List of eponyms of airports
- List of eponyms of airports
This is a list of eponyms of airports. The list includes the name of the airport, its location, and person after whom the airport is named.
Current airports
Former names and names of closed airports
;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;José Joaquín de Olmedo International Airport, Guayaquil, Ecuador : formerly "Simón Bolívar International Airport", named for Simón Bolívar;Kai Tak Airport, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China : closed, named after two plutocrats Ho Kai and Au Tak;Kimberley Airport, Kimberley, South Africa : formerly "B. J. Vorster Airport", named for B.J. Vorster;Meigs Field, Chicago, Illinois, United States : closed, named for Merrill C. Meigs;OR Tambo International Airport, Johannesburg, South Africa : formerly "Jan Smuts International Airport", named for Jan Smuts;Sydney Airport, Sydney, Australia : formerly "Kingsford Smith International Airport", named for Sir Charles Kingsford Smith;Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport, Taipei, Taiwan : formerly "Chiang Kai-shek International Airport", named for Chiang Kai-shek
ee also
*List of eponyms
*List of places named after people
*List of airports
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