Finnish physician – Von Willebrand disease, Von Willebrand factor Jan Frans Willems, Belgian writer and activist – Willemsfonds Max Wilms, German physician – Wilms' tumor Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Scottish physician – Wilson cloud chamber, Wilson condensation cloud Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson, American-British physician – Wilson's disease, Wilson disease protein Oliver Winchester, American inventor – Winchester rifle Caspar Wistar, American physicist – Wisteria William Withering, British botanist – witherite Georg Wittig, German chemist – Wittig reaction Władysław II Jagiełło, Polish king – Jagiellonian University Max Wolf, Knut Lundmark, Philibert Jacques Melotte, astronomers - Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte (WLM) system, a barred irregular galaxy at the outer edges of the Local Group Caspar Friedrich Wolff, German physiologist – Wolffian duct Robert W. Wood, American physicist - Wood's Spot, a yellowish colored area on the moon (northwest of crater Aristarchus). Frank Winfield Woolworth, American businessman – Woolworth Building Ferdinand von Wrangel, German explorer – Wrangel Island Doug Wright, Canadian cartoonist – Doug Wright Award Josef Wronski, Polish mathematician – Wronskian Charles Adolphe Wurtz, French chemist – Wurtz reaction, Wurtzite X Xanthippe, wife of Greek philosopher Socrates – xanthippe (dominant, difficult female partner), Xanthippe's shrew Anthony Xerri, Maltese man who discovered a cave – Xerri's Grotto Francisco Ximénez de Tejada, Maltese religious leader – Ximenes Redoubt Y The Yellow Kid, American comics character – yellow journalism, Yellow Kid Award. Pops Yoshimura, Japanese businessman – Yoshimura motorcycle tuning company Thomas Young, British scientist – Young's modulus and Young's slits Z Walter J. Zable, American businessman and football player – Zable Stadium for college football Frank J. Zamboni, Italian-American inventor – Zamboni ice resurfacer Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary – zapatista Frank Zappa, American rock artist and composer – Zappaesque Mao Zedong, Chinese head of state – maoism Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist – Zeeman effect Eduard Zeis, German physician – glands of Zeis Helmut Zeisel, German mathematician – Zeisel number Martin Zelder, American economist – Zelder paradox Zeno of Elea, Greek philosopher – Paradox of Zeno Zephyr, Greek mythological character – zephyr Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German inventor – zeppelin Zog I of Albania, Albanian king – Zogist salute. Zoroaster, Persian religious leader – Zoroastrianism Fritz Zwicky, Swiss astronomer - Zwicky's Triplet Huldrich Zwingli, Swiss religious leader – Zwinglianism See also Lists of etymologies Sources Eponyms