An incomplete and infuriating list.

• PageRank (Larry Page)
• MySQL (My Widenius)
• Debian (two people named Deb and Ian)
• New Relic (anagram of Lew Cirne)
• Price Club (Sol Price)
• Taco Bell (Glen Bell)
• Westlake, Los Angeles (Henricus Wallace Westlake)
• Outerbridge Crossing (Eugenius Harvey Outerbridge)
• Main Street, San Francisco (Charles Main)
• Erlang (Agner Erlang)
• Mars (candy) (Franklin Mars)

A few additions that others have suggested:

• Snowflake, AZ (two people named Snow and Flake)
• Lake Mountain (George Lake)
• German chocolate cake (Samuel German)
• Baker’s Chocolate (Walter Baker)
• Unilever (Lever Brothers)

Even more, after this made the rounds again in 2024:

• Brown noise (Robert Brown)
• Southern blot (Edwin Southern)
• Smart & Final (Jim Smart, Hildane Final)
• Elo (Arpad Elo)
• Shrapnel (Henry Shrapnel)
• Leatherman (Timothy Leatherman)
• Max Factor (Max Factor)
• BernzOmatic torches (Otto Bernz)
• Waterfall Glen (Seymour Waterfall)
• Gasoline (John Cassell)
• ColorBrewer (Cynthia Brewer)
• Morgan Hill, CA (Hiram Morgan Hill)

Unfortunately, Rocket Lab does not seem to be named after seed investor/aerospace entrepreneur Mark Rocket.