The Brazilian football leagues feature a player named Mahatma Gandhi Heberpio Mattos Pires, often just known as Mahatma. He is appropriately not an attacker but a defender.
The city of Melbourne in Australia has a suburb named Travancore (anglicisation of Tiruvitāṅkūr) whose streets are also Indian-themed with names such as Lucknow St., Baroda St., Madura St., and Mangalore St.
In 1965, an American combined a black American Shorthairs with a sable Burmese to create a new breed of cat which she named Bombay. Bombays are sleek and muscular with shiny midnight-black coats.
After his first glimpse of Nanda Devi in 1948, the American mountaineering pioneer, Willi Unsoeld, dreamt of having a daughter named after the peak. 28 years later, his daughter, Nanda Devi Unsoeld, perished while climbing her namesake.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's nickname in the American media was "the giggling guru". He was given this epithet after he was seen giggling frequently on the Johnny Carson Show in 1969.
After solid, liquid, gas, and plasma, the fifth state of matter is known as Bose-Einstein Condensate. BEC is named after the Bengali physicist, Satyendranath Bose and Albert Einstein.