| 100% | NISSEN | 6 | Peter Norman —, British army officer after whom a type of corrugated sheet steel hut is named |
| 41% | LUTZ | 4 | Alois —, Austrian figure skater after whom a type of jump is named |
| 41% | AEOLUS | 6 | Greek God after whom a type of harp is named |
| 40% | ETIENNE | 7 | & 22A 18th-century French finance minister after whom a type of paper shadow portrait is named |
| 39% | MOOG | 4 | Robert —, US engineer born in 1934 after whom a type of musical synthesiser is named |
| 39% | MOOG | 4 | Robert —, US engineer born in 1934 after whom a type of musical synthesizer is named |
| 33% | MOOG | 4 | Robert —, US engineer who died in 2005 after whom a type of musical synthesizer is named |
| 32% | RICHTER | 7 | Charles —, US seismologist after whom a scale for expressing the magnitude of an earthquake is named |
| 32% | BOSC | 4 | French horticulturist after whom a variety of fruit is named |
| 32% | PETRARCH | 8 | Italian poet after whom a style of sonnet is named |
| 32% | GAUSS | 5 | German physicist after whom a unit of magnetism is named |
| 32% | MOHS | 4 | Friedrich —, German scientist after whom a scale for expressing the hardness of minerals is named |
| 30% | BORSTAL | 7 | Village in Kent after which a type of young offenders institution was named |
| 30% | BORSTAL | 7 | Village in Kent after which a type of institution for young offenders was named |
| 30% | SHRAPNEL | 8 | British-army officer who lent his name to a shell |
| 29% | BOHRIUM | 7 | Element with atomic number 107 which was named after a Danish physicist who studied the structure of atoms |
| 29% | BOLOGNA | 7 | A type of sausage named after an Italian city |
| 29% | EPONYM | 6 | Person after whom a discovery is named |
| 29% | PARTON | 6 | Performer after whom a clone was named |
| 28% | SHEA | 4 | Attorney William after whom a stadium is named |
| 28% | HOOVER | 6 | US president after whom a dam is named |
| 28% | BERNOULLI | 9 | Mathematician Daniel after whom a principle is named |
| 28% | EPONYMOUS | 9 | Individual after whom a literary work is named |
| 28% | UTE | 3 | People after whom a US state is named |
| 28% | ERIE | 4 | People after whom a Great Lake is named |
| 28% | UTE | 3 | Tribe after whom a US state is named |
| 28% | EBBETS | 6 | Charles after whom a sports field was named |
| 28% | EAMES | 5 | Charles or Ray after whom a chair is named |
| 28% | AMELIA | 6 | English princess after whom a Virginia county is named |