Do you like name-dropping after a chance encounter with a movie star or other celebrity ... Many roses have been named after famous people. The American Rose Society has a guide that includes ...

You get an assortment of animals, plants, and other wildlife with gnarly names. Some creatures are named after famous figures because there's a semblance of similar traits–the horsefly Scaptia ...

Many Simpsons characters have been modeled after real people, and that trend started at the very beginning with Homer Simpson. The cartoon patriarch was named after the show’s creator’s father ...

There are some very famous places named after famous people ... But mostly it's done by other people. Every act of naming is pregnant with meaning. In the 1980s, the UK had a wave of renaming ...

Bands like Van Halen, The Alan Parsons Project, Phish, and Santana all are named after members in the band. But what about bands named after people not ... imagine it any other way.” ...

Natalie Wood's daughter Natasha Gregson Wagner reflects on her mom's career in TCM's "The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of" Liz McNeil is an Editor at Large at PEOPLE, where she's worked for over 30 ...

In his paper titled “Observations on an Ethnic Classification of Idiots” in 1866, Down described the condition and classified people ... is not named after a doctor, but a famous patient ...