Things Unexpectedly Named After People
I find this post and comments to be surprisingly delightful. I'll aggregate the scattered gems in the comments here:- Sideburns : Named after the American Civil War general Ambrose Burnside.- Heaviside function (a mathematical step function) : named after Oliver Heaviside- The Children's python (animal) : Named after John George Children.- Snowflake, AZ : Named after Erastus Snow and William Jordon Flake.- Lake Mountain, Victoria : No lake. Named after George Lake, who was the Surveyor-General of the area including the mountain.[*] Search for the relevant comment for more info and references.