From: "Steve Ewing" 

On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 17:49:12 -0500, Glenn Meadows  wrote:

> Yup, according to Bill in his book.  She was named after someone who
> climbed
> Mt. Everest (I believe is the person).  Funny thing, the person she
> supposedly was named after, climbed that MT. 7 or 8 years after she was
> born....Oh well, foresight I guess....

Snopes to the rescue:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/clintons/hillary.asp

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Origins:   During a stop in Nepal while on a south Asian goodwill tour in
April 1995, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton engaged in a brief (and
reportedly coincidental) meeting with Sir Edmund Hillary (who, along with
Tenzing Norgay, became the first person to reach the summit of the world's
highest mountain, Mt. Everest, in 1953) and told reporters she had been
named after the famed mountain climber. The notion that Ms. Clinton's given
name was inspired by the man who conquered Everest was almost certainly a
bit of fiction invented for political expediency (as many critics have
noted, Edmund Hillary didn't become world-famous until six years after
Hillary Rodham was born), but there are some subtleties to this claim which
should be considered before it is completely dismissed...

...Given the available facts, it's difficult to view the claim that Hillary
Clinton was named after Edmund Hillary as anything but a little white lie
concocted for a special occasion. Only her mother, Dorothy Rodham, knows
for sure, but so far she hasn't spoken up on the subject.
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Steve 
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