Originally, the award was known as the J. Louis Comiskey Memorial Award, named after the Chicago White Sox owner of the 1930s.

Centerfielder Adam Jones was named to the 2009 All Star team and awarded a Gold Glove award for his defensive play.

He won the Man of the Match award for both matches and was also named Man of the Series.

Individual for whom the American Society of Mechanical Engineers ' top award in Biomedical Engineering, the Herbert R. Lissner Medal, is named.

The Reuben, named for cartoonist Rube Goldberg, is the most prestigious award for U. S. comic strip artists.

Cy Young, for whom the award is named

The award is named for this author.

* George Mason University has an economics essay award named in honor of Hayek.

The VFL / AFL's award for the fairest and best player in a season is named after Charles Brownlow, a Geelong and VFL administrator who died in early 1924.

In his honour, the European Society for Evolutionary Biology has an award for extraordinary young evolutionary biology researchers named The John Maynard Smith Prize.

The award is named for Alice B. Sheldon, who wrote under the pseudonym James Tiptree, Jr. By choosing a masculine nom de plume, having her stories accepted under that name and winning awards with them, Sheldon helped demonstrate that the division between male and female science fiction writing was illusory.

To remind audiences of the role gender plays in both reading and writing, the award was named in Sheldon's honor at the suggestion of Karen Joy Fowler.

* Janusz A. Zajdel Award, a Polish science fiction fandom award named after him

* 1893 – Former Governor General Lord Stanley pledges to donate a silver challenge cup, later named after him, as an award for the best hockey team in Canada ; originally presented to amateur champions, the Stanley Cup has been awarded to the top pro team since 1910, and since 1926, only to National Hockey League teams.

Nobel's instructions named a Norwegian Nobel Committee to award the Peace Prize, the members of whom were appointed shortly after the will was approved in April 1897.

When the award name was changed in 1954, all of the prior eight winners were given Reuben statuettes designed by and named after the NCS ' first president, Rube Goldberg.

An annual award for achievement in the arts and literature, the Glyndŵr Award, is named after him.

Another measure of the difference between these two similarly named but very distinct awards is their per-capita frequency of award: from 1946 to 1961 the average annual incidence of award of the Medal of Freedom was approximately 1 per every 86, 500 adult U. S. citizens ; from 1996 to 2011 the average annual incidence of award of the Presidential Medal of Freedom was approximately 1 per every 20, 500, 000 adult U. S. citizens ( so on an annualized per capita basis, about 240 Medals of Freedom have been awarded per one Presidential Medal of Freedom ).

The Philip K. Dick Award is a science fiction award given annually at Norwescon sponsored by the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society and ( since 2005 ) supported by the Philip K. Dick Trust, and named after science fiction and fantasy writer Philip K. Dick.

* She was named the 1999 Entertainer of the Year by both the Academy of Country Music and the Country Music Association ; Twain was the first non-US citizen to win the CMA award.

White and Martin were named co-Most Valuable Players ; this award is usually bestowed on an offensive player.

San Francisco quarterback Joe Montana was named the Super Bowl MVP, his third award in his fourth Super Bowl victory.

The award is the first such honor in the 11-year history of JA activities in Portland, according to Ralph Scolatti, local executive director for Junior Achievement.

The winners receive the Kenesaw Mountain Landis Memorial Baseball Award, which became the official name of the award in 1944, in honor of the first MLB commissioner, who served from 1920 until his death on November 25, 1944.

One award was presented for both leagues in 1947 and 1948 ; since 1949, the honor has been given to one player each in the National and American League.

The award, created by the New York chapter of the Baseball Writers Association of America ( BBWAA ) in honor of Babe Ruth, was first awarded in 1949, one year after Ruth's death.

The award was first introduced in 1956 by Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick in honor of Hall of Fame pitcher Cy Young, who died in 1955.

According to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, " As allowed by the award rules for this year, a single nomination could honor work in one or more films.

His work as a chef earned him the " Les Meilleurs Ouvriers de France " cuilinary award ; Kaye was the only non-professional to achieve this honor.

This annual award was renamed the Dijkstra Prize the following year, in his honor.

" I'm certainly going to try in the coming months to merit the honor you've bestowed upon me, because I understand that if I win this ( award ) two years in a row, I get to keep Mr. Boynton ," she joked.

Award winning science fiction authors Karen Joy Fowler and Pat Murphy created the James Tiptree, Jr. award in honor of Alice B. Sheldon on February 1991.

The James Tiptree, Jr. Award is given in her honor each year for a work of science fiction or fantasy that expands or explores our understanding of gender ; funds for the award are raised in part by bake sales

The creative use of music videos within their 1964 debut film A Hard Day's Night, particularly the performance of " Can't Buy Me Love ", led MTV decades later to honor the film's director, Richard Lester, with an award for " basically inventing " the music video.

Widely read and loved in the Soviet Union, Bradbury relates the following meeting with Sergei Bondarchuk, director of soviet 1967 epic War and Peace, at a Hollywood award ceremony in Bondarchuk's honor: " They formed a long queue and as Bondarchuk was walking along it he recognized several people:

Others award the honor to Two Stickney, son of the major who quaintly numbered his sons and named his daughters after States.

* February 28 – Canadian singer Alanis Morissette wins the top honor, Album of the Year award, at the 38th Annual Grammy Awards.

After it was decided to create such an award, there was still a question of what to call it ; one working title was the Eddie, to honor the inventor of the phonograph, Thomas Edison.

Archive of newsletters, officers, award and honor recipients, as well as other resources associated with this community of scholars.

Named in honor of George and Ira Gershwin, this newly created award recognizes the profound and positive effect of popular music on the world ’ s culture.

The Poetry Society of America continues to honor William Carlos Williams by presenting an annual award in his name for the best book of poetry published by a small, non-profit or university press.

The Kuiper Prize, named in his honor, is the most distinguished award given by the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciences, an international society of professional planetary scientists.

* Over 100 photographs of the Richard Meier designed Rachofsky House which received AIA honor award in 2002

The American Chemical Society's Cellulose and Renewable Materials Division has established an annual award in his honor, the Anselme Payen Award.