List of eponyms of airports


This is a list of eponymously named airports.
It includes the name of the airport, the facility's location, and the person after whom the airport is named.

Current airports

AirportCityLocationEponym
El Dorado Luís Carlos Galán Sarmiento International AirportBogotá, D.C.Colombia

Former names and names of closed airports

;Astor Piazzolla International Airport, Mar del Plata, Argentina: formerly Brigadier General Bartolomé de la Colina International Airport, changed in August, 2008
;Bader Field, Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States : named for mayor Edward L. Bader, closed 2006
;Baghdad International Airport, Baghdad, Iraq : formerly Saddam International Airport, named for Saddam Hussein
;Bole International Airport, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia : formerly Haile Selassie I International Airport, named for Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia
;Buyant-Ukhaa International Airport, Ulan Bator, Mongolia : formerly Chinggis Khaan International Airport, which is given to a new airport
;Cape Town International Airport, Cape Town, South Africa : formerly D.F. Malan Airport, named for Daniel François Malan
;Clark International Airport, Clark Freeport Zone, Philippines: formerly Diosdado Macapagal International Airport, named for Diosdado Macapagal
;Doncaster Sheffield Airport : formerly Robin Hood Airport Doncaster Sheffield
;Durban International Airport, Durban, South Africa : formerly Louis Botha Airport, named for Louis Botha; renamed in 1995 and closed in 2010
;Edmonton City Centre (Blatchford Field) Airport, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada: closed, named for Kenneth Alexander Blatchford
;El Alto International Airport, La Paz, Bolivia: formerly John F. Kennedy International Airport
;Floyd Bennett Field, Brooklyn, New York, United States : named after Floyd Bennett, civilian use ended 1939
;John Rodgers Airport, Hawaii, United States : former name of two airports named after John Rodgers (naval officer, born 1881)
;José Joaquín de Olmedo International Airport, Guayaquil, Ecuador : formerly Simón Bolívar International Airport, named for Simón Bolívar
;Haluoleo Airport, Kendari, Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia : formerly Wolter Monginsidi Airport, named for Robert Wolter Mongisidi
;Harry Reid International Airport, Paradise, Nevada, United States : formerly McCarran International Airport, named for Pat McCarran ; changed in 2021
;Kabul International Airport, Kabul, Afghanistan : formerly Hamid Karzai International Airport, named for Hamid Karzai
;Kai Tak Airport, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China : closed, named after two plutocrats Kai Ho and Au Tak
;Kimberley Airport, Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa : formerly B. J. Vorster Airport, named for B. J. Vorster
;Meigs Field, Chicago, Illinois, United States : closed, named for Merrill C. Meigs
;Mati Airport, Mati, Davao Oriental, Philippines: formerly Imelda R. Marcos Airport
;Mariscal Sucre International Airport, Ecuador : replaced with a similarly named airport in 2013, named for Antonio José de Sucre
;OR Tambo International Airport, Johannesburg, South Africa : formerly Jan Smuts International Airport, named for Jan Smuts
;Reno–Tahoe International Airport : formerly Cannon International Airport named for senator Howard W. Cannon
;Richmond International Airport : formerly Richard E. Byrd Airport named for aviator Richard E. Byrd
;Roosevelt Field, Long Island, New York, United States : named after Quentin Roosevelt, closed 1951
;San Diego International Airport : formerly Lindbergh Field named for aviator Charles Lindbergh
;Sde Dov Airport, Tel Aviv, Israel : named after Dov Hoz, closed 2019 and later demolished
;Senai International Airport, Johor Bahru, Malaysia : formerly Sultan Ismail International Airport
;Skopje International Airport, Skopje, North Macedonia : formerly Skopje Alexander the Great Airport, named for Alexander the Great
;Stapleton International Airport, Denver, Colorado, United States : closed, named for Denver mayor Benjamin F. Stapleton
;Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport, Taoyuan, Taiwan : formerly Chiang Kai-shek International Airport, named for Chiang Kai-shek
;Velana International Airport, Malé, Maldives : formerly Ibrahim Nasir International Airport, named for Ibrahim Nasir and renamed in 2017, after the family house name of Ibrahim Nasir
;Yasser Arafat International Airport, Gaza Strip, Palestine : named for Yasser Arafat, closed 2001