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Roads in America cross referenced with Isaac Asimov on Wikipedia

Isaac Asimov was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. During his lifetime, Asimov was considered one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers, along with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke. He wrote or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards. Best known for his hard science fiction, Asimov also wrote mysteries and fantasy, as well as popular science and other non-fiction. His work spans nine out of the ten categories of the Dewey decimal system. Wikipedia

We take the Isaac Asimov article on Wikipedia, find the entries that belong to it, and look for roads whose name is the same as one of those entries. A match means the street name equals an entry's Wikipedia title, its Wikidata label, or one of its aliases. It says nothing about why a road has its name.

Matched street names 18

Each street name below equals the entry shown, once the road type (St, Rd, Ct) is ignored.

Left out 3

These names were found and then set aside. Nothing on the story page counts them.

NameEntryWhyRoads
BOBOBoboCarried by more than 100 roads nationally106
ROBBIERobbieCarried by more than 100 roads nationally151
SALLYSallyCarried by more than 100 roads nationally270

Every Wikipedia entry tried 129

Including the entries that matched no road at all.