This is a list of islands known to be named after individual people. It details the name of the island, its location and eponym.
| Island | Country or location | Eponym |
|---|---|---|
| Ackerman Island | Joseph Ackerman | |
| Agios Efstratios | Saint Eustratius (Όσιος Ευστράτιος ο Θαυματουργός), who lived on the island in the 9th century as an exile, because he was opposed to the iconoclastic policies of the Byzantine Emperor Leo the Armenian | |
| Agios Georgios | Saint George | |
| Alejandro Selkirk Island | Alexander Selkirk | |
| Alexander Island | Alexander I of Russia | |
| Allen Island | John Allen | |
| Amherst Island | Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst | |
| Amherst Island | Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst | |
| Amund Ringnes Island | Amund Ringnes | |
| Annenkov Island | Mikhail Annenkov | |
| Annette Island | Annette Whitney Dall | |
| Axel Heiberg Island | Axel Heiberg | |
| Baffin Island | William Baffin | |
| Bainbridge Island | Commodore William Bainbridge | |
| Baker Island | Captain Michael Baker | |
| Ball's Pyramid | Lieutenant Henry Ball | |
| Banks Island | Joseph Banks | |
| Baranof Island | Alexander Andreyevich Baranov | |
| Barrow Island | Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet | |
| Bartolomé Island | Sir Bartholomew James Sulivan | |
| Bathurst Island | Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst | |
| Bathurst Island | Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst | |
| Beauchene Island | Jacques Gouin de Beauchêne | |
| Bedford Island | Thomas Bedford | |
| Belcher Islands | Edward Belcher | |
| Bellingshausen Island | Fabian von Bellingshausen | |
| Bentinck Island | Lord George Bentinck (possibly) | |
| Bering Island | Vitus Bering | |
| Berkner Island | Lloyd Berkner | |
| Bermuda | Juan de Bermúdez | |
| Bernard Island | Claude Bernard | |
| Bernier Island | Pierre-François Bernier (presumably) | |
| Bismarck Archipelago | Otto von Bismarck | |
| Bjarnason Island | Matt Bjarnason | |
| Blakely Island | Johnston Blakeley | |
| Block Island | Adriaen Block | |
| Borden Island, Northwest Territories/Nunavut | Robert Borden | |
| Bougainville | Louis Antoine de Bougainville | |
| Boularderie Island | Louis-Simon le Poupet de la Boularderie | |
| Bouvet Island | Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier | |
| Bowen Island, British Columbia | James Bowen (Royal Navy officer) | |
| Bowen Island (Jervis Bay) | Richard Bowen RN | |
| Bowyer Island, British Columbia | Sir George Bowyer, 5th Baronet | |
| Brenton Island | Jahleel Brenton | |
| Bristol Island | Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol | |
| Brock Island, Northwest Territories | Reginald W. Brock | |
| Brown Island, Northwest Territories | John G. Brown | |
| Bruny Island | Bruni d'Entrecasteaux | |
| Burnaby Island | Robert Burnaby | |
| Busta Rhymes Island | Busta Rhymes | |
| Bylot Island | Robert Bylot | |
| Camano Island | Jacinto Caamaño | |
| Campobello Island | Lord William Campbell (with name Italianized) | |
| Cape Chidley Islands | John Chidley | |
| Carleton Island | Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester | |
| Charles Alexander Island | Charles Alexander | |
| Charles Island | Charles Deal | |
| Charlton Island | Charles I of England | |
| Charron Island | François Charron | |
| Cheeseman Island | Thomas Frederick Cheeseman | |
| Chichagof Island | Vasili Chichagov | |
| Chirikof Island | Alexei Chirikov | |
| Choiseul Island | Étienne François, duc de Choiseul | |
| Churchill Island | John Churchill | |
| Clapperton Island | Hugh Clapperton | |
| Clark Island | Lieutenant Ralph Clark | |
| Clark Island | Midshipman John Clark | |
| Clarke Island | William Clarke | |
| Clerke Rocks | Charles Clerke | |
| Coats Island | William Coats | |
| Cockburn Island | Francis Cockburn | |
| Colville Island | Andrew Colville | |
| Cook Islands | James Cook | |
| Cook Island | James Cook | |
| Cooper Island | Robert Palliser Cooper | |
| Cornwallis Island | William Cornwallis | |
| Cortes Island, British Columbia | Hernán Cortés | |
| Crown Prince Frederik Island | ||
| Crozier Island | Francis Crozier | |
| Curtis Island | Roger Curtis | |
| Dall Island | William Healey Dall | |
| Darwin Island | Charles Darwin | |
| Island Davaar | Saint Barr | |
| Dawson Island | See Dawson (surname) | |
| Decatur Island | Stephen Decatur | |
| Delarof Islands | Evstratii Ivanovich Delarov | |
| D'Entrecasteaux Islands | Bruni D'Entrecasteaux | |
| Diego Garcia | Diego García de Moguer | |
| Diego Ramírez Islands | Diego Ramírez | |
| Digges Islands | Dudley Digges | |
| Diomede Islands | Saint Diomedes | |
| Dirk Hartog Island | Dirk Hartog | |
| Dorre Island | Peter Dorre | |
| Douglas Island | John Douglas | |
| Douglas Island | James Douglas (presumably) | |
| D'Oyly Carte Island | Richard D'Oyly Carte | |
| Doumer Island | Paul Doumer | |
| Drake's Island | Francis Drake | |
| Drummond Island | Gordon Drummond | |
| Dundas Island | Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville | |
| Dundas Island | Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville | |
| Durell's Island | Captain Thomas Durell | |
| D'Urville Island | Jules Dumont d'Urville | |
| Edgell Island | Captain Edgell | |
| Edgeøya | Thomas Edge | |
| Eilean Chaluim Chille | Saint Columba | |
| Eilean Donan | Saint Donan | |
| Ellef Ringnes Island | Ellef Ringnes | |
| Ellesmere Island | Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere | |
| Ellis Island | Samuel Ellis (colonial New Yorker) | |
| Ernst Thälmann Island | Ernst Thälmann | |
| Faure Island | Pierre Faure | |
| Fergusson Island | Sir James Fergusson, 6th Baronet | |
| Fernandina Island | Ferdinand II of Aragon | |
| Fernando de Noronha | Fernão de Loronha | |
| Fisher Island | Carl G. Fisher | |
| Flaherty Island | Robert J. Flaherty | |
| Flinders Island | Matthew Flinders | |
| Floreana Island | Juan José Flores | |
| Fort Denison | William Denison | |
| Fox Island | J.L. Fox | |
| Franklin Island | Sir John Franklin | |
| Franklin Island | Sir John Franklin | |
| Franz Josef Land | Franz Joseph I | |
| Fraser Island | Eliza Fraser | |
| Fraser Island | Robert James Fraser | |
| Freeman Island | J.D. Freeman | |
| Frobisher's Farthest | Martin Frobisher | |
| Frost Island | Boatswain John Frost | |
| Galiano Island, British Columbia | Dionisio Alcalá Galiano | |
| Gambier Island, British Columbia | James Gambier, 1st Baron Gambier | |
| Gambier Islands | James Gambier, 1st Baron Gambier | |
| Geiger Key | Henry Huling Geiger | |
| Graham Island | Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet | |
| Graham Bell Island | Alexander Graham Bell | |
| Gravina Island | Federico Carlos Gravina y Nápoli | |
| Gravina Islands | Federico Carlos Gravina y Nápoli | |
| Gribbell Island | Rev. Francis Barrow Gribbell | |
| Grindal Island | Thomas Grindall | |
| Guemes Island | Juan Vicente de Güemes, 2nd Count of Revillagigedo | |
| Guido Island | Carlos Guido Spano | |
| Guss Island | Guss Hoffmaster | |
| Guy Fawkes Island | Guy Fawkes | |
| Hall Island | Charles Francis Hall | |
| Hannah Island | Hannah (Tookoolito) | |
| Hans Island | Hans Hendrik | |
| Hantzsch Island | Bernhard Hantzsch | |
| Harstine Island | Lt. Henry J. Hartstene | |
| Havelock Island | Henry Havelock | |
| Hawkesbury Island | Charles Jenkinson, 1st Earl of Liverpool (Lord Hawkesbury) | |
| Heard Island and McDonald Islands | William Heard and John McDonald | |
| Hearst Island | William Randolph Hearst | |
| Henderson Island | Captain Henderson EIC | |
| Hendrik Island | Hendrik Olsen | |
| Henry Island | Henry Wilkes | |
| Henry Lawrence Island | Henry Montgomery Lawrence | |
| Herron Island | Lewis Herron | |
| Hooker Island | Joseph Dalton Hooker | |
| Hopkins Island | John Hopkins | |
| Hormuz Island | Hormizd I | |
| Hornby Island, British Columbia | Geoffrey Hornby | |
| Howe Island, Ontario | William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe | |
| Hutt Island, British Columbia | John Hutt (Royal Navy officer) | |
| Île Bizard, Quebec | Jacques Bizard | |
| Île d'Orléans, Quebec | Henri II, Duke of Orléans | |
| Île Jésus, Quebec | Jesus | |
| Île Perrot | François-Marie Perrot | |
| Île Saint-Louis | Louis IX of France | |
| Îles Laval | François de Laval | |
| Inchcolm | Saint Columba | |
| Inch Kenneth | Saint Kenneth | |
| Inchmarnock | Saint Mearnag | |
| Inchmurrin | Saint Meadhran/Mirren | |
| Innis Chonan | Saint Conan | |
| Isabela Island | Isabella I of Spain | |
| Island of Mozambique | Mussa Bin Bique | |
| Isle La Motte | Pierre La Motte | |
| Isle Martin | Saint Martin | |
| Jackson Island | Frederick George Jackson | |
| Jahleel Island | Jahleel Brenton | |
| James Island | Reuben James | |
| James Ross Island | James Clark Ross | |
| Jan Mayen Island | Jan Jacobs May van Schellinkhout | |
| Jens Munk Island | Jens Munk | |
| Joe Island | Joe (Ipiirvik or Ebierbing) | |
| John Lawrence Island | John Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence | |
| Johnston Atoll | Captain Charles J. Johnston | |
| Jones Island | Jacob Jones | |
| Jorge Montt Island | Jorge Montt | |
| Juan de Nova Island | João da Nova | |
| Juan Fernández Islands | Juan Fernández (explorer) | |
| Keats Island (British Columbia) | Richard Goodwin Keats | |
| Kennedy Island | John F. Kennedy | |
| Keppel Island | Admiral Augustus Keppel | |
| Kerguelen | Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen de Trémarec | |
| Kermadec Islands | Jean-Michel Huon de Kermadec | |
| Ketron Island | William Kittson (name badly misspelt by cartographers) | |
| Kilian Island | Bernhard Kilian | |
| King George Island | George III of the United Kingdom | |
| King George Islands | George III of the United Kingdom | |
| King George Islands | George III of the United Kingdom | |
| King Island | Philip Gidley King | |
| King William Island | William IV of the United Kingdom | |
| Kirkland Island | John Kirkland | |
| Korovin Island | Ivan Korovin (presumably) | |
| Kupreanof Island | Ivan Antonovich Kupreianov | |
| Kupriyanov Islands | Ivan Kupriyanov | |
| Lady Franklin Island | Lady Jane Franklin | |
| Lady Julia Percy Island | Lady Julia Helen Percy | |
| Lanzarote | Lancelotto Malocello | |
| Lemesurier Island | Midshipman William Le Mesurier | |
| Lennox Island | Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond | |
| Lewis Island | George Lewis | |
| Little Island | John Little | |
| Little Wellington Island | Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington | |
| Loks Land | Michael Lok | |
| Lockwood Island | James Booth Lockwood | |
| Lopez Island | Gonzalo López de Haro | |
| Lord Howe Island | Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe | |
| Louise Island | Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll | |
| Lulu Island | Lulu Sweet | |
| Macauley Island | George Mackenzie Macaulay | |
| MacDonald Island | James F. MacDonald | |
| Mackenzie King Island | William Lyon Mackenzie King | |
| MacKlintok Island | Francis Leopold McClintock | |
| Macquarie Island | Lachlan Macquarie | |
| Magdalen Islands | Madeleine Fontaine, seigneur François Doublet's wife | |
| Malcolm Island | Pulteney Malcolm | |
| Manoel Island | António Manoel de Vilhena | |
| Mansel Island | Robert Mansell | |
| Manuel Rodriguez Island | Manuel Rodríguez Erdoíza | |
| Marchena Island | Frey Antonio de Marchena | |
| Margaret Island | Saint Margaret of Hungary | |
| Mauritius | Maurice of Nassau | |
| Mayne Island | Richard Mayne | |
| McIntyre Island | Robert McIntyre, USN | |
| McNeil Island | William Henry McNeill | |
| McNish Island | Harry McNish | |
| Melville Island | Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville | |
| Melville Island | Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville | |
| Milne Land | David Milne | |
| Mitkof Island | Admiral Prokofy Mitkov | |
| Money Island | William Taylor Money | |
| Montagu Island | John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich | |
| Moresby Island | Fairfax Moresby | |
| Moresby Island | Fairfax Moresby | |
| Moreton Island | James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton | |
| Mornington Island | Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley (also Earl of Mornington) | |
| Moore Island | Elwood S. Moore | |
| Mudge Island | William Fitzwilliam Mudge | |
| Nansen Island | Fridtjof Nansen | |
| Nansen Island | Fridtjof Nansen | |
| Necker Island | Johannes de Neckere | |
| Necker Island | Jacques Necker | |
| Neil Island | James George Smith Neill | |
| Nicholson Island | R.T. Nicholson | |
| Normanby Island | George Phipps, 2nd Marquess of Normanby | |
| North Rona | Saint Ronan | |
| North Seymour Island | Lord Hugh Seymour | |
| North Tweedsmuir Island | John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir | |
| Ogasawara Islands | Ogasawara Sadayori | |
| Orcas Island | Juan Vicente de Güemes, 2nd Count of Revillagigedo, whose full name included the name Horcasitas | |
| Ostrovul Sfintu Gheorghe | Saint George | |
| Palmerston Island | Henry Temple, 2nd Viscount Palmerston | |
| Parker Island | Lieutenant George Ferdinand Hastings Parker | |
| Pavlof Islands | Pitka Pavlof | |
| Pearse Island | William Alfred Rombulow Pearse, RN | |
| Pender Island | Daniel Pender | |
| Peter Island | Pieter Adriensen | |
| Peter I Island | Peter I of Russia | |
| Phillip Island | Arthur Phillip | |
| Pickersgill Islands | Richard Pickersgill | |
| Picton | Thomas Picton | |
| Pitt Island | William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham | |
| Porcher Island | Edwin Augustus Porcher[1] | |
| Pribilof Islands | Gavriil Pribilof | |
| Prince Leopold Island | Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld | |
| Prince of Wales Island (Alaska) | George Augustus Frederick, Prince of Wales | |
| Prince of Wales Island (Nunavut), | Albert Edward, Prince of Wales | |
| Prince of Wales Island (Queensland) | George Augustus Frederick, Prince of Wales | |
| Prince Charles Island | Charles, Prince of Wales | |
| Prince Edward Island | Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, father of Queen Victoria | |
| Prince Patrick Island | Prince Arthur William Patrick, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn | |
| Prinsesse Dagmar Island | Princess Dagmar of Denmark | |
| Príncipe Island | Afonso, Prince of Portugal | |
| Quadra Island, British Columbia | Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra | |
| Queen Adelaide Archipelago | Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen | |
| Queen Elizabeth Islands | Queen Elizabeth II | |
| René-Levasseur Island | René Levasseur | |
| Revillagigedo Island | Juan Vicente de Güemes, 2nd Count of Revillagigedo | |
| Revillagigedo Islands | Juan Vicente de Güemes, 2nd Count of Revillagigedo | |
| Rikers Island | Abraham Rycken (Dutch settler) | |
| Robinson Island | Sir Hercules Robinson, former Governor of Hong Kong | |
| Robinson Crusoe Island | Robinson Crusoe (fictional character) | |
| Rob Roy Island | Rob Roy MacGregor | |
| Roderick Island | Roderick Finlayson | |
| Roosevelt Island | Franklin D. Roosevelt | |
| Roosevelt Island | Franklin D. Roosevelt | |
| Ross Island | James Clark Ross | |
| Rothschild Island | Édouard Alphonse de Rothschild | |
| Rudolf Island | Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria | |
| Sabine Island | Edward Sabine | |
| Saint Barthélemy | Bartholomew Columbus | |
| St Catherine's Island | Catherine of Alexandria | |
| Saint Helena | Helena of Constantinople | |
| St Ignace Island | Ignatius of Loyola | |
| Saint John | John the Apostle | |
| Saint Kitts | Saint Christopher | |
| St. Lawrence Island, Alaska | Lawrence of Rome | |
| Saint Lucia | Saint Lucy | |
| Saint Martin | Martin of Tours | |
| St Martin's | Martin of Tours | |
| St Mary's | Saint Mary | |
| St Michael's Isle | Saint Michael | |
| St Ninian's Isle | Saint Ninian | |
| St Patrick's Isle | Saint Patrick | |
| St Paul's Island | Saint Paul of Tarsus | |
| Saint Pierre Island | Saint Peter | |
| St Serf's Inch | Saint Serf | |
| Saint Tudwal's Islands | Tudwal | |
| Saint Vincent | Vincent of Saragossa | |
| Salisbury Island | Rollin D. Salisbury | |
| San Andrés Island | Saint Andrew | |
| San Clemente Island, California | Saint Clement | |
| San Cristóbal Island | Saint Christopher | |
| San Domino | Saint Domnius | |
| San Juan Island, Washington | Juan Vicente de Güemes, 2nd Count of Revillagigedo | |
| San Juan Islands, Washington | Juan Vicente de Güemes, 2nd Count of Revillagigedo | |
| San Niccolò | Saint Nicholas | |
| San Nicolas Island, California | Saint Nicholas | |
| San Pietro Island | Saint Peter | |
| Santa Catalina Island, California | Catherine of Alexandria | |
| Santa Isabel Island | Saint Elizabeth | |
| Santa Luzia | Saint Lucy | |
| Santa Maria Island | Saint Mary | |
| Sant'Antioco | Saint Antiochus | |
| Santiago Island | Saint James | |
| Santo Antão Island | Saint Anthony | |
| Santorini | Saint Irene | |
| São Jorge Island | Saint George | |
| São Miguel Island | Saint Michael | |
| São Nicolau Island | Saint Nicholas | |
| São Tomé Island | Saint Thomas | |
| São Vicente Island | Vincent of Saragossa | |
| Saunders Island, South Sandwich Islands | Charles Saunders (Royal Navy officer) | |
| Saunders Island, Greenland | James Saunders, RN | |
| Schouten Island | Joost Schouten | |
| Seychelles | Jean Moreau de Séchelles | |
| Shaw Island | John Shaw | |
| Shaw Islands | John E. Shaw | |
| Shumagin Islands | Nikita Shumagin | |
| Sinclair Island (Washington) | Arthur Sinclair | |
| Sint Eustatius | Saint Eustace | |
| Sir Hugh Rose Island | Hugh Rose, 1st Baron Strathnairn | |
| Sir William Peel Island | Sir William Peel | |
| Smith Island | William Smith | |
| Smith Island | William Smith (not same as above) | |
| Smith Island | John Smith | |
| Solander Islands | Daniel Solander | |
| Somerville Island | Crichton Somerville | |
| Spieden Island | Purser William Speiden | |
| Søren Norby's Island | Søren Norby | |
| South Georgia | George III of the United Kingdom | |
| South Tweedsmuir Island | John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir | |
| Starbuck Island | Valentine Starbuck | |
| Stefansson Island | Vilhjalmur Stefansson | |
| Stewart Island | William W. Stewart | |
| Stretch Island | Samuel Stretch | |
| Stuart Island | Frederick D. Stuart | |
| Sverdrup Islands | Otto Sverdrup | |
| Sveti Đorđe | Saint George | |
| Sveti Nikola | Saint Nicholas | |
| Sveti Stefan | Saint Stephen | |
| Sweyn Holm | Sweyn Asleifsson | |
| Tagg's Island | Tom Tagg | |
| Tasmania | Abel Tasman | |
| Tanner Island | William G. Tanner | |
| Taylor Island | William Taylor | |
| Tennent Islands | James Emerson Tennent | |
| Theodore Roosevelt Island | Theodore Roosevelt | |
| Thistle Island | John Thistle | |
| Tobias Island (Tuppiap Qeqertaa) | Tobias Gabrielsen | |
| Townshend Island | Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney | |
| Traill Island | Thomas Stewart Traill | |
| Traversay Islands | Jean-Baptiste Prevost de Sansac, Marquis de Traversay | |
| Tristan da Cunha | Tristão da Cunha | |
| Truss's Island | Charles Truss | |
| U Thant Island | U Thant | |
| Valdes Island | Cayetano Valdés y Flores | |
| Vancouver Island | George Vancouver | |
| Vashon Island | James Vashon | |
| Vendovi Island | Ro Veidovi | |
| Victoria Island | Queen Victoria | |
| Waldron Island | Richard Russell Waldron or Thomas Westbrook Waldron | |
| Wales Island | William Wales | |
| Ward Hunt Island | George Ward Hunt | |
| Weddell Island | James Weddell | |
| Wellesley Islands | Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley | |
| Wellington Island | Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington | |
| Whidbey Island | Joseph Whidbey | |
| Wilson Island | W. Stanley Wilson | |
| Wilson Island | Archdale Wilson | |
| Wolf Island | Theodor Wolf | |
| Wolfe Island | James Wolfe | |
| Wollaston Islands | William Hyde Wollaston | |
| Woronkofski Island | Lieutenant Woronkovski | |
| Wrangel Island | Ferdinand von Wrangel | |
| Yakobi Island | Ivan Iakobi | |
| Yos Sudarso Island | Yos Sudarso | |
| Zarembo Island | Dionizy Zaremba | |
| Zavodovski Island | Lieutenant Ivan Zavodovski |
This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (August 2008) |
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