| 100% | ABNEY | 5 | William de Wiveleslie —, scientist after whom the surveying instrument a topographic — level is named |
| 85% | ABNEY | 5 | William de Wiveleslie —, scientist after whom surveying instrument the topographic — level is named |
| 85% | ABNEY | 5 | William de Wiveleslie -, scientist after whom surveying instrument the topographic - level is named |
| 72% | ABNEY | 5 | William de Wiveleslie —, scientist after whom the topographic — level is named |
| 44% | MOHS | 4 | Friedrich —, German scientist after whom a scale for expressing the hardness of minerals is named |
| 37% | PLIMSOLL | 8 | Samuel —, 19th-century British politician after whom the load line on a ship is named |
| 37% | LALANDE | 7 | Jerome —, French astronomer after whom a crater on the Moon is named |
| 37% | BROCA | 5 | Scientist for whom a part of the brain is named |
| 36% | SHEA | 4 | Attorney William after whom a stadium is named |
| 35% | RICHTER | 7 | Charles —, US seismologist after whom a scale for expressing the magnitude of an earthquake is named |
| 35% | BOHRIUM | 7 | Element with atomic number 107 which was named after a Danish physicist who studied the structure of atoms |
| 35% | MARIECURIE | 10 | Scientist and chemist after whom the element Cm with atomic number 96 is named: 2 wds. |
| 34% | CURIUM | 6 | Element with atomic number 96 which was named after scientists who were extensively involved in the field of radioactivity |
| 34% | TAFT | 4 | William Howard ___, 27th President of the United States after whom a city in California is named |
| 34% | SAM | 3 | Houston after whom the Texas city is named |
| 34% | POE | 3 | Writer after whom the Edgar Award is named |
| 34% | HENRY | 5 | Hudson after whom the Hudson River is named |
| 34% | PERRY | 5 | Antoinette after whom the Tony Awards are named |
| 33% | VOLTA | 5 | Italian scientist after whom an electrical unit is named |
| 33% | VINCE | 5 | Lombardi after whom the Super Bowl trophy is named |
| 33% | ALLAN | 5 | Edgar ___ Poe after whom the Edgar Award is named |
| 33% | MAISEL | 6 | "The Marvelous Mrs. ___," TV series named after the protagonist who is a stand-up comedian played by Rachel Brosnahan |
| 33% | VESPUCCI | 8 | Italian voyager after whom the New World was named |
| 33% | RUTHERFORD | 10 | Scientist and physicist Ernest ___ after whom the element Rf with atomic number 104 is named |
| 33% | MACADAM | 7 | John from Australia, after whom the macadamia nut was named |
| 33% | HANNIBAL | 8 | Horror thriller TV series named after the protagonist who is a forensic psychiatrist and cannibal played by Mads Mikkelsen |
| 33% | BARRY | 5 | Comedy crime drama TV series named after the protagonist who is a Marine-turned-hitman played by Bill Hader |
| 33% | MOLOTOV | 7 | Vyacheslav —, Soviet political leader after whom the — cocktail bomb, is named |
| 33% | OHM | 3 | Georg Simon ___, physicist after whom the unit of resistance is named |