List of organisms named after famous people (born before 1900)

In biological nomenclature, organisms often receive scientific names that honor a person. A taxon (e.g. species or genus; plural: taxa) named in honor of another entity is an eponymous taxon, and names specifically honoring a person or persons are known as patronyms. Scientific names are generally formally published in peer-reviewed journal articles or larger monographs along with descriptions of the named taxa and ways to distinguish them from other taxa. Following rules of Latin grammar, species or subspecies names derived from a man's name often end in -i or -ii if named for an individual, and -orum if named for a group of men or mixed-sex group, such as a family. Similarly, those named for a woman often end in -ae, or -arum for two or more women.

This list is part of the List of organisms named after famous people, and includes organisms named after famous individuals born before 1 January 1900. It also includes ensembles in which at least one member was born before that date; but excludes companies, institutions, ethnic groups or nationalities, and populated places. It does not include organisms named for fictional entities, for biologists, paleontologists or other natural scientists,^{[note 1]} nor for associates or family members of researchers who were not otherwise notable (exceptions are made, however, for natural scientists who are much more famous for other aspects of their lives, such as, for example, writers Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Vladimir Nabokov or Beatrix Potter). Organisms named after famous people born later can be found in the List of organisms named after famous people (born 1900–present).

The scientific names are given as originally described (their basionyms): subsequent research may have placed species in different genera, or rendered them taxonomic synonyms of previously described taxa. Some of these names are unavailable in the zoological sense or illegitimate in the botanical sense due to senior homonyms already having the same name.

List[]

Taxon	Type	Namesake	Notes	Taxon image	Namesake image	Ref
Schmidt & New, 2008	Barklouse	Abel Tasman	"The generic name is a combination of the name Abel, after the Dutch seafarer, explorer, and merchant Abel Tasman, and Psocus, a genus of Psocidae."			[1]
Schmidt & New, 2008	Barklouse	Truganini	"Named for Truganini, considered to be the last surviving full-blood indigenous person from Tasmania." This species is endemic to Tasmania.			[1]
Abies borisii-regis Mattf.	Conifer	Boris III of Bulgaria	Known as Bulgarian fir, Macedonian fir or King Boris fir, this species, native to the Balkan peninsula, was described in 1925, during Tsar Boris III's reign in Bulgaria, and named in his honour.			[2][3]
Ablerus grotiusi Girault, 1913	Wasp	Hugo Grotius				[4]
Ablerus longfellowi Girault, 1913	Wasp	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	"This truly remarkable species is respectfully dedicated to Henry W. Longfellow, the poet."			[4]
Adaina atahualpa Gielis, 2011	Moth	Atahualpa				[5]
† Nielsen & Frassinetti, 2007	Sea snail	Caupolicán	A fossil species from the Miocene of southern Chile.			[6]
† Nielsen & Frassinetti, 2007	Sea snail	Colocolo	A fossil species from the Miocene of southern Chile.			[6]
Fischer, 2014	Wasp	Brothers Grimm	"Named on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, best known for their fairy tales (Jacob Grimm died 20 September 1863)." Subsequently transferred to the genus and subgenus Aspilota (Eusynaldis).			[7][8]
Girault, 1929	Wasp	Aeschylus				[9]
† Poplin & Lund, 2000	Fish	Aesop				[10]
Agathidium cortezi Miller & Wheeler, 2005	Beetle	Hernán Cortés	"This species is named after the great Spanish explorer and conquistador Hernan Cortez [sic] who explored much of Mexico, conquered the local regime, and whose deeds and motivations remain somewhat controversial." This species is native to Oaxaca, Mexico.			[11]
Miller & Wheeler, 2005	Beetle	Pocahontas	"This species is named pocahontasae after a county in [West] Virginia from which numerous type specimens were collected and after the young woman Pocahontas, who may have saved the struggling Jamestown Colony by marrying John Rolfe, thereby establishing a peace between Jamestown colonists and the tribes of Powhatan."			[11]
Agave victoriae-reginae T.Moore	Flowering plant	Queen Victoria				[12]
Girault, 1912	Wasp	Isaac Newton				[13]
Krogmann & Riefenstahl, 2004	Moth	Cuauhtémoc	"dedicated to the last Aztec emperor, Cuauhtémoc, executed by the Spanish conquerors under Hernán Cortés in 1525 and still venerated by the Mexicans." This species is native to Mexico.			[14]
Shimbori & Shaw, 2014	Wasp	Dolores Cacuango	"named in honor to Dolores Cacuango, for her pioneering, outstanding brave efforts for the indigenous rights in Ecuador." This species is native to Ecuador.			[15]
Shimbori & Shaw, 2014	Wasp	Robert Frost	The patronym refers to Frost's The Road Not Taken: the larvae emerge from the host caterpillar in a way different from all other relatives.			[15]
Girault, 1928	Wasp	Dante Alighieri				[10]
Girault, 1922	Wasp	Dante Alighieri				[9]
Kleijne et al., 2001	Algae	Antoni Gaudí	"The coccolith structure reminds of Gaudí's architecture."			[16]
Alvarado, 2014	Wasp	Manco Cápac	"The species epithet mancocapaci refers to Manco Capac, the first ruler of the Tawantinsuyu." This, and all thirteen Alophophion species named after the thirteen Sapa Incas, were collected in Peru.			[17]
Alvarado, 2014	Wasp	Sinchi Roca	"The species epithet sinchirocai refers to Sinchi Roca, the second ruler of the Tawantinsuyu."			[17]
Alvarado, 2014	Wasp	Lloque Yupanqui	"The species epithet lloqueyupanquii refers to Lloque Yupanqui, the third ruler of the Tawantinsuyu."			[17]
Alvarado, 2014	Wasp	Mayta Cápac	"The species epithet maytacapaci refers to Mayta Capac, the fourth ruler of the Tawantinsuyu."			[17]
Alvarado, 2014	Wasp	Cápac Yupanqui	"The species epithet capacyupanquii refers to Cápac Yupanqui, the fifth ruler of the Tawantinsuyu."			[17]
Alvarado, 2014	Wasp	Inca Roca	"The species epithet incarocai refers to Inca Roca, the sixth ruler of the Tawantinsuyu and first inca."			[17]
Alvarado, 2014	Wasp	Yawar Waqaq	"The species epithet yahuarhuacaci refers to Atahualpa [sic; likely an editing error, meant to say Yáhuar Huácac], the seventh ruler of the Tawantinsuyu and first inca [sic; likely an editing error, meant to say second inca, or be ommitted altogether]."			[17]
Alvarado, 2014	Wasp	Viracocha Inca	"The species epithet wiracochai refers to Wiracocha, the eighth ruler of the Tawantinsuyu."			[17]
Alvarado, 2014	Wasp	Pachacuti	"The species epithet pachacutii refers to Pachacuti, the ninth ruler of the Tawantinsuyu."			[17]
Alvarado, 2014	Wasp	Topa Inca Yupanqui	"The species epithet yupankii refers to Túpaq Inka Yupanki, the tenth ruler of the Tawantinsuyu."			[17]
Alvarado, 2014	Wasp	Huayna Cápac	"The species epithet huaynacapac refers to Huayna Cápac, the eleventh ruler of the Tawantinsuyu."			[17]
Alvarado, 2014	Wasp	Huáscar	"The species epithet huascari refers to Huascar, the twelfth ruler of the Tawantinsuyu."			[17]
Alvarado, 2014	Wasp	Atahualpa	"The species epithet atahualpai refers to Atahualpa, the last ruler of the Tawantinsuyu."			[17]
† Bakel, Jagt, Fraaije & Artal, 2011	Crustacean	Nostradamus	A fossil cyclid from the Cretaceous of Northern Spain. "Nostradamus, Latinised name of Michel de Nostredame (1503–1566), French seer, well known for his prophecies published in his book Les Prophéties. His name [...] has been chosen because the presence of cyclids in the Alsasua area was predicted by one of us (RHBF) one year prior to the discovery of the holotype of the new taxon."			[18]
Dumas, Calor & Nessimian, 2013	Caddisfly	Castro Alves	A species native to Bahia state, Brazil, "named in memory of Antônio Frederico de Castro Alves, known as "the poet of the slaves" because of his sympathy for the Brazilian abolitionist cause. Castro Alves was born in Bahia state in 1847 and died at 1871. He is the patron of the 7th chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters. Some of his abolitionist poems, like Espumas Flutuantes, A Cachoeira de Paulo Afonso, and O Navio Negreiro, were collected in a posthumous book called Os Escravos, published in 1883."			[19]
Pérez-Miles, Gabriel & Gallon, 2008	Spider	Topa Inca Yupanqui	"The specific epithet is a patronym in honor of the Inca leader, Tupac Yupanqui, who unified the agricultural populations of Ecuador" The holotype for this species was collected near Puyo, Ecuador. This species was subsequently transferred to the genus Neischnocolus Petrunkevitch, 1925.			[20][21]
Shear & Krejca, 2007	Millipede	John Muir				[22]
Komárek, 2005	Bacterium	Hatuey	This species of freshwater cyanobacterium is endemic to Cuba.			[23]
Girault, 1912	Wasp	Immanuel Kant	"Dedicated to Immanuel Kant for his The General Natural History and Theory of the Heavens." Subsequently transferred to genus .			[13][24]
Girault, 1912	Wasp	Pierre-Simon Laplace	Subsequently transferred to other genera, currently under the genus .			[13][25]
Girault, 1912	Wasp	Thomas Paine	Subsequently transferred to genus .			[13][24]
Girault, 1913	Wasp	Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre				[26]
Anatoma tobeyoides Geiger & Jansen, 2004	Sea snail	Mark Tobey				[9]
Angeliconana Girault, 1922	Wasp	Fra Angelico				[9]
Chao, 1954	Dragonfly	Koxinga				[27]
Anolis roosevelti Grant, 1931	Lizard	Theodore Roosevelt, Jr				[28]
Anophthalmus hitleri Scheibel, 1933	Beetle	Adolf Hitler	Hitler sent Scheibel a letter showing his gratitude for naming a species after him. This blind, troglobiont beetle, found only in five caves in Slovenia, is now in danger of extinction solely because of its name, due to its interest to collectors of Nazi memorabilia. After World War II, renaming the beetle was rejected by the ICZN, as the name had been originally published in accordance with ICZN rules.			[29][30][31]
Platia & Gudenzi, 2000	Beetle	Mustafa Kemal Atatürk	"The name of the new species pays tribute to Kemal Ataturk, the founding father of the modern Turkish republic; Atatürk University in Erzurum, where the specimens are deposited, is named after him."			[32]
Anselmella Girault, 1925	Wasp	Anselm of Canterbury				[9]
Moles, Avila & Malaquias, 2019	Sea slug	Roald Amundsen	A species found in the Weddell Sea (Antarctica), "named after the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen who was the first to reach 90°0'S, the South Pole, on 14 December 1911."			[33]
Antechinus rosamondae Ride, 1964	Marsupial mammal	Rosamund Clifford	Subsequently transferred to genus Dasykaluta.			[10]
Girault, 1911	Wasp	Anthemius of Tralles				[9]
Girault, 1912	Wasp	Thomas Paine	"Respectfully dedicated to Thomas Paine, one of the manly defenders of truth and reason and author of the Rights of Man and The Age of Reason."			[34]
Girault, 1913	Wasp	Hugo Grotius	Subsequently transferred to the genus .			[4][35]
Chullasorn, Kangtia, Pinkaew & Ferrari, 2008	Crustacean	Ram Khamhaeng	This species of copepod is native to Thailand.			[36]
Bond, 2012	Spider	Dorothea Lange	Found in California's agricultural Central Valley			[37]
Bond, 2012	Spider	John Muir	The species occurs in Yosemite National Park, which Muir was instrumental in founding			[37]
Archytas Jaennicke, 1867	Fly	Archytas				[9]
† Marincovich, 1993	Bivalve	Fridtjof Nansen	A fossil species of clam from the Paleocene of Prince Creek Formation in Arctic Alaska, "named in honor of Fridtjof Nansen, who was the first to scientifically explore and study the Arctic Ocean."			[38]
Arsinoitherium † Beadnell, 1902	Embrithopod (an extinct order of mammals)	Arsinoe II				[10]
Arthurdactylus conandoylei † Frey & Martill, 1994	Pterosaur	Arthur Conan Doyle	Found in jungle similar to where The Lost World was set.			[10]
Kittel, 2016	Wasp	Ada Lovelace	Replacement name for Ascogaster breviventris Tobias, 2000, which was preoccupied by Granger, 1949.			[39]
Kittel, 2016	Wasp	Hypatia	Replacement name for Aspilota parallela Fischer, 1976, which was preoccupied by Fischer, 1971.			[39]
Azpelicueta, Casciotta & Almirón, 2002	Fish	Leonidas I	"The specific epithet leonidas refers to the Spartan King Leonidas who heroically fought a million-man Persian army with only three hundred soldiers. The battle, in which Leonidas lost his life, took place in the narrow pass of Thermopylae. This epithet is dedicated to all the academic teachers of Argentina that stand in defense of a free and independent education." This species, endemic to rivers of northern Argentina, has been subsequently transferred to the genus .			[40][41]
Girault, 1913	Wasp	Matthew Arnold	Subsequently transferred to the genus Cirrospilus.			[4][42]
Girault, 1913	Wasp	William Rathbone Greg	Subsequently transferred to the genus Cirrospilus.			[4][43]
Girault, 1913	Wasp	Hugo Grotius	Subsequently transferred to the genus Cirrospilus.			[4][44]
Girault, 1913	Wasp	Norman Angell	"Dedicated to Ralph Lane for his book The Great Illusion, A Study of the Relation of Military Power in Nations to their Economic and Social Advantage." Angell's full name was Ralph Norman Angell Lane, and he had sometimes published under the name Ralph Lane. This species was subsequently transferred to the genus Cirrospilus.			[4][45]
Girault, 1913	Wasp	Giuseppe Mazzini	Subsequently transferred to the genus Cirrospilus.			[4][46]
Girault, 1913	Wasp	Émile Zola	"This magnificent species I dedicate with great respect to Émile Zola for his work La Débâcle" Subsequently transferred to the genus Cirrospilus.			[47][48]
Dumas, de Souza & Rocha, 2017	Caddisfly	Bartolomeu de Gusmão	"Dedicated to the Brazilian priest and inventor Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão, who was born [in] Santos, São Paulo state in 1685 and died in 1724. Bartolomeu de Gusmão was the first Brazilian inventor and scientist, famous for the creation in 1709 of the hot air balloon." This species is native to São Paulo state in Brazil.			[49]
Dumas, de Souza & Rocha, 2017	Caddisfly	Alberto Santos-Dumont	"Dedicated to the Brazilian inventor Alberto Santos Dumont, who was born at Palmira (now Santos Dumont) in Minas Gerais state in 1873 and died in 1932. Santos Dumont is considered the "Father of Flight" and "Aviation Pioneer" because he invented the first true airplane called 14-BIS, which flew a distance of 220 meters at a height of 6 meters and at a speed of about 40 km/h, in Paris on November 12, 1906." This species is native to Brazil.			[49]
Strand, 1928	Wasp	Johann Sebastian Bach				[9]
Bachiana Girault, 1940	Wasp	Johann Sebastian Bach				[9]
Baeturia hardyi De Boer, 1986	Cicada	Oliver Hardy				[10]
Baeturia laureli De Boer, 1986	Cicada	Stan Laurel				[10]
Bagheera kiplingi Peckham & Peckham, 1896	Spider	Rudyard Kipling	The genus name is derived from Bagheera, the black panther from Kipling's Jungle Book with the species name honoring Kipling himself.			[9]
Balboa Distant, 1893	True bug	Vasco Núñez de Balboa				[9]
Barapasaurus tagorei † Jain, Kutty, Roy-Chowdhury & Chatterjee, 1975	Dinosaur	Rabindranath Tagore	A sauropod from the Jurassic Kota Formation in India; its first excavation "was carried out in the centenary year of one of India's most famous poets, Rabindranath Tagore, and named in his memory."			[50]
Kittel, 2016	Wasp	Artemisia II of Caria	Replacement name for Barichneumon rufipes (Habermehl, 1920), which had originally been described as Cratichneumon rufipes Habermehl, 1920, but upon being transferred to the genus in 1965, became a junior homonym of (Cameron, 1907).			[39]
Schmidt & New, 2008	Barklouse	George Bass	"The generic name is a combination of the name Bass, after the British naval surgeon and explorer George Bass, and Caecilius, a genus of Caeciliusidae." This genus is endemic to Tasmania.			[1]
Becquerelia (plant) Brongn.	Flowering plant	Antoine César Becquerel	"Dedicated to the archfamous investigator of the physical world Becquerel, companion of the Academy of Sciences, who through many ingenious experiments has exposed the hidden powers of nature."			[51]
† Brongniart, 1893	Palaeodictyoptera, an extict order of insects	Henri Becquerel	64 years after botanist Adolphe Brongniart named the plant genus Becquerelia after scientist Antoine César Becquerel, his grandson, paleoentomologist Charles Brongniart, named this fossil insect genus from the Carboniferous period after Antoine César Becquerel's grandson, physicist (and future Nobel Prize laureate) Henri Becquerel.			[52]
Girault, 1932	Wasp	Ludwig van Beethoven				[10]
Bishopina mozarti Bonaduce et al. 1976	Crustacean	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Subsequently synonymised with Neocyprideis timorensis (Fyan, 1916).			[10]
Huber, 2000	Spider	Andrés Eloy Blanco	"The generic name honors the Venezuelan poet Andrés Eloy Blanco, author of Angelitos Negros."			[53]
Blighia K. D. Koenig	Flowering plant	William Bligh				[10]
† Hampe et al., 2013	Fish	Xerxes I	A fossil species of cartilaginous fish from the Permian of central Iran, named as "A tribute to famous Achaemenian king Xerxes I, who enforced the extension of Persepolis and constructed, among others, the Gate of All Nations and the Hall of a Hundred Columns, the largest and most imposing elements of the central palace there and which deeply impressed the first author."			[54]
Ortiz & Francke, 2017	Spider	Jules Verne	"in honour of Jules Verne (1828–1905), a French writer who is considered by many as the Father of science fiction. His tens of novels on travel, discovery, invention and history have inspired millions of children and teenagers worldwide (including both authors of this study) with his thirst for knowledge and discovery."			[55]
Girault, 1923	Wasp	George Borrow				[9]
Girault, 1937	Wasp	Semyon Budyonny				[9]
Byers, 1976	Scorpionfly	Thomas Jefferson	"This species is named in honor of Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), third president of the United States. The type locality is Mt. Jefferson, North Carolina, and one of the other two known localities (Mt. Rogers-White Top) is in the Jefferson National Forest. Thomas Jefferson was not only an eminent statesman but a scholar with broad interests, among them the natural history of his country. It seems especially appropriate, as we note the nation's bicentennial anniversary, to honor Jefferson, the major author of the Declaration of Independence."			[56]
Brachypanorpa sacajawea Byers, 1990	Scorpionfly	Sacagawea	"This species is named for the Shoshone "Bird Woman" Sacajawea (ca. 1790-1884), who with husband and infant son accompanied the Lewis and Clark expedition in 1805–1806 from Fort Mandan (North Dakota) to the mouth of the Columbia River on the Pacific coast, then back. She is said to have had familiarity with many animal and plant species encountered by the explorers. Her knowledge of the mountains of western Montana and northern Idaho aided the expedition in crossing the Bitterroot Range at Lolo Pass to gain access to a tributary of the Snake River and thence to the Columbia." These are the areas in which the specimens were found.			[57][9]
Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2016	Spider	Mahatma Gandhi	"The species is named for Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869–1948). He was the pre-eminent leader of the Indian Independence Movement in British-ruled India, eventually paving the way for independence of Sri Lanka as well." This species is native to India and Sri Lanka.			[58]
† Diener 1895	Ammonite	Buddha	A fossil found in the Himalayas. The type species is named Buddhaites rama, for the deity Rama.			[59]
† Fanti & Damgaard, 2019	Beetle	Karen Blixen	A fossil soldier beetle found in Burmese amber from the Cretaceous of Hukawng Valley. "In memory of the Danish author and writer Karen Christenze von Blixen-Finecke (born Dinesen; 17 April 1885 - 7 September 1962). [Dedication] that the actress Ghita Nørby suggested to us." (the authors had previously named another beetle after Nørby).			[60]
Teruel & Turiel, 2020	Scorpion	Federico García Lorca	"a patronym honoring the great Spanish poet and dramatist Federico García Lorca (5/June/1898 – 18/August/1936). Born in Granada, as a member of the Generation of '27 he became the greatest 20th century poet in Spain and one of the best dramatists and prose writers as well. Because of political reasons, during the Spanish Civil War he was assassinated by a fascist Falangist firing squad precisely at the type locality of the new species."			[61]
Weigmann et al., 2016	Shark	Johann Sebastian Bach	"The new species is named in honor of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750), a musical genius and one of the greatest composers of all time."			[62]
Weigmann & Kaschner, 2017	Shark	Antonio Vivaldi	"The new species is named in honor of Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741), a genius composer of [the] Baroque era, to express its relationship to Bythaelurus bachi, named after sublime genius Johann Sebastian Bach."			[63]
Calamotropha dagamae Bassi, 2014	Moth	Vasco da Gama	This species is native to Mozambique, where da Gama was the first European explorer to arrive in 1498, marking the start of Portuguese colonisation of the country.			[64]
Caligula (moth) Moore, 1862	Moth	Caligula				[9]
Klotszch	Flowering plant	Caligula	Subsequently synonymised with the species .			[65]
Kittel, 2016	Wasp	Hildegard of Bingen	Replacement name for Campoletis imperfecta (Viereck, 1925), which had originally been described as Sagaritis imperfectus Viereck, 1925, and was transferred to the genus Campoletis in 1945; when Omorgus imperfectus Kokujev, 1915 was transferred to the same genus in 1965, becoming (Kokujev, 1915), Campoletis imperfecta (Viereck, 1925) became a junior homonym.			[39]
Karmaly & Narendran, 2006	Ant	Ashoka				[66]
Evenhuis, 1996	Fly	Charlie Chaplin	"This species is named in honor of the great silent movie comedian, Charlie Chaplin, because of the curious tendency of this fly to die with its midlegs in a bandy-legged position."			[67]
Evenhuis, 2011	Fly	John Papa ʻĪʻī	"The specific epithet honors John Papa i'i (1800–1870), leading citizen of the Hawaiian kingdom during the 19th century when he was attendant to king Kamehameha II and close associate of many rulers of Hawai'i. One of his great-greatgrandsons is my good friend and colleague in Hawaiian history, DeSoto Brown, collection manager of the Bishop Museum Archives [where the specimens are stored]." This species is endemic to Hawai'i.			[68]
Cancer diogenes Linnaeus, 1758	Crustacean	Diogenes	A large hermit crab named after Diogenes of Sinope, who was said to live in a clay jar (pithos). Subsequently transferred to the genus .			[10]
† H.Stradner 1961	Algae	Pablo Picasso	A fossil Dictyochophyceae algae from the late Cenozoic. It has since been transferred to genus or (sources vary).			[69][70]
Capoeta ferdowsii Jouladeh-Roudbar et al., 2017	Fish	Ferdowsi	A freshwater scraper fish found in the Zohreh and Fahlian rivers, Iran.			[71]
Capoeta pyragyi Jouladeh-Roudbar et al., 2017	Fish	Magtymguly Pyragy	A freshwater scraper fish found in the Tireh and Sezar rivers (Tigris basin), Iran.			[71]
Captaincookia N.Hallé	Flowering plant	James Cook	Captaincookia is synonym for Ixora			[9]
Carlyleia Girault, 1916	Wasp	Thomas Carlyle				[10]
Carnegiea Britton & Rose	Cactus	Andrew Carnegie				[72]
Girault, 1913	Wasp	Matthew Arnold	Subsequently transferred to the genus Tetrastichus.			[4][73]
Girault, 1913	Wasp	Henri Poincaré				[4]
Cervus roosevelti Merriam, 1897	Deer	Theodore Roosevelt				[10]
Kittel, 2016	Wasp	Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne	Replacement name for Charops ater (Szépligeti, 1910), which had originally been described as Agrypon atrum Szépligeti, 1910, but upon being transferred to the genus Charops in 1961, became a junior homonym of Szépligeti, 1908.			[39]
† Müller, 1984	Crustacean	Matthias I of Hungary	A fossil species of swimming crab from the Miocene of Hungary, named after "the Hungarian king Mathias, whose favorite spot was Visegrád, the first known locality of the species."			[74]
† Scillato-Yané, Krmpotic & Esteban, 2010	Armadillo	Baruch Spinoza	A fossil species from the Miocene of Argentina.			[75]
Cherokeea attakullakulla Quinter & Sullivan, 2014	Moth	Attakullakulla				[76]
Chipetaia † Rasmussen, 1996	Primate	Chipeta				[77]
Jordan & Snyder, 1899	Fish	Porfirio Díaz	"Named for Porfirio Díaz, the honored President of the Republic of Mexico, in recognition of his interest in the progress of science." Subsequently synonymized with .			[78]
Kittel, 2016	Wasp	Jeanne Dumée	Replacement name for Chirotica orientalis Kanhekar, 1989, which was preoccupied by Horstmann, 1983.			[39]
Kittel, 2016	Wasp	Maria Clara Eimmart	Replacement name for Chirotica nigriventris Townes, 1983, which was preoccupied by Horstmann, 1983.			[39]
Chriacus metocometi † Van Valen, 1978	Arctocyonian (an extinct order of mammals)	Metacomet				[79]
Chriacus oconostotae † Van Valen, 1978	Arctocyonian (an extinct order of mammals)	Oconostota				[79]
Chrysophanus rauparaha Fereday, 1877	Butterfly	Te Rauparaha	Known as Rauparaha's copper or mokarakare, this species of butterfly, endemic to New Zealand, was first identified from specimens collected in Kaiapoi, and named "after the Māori chief Te Rauparaha, of the history of whose life the siege and capture of Kaiapoi Pā occupies a prominent part." Subsequently transferred to the genus Lycaena.			[80]
Cingulina archimedea Melvill, 1896	Sea snail	Archimedes	"The miniature screw-like appearance suggested the trivial name, after Archimedes, the celebrated Syracusan mathematician, inventor of the screw, who is reported to have taken for his model thereof the well-known Mediterranean shell Turritella terebra, L."			[81]
Claudius Cope, 1865	Turtle	Claudius				[9]
Cleopatrodon † Bown & Simons, 1987	Ptolemaiidan (an extinct order of mammals)	Cleopatra VII				[10]
Vyverman et al.	Diatom	Truganini	This species is endemic to lakes of Tasmania.			[82]
Girault, 1913	Wasp	Israel Zangwill	"Dedicated to Israel Zangwill for his tragedy The War God."			[4]
Kuhlmann, 2003	Bee	Mahatma Gandhi	This species is native to India.			[83]
Confucius Distant, 1907	True bug	Confucius				[9]
Confuciusornis sanctus † Hou et al., 1995	Bird	Confucius	An extinct, early bird. The name means "holy Confucius' bird".			[9]
Girault, 1913	Wasp	Hugo Grotius	Subsequently transferred to the genus .			[26][84]
Girault, 1913	Wasp	Ernest Renan	Subsequently transferred to the genus Lymaenon.			[85][86]
Keum, Jung & Joharchi, 2017	Mite	Sejong the Great	"The species is named in memory of Sejong the Great [...], the fourth king of the Joseon dynasty in [the] Republic of Korea, who encouraged creativity and advancements in scientific technology and under whom the Hangeul (Korean alphabet) was created." This species is native to South Korea.			[87]
Kittel, 2016	Wasp	Catherine de Parthenay	Proposed as replacement name for Cotesia nonagriae (Viereck, 1913), which had been originally described as Apanteles (Stenopleura) nonagriae Viereck, 1913, but, upon being transferred to the genus Cotesia, had become a junior homonym of (Olliff, 1893). However, Cotesia nonagriae (Viereck, 1913) has been found to be a junior synonym of Cameron 1891, making Kittel's replacement name unnecessary.			[39][88]
Girault, 1919	Wasp	William Cowper				[9]
Crambus bachi Bassi, 2012	Moth	Johann Sebastian Bach				[89]
Crambus bellinii Bassi, 2014	Moth	Vincenzo Bellini				[64]
Crambus berliozi Bassi, 2012	Moth	Hector Berlioz				[89]
Crambus frescobaldii Bassi, 2012	Moth	Girolamo Frescobaldi				[89]
Crambus mozarti Bassi, 2012	Moth	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart				[89]
Crambus rossinii Bassi, 2012	Moth	Gioachino Rossini				[89]
Naumann & Löffler, 2013	Moth	Mahatma Gandhi	"The type series of C. gandhii sp. n. was part of the type series of the earlier described , dedicated to Aung San Suu Kyi, human rights activist in Myanmar [...]. As the Indian specimens are now described as separate species, we choose in "good tradition" as name patron for the here described similar taxon the famous Indian pacifist Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, known as Mahatma Gandhi."			[90]
Crocidura attila Dollman, 1915	Shrew	Attila				[10]
Kittel, 2016	Wasp	Margaret Bryan	Replacement name for Cryptus intermedius Ratzeburg, 1852, which was preoccupied by Schiødte, 1839.			[39]
Ctenomys fochi Thomas, 1919	Rodent	Ferdinand Foch				[91]
Haeckel 1887	Protist	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe				[10]
Ratcliffe & Cave, 2009	Beetle	Casanova				[9]
Endrödi, 1963	Beetle	Sigmund Freud				[9]
Ratcliffe, 1992	Beetle	Hermann Rorschach				[9]
Reboleira & Enghoff, 2014	Millipede	Jules Verne	"The new species is dedicated to French author Jules Vernes [sic] (1828–1905) on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the publication of his inspirational book Voyage au centre de la Terre (Journey to the Center of the Earth)." This is a troglobiont species known only from the São Vicente Caves in Madeira, Portugal.			[92]
Sabatinelli, 2020	Beetle	Mahatma Gandhi	"Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian lawyer and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British Rule and in turn inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the World." This species is native to India.			[93]
† Korn, 1999	Ammonite	Averroes	A fossil clymeniid from the Devonian of Morocco, named "After Ibn Rushd (lat. Averroes), *1126 Córdoba, †1198 Marrakech; Arabian physician, philosopher, and commentator on Aristotle (Averroism – theory of the beginningless existence of the world)."			[94]
Romero Nápoles & Romero Ramírez, 2011	Beetle	Nezahualcoyotl	"The specific epithet refers to Acolmiztli Nezahualcóyotl (1402-1472), King of Tezcoco, known commonly as the Poet King." This species is native to Mexico, and the holotype was found in Texcotzingo, the royal gardens of Nezahualcoyotl.			[95]
Dasyurus spartacus Van Dyck, 1987	Marsupial mammal	Spartacus				[10]
Fraser, 1926	Dragonfly	George Mallory	"I have named this interesting species after Mr. Mallory who so nobly laid down his life in the cause of science on the slopes of Mt. Everest." D. malloryi is native to Assam, India.			[96][27]
Davincia Girault, 1924	Wasp	Leonardo da Vinci				[9]
Demosthenesia A.C.Sm.	Flowering plant	Demosthenes				[97]
Dendrobium victoriae-reginae Loher	Orchid	Queen Victoria				[98]
Montesinos	Flowering plant	Frédéric Chopin	A species of arbuscular Senecioneae from the Andes of North Peru			[99]
Descampsia Risbec, 1955	Wasp	Jean-Baptiste Descamps				[9]
Descampsina Mesnil, 1956	Fly	Jean-Baptiste Descamps				[9]
Kittel, 2016	Wasp	Émilie du Châtelet	Replacement name for Diadegma truncatum (Viereck, 1925), which had originally been described as Campoplex (Hyposoter) truncatus Viereck, 1925, but upon being transferred to the genus Diadegma in 1979, became a junior homonym of (Thomson, 1887).			[39]
Kittel, 2016	Wasp	Lise Meitner	Replacement name for Diadegma simile (Pfankuch, 1914), which had originally been described as Angitia similis Pfankuch, 1914, but upon being transferred to the genus Diadegma in 1997, became a junior homonym of (Brèthes, 1913).			[39]
Diplodocus carnegii † Hatcher, 1901	Dinosaur	Andrew Carnegie
Levi, 1963	Spider	Bernardo O'Higgins	This species is native to Chile, and the holotype was found in O'Higgins Region.			[100]
Darby, 2016	Beetle	Huayna Capac				[101]
Naydenov, Yakovlev, Penco & Sinyaev, 2020	Moth	Anna Akhmatova				[102]
Naydenov, Yakovlev, Penco & Sinyaev, 2020	Moth	Mikhail Bulgakov				[102]
Naydenov, Yakovlev, Penco & Sinyaev, 2020	Moth	Anton Chekhov				[102]
Naydenov, Yakovlev, Penco & Sinyaev, 2020	Moth	Fyodor Dostoevsky				[102]
Naydenov, Yakovlev, Penco & Sinyaev, 2020	Moth	Sergei Yesenin	The surname Есенин is sometimes romanized as Esenin.			[102]
Naydenov, Yakovlev, Penco & Sinyaev, 2020	Moth	Alexander Herzen	The surname Ге́рцен is sometimes romanised as Gertsen.			[102]
Naydenov, Yakovlev, Penco & Sinyaev, 2020	Moth	Nikolai Gogol				[102]
Naydenov, Yakovlev, Penco & Sinyaev, 2020	Moth	Nikolay Karamzin				[102]
Naydenov, Yakovlev, Penco & Sinyaev, 2020	Moth	Mikhail Lermontov				[102]
Naydenov, Yakovlev, Penco & Sinyaev, 2020	Moth	Nikolay Nekrasov				[102]
Naydenov, Yakovlev, Penco & Sinyaev, 2020	Moth	Alexander Ostrovsky				[102]
Naydenov, Yakovlev, Penco & Sinyaev, 2020	Moth	Alexander Pushkin				[102]
Naydenov, Yakovlev, Penco & Sinyaev, 2020	Moth	Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin				[102]
Naydenov, Yakovlev, Penco & Sinyaev, 2020	Moth	Konstantin Stanyukovich				[102]
Naydenov, Yakovlev, Penco & Sinyaev, 2020	Moth	Leo Tolstoy				[102]
Naydenov, Yakovlev, Penco & Sinyaev, 2020	Moth	Ivan Turgenev				[102]
Doronomyrmex pocahontas Buschinger, 1979	Ant	Pocahontas				[103]
Draculoides bramstokeri Harvey & Humphreys, 1995	Schizomid	Bram Stoker				[10]
Felix et al., 1976	Fly	Cuauhtémoc	"named in honor of Cuauhtémoc, the last emperor of the Aztecs and a national hero of Mexico." This species is native to Mexico.			[104]
Schmidt & New, 2008	Barklouse	James Sprent	"Named for James Sprent, an early surveyor and explorer in Tasmania." This species is endemic to Tasmania.			[1]
Effigia okeeffeae † Nesbitt & Norell, 2006	Archosaur	Georgia O'Keeffe	From the Triassic period. Closest living relatives are the crocodilians			[9]
de Santana et al., 2019	Electric eel	Alessandro Volta	Capable of discharges of up to 860 V, this species is the strongest bioelectricity generator known to science.			[105]
Castelin, Marquet & Klotz, 2013	Crustacean	Elephantis	"Elephantis is a humorous name after an ancient Greek erotical poetess in reference to the enlarged sexual appendages of males."			[106]
Eleutherodactylus amadeus Hedges et al., 1987	Frog	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart				[107]
Eleutherodactylus simonbolivari Wiens & Coloma, 1992	Frog	Simón Bolívar				[107]
† Van Valen, 1978	Condylarth (an extinct order of mammals)	Crazy Horse	A fossil mammal from the Paleocene of New Mexico, named after Crazy Horse's Lakota name, Tasunke Witko. Subsequently synonymised with Wilson 1956.			[79]
† Van Valen, 1978	Condylarth (an extinct order of mammals)	Sitting Bull	A fossil mammal from the Paleocene of New Mexico, named after Sitting Bull's Lakota name, Tatanka Yotanka.			[79]
Emersonella Girault, 1916	Wasp	Ralph Waldo Emerson				[10]
Emersonia Girault, 1933	Wasp	Ralph Waldo Emerson				[9]
Emersonopsis Girault 1917	Wasp	Ralph Waldo Emerson				[9]
Girault, 1913	Wasp	Ernest Renan	Subsequently transferred to the genus Deutereulophus.			[4][108]
Rousse & Van Noort, 2014	Wasp	Shaka				[109]
Girault, 1913	Wasp	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Subsequently synonymised with (Ratzeburg, 1852)			[4][110]
Equus grevyi Oustalet, 1882	Zebra	Jules Grévy				[10]
Ćurčić, Dimitrijević & Trichas, 2007	Pseudoscorpion	Eleftherios Venizelos	"After the name of Eleftherios Venizelos, a noted Cretan humanist and politician." This species is endemic to the island of Crete, Greece.			[111]
Knull, 1945	Leafhopper	Geronimo				[112]
Etheostoma faulkneri Sterling & Warren 2020	Fish	William Faulkner	"We have named the species Etheostoma faulkneri to honor the great writer and Nobel Laureate William C. Faulkner (1897–1962), a native of the Oxford, Mississippi area who was also an avid hunter and fisher. The landscape was an important theme in many of his works, and the actions of his characters were often influenced by the lands and streams surrounding his fictional Jefferson, Mississippi, including the Yocona River, which he renamed the Yoknapatawpha." This species is endemic to headwater streams of the Yocona River watershed. The authors gave it the common name "Yoknapatawpha darter" (using not the Yocona River's current name, but Faulkner's version of it).			[113]
Etheostoma tecumsehi Ceas & Page, 1997	Fish	Tecumseh	This species is native to Pond River in Kentucky, in an area inhabited by the Shawnee in the past. Its common name is "Shawnee darter".			[114]
Etheostoma teddyroosevelt Layman & Mayden	Fish	Theodore Roosevelt				[115][116]
Bond & Godwin, 2013	Spider	Pancho Villa	Discovered in San Juan del Rio, Durango, birthplace of Villa			[117]
† Bergue, Ramos & Maranhão, 2018	Crustacean	Monteiro Lobato	A fossil ostracod from the Oligocene of Taubaté basin, Brazil, named "In honor of the writer José Bento Monteiro Lobato, born in the Taubaté Municipality, and a rouser of the Brazilian oil industry."			[118]
Girault, 1913	Wasp	Thomas Carlyle	Subsequently transferred to the genus Omphale.			[4][119]
Eudorcas thomsonii Günther, 1884	Gazelle	Joseph Thomson				[120]
Eudyptes schlegeli Finsch, 1876	Penguin	Hermann Schlegel				[121]
Walker, 1846	Wasp	Agathyllus				[122]
Eupatorium L.	Flowering plant	Mithridates VI Eupator	Named in honor of Mithridates VI Eupator, 132-63 B.C., ancient king of Pontus, who reportedly discovered the medicinal uses for some Eupatorium species plants.			[123][124]
Euphorbia regis-jubae Webb & Berthel.	Flowering plant	Juba II				[10]
Eurycea junaluska Sever et al., 1976	Salamander	Junaluska				[125]
Girault, 1913	Wasp	Charles Sumner	"Dedicated with much respect to Charles Sumner for his orations on war."			[126]
Wolf, 1988	Wasp	David Ben-Gurion	"David Ben Gurion (1886-1973) rendered great services in matters of international understanding." The holotype for the species was found in Israel, state of which Ben-Gurion was primary national founder and first Prime Minister.			[127]
Kittel, 2016	Wasp	Elena Cornaro Piscopia	Replacement name for Exetastes rufiventris Meyer, 1929, which had become a junior homonym when Banchus rufiventris Brullé, 1846 was transferred to the genus Exetastes in 1966, becoming (Brullé, 1846).			[39]
Kittel, 2016	Wasp	Marie Crous	Replacement name for Exetastes longipes Uchida, 1928, which had become a junior homonym when Campoplex longipes Smith, 1878 was transferred to the genus Exetastes in 1961, becoming (Smith, 1878).			[39]
Felis margarita Loche, 1858	Cat	Jean Auguste Margueritte				[128]
Fernandocrambus chopinellus Błeszyński, 1967	Moth	Frédéric Chopin				[10]
Girault 1934	Wasp	George Finlay				[9]
Franklinia W.Bartram ex Marshall	Flowering plant	Benjamin Franklin				[10]
Girault, 1928	Wasp	James Anthony Froude	Subsequently synonymised with .			[9]
Schillhammer, 1997	Beetle	J. R. R. Tolkien				[9]
† Artal, Van Bakel, Fraaije & Jagt, 2013	Crustacean	Antoni Gaudí	A genus of fossil crabs from the Eocene of Huesca, Spain, named "in honour of the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí (1852–1926), in allusion to the shape and ornament of the new taxon which is defined by sinuous lines, reminiscent of his works, plus the ending -pluma, which refers to the main character of the family [ Retroplumidae ]."			[129]
Gazella bilkis † Groves & Lay, 1985	Gazelle	Queen of Sheba	"Bilkis or Bilqis is the name given to the Queen of Sheba in Arabic writings. [...] The kingdom of Sheba corresponded approximately with the modern Republic of North Yemen [the type locality] [...]. The name thus commemorates both the legendary beauty of the Queen of Sheba and the geographic location of her realm."			[130]
Kittel, 2016	Wasp	Florence Nightingale	Replacement name for Gelis stigmaticus (Hedwig, 1961), which had originally been described as Pezomachus stigmaticus Hedwig, 1961, but upon being transferred to the genus Gelis in 1997, became a junior homonym of (Zetterstedt, 1838).			[39]
Kittel, 2016	Wasp	Emmy Noether	Replacement name for Gelis longipes (Rudow, 1917), which had originally been described as Pezomachus longipes Rudow, 1917, but upon being transferred to the genus Gelis in 1944, became a junior homonym of (Strickland, 1912).			[39]
Gentiana L.	Flowering plant	Gentius				[10]
Gibberula rachmaninovi Kellner, 2003	Sea snail	Sergei Rachmaninoff	"named after the great Russian composer and pianist Sergei Rachmaninov [sic]". This species was subsequently synonymised with Volvarina sauliae (Sowerby II, 1846).			[131][132]
Paul & Menzies, 1971	Crustacean	Ludwig van Beethoven				[10]
Godiva Macnae, 1954	Sea slug	Lady Godiva				[10]
Goetheana Girault, 1920	Wasp	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe				[10]
Girault, 1920	Wasp	William Shakespeare				[10]
Goethella Girault, 1928	Wasp	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe				[9]
Girault, 1912	Wasp	Roger Bacon	"Dedicated to the Roman Catholic friar, Roger Bacon, who, in an early superstitious and ignorant century, long since laid down the basis for science and reason. He was centuries ahead of his time." Subsequently transferred to the genus Lymaenon.			[13][86]
Girault, 1912	Wasp	Giordano Bruno	"Dedicated to the monistic philosopher Giordano Bruno, who in the middle ages was a father of monism and a sound thinker at a time when most were under the combined influence of superstition and dogmatic religion." Subsequently transferred to the genus Lymaenon.			[13][86]
Girault, 1913	Wasp	Thomas Carlyle	Subsequently transferred to the genus Lymaenon.			[26][86]
Girault, 1912	Wasp	Auguste Comte	"Dedicated to Auguste Comte, the positive philosopher, whose philosophic principles, although not always right, were based upon positivism, materialism, realism or experience combined with reason."			[13]
Girault, 1912	Wasp	Leonardo da Vinci	"Dedicated to Leonardo Da Vinci, the manly Italian, one of the earliest of scientists." Subsequently transferred to the genus Lymaenon.			[13][86]
Girault, 1912	Wasp	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	"Dedicated to Johann Wolfgang Goethe, poet, naturalist and monistic philosopher." Subsequently transferred to the genus Lymaenon.			[13][86]
Girault, 1912	Wasp	Hermann von Helmholtz	"Dedicated to Hermann Helmholtz, a man who aided in establishing the great principle of the conservation of energy in all substance." Subsequently transferred to the genus Lymaenon.			[13][86]
Girault, 1912	Wasp	Christiaan Huyghens	"Dedicated to Huyghens who discovered the vibratory principle of light." Subsequently transferred to the genus Lymaenon.			[13][86]
Girault, 1913	Wasp	Mikhail Lomonosov	Subsequently transferred to the genus Lymaenon.			[47][86]
Girault, 1913	Wasp	Giuseppe Mazzini	"Respectfully dedicated to Giuseppe Mazzini for his essays, more especially for his The Duties of Man." Subsequently transferred to the genus Lymaenon.			[26][86]
Girault, 1913	Wasp	Henri Poincaré	Subsequently transferred to the genus Lymaenon.			[26][86]
Girault, 1912	Wasp	Baruch Spinoza	"Dedicated to the profound student and thinker, Baruch Spinoza, who in the seventeenth century introduced the monistic conception of matter, "the loftiest, profoundest, and truest thought of all ages."" Subsequently transferred to the genus Lymaenon.			[13][86]
Girault, 1913	Wasp	Leo Tolstoy	"Dedicated to Leo N. Tolstoi for his work War and Peace." Subsequently transferred to the genus Lymaenon.			[47][86]
† Van Valen, 1978	Mesonychid (an extinct order of mammals)	Hiawatha				[79]
Girault, 1940	Wasp	Charles Gounod				[9]
Girault, 1939	Wasp	Ulysses S. Grant	This genus was subsequently synonymised with Girault, 1911			[133][134]
Grimaldichthys profundissimus Roule, 1913	Fish	Albert I, Prince of Monaco	The prince was born Albert Grimaldi			[10]
Grimalditeuthis Joubin, 1898	Squid	Albert I, Prince of Monaco				[10]
Grotiusella Girault, 1913	Wasp	Hugo Grotius	Subsequently synonymised with the genus Eulophinusia Girault, 1913.			[4][135]
Grotiusomyia Girault, 1917	Wasp	Hugo Grotius				[9]
Fraser, 1926	Dragonfly	Victor Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd Earl of Lytton	Subsequently synonymised with Gynacantha bayadera Selys, 1891.			[27]
Girault, 1913	Wasp	William Ellery Channing	"Respectfully dedicated to William E. Channing for his Discourses on War." Subsequently transferred to the name .			[4][136]
Girault, 1913	Wasp	Booker T. Washington				[4]
Winterbottom, 1978	Fish	Shaka	"Named for the Zulu king, Shaka, who raised his people from a small tribe to a powerful nation. The hastate body of the new species is a perhaps fanciful reminder of the short stabbing spear or "iklwa" which Shaka developed and used with such devastating effect." This species was found in Sodwana Bay, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.			[137]
† Pérez-de la Fuente, Delclòs, Peñalver & Engel, 2012	Lacewing	Diogenes	A fossil species found in Cretaceous amber from northern Spain. Only the larva is known, which, like the larvae of many extant lacewings, camouflaged itself by covering its body with debris, but in this case its exceptionally long bristles formed a basket which enabled it to carry a very large "trash packet". "The species name is a patronym for the Greek philosopher Diogenes of Sinope, whose name has been applied to a human behavioral disorder characterized by compulsive hoarding of trash."			[138]
Hannibalia Girault, 1928	Thrip	Hannibal				[9]
Lazarov, 2008	Spider	Asparuh of Bulgaria	This species is native to Bulgaria.			[139]
Harpagus Vigors, 1824	Bird	Harpagus				[10]
Harriotta raleighana Goode & T. H. Bean, 1895	Chimaera	Sir Walter Raleigh	The narrownose chimaera, found in temperate seas worldwide, at depths between 200 and 2,600 m. Its length is between 1.0 and 1.5 m, including a long, tapering snout and a long, filamentous tail. "This species is named in honor of Sir Walter Raleigh, philosopher and explorer, by whom the first English scientific expedition was sent to the New World."			[140]
Heleioporus eyrei Gray, 1845	Frog	Edward John Eyre				[107]
Logunov, 2019	Spider	Xerxes I	This species, native to Iran, is "named after Xerxes I (reigned 485–465 BC) of the Achaemenid dynasty, the King of Persia, who marched against Greece but was defeated at Salamis."			[141]
Heliosorex roosevelti Heller, 1910	Shrew	Theodore Roosevelt				[10]
Hellinsia alfaroi Gielis, 2011	Moth	Eloy Alfaro				[5]
Hellinsia benalcazari Gielis, 2011	Moth	Sebastián de Belalcázar				[5]
Hellinsia huayna Gielis, 2011	Moth	Huayna Capac				[5]
Hellinsia morenoi Gielis, 2011	Moth	Gabriel García Moreno				[5]
Hellinsia orellanai Gielis, 2011	Moth	Francisco de Orellana				[5]
Hellinsia pizarroi Gielis, 2011	Moth	Francisco Pizarro				[5]
Hellinsia ruminahuii Gielis, 2011	Moth	Rumiñawi				[5]
Hellinsia sucrei Gielis, 2011	Moth	Antonio José de Sucre				[5]
Hellinsia tupaci Gielis, 2011	Moth	Topa Inca Yupanqui				[5]
DaSilva & Pinto-da-Rocha, 2010	Harvestman	Anita Garibaldi	"In honor of Anita Garibaldi (1821-1849), republican revolutionary from Santa Catarina state who fought for freedom against the monarchal central government of Brazil and in Europe." This species is native to Santa Catarina state, Brazil.			[142]
DaSilva & Pinto-da-Rocha, 2010	Harvestman	Zumbi dos Palmares	"In honor of Zumbi dos Palmares (1655-1695), leader of the Quilombo dos Palmares, town where black slaves lived after escaping from Portuguese landlords in northeast Brazil. He is a symbol of black resistance in Brazil." This species is native to Brazil.			[142]
Herodotia Girault 1931	Wasp	Herodotus				[9]
Herpele fulleri Alcock, 1904	Caecilian	Bampfylde Fuller	Subsequently transferred to newly created genus Chikila.			[107][143]
Hesperia hobomok Harris, 1862	Butterfly	Hobomok				[9]
Marsh, 2013	Wasp	George Washington				[144]
Marsh, 2013	Wasp	Xerxes I				[144]
Homeryon Galil, 2000	Crustacean	Homer				[145]
Houdinia Hoare, Dugdale & Watts, 2006	Moth	Harry Houdini	"The genus is named after the renowned escapologist Harry Houdini (1874–1926). The name alludes not only to the remarkable metamorphosis of the attenuate larva and the adult's escape from the tight confines of the Sporadanthus stem, but also to the manner in which the species itself escaped detection by entomologists for so long."			[146]
Pan & Bologna, 2014	Beetle	Marco Polo	"As a tribute to the collaboration established among the authors during the Ph.D. studies made in Italy by one of them (PZ), the new species is named after Marco Polo (1254–1324), the Venetian explorer who, during a long period of permanence in China in the late XIII century (1271–1284), established the first well documented relationships between the Chinese and European worlds and opened western culture to the wide and rich Chinese heritage."			[147]
Skale & Jäch, 2009	Beetle	Johann Grueber	"Named for the Austrian Jesuit priest Johannes [sic] Grueber (1623–1680), who was the first European to visit and report about Tibet's capital Lhasa and its mystical Potala Palace. On his way back he traversed the Himalaya and visited Kathmandu Valley. Grueber probably was the first Austrian in Nepal." This species is native to Nepal, and its discoverers are Austrian.			[148]
Ibyka † J.E. Skog & H.P. Banks	Plant	Ibycus				[9]
Kittel, 2016	Wasp	Maria Cunitz	Replacement name for Ichneumon impressus Gmelin, 1790: 2704, which was preoccupied by Gmelin, 1790: 2698.			[39]
Kittel, 2016	Wasp	Beatrix Potter	Replacement name for Ichneumon vittatus Gmelin, 1790, which was preoccupied by Geoffroy, 1785.			[39]
Kittel, 2016	Wasp	Jacoba van den Brande	Replacement name for Ichneumon lateralis Kriechbaumer, 1887, which was preoccupied by Cuvier, 1833.			[39]
Girault, 1917	Wasp	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow				[10]
† Petrulevičius, 2015	Damselfly	Inacayal	A fossil species from the Eocene of Neuquén Province, Argentina, named "in honour of Inacayal (1833-1888), Günün a Küne (Puelche) chief (Cacique) of the region of Nahuel Huapi Lake; and "lestes", because [it is a] usual ending for lestoid damselflies. Inacayal was captured by the Argentinean state army (conducted by General Julio Argentino Roca) during the genocidal campaign "Conquest of the Desert" carried out to break the sovereignty of the indigenous communities in Patagonia. After that, he was "rescued" from the detention camp with part of his family by the Perito Francisco Josué Pascasio Moreno in gratitude for his help in a previous Patagonian expedition. He was installed, as a living and afterwards as a dead specimen, in the Museo de La Plata from 1886 to 1888 where he died [for] no clear reasons. His skeleton was restituted to Patagonia by a National Law, after claims by several indigenous communities and a National Senator, in 1994. Nevertheless, other claimed remains as his scalp and brain and also from other members of the community are still part of the collection of the museum."			[149]
Intelcystiscus teresacarrenoae Ortea & Espinosa, 2016	Sea snail	Teresa Carreño	"Named in honour of Teresa Carreño (1853-1917), the illustrious Venezuelan pianist and composer, [...] to whom the first edition of the Musiciennes en Guadeloupe festival paid tribute." The species was found in Guadeloupe, during an expedition that took place at the same time as the aforementioned music festival in the islands.			[150]
Valdez-Mondragón, 2020	Spider	Pancho Villa	"This species is dedicated to Doroteo Arango Arámbula, better known as "Francisco Villa", "Pancho Villa", or "Centauro del Norte"; a famous Mexican revolutionary who fought during the Mexican Revolution (1910-1917) in the North of Mexico." This species is native to Mexico.			[151]
Valdez-Mondragón, 2020	Spider	Emiliano Zapata	"This species is dedicated to Emiliano Zapata Salazar, better known as "Emiliano Zapata, el Caudillo del Sur", a famous Mexican revolutionary who fought during the Mexican Revolution (1910-1917) in the Central-South region of Mexico." This species is native to Mexico.			[151]
† Seiffert et al., 2007	Afrosoricidan mammal	Jawhar al-Siqilli	A fossil species from the Oligocene of Northern Egypt.			[152]
Jeffersonia Barton	Flowering plant	Thomas Jefferson				[10]
Jenghizkhan † Olshevsky, 1995	Dinosaur	Genghis Khan				[10]
Jubaea Kunth	Palm	Juba II				[10]
† Kozur, Moix & Ozsvárt, 2007	Protist	Béla Hamvas	A fossil radiolarian from the Triassic of Turkey.			[153]
Girault 1928	Wasp	John Keats	Subsequently synonymised with .			[154][155]
Kerygmachela kierkegaardi † Budd, 1993	Early Arthropod	Søren Kierkegaard	An early arthropod from the Cambrian period. The fossils were found in Greenland and are housed at the University of Copenhagen Geological Museum.			[156]
Gates, 2008	Wasp	J. R. R. Tolkien	The generic name Khamul is "named for the only Nazgl [sic] specifically named by J. R. R. Tolkein [sic], Khaml [sic], the Shadow of the East (aka Black Easterling)"			[157]
† Engel, Grimaldi & Krishna, 2007	Termite	Genghis Khan	A fossil genus from the Cretaceous of Mongolia. "The new genus-group name is a combination of Khan, the title of political and military leaders in the ancient Mongol Empire, and Termes (meaning "termite"), the first generic name of the Isoptera. The generic name is a reference to the most famous Khan of ancient Mongolia, Genghis Khan (c. 1162–18 August 1227, born Borjigin Temüjin, the former being his surname, was bestowed with the title Khan and became Genghis Khan in 1206). He united the Mongol Tribes into the Mongol Empire in 1206."			[158]
Kora corallina Simone, 2012	Snail	Cora Coralina				[159]
Flower, 1961	Worm	Nikita Khrushchev	Named by Rousseau H. Flower to show his dislike of the Soviet Premier.			[160][161]
† Fanti & Damgaard, 2018	Beetle	Matilde Bajer	A fossil soldier beetle found in Baltic amber from the Eocene of Kaliningrad Oblast. "This new species is named in memory of the Danish women's rights activist and pacifist Pauline Matilde Theodora Bajer"			[162]
Kwazulusaurus shakai † Maisch, 2002	Dicynodont	Shaka	"After King Shaka Zulu (c. 1787-1828), leader of the Zulu nation." A fossil lystrosaurid from the Late Permian of South Africa. The only known specimen was found in KwaZulu-Natal.			[163]
Lei, Sun, Xie & Wei, 2013	Bacterium	Marie Curie	A lactic acid bacterium isolated from stinky tofu brine in China. "named after Marie Curie, a role model for female scientists."			[164]
Cioato, Bianchi, Eger & Grazia, 2015	True bug	Jorge Luis Borges	"Named in honor of Jorge Luis Borges, one of the most important writers from South-America. This late Argentinean writer is a milestone of literary fiction with his metaphysical tales, essays, and poetry."			[165]
Girault, 1922	Wasp	Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais				[9]
Lamprolia victoriae Finsch, 1874	Bird	Victoria, Princess Royal	"I have great pleasure in naming this most remarkable and brilliant new species Lamprolia victoriae, in honour of Her Imperial and Royal Highness Victoria, Crown-Princess of the German Empire and of Prussia." Known as the Taveuni silktail, this bird is endemic to the island of Taveuni in Fiji.			[166]
Stekolnikov, 2014	Mite	Fa Ngum	A species of chigger that affects the Laotian rock rat, a living fossil discovered in 2005 in central Laos. "The species is named after Fa Ngum, who founded in 1354 the kingdom of Lan Xang Hôm Khao ("land of one million elephants and a white parasol"), the earliest kingdom on the territory of Laos."			[167]
Reshchikov, 2015	Wasp	Arkady Fiedler				[168]
Legionella shakespearei Verma et al. 1992	Bacterium	William Shakespeare	Isolated from Stratford-upon-Avon, birthplace of Shakespeare			[169]
Girault, 1912	Wasp	Mikhail Lomonosov	"Respectfully dedicated to the Russian peasant, Michael Wassiliewitsch Lomonosoff, afterward physical chemist, professor and man of affairs, one of the fathers of modern chemistry and profound research scholar." Genus Leimacis was subsequently synonymised with Arescon.			[13][170]
Leninia † Fischer et al., 2013	Ichthyosaur	Vladimir Lenin	"The museum where [the type specimen] is housed is located within the Lenin Memorial and Lenin school complex in Ulyanovsk; accordingly, the generic name reflects the geohistorical location of the find."			[171]
Leonardo Błeszyński, 1965	Moth	Leonardo da Vinci				[172]
Leonardo avicennae Bassi, 1990	Moth	Avicenna				[173]
Leonardo davincii Błeszyński, 1965	Moth	Leonardo da Vinci				[172]
Lepidoteuthis grimaldii Joubin, 1895	Squid	Albert I, Prince of Monaco	The prince was born Albert Grimaldi.			[10]
Schmidt & New, 2008	Barklouse	Jean-Michel Huon de Kermadec	This species is endemic to Tasmania, which Huon de Kermadec explored.			[1]
Schein, 1959	Beetle	Sigmund Freud				[9]
Buhl, 1997	Wasp	Søren Kierkegaard	The specimens used to describe this species (collected in New Guinea) were deposited in the University of Copenhagen Zoological Museum, Denmark.			[174]
Leucothoe tolkieni Vinogradov, 1990	Crustacean	J. R. R. Tolkien				[175]
Leviathan melvillei † Lambert et al., 2010	Whale	Herman Melville	An extinct whale: Melville is the author of Moby Dick.			[9]
Girault, 1940	Wasp	Abraham Lincoln				[176]
Girault, 1939	Wasp	Abraham Lincoln	This genus was subsequently synonymised with Girault, 1933.			[133][177]
Varrastro, Maneyro, da Silva & Farias, 2017	Lizard	Carlos Gardel	"This new species is named after the famous Uruguayan tango singer, Carlos Gardel, who died in a plane crash in 1935. Gardel’s birthplace was widely disputed and claimed by Uruguay, France, and Argentina, but recent research has confirmed that Gardel is the illegitimate son of a Uruguayan farmer. According to historical data from the book, Carlos Gardel – el silencio de Tacuarembó, authored by Selva Ortiz (1994), Gardel was born in the Tacuarembó Department (Uruguay), in the same region of the type locality of this newly described species." (NOTE: Gardel's birthplace is still controversial)			[178]
† Van Valen, 1978	Condylarth (an extinct order of mammals)	Osceola	A fossil mammal from the Paleocene of New Mexico. Subsequently transferred to the genus .			[79]
Girault, 1919	Wasp	Martin Luther	Replaced by nomen novum .			[9]
Girault, 1939	Wasp	Ferdinand Magellan	This genus was subsequently synonymised with Girault, 1915.			[133][179]
† Fanti & Damgaard, 2018	Beetle	Poul Henningsen	A fossil soldier beetle found in Baltic amber from the Eocene of Kaliningrad Oblast, "named in memory of the Danish author, critic, architect and designer Poul Henningsen [...], in recognition of his cultural contributions."			[162]
Mammuthus jeffersonii † Osborn, 1922	Mammoth	Thomas Jefferson				[10]
† Fanti & Damgaard, 2019	Beetle	Thomas Bartholin	A fossil soldier beetle found in Baltic amber from the Eocene of Kaliningrad Oblast. "In memory of the Danish physician, mathematician and theologian Thomas Bartholin (Malmö - Scania, 20 October 1616 - Copenhagen, 4 December 1680). He theorized that amber had to come from conifers and that it had been hardened in seawater. He was therefore also one of the pioneers of Danish amber research."			[60]
Schmidt & New, 2008	Barklouse	John Pedder	This species is endemic to Tasmania, where Pedder was the first Chief Justice.			[1]
Schmidt & New, 2008	Barklouse	John Helder Wedge	This species is endemic to Tasmania, where Wedge was a surveyor, explorer and politician.			[1]
Kennedy, 1974	Bivalve	J. R. R. Tolkien				[9]
Girault, 1932	Wasp	Karl Marx				[9]
Girault, 1932	Wasp	Karl Marx				[9]
† Marincovich, 1993	Sea snail	Roald Amundsen	A fossil species from the Paleocene of Prince Creek Formation in Arctic Alaska, "named in honor of the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, whose conquest of the Northwest Passage in the ship Gjøa ended in 1905 along the Arctic coast not far from Ocean Point." (the type locality)			[38]
† Adrain & Fortey 1997	Trilobite	Emiliano Zapata	"The pygidial spines droop in the style of a moustache."			[180]
Megalonyx jeffersonii Desmarest, 1822	Ground sloth	Thomas Jefferson				[10]
Hash, 2014	Fly	Mithridates VI Eupator	"named for King Mithridates VI of Pontus (120–63 BC), who regularly ingested nonlethal amounts of poison to build up an immunity." This species is attracted to highly toxic defensive compounds produced by polydesmid millipedes.			[181]
Kittel, 2016	Wasp	Aspasia	Replacement name for Megarhogas maculipennis Chen & He, 1997, which was preoccupied by (Cameron, 1905).			[39]
Menura alberti Bonaparte, 1850	Bird	Albert, Prince Consort				[182]
Stuke & Freidberg, 2017	Fly	Brothers Grimm	Flies of the genus Meoneura are very small (1-2 mm). "The species is dedicated to Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, who collected and published the German folklore, and made dwarfs famous, for example in the fairytale Snow White." Other species in the same genus were named concurrently after literary or folklore characters notable for their small size, such as Bilbo Baggins, King Goldemar, Nils Holgersson or Oskar Matzerath.			[183]
Stuke, 2016	Fly	Jonathan Swift	Flies of the genus Meoneura are very small (1-2 mm). Swift "demonstrated in... Gulliver's Travels, that small individuals might be very important."			[184]
† Engel, 2010	Beetle	Anawrahta	A fossil species found in Cretaceous Burmese amber.			[185]
Kittel, 2016	Wasp	Maria Gaetana Agnesi	Replacement name for Mesochorus turgidus Kusigemati, 1985, which was preoccupied by Dasch, 1974.			[39]
Microchilo elgrecoi Błeszyński, 1966	Moth	El Greco				[10]
Microchilo murilloi Błeszyński, 1966	Moth	Bartolomé Esteban Murillo				[10]
Kittel, 2016	Wasp	Sofya Kovalevskaya	Proposed as replacement name for Microplitis bicoloratus Chen, 2004, which was preoccupied by Xu & He, 2003. However, it was later found that Microplitis bicoloratus Chen, 2004 is a junior synonym of Rao & Kurian, 1950, making Kittel's replacement name unnecessary.			[39][88]
† Van Valen, 1978	Condylarth (an extinct order of mammals)	Red Cloud	A fossil mammal from the Paleocene of Wyoming, named after Red Cloud's Lakota name, Makhapialuta.			[79]
† Nielsen & Frassinetti, 2007	Sea snail	Lautaro	A fossil species from the Miocene of southern Chile, named "after Lautaro (1535–1557), important toqui (war-chief) of the Mapuche who defeated Pedro de Valdivia in the Battle of Tucapel in 1553 and remains a symbol of the struggle for freedom of the indigenous peoples of Chile."			[6]
† Nielsen & Frassinetti, 2007	Sea snail	Pelantaro	A fossil species from the Miocene of southern Chile, named "after Pelantaro, cacique (chief) of the Mapuche, who drove the Spaniards out of southern Chile in 1598."			[6]
Mirina confucius Zolotuhin & Witt, 2000	Moth	Confucius
Girault 1926	Wasp	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart				[10]
Girault 1926	Wasp	Ludwig van Beethoven	Type species of Mozartella			[10]
† Wilson, 1963	Coral	Hypatia	A fossil coral from the Carboniferous of Nevada, USA.			[186]
Muntiacus rooseveltorum Osgood, 1932	Deer	Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and Kermit Roosevelt				[187][188]
Girault, 1912	Wasp	John Tyndall	Subsequently synonymised with Ward, 1875.			[13][189]
Myrmarachne coppeti Berland & Millot, 1941	Spider	Jules Marcel de Coppet	A species of jumping spider that mimics ants, described from a specimen collected in Senegal, where Coppet had been colonial governor-general (as part of French West Africa). Subsequently synonymised with Myrmarachne elongata.			[190][191]
Nabokovia Hemming, 1960	Butterfly	Vladimir Nabokov	A nomen novum for a genus Nabokov previously named			[9]
Buffington, 2012	Wasp	H. P. Lovecraft	The genus name invokes Lovecraft's character Cthulhu			[192]
Napoleonaea P.Beauv.	Water lily	Napoleon	Palisot de Beauvois named the type species Napoleonaea imperialis			[10]
Hartman, 1939	Polychaete worm	Franklin D. Roosevelt				[10]
Girault, 1913	Wasp	Mary Johnston	"This beautiful species is respectfully dedicated to Mary Johnston for her war-incriminating novel Cease Firing."			[47]
Nebularia kamehameha (Pilsbry, 1921)	Sea snail	King Kamehameha I				[10]
Nemoptera bipennis boabdili Aistleitner, 1984	Spoonwing	Muhammad XII of Granada	Named after Muhammad XII's Spanish name, Boabdil; this subspecies is native to the Province of Granada.			[193]
Shoemaker, 1942	Crustacean	Franklin D. Roosevelt				[176][194]
Fowler, 1935	Fish	Ernest Hemingway	A species of scorpionfish from the Atlantic Ocean, known as spiny-cheek scorpionfish. It is the type species of its genus. "For Ernest Hemingway, author and angler of great game fishes, in appreciation of his assistance in my work on Gulf Stream fishes."			[195][196]
Nesolestes ranavalona Schmidt, 1951	Damselfly	Ranavalona I	This species is native to Madagascar.			[27][197]
Nyctalus joffrei Thomas, 1915	Bat	Joseph Joffre	"The species is named in honour of General Joffre, Commander-in-Chief of the French Army." This species was named during World War I, in which Joffre was an important figure. Known as Joffre's pipistrelle, it has since been moved to the genus Mirostrellus. It is found in Southeast Asia, from Nepal to Vietnam.			[198][199][200]
Odostomia (Evalea) pocahontasae Henderson & Bartsch, 1914	Sea snail	Pocahontas	This species was described from specimens collected in Chincoteague, Virginia.			[201]
Rougemont, 2018	Beetle	Ho Chi Minh	This species is native to Vietnam.			[202]
Cano, 2014	Beetle	Augusto César Sandino	"The name of this species is in honor of Augusto César Sandino, a Nicaraguan hero, born in the Segovia Mountains." All the specimens used to describe this species were collected from a mountain in Nueva Segovia Department, Nicaragua. Sandino was actually born further South, but it was in Las Segovias that he started recruiting his army.			[203]
Girault, 1913	Wasp	Henri Poincaré				[204]
Onychodus jandemarrai † Andrews et al., 2006	Fish	Jandamarra	A fossil lobe-finned fish from the Devonian of Kimberley (Western Australia). "Jandemarra was the name of the Aboriginal warrior who fought for Aboriginal rights in the Kimberleys and lived in caves in the Devonian reefs."			[205]
Girault, 1913	Wasp	Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre	Subsequently transferred to the genus .			[47][206]
Werner & Peters, 2018	Wasp	Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz	"Named in honour of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716) on the occasion of [the 300th anniversary of his death]. The Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig in which this study was done is part of the Leibniz Association, named after Leibniz."			[207]
Girault, 1913	Wasp	Hugo Grotius	Subsequently transferred to the genus Aprostocetus.			[4][208]
Girault, 1913	Wasp	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Subsequently transferred to the genus Sympiesis.			[4][209]
Ophichthus bonaparti Kaup, 1856	Snake Eel	Napoleon III				[10]
Fischer, 2014	Wasp	Karl May	"Named on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the death of youth writer Karl May (died 1912)."			[7]
Izquierdo, 2017	Spider	King Kamehameha I	This species is native to Hawai'i.			[210]
Izquierdo, 2017	Spider	Manco Cápac	"The specific name is a noun in apposition taken from Manco Cápac, the first governor and founder of the Inca culture in Cusco". This species is native to Peru, and the holotype was collected in Cusco.			[210]
Łączyński, 2012	Ladybird	Friedrich Nietzsche	"This species is dedicated to the memory of a great German philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche, who devoted his life to understanding the nature of will and morality."			[211]
Ornismya anna Lesson, 1829	Bird	Anna Masséna, Duchess of Rivoli	This species has since been moved to the genus Calypte.			[212]
Chen, 1950	Damselfly	Koxinga	Subsequently synonymised with McLachlan, 1895.			[27]
Ovidia Meisn.	Flowering plant	Ovid				[9]
Ovidia Girault, 1924	Wasp	Ovid
Ovis ammon polii Blyth, 1841	Sheep	Marco Polo	A subspecies of argali known as Marco Polo sheep because he described them briefly in The Travels of Marco Polo: "Then there are sheep here as big as asses; and their tails are so large and fat, that one tail shall weigh some 30 lb. They are fine fat beasts, and afford capital mutton."			[213][214][215]
† Van Valen, 1978	Condylarth (an extinct order of mammals)	Chief Joseph	A fossil mammal from the Paleocene of Wyoming. Subsequently transferred to the genus .			[79]
† Van Valen, 1978	Colugo	Tecumseh	A fossil mammal from the Paleocene of New Mexico. Originally classified as a condylarth, subsequently synonymised with , a primitive colugo or flying lemur.			[79]
† Nielsen & Frassinetti, 2007	Sea snail	Galvarino	A fossil species from the Miocene of southern Chile, named "after Galvarino, chief of the Mapuche. Galvarino fled from Spanish captivity after both his hands were severed, to continue his struggle against the invaders."			[6]
Palacios-Vargas & Simón-Benito, 2009	Springtail	Francisco de Goya				[216]
Palacios-Vargas & Simón-Benito, 2009	Springtail	Hieronymus Bosch				[216]
Pamphila confucius Felder & Felder, 1862	Butterfly	Confucius	Subsequently transferred to the genus Potanthus.
Papilio montezuma Westwood, 1842	Butterfly	Moctezuma II	Subsequently transferred to the genus Parides.			[10]
Papilio (Ornithoptera) victoriae Gray, 1856	Butterfly	Queen Victoria	A large butterfly found in the Solomon Islands and Bougainville Island, Papua New Guinea. Subsequently transferred to the genus Troides, and then back to Ornithoptera, which was elevated to genus level.			[217][218]
Paroxyna cleopatra Hering, 1937	Fly	Cleopatra VII	Subsequently synonymised with Campiglossa messalina.			[9]
Paroxyna messalina Hering, 1937	Fly	Valeria Messalina	Subsequently transferred to the genus Campiglossa.			[9]
Pecten jeffersonius † Say, 1824	Scallop	Thomas Jefferson	Subsequently transferred to the genus Chesapecten. It is an abundant fossil scallop from the Pliocene of Virginia, Jefferson's home state, where it has been designated as the official state fossil.			[219]
Periclesia A.C.Sm.	Flowering plant	Pericles	"Flllowing Klotzsch's custom of naming genera of Vacciniaceae after historical figures [see, for example, , Psammisia, Socratesia, Sophoclesia, Themistoclesia, also in this list], this genus is dedicated to the Greek statesman Pericles."			[220]
† Müller, 1984	Crustacean	Joseph Haydn	A fossil species of porcelain crab from the Miocene of Austria, "Named after the great [composer], Joseph Haydn, who worked in Eisenstadt." (the type locality)			[74]
Phalaena agrippina Cramer, 1776	Moth	Julia the Younger	Derived from Julia the Younger's birth name Vipsania Agrippina. Subsequently transferred to the genus Thysania.			[10]
Mann, 1921	Ant	Theodore Roosevelt				[10]
Schmidt & New, 2008	Barklouse	Henry Hellyer	This species is endemic to Tasmania, where Hellyer was an early European surveyor and explorer.			[1]
Yao, Pham & Li, 2015	Spider	Ho Chi Minh	This species is native to Vietnam.			[221]
Buhl, 1997	Wasp	A. A. Milne				[174]
Hormiga, 1994	Spider	Mahatma Gandhi	The holotype was collected in Pahalgam, India.			[222]
Pinus montezumae Lamb.	Conifer	Moctezuma II				[10]
Pipistrellus kitcheneri Thomas, 1915	Bat	Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener	This species was named during World War I, in which Kitchener was an important figure. Known as the red-brown pipistrelle, it has since been moved to the genus Hypsugo. It is endemic to the island of Borneo.			[91][198]
Pipistrellus sturdeei † Thomas, 1915	Bat	Doveton Sturdee	This species was named during World War I, in which Sturdee was an important figure. Known as Sturdee's pipistrelle or Bonin pipistrelle, the only documented specimen ever found (in Hahajima island, Japan) is the one that Thomas used to describe the species, which has since been declared officially extinct. Later scholarship has placed doubt on the validity of this single specimen's origin and taxonomy.			[198][223]
Huber, 2020	Spider	Rufino Blanco Fombona	"This species is named for Rufino Blanco Fombona (1874–1944), Venezuela-born writer, nominated six times for the Nobel Prize in Literature between 1928 and 1935."			[224]
Plato Coddington, 1986	Spider	Plato				[10]
† Korn, 1999	Ammonite	Avicenna	A fossil clymeniid from the Devonian of Morocco, named "After Ibn Sina (Lat. Avicenna), *980 Afschana (Bokhara), †1037 Hamadan; physician and philosopher, the most important transmitter of Greek philosophy to the Orient."			[94]
Ng & Richer de Forges, 2012	Crustacean	Auguste Piccard and Jacques Piccard	"The name honors the Piccard family, Auguste Piccard (1884–1962), the inventor of the bathyscaphe, and his son, Jacques Ernest-Jean Piccard (1922–2008), who, together with U.S. Navy officer Don Walsh, were the first men to dive to a record depth of 10,915 m in the Mariana Trench in the Trieste on January 23, 1960."			[225]
† Čerňanský & Augé, 2013	Lizard	Eratosthenes	A fossil wall lizard from the Oligocene of southern Germany, named "To recognize the contribution made by Eratosthenes of Cyrene. He was a Greek mathematician, elegiac poet, athlete, geographer and astronomer. He was the first person to prove that the Earth was round and calculate the circumference of the earth (with remarkable accuracy)."			[226]
Plethodon sequoyah Highton, 1989	Salamander	Sequoyah				[107]
Girault, 1913	Wasp	Hugo Grotius	Subsequently transferred to the genus Apleurotropis			[4]
Plutarchia Girault, 1925	Wasp	Plutarch				[10]
Plutarchia A.C.Sm.	Flowering plant	Plutarch				[97]
Poecilia limantouri Jordan & Snyder, 1899	Fish	José Yves Limantour	"We take pleasure in dedicating this pretty fish to Señor Jose Yves de Limantour, the accomplished minister of the "Hacienda" for Mexico, in recognition of favors received through his courtesy." Subsequently synonymized with Poecilia mexicana.			[78]
Ünal, 2000	Katydid	Mustafa Kemal Atatürk	"This interesting new species is named in honor of the first president of Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who founded the modern Turkish Republic in 1923." The species is native to western Turkey.			[227]
Polyclita A.C.Sm.	Flowering plant	Polyclitus				[97]
Girault, 1912	Wasp	John William Draper	"Dedicated to John William Draper, the physiologist, who has shown so clearly that civilisations, societies and all human populations are as immutably ruled by natural law as is the development of the individual human or the evolution of a species of bird or plant. The works of this man are neglected by nations at their peril."			[13]
Girault, 1913	Wasp	Benjamin Franklin	Subsequently transferred to the genus Palaeoneura.			[47][84]
Girault, 1913	Wasp	Oliver Lodge	"This truly remarkable species, a striking example of the development of a similar wing pattern in unrelated genera, is respectfully dedicated to Sir Oliver W. [wrong initial] Lodge for his part in the development of a difficult part of human psychology, namely, that relating to telepathy and prevision." Subsequently transferred to the genus .			[26][84]
Girault, 1913	Wasp	Dmitri Mendeleev	"Respectfully dedicated to the Russian chemist who propounded the periodic law in chemistry." Subsequently transferred to the genus Palaeoneura.			[26][84]
Girault, 1913	Wasp	Max Nordau	Subsequently transferred to the genus Palaeoneura.			[228][84]
Girault, 1913	Wasp	Jean-Jacques Rousseau	Subsequently transferred to the genus Palaeoneura.			[47][84]
Girault, 1912	Wasp	Herbert Spencer	"Respectfully dedicated to Herbert Spencer, great philosopher and forceful exponent of reason as based on experience." Subsequently transferred to the genus Palaeoneura.			[13][84]
Girault, 1913	Wasp	Abraham Lincoln	Subsequently transferred to the genus .			[26][25]
Pomboa Huber, 2000	Spider	Rafael Pombo	"The generic name honors the Colombian poet Rafael Pombo, loved by children for his "El Renacuajo paseador" ("The Strolling Frog")."			[53]
Huber, 2020	Spider	Simón Bolívar	"The species is named for Venezuelan military and political leader Simón Bolívar. Not having a single Venezuelan pholcid named for El Libertador would be inexcusable."			[224]
Páez & Ron, 2019	Frog	Nikola Tesla	"The specific epithet [...] is a patronym for Nikola Tesla, a revolutionary inventor of the late 19th and early 20th century. It is named after him in recognition of his contributions to physics and his dedication to the ideal of providing free wireless electric power" The common name "Tesla's rain frog" was proposed for this species, native to Ecuador.			[229]
Pristionchus maxplancki Kanzaki et al., 2013	Worm	Max Planck				[230]
† Stinchcomb, 1986	Monoplacophoran, a primitive class of molluscs	Jean Sibelius	A fossil species from the Early Ordovician of Missouri, USA. "The species name is in honor of J. Sibelius, Finnish composer, whose first symphony and other works have evoked personal feelings comparable to those evoked by local Ozark landscapes developed on the gnarled, stromatolitic cherts of the Gasconade Formation where the form has been collected."			[231]
† McAdams & Adrain, 2011	Trilobite	Georgia O'Keeffe				[232]
Psammisia Klotszch	Flowering plant	Psamtik II	After Psammis, the name used by Herodotus to refer to Psamtik II.			[65]
Pseudoeurycea ahuitzotl Adler, 1996	Salamander	Ahuitzotl				[107]
Girault, 1913	Wasp	Matthew Arnold				[204]
Pseudoparamys cezannei † Hartenberger, 1987	Rodent	Paul Cézanne				[10]
DaSilva & Pinto-da-Rocha, 2010	Harvestman	Leon Trotsky	"In honor of Leon Trotsky (1879-1940), one of the Russian socialist revolution leaders, who definitively changed 20th century history. He was killed by order of Josef Stalin who transformed the Soviet Union into a dictatorial bureaucracy."			[142]
Schmidt & New, 2008	Barklouse	Louis de Freycinet	This species is endemic to Tasmania.			[1]
Pulex cheopis Rothschild, 1903	Flea	Khufu	From Khufu's Hellenized name Cheops; it has been subsequently moved to the genus Xenopsylla. Known as the Oriental rat flea, tropical rat flea, or plague flea, it is a parasite of rodents, particularly Rattus, and is a primary vector for bubonic plague and murine typhus.			[10][233]
Ginsburg, 1939	Fish	Franklin D. Roosevelt				[10]
Quetzalcoatlus northropi † Lawson, 1975	Pterosaur	Jack Northrop	Quetzalcoatlus northropi is one of the largest flying creatures known to have ever existed. Its genus was named after the Aztec feathered serpent god, Quetzalcoatl; the specific epithet honors Jack Northrop, the aeronautical engineer who first experimented with flying wing aircraft designs in the 1940s. The issue of the journal Science in which the discovery was reported featured a cover depicting one of Northrop's flying wing aircraft designs, a Quetzalcoatlus, a Pteranodon, and a condor, one of the largest extant flying animals, which looked tiny in comparison.			[234][235][236]
Quijote cervantesi Ortea, Moro & Bacallado, 2016	Sea snail	Miguel de Cervantes	Generic name comes from his book Don Quijote de la Mancha			[237]
Girault, 1922	Wasp	Raphael				[9]
† Van Valen, 1978	Arctocyonian (an extinct order of mammals)	Wovoka	A fossil mammal from the Paleocene of Wyoming. The genus Ragnarok was created concurrently and referred to "The twilight of the gods, from the Eddas, with reference to the extinction of the dinosaurs, which occurred while Ragnarok lived and in which it probably assisted." (the Alvarez hypothesis about an asteroid impact had not been formulated yet). This genus was subsequently synonymised with Gazin, 1941.			[79]
Rana montezumae Baird, 1854	Frog	Moctezuma II	Subsequently transferred to the genus Lithobates.			[107]
Raphaelana Girault 1926	Wasp	Raphael	Subsequently synonymised with the genus Cheiloneurus.			[10]
Raphaelonia Girault 1924	Wasp	Raphael	Subsequently synonymised with the genus Omphale.			[9]
Frič	Cactus	Albert Einstein				[238]
Renaniana Girault, 1931	Wasp	Ernest Renan				[9]
Jullien, 1890	Pterobranch	Albert I, Prince of Monaco	The prince was born Albert Grimaldi. This species was discovered by an expedition carried out on the prince's research yacht, the Hirondelle. This is currently considered a nomen dubium.			[239][240]
† Fanti & Damgaard, 2018	Beetle	Nielsine Nielsen	A fossil soldier beetle found in Baltic amber from the Eocene of Kaliningrad Oblast, "named in memory of Nielsine Mathilde Nielsen (Svendborg, 10 June 1850 - Copenhagen, 8 October 1916), the first female academic and physician in Denmark."			[162]
Girault, 1913	Wasp	Frederick Douglass	Subsequently transferred to the genus Chrysonotomyia.			[4][241]
Girault, 1913	Wasp	Booker T. Washington	Subsequently transferred to the genus Neochrysocharis.			[4][242]
Nam & Lee, 2005	Crustacean	Sejong the Great	A copepod collected from the coast of South Korea, whose name "honors King Sejong the Great, who during his reign (1418–1450) made many cultural and scientific innovations and devised the Korean Hangeul alphabet."			[243]
Girault, 1920	Wasp	Jean Paul	Derived from Paul's birth name, Johann Paul Friedrich Richter			[10]
† Guthörl, 1934	Palaeodictyoptera, an extinct order of insects	Hermann Röchling	The genus was named after German industrialist and Nazi supporter Hermann Röchling.			[30]
† Guthörl, 1934	Palaeodictyoptera, an extinct order of insects	Adolf Hitler				[30]
Rooseveltia frankliniana O.F.Cook	Palm	Franklin D. Roosevelt				[10]
A.L.Bull & Edees	Flowering plant	Boudica	A species of bramble native to East Anglia, England, whose name "commemorates the East Anglian queen who defied the Romans."			[244]
Rubus × mussolinii Hruby	Flowering plant	Benito Mussolini	Hybrid blackberry from northeastern Libya.			[245]
Drake & Hottes, 1949	True bug	Chief Ouray	"Named in memory of the famous Indian Chief Ouray, who was a sincere friend of the pioneers and early settlers of the Rocky Mountain region." (which this species is native to). Subsequently synonymised with .			[246][247]
Sappho Reichenbach, 1849	Bird	Sappho				[10]
Saturnia isabellae Graells, 1849	Moth	Isabella II of Spain	This species, known as Spanish moon moth, was first identified in Spain during Isabella II's reign (subsequently it has also been found in France and Switzerland). The queen reportedly thanked the entomologist for the tribute, wearing a specimen of the species mounted on an emerald necklace at a reception in the Royal palace. Subsequently transferred to the monotypic genus Graellsia, named after the discoverer of this species.			[248][249]
Scabricola lavoisieri Guillot de Suduiraut, 2002	Sea snail	Antoine Lavoisier	"This new species is named in memory of Antoine Laurent de Lavoisier (1743-1794), father of modern chemistry and ancestor of the author."			[250]
Schilleria Girault, 1932	Wasp	Friedrich Schiller	Its nomen novum is Schilleriella Ghesquiere, 1946			[9]
Scipionyx † Dal Sasso & Signore, 1998	Dinosaur	Scipio Africanus				[10]
Sciurus aberti Woodhouse, 1853	Squirrel	John James Abert				[251]
Shear, 2010	Millipede	Jack Daniel	A millipede collected from Lynchburg, Tennessee, home of Daniel and his eponymous whiskey distillery, "a favorite libation of the author."			[252]
† Korn, 1999	Ammonite	Ibn Tufail	A fossil clymeniid from the Devonian of Morocco, named "After Ibn Tufayl (lat. Abubacer), *1115 Guadix, †1185 Marrakech; Arab physician and philosopher (By observation and reflection up to the highest levels of natural and divine cognition)."			[94]
Sequoia Endl.	Conifer	Sequoyah	The derivation of Sequoia from "Sequoyah" is controversial since the botanist who coined it left no record of the etymology.			[253]
Shakespearia Girault, 1928	Wasp	William Shakespeare	Subsequently synonymised with Psyllaephagus Ashmead, 1900			[154][155]
† Chen, Wang, Maas & Waloszek, 2005	Early Arthropod	Zheng He	An early marine arthropod found in the Maotianshan Shales, Cambrian deposits in Yunnan, China. It is named "in honor of [the] great mariner of the Ming Dynasty, Zheng He (1371–1435), who sailed from China to many places throughout [the] South Pacific, Indian Ocean, Taiwan, Persian Gulf and distant Africa in seven epic voyages from 1405 to 1433. He was born near Jinning close to the fossil locality and was buried in the southern outskirts of Bull's Head Hill (Niushou) in Nanjing, China." This species was subsequently synonymised with .			[254][255]
Shireplitis tolkieni Fernández-Triana & Ward, 2013	Wasp	J. R. R. Tolkien	Other species of Shireplitis are named after various Lord of the Rings characters.			[256]
Tattersall, 1941	Crustacean	Franklin D. Roosevelt				[10]
Kittel, 2016	Wasp	Marie Curie	Replacement name for the genus Leptops Heinrich, 1968, which was preoccupied by Leptops Schoenherr, 1834. Named after the scientist's hyphenated surname, Marie Skłodowska-Curie, misspelt as "Marie Slodowska-Curie" in the paper.			[39]
Socratesia Klotszch	Flowering plant	Socrates	Subsequently synonymised with Cavendishia.			[65]
Zolotuhin & Prozorov 2010	Moth	Pablo Picasso	"The species is named in honour of the famous Spanish painter, sculptor and designer Pablo Ruiz Picasso because of the wing pattern - somewhat reminiscent of the artist's style"			[257]
Ferro, 2016	Beetle	Mark Twain	"named for the character Mark Twain, developed by Samuel Langhorne Clemens, an author, lecturer, philosopher, humanitarian, champion of science, and humorist. Clemens lived in California for awhile, but traveled nowhere near where this species occurs—the author forgives the oversight."			[258]
Sophoclesia Klotszch	Flowering plant	Sophocles	Subsequently synonymised with Sphyrospermum.			[65]
Spartacus Distant, 1884	True bug	Spartacus				[9]
Spintharus manrayi Chomitz & Agnarsson, 2018	Spider	Man Ray				[259]
Bahls, 2012	Diatom	William Clark	"Named after William Clark (1770–1838), an early 19th Century Montana explorer." The holotype for this species was collected from a spring at the base of Square Butte, Chouteau County, Montana.			[260]
Bahls, 2012	Diatom	Meriwether Lewis	"Named after Meriwether Lewis (1774–1809), an early 19th Century Montana explorer." The holotype for this species was collected from Blodgett Lake in Ravalli County, Montana.			[260]
Bahls, 2012	Diatom	Sacagawea	"Named after the Lemhi Shoshone woman, Sacajawea (1788–1812?), who served as guide and interpreter for Lewis and Clark".			[260]
Bahls, 2012	Diatom	David Thompson	"Named for David Thompson (1770–1857), an early 19th Century Montana explorer and cartographer". The holotype for this species was collected from Upper Wolverine Lake in Kootenai National Forest, Lincoln County, Montana.			[260]
† Campbell, 1979	Bird	Miguel Grau	A fossil species of phalarope from the Pleistocene epoch, found in the Talara Tar Seeps of northwestern Peru, and "named for Admiral Miguel Grau, Peruvian patriot and hero of the War of the Pacific with Chile."			[261]
Smith et al., 2011	Beetle	Theodore Roosevelt				[10]
Arriaga-Varela et al., 2013	Beetle	Franz Kafka	"Dedicated to the eminent Czech author Franz Kafka, who imagined what it would be like to wake up as an insect."			[262]
Girault, 1912	Wasp	John Dalton	"Dedicated to the discoverer of the atomic theory in chemistry."			[13]
Girault, 1912	Wasp	Antoine Lavoisier	"Dedicated to the discoverer of the law of the conservation of matter."			[13]
Girault, 1912	Wasp	Julius von Mayer	"Respectfully dedicated to [Julius] Robert Mayer, who with Hermann Helmholtz discovered the law of the conservation of energy." Subsequently transferred to the genus .			[13][25]
Girault, 1912	Wasp	Andreas Vesalius	"Dedicated to Andreas Vesalius, one of the earliest men of the present civilisation to assert the right of free thought and independent mentality."			[13]
Strelitzia reginae Banks	Flowering plant	Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz				[10]
† Pestana, 1960	Coral	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	A fossil species of horn coral from the Ordovician of California, USA.			[263]
Reid, Hunt & Stanley	Crustacean	Sequoyah	A freshwater copepod found in streambeds of Arkansas and Oklahoma. "The species name honors the great educator and inventor of the Cherokee Indian alphabet, Sequoyah (George Gist)."			[264]
† Engel, Nel & Perrichot, 2011	Termite	Syagrius	A fossil genus found in Cretaceous amber from France. "The new genus-group name is a combination of Syagrius (430–486/7 AD), the last Roman 'magister militum' of ancient Gaul (eventually being overrun by Clovis I of the Salian Franks), and 'Termes', common generic suffix in the Isoptera"			[265]
Girault, 1913	Wasp	Franz Boas	Subsequently transferred to the genus Sympiesis.			[4][266]
Girault, 1913	Wasp	Bertha von Suttner	"Respectfully dedicated to Bertha von Suttner for her Die Waffen nieder!." Subsequently transferred to the genus Elachertus.			[47][267]
Girault, 1913	Wasp	William Rathbone Greg	Subsequently transferred to the genus Aprostocetus.			[4][268]
† Campbell, 1979	Bird	José de San Martín	A fossil species of heron from the Pleistocene epoch, found in the Talara Tar Seeps of northwestern Peru, and "named for José de San Martín, who proclaimed Peruvian independence at Lima on July 28, 1821."			[261]
† Engel, Grimaldi & Krishna, 2007	Termite	Anawrahta	A fossil species found in Cretaceous Burmese amber. "The specific epithet is a patronymic honoring King Anawrahta who reigned from 1044 AD until his death in 1077, and the first ruler of a unified Burmese Empire who also converted the country to Theravada Buddhism."			[158]
Girault, 1921	Wasp	Alessandro Tassoni				[9]
Tecunumania Standl. & Steyerm.	Flowering plant	Tecún Umán				[10]
Tennysoniana Girault, 1920	Wasp	Alfred, Lord Tennyson				[9]
Girault, 1913	Wasp	Richard Cobden	Subsequently transferred to the genus Aprostocetus.			[4][269]
Thalassidroma hornbyi Gray, 1853	Bird	Phipps Hornby	Hornby had collected the holotype. The species has since been transferred to the genus Oceanodroma.			[212][270]
Thalesanna Girault, 1938	Wasp	Thales of Miletus				[9]
Themistoclesia Klotszch	Flowering plant	Themistocles				[65]
Thoreauella Girault, 1930	Wasp	Henry David Thoreau				[9]
Thoreauia Girault, 1916	Wasp	Henry David Thoreau				[10]
Tianyulong confuciusi † Zheng et al., 2009	Dinosaur	Confucius				[271]
Álvarez-Padilla, Ubick & Griswold, 2012	Spider	Johannes Kepler	A species of goblin spider endemic to Madagascar.			[272]
Polanco, Acero & Betancur, 2016	Fish	Paul Gauguin	This species of lizardfish is endemic to the Marquesas Islands, where Gauguin lived for the last two years of his life and was buried.			[273][274]
Troides alexandrae Rothschild, 1907	Butterfly	Alexandra of Denmark	Recorded as the largest butterfly in the world, Queen Alexandra's birdwing is restricted to the forests of Oro Province in eastern Papua New Guinea. "On account of the relationship of this new species with Troides victoriae [protonym Papilio (Ornithoptera) victoriae, also in this list], we think the name alexandrae to be very appropriate." Subsequently transferred to the genus Ornithoptera.			[218]
† Petrulevičius & Gutiérrez, 2016	Dragonfly	Túpac Amaru II and Milagro Sala	Fossil Odonatoptera from the Carboniferous of La Rioja Province, Argentina. "Dedicated to the memory of José Gabriel Condorcanqui Noguera, "Túpac" Amaru II (1738-1781) and to Milagro Amalia Ángela "Sala" (1963-). Túpac Amaru in 1780-1781 initiated a revolt against [the] Spanish State and its rules. He was tortured (forced to witness the execution of the sentences imposed on his family), executed and quartered to be exposed. Milagro Sala is a prominent Argentine social leader, Secretary of the "Organización Barrial Túpac Amaru" and Parliamentary of the Parlasur imprisoned with other members of the organization since January 16, 2016." The type species is named Tupacsala niunamenos, "Dedicated to "Ni una menos" (Not one [woman] less), a collective against gender violence. It is a collective campaign that arose from the need to say "enough femicides", because in Argentina every 30 hours a woman is killed just [for] being a woman."			[275]
Turbonilla (Pyrgiscus) pocahontasae Henderson & Bartsch, 1914	Sea snail	Pocahontas	This species was described from specimens collected in Chincoteague, Virginia.			[201]
Turbonilla (Pyrgiscus) powhatani Henderson & Bartsch, 1914	Sea snail	Powhatan	This species was described from specimens collected in Chincoteague, Virginia.			[201]
Yong, 2019	Katydid	Hatuey	"This species is named after Hatuey (birth date unknown, murdered by fire at stake in 1512), the well-known Taíno cacique. He was the first rebel native to America and coincidently, he lived in the same two islands where this species occurs: Cuba and Hispaniola"			[276]
Uromitra hypatiae Pallary, 1912	Sea snail	Hypatia	"I dedicate this little species to the memory of the Alexandrian scholar whose erudition and tragic end deserve more than this humble tribute from a naturalist." The holotype was collected in Alexandria, Egypt. The genus Uromitra was subsequently synonymised with Vexillum.			[277]
Moreira et al., 2021	Bacterium	Bela Lugosi	"after Bela Lugosi (1882–1956), who played the role of the vampire in the iconic 1931 film Dracula. [It is an] epibiotic bacterium that preys on anoxygenic photosynthetic gammaproteobacterial species of the genus Halochromatium."			[278]
† Esteban & Nasif, 1996	Armadillo	Mahatma Gandhi	A fossil species of dasypodidae from the Miocene of Catamarca Province, Argentina.			[279]
Victoria Lindl.	Flowering plant	Queen Victoria				[9]
Washingtonia H.Wendl.	Palm	George Washington				[10]
Girault, 1938	Wasp	John Greenleaf Whittier				[9]
Xiphophorus montezumae Jordan & Snyder, 1899	Fish	Moctezuma II				[78]
Rosen, 1960	Fish	Hernán Cortés	"The name cortezi is a historical reference to the Spanish conquistador, Hernando Cortez [sic]". Originally described as a subspecies, but subsequently promoted to species status, as .			[280]
Xiphophorus malinche Rauchenberger, Kallman & Morizot, 1990	Fish	La Malinche	"In keeping with the allegorical use of important historical figures in the Spanish conquest of Mexico to suggest phylogenetic relationships of swordtails in the Pánuco basin, this species is named after Malinche (also called Marina or Doña Marina by the Spaniards), a linguistically gifted Indian slave who played a role in the Spanish conquest as the interpreter, secretary, and mistress of Hernando Cortes [sic]."			[281]
Xiphophorus nezahualcoyotl Rauchenberger, Kallman & Morizot, 1990	Fish	Nezahualcoyotl	"As the sister species of X. montezumae, we felt it appropriate to name this species for Nezahualcoyotl, the poet-philosopher emperor of Tezcoco (Texcoco), considered to be coequal with Montezuma, monarch of the Aztecs in the Aztec Triple Alliance."			[281]
Zamenhofella Girault, 1941	Wasp	L. L. Zamenhof	Subsequently synonymised with the genus Austroencyrtus Girault, 1923.			[282][283]
Girault, 1941	Wasp	Alessandro Volta	Subsequently transferred to the genus Austroencyrtus.			[282][283]
Zovax vangoghi Błeszyński, 1965	Moth	Vincent Van Gogh				[172]
Fraser, 1949	Dragonfly	Ranavalona I	This species is native to Madagascar.			[27][197]