This is a list of physical and mathematical constants named after people.
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- Archimedes' constant – Archimedes
- Avogadro's number – Amedeo Avogadro
- Bohr magneton – Niels Bohr
- Bohr radius – Niels Bohr
- Boltzmann constant – Ludwig Boltzmann
- Cabibbo angle – Nicola Cabibbo
- Chaitin's constant – Gregory Chaitin
- Chandrasekhar limit – Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
- Coulomb's constant – Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
- Eddington number – Arthur Stanley Eddington
- Embree–Trefethen constant
- Euler–Mascheroni constant – Leonhard Euler and Lorenzo Mascheroni
- Euler's number – Leonhard Euler
- Faraday constant – Michael Faraday
- Feigenbaum constants – Mitchell Feigenbaum
- Graham's number – Ronald Graham
- Hartree energy – Douglas Hartree
- Hubble's constant – Edwin Hubble
- Josephson constant – Brian David Josephson
- Kerr constant – John Kerr
- Khinchin's constant – Aleksandr Khinchin
- Landau–Ramanujan constant – Edmund Landau and Srinivasa Ramanujan
- Loschmidt constant – Johann Josef Loschmidt
- Ludolphsche Zahl – Ludolph van Ceulen
- Moser's number
- mean of Phidias – Phidias
- Newton's constant - Sir Isaac Newton
- Planck constant and reduced Planck contant – Max Planck
- Ramanujan–Soldner constant – Srinivasa Ramanujan and Johann Georg von Soldner
- Rydberg constant – Johannes Rydberg
- Sackur–Tetrode constant – Otto Sackur and Hugo Tetrode
- Skewes' number – Stanley Skewes
- Stefan–Boltzmann constant – Jožef Stefan and Ludwig Boltzmann
- Viswanath's constant – Divakar Viswanath
- von Klitzing constant – Klaus von Klitzing
- Wien displacement law constant – Wilhelm Wien
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