Airports named after famous people

See also:  Sydney Nancy-Bird Walton International Airport

Close to Australia

  • Kingsford Smith – Sydney
  • Fairbairn – Canberra
  • Jakarta Soekarno-Hatta – Jakarta
  • Jackson – Port Moresby
  • Ninoy Aquino – Manila

United Kingdom

  • George Best – Belfast
  • Robin Hood – Doncaster
  • John Lennon – Liverpool

USA

  • Hartsfield-Jackson – Atlanta
  • Edward Logan – Boston
  • O’Hare – Chicago
  • George Bush – Houston
  • Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport – Little Rock
  • Tom Bradley – Los Angeles
  • Louis Armstrong International Airport – New Orleans
  • JFK – New York
  • LaGuardia – New York
  • Ronald Reagan National Airport – Washington

Canada

  • Montréal Trudeau – Montreal
  • Lester Pearson – Toronto
  • James Richardson – Winnipeg

India

  • Indira Ghandi – New Delhi
  • Rajiv Gandhi – Hyderabad
  • Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose – Kolkata
  • Chatrapati Shivaji – Mumbai

Europe

  • Mustafa Ataturk – Istanbul
  • Leonardo da Vinci – Fiumicino
  • Adolfo Suarez – Madrid
  • Edvarda Rusjana – Maribo, Slovenia
  • Charles de Gaulle – Paris
  • Mozart – Salzburg
  • Marco Polo – Venice

Others

  • Ponta Delgada – Azores
  • Jorge Newbery – Buenos Aires
  • Al Maktoum – Dubai
  • Allama Iqbal – Lahore
  • Montréal Trudeau – Montreal
  • Jomo Kenyatta – Nairobi
  • Lester Pearson – Toronto
  • Ben Gurion – Tel Aviv
  • Imam Khomeni – Tehran
  • James Richardson – Winnipeg

…. and a LOT more!

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