Eponyms: T
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| talbot, talbotype | William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-77), British scientist |
| tam o’ shanter | Hero of poem Tam o’ Shanter (1791), by Scottish poet Robert Burns (1759-96) |
| tantalise | Tantalus, mythical king of Phrygia |
| tarmac | (short for ‘tarmacadam’) John Loudon McAdam (1756-1836), Scottish engineer |
| Tasmania | Abel Janszoon Tasman (1603-59), Dutch navigator |
| tattersall | Richard Tattersall (1724-95), English horseman |
| tawdry | St Audrey (Ethelrida; d.679), Queen of Northumbria, patron saint of Ely |
| teddy bear | Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), American president |
| Teddy boy | Edward VII (1841-1910), English king |
| tesla | Nikola Tesla (1857-1943), Croatian-born American electrician and inventor |
| tetrazzini | Luisa Tetrazzini (1874-1940), Italian opera singer |
| Thatcherism | Margaret Hilda Thatcher (b.1925), British politician and prime minister |
| theremin | Lev Theremin (1896-1993), Russian engineer |
| thespian | Thespis, 6th century Greek poet |
| Thursday | Thor, Norse god of thunder |
| timothy | Timothy Hanson, American famer through whom it first came into use as a fodder grass |
| titan; titanic | The Titans, 12 primeval gigantic gods and goddesses in Greek mythology |
| titchy | Harry Relph (1867-1928), English actor, stage name Little Titch |
| Titian | Titian (c.1487-1576), Italian painter |
| Tommy gun | John Taliaferro Thompson (1860-1940), American army general |
| tontine | Lorenzo Tonti (1620-95), Neopolitan banker |
| Tony | Antoinette Perry (1888-1946), American actress |
| torr, Torricellian | Evangelista Torricelli (1608-47), Italian physicist and mathematician |
| tradescantia | John Tradescant (c.1570-1638), English traveller and gardener |
| trilby | Trilby, novel by English artist and writer George du Maurier (1834-96) |
| troland | Leonard T. Troland (1889-1932), American biochemist |
| Trotskyism | Leon Trotsky (original name Lev Davidovich Bronstein; 1879-1940), Russian revolutionary |
| trudgen | John Arthur Trudgen (1860-1940), English swimmer |
| Tuesday | Tiw (or Tyr), Anglo-Saxon god of war and the sky |