This is a list of eponyms in sports, i.e. sports terms named after people.
American football
Cleveland Browns: The Cleveland Browns were named after their first coach, Paul Brown. Brown would later become the first coach of the Cincinnati Bengals, which shared the same color scheme as the Browns in part due to Brown. Rooney Rule: a National Football League policy that requires league teams to interview ethnic-minority candidates for head coaching and senior football operation jobs. Named after Dan Rooney, the former owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers and chairman of the NFL's diversity committee when the policy was created in 2003.
Artistic gymnastics
Amanar (vault) – Yurchenko family vault, roundoff on and 2 twists off, after Simona Amânar (Romania) Araújo (balance beam (dismount)) – salto forward stretched with 2 twist, after Heine Araújo (Brazil) Belyavskiy (parallel bars) – double front salto dismount in piked position, after David Belyavskiy (Russia) Blanik (vault) – handspring forward on – double piked salto forward off, after Polish artistic gymnast Leszek Blanik (Poland) Borden (balance beam) – straddled piked jump from a side position or split jump done on balance beam with or turn, after Amanda Borden (US) Bhardwaj (uneven bars) – a backward flip (Pak salto) on the high bar with full-twist and then catches the low bar, after Mohini Bhardwaj (US) Bhavsar (still rings) – pull through momentary, front lever press to Maltese, after Raj Bhavsar (US) Bhavsar (parallel bars) – long hang swing forward, straddle cut backward, and regrasp with straight body at horizontal (Tippelt to long hang swing), after Raj Bhavsar (US) Bi turn (uneven bars) – after Bi Wenjing (China) Biles (floor exercise) – double layout with turn, after Simone Biles (US) Biles 2 (floor exercise) – triple-twisting double back tucked somersault, after Simone Biles (US) Biles (vault) — Yurchenko on into laid-out salto with 2/1 twists off, after Simone Biles (US) Biles (balance beam (dismount)) – double-twisting double back tucked somersault, after Simone Biles (US) Biles 2 (vault) — Yurchenko on into double piked somersault off, originated at the 2021 U.S.