Redigerer Eponym (avsnitt)

== Eksempler ==
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| [[Amerika]] || [[Amerigo Vespucci]] (italiensk sjøfarer)<ref>Room, Adrian (2005): ''Placenames of the World'': (origins and meanings of the names for over 5000 natural features, countries, capitals, territories, cities and historic sights), 2. utg., McFarland & Co Inc. Sitat: «America believed to have derived their name from the feminized Latin version of his first name».</ref>
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| [[braille]] || [[Louis Braille]] (fransk lærer)
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| [[Colombia]] || [[Christofer Columbus]] (italiensk oppdager)
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| [[diesel]] || [[Rudolf Diesel]] (tysk fysiker)
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| [[Europa]] || [[Europa (mytologi)|Europa]] (mytisk fønikisk prinsesse)
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| [[Filippinene]] || [[Filip II av Spania|Filip]] (spansk arveprins)<ref>{{Cite book |last=Scott |first=William Henry |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=15KZU-yMuisC |title=Barangay: Sixteenth-century Philippine Culture and Society |publisher=[[Ateneo de Manila University Press]] |location=Quezon City, Philippines |year=1994 |isbn=978-971-550-135-4 |author-link=William Henry Scott (historian)}}</ref>
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| [[gallup]]|| [[George Gallup]] (amerikansk forsker)
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| [[giljotin]] || [[Joseph-Ignace Guillotin]] (fransk lege)<ref>Achille Chéreau: ''Guillotin et la guillotine.'' I: ''Union médicale.'' 1870, s. 64.</ref>
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| [[Herostratisk berømmelse|herostratisk]] || [[Herostratos]] (gresk ildspåsetter)<ref>{{ Kilde bok | forfatter = Tryti, Ivar | utgivelsesår = 1997 | tittel = Språkets ville vekster | isbn = 8203222153 | utgivelsessted = [Oslo] | forlag = Aschehoug | url = http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-nb_digibok_2010051803007?page=45 | side = 42}}</ref> 
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| [[Kalasjnikov]]|| [[Mikhail Kalasjnikov]] (russisk våpeningeniør)
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| [[ludditter]]|| [[Ned Ludd]] (engelskmann, legendarisk?)<ref name="Chambers">{{cite book|editor-last=Chambers |editor-first=Robert |editor-link=Robert Chambers (publisher, born 1802) |year=1888 |title=The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the Calendar |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NDwIAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA357 |volume=1 |location=London; Edinburgh |publisher=W. & R. Chambers |page=357 |access-date=7. mars 2021}}</ref>
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| [[machiavellisme]]|| [[Niccolò Machiavelli]] (florentinsk forfatter)
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| [[Morsealfabetet|morse]]|| [[Samuel Morse]] (amerikansk oppfinner)
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| [[nikotin]]|| [[Jean Nicot]] (fransk diplomat)<ref name="Rang H. P 2007, page 598">{{cite book  | vauthors =  Dale MM, Ritter JM, Fowler RJ, Rang HP |title=Rang & Dale's Pharmacology |publisher=Churchill Livingstone |isbn=978-0-8089-2354-1 |edition=6th | page = 598 }}</ref> 
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| [[pasteurisering]] || [[Louis Pasteur]] (fransk mikrobiolog)<ref name=":45">{{cite book |title=Advances in Thermal and Non-Thermal Food Preservation |url=https://archive.org/details/advancesthermaln00tewa |url-access=limited |last1=Tewari |first1=Gaurav |last2=Juneja |first2=Vijay K. |publisher=Blackwell Publishing |year=2007 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/advancesthermaln00tewa/page/n10 3], 96, 116|isbn=9780813829685 }}</ref>
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| [[quisling]] || [[Vidkun Quisling]] (norsk NS-politiker)<ref name="Leksicon">{{cite encyclopedia |title=Quisling |encyclopedia=[[Store norske leksikon]] |editor-last=Godal | editor-first=Anne Marit | editor-link=Anne Marit Godal |publisher=Norsk nettleksikon |location=Oslo |url=https://snl.no/quisling |language=no | access-date=4. oktober 2014}}</ref>
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| [[Roma]] || [[Romulus og Remus|Romulus]] (legendarisk gudesønn)<ref>Andreas Bendlin] ''Romulus''. I: ''Der Neue Pauly. Enzyklopädie der Antike.'' Band 10, Metzler, Stuttgart/Weimar 2001, ISBN 3-476-01470-3, Sp. 1130–1133, her sp. 1130</ref> 
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| [[sadisme]] || [[marki de Sade]] (fransk forfatter)<ref name="Phillips">Phillips, John, 2005, ''The Marquis De Sade: A Very Short Introduction'', Oxford University Press, {{ISBN|0-19-280469-3}}.</ref> 
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| [[sandwich]] || [[John Montagu, 4. jarl av Sandwich|jarlen av Sandwich]] (engelsk adelsmann)<ref name="BBC News Online">{{cite news| title = Sandwich celebrates 250th anniversary of the sandwich | url = https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-18010424 |work = [[BBC News Online]] | date = 12. mai 2012 | access-date = 18. mai 2012}}</ref> 
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| [[siluett]] || [[Étienne de Silhouette]] (fransk politiker)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ne.se/uppslagsverk/encyklopedi/l%C3%A5ng/silhuett|titel=silhuett - Uppslagsverk - NE.se|hämtdatum=2018-12-09|verk=www.ne.se}}</ref>
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| [[volt]] || [[Alessandro Volta]] (italiensk fysiker)
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| [[luftskip|zeppelin]] || [[Ferdinand von Zeppelin]] (tysk konstruktør)
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