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
- Abbasid – Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib
- abelian – Niels Henrik Abel
- Abrahamic – Abraham
- Adamic – Adam ; also Adamite
- Addisonian – Thomas Addison
- Adlerian – Alfred Adler
- Aegean – Aegeus, of Greek mythology
- Aeolian – Aeolus, of Greek mythology ; also Eolian
- Aeschylean – Aeschylus
- Aesopian – Aesop the Ancient Greek fabulist.
- Ahmadiyya – Ahmad
- Aldine – Aldus Manutius
- Alexandrine – Alexander the Great ; also Alexandrian
- American – Amerigo Vespucci
- Amish – Jakob Ammann
- Ampèrian – André-Marie Ampère
- Anacreontic – Anacreon
- Andrean – Andrew the Apostle
- Antonian – St. Anthony the Great ; Antoninus Pius
- Antonine – Antoninus Pius ; Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
- Apollonian – Apollo, of Greek mythology ; Apollonius of Perga
- Archimedean – Archimedes
- Arian – Arius
- Aristotelian – Aristotle
- Arminian – Jacobus Arminius
- Arsacid – Arsaces I of Parthia
- Arthurian – King Arthur
- Artinian – Emil Artin
- Ashmolean – Elias Ashmole
- Asimovian – Isaac Asimov
- Athanasian – St. Athanasius
- Athenian – Athena, of Greek mythology
- Atlantean – Atlas; also Atlantic
- Augustan – Caesar Augustus
- Augustinian – St. Augustine
- bacchanal – Bacchus, of Roman mythology; also "bacchanalian"
- Bachian – Johann Sebastian Bach
- Baconian – Francis Bacon
- Baháʼí – Bahá'u'lláh Bakerian – Henry Baker
- Bakhtinian – Mikhail Bakhtin
- Ballardian – J. G. Ballard
- Bangsian – John Kendrick Bangs
- Barthesian – Roland Barthes
- Batesian – Henry Walter Bates
- Bayesian – Thomas Bayes
- Beethovenian – Ludwig van Beethoven
- Benedictine – Benedict of Nursia
- Benthamite – Jeremy Bentham
- Berkeleyan – George Berkeley
- Blairite – Tony Blair
- Bodleian – Thomas Bodley
- Bohmian – David Bohm
- Bolivarian – Simón Bolívar
- Boolean – George Boole
- Borgesian – Jorge Luis Borges
- Boschian - Hieronymus Bosch
- Boulléesque – Etienne-Louis Boullée
- Bradmanesque – Donald Bradman
- Brahmsian – Johannes Brahms
- Brechtian – Bertolt Brecht
- Brownian – Robert Brown
- Brunonian – John Brown, the doctor
- Buddhist – Gautama Buddha
- Burkean – Edmund Burke
- Byronic – Lord Byron
- Caesarean – often incorrectly attributed to Julius Caesar
- Calvinist – John Calvin
- Capetian – Hugh Capet
- Capraesque – Frank Capra
- Carolean – Charles II of England
- Carolean – Charles XI of Sweden and Charles XII of Sweden
- Caroline – Charles I of England ; also Carolinian
- Carolingian – Charlemagne
- Carrollian – Lewis Carroll, pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
- Carterian – James Carter
- Cartesian – René Descartes
- Catilinarian – Catiline
- Chandleresque – Raymond Chandler
- Chaucerian – Geoffrey Chaucer
- 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
- Clintonian – Bill Clinton
- Columbian – Christopher Columbus
- Confucianist – Confucius
- Constantinian – Constantine I
- Coolidgean – Calvin Coolidge
- Copernican – Nicolaus Copernicus
- Cronenbergian – David Cronenberg
- Cromwellian – Oliver Cromwell
- Croonian – William Croone
- Cushingoid – Harvey Cushing – American physician
- Cyrillic – St. Cyril
D–F
- 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
- Davidic – David
- Deleuzian – Gilles Deleuze
- Dengist – Deng Xiaoping
- Derridean – Jacques Derrida
- desarguesian – Girard Desargues
- Dickensian – Charles Dickens
- Dickinsonian – Emily Dickinson
- Diogenean – Diogenes of Sinope
- Dionysian – Dionysus, of Greek mythology ; Dionysius Exiguus
- Diophantine – Diophantus
- Dobsonian – John Dobson
- Dominican – Saint Dominic
- Dostoevskian – Fyodor Dostoevsky; also Dostoyevskian
- draconian – Draco
- Dulcinian – Fra Dolcino
- dylanesque – Bob Dylan
- Edisonian – Thomas Edison
- Edwardian – King Edward VII
- Edwardine – Edward VI,
- Edwardsian – Jonathan Edwards
- Einsteinian – Albert Einstein
- Eliotic – T. S. Eliot
- Elizabethan – Queen Elizabeth I
- Emersonian – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Enochian – Enoch
- epicurean – Epicurus
- Erasmian – Erasmus
- erotic – Eros, of Greek mythology
- Euclidean – Euclid
- Eulerian – Euler
- Euripidean – Euripides
- Eustachian – Eustachius
- Everettian – Hugh Everett III
- Fabian – Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus
- Fallopian – Gabriele Falloppio
- Falstaffian – Sir John Falstaff, Shakespeare's fictional character
- Faradic – Michael Faraday
- Fatimid – Fatima as-Zahra
- Faulknerian – William Faulkner
- Faustian – Faust, Goethe's fictional character
- Felliniesque – Federico Fellini
- Flavian – Titus Flavius Vespasianus
- Fordian – Henry Ford ; also Fordist
- Fortean – Charles Fort
- Foucauldian – Michel Foucault
- Franciscan – St. Francis of Assisi
- Franklinic – Benjamin Franklin
- Frederician – Frederick the Great
- Freirean – Paulo Freire
- Freudian – Sigmund Freud
- Frostian – Robert Frost
- Fullerian – John 'Mad Jack' Fuller
- Fuxian – Johann Joseph Fux
G–J
- Galilean – Galileo Galilei
- Galvanic – Luigi Galvani
- Gandhian – Mahatma Gandhi
- gargantuan – Gargantua, Rabelais's fictional character
- Gaullist – Charles de Gaulle
- Gaussian – Carl Friedrich Gauss
- Genghisid – Genghis Khan
- Georgian – any of the first 4 Hanoverian kings of England
- Georgist – Henry George
- Gilliamesque – Terry Gilliam
- Gladstonian – William Ewart Gladstone
- Gödelian – Kurt Gödel
- Goulstonian – Theodore Goulston
- Gregorian – Pope Gregory I ; Pope Gregory XIII
- Gricean – Paul Grice
- Grundtvigian – N. F. S. Grundtvig
- Hadrianic – Roman emperor Hadrian
- Handelian – George Frideric Handel
- Hamiltonian – Sir William Rowan Hamilton ; Alexander Hamilton
- Hamitic – Ham
- Harperite - Stephen Harper
- Harveian – William Harvey
- Haydnesque – Joseph Haydn
- Hayekian – Friedrich Hayek
- Hegelian – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Heideggerian - Martin Heidegger
- Henrician – King Henry VIII ; Henry III of France
- herculean – Hercules, of Greek mythology
- hermaphroditic – Hermaphroditus, of Greek mythology
- hermetic – Hermes Trismegistus, a mythological alchemist
- Hermitian – Charles Hermite
- Herodian – Herod the Great
- Heronian – Hero of Alexandria
- Hilbertian – David Hilbert
- Hippocratic – Hippocrates
- Hitchcockian – Alfred Hitchcock
- Hitlerian – Adolf Hitler
- Hobbesian – Thomas Hobbes
- Holmesian – Sherlock Holmes, Conan Doyle's fictional character; also Sherlockian
- Homeric – Homer
- Horatian – Horace
- Humean – David Hume
- Hunterian – John Hunter and William Hunter
- Hussite – Jan Hus
- Hutterite – Jacob Hutter
- Ignatian – Ignatius of Loyola
- Imeldific – Imelda Marcos
- Irenic – Eirene
- Jacksonian – Andrew Jackson ; John Hughlings Jackson
- Jacobean – King James I
- Jacobian – Carl Gustav Jacobi
- Jacobite – King James II
- Jagiellonian – Władysław II Jagiełło
- Jamesian – Henry James
- Japhetic – Japheth
- Jeffersonian – Thomas Jefferson
- Johannine – Saint John the Evangelist
- Johnsonian – Samuel Johnson
- Jordanesque – Michael Jordan
- Josephite – Saint Joseph
- jovial – Jove/Jupiter, of Roman mythology; also Jovian
- Joycean – James Joyce
- Julian – Julius Caesar
- Jungian – Carl Jung
- Junoesque – Juno, of Roman mythology
- Justinianic – Justinian I
- Juvenalian – Juvenal
K–M
- Kafkaesque – Franz Kafka
- Kantian – Immanuel Kant
- Keatsian – John KeatsKemalist – Kemal Atatürk
- Kennedyesque – John F. Kennedy
- Keynesian – John Maynard Keynes
- Kierkegaardian – Søren Kierkegaard
- Kimilsungist - Kim Il Sung
- Kirbyesque – Jack Kirby
- Kubrickian – Stanley Kubrick
- Lacanian – Jacques Lacan
- Lagrangian – Joseph-Louis Lagrange
- Lamarckian – Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
- Landian – Nick Land
- Laplacian – Pierre-Simon Laplace
- Levitical – Levi
- Leibnizian – Gottfried Leibniz
- Leninist – Vladimir Lenin
- Lilian – Aloysius Lilius
- Linnaean – Carl Linnaeus
- Lincolnesque – Abraham Lincoln; also Lincolnian
- Lisztian – Franz Liszt
- Lockean – John Locke
- Lorentzian – Hendrik Lorentz
- Lovecraftian – H. P. Lovecraft
- Lucan – Saint Luke the Evangelist
- Lucasian – Henry Lucas
- Luddite – Ned Ludd
- Lullian – Ramon Llull ; also Llullian
- Lumleian – John Lumley, 1st Baron Lumley
- Lutheran – Martin Luther
- Lynchian – David Lynch
- macadamized – John Loudon McAdam
- Maccabean – Judas Maccabeus
- MacGyverian – Angus MacGyver
- Machiavellian – Niccolò Machiavelli
- MacIntyrean – Alasdair MacIntyre
- Madisonian – James Madison
- Maistrean – Joseph de Maistre
- Magellanic – Ferdinand Magellan
- Mahlerian – Gustav Mahler
- Malpighian – Marcello Malpighi
- Malthusian – Thomas Malthus
- Manichaean – Mani
- manueline – Manuel I of Portugal
- Maoist – Mao Zedong
- Marcan – Saint Mark the Evangelist,
- Marcusean - Herbert Marcuse, relating to Herbert Marcuse, German-American Marxist philosopher.
- Marian – Mary ; Gaius Marius
- Marivaudian – Pierre de Marivaux
- Markovian – Andrey Markov
- Marlenesque – Marlene Dietrich
- Marlovian – Christopher Marlowe
- martial – Mars, of Roman mythology
- Martinite - Paul Martin
- Marxist – Karl Marx ; also Marxian
- Maslowian – Abraham Maslow; also Maslovian
- masochistic – Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
- Matthean – Saint Matthew the Evangelist,
- maudlin – Mary Magdalene
- Maxwellian – James Clerk Maxwell
- mazarine – Cardinal Mazarin
- McCarthyist – Joseph McCarthy
- Melchizedek – Melchizedek ''
- Mendelian – Gregor Mendel
- Mendelssohnian – Felix Mendelssohn
- Menippean – Menippus
- Mennonite – Menno Simons
- mercurial – Mercury
- Merovingian – Merovech
- Metonic – Meton
- Millian – John Stuart Mill
- Miltonic – John Milton; also Miltonian
- Minkowskian – Hermann Minkowski
- Mithridatic – Mithridates VI
- Mohammedan – Muhammad
- Mosaic – Moses
- Mozartean – Wolfgang Mozart
N–Q
- Napierian – John Napier
- Napoleonic – Napoléon Bonaparte
- narcissistic – Narcissus, of Greek mythology
- Nasserist – Gamal Abdel Nasser
- Nehruvian – Jawaharlal Nehru
- Neronian – Nero
- Nervan – Nerva
- Nestorian – Nestorius
- Newtonian – Isaac Newton
- Nietzschean – Friedrich Nietzsche
- Nixonian – Richard Nixon
- Noachian – Noah
- Noetherian – Emmy Noether
- Norquistian – Grover Norquist
- Odinic – Odin
- Odyssean – Odysseus
- Oedipal – Oedipus, of Greek mythology
- ohmic – Georg Ohm
- onanistic – OnanOrbanist – Victor Orban
- Orphic – Orpheus, of Greek mythology
- Orwellian – George Orwell
- Osirian – Osiris, of Egyptian mythology
- Ottoman – Osman I
- Ottonian – Otto I the Great
- Ovidian – Ovid
- Oxfordian – Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford
- Palinian – Michael Palin
- Palladian – Andrea Palladio
- Panglossian – Pangloss, Voltaire's fictional character
- pappian – Pappus of Alexandria
- Paracelsian – Paracelsus
- parkinsonian – James Parkinson
- pasteurized – Louis Pasteur
- Pauline – Paul of Tarsus
- Pavlovian – Ivan Pavlov
- Pecksniffian – Seth Pecksniff, Dickens' fictional character
- Pelagian – Pelagius
- Pepysian – Samuel Pepys
- Periclean – Pericles
- Petersonian – Jordan Peterson
- Petrine – Saint Peter ; also Peter the Great
- Phildickian – Philip K. Dick
- Piagetian – Jean Piaget
- Pickwickian – Samuel Pickwick, Dickens' fictional character
- Pigouvian – Arthur Cecil Pigou
- Pinteresque – Harold Pinter
- Platonic – Plato
- Plinian – Pliny
- Plutarchian – Plutarch
- plutonic – Pluto, of Greek & Roman mythology ; also plutonian
- Pollyannish – Pollyanna, fictional character
- Pombaline – Marquis of Pombal
- Popperian – Karl Popper
- Procrustean – Procrustes, of Greek mythology
- Promethean – Prometheus, of Greek mythology
- protean – Proteus, of Greek mythology
- Proustian – Marcel Proust
- Ptolemaic – Ptolemy ; Ptolemy I Soter
- Putinist – Vladimir Putin
- Pyrrhic – Pyrrhus of Epirus
- Pyrrhonian – Pyrrho
- Pythagorean – Pythagoras
- Pythonic – Monty Python, a more correct eponym, used by Terry Jones, for the more commonly used Pythonesque
- Pythonesque – Monty Python, fictional character name from television comedy
- Quirinal – Quirinus, of Roman mythology
- quixotic – Don Quixote, Cervantes' fictional character
R–U
- Rabelaisian – François Rabelais
- Rachmaninovian – Sergei Rachmaninoff
- Ramesside – Ramesses I
- Randian – Ayn Rand
- Raphaelesque – Raphael; also Raphaelite
- Rastafarian – Ras Tafari
- Reaganesque – Ronald Reagan
- Reithian – John Reith
- Ricardian – David Ricardo
- Richardsonian – Henry Hobson Richardson
- Riemannian – Bernhard Riemann
- ritzy – César Ritz
- Rockwellian – Norman Rockwell
- Rogerian – Carl Rogers
- 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
- Sartrean – Jean-Paul Sartre
- Sasanian – Sassan ; also Sassanian, Sassanid
- satanic – Satan
- Saturnine – Saturn
- Schenkerian – Heinrich Schenker as in Schenkerian analysis
- Schubertian – Franz Schubert
- Seleucid – Seleucus I Nicator
- Seljuk – Seljuk
- Semitic – Shem
- Senecan – Seneca
- Servian – Servius Tullius
- Severan – Septimius Severus
- Shakespearean – William Shakespeare
- Shavian – George Bernard Shaw
- Sistine – Pope Sixtus IV
- Sisyphean – Sisyphus, of Greek mythology
- Skinnerian – B. F. Skinner
- Smithsonian – James Smithson
- Socinian – Faustus Socinus
- Socratic – Socrates
- Solomonic – Solomon
- Solonian – Solon
- Sophoclean – Sophocles
- Spencerian – Platt Rogers Spencer
- Spenserian – Edmund Spenser
- Spielbergian – Steven Spielberg
- Spinozist – Baruch Spinoza Stalinist – Joseph Stalin
- stentorian – Stentor, of Greek mythologySwiftian – Jonathan Swift or Taylor Swift
- sybaritic – Sybaris
- tantalizing – Tantalus
- Tennysonian – Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- terpsichorean – Terpsichore
- Thalesian – Thales
- Thatcherite – Margaret Thatcher
- Theodosian – Count Theodosius
- thespian – Thespis
- Thomist – St. Thomas Aquinas
- Thomsonian – Dr. Samuel Thomson
- Thoreauvian – Henry David Thoreau
- thrasonical – Thraso, Terence's fictional character
- Titchy – Little Tich, stage name of Harry Relph
- Titian – Titian
- Timurid – Timur
- Tironian – Marcus Tullius Tiro
- Titanic – Titan
- Tolkienism – J. R. R. Tolkien
- Tolstoyan – Leo Tolstoy; also Tolstoian
- Torricellian – Evangelista Torricelli
- Trotskyist – Leon Trotsky; also Trotskyite
- Trudeauvian - Pierre or Justin Trudeau
- Trumpian – Donald Trump
- Tychonic – Tycho Brahe ; also Tychonian
- Umayyad – Umayya ibn Abd Shams
V–Z
Vattelian – Emer de Vattel- Vesalian – Vesalius
- Vestal – Vesta, of Roman mythology
- Victorian – Queen Victoria
- Virgilian – Virgil; also Vergilian
- Vitruvian – Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
- Voltaic – Alessandro Volta
- Voltairean – Voltaire
- Vonnegutian – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
- Vygotskian – Lev Vygotsky
- Wagnerian – Richard Wagner
- Waldensian – Peter Waldo
- Wardian – Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward
- Washingtonian – George Washington; Martha Washington
- Wesleyan – John Wesley
- Wavian – Evelyn Waugh
- Whedonesque – Joss Whedon
- Whitlamesque – Gough Whitlam
- Wildean – Oscar Wilde
- Williamite – King William III
- Wilsonian – Woodrow Wilson
- Wolffian – Caspar Friedrich Wolff and Christian Wolff (philosopher)
- Woodwardian – John Woodward
- Wordsworthean – William Wordsworth,
- Wronskian – Josef Hoëné-Wroński
- Zoroastrian – Zoroaster ; also Zarathustrian
- Zwinglian – Huldrych Zwingli