Context: Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar Ponte y Palacios Blanco also known as Simón Bolívar was a revolutionary figure and namesake for the country of Bolivia.
The Victorian Era is named after Queen Victoria and her depressing clothing choices.
Caesar Salad is named after a Mexican Italian chef, Caesar Cardini. Who is well known for overseeing the Roman Republics collapse into an empire.
Might've been the other way around, his family was named after the procedure:
The term has also been explained as deriving from the verb caedere, 'to cut', with children delivered this way referred to as caesones. Pliny the Elder refers to a certain Julius Caesar (an ancestor of the famous Roman statesman) as ab utero caeso, 'cut from the womb' giving this as an explanation for the cognomen Caesar which was then carried by his descendants.