| 100% | AEOLUS | 6 | Greek God after whom a type of harp is named |
| 60% | MOOG | 4 | Robert —, US engineer born in 1934 after whom a type of musical synthesiser is named |
| 60% | MOOG | 4 | Robert —, US engineer born in 1934 after whom a type of musical synthesizer is named |
| 59% | NISSEN | 6 | Peter Norman —, British army officer after whom a type of corrugated sheet steel hut is named |
| 59% | ETIENNE | 7 | & 22A 18th-century French finance minister after whom a type of paper shadow portrait is named |
| 57% | LUTZ | 4 | Alois —, Austrian figure skater after whom a type of jump is named |
| 54% | ATLAS | 5 | Greek god after whom an ocean is named |
| 53% | BOSC | 4 | French horticulturist after whom a variety of fruit is named |
| 53% | PETRARCH | 8 | Italian poet after whom a style of sonnet is named |
| 53% | GAUSS | 5 | German physicist after whom a unit of magnetism is named |
| 52% | PINDUS | 6 | Son of Makedon in Greek mythology after whom a river in ancient Greece was named |
| 50% | EUROPA | 6 | Figure in Greek myth after whom a continent is named |
| 49% | MORPHEUS | 8 | Greek god whom the drug morphine was named after |
| 49% | MOOG | 4 | Robert —, US engineer who died in 2005 after whom a type of musical synthesizer is named |
| 49% | EROS | 4 | Greek god whose name is an anagram of a flower |
| 48% | ARES | 4 | Greek god whose name is a homophone of a zodiac sign |
| 48% | ADONIS | 6 | Greek god of beauty who was killed by a wild boar |
| 48% | MOHS | 4 | Friedrich —, German scientist after whom a scale for expressing the hardness of minerals is named |
| 47% | THOR | 4 | Norse god for whom a day of the week is named |
| 47% | RICHTER | 7 | Charles —, US seismologist after whom a scale for expressing the magnitude of an earthquake is named |
| 46% | BORSTAL | 7 | Village in Kent after which a type of young offenders institution was named |
| 45% | BORSTAL | 7 | Village in Kent after which a type of institution for young offenders was named |
| 44% | BOHRIUM | 7 | Element with atomic number 107 which was named after a Danish physicist who studied the structure of atoms |
| 44% | ELLIS | 5 | Colonial merchant Samuel after whom a famous island is named |
| 43% | EMORY | 5 | Bishop John, after whom a Georgia university was named |
| 43% | BOLOGNA | 7 | A type of sausage named after an Italian city |
| 43% | EPONYM | 6 | Person after whom a discovery is named |
| 43% | PARTON | 6 | Performer after whom a clone was named |