47 plant species of Mexico and the southwestern U.S., including Ceanothus greggii (pictured), are named in honor of Josiah Gregg.
Here are 10 of them. Finding the rest is left as an excersize to the reader.
Acacia greggii
Amaranthus greggii
Leucaena greggii
Peniocereus greggii
Pinus greggii
Salvia greggii
Yucca filifera (not sure why wikipedia includes this one)
Conoclinium greggii
Dalea greggii
Ceanothus greggii
Getting something named after you can be a mixed blessing. Allegedly one academic wasn't too happy getting his name associated with a parasite, others felt that the suggested name was very fitting. OTOH, in medicine nobody seems troubled by diseases being named after them. As long as they aren't among the patients.
There isn'nt any Haloquadratum greggii.
Rita Hayworth's song and dance performance in Gilda helped demonstrate the stability of the newly invented strapless dress. The video below is according to youtube banned in Germany.
Armenian journalist, writer, and translator Rita Vorperian can speak seven languages. Obvious and not very creative pun coming: Hah! Pibbur knows more languages than that: BASIC, Pascal, C,C#, Lithp, Prolog, FORTRAN, SQL (including dialects PL/SQL and Transact-SQL), Javascript and PHP. And SIMPLE.
Pibbur who seems to become more and more like Alan Davies.