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This list of chemical elements named after people includes elements named for people both directly and indirectly. Of the 118 elements, 19 are connected with the names of 20 people. 15 elements were named to honor 16 scientists (as curium honours both Marie and Pierre Curie). Four others have indirect connection to the names of non-scientists. Only gadolinium and samarium occur in nature; the rest are man-made.
| Element | Individual(s) | |||||||
| Z | Name | Symbol | Discovery | Immediate namesake | Name | Specialty | Born–Died | Nationality |
| 62 | Samarium | Sm | 1879 | the mineral samarskite | Vasili Samarsky-Bykhovets | Mining engineer | 1803–1870 | Russian |
| 64 | Gadolinium | Gd | 1886 | the mineral gadolinite | Johan Gadolin | Scientist | 1760–1852 | Finnish |
| 95 | Americium | Am | 1944 | the continents of the Americas | Amerigo Vespucci | Explorer | 1454–1512 | Italian |
| 96 | Curium | Cm | 1944 | Marie Curie | Scientist | 1867–1934 | Polish–French | |
| Pierre Curie | Scientist | 1859–1906 | French | |||||
| 97 | Berkelium | Bk | 1949 | Berkeley, California and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | George Berkeley | Philosopher | 1685–1753 | Irish |
| 99 | Einsteinium | Es | 1952 | Albert Einstein | Scientist | 1879–1955 | German–Swiss | |
| 100 | Fermium | Fm | 1953 | Enrico Fermi | Scientist | 1901–1954 | Italian–American | |
| 101 | Mendelevium | Md | 1955 | Dmitri Mendeleev | Scientist | 1834–1907 | Russian | |
| 102 | Nobelium | No | 1966 | Alfred Nobel | Scientist | 1833–1896 | Swedish | |
| 103 | Lawrencium | Lr | 1961 | Ernest Lawrence | Scientist | 1901–1958 | American | |
| 104 | Rutherfordium | Rf | 1969 | Ernest Rutherford | Scientist | 1871–1937 | New Zealand | |
| 106 | Seaborgium | Sg | 1974 | Glenn T. Seaborg | Scientist | 1912–1999 | American | |
| 107 | Bohrium | Bh | 1981 | Niels Bohr | Scientist | 1885–1962 | Danish | |
| 109 | Meitnerium | Mt | 1982 | Lise Meitner | Scientist | 1878–1968 | Austrian–Swedish | |
| 111 | Roentgenium | Rg | 1994 | Wilhelm Röntgen | Scientist | 1845–1923 | German | |
| 112 | Copernicium | Cn | 1996 | Nicolaus Copernicus | Scientist | 1473–1543 | Polish–German | |
| 114 | Flerovium | Fl | 1999 | the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research | Georgy Flyorov | Scientist | 1913–1990 | Russian |
| 116 | Livermorium | Lv | 2000 | Livermore, California, and Lawrence Livermore Lab | Robert Livermore | Land owner | 1799–1858 | English–Mexican |
| 118 | Oganesson | Og | 2002 | Yuri Oganessian | Scientist | 1933– | Russian-Armenian | |