Eponyms: Q – R
~~~~~ Q ~~~~~
| quassia | Graman Quassi, 18th century Surinam negro slave |
| Queensberry rules | John Sholto Douglas, 8th Marquess of Queensberry (1844-1900) |
| quisling | Vidkun Abraham Quisling (1887-1945), Norwegian politician |
| Quixotic | Don Quixote, hero of novel Don Quixote de la Mancha by Spanish novelist Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616) |
~~~~~ R ~~~~~
| Rabelaisian | François Rabelais (1483-1553), French writer |
| Rachmanism | Peter (Perec) Rachman (1920-62), Polish-born British landlord |
| Rafflesia | Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781-1826), British colonial administrator |
| raglan | Fitzroy James Henry Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan (1788-1855), British field marshal |
| Rankine scale | William John Macquorn Rankine (1820-72), Scottish civil engineer |
| Rastafarian | Haile Selassie (1892-1975), Emperor of Ethiopia 1930, title Ras Tafari |
| rayl, rayleigh | John William Strutt, 3rd Lord Rayleigh (1842-1919), British physicist |
| Raynaud’s disease | Maurice Raynaud (1834-81), French physician |
| Réaumur scale | Réne Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683-1757), French scientist |
| rehoboam | Rehoboam, Old Testament son of Solomon, king of Israel & Judah |
| Reuters | Baron Paul Julius von Reuter (original name Israel Beer Josaphat; 1816-99), German newsman |
| Reynolds number, reyn | Osborne Reynolds (1842-1912), English physicist |
| rhesus monkey, Rh factor | Rhesus, king of Thrace, in Greek mythology |
| riccettsia | Howard T. Ricketts (1871-1910), American pathologist |
| Richter scale | Charles Richter (1900-85), American seismologist |
| Ringelmann scale | Maximilien Ringelmann (1861-1931), German agricultural engineer |
| ritzy | César Ritz (1850-1918), Swiss hotelier |
| rodomontade | Rodomont, Saracen king of Algiers in Ariosto’s Orlando Innamorato & Orlando Furioso |
| Rolls-Royce | Charles Stewart Rolls (1877-1910) and Sir Frederick Henry Royce (1836-1933), English car manufacturers |
| roentgen/röntgen | Wilhelm Konrad Röntgen (1845-1923), German physicist |
| Rorschach test | Hermann Rorschach (1884-1922), Swiss psychiatrist |
| Rubenesque | Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), Flemish painter |
| Rubik’s cube | Ernö Rubik (b.1944), Hungarian designer, sculptor and architect |
| Rudbeckia | Olof Rudbeck (1630-1702), Swedish botanist |
| rutherford | Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford (1871-1937), British physicist |
| rydberg | Johannes Robert Rydberg (1854-1919), Swedish physicist |