List of islands named after people
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This is a list of islands named after people. It details the name of the island, its location and eponym.
- Alejandro Selkirk Island, Valparaíso Region, Chile – Alexander Selkirk
- Alexander Island, Antarctica – Alexander I of Russia
- Baffin Island, Canada – William Baffin
- Banks Island, Canada – Joseph Banks
- Bathurst Island, Canada – Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst
- Bering Island, Russia – Vitus Bering
- Berkner Island, Antarctica – Lloyd Berkner
- Block Island, United States – Adriaen Block
- Bougainville, Papua New Guinea – Louis Antoine de Bougainville
- Bouvet Island, Norway - Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier
- Bylot Island, Canada – Robert Bylot
- Cornwallis Island, Canada – William Cornwallis
- D'Oyly Carte Island, England, United Kingdom - Richard D'Oyly Carte
- Dawson Island, Magallanes Region, Chile - ?
- Diego Ramírez Islands, Magallanes Region, Chile - Diego Ramírez
- Ellesmere Island, Canada – Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere
- Ellis Island, United States – Samuel Ellis (colonial New Yorker)
- Ernst Thälmann Island, Cuba - Ernst Thälmann
- Fisher Island, Florida, United States – Carl G. Fisher
- Jan Mayen Island, Norway - Jan Mayen
- King William Island, Canada – William IV of the United Kingdom
- Little Wellington Island, Aysen Region, Chile – Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
- Mackenzie King Island, Canada – William Lyon Mackenzie King
- Mauritius, Indian Ocean - Maurice of Nassau
- Moresby Island, Canada – Fairfax Moresby
- Prince Charles Island, Canada – Charles, Prince of Wales
- Prince Edward Island, Canada - Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, father of Queen Victoria
- Rikers Island, New York City, United States – Abraham Rycken (Dutch settler)
- Robinson Island, Valparaíso Region, Chile – Robinson Crusoe
- Roosevelt Island, Antarctica – Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Roosevelt Island, New York City, United States – Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Rudolf Island, Russia – Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria
- Saint Helena, Atlantic Ocean - Helena of Constantinople
- St Patrick's Isle, Isle of Man, British Isles - Saint Patrick
- St Serf's Inch, Scotland, United Kingdom - Saint Serf
- South Georgia, Atlantic Ocean - George III of the United Kingdom
- Starbuck Island, Pacific Ocean – Valentine Starbuck
- Tasmania, Australia – Abel Tasman
- U Thant Island, New York City, United States – U Thant
- Vancouver Island, Canada – George Vancouver
- Wellington Island, Magallanes Region, Chile – Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
Former:
- Bedloe's Island, New York City, United States – Isaack Bedloo (merchant) – now Liberty Island
