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Roads in America cross referenced with Michelangelo Buonarroti on Wikipedia

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, known mononymously as Michelangelo, was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance. He was born in the Republic of Florence but was mostly active in Rome from his 30s onwards. His work was inspired by models from classical antiquity and had a lasting influence on Western art. Michelangelo's creative abilities and mastery in a range of artistic arenas define him as an archetypal Renaissance man, along with his rival and elder contemporary, Leonardo da Vinci. Given the sheer volume of surviving correspondence, sketches, and reminiscences, Michelangelo is one of the best-documented artists of the 16th century. Wikipedia

We take the Michelangelo Buonarroti 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 16

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

Left out 11

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

NameEntryWhyRoads
ANGELAngelCarried by more than 100 roads nationally587
APOLLOApolloCarried by more than 100 roads nationally886
DAVIDDavidCarried by more than 100 roads nationally1,870
DAWNDawnCarried by more than 100 roads nationally1,194
DAYDayCarried by more than 100 roads nationally1,117
DUSKDuskCarried by more than 100 roads nationally104
HERCULESHerculesCarried by more than 100 roads nationally326
LEAHLeahCarried by more than 100 roads nationally272
MIKEMikeCarried by more than 100 roads nationally196
MOSESMosesCarried by more than 100 roads nationally248
RACHELRachelCarried by more than 100 roads nationally672

Every Wikipedia entry tried 146

Including the entries that matched no road at all.