| 100% | HENRY | 5 | Hudson after whom the Hudson River is named |
| 67% | SAM | 3 | Houston after whom the Texas city is named |
| 67% | POE | 3 | Writer after whom the Edgar Award is named |
| 67% | PERRY | 5 | Antoinette after whom the Tony Awards are named |
| 64% | ALLAN | 5 | Edgar ___ Poe after whom the Edgar Award is named |
| 64% | VESPUCCI | 8 | Italian voyager after whom the New World was named |
| 63% | MACADAM | 7 | John from Australia, after whom the macadamia nut was named |
| 62% | VINCELOMBARDI | 13 | The Green Bay Packers coach after whom the Superbowl trophy is named: 2 wds. |
| 61% | POE | 3 | Poet whom the Edgar Award is named after |
| 61% | MORPHEUS | 8 | Greek god whom the drug morphine was named after |
| 60% | MOLOTOV | 7 | Vyacheslav —, Soviet political leader after whom the — cocktail bomb, is named |
| 60% | ABNEY | 5 | William de Wiveleslie —, scientist after whom the topographic — level is named |
| 58% | VINCE | 5 | Lombardi after whom the Super Bowl trophy is named |
| 57% | ELI | 3 | Other name of Ransom Olds, after whom the Oldsmobile was named |
| 57% | OHM | 3 | Georg Simon ___, physicist after whom the unit of resistance is named |
| 56% | OHM | 3 | Georg Simon ___, German physicist after whom the unit of electrical resistance was named |
| 55% | EDWIN | 5 | Hubble who the Hubble Space Telescope was named after |
| 55% | ATLAS | 5 | Titan after whom one of the oceans is named |
| 55% | ABNEY | 5 | William de Wiveleslie —, scientist after whom the surveying instrument a topographic — level is named |
| 55% | AMERIGO | 7 | Name after which the New World is named |
| 54% | ASHE | 4 | Arthur, the king of tennis after whom the stadium in New York has been named |
| 54% | RUTHERFORD | 10 | Scientist and physicist Ernest ___ after whom the element Rf with atomic number 104 is named |
| 54% | PLIMSOLL | 8 | Samuel —, 19th-century British politician after whom the load line on a ship is named |
| 54% | ERNEST | 6 | ___ Rutherford, New Zealand born physicist after whom the element with atomic number 104 was named |
| 54% | ASHE | 4 | Tennis great Arthur whom the US Open stadium is named after |
| 54% | LOMBARDI | 8 | Vince —, American football coach after whom the trophy for the Super Bowl championship game is named |
| 54% | MARIECURIE | 10 | Scientist and chemist after whom the element Cm with atomic number 96 is named: 2 wds. |
| 53% | LALANDE | 7 | Jerome —, French astronomer after whom a crater on the Moon is named |
| 53% | EPONYMOUS | 9 | Individual after whom a literary work is named |