List of verbs derived from personal names

Common

• Boycott
• To abstain from using, buying, or dealing with someone or some organisation as an expression of protest or as a means of coercion.
• From: Charles Boycott

• Burke
• To suffocate.
• From: William Burke

• Guillotine
• To execute somebody by decapitation with a guillotine.
• From: Joseph-Ignace Guillotin

• Lynch
• To execute without a proper legal trial.
• From: Charles Lynch, or (less probably) William Lynch

• Hoover
• To vacuum the floor.
• From: The Hoover Company

• Google
• To search Internet for information using a search engine (presumably google.com).
• From: Google Inc.

Less common

• bogart
• To selfishly keep all of something for oneself.
• From: Humphrey Bogart who is commonly seen with cigarettes, but rarely seen smoking.

• Bork
• To destroy a judicial nominee through a concerted attack on his character, background and philosophy.
• From: Robert Bork

• Bobbit
• To remove a man's penis.
• From: Lorena Bobbit

• Garn
• To vomit.
• From: Jake Garn

References

• onthemedia.org