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
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 JoaquÃÂn de Olmedo International Airport, Guayaquil, Ecuador : formerly Simón BolÃÂvar International Airport, named for Simón BolÃÂvar
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
RenoâÂÂTahoe 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
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