List of eponyms of airports explained

This is a list of eponymously named airports.

It includes the name of the airport, the facility's location, and the person after whom the airport is named.

Current airports

AirportCityLocationEponym
Dejazmach Yilma Makonnen, former Governor of Harar
Abdul Rahman Saleh, National Hero of Indonesia
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, former President of Somalia
Abraham González
Abraham Lincoln
Aden Abdullah Osman Daar, first President of Somalia
Agustinus Adisucipto, Indonesian independence hero
Adnan Menderes
Adolfo Suárez González, first prime minister of Spain after the restoration of democracy and key participant in the transition to democracy after the Franco dictatorship
Ahmad Yani, Indonesian Army chief
Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, two judges who fought the Mafia
Napoleon Bonaparte
Alexander the Great
Ras Alula, Ethiopian General
Jorge Newbery
Afonso Pena
Eunice Michiles
Franjo Tuđman
Paul the Apostle
Alexei Leonov
Alfonso López Pumarejo
Alexander Kartveli
Miguel Hernández
Alfredo Rodríguez Ballón
Allama Iqbal (Muhammad Iqbal)
Amado Nervo
Amerigo Vespucci
Aminu Kano
Margaret Ekpo
Amílcar Cabral
Arignar Anna
Antonio Borja Won Pat
Antonio Nariño
Aristotle
Arnold Palmer
Arthur Napoleon Raymond Robinson
Arturo Merino Benítez
Saparmyrat Niyazov
Ástor Piazzolla, a composer and musician who was born in Mar del Plata
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Eleftherios Venizelos
Ben T. Epps, aviator
Augusto César Sandino
Aurel Vlaicu
George Enescu
Captain John August Earl Bergstrom
Lt. Col. Austin Straubel
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
Tamar of Georgia
Pope John Paul II
Thurgood Marshall
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike
Bartholomeu Lysandro de Albernaz, Congressman and local plantation owner
Harold W. Bauer, fighter pilot
Rafik Hariri
Nikola Tesla
David Ben-Gurion
Uri Michaeli
Benazir Bhutto
Benito Juárez
Bert Mooney, aviator
Biju Patnaik
Birsa Munda
Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton
Dick Logan, airport manager
Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport (Toronto island) Billy Bishop
Bob Hope
Robert L. F. Sikes
William Edward Boeing
Guglielmo Marconi
Abram H. Bowman, airport founder
Lt. Eugene M. Bradley
George Tackaberry, owner of the company that re-surfaced and extended the runway
Hans Koschnick
Franz Liszt
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Camilo Daza
Captain Rogelio Castillo
Carlos Ibáñez del Campo
Cesar Lim Rodriguez, former judge
César Manrique, local artist, sculptor, architect and activist
John Chandler Gurney
Ioannis Daskalogiannis, Cretan rebel against Ottoman rule
Charles Wheeler
Charles de Gaulle
Charles M. Schulz
Ben Elbert Douglas, Sr.
Marcel Dassault
Cheddi Jagan
Maj. Gen. Claire Lee Chennault
Chhatrapati Shivaji Raje Bhosle
Chinggis Khaan
Giovan Battista Pastine
William R. Hopkins
Ioannis Kapodistrias
Coronel Felipe Varela
Cristiano Ronaldo
Cut Nyak Dhien
Léopold Sédar Senghor
First Lieutenant Moss Lee Love[1]
Daniel Inouye
Daniel Oduber Quirós
Daniel Z. Romualdez
David IV of Georgia
Ahilyabai Holkar
Theodore Roosevelt
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
Sergey Prokofiev
Dr. Babasaheb R. Ambedkar
Elvie Smith, former chairman and CEO of Pratt & Whitney Canada
Eduardo Gomes
Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez
El Tari, 2nd governor of East Nusa Tenggara
Eugene C. Eppley
Eugenio María de Hostos
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Fatmawati Soekarno
Federico Fellini
Ferit Melen
Major Fernando L. Ribas-Dominicci
Philip II of Macedon
Daniel Forbes
Francis S. Gabreski (Gabby)
Francisco B. Reyes, former mayor of Coron (1936–1939)
Francisco Bangoy
Francisco de Sá Carneiro
Frank País
Franz Josef Strauss
Antonio Carlos Jobim
Galileo Galilei
Lech Wałęsa
Abelardo L. Rodríguez
Bernardo O'Higgins
Francisco Javier Mina
Guadalupe Victoria
Heriberto Jara Corona
José María Yáñez
Juan Álvarez
Lucio Blanco
Mariano Escobedo
Mariano Matamoros
Billy Mitchell
Justo José de Urquiza
General Rodolfo Sánchez Taboada
Francisco de Miranda
Christopher Columbus
George Best
George H. W. Bush
Gerald R. Ford
German Titov
Giuseppe Verdi
Glafcos Clerides
Godofredo P. Ramos, author of the bill which created the province of Aklan
João Durval Carneiro
Grantley Herbert Adams
Gregorio Luperón
Guillermo León Valencia
Gustav III
Gustavo Rojas Pinilla
Halim Perdanakusuma, national hero of Indonesia
Robert Stanfield, Premier of Nova Scotia
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, former Emir of Qatar
Helmut Schmidt
Hans Christian Andersen
Harold W. Brown
Harry Reid
William B. Hartsfield and Maynard Jackson
René Fontaine
Martin Hector, landowner
Henri Coandă
Nikos Kazantzakis
Heydar Aliyev
Prof. Horace Williams, former Chair of Mental and Moral Science (Philosophy) at the University of North Carolina
Houari Boumédienne
Ian Fleming
Ibn Battuta
Caravaggio
James Stewart
Indira Gandhi
Mike Zubko, co-founder of the Northern Air Transport Association
Islam Karimov
Jack Edwards
Medgar Evers
Jacqueline Cochran
James M. Cox
Jan Jacobszoon May van Schellinkhout
Pope John Paul II
Jesse P. Viertel
Ferhat Abbas
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Johan Adolf Pengel
John Munro
John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
John Murtha
Pope John Paul II
John Wayne
Jomo Kenyatta
Jorge Chávez
Jorge Wilstermann
José Joaquín de Olmedo
José María Córdova
José Martí
Josep Tarradellas Barcelona–El Prat AirportBarcelonaJosep Tarradellas
Juan Manuel Gálvez
Juan Santamaría
Juana Azurduy de Padilla
Djuanda Kartawidjaja, Prime Minister of Indonesia and initiator of the airport
Julius Nyerere
Karl Stefan
Jasper Kennedy "Kay" Larkin
Kempegowda
Khan Jahan Ali
Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia
Fahd of Saudi Arabia
Khalid of Saudi Arabia
Mswati III
Shaka
the Phalo kaTshiwo
Gqeberha (fka: Port Elizabeth)
Norman McLeod Rogers
Igor Sikorsky
Konrad Adenauer
Hippocrates
Col. Emmanuel Kwasi Kotoka
Saint Mary (Our Lady of the Rosary of Chiquinquirá)
Fiorello H. La Guardia
Gebre Mesqel Lalibela, King of the Zagwe Dynasty
Lawrence J. Timmerman, county supervisor
Lennart Georg Meri, President of Estonia
Leonardo da Vinci
Leoš Janáček
Léon M'ba
Adolfo López Mateos
Gustavo Díaz Ordaz
Miguel de la Madrid
Humberto Delgado
John Lennon
Jože Pučnik
Władysław Reymont
Edward Lawrence Logan
Gopinath Bordoloi
Douglas MacArthur
Louis Armstrong
Muhammad Ali
William George Barker
Preston E. Smith
Luis Muñoz Marín
Danylo Halytskyi
Lynden Pindling
Omar Bongo
Manas, a Kyrgyz epic hero
Maria Montez
Antonio José de Sucre
Glenn Luther Martin
Aimé Césaire
Mahinda Rajapaksa
Gerald McClellan, aviator
McGhee Tyson, aviator
Russel Merrill
Milan Rastislav Štefánik
Juan Pistarini
Mihail Kogălniceanu
Modibo Keita
Muhammad Boudiaf
Mohammed V of Morocco
Habib Bourguiba
Montgomery-Gibbs Executive AirportJohn Joseph Montgomery and William Gibbs
Pierre Trudeau
Air Vice-Marshal C.M. McEwen, commander of No. 6 Group RCAF
Mikhail Lomonosov
Murtala Mohammed
Ugo Niutta
Nelson Mandela
Subhas Chandra Bose
I Gusti Ngurah Rai, national hero of Indonesia from Bali
Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino, Jr.
Constantine I
Nnamdi Azikiwe
Norman Washington Manley
Albrecht Dürer
Nursultan Nazarbayev
Norman Y. Mineta
Jack Garland
Edward O'Hare
Enrique Olaya Herrera
Oliver Tambo
General M A G Osmani
John A. Macdonald and George-Étienne Cartier
Billy Bishop
Clyde Edward Pangborn
Pattimura, national hero of Indonesia
Phillip Goldson
Harl Pease, Jr.
Henryk Wieniawski
Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira
Nicolau Lobato
Prince Mohammad bin Abdulaziz International AirportMedina
Juliana of the Netherlands
Jean Lesage
Alia al-Hussein
Beatrix of the Netherlands
Rafael Hernández Marín
Rafael Núñez
Rajiv Gandhi
Ilan Ramon and Assaf Ramon
Ramón Villeda Morales
Queen Sofía of Spain
Diagoras of Rhodes
Rick Husband
Richard Pearse
Robert J. Miller
Robert Mugabe
FranceRoland Garros, aviator
Ronald Reagan
Sgt. Guy Wallace Rosecrans
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Sabiha Gökçen
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sam Ratulangi, first Governor of Sulawesi, Indonesian national hero
Saint Giles
Donald Sangster
Rosalía de Castro
Alberto Santos-Dumont
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Chris Hadfield
John Diefenbaker
Kenneth Ingalls Sawyer, road commissioner
Şerafettin Elçi
Shah Jalal
Shah Amanat
Shah Makhdum Rupos
Alexander Pushkin
Igor Sikorsky
Silvio Pettirossi
Simón Bolívar
Simón Bolívar
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam
Seretse Khama
Rocky Gutierrez, former mayor
Nuri Demirağ
Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta, founding fathers of
Guru Ram Das, fourth Sikh guru and founder of the city of Amritsar
Lachlan Stewart, ancestor of land donor
Albert Bond Lambert
Manfred Rommel
Salahuddin Abdul Aziz, Sultan of Selangor
Sultan Abdul Halim of Kedah
Sultan Azlan Shah of Perak
Sultan Ahmad Shah of Pahang
Sultan Hasanuddin, Indonesian national hero
Iskandar Muda, Indonesian national hero
Ismail Petra, Sultan of Kelantan
Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin II, Indonesian national hero
Mahmud Al-Muktafi Billah, Sultan of Terengganu
Sultan Syarif Kasim II, former Sultan of Siak, Indonesian national hero
Sultan Thaha, Indonesian national hero from Jambi
Süleyman Demirel
Sydney (Kingsford Smith) AirportSydneyAustraliaCharles Kingsford Smith
Clarence E. Hancock
Ted Stevens
Ruhollah Khomeini
Rodolfo Marsh Martin
Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmund Hillary
Anton "Tony" Hulman, Jr.
Theodore F. Green
Thomas Sankara
Mother Teresa
Lester B. Pearson
Touat Cheikh (Sheikh) Sidi Mohamed Belkebir
Toussaint Louverture
Traian Vuia
Vincenzo Florio Sr.
Trent Lott
King Tribhuvan of Nepal, Bir Bikram Shah Dev
John H. Tweed
Arthur Cutts Willard
Václav Havel
Vere Bird
Marco Polo
Venustiano Carranza
Vincenzo Magliocco
Frédéric Chopin
John Foster Dulles
Western Sydney International (Nancy-Bird Walton) AirportSydneyAustraliaNancy Bird Walton
John Whitford
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Wiley Post–Will Rogers Memorial AirportUtqiagvik United States: AlaskaWiley Post and Will Rogers
Will Rogers
William P. Hobby
William R. Fairchild, airport supervisor
William T. Piper
Homer Witham
Steve Wittman
Chief Hosea Kutako, led the struggle for Namibian independence
James Armstrong Richardson
Will Keith Kellogg
Chuck Yeager
Yuri Gagarin
Willy Brandt
Federico García Lorca
Muhammad Zainuddin Abdul Madjid

Former names and names of closed airports

Astor Piazzolla International Airport, Mar del Plata, Argentina: formerly Brigadier General Bartolomé de la Colina International Airport, changed in August, 2008
  • Baghdad International Airport, Baghdad, Iraq : formerly Saddam International Airport, named for Saddam Hussein
  • Bole International Airport, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia : formerly Haile Selassie I International Airport, named for Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia
  • Buyant-Ukhaa International Airport, Ulan Bator, Mongolia : formerly Chinggis Khaan International Airport, which is given to a new airport
  • Cape Town International Airport, Cape Town, South Africa : formerly D.F. Malan Airport, named for Daniel François Malan
  • Clark International Airport, Clark Freeport Zone, Philippines : formerly Diosdado Macapagal International Airport, named for Diosdado Macapagal
  • Doncaster Sheffield Airport : formerly Robin Hood Airport Doncaster Sheffield
  • Durban International Airport, Durban, South Africa : formerly Louis Botha Airport, named for Louis Botha; renamed in 1995 and closed in 2010
    Edmonton City Centre (Blatchford Field) Airport, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada: closed, named for Kenneth Alexander Blatchford El Alto International Airport, La Paz, Bolivia: formerly John F. Kennedy International Airport
  • José Joaquín de Olmedo International Airport, Guayaquil, Ecuador : formerly Simón Bolívar International Airport, named for Simón Bolívar
  • Haluoleo Airport, Kendari, Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia : formerly Wolter Monginsidi Airport, named for Robert Wolter Mongisidi
  • Harry Reid International Airport, Paradise, Nevada, United States : formerly McCarran International Airport, named for Pat McCarran ; changed in 2021
  • Kai Tak Airport, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China : closed, named after two plutocrats Kai Ho and Au Tak
  • Kimberley Airport, Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa : formerly B. J. Vorster Airport, named for B. J. Vorster
  • Meigs Field, Chicago, Illinois, United States : closed, named for Merrill C. Meigs
  • Mati Airport, Mati City, Philippines: formerly Imelda R. Marcos Airport
  • OR Tambo International Airport, Johannesburg, South Africa : formerly Jan Smuts International Airport, named for Jan Smuts
  • Reno–Tahoe International Airport : formerly Cannon International Airport named for senator Howard W. Cannon
  • San Diego International Airport : formerly Lindbergh Field named for aviator Charles Lindbergh
  • Senai International Airport, Johor Bahru, Malaysia : formerly Sultan Ismail International Airport
  • Skopje International Airport, Skopje, North Macedonia : formerly Skopje Alexander the Great Airport, named for Alexander the Great
  • Stapleton International Airport, Denver, Colorado, United States : closed, named for Denver mayor Benjamin F. Stapleton
  • Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport, Taoyuan, Taiwan : formerly Chiang Kai-shek International Airport, named for Chiang Kai-shek
  • Velana International Airport, Maldives : formerly Ibrahim Nasir International Airport, named for Ibrahim Nasir and renamed in 2017, after the family house name of Ibrahim Nasir
  • See also

    Notes and References

    1. Web site: Dallas, Texas Love Field Airport. Dallas-lovefield.com. June 10, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160606090419/http://www.dallas-lovefield.com/love-notes-history.html. June 6, 2016. dead.