`` Named after the ballet.

Named after a local brewer.

Named in honor of Neda Soltan, a young woman killed in unrest after the Iranian elections, it planned to offer help with proxy servers and anonymizers.

Named after American revolutionary, patriot, and founding father George Mason, the university was founded as a branch of the University of Virginia in 1957 and became an independent institution in 1972.

Named after the Renaissance astronomer Galileo Galilei, it was launched on October 18, 1989, by the Space Shuttle Atlantis on the STS-34 mission.

Named for Dr. LaVerne W. Noyes, who also donated the funds to see that Alumni Hall could be completed after sitting unfinished and unused from 1905 to 1907.

Named after Boltzmann's H-theorem, Shannon denoted the entropy H of a

Named after King Amanullah Khan, it is said to be the first, the biggest and the most modern city in the history of Afghanistan.

Named after the Greek goddess Gaia at the suggestion of novelist William Golding, the hypothesis postulates that the biosphere has a regulatory effect on the Earth's environment that acts to sustain life.

Named after Wolfgang Franz von Kobell ( 1803-1882 ), German mineralogist.

Named after the Kickapoo tribe native to the area.

Named after the Roots brothers who designed and invented it, this lobe pump works by displacing the liquid trapped between two long helical twisted rotors, each fitting into the other when perpendicular at 90 °, rotating inside a triangular shaped sealing line configuration, both at the point of suction and at the point of discharge.

One of the first stars in the SAO catalogue to be named after someone is SAO # 13268-Calaunan, Named after Rio Therese Calaunan Capistrano.

Named after the Inklings is The Inklings Society based in Aachen, and their yearbook, Inklings Jahrbuch für Literatur und Ästhetik, published from 1983 by Brendow, Moers.

Named after British computer scientist Alan Turing, Turing is used primarily as a teaching language at the high school and university level.

Named after Italy's then dictator prime minister, Benito Mussolini, they were abandoned upon his ousting in 1943, and eventually returned as the Grand International Prize of Venice in 1947 ( see Golden Lion ).

Leigh next sought the role of Blanche DuBois in the West End stage production of Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire and was cast after Williams and the play's producer Irene Mayer Selznick saw her in The School for Scandal and Antigone ; Olivier was contracted to direct.

Named after the nearby city of Winona, Winona Laura Horowitz was born in Olmsted County, Minnesota.

Named after Meriwether Lewis and after Victor Trevitt's hometown of Lewiston, Maine ; but people don't know that was the reason Vic Trevitt shouted the idea out.

; Named after Imam Hasan ibn Ali

Named after Henry L. Stimson, United States Secretary of State in the Hoover Administration ( 1929 – 1933 ), the policy followed Japan's unilateral seizure of Manchuria in northeastern China following action by Japanese soldiers at Mukden ( now Shenyang ), on September 18, 1931.

Named after her deceased older sister.

He became " one of the consummate filmmakers of the 20th century " after directing a string of successful films, including, A Streetcar Named Desire ( 1951 ), On the Waterfront ( 1954 ), and East of Eden ( 1955 ).

Named for Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto, whose name has also been honored in De Soto County, Hernando County was briefly renamed Benton County in 1844 for Missouri Senator Thomas Hart Benton, a strong supporter of territorial expansion who aided in the county's creation.

Named for naval officer Commodore Thomas MacDonough and founded in 1823 around a traditional town square design.

Named in honor of Col. Thomas Gardner, the community was first settled in 1764 and officially incorporated as a town in 1785 after receiving land grants from the surrounding towns of Ashburnham, Westminster, Templeton and Winchendon.

Named for Thomas Kendrew.

Named after Utah's U. S. Senator Thomas Kearns, it had a population of 35, 731 at the 2010 Census.

Named for the Cinque Ports town of Romney, Kent, England by Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron, the town still bears placenames and symbols from its colonial past such as its Marsham Street, named for Robert Marsham, 2nd Baron Romney.

Named Phoebe and Mercury, the dogs were depicted in paintings by Sir Thomas Gainsborough.

Named after Bryn Mawr's first Dean and second president, the M. Carey Thomas Library was used as a library until 1970, when Mariam Coffin Canaday Library opened.

Named for deceased Lt. Col. Thomas M. Wagner, Fort Wagner measured 250 by, and spanned an area between the Atlantic on the east and an impassable swamp on the west.

Named for Saint Thomas of Villanova, the school is the oldest Catholic university in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Named for Robert Thomas Miller, a former Mayor of Austin, the dam forms Lake Austin, one of the Texas Highland Lakes.

Named after its founders — Thomas Burgess ( 1756 – 1837 ), Thomas Bowdler ( 1754 – 1825 ) and Thomas Phillips ( 1760 – 1851 ) — it is a resource for teaching, research and scholarship within the University.

Named after its founder, Thomas Lord, it is owned by Marylebone Cricket Club ( MCC ) and is the home of Middlesex County Cricket Club, the England and Wales Cricket Board ( ECB ), the European Cricket Council ( ECC ) and, until August 2005, the International Cricket Council ( ICC ).

Named after Lord Hardwicke, the groups members included Daniel Wray and Thomas Birch, and was most prominent in the 1750s and 60s.

Named for Thomas Howard, 3rd Earl of Effingham-an English nobleman who resigned his commission rather than fight an unjust war against the American colonists.

Named after the architect, Thomas Wallis.

Named by US-ACAN for Thomas J. Regina, Photographer's Mate, US Navy, on C-130 aircraft flights in the 1968-69 season.

A famous Tennessee Williams play and later film of the same name was set in New Orleans, Louisiana where Perley A. Thomas streetcars were operated on the Desire line around the period of 1947 in which the story was set, hence the name: A Streetcar Named Desire.

During the next 20 years, Perley A. Thomas streetcars were built and delivered to communities all across the United States, including New Orleans, where they operated on the Desire line made famous by Tennessee Williams ' 1947 Broadway play and later film of the same name, A Streetcar Named Desire.

Named by US-ACAN for Thomas W. Bastien, geologist, leader of the helicopter supported University of Minnesota Geological Party to these mountains, 1963-64.

Named for Thomas and William Ladner, who came to the area in 1868 and began large farming and fishing operations, it developed as a centre for these operations.

* Named in honor of Thomas Corwin Mendenhall, the superintendent of the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey ( 1889 – 1894 ).