Frisbee got its name from William Russel Frisbee, who was a .....

The Frisbee flying disc was named after William Russell Frisbee, a pie baker (specifically of the Frisbie Pie Company in Connecticut) in the early 1900s. Yale students discovered that empty pie tins could be thrown and caught, and they called them 'Frisbees' after the company name stamped on the tins. This led to the plastic toy's name when it was commercialized in the 1950s. Frisbee was not a player, shepherd, or restaurateur.