This is a list of waves named after people (eponymous waves).
| Wave | Field | Person(s) named after | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Magnetohydrodynamics | Hannes Alfvén | ||
| Solid state physics, condensed matter physics | Felix Bloch | ||
| Quantum physics | Louis de Broglie | ||
| Finance | Ralph Nelson Elliott | ||
| Water waves | Michael Faraday | ||
| Gerstner wave[1] | Water waves, oceanography | František Josef Gerstner | |
| Oceanography, atmospheric dynamics | Lord Kelvin | ||
| Acoustics, elastic waves | Horace Lamb | ||
| Plasma physics | Irving Langmuir | ||
| Elastodynamics, surface waves | Augustus Edward Hough Love | ||
| Fluid dynamics | Ernst Mach | ||
| Surface acoustic waves, seismology | Lord Rayleigh and Horace Lamb | ||
| Meteorology, oceanography | Carl-Gustaf Rossby | ||
| Surface gravity waves, water waves | George Gabriel Stokes | ||
| Stability of laminar flows | Walter Tollmien and Hermann Schlichting |