A passage in Voltaire's Candide has the book's eponymous main character meet the deposed Ahmed III while on a ship from Venice to Constantinople.

Appeared in the 1848, Anne Brontë's novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is framed as a retrospective letter from one of the main heroes to his friend and brother-in-law with the diary of the eponymous tenant inside it.

Marjorie " Marge " Simpson ( née Bouvier ) is a fictional main character in the American animated sitcom The Simpsons and part of the eponymous family.

The American band Machines of Loving Grace took the name of a sex act performed by one of the main characters during a Black Mass for the title of their song " Rite of Shiva " on their eponymous album.

Groningen (; Gronings: Grunnen ; West Frisian: Grins ) is the main municipality as well as the capital city of the eponymous province in the Netherlands.

Zumalacárregui is the main character of an eponymous Episodio nacional, by Benito Pérez Galdós.

Homer Jay Simpson is a fictional main character that appears in the animated television series The Simpsons as the patriarch of the eponymous family.

* Ollie Fliptrik, the main character in an eponymous comic strip about skateboarders

The name " Beowulf " comes from the main character in the Old English epic poem Beowulf, which was bestowed by Sterling because the eponymous hero is described as having " thirty men's heft of grasp in the gripe of his hand ".

* Nilus the Sandman, main character of the eponymous children's television show ( 1991 – 1997 )

The Flat Hills Of My Homeland, in which the main character, Jake Westmorland, writes a book called Sparg of Kronk, whose eponymous character, Sparg, writes a book with no language.

* Spirou ( character ), the eponymous main character of the comics series Spirou et Fantasio and Le Petit Spirou

The alternate identity of, a teenage Japanese schoolgirl, she belongs to the Sailor Senshi, female supernatural fighters who the franchise's main girl characters transform into to fulfill their duty of protecting the Solar System and the franchise's eponymous protagonist from evil.

More recent films that have explicitly explored parallel universes are: the 2000 film The Family Man, the 2001 cult movie Donnie Darko, which deals with what it terms a " tangent universe " that erupts from our own universe ; Super Mario Bros. ( 1993 ) has the eponymous heroes cross over into a parallel universe ruled by humanoids who evolved from dinosaurs ; The One ( 2001 ) starring Jet Li, in which there is a complex system of realities in which Jet Li's character is a police officer in one universe and a serial killer in another, who travels to other universes to destroy versions of himself, so that he can take their energy ; and FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions ( 2004 ), the main character runs away from a totalitarian nightmare, and he enters into a cyber-afterlife alternative reality.

Tonkin is the former name of the northern provinces of Vietnam and thus the eponymous body of water receiving the main river of " Tonkin ".

The alternate identity of, a teenage Japanese schoolgirl and Shinto priestess, she belongs to the Sailor Senshi, female supernatural fighters who the franchise's main girl characters transform into to fulfill their duty of protecting the Solar System and the franchise's eponymous protagonist from evil.

Wallenstein is also a main figure in Alfred Döblin's eponymous novel from 1920.

* Crash Bandicoot, a series of video games and its eponymous main character

The alternate identity of, a Japanese schoolgirl, she belongs to the Sailor Senshi, female supernatural fighters who the franchise's main girl characters transform into to fulfill their duty of protecting the Solar System and the franchise's eponymous protagonist from evil.

* In Timothy Findley's Pilgrim, the eponymous main character is a former resident of Cheyne Walk.

In Keith Laumer's Bolo novels, the eponymous protagonists are huge main battle tanks with self-aware artificial intelligence.

A friend of Ender Wiggin, Bean is an important supporting character in Ender's Game, and the main character of the eponymous Bean Quartet ( or Shadow Saga as it is officially known ), which consists of Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets, and Shadow of the Giant.

The eponymous song alone sums up Prigent's main convictions.

In Soseki's loosely autobiographical novel Botchan, the eponymous main character is a frequent visitor to the springs, the only place he likes in the area.

The third short film produced by the company's small animation division, it was a risky investment: due to low revenue produced by Pixar's main product, the eponymous computer to manage animations, the company was under financial constraints.

Miller's weekly radio broadcast " I Sustain the Wings ", for which he co-wrote the eponymous theme song, moved from New Haven to New York City and was very popular.

It made extensive use of leitmotifs, with each machine in Thunderbirds having its own theme and the eponymous title character of Joe 90 being accompanied on-screen by a wordless representation of his name.

The overarching theme of the song involves the difficult existence resulting from the eponymous condition, which, as UTFO's rappers explain, is " like having five people inside of one.

So was Luna de Miel en Puerto Rico ( Puerto Rican Honeymoon ), a latter-day cha-cha-cha which was also the theme for an eponymous movie, co-produced by Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in the early 1960s.

Jean-Jacques Goldman wrote the theme for " Resto du Coeur " the eponymous song performed by les Enfoirés as the theme of the charity created by Coluche, Les restos du coeur.

They released their eponymous debut in 1997 ; the album spawned the singles " Blue " ( a reinterpretation of the theme from the film Withnail and I ), " Domination ", " Ajare ", and the UK top 15 hit, " The Gift " ( which sampled Joanna Law's cover version of " The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face )".

Polycarp's eponymous theme song ( rendered " Polycarp Phillip Pecot # II " on the 45 RPM record label ) was recorded in 1966 by local swamp pop musician Johnnie Allan to the tune of The McCoys ' 1965 Number 1 hit song " Hang On Sloopy ".

When the eponymous theme song " Give me a Shake " was released as a single it debuted at # 1 garnering the group their first and only # 1 hit.

The name of the series and its eponymous theme song has since been used to refer to Hong Kong as a whole.

The theme of hidden desires is echoed in the soundtrack, which juxtaposes country music by Roy Acuff, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, and Rodney Crowell -- as well as by Camp — with visuals of the Manhattan skyline ( the credits sequence follows a trek into Manhattan, notably focusing on the twin towers of the World Trade Center as Dorothy Stratten's credit appears ) and songs by Frank Sinatra, including the eponymous hit.

Her song " Cat's Eye " was used as the first opening theme for the eponymous 1983 anime series Cat's Eye and debuted as # 1 on Countdown Japan.

However, when the meaning of the lyrics was pointed out to him, Simon quickly decided to commission a new and original theme song clearly linked to the eponymous host of the show.

While the primary theme of Ashes and Diamonds follows the eponymous post-war book by Jerzy Andrzejewski, the relationship between Maciek and the barmaid Krystyna ( Ewa Krzyzewska ) is loosely based on that between Johnny ( Marlon Brando ) and Kathie ( Maria Murphy ), the barmaid in the small town that his gang rides into.

The show's eponymous theme tune " Crocodile Shoes " became a chart hit for Nail as did the album of the same name.

According to biblical scholars, the Torah's genealogy for Levi's descendants, is actually an aetiological myth reflecting the fact that there were four different groups among the levites – the Gershonites, Kohathites, Merarites, and Aaronids ; Aaron – the eponymous ancestor of the Aaronids – couldn't be portrayed as a brother to Gershon, Kohath, and Merari, as the narrative about the birth of Moses ( brother of Aaron ), which textual scholars attribute to the earlier Elohist source, mentions only that both his parents were Levites ( without identifying their names ).

Briefly, the first Aeolus was a son of Hellen and eponymous founder of the Aeolian race ; the second was a son of Poseidon, who led a colony to islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea ; and the third Aeolus was a son of Hippotes who is mentioned in Odyssey book 10 as Keeper of the Winds who gives Odysseus a tightly closed bag full of the captured winds so he could sail easily home to Ithaca on the gentle West Wind.

Ajmer () is the 5th largest city in Rajasthan and is the centre of the eponymous Ajmer District.

Plug was a comic based on the eponymous character from The Bash Street Kids that began with issue dated 24 September 1977, and is notable for being the first comic to make use of rotogravure printing.

Some modern proposals for new constellations were not successful ; an example is Quadrans, eponymous of the Quadrantid meteors, now divided between Boötes and Draco.

The symbol was used by André-Marie Ampère, after whom the unit of electric current is named, in formulating the eponymous Ampère's force law which he discovered in 1820.

A troop of students dressed as Continental Army soldiers carry the eponymous log from the sun-dial to the lounge of John Jay Hall, where it is lit amid the singing of seasonal carols.

The eponymous organism in Michael Crichton's The Andromeda Strain is described as reproducing via the direct conversion of energy into matter.

Dill is the eponymous ingredient in dill pickles: cucumbers preserved in salty brine and / or vinegar.

Instead of soldier cards, one is now able to purchase the eponymous knights.

Although the Period takes its name from the Ediacara Hills where geologist Reg Sprigg first discovered fossils of the eponymous biota in 1946, the type section is located in the bed of the Enorama Creek within Brachina Gorge in the Flinders Ranges of South Australia, at.

Esther (; ), born Hadassah, is the eponymous heroine of the Biblical Book of Esther.

It is eponymous for the first four British monarchs of the House of Hanover — George I of Great Britain, George II of Great Britain, George III of the United Kingdom, and George IV of the United Kingdom — who reigned in continuous succession from August 1714 to June 1830.

Although the letter g of the eponymous Gerry is pronounced as in go, the word gerrymander is most commonly pronounced, with a as in gentle.

The piece was an extravaganza in which the classical Greek gods, grown elderly, are temporarily replaced by a troupe of 19th-century actors and actresses, one of whom is the eponymous Thespis, the Greek father of the drama.

The same book famously featured a devastating inaccuracy: the eponymous Ringworld is not ( in ) a stable orbit and would crash into the sun without active stabilization.

One bird common in the shire is the Royston Crow, which is the eponymous name of the regional newspaper, the Royston Crow published in Royston.

Anomalously, the city of Kilkenny is the only city in the Republic not to have a " city council "; it is still a borough but not a county borough and is administered by its eponymous county council.

A key figure in the 17th century scientific revolution, he is best known for his eponymous laws of planetary motion, codified by later astronomers, based on his works Astronomia nova, Harmonices Mundi, and Epitome of Copernican Astronomy.