List of Eponyms (A-K) - D

D

• Jacques Daguerre — Daguerreotype
• Anders Dahl (1751–1789) — Dahlia
• Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz — Daimler-Benz (later DaimlerChrysler)
• Dalek — Popular nickname for the Bridgewater Place, Dalekmania
• John Dalton — dalton, non-SI unit of atomic mass, Daltonism
• Pedro Damiano — Damiano Defence
• Glenn Danzig -- Danzig, founder of the Heavy Metal band Danzig
• Charles Darwin — Darwinism, Neural Darwinism, Social Darwinism, Darwinian Happiness, Darwin's theory of evolution, Darwinian selection, Non-darwinian evolution, Darwinian medicine, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, Darwin, Northern Territory, Darwin Mounds, Charles Darwin University, Darwin College, Cambridge, Charles Darwin National Park, Adelaide-Darwin railway, Darwin Awards, Darwin's finches, Darwin Island, Charles Darwin Research Station, Darwin Bay, Lecocarpus darwinii (a tree species) in (Galápagos Islands), Charles Darwin Foundation
• Adi Dassler — founder of adidas
• Arthur Davidson and William Harley — Harley-Davidson
• Humphry Davy — Davy lamp
• Richard Dawkins — Dawkinsia, Richard Dawkins Award
• Paul de Casteljau — de Casteljau's algorithm
• Michael Dell — founder of Dell, the computer company
• Delmonico, America's first restaurant — Delmonico steak (boneless Prime rib)
• David Eisenhower, grandson of US President Dwight Eisenhower — Camp David US presidential retreat
• Thomas Derrick (c. 1600), British hangman — Derrick (lifting device)
• Melvil Dewey — Dewey Decimal System
• Thomas Edmund Dewey, American politician — Dewey, one of "Huey, Dewey and Louie", animated cartoon characters
• David Deutsch — Church-Turing-Deutsch Principle
• Bo Diddley — Popularizer of the Bo Diddley beat
• Rudolf Diesel — the diesel engine
• Paul Dirac — Dirac fermion, Dirac spinor, Dirac equation, Dirac delta function, Dirac sea, Dirac Prize, Fermi-Dirac statistics
• Walt Disney — founder, The Walt Disney Company, Disneyland
• Jeremiah Dixon and Charles Mason — Mason-Dixon Line
• John Francis Dodge and Horace Dodge - founders, Dodge
• Doily family (c. 1700)
• Ray Dolby — Dolby Stereo, Dolby Surround and Dolby Pro Logic
• Donatello, Renaissance painter — Donatello, one of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic characters
• Christian Doppler — Doppler radar, Doppler effect
• Donald Wills Douglas, Sr. — Douglas Aircraft Company
• Charles Dow and Edward Jones — Dow Jones & Company
• Herbert Dow — The Dow Chemical Company
• John Langdon Down, English physician - Down's Syndrome
• Robin Dunbar — Dunbar's number
• Guillaume Dupuytren — Dupuytren's contracture, Dupuytren's fracture
• Dr. August Dvorak — Dvorak Simplified Keyboard
• Draco (lawgiver) - Draconian laws
• Henry Draper - Draper (crater), lunar impact crater
• John William Draper- Draper point, 977˚ F (525˚ C, 798 K)