Names with eponym status in present-day anesthesia include Apgar, Bier, Bovie. Esmarch, Fick. Foley, Ganz, Hofmann. Huber, Joule, Luer, Macintosh. Magill, Mallampati, Miller, Ovassapian Pascal, Ringer, Seldinger, Sellick, Swan, Trendelenburg, Tuohy, Valsalva, and Yankauer. A discussion of the people behind the eponyms, which may make these commonly used terms more interesting, and provides a sense of the history of the specialty of anesthesia, is presented. (c) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.