Until recently, the storied thief who stole from the rich to give to the poor had a modern-day airport named after him in Doncaster, Yorkshire. Founded as Finningley Airfield and used by the British Flying Corps during World War I, the British airport reopened for commercial use in 2005 under the name Robin Hood Airport. However, the name was short-lived, and it was renamed Doncaster Sheffield Airport in 2016.

Albania’s Tirana International Airport Nënë Tereza is the country’s main international airport, named after Mother Teresa. The Roman Catholic missionary and nun was born to Albanian parents in Skopje, which is now located in North Macedonia but was then a part of the Ottoman Empire’s Kosovo Vilayet. After becoming a nun, she founded the Missionaries of Charity, which manages homes for those in need.

In 2001, the Liverpool Airport changed its name to honor John Lennon, indisputably one of the most famous Liverpudlians of all time. This made the Liverpool John Lennon Airport the first U.K. airport to be named after an individual. Along with the name change came a Beatles-inspired makeover that included a 7-foot bronze statue of Lennon and an art piece entitled “Yellow Submarine.”

Charles M. Schulz created one of the most popular comic strips in history, “Peanuts,” and its beloved characters Charlie Brown and Snoopy. Though the cartoonist grew up in Minnesota, he moved to Santa Rosa, California, shortly publishing the first Peanuts comics in 1950. After his death in 2000, Santa Rosa’s airport was renamed Charles M. Schulz Sonoma County Airport in his honor.

Before he became President in 1973, Gerald Ford represented western Michigan in Congress for more than two decades. Ford grew up in Grand Rapids and was a football star at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. To honor their hometown hero, Grand Rapids renamed its airport from Kent County International Airport to Gerald R. Ford International Airport in 1999.

Novelist Ian Fleming is best known for creating the world's most famous fictional spy, James Bond. Though British by birth, Fleming spent plenty of time at his Goldeneye estate in northern Jamaica, where he penned many of the 007 novels. The Ian Fleming International Airport in Boscobel, St. Mary, is located close to his former estate. (Goldeneye itself inspired the name of a 1995 Bond flick.)

Chicago O'Hare Airport is named after Edward "Butch" O'Hare. O'Hare was a naval aviator who won the Medal of Honor for holding off a formation of heavy bombers that were attacking his aircraft carrier on February 20, 1942. O'Hare later died in battle in 1943, and Chicago's Orchard Depot Airport was renamed O'Hare International Airport in his honor in 1949.

If you’ve ever booked flights to Vancouver (YVR), Ottawa (YOW), or Montreal (YUL), you may have noticed a consistent theme: All Canadian airport codes begin with the letter “Y.” The country adopted the naming convention in the 1930s to easily identify its airports when air travel was quickly growing more popular, but it was the only country to do so.

Louis Armstrong is considered one of the most influential people in the history of jazz, so it makes sense that New Orleans — the birthplace of jazz, as well as Armstrong's hometown — would want to honor him. As of 2001 — the 100th anniversary of the jazz great's birth — the city's airport is known as Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport.

New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport is one of the world’s busiest international airports. But when it opened in 1948, most people referred to it as Idlewild, after the golf course that the airport had displaced. In 1963, it was renamed to honor John F. Kennedy, and today the airport serves 59 million passengers each year.