# List of people with Royal Navy ships named after them

This is an incomplete list of people that have or had ships or ship classes named after them, or the name is associated with the person. The ships are currently or were previously in service with the Royal Navy, the United Kingdom's naval warfare force; or with predecessor fleets formally in the service of the Kingdom of England; or of the English Commonwealth. The list also includes fictional vessels which have prominently featured in literature about the Royal Navy.

## Ship classes

Some people have had Royal ship classes named after them, the following are a list of people who had such classes named after them.

## Royalty and nobility
### Monarchs
#### Queen Elizabeth I

The following ship class was named after HMS Queen Elizabeth the first aircraft carrier commissioned in the class which was named after the dreadnought battleship HMS Queen Elizabeth in service from 1914 to 1948 which itself was named after the Tudor monarch Queen Elizabeth I.
| Class | Preceded by | Type | Planned | Completed | Active | Commissioned | Decommissioned | Displacement | Homeport | Note |
| Queen Elizabeth class | Invincible class | Aircraft carrier | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2017–present | n/a | 65,000 | Portsmouth | |

## Ships
### Royalty and nobility

The following are British monarchs who have had Royal navy ships named after them.

#### Monarchs
##### Queen Elizabeth II

There are no ships named after Queen Elizabeth II.

##### King Charles III

The following are ships named after King Charles III the former Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall and Edinburgh.
| Ship | Class | Pennant No. | Commissioned | Decommissioned | Displacement | Type | Homeport | Note |
| HMS Prince of Wales | Queen Elizabeth class | R09 | 2019 | n/a | 65,000 tonnes | Aircraft carrier | Portsmouth | |

#### Dukes
##### Dukes of Northumberland and the Percy Family

The following are ships named after Dukes of Northumberland as well as the Percy Family, also known of the House of Percy.

###### Duke of Northumberland

The following are named after the title of Duke of Northumberland rather than any holder of that title.
| Ship | Class | Pennant No. | Commissioned | Decommissioned | Displacement | Type | Homeport | Note |
| HMS Northumberland | Type 23 (Duke class) | F238 | 1994 | n/a | 4,900 tonnes | Guided missile frigate | Devonport | |

###### Sir Henry Percy (Hotspur)

The following are ships named Hotspur the nicknamed for the 14th century noblemen Sir Henry Percy.
| Ship | Class | Pennant No. | Commissioned | Decommissioned | Displacement | Type | Homeport |
| HMS Hotspur | Fifth-rate | n/a | 1810 | 1821 | n/a | Frigate | n/a |
| HMS Hotspur | Fifth-rate | n/a | 1828 | 1902 | n/a | Frigate | n/a |
| HMS Hotspur | unknown | n/a | 1828 | 1902 | unknown | Ironclad Ram | n/a |

##### Other Dukes

The following are Dukes with ships named after them.
| Named After | Ship | Class | Pennant No. | Commissioned | | Homeport |
| Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington | HMS Iron Duke | Type 23 (Duke class) | F234 | 1993 | 4,900 tonnes | Portsmouth |
| John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough | HMS Monmouth | Type 23 (Duke class) | F235 | 1993 | 4,900 tonnes | Devonport |
| James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth | | Type 23 (Duke class) | F235 | 1993 | 4,900 tonnes | Devonport |

##### Dukedom Title

The following are named after various Dukedom titles rather than any holder of those titles.
| Named After | Holder at time of Commissionship | Current Holder | Ship | Class | Pennant No. | Commissioned | Displacement | Type | Homeport |
| Duke of Argyll | Ian Campbell, 12th Duke of Argyll | Torquhil Campbell, 13th Duke of Argyll | HMS Argyll | Type 23 (Duke class) | F231 | 1991 | 4,900 tonnes | Guided missile frigate | Devonport |
| Duke of Lancaster | Queen Elizabeth II | King Charles III | HMS Lancaster | Type 23 (Duke class) | F229 | 1992 | 4,900 tonnes | Guided missile frigate | Portsmouth |
| Duke of Montrose | James Graham, 8th Duke of Montrose | James Graham, 8th Duke of Montrose | HMS Montrose | Type 23 (Duke class) | F236 | 1994 | 4,900 tonnes | Guided missile frigate | Devonport |
| Duke of Westminster | Gerald Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster | Hugh Grosvenor, 7th Duke of Westminster | HMS Westminster | Type 23 (Duke class) | F237 | 1994 | 4,900 tonnes | Guided missile frigate | Portsmouth |
| Duke of Richmond | Charles Gordon-Lennox, 10th Duke of Richmond | Charles Gordon-Lennox, 11th Duke of Richmond | HMS Richmond | Type 23 (Duke class) | F239 | 1995 | 4,900 tonnes | Guided missile frigate | Devonport |
| Duke of Somerset | John Seymour, 19th Duke of Somerset | John Seymour, 19th Duke of Somerset | HMS Somerset | Type 23 (Duke class) | F82 | 1996 | 4,900 tonnes | Guided missile frigate | Devonport |
| Duke of Sutherland | Francis Egerton, 7th Duke of Sutherland | Francis Egerton, 7th Duke of Sutherland | HMS Sutherland | Type 23 (Duke class) | F81 | 1997 | 4,900 tonnes | Guided missile frigate | Devonport |
| Duke of Kent | Prince Edward, Duke of Kent | Prince Edward, Duke of Kent | HMS Kent | Type 23 (Duke class) | F78 | 2000 | 4,900 tonnes | Guided missile frigate | Portsmouth |
| Duke of Portland | Victor Cavendish-Bentinck, 9th Duke of Portland | Title Extinct (1990) | HMS Portland | Type 23 (Duke class) | F79 | 2001 | 4,900 tonnes | Guided missile frigate | Devonport |
| Duke of St Albans | Murray Beauclerk, 14th Duke of St Albans | Murray Beauclerk, 14th Duke of St Albans | HMS St Albans | Type 23 (Duke class) | F83 | 2002 | 4,900 tonnes | Guided missile frigate | Devonport |

### Military Officials

| Named After | Ship | Class | Pennant No. | Commissioned | Displacement | Type | Homeport | Note |
| Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan | HMS Duncan | Type 45 (Daring class) | D37 | 2013 | 8,500 tonnes | Guided missile destroyer | Portsmouth | |

### Mythological/Semi-Mythological

| Named After | Class | Ship | Pennant No. | Commissioned | Displacement | Type | Homeport | Note |
| Gaius Mucius Scaevola | Type 45 (Daring class) | HMS Daring | D32 | 2009 | 8,500 tonnes | Guided missile destroyer | Portsmouth | |

### Explorers

| Named After | Class | Ship | Pennant No. | Commissioned | Displacement | Type | Homeport | Note |
| Robert Falcon Scott | Echo class | HMS Scott | H131 | 1997 | 13,500 tonnes | Ocean survey | Devonport | |

## Fictional RN ship names
### Deities

The following fictional ships are named after deities.
| Name | Ship | From | Created By | Medium | Published | Type | Note |
| Pluto | HMS Pluto | A Ship of the Line | C. S. Forester | Novel | 1938 | | |
| Venus | Venus | Good Ship Venus | | Song | | | |

### Other

| Name | Ship | From | Created By | Medium | Published | Type | Note |
| Hotspur | HMS Hotspur | Hornblower and the Hotspur | C. S. Forester | Novel | 1962 | Sloop | |
| Caligula | Caligula | A Ship of the Line | C. S. Forester | Novel | 1938 | | |