People's names as place names

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Adelaide, South Australia is named after William IV's wife.

Victoria on the island of Gozo, Malta (was Rabat, but there's one of those on the island of Malta). In fact, there's just a large number of Victoria-named places that come from the Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland, Empress of India, etc, etc - the Australian state, the waterfall, etc

All the Alexandrias dotted over the Greek empire, likewise.

Telford after engineer Thomas is a new (even for America - 1970s) town by his Ironbridge and on his Holyhead Road.

Many English places are named after families or people, but have been morphed over time. Milton Keynes is not named after John Milton and John Maynard Keynes (which is a fairly common myth), but after the village of Middleton, whose manor was owned by the de Cahaines family, and got called Middleton de Cahaines to distinguish it from other Middletons and that got tweaked to Milton Keynes through mispronunciation and shortening.