Eponyms: C
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| Cadmean victory | Cadmus, mythological Greek prince, the legendary founder of Thebes |
| Caesarean section | Gaius Julius Caesar, Roman emperor |
| Caesar salad | Caesar Cardini, Mexican restaurateur |
| calamine | As entry for Cadmean victory |
| Calvinism | John Calvin (1509-64), French theologian |
| camellia | George Josef Kamel (1661-1706), Moravian Jesuit missionary |
| cannibal | Canibales, Spanish name given by Christopher Columbus to the Caribs, the American Indian people of the Lesser Antilles & northern South America |
| cardigan | James Thomas Brudnell, 7th Earl of Cardigan (1797-1868), British cavalry officer |
| Casanova | Giovanni Jacopo Casanova (1725-98), Italian adventurer |
| Cassandra | Cassandra, daughter of Priam, legendary Greek king of Troy |
| Catherine wheel | St Catherine of Alexandria, Christian martyr |
| Cattell scale | James McKeen Cattell (1860-1944), American psychologist |
| cattleya | William Cattley (d.1832), English botanist and horticultural patron |
| Celsius | Anders Celsius (1701-44), Swedish astronomer and scientist |
| cereal | Ceres, Roman goddess of grain and agriculture |
| Charles’s law | Jacques Alexandre César Charles (1746-1823), French scientist |
| charlotte russe | Princess Charlotte (1796-1817), daughter of King George IV of England |
| chateaubriand | François René de Chateaubriand (1768-1848), French writer and statesman |
| chauvinism | Nicolas Chauvin, French soldier in Napoleon’s army |
| Chippendale | Thomas Chippendale (c.1718-79), English cabinet-maker and furniture disigner |
| churrigueresque | José Churriguera (1650-1725), Spanish architect and sculptor |
| cicerone | Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43BC), Roman orator and statesman |
| cinchona | Countess Ana de Chinchón (1576-1641), Spanish vicereine of Peru |
| clarence | King William IV of England (1765-1837) (formerly Duke of Clarence) |
| clasius | Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius (1822-88), German mathematical physicist |
| clerihew | Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956), English writer |
| Colt pistol | Samuel Colt (1814-62), American engineer |
| comstockery | Anthony Comstock (1844-1915), American moral crusader |
| Confucianism | Confucius (551-479BC), Chinese philosopher |
| cordoba | Francisco Fernandez de Córdoba (c.1475-1526), Spanish soldier and explorer |
| Couéism | Emil Coué (1857-1926), French psychologist and chemist |
| coulomb | Charles Augustin de Coulomb (1736-1806), French physicist |
| cravat | Hrvat , 17th century French name for a native of Croatia |
| cretin | Crestin, Swiss name of a people who lived in the Swiss Alps |
| Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease | Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt (1885-1964) and Alfons Maria Jakob (1884-1931), German neurologists |
| Crohn’s Disease | Burrill Bernard Crohn (1884-1983), American gastroenterologist |
| Cruft’s | Charles Cruft (1852-1938), British dog breeder and showman |
| Cuisenaire rods | Emil-Georges Cuisenaire (c.1891-1976), Belgian educationalist |
| curie | Pierre (1859-1906) and Marie Curie (1867-1934), French scientists |
| Curzon line | George Nathaniel, 1st Marquis Curzon of Kedleston (1859-1925), British politician |
| Cushing’s disease | Harvey Williams Cushing (1869-1939), American neurosurgeon |
| Cyrillic | St Cyril (826-69) and St Methodius (c.815-85), Greek translators |