There are numerous eponymous fractures which are named after the people who first described their existence (but see Stigler's law of eponymy) 1:
- Bankart fracture: glenoid
- Barton fracture: wrist
- Bennett fracture: thumb
- Bosworth fracture: ankle
- Chance fracture: vertebral
- Charcot joint: foot
- Chopart fracture: foot
- Colles fracture: wrist
- Cotton fracture: ankle
- Dupuytren fracture: ankle
- Duverney fracture: pelvic
- Essex-Lopresti fracture: elbow
- Freiberg infraction: foot
- Galeazzi fracture: forearm
- Gosselin fracture: ankle
- Goyrand fracture: French term for a Smith fracture
- Harris fracture (see Salter-Harris fractures)
- Hill-Sachs defect: shoulder
- Holdsworth fracture: vertebral
- Hutchinson fracture: wrist
- Jefferson fracture: vertebral
- Jones fracture: foot
- Kienböck disease: hand
- Lauge-Hansen classification: ankle
- Le Fort facial fractures: facial
- Le Fort ankle fractures: ankle
- Lisfranc fracture: foot
- Maisonneuve fracture: ankle
- Malgaigne fracture: pelvis
- Monteggia fracture: forearm
- Osgood-Schlatter disease: knee
- Pelligrini-Stieda lesion: knee
- Piedmont fracture: another name for the Galeazzi fracture
- Pilon fracture: tibia
- Pott fracture: ankle
- Pouteau fracture: French name for a Colles fracture
- reverse Barton fracture: type III Smith fracture
- Robert Jones fracture: see Jones fracture
- Rolando fracture: thumb
- Salter-Harris classification: growth plate
- Schatzker classification: knee
- Segond fracture: knee
- Shepherd fracture: foot
- Smith fracture: wrist
- Stieda fracture: can mean Pellegrini-Stieda disease or acute fracture of Stieda process
- Tillaux fracture: ankle
- Weber classification: ankle
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