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This article survived an Articles for Deletion debate. The discussion can be found here. -Docg 01:04, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

China

Surely China being named after a dynasty doesn't count? Is this a page about places named for individuals or places named for groups of people or both? User:Francs2000

This probably stems in the misconception that Chinese dynasties are named after its ruling clan's family names. AFAIK, this never happens (unlike Korean dynasties). The Chin Dynasty's imperial family name is Yin. The last dynasty, Ching Dynasty's imperial family name, for example, is Aisin-gioro. --Menchi 19:08, 7 Feb 2004 (UTC)
How about Chinese cities? Shrumster 11:19, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Ukraine and the Communist names

Artemiwśk was voted on Sept. 23, 2015 by city council to restore its historical (prior to 1924) name, Bachmut (Бахмут)

Other names that are subject to change, according to the Decommunization Law of 2015 (to be implemented by Rada in 2016):

  • Dniprodzerzhynśk - to restore historical (1750-1936) name Kamjanśke (Кам'янське)
  • Dnipropetrovśk - to be renamed as Dnipro (Дніпро), after the river
  • Illyichivśk - to be renamed as Čornomorśk (Чорноморськ), after the Black Sea (Čorne more). Supported by local referendum on Nov. 12, 2015. To avoid confusion, the town of Čornomorśke, Crimea has its own historical (prior to 1944) Crimean Tatar name Aqmeçit (Ак Мечеть)
  • Kirovohrad - to be renamed as Inhuľśk (Інгульськ), after the river Inhul

Not included in the list (all subject to renaming as well):

and in the disputed Crimea:

188.163.35.144 (talk) 17:53, 25 January 2016 (UTC) RWhite

Water bodies

Do water bodies (seas, rivers, lakes, water falls) come under political entities ? Jay 11:38, 7 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Maybe this article should be renamed to List of places named after people. --Menchi 19:08, 7 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Though I wouldn't be entirely sure an ocean counts as a place, either. I'd put it into a separate article, personally. -- Graham  :) 22:23, 8 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Also what about cities, towns, villages, districts ? Water bodies, forests, deserts, mountains, valleys and other physical geographical entities wouldn't fit into a political entity, but would certainly be counted as a place. So rather than renaming, this page can be branched out from List of places named after people. Jay 15:17, 9 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Though, having researched it a bit more, I'd like there to be a general List of place name origins (if it doesn't exist already). I just find the subject fascinating. -- Graham  :) 00:31, 10 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Already exists Placename etymology, List of country name etymologies. If you're also an etymology-freak maybe you can review some of the etymology-related lists I've created. Jay 07:51, 10 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Israel and Jacob

Can someone please tell me the link between Israel and Jacob? It's not immediately apparent. -- Graham  :) | Talk 02:21, 16 Apr 2004 (UTC)

They are simply the same Biblical person. Multiple names per person, as usual. Or are you asking how one name can turn into another? No idea. I think they are just different names for a person. --Menchi 02:49, 16 Apr 2004 (UTC)
I just felt a note needed adding to that bit of the article to explain the link between the two. I'm not Christian or Jewish (and neither are about two thirds of the rest of the world) so it needs explaining. -- Graham  :) | Talk 02:54, 16 Apr 2004 (UTC)

List of places named ...

We have "List of places named after Tito, Stalin and Lenin", but "List of places named for DeWitt Clinton etc.". Is there a difference? If not, which is the prefered name for those articles in English? --Romanm 08:50, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)

hmm.. good point .. I think it should be "after". "for" is wrong grammar I guess. Jay 12:00, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)
After is English grammar, For is American. Or maybe it's the other way around. Whichever, they should all be the same. -- Graham ☺ | Talk 13:19, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Towns and cities

A basic problem with the towns and cities section: there are hundreds, if not thousands of towns and cities across Europe that are named after people. Are they all going to go into the same article? -- Graham ☺ | Talk 20:37, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Good question, G.! And the title of the article being "List of places named after people", the list could run into millions. Wikipedians should be careful how they name their lists... -- Picapica 18:14, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Getting into the "thousands" debate, I noticed the list for France is pretty short considering the amount of cities in France named for this or that saint. (E.g. Saint Denis, France isn't even on the list, and there are many other places with Saint Denis in the name (Saint Denis (disambiguation), to say nothing about Saint Pierre!). I certainly don't suggest we merge all those place names into this list but maybe some of the major ones (such as Saint Denis, France) and perhaps mention the fact that there are many other places in france named after saints or with the name of a saint in it. (Like, for example, in Brittany there is a town called Saint-Jean-du-Doigt (which literaly translates to Saint John of the Finger). Legend has it (as told to me by a friend of mine who was born and raised near there) someone, many years ago, found a finger and the locals decided it was that of John_the_Baptist and started to pray to/worship it. Now that's a way to get a name!) -- Imlepid 06:45, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Airports

It seems that almost every airport is named after someone, so this section is unnecessarily long. I propose deletion. Oreo Priest 18:32, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

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Splitting the article

This article is too long. It has over 5000 links and is around 300k in size, yet is still incomplete for many countries. I see two way to split this:

  1. per-continent; ie. List of places named after people in South America
  2. per-country; ie. List of places named after people in Paraguay. Of course many countries will not justify a split.

Any preferences? We already have per-country splits for the US and Germany, and I'm likely to do a few more (Mexico first) in the coming days unless there's some other suggestion that has support. power~enwiki (π, ν) 19:38, 27 December 2020 (UTC)

This is so wiki a list :) There's also a third option: keeping everything here, and just splitting out any individual section if it gets too big, as has been done for the US. – Uanfala (talk) 18:59, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
I thought that was implied as part of number 2; many countries (Oman, Slovenia) wouldn't justify stand-alone pages and would remain here. power~enwiki (π, ν) 19:03, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
Ah, but of course! Where was I looking. – Uanfala (talk) 19:05, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
Seems like there's consensus to split off overlong sections, so I'll do some of those. This article is insanely long. HappyWith (talk) 20:57, 27 December 2023 (UTC)

Seychelles

Is there a good reason why this country has a mention for the origin of the country name, and not for the capital being named after Queen Victoria? Sarandone2 (talk) 18:22, 4 April 2021 (UTC)

After splitting

How much content should we leave in sections that are split off? I can see the United States section and Germany section only include major cities - should we do the same thing with any other sections that get split? How do we determine a major city? HappyWith (talk) 21:11, 27 December 2023 (UTC)

Continent of africa

ancient greeks called the continent libya after a hyksos egyptian princess named libya daughter of hyksos king belus of egypt (lived in age of hyksos dynasty 1650-1550 BC) in Latin language translated to Africa. Usually portrayed more like a berber goddess. The ethnocentrism and self centredness of greco-roman pagans totally ignore the vast majority of the continents people and culture such as black Africans. Juan paracchini (talk) 20:14, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

Europe

this continent is named after Europa. A Phoenician princess who was daughter of king agenor of tyre. (From early mycenean era 1400's bc) europa was abducted by zeus and became a cretan queen. But many hyksos colonies in egyptian delta and Levant where in fact minoan colonies. This sugests Phoenicians and philistines are decendants of minoan cretan colonies. Thus europa could be compared to the greek ptolemaic royals and subjects.. in Egypt who are decendants of greek colonists and from a general of alexander the great ptolemy I sober. Juan paracchini (talk) 20:22, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

Asia

Asia was name of an old minoan titan goddess. Asia was wife of the Titan god iapetus. She was mother of several titan gods such as Atlas, prometheus, epithemus, and menoetius. An entire continent was named after one european minoan goddess. Self centered idolatrous culture of pagan peoples disregard the vast majority of real Asian peoples such as oriental peoples; Indian peoples, and Middle Eastern peoples.) Juan paracchini (talk) 20:39, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

A few issues I have with this list

Hi. I have a few issues with this list. Firstly, the discrepancy between the title and the text within the article. The title implies this is the list of places named after people, while the text adds that it's onky about "famous" people. And I think, this is important distinction. Becouse there's a lot of places famed after random people from centuries ago, who are not famous or notable, but who happen to be nameskes of some places. For example Włochy in Warsaw, Poland, named after Jan Włoch, a landowner who used to own the place in the 15th century. He'a not notable or famous, and never will have an article on the Wiki. But he is the namesake of that place non-the-less. And I think in its current form, the article breaks its own rules, listing bunch of places named adter arguably not important or famous people, like rich landowners who happened to found those places, or their wifes, etc.

And to sagway to my next point; what exactly are the criteria for someone to be "famous". I don't think this is a very encyclopedic or miserable quality, and should not be used in lists. Moreover, what does it even mean? People who have articles on Wikipedia? People who happen to be listed in various sources? "Vibes"?

And finally, my list issue with the article. I think it should be renamed to "List of human settlements named after people". "Places" is to broad of a term, and could as well refer to islands, buildings, public parks, streets, etc. And as of right now, this lists mostly only includes human settlements and some countries. And the latter already have their own article about this topic, so they could just be removed from here.

Thank you for reading this, and hope it will start some discussion. Sincerely, Artemis Andromeda (talk) 04:54, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

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