List of eponymous adjectives in English

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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.[1]

Following is a list of eponymous adjectives in English.

## A–C

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* 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)
* Aesopian – Aesop the Ancient Greek fabulist. (Also, conveying an innocent meaning to an outsider but a hidden meaning to a member of a conspiracy or underground movement.)
* Ahmadiyya – Ahmad (as in Ahmadiyya)
* 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)
* Anacreontic – Anacreon
* Andrean – Andrew the Apostle (as in Andrean High School)
* 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)
* Athenian – Athena, of Greek mythology
* 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"
* Bachian – Johann Sebastian Bach
* Baconian – Francis Bacon (as in Baconian cipher)
* Baháʼí – Bahá'u'lláh (as in Baháʼí Faith)
* Bakerian – Henry Baker (as in Bakerian Lecture)
* Bakhtinian – Mikhail Bakhtin
* Ballardian – J. G. Ballard
* Bangsian – John Kendrick Bangs (as in Bangsian fantasy)
* Barthesian – Roland Barthes
* Batesian – Henry Walter Bates (as in Batesian mimicry)
* 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)
* Berkeleyan  – George Berkeley (as in Berkeleyan idealism)
* Blairite – Tony Blair
* Bodleian – Thomas Bodley (as in Bodleian Library)
* Bohmian – David Bohm (as in Bohmian mechanics)
* Bolivarian – Simón Bolívar (as in Bolivarian Revolution)
* Boolean – George Boole (as in Boolean algebra, Boolean logic)
* Borgesian – Jorge Luis Borges
* Boschian \- Hieronymus Bosch
* Boulléesque – Etienne-Louis Boullée
* Bradmanesque – Donald Bradman
* Brahmsian – Johannes Brahms
* 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
* Carolean – Charles II of England (as in Carolean style)
* Carolean – Charles XI of Sweden and Charles XII of Sweden (as in Carolean soldiers)
* Caroline – Charles I of England (as in Caroline era); also Carolinian
* Carolingian – Charlemagne (as in Carolingian dynasty)
* Carrollian – Lewis Carroll, pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
* Carterian – James Carter (as in In Carterian Fashion)
* Cartesian – René Descartes (as in Cartesian coordinate)
* Catilinarian – Catiline (as in Catilinarian conspiracy)
* Chandleresque – Raymond Chandler
* Chaucerian  – Geoffrey Chaucer (as in Chaucerian stanza)
* chauvinistic – Nicolas Chauvin
* Chekhovian – Anton Chekhov
* Chestertonian – G. K. Chesterton
* Chomskyan – Noam Chomsky; also Chomskian
* Chopinesque – Frédéric Chopin
* Chretienite \- Jean Chrétien
* Christian – Jesus Christ
* Churchillian – Winston Churchill
* Churrigueresque – José Benito de Churriguera
* Ciceronian – Cicero
* Clarissine – Clare of Assisi
* 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)
* Coolidgean – Calvin Coolidge
* Copernican – Nicolaus Copernicus (as in Copernican heliocentrism)
* Cronenbergian – David Cronenberg
* Cromwellian – Oliver Cromwell
* Croonian – William Croone (as in Croonian Lecture)
* Cushingoid – Harvey Cushing – American physician
* Cyrillic – St. Cyril (as in Cyrillic)

## D–F

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* daedal – Daedalus, of Greek mythology; also Daedalic and 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)
* Deleuzian – Gilles Deleuze
* Dengist – Deng Xiaoping
* Derridean – Jacques Derrida (as in Derridean deconstruction)
* desarguesian – Girard Desargues (as in desarguesian plane)
* Dickensian – Charles Dickens
* Dickinsonian – Emily Dickinson
* Diogenean – Diogenes of Sinope
* 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
* Edwardine – Edward VI, (as in Edwardine Ordinals)
* 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)
* Everettian – Hugh Everett III (as in Everettian quantum theory)
* Fabian – Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus (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)
* Fordian – Henry Ford (as in Society for the Propagation of Fordian Knowledge); also Fordist
* 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)
* Freirean – Paulo Freire (as in Freirean pedagogy)
* Freudian – Sigmund Freud (as in Freudian slip)
* Frostian – Robert Frost
* Fullerian – John 'Mad Jack' Fuller (as in Fullerian Professor of Chemistry)
* Fuxian – Johann Joseph Fux (as in Fuxian Counterpoint)

## G–J

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* 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)
* Genghisid – Genghis Khan
* Georgian – any of the first 4 Hanoverian kings of England (all named George)
* Georgist – Henry George (as in Georgism)
* 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)
* Hadrianic – Roman emperor Hadrian
* 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)
* Harperite \- Stephen Harper
* Harveian – William Harvey (as in Harveian Oration)
* Haydnesque – Joseph Haydn
* Hayekian – Friedrich Hayek (as in Hayekian triangle)
* Hegelian – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (as in Hegelian dialectic)
* Heideggerian \- Martin Heidegger
* 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)
* Hermitian – Charles Hermite (as in Hermitian matrix)
* 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)
* Hutterite – Jacob Hutter
* Ignatian – Ignatius of Loyola (as in Ignatian spirituality)
* Imeldific – Imelda Marcos (meaning ostentatious; extravagant)
* Irenic – Eirene (of Greek mythology; meaning peaceable)
* 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 Jacobitism)
* Jagiellonian – Władysław II Jagiełło (as in Jagiellonian dynasty)
* Jamesian – Henry James
* Japhetic – Japheth (as in Japhetic theory)
* Jeffersonian – Thomas Jefferson (as in Jeffersonian democracy)
* Johannine – Saint John the Evangelist (as in Johannine literature)
* Johnsonian – Samuel Johnson
* Jordanesque – Michael Jordan (usually denotes remarkable athletic achievement or dominance)
* Josephite – Saint Joseph (as in Josephite Marriage or Josephite Fathers)
* 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
* Justinianic – Justinian I
* Juvenalian – Juvenal (as in Juvenalian satire)

## K–M

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* Kafkaesque – Franz Kafka[2]
* Kantian – Immanuel Kant
* Keatsian – John Keats
* Kemalist – Kemal Atatürk
* Kennedyesque – John F. Kennedy
* Keynesian – John Maynard Keynes (as in Keynesian economics)
* Kierkegaardian – Søren Kierkegaard
* Kimilsungist \- Kim Il Sung
* Kirbyesque – Jack Kirby
* Kubrickian – Stanley Kubrick
* Lacanian – Jacques Lacan (as in Lacanian psychoanalysis)
* Lagrangian – Joseph-Louis Lagrange (as in Lagrangian point)
* Lamarckian – Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (as in Lamarckian evolution)
* Landian – Nick Land
* 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 – Carl Linnaeus (as in Linnaean taxonomy)
* Lincolnesque – Abraham Lincoln; also Lincolnian
* Lisztian – Franz Liszt
* Lockean – John Locke
* Lorentzian – Hendrik Lorentz (as in Lorentzian function)
* Lovecraftian – H. P. Lovecraft (as in Lovecraftian horror)
* Lucan – Saint Luke the Evangelist (as in Lucan Theology)
* Lucasian – Henry Lucas (as in Lucasian Professor)
* Luddite – Ned Ludd
* 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
* MacIntyrean – Alasdair MacIntyre (as in MacIntyrean moral tradition)
* Madisonian – James Madison (as in Madisonian Model)
* Maistrean – Joseph de Maistre
* Magellanic – Ferdinand Magellan (as in Magellanic Clouds)
* Mahlerian – Gustav Mahler
* Malpighian – Marcello Malpighi (as in Malpighian corpuscle)
* Malthusian – Thomas Malthus (as in Malthusian catastrophe)
* Manichaean – Mani
* manueline – Manuel I of Portugal
* Maoist – Mao Zedong
* Marcan – Saint Mark the Evangelist, (as in Marcan Priority)
* Marcusean \- Herbert Marcuse, relating to Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979), German-American Marxist philosopher.
* 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)
* Martinite \- Paul Martin
* Marxist – Karl Marx (as in Marxist theory); also Marxian (as in Marxian economics)
* Maslowian – Abraham Maslow; also Maslovian
* masochistic – Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
* Matthean – Saint Matthew the Evangelist, (as in Matthean Exception)
* maudlin – Mary Magdalene
* Maxwellian – James Clerk Maxwell (as in Maxwellian distribution, Maxwellian demon)
* mazarine – Cardinal Mazarin (as in mazarine blue)
* McCarthyist – Joseph McCarthy
* Melchizedek – Melchizedek (as in Melchizedek priesthood)
* Mendelian – Gregor Mendel (as in Mendelian inheritance)
* Mendelssohnian – Felix Mendelssohn
* Menippean – Menippus (as in Menippean satire)
* Mennonite – Menno Simons
* mercurial – Mercury
* Merovingian – Merovech (as in Merovingian dynasty)
* Metonic – Meton (as in Metonic cycle)
* Millian – John Stuart Mill (as in Millian theory of proper names)
* Miltonic – John Milton; also Miltonian
* Minkowskian – Hermann Minkowski
* Mithridatic – Mithridates VI (as in Mithridatic Wars)
* Mohammedan – Muhammad (as in Mohammedan art)
* Mosaic – Moses (as in Mosaic Law, but not as in mosaic floor)
* Mozartean – Wolfgang Mozart

## N–Q

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* Napierian – John Napier (as in Napierian logarithm)
* Napoleonic – Napoléon Bonaparte (as in Napoleonic code)
* narcissistic – Narcissus, of Greek mythology (as in Narcissistic personality disorder)
* Nasserist – Gamal Abdel Nasser
* Nehruvian – Jawaharlal Nehru
* 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)
* Nixonian – Richard Nixon
* Noachian – Noah (as in Noachian deluge)
* Noetherian – Emmy Noether (as in Noetherian ring)
* Norquistian – Grover Norquist
* Odinic – Odin
* Odyssean – Odysseus
* Oedipal – Oedipus, of Greek mythology (as in Oedipal complex)
* ohmic – Georg Ohm (as in ohmic device)
* onanistic – Onan
* Orbanist  – Victor Orban
* Orphic – Orpheus, of Greek mythology (as in Orphic Mysteries)
* Orwellian – George Orwell
* Osirian – Osiris, of Egyptian mythology
* 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
* pappian – Pappus of Alexandria (as in pappian plane)
* Paracelsian – Paracelsus
* parkinsonian – James Parkinson (as in parkinsonian syndrome)
* pasteurized – Louis Pasteur (as in pasteurized milk)
* 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)
* Petersonian – Jordan Peterson
* 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
* Pigouvian – Arthur Cecil Pigou (as in Pigouvian Tax)
* 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
* Pollyannish – Pollyanna, fictional character
* 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)
* Putinist – Vladimir Putin (as in Putinist Russia)
* 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

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* Rabelaisian – François Rabelais
* Rachmaninovian – Sergei Rachmaninoff
* Ramesside – Ramesses I (as in Ramesside period)
* 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 – Peter Paul Rubens
* Rumsfeldian – Donald Rumsfeld
* Ruthian – Babe Ruth
* sadistic – Marquis de Sade
* Sambergian – Andy Samberg
* Samsonian – Samson
* Sapphic – Sappho (as in Sapphic love)
* Sartrean – Jean-Paul Sartre
* Sasanian – Sassan (as in Sasanian dynasty); also Sassanian, Sassanid
* satanic – Satan (as in Satanic Verses)
* Saturnine – Saturn (as in Saturnine temperament)
* Schenkerian – Heinrich Schenker as in Schenkerian analysis
* Schubertian – Franz Schubert
* Seleucid – Seleucus I Nicator (as in Seleucid Empire)
* Seljuk – Seljuk (as in Seljuk 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
* Spinozist – Baruch Spinoza (as in Spinozism)
* Stalinist – Joseph Stalin (as in Stalinist architecture)
* stentorian – Stentor, of Greek mythology
* Swiftian – Jonathan Swift (as in Swiftian satire) or Taylor Swift (as in Swiftian songwriting)
* sybaritic – Sybaris
* tantalizing – Tantalus
* Tennysonian – Alfred, Lord Tennyson
* terpsichorean – Terpsichore
* Thalesian – Thales
* Thatcherite – Margaret Thatcher
* 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)
* Tolkienism – J. R. R. Tolkien
* Tolstoyan – Leo Tolstoy; also Tolstoian
* Torricellian – Evangelista Torricelli (as in Torricellian chamber)
* Trotskyist – Leon Trotsky; also Trotskyite
* Trudeauvian \- Pierre or Justin Trudeau
* Trumpian – Donald Trump
* Tychonic – Tycho Brahe (as in Tychonic system); also Tychonian
* Umayyad – Umayya ibn Abd Shams (as in Umayyad dynasty)

## V–Z

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* Vattelian – Emer de Vattel
* 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 Christian Wolff (philosopher)
* Woodwardian – John Woodward (as in Woodwardian Professor of Geology)
* Wordsworthean – William Wordsworth, (as in Wadsworthean ego)
* Wronskian – Josef Hoëné-Wroński (as in Wronskian determinant)
* Zoroastrian – Zoroaster (Zarathustra); also Zarathustrian
* Zwinglian – Huldrych Zwingli

## See also

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* List of eponyms

## Notes

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1. ^ Lobeck, Anne; Denham, Kristin (2014). "Adjective Morphology". Navigating English Grammar: A Guide to Analyzing Real Language. Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell. p. 151\. ISBN 978-1-118-34030-1.
2. ^ Plotnik, Arthur (2011). "Appendix 3: An Alphabet of Eponymous Acclaim". Better Than Great: A Plenitudinous Compendium of Wallopingly Fresh Superlatives (1st ed.). Berkeley, California: Viva Editions. pp. 209–215. ISBN 978-1-57344-660-0. "eponymous adjectives."