List of eponymous adjectives in English

An eponymous adjective is an adjective which has been derived from the name of a person, real or fictional. Persons from whose name the adjectives have been derived are called eponyms.

Following is a list of eponymous adjectives in English.

A–C

• Aaronic – Aaron (as in Aaronic Priesthood)
• Abbasid – Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib (as in Abbasid Dynasty)
• abelian – Niels Henrik Abel (as in Abelian group)
• Abrahamic – Abraham (as in Abrahamic religions)
• Adamic – Adam (as in Adamic language); also Adamite (as in pre-Adamite race)
• Addisonian – Thomas Addison (as in Addisonian crisis)
• Adlerian – Alfred Adler (as in Classical Adlerian psychology)
• Aegean – Aegeus, of Greek mythology (as in Aegean Sea)
• Aeolian – Aeolus, of Greek mythology (as in Aeolian Islands); also Eolian (as in Eolian processes)
• Aeschylean – Aeschylus (as in Aeschylean silence
• Aldine – Aldus Manutius (as in Aldine Press)
• Alexandrine – Alexander the Great (as in Alexandrine verse); also Alexandrian (as in Alexandrian period)
• American-Amerigo Vespucci
• Amish – Jakob Ammann
• Ampèrian – André-Marie Ampère (as in Ampèrian loop)
• Antonian – St. Anthony the Great (as in Antonian monasticism); Antoninus Pius (as in Nervan-Antonian dynasty)
• Antonine – Antoninus Pius (as in Antonine Wall); Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (as in Antonine Plague)
• Apollonian – Apollo, of Greek mythology (as in Apollonian Oracle); Apollonius of Perga (as in Apollonian gasket)
• Archimedean – Archimedes (as in Archimedean screw)
• Arian – Arius
• Aristotelian – Aristotle (as in Aristotelian logic)
• Arminian – Jacobus Arminius
• Arsacid – Arsaces I of Parthia (as in Arsacid Dynasty)
• Arthurian – King Arthur (as in Arthurian legend)
• Artinian – Emil Artin (as in Artinian ring)
• Ashmolean – Elias Ashmole (as in Ashmolean Museum)
• Asimovian – Isaac Asimov (as in Asimovian robot)
• Athanasian – St. Athanasius (as in Athanasian Creed)
• Atlantean – Atlas; also Atlantic
• Augustan – Caesar Augustus (as in Augustan drama)
• Augustinian – St. Augustine (as in Augustinian Order)
• bacchanal – Bacchus, of Roman mythology; also "bacchanalian"
• Baconian – Francis Bacon (as in Baconian cipher)
• Bahá'í – Bahá'u'lláh (as in Bahá'í Faith)
• Bangsian – John Kendrick Bangs (as in Bangsian fantasy)
• Bakerian -Henry Baker (as in Bakerian Lecture)
• Bayesian – Thomas Bayes (as in Bayesian probability)
• Beethovenian – Ludwig van Beethoven
• Benedictine – Benedict of Nursia (as in Benedictine Rule)
• Benthamite – Jeremy Bentham (as in Benthamite Utilitarianism)
• Bodleian – Thomas Bodley (as in Bodleian Library)
• Bolivarian – Simón Bolívar (as in Bolivarian Revolution)
• Boolean – George Boole (as in Boolean algebra, Boolean logic)
• Brechtian – Bertolt Brecht (as in Brechtian acting)
• Brownian – Robert Brown (as in Brownian motion)
• Brunonian – John Brown, the doctor (as in Brunonian system of medicine)
• Buddhist – Gautama Buddha (as in Buddhist rosary)
• Burkean – Edmund Burke (as in Burkean conservatism)
• Byronic – Lord Byron (as in Byronic hero)

• Caesarean – often incorrectly attributed to Julius Caesar (as in Caesarean section)
• Calvinist – John Calvin (as in Calvinist Church)
• Capetian – Hugh Capet (as in Capetian Dynasty, Direct Capetians)
• Capraesque-Frank Capra
• Caroline – Charles I of England (as in Caroline era); also Carolinian
• Carolingian – Charles Martel (as in Carolingian dynasty)
• Carrollian – Lewis Carroll, pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
• Cartesian – René Descartes (as in Cartesian coordinate)
• Catilinarian – Catiline (as in Catilinarian conspiracy)
• Chaucerian – Geoffrey Chaucer (as in Chaucerian stanza)
• chauvinistic – Nicolas Chauvin
• Chestertonian – G. K. Chesterton
• Chomskyan – Noam Chomsky; also Chomskian
• Chlumskyan – Anna Chlumsky; also Chlumskian
• Chopinesque-Frédéric Chopin
• Christian – Jesus Christ
• Churrigueresque – José Benito de Churriguera
• Ciceronian – Cicero
• Claudian – Claudius (as in Julio-Claudian dynasty)
• Clintonian – Bill Clinton
• Columbian – Christopher Columbus (as in Columbian Exchange)
• Confucianist – Confucius
• Constantinian – Constantine I (as in Constantinian dynasty)
• Copernican – Nicolaus Copernicus (as in Copernican System)
• Cromwellian – Oliver Cromwell
• Croonian – William Croone (as in Croonian Lecture}
• Cushingoid – Harvey Cushing – American physician
• Cyrillic – St. Cyril (as in Cyrillic)

D–F

• daedal – Daedalus, of Greek mythology; also Daedalian or Daedalean
• Daliesque – Salvador Dalí
• Daltonian – John Dalton
• Dantesque – Dante Alighieri; also Dantean
• Darwinian – Charles Darwin (as in Darwinian literary studies)
• Davidic – David (as in Davidic line)
• Derridean – Jacques Derrida (as in Derridean Deconstruction)
• Dickensian – Charles Dickens
• Dimblebian – David Dimbleby, of exceptionally high quality, especially a defeat; also Bio-Dimblebian
• Dionysian – Dionysus, of Greek mythology (as in Dionysian Mysteries); Dionysius Exiguus (as in Dionysian era)
• Diophantine – Diophantus (as in Diophantine equation)
• Dobsonian – John Dobson (as in Dobsonian telescope)
• Dominican – Saint Dominic (as in Dominican Order)
• Dostoevskian – Fyodor Dostoevsky; also Dostoyevskian
• draconian – Draco
• Dulcinian – Fra Dolcino
• dylanesque – Bob Dylan

• Edisonian – Thomas Edison (as in Edisonian approach)
• Edwardian – King Edward VII
• Edwardsian – Jonathan Edwards
• Einsteinian – Albert Einstein
• Eliotic – T. S. Eliot
• Elizabethan – Queen Elizabeth I (as in Elizabethan era)
• Emersonian – Ralph Waldo Emerson (as in Emersonian perfectionism)
• Enochian – Enoch (as in Enochian magic)
• epicurean – Epicurus
• Erasmian – Erasmus (as in Erasmian Reformation)
• erotic – Eros, of Greek mythology
• Euclidean – Euclid (as in Euclidean geometry, Euclidean algorithm)
• Eulerian – Euler (as in Eulerian path)
• Euripidean – Euripides
• Eustachian – Eustachius (as in Eustachian tube)

• Fabian – Fabius Maximus (as in Fabian strategy)
• Fallopian – Gabriele Falloppio (as in Fallopian tube)
• Falstaffian – Sir John Falstaff, Shakespeare's fictional character
• Faradic – Michael Faraday
• Fatimid – Fatima as-Zahra (as in Fatimid caliphate)
• Faulknerian – William Faulkner
• Faustian – Faust, Goethe's fictional character (as in Faustian deal)
• Felliniesque – Federico Fellini
• Flavian – Titus Flavius Vespasianus (Vespasian) (as in Flavian dynasty)
• Fortean – Charles Fort (as in Fortean Society)
• Foucauldian – Michel Foucault (as in Foucauldian discourse analysis)
• Franciscan – St. Francis of Assisi (as in Franciscan Order)
• Franklinic – Benjamin Franklin (as in Franklinic electricity, franklinic taste)
• Frederician – Frederick the Great (as in Frederician Rococo)
• Freudian – Sigmund Freud (as in Freudian slip)
• Frostian – Robert Frost
• Fullerian – John 'Mad Jack' Fuller (as in Fullerian Professor of Chemistry}

G–J

• Galilean – Galileo Galilei (as in Galilean moons)
• Galvanic – Luigi Galvani (as in Galvanic cell)
• Gandhian – Mahatma Gandhi (as in Gandhian economics)
• gargantuan – Gargantua, Rabelais's fictional character
• Gaullist – Charles de Gaulle
• Gaussian – Carl Friedrich Gauss (as in Gaussian function)
• Georgian – any of the first 4 Hanoverian kings of England (all named George)
• Gilliamesque – Terry Gilliam (similar to Kafkaesque and Pythonesque, said of films, animations, and scenarios)
• Gladstonian – William Ewart Gladstone (as in Gladstonian Liberalism)
• Gödelian – Kurt Gödel (as in Gödelian incompleteness)
• Goulstonian – Theodore Goulston (as in Goulstonian Lecture)
• Gregorian – Pope Gregory I (as in Gregorian chant); Pope Gregory XIII (as in Gregorian calendar)
• Gricean – Paul Grice (as in Gricean maxims)
• Grundtvigian – N.F.S. Grundtvig (as in Grundtvigian Lutheranism)
• Handelian – George Frideric Handel
• Hamiltonian – Sir William Rowan Hamilton (as in Hamiltonian path); Alexander Hamilton (as in Hamiltonian economic program)
• Hamitic – Ham (as in Hamitic languages)
• Harveian – William Harvey (as in Harveian Oration}
• Hegelian – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (as in Hegelian dialectic)
• Henrician – King Henry VIII (as in Henrician Reformation); Henry III of France (as in Henrician Articles)
• herculean – Hercules, of Greek mythology (as in herculean task)
• hermaphroditic – Hermaphroditus, of Greek mythology
• hermetic – Hermes Trismegistus, a mythological alchemist (as in hermetic seal)
• Herodian – Herod the Great (as in Herodian Dynasty)
• Heronian – Hero of Alexandria (as in Heronian triangle)
• Hilbertian – David Hilbert (as in Hilbertian field)
• Hippocratic – Hippocrates (as in Hippocratic Oath)
• Hitchcockian – Alfred Hitchcock
• Hitlerian – Adolf Hitler
• Hobbesian – Thomas Hobbes
• Holmesian – Sherlock Holmes, Conan Doyle's fictional character; also Sherlockian
• Homeric – Homer
• Horatian – Horace (as in Horatian satire)
• Humean – David Hume
• Hunterian – William Hunter (anatomist) (as in Hunterian Museum)
• Hussite – Jan Hus (as in Hussite Wars)
• Hussnasty – Andrew Hussie
• Hutterite – Jacob Hutter

• Ignatian – Ignatius of Loyola (as in Ignatian spirituality)
• Imeldific – Imelda Marcos (meaning ostentatious; extravagant)

• Jacksonian – Andrew Jackson (as in Jacksonian democracy); John Hughlings Jackson (as in Jacksonian seizure)
• Jacobean – King James I (as in Jacobean era)
• Jacobian – Carl Gustav Jacobi (as in Jacobian matrix)
• Jacobite – King James II (as in Jacobite Rising)
• Jagiellonian – Władysław II Jagiełło (as in Jagiellonian dynasty)
• Japhetic – Japheth (as in Japhetic theory}
• Jeffersonian – Thomas Jefferson (as in Jeffersonian democracy or Jeffersonian Model)
• Johannine – John the Apostle (as in Johannine literature)
• Johnsonian – Samuel Johnson
• Jordanesque – Michael Jordan (usually denotes remarkable athletic achievement or dominance)
• jovial – Jove/Jupiter, of Roman mythology; also Jovian
• Joycean – James Joyce (as in Pre-Joycean Fellowship)
• Julian – Julius Caesar (as in Julian calendar)
• Jungian – Carl Jung (as in Jungian psychology)
• Junoesque – Juno, of Roman mythology
• Juvenalian – Juvenal (as in Juvenalian Satire)

K–M

• Kafkaesque – Franz Kafka
• Kantian – Immanuel Kant
• Keatsian – John Keats
• Kennedyesque – John F. Kennedy
• Keynesian – John Maynard Keynes (as in Keynesian economics)
• Kierkegaardian – Søren Kierkegaard
• Kubrickian – Stanley Kubrick

• Lagrangian – Joseph Louis Lagrange (as in Lagrangian point)
• Lamarckian – Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (as in Lamarckian evolution)
• Laplacian – Pierre-Simon Laplace (as in Laplacian field, Laplacian matrix)
• Levitical – Levi (as in Levitical Priesthood)
• Leibnizian – Gottfried Leibniz (as in Leibnizian calculus)
• Leninist- Vladimir Lenin
• Lilian – Aloysius Lilius (as in Lilian date)
• Linnaean – Carolus Linnaeus (as in Linnaean taxonomy)
• Lockean – John Locke
• Lorentzian – Hendrik Lorentz (as in Lorentzian function)
• Lovecraftian – H. P. Lovecraft (as in Lovecraftian horror)
• Lucasian – Henry Lucas (as in Lucasian Professor)
• Lullian – Ramon Llull (as in Lullian art); also Llullian
• Lumleian – John Lumley, 1st Baron Lumley (as in Lumleian Lectures}
• Lutheran – Martin Luther
• Lynchian – David Lynch

• macadamized – John Loudon McAdam (as in macadamized system)
• Maccabean – Judas Maccabeus (as in Maccabean revolt)
• MacGyverian – Angus MacGyver
• Machiavellian – Niccolò Machiavelli (often used to represent views or behavior inconsistent with that of its eponym)
• Madisonian – James Madison (as in Madisonian Model)
• Magellanic – Ferdinand Magellan (as in Magellanic Clouds)
• Malpighian – Marcello Malpighi (as in Malpighian corpuscle)
• Malthusian – Thomas Malthus (as in Malthusian catastrophe)
• Manichean – Mani; also Manichaean
• manueline – Manuel I of Portugal
• Marian – Mary (as in Marian apparition); Gaius Marius (as in Marian reforms)
• Marivaudian – Pierre de Marivaux
• Markovian – Andrey Markov (as in Markovian process)
• Marlenesque – Marlene Dietrich (as in Marlenesque nose)
• Marlovian – Christopher Marlowe (as in Marlovian theory)
• martial – Mars, of Roman mythology (as in Martial arts)
• Marxist – Karl Marx (as in Marxist theory); also Marxian (as in Marxian economics)
• masochistic – Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
• maudlin – Mary Magdalene
• Maxwellian – James Clerk Maxwell (as in Maxwellian distribution, Maxwellian demon)
• Mazarine – Cardinal Mazarin (as in mazarine blue)
• McCarthyist – Joseph McCarthy
• Mendelian – Gregor Mendel (as in Mendelian inheritance)
• Menippean – Menippus (as in Menippean satire)
• Mennonite – Menno Simons
• mercurial – Mercury
• Merovingian – Merovech (as in Merovingian dynasty)
• Metonic – Meton (as in Metonic cycle)
• Miltonic – John Milton; also Miltonian
• Minkowskian – Hermann Minkowski
• Mithridatic – Mithridates VI (as in Mithridatic Wars)
• Mosaic – Moses (as in Mosaic Law, but not as in mosaic floor)
• Muhammadan – Muhammad (as in Muhammadan art)

N–Q

• Napierian-John Napier (as in Napierian logarithm)
• Napoleonic – Napoléon Bonaparte (as in Napoleonic code)
• narcissistic – Narcissus, of Greek mythology (as in Narcissistic personality disorder)
• Neronian – Nero
• Nervan – Nerva (as in Nervan-Antonian dynasty)
• Nestorian – Nestorius (as in Nestorian Schism)
• Newtonian – Isaac Newton (as in Newtonian telescope)
• Nietzschean – Friedrich Nietzsche (as in Nietzschean affirmation)
• Noachian – Noah (as in Noachian deluge)
• Noetherian – Emmy Noether (as in Noetherian ring)
• Norquistian – Grover Norquist

• Odyssean-Odysseus
• Oedipal – Oedipus, of Greek mythology (as in Oedipal complex)
• ohmic – Georg Ohm (as in ohmic device)
• onanistic – Onan
• Orphic – Orpheus, of Greek mythology (as in Orphic Mysteries)
• Orwellian – George Orwell
• Ottoman – Osman I (as in Ottoman Empire)
• Ottonian – Otto I the Great (as in Ottonian Dynasty)
• Ovidian – Ovid
• Oxfordian – Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (as in Oxfordian theory)

• Palinian – Michael Palin (as in Palinian wit)
• Palladian – Andrea Palladio (as in Palladian architecture)
• Panglossian – Pangloss, Voltaire's fictional character
• Paracelsian – Paracelsus
• parkinsonian – James Parkinson (as in parkinsonian syndrome)
• Pauline – Paul of Tarsus (as in Pauline epistles)
• Pavlovian – Ivan Pavlov (as in Pavlovian conditioning)
• Pecksniffian – Seth Pecksniff, Dickens' fictional character
• Pelagian – Pelagius (as in Pelagian heresy)
• Pepysian – Samuel Pepys
• Periclean – Pericles (as in Periclean Athens)
• Petrine – Saint Peter (as in Petrine primacy); also Peter the Great (as in Petrine baroque)
• Piagetian – Jean Piaget (as in Piagetian theory)
• Pickwickian – Samuel Pickwick, Dickens' fictional character
• Pinteresque – Harold Pinter
• Platonic – Plato (as in Platonic love)
• Plinian – Pliny (as in Plinian eruption)
• Plutarchian – Plutarch
• plutonic – Pluto, of Greek & Roman mythology (as in Plutonic theory); also plutonian
• Pombaline – Marquis of Pombal (as in Pombaline Downtown)
• Popperian – Karl Popper(as in Popperian falsification)
• Procrustean – Procrustes, of Greek mythology]] (as in Pombaline Downtown)
• Promethean – Prometheus, of Greek mythology
• protean – Proteus, of Greek mythology
• Proustian – Marcel Proust (as in Proustian memory)
• Ptolemaic – Ptolemy (as in Ptolemaic system); Ptolemy I Soter (as in Ptolemaic dynasty)
• Pyrrhic – Pyrrhus of Epirus (as in Pyrrhic victory)
• Pyrrhonian – Pyrrho (as in Pyrrhonian skepticism)
• Pythagorean – Pythagoras (as in Pythagorean theorem)
• Pythonic – Monty Python, a more correct eponym, used by Terry Jones, for the more commonly used Pythonesque (as in Pythonic sketches)
• Pythonesque – Monty Python, fictional character name from television comedy (as in Pythonesque humour)

• Quirinal – Quirinus, of Roman mythology (as in Quirinal Hill)
• quixotic – Don Quixote, Cervantes' fictional character

R–U

• Rabelaisian – François Rabelais
• Randian – Ayn Rand (as in Randian hero)
• Raphaelesque – Raphael; also Raphaelite (as in Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood)
• Rastafarian – Ras Tafari (Haile Selassie)
• Reaganesque – Ronald Reagan
• Reithian-John Reith (as in Reithian principles)
• Ricardian – David Ricardo (as in Ricardian economics)
• Richardsonian – Henry Hobson Richardson (as in Richardsonian Romanesque)
• Riemannian – Bernhard Riemann (as in Riemannian geometry)
• ritzy – César Ritz
• Rockwellian – Norman Rockwell
• Rogerian – Carl Rogers (as in Rogerian therapy)
• Rothbardian – Murray N. Rothbard
• Rousseauian – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Rubenesque – Pieter Paul Rubens
• Ruthian – Babe Ruth

• sadistic – Marquis de Sade
• Sambergian – Andy Samberg
• Samsonian – Samson
• Sapphic – Sappho (as in Sapphic love)
• Sartrean – Jean-Paul Sartre
• Sassanid – Sassan (as in Sassanid dynasty); also Sassanian
• satanic – Satan (as in Satanic Verses)
• Schubertiade (as in Franz Schubert)
• Seleucid – Seleucus I Nicator (as in Seleucid Empire)
• Semitic – Shem (as in Semitic languages)
• Senecan – Seneca (as in Senecan Tragedy)
• Servian – Servius Tullius (as in Servian Wall)
• Severan – Septimius Severus (as in Severan dynasty)
• Shakespearean – William Shakespeare (as in Shakespearean authorship, Shakespearean tragedy)
• Shavian – George Bernard Shaw (as in Shavian alphabet, Shavian reversal)
• Sistine – Pope Sixtus IV (as in Sistine Chapel)
• Sisyphean – Sisyphus, of Greek mythology
• Skinnerian – B. F. Skinner (as in Skinnerian behaviorism)
• Smithsonian – James Smithson (as in Smithsonian Institution)
• Socinian – Faustus Socinus
• Socratic – Socrates (as in Socratic method)
• Solomonic – Solomon (as in Solomonic dynasty)
• Solonian – Solon (as in Solonian Constitution)
• Sophoclean – Sophocles
• Spencerian – Platt Rogers Spencer (as in Spencerian script)
• Spenserian – Edmund Spenser (as in Spenserian stanza)
• Spielbergian – Steven Spielberg
• Stalinist – Joseph Stalin (as in Stalinist architecture)
• stentorian – Stentor, of Greek mythology

• tantalizing – Tantalus
• Tennysonian – Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• terpsichorean – Terpsichore
• Theodosian – Count Theodosius (as in Theodosian dynasty)
• thespian – Thespis
• Thomist – St. Thomas Aquinas (as in Thomist philosophy)
• Thomsonian – Dr. Samuel Thomson (as in Thomsonian Medicine)
• Thoreauvian – Henry David Thoreau
• thrasonical – Thraso, Terence's fictional character
• Titchy-Little Tich, stage name of Harry Relph
• Titian-Titian (as in titian-coloured}
• Timurid – Timur (Tamerlane) (as in Timurid Empire)
• Tironian – Marcus Tullius Tiro (as in Tironian notes)
• Titanic – Titan (as in Titanic prime)
• Tolstoyan – Leo Tolstoy; also Tolstoian
• Torricellian – Evangelista Torricelli (as in Torricellian chamber)
• Trotskyist – Leon Trotsky
• Tychonic – Tycho Brahe (as in Tychonic system); also Tychonian

• Umayyad – Umayya ibn Abd Shams (as in Umayyad Dynasty)

V–Z

• Vesalian – Vesalius
• Vestal – Vesta, of Roman mythology (as in Vestal Virgin)
• Victorian – Queen Victoria (as in Victorian era)
• Virgilian – Virgil; also Vergilian
• Vitruvian – Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (as in Vitruvian Man)
• Voltaic – Alessandro Volta (as in Voltaic pile)
• Voltairean – Voltaire
• Vonnegutian – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
• Vygotskian – Lev Vygotsky

• Wagnerian – Richard Wagner (as in Wagnerian rock)
• Waldensian – Peter Waldo (as in Waldensian Church)
• Wardian- Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward (as in Wardian Case
• Washingtonian – George Washington; Martha Washington (as in Washingtonian movement)
• Wesleyan – John Wesley (as in Wesleyan Church)
• Wavian – Evelyn Waugh
• Whedonesque – Joss Whedon (popularized by the fan site Whedonesque.com)
• Whitlamesque – Gough Whitlam
• Wildean- Oscar Wilde
• Williamite – King William III (as in Williamite War)
• Wilsonian – Woodrow Wilson
• Wolffian – Caspar Friedrich Wolff (a Wolffian body, as in Wolffian duct and Wolffian ridge)
• Woodwardian – John Woodward (as in Woodwardian Professor of Geology)
• Wronskian – Josef Hoëné-Wroński (as in Wronskian determinant)

• Zoroastrian – Zoroaster (Zarathustra); also Zarathustrian
• Zwinglian – Huldrych Zwingli

See also

• List of eponyms