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")
*Achillean—Achilles, of Greek mythology
*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")
*Amperian—André-Marie Ampère (as in "Amperian 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")

*Baconian—Francis Bacon (as in "Baconian cipher")
*Bahá'í—Bahá'u'lláh (as in "Bahá'í Faith")
*Ballardian—J. G. Ballard
*Bangsian—John Kendrick Bangs (as in "Bangsian fantasy")
*Bayesian—Thomas Bayes (as in "Bayesian probability")
*Beckettian—Samuel Beckett
*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")
*Bradmanesque—Donald Bradman
*Brechtian—Bertholt Brecht (as in "Brechtian acting")
*Brownian—Robert Brown (as in "Brownian motion")
*Brunonian—John Brown (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")
*Chaplinesque—Charlie Chaplin
*Chaucerian —Geoffrey Chaucer (as in "Chaucerian stanza")
*chauvinistic—Nicolas Chauvin
*Chestertonian—G. K. Chesterton
*Chomskyan—Noam Chomsky
*Christian—Jesus Christ
*Churchillian—Winston Churchill
*Ciceronian - Cicero
*Claudian—Claudius (as in "Julio-Claudian dynasty")
*Clintonian—Bill Clinton
*Chekhovian—Anton Chekhov
*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
*Cushingoid - Harvey Cushing - American physician
*Cyrillic—St. Cyril (as in "Cyrillic alphabet")

D–F

*daedal—Daedalus, of Greek mythology; also Daedalian or Daedalean
*Daliesque—Salvador Dalí
*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
*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
*—Draco
*Dulcinian—Fra Dolcino
* dylanesque - Bob Dylan

*Edisonian—Thomas Edison (as in "Edisonian approach")
*Edwardian—King Edward VII
*Edwardsian—Jonathan Edwards
*Einsteinian—Albert Einstein
*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")
*Euclidean—Euclid (as in "Euclidean geometry", "Euclidean algorithm")
*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
*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")
*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")

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
*Gaussian—Carl Friedrich Gauss (as in "Gaussian function")
*Georgian— any of the first 4 Hanoverian kings of England (all named George
*Gladstonian—William Gladstone (as in "Gladstonian Liberalism")
*Gödelian—Kurt Gödel (as in "Gödelian incompleteness")
*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")
*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")
*Hunterian—William Hunter (anatomist) (as in "Hunterian Museum")
*Hussite—Jan Hus (as in "Hussite Wars")

*Ignatian—Ignatius of Loyola (as in "Ignatian spirituality")

*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)
*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
*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")
*—Lilliput (from "Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift)
*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
*Lutheran—Martin Luther
*Lynchian—David Lynch

*macadamized—John Loudon McAdam (as in "macadamized system")
*Maccabean—Judas Maccabeus (as in "Maccabean revolt")
*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—Jules Cardinal Mazarin (as in "mazarine blue")
*McCarthyist—Joseph McCarthy
*Mendelian—Gregor Mendel (as in "Mendelian inheritance")
*Menippean—Menippus (as in "Menippean satire")
*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

*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

*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")
*Oxfordian—Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (as in "Oxfordian theory")

*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")
*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")
*Procrustean—Procrustes, of Greek mythology
*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
*"'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
*"'Rousseauvian - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
*Rubenesque--Pieter Paul Rubens
*Ruthian—Babe Ruth

*sadistic—Marquis de Sade
*Samsonian—Samson
*Sapphic—Sappho (as in "Sapphic love")
*Sassanid—Sassan (as in "Sassanid dynasty"); also Sassanian
*satanic—Satan (as in "Satanic Verses")
*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

*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
*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
*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")
*Washingtonian—George Washington; Martha Washington (as in "Washingtonian movement")
*Wesleyan—John Wesley (as in "Wesleyan Church")
*Whedonesque—Joss Whedon (popularized by the fan site "Whedonesque.com")
*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")
*Wronskian—Josef Hoëné-Wroński (as in "Wronskian determinant")

*Zoroastrian—Zoroaster (Zarathustra); also Zarathustrian
*Zwinglian—Huldrych Zwingli

ee also

* List of eponyms