Brum (Artigas Department) – Baltasar Brum, President of Uruguay * Bernabé Rivera (Artigas Department) – General Bernabe Rivera * Brigadier General Diego Lamas (Artigas Department) * Florencio Sánchez, Uruguay, Florencio Sánchez (Colonia Department) – Florencio Sánchez * Flores Department – Venancio Flores * Colonia Nicolich, General Liber Seregni – Liber Seregni, Uruguayan military and politician * Ismael Cortinas (Flores Department) – Ismael Cortinas (Uruguayan politician), Ismael Cortinas * Javier de Viana (Artigas Department) – Javier de Viana (author), Javier de Viana * Joaquín Suárez (town), Joaquín Suárez (Canelones Department) – Joaquín Suárez * José Batlle y Ordóñez, Uruguay, José Batlle y Ordóñez (Lavalleja Department) – José Batlle y Ordóñez, President of Uruguay * Juan Lacaze (Colonia Department) – Juan Luis Lacaze * Lavalleja Department – Juan Antonio Lavalleja * Ombúes de Lavalle (Colonia Department) – Juan Lavalle * Rivera – Fructuoso Rivera * San Antonio, Canelones, San Antonio (Canelones Department) – Saint Anthony of Padua * San Bautista (Canelones Department) – Saint John the Baptist * San Jacinto, Uruguay, San Jacinto (Canelones Department) – Saint Hyacinth of Cracow (in honor of bishop Jacinto Vera) * San José Department – Saint Joseph * San Luis, Uruguay, San Luis (Canelones Department) – Saint Louis IX * San Ramón, Uruguay, San Ramón (Canelones Department) – Saint Raymond Nonnatus * Santa Lucía, Uruguay, Santa Lucía (Canelones Department) – Saint Lucy * Santa Rosa, Uruguay, Santa Rosa (Canelones Department) – Saint Rose of Lima * Santiago Vázquez, Montevideo, Santiago Vázquez (Montevideo Department) – Santiago Vázquez * Dr. Francisco Soca, Soca (Canelones Department) – Francisco Soca * Tomas Gomensoro (Artigas Department) – Tomás Gomensoro Albín, President of Uruguay


Uzbekistan

* Abdurahmonov nomidag (Tashkent) – Abdujabbor Abdurahmonov (1907–1975), President of Uzbekistan from 1938 to 1950 * Ahmad Yassaviy (Tashkent) – Ahmad Yasawi * Ahmad Yugnakiy (Tashkent) – Edib Ahmed bin Mahmud Yüknekî (poet) * Antiochia in Scythia – Antiochus I Soter * F. Yuldashev (Bulungur) – Faizulla Yuldashev (1912–1991), veteran of the Great Patriotic War * Gagarin, Uzbekistan – Yuri Gagarin * Gani Azamov, Qoraqamish – Gani Azamov (1909–2001), Uzbek actor * H.Tursunqulov (Tashkent) – Hamrakul Tursunkulov (1892–1965), Chairman of the collective farm * Iskandar (town) – Grand Duke Nicholas Konstantinovich of Russia * Khamzy (Tashkent) and Khamzy (Uchqorgon) – Hamza Hakimzade Niyazi, poet * Mirzo Ulugbek, Ulugbek (town) – Ulugh Beg, astronomer, mathematician and sultan * Navoiy – Uzbek poet Alisher Navoi * Jizzakh District, Sharof Rashidov District (Jizzakh) – Sharof Rashidov, President of Uzbekistan from 1950 to 1959 * Oxunboboyev (Shurchi) – Yuldash Akhunbabaev * Shaykhontohur – Sheikh Khovendi at-Takhu, a famous thinker and educator * Sobir Rahimov nomli (Bostanlyk) – Sobir Rakhimov * T.Ahmedov nomidag (Sirdaryo) – Turgun Ahmedov (1925–1944), World War II hero * U.Musaev (Yangiyul) – Ubaydulla Musaev (1914–1972), Uzbek political figure * Zakirov (Tashkent) – Qodir Zokirov, Uzbek scientist, botanist and educator Former: * "Akhunbabaev" was the name of Jalaquduq – Soviet Uzbek state figure Yuldash Akhunbabaev (1885–1943) * "Akmal-Ikramov" was the name of Uchtepa – Akmal Ikramov * "Kuybishevo" was the name of Rishtan – Valerian Kuybyshev * "Leninsk" was the name of Asaka, Uzbekistan –
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* "Skobelev" was the name of Fergana – Mikhail Skobelev * "Sobir Rakhimov" was the name of Olmazar – Sobir Rakhimov * "Hamza" was the name of Yashnobod – Hamza Hakimzade Niyazi


Venezuela

* Alberto Adriani Municipality – Alberto Adriani Mazzei (1898–1936), economist and writer * Alberto Arvelo Torrealba Municipality – Alberto Arvelo Torrealba, Venezuelan lawyer, educator and folklorical poet * Andrés Eloy Blanco Municipality, Barinas – Andres Eloy Blanco, Venezuelan poet * Angostura Municipality, Venezuela or Raúl Leoni Municipality – Venezuelan President Raúl Leoni * Antonio Pinto Salinas Municipality – Antonio Pinto Salinas (1915–1953), Venezuelan poet * Aristides Bastidas Municipality – Aristides Bastidas, Venezuelan writer * Arzobispo Chacón Municipality – Acacio Chacon Guerra (1884–1978) * Caracciolo Parra Olmedo Municipality – Caracciolo Parra Olmedo (1819–1908), Venezuelan lawyer and politician * Cardenal Quintero Municipality – José Humberto Quintero Parra * Carlos Arvelo Municipality – Carlos Arvelo, Venezuelan doctor and politician. * Ciudad Bolívar –
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* Ciudad Ojeda – Alonso de Ojeda * Diego Bautista Urbaneja Municipality – Diego Bautista Urbaneja * Ezequiel Zamora Municipality, Monagas – General Ezequiel Zamora * Fernandez Feo Municipality – Bishop of Tachira, Monseñor Alejandro Fernandez-Feo Tinoco (1908–1987) * Francisco Aniceto Lugo Parish (Delta Amacuaro) – Dr. Francisco Aniceto Lugo (1894–1982), Venezuelan writer * Francisco Javier Pulgar Municipality (Zuila) – Francisco Javier Pulgar (1877–1959), Venezuelan educator * Francisco de Miranda, Anzoátegui – Francisco de Miranda, Venezuelan Independence hero * Francisco Linares Alcántara Municipality – Francisco Linares Alcántara, Venezuelan President * Jauregui Municipality (Tachira) – Jesus Manuel Jauregui (1848–1905) * Jesús Enrique Lossada Municipality – Jesus Enrique Lossada (1892–1948), Venezuelan writer * Jiménez Municipality, Lara – José Florencio Jiménez * José Tadeo Monagas Municipality – José Tadeo Monagas * Manuel Monge Municipality – Manuel Monge (1950–1993), President of the Village Association of Poblado 32 * Mario Briceño Iragorry Municipality – Mario Briceño Iragorry * Maroa, Amazonas – Cacique Maruwa * Monseñor Iturriza Municipality – Monseñor Francisco José Iturriza Guillen (1903–2003) * Monseñor Miguel Antonio Salas (Tachira) – Monseñor Miguel Antonio Salas (1915–2003) * Padre Noguera Municipality – Father Adonay Noguera (1884–1954) * Padre Pedro Chien Municipality – Father Pedro Chien (1925–1995), a Mongol missioner * Páez, Apure – José Antonio Páez, an Independence hero * Paz Castillo Municipality – Venezuelan poet and diplomat Fernando Paz Castillo * Pedro Gual Municipality – 19th century Venezuelan President Pedro Gual Escandón * Rafael Rangel Municipality – Rafael Rangel (1877–1909), Venezuelan scientific * Raul Leoni Parish (Maracaibo) – Raul Leoni * Rómulo Costa Municipality, Tachira – Dr. Antonio Romulo Costa Duque (1872–1957) * Rómulo Gallegos Municipality, Apure – Romulo Gallegos, Venezuelan writer and president * Sifontes Municipality – General Antonio Domingo Sifontes * Sucre, Miranda – Antonio José de Sucre * Urdaneta, Miranda – Rafael Urdaneta * Valmore Rodríguez Municipality (Zuila) – Valmore Rodríguez (1900–1955), Venezuelan journalist


Vietnam

* Bế Văn Đàn (Quảng Hòa) – Bế Văn Đàn (1931–1953), Hero of the People's Armed Forces * Đề Thám (Lạng Sơn) – Hoàng Hoa Thám "Đề Thám" (1858–1913), leader of Yên Thế Insurrection * Đình Phong (Cao Bằng) – Đình Phong, a communist soldier * Đình Phùng, Bảo Lạc – Phan Đình Phùng (1847–1895), Vietnamese poet * Dương Minh Châu District and Duong Minh Chau town – Dương Minh Châu (1912–1947), a communist lawyer * Ho Chi Minh City – Ho Chi Minh, President of Vietnam * Hồ Thị Kỷ (Cà Mau) – Hồ Thị Kỷ (1949–1970), martyr hero * Hoàng Văn Thụ, Văn Lãng – Hoàng Văn Thụ (1909–1944), Vietnamese revolutionary * Hồng Dân (Bạc Liêu) – Trần Hồng Dân (1916–1946), nationalist revolutionary * Kim Đồng, Thạch An – Kim Đồng (1929–1943), captain of Ho Chi Minh Young Pioneer Organization * Ngọc Hiển (Cà Mau) – Phan Ngọc Hiển (1910–1941), a local teacher, writer and artist * Nguyễn Huân (Cà Mau) – Nguyễn Văn Huân (d.1946), communist martyr * Nông trường Trần Phú – Trần Phú, Vietnamese revolutionary * Phạm Văn Cội (Củ Chi) – Phạm Văn Cội (1940–1967), Hero of the People's Armed Forces * Quang Trung, An Lão (Hải Phòng) – Quang Trung, second emperor of the Tây Sơn dynasty * Trần Hưng Đạo (Lý Nhân) – Trần Hưng Đạo, an imperial prince, statesman and military commander * Trần Văn Thời District and Trần Văn Thời town – Trần Văn Thời (1902–1942), a local communist Former: * ''Thành Thái Phien'' – the name of Da Nang in 1945 – revolutionary Thái Phiên


Zambia

* Dag Hammerskjoeld (Ndola) – Dag Hammarskjöld * Harry Mwaanga Nkumbula (Lusaka) – Harry Nkumbula, Zambian nationalist leader * Helen Kaunda (Copperbelt) – Ms. Helen Kaunda (d.1973), mother of President Kenneth Kaunda * John Laing (Lusaka) – John Laing (businessman) * Julia Chikamoneka (Kasama) – Julia Chikamoneka (1910–1986), Zambian freedom fighter * Livingstone, Zambia, Livingstone – doctor David Livingstone * Lusaka – Chief Lusaka * Mansa, Zambia - Chief Mansa * Victoria falls –
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Former: * ''Abercorn'' was the name of Mbala, Zambia, Mbala – James Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Abercorn, Lord Abercorn, British nobleman and diplomat * ''Bancroft'' was the name of Chililabombwe - Dr. Joseph Austen Bancroft (1882-1957), British geologist and scientist * ''Fort Jameson'' was the name of Chipata - Leander Starr Jameson, British statesman * ''Fort Rosebery'' was the name of Mansa, Zambia - Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom


Zimbabwe

* Beatrice, Zimbabwe – Beatrice Borrow (1868–1946), the sister of Lieutenant Henry J. Borrow, member of the Pioneer Column * Beitbridge – Alfred Beit * Bradfield, Zimbabwe – Edwin Eugene Bradfield (1869–1950) * Felixburg – Felix Posselt, who visited in that area in 1888 * Montgomery (Bulawayo) – Bernard Montgomery * Mount Darwin, Zimbabwe – Charles Darwin * Mount Hampden – John Hampden * Norton, Zimbabwe – the Norton family * Selous, Zimbabwe – Frederick Selous * Victoria falls –
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* West Nicholson – Andy Nicholson, an early prospector * Zhombe Joel – Joel Tessa, one of the pioneer businessmen at the centre during the 1960s. Former: * ''Fort Victoria'' was the name of Masvingo –
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* ''Hartley'' was the name of Chegutu – Henry Hartley, an early explorer * ''Salisbury'' was the name of Harare – Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Lord Salisbury


See also

* Lists of places named after people ** List of countries named after people ** List of country subdivisions named after people ** List of islands named after people * Buildings and structures named after people ** List of eponyms of airports ** List of convention centers named after people ** List of railway stations named after people * List of colleges and universities named after people * List of etymologies of country subdivision names * List of country-name etymologies * Lists of places by eponym * List of eponyms * Lists of etymologies


References

{{Reflist Lists of eponyms, Places Lists of places named after people, * Lists of place name etymologies, People place names