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
• 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
• Alan – Alan 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
• Bahá'í – Bahá'u'lláh
• Bakerian – Henry Baker
• 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
• Blairite – Tony Blair
• Bodleian – Thomas Bodley
• Bolivarian – Simón Bolívar
• Boolean – George Boole
• Bradmanesque - Donald Bradman
• 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
• Caroline – Charles I of England ; also Carolinian
• Carolingian – Charles Martel
• Carrollian – Lewis Carroll, pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
• Cartesian – René Descartes
• Catilinarian – Catiline
• Chaucerian – Geoffrey Chaucer
• chauvinistic – Nicolas Chauvin
• Chekhovian – Anton Chekhov
• Chestertonian – G. K. Chesterton
• Chomskyan – Noam Chomsky; also Chomskian
• Chopinesque – Frédéric Chopin
• Christian – Jesus Christ
• Churchillian – Winston Churchill
• Churrigueresque – José Benito de Churriguera
• Ciceronian – Cicero
• Claudian – Claudius
• Clintonian – Bill Clinton
• Columbian – Christopher Columbus
• Confucianist – Confucius
• Constantinian – Constantine I
• Coolidgean – Calvin Coolidge
• Copernican – Nicolaus Copernicus
• Cromwellian – Oliver Cromwell
• Croonian – William Croone
• Cushingoid – Harvey Cushing – American physician
• Cyrillic – St. Cyril

  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
• Davidic – David
• Deleuzian – Gilles Deleuze
• Derridean – Jacques Derrida
• Cartesian – René Descartes Latinized: Renatus Cartesius
• 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
• – 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
• 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

  G–J

• Galilean – Galileo Galilei
• Gasparinist Gasparini
• 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
• 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
• guillotine – named for Dr. Joseph Ignace Guillotin who encouraged the use of, but did not invent, the device
• Handelian – George Frideric Handel
• Hamiltonian – Sir William Rowan Hamilton ; Alexander Hamilton
• Hamitic – Ham
• Harveian – William Harvey
• Haydnesque – Joseph Haydn
• Hegelian – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
• Henrician – King Henry VIII ; Henry III of France
• herculean – Hercules, of Greek mythology
• hermaphroditic – Hermaphroditus, of Greek mythology
• hermetic – Hermes Trismegistus, a mythological alchemist
• 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 – 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
• 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
• Juvenalian – Juvenal

  K–M

• Kafkaesque – Franz Kafka
• Kantian – Immanuel Kant
• Keatsian – John Keats
• Kemalist – Kemal Atatürk
• Kennedyesque – John F. Kennedy
• Keynesian – John Maynard Keynes
• Kierkegaardian – Søren Kierkegaard
• Kirbyesque – Jack Kirby
• Kubrickian – Stanley Kubrick
• Lagrangian – Joseph-Louis Lagrange
• Lamarckian – Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
• 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
• 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
• – Niccolò Machiavelli
• MacIntyrean – Alasdair MacIntyre
• Madisonian – James Madison
• Magellanic – Ferdinand Magellan
• Mahlerian – Gustav Mahler
• Malpighian – Marcello Malpighi
• Malthusian – Thomas Malthus
• Manichaean – Mani; also Manichaean
• manueline – Manuel I of Portugal
• Maoist – Mao Zedong
• Marcan – Saint Mark the Evangelist,
• Marian – Mary ; Gaius Marius
• Marivaudian – Pierre de Marivaux
• Markovian – Andrey Markov
• Marlenesque – Marlene Dietrich
• Marlovian – Christopher Marlowe
• martial – Mars, of Roman mythology
• Marxist – Karl Marx ; also Marxian
• Maslovian – Abraham Maslow
• masochistic – Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
• Matthean – Saint Matthew the Evangelist,
• maudlin – Mary Magdalene
• Maxwellian – James Clerk Maxwell
• mazarine – Cardinal Mazarin
• McCarthyist – Joseph McCarthy
• Mendelian – Gregor Mendel
• Mendelssohnian – Felix Mendelssohn
• Menippean – Menippus
• Mennonite – Menno Simons
• mercurial – Mercury
• Merovingian – Merovech
• Metonic – Meton
• Miltonic – John Milton; also Miltonian
• Minkowskian – Hermann Minkowski
• Mithridatic – Mithridates VI
• Mosaic – Moses
• Mozartean – Wolfgang Mozart
• Muhammadan – Muhammad

  N–Q

• Napierian – John Napier
• Napoleonic – Napoléon Bonaparte
• narcissistic – Narcissus, of Greek mythology
• Nehruvian – Jawaharlal Nehru
• Neronian – Nero
• Nervan – Nerva
• Nestorian – Nestorius
• Newtonian – Isaac Newton
• Nietzschean – Friedrich Nietzsche
• Noachian – Noah
• Noetherian – Emmy Noether
• Norquistian – Grover Norquist
• Odinic – Odin
• Odyssean – Odysseus
• Oedipal – Oedipus, of Greek mythology
• ohmic – Georg Ohm
• onanistic – Onan
• 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
• Paracelsian – Paracelsus
• parkinsonian – James Parkinson
• Pauline – Paul of Tarsus
• Pavlovian – Ivan Pavlov
• Pecksniffian – Seth Pecksniff, Dickens' fictional character
• Pelagian – Pelagius
• Pepysian – Samuel Pepys
• Periclean – Pericles
• Petrine – Saint Peter ; also Peter the Great
• Piagetian – Jean Piaget
• Pickwickian – Samuel Pickwick, Dickens' fictional character
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Schubertian
• Seleucid – Seleucus I Nicator
• 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
• Stalinist – Joseph Stalin
• stentorian – Stentor, of Greek mythology
• sybaritic – Sybaris
• tantalizing – Tantalus
• Tennysonian – Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• terpsichorean – Terpsichore
• 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
• Tolstoyan – Leo Tolstoy; also Tolstoian
• Torricellian – Evangelista Torricelli
• Trotskyist – Leon Trotsky; also Trotskyite
• Trumpian - Donald Trump
• Tychonic – Tycho Brahe ; also Tychonian
• Umayyad – Umayya ibn Abd Shams

  V–Z

• 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
• Woodwardian – John Woodward
• Wordsworthean – William Wordsworth,
• Wronskian – Josef Hoëné-Wroński
• Zoroastrian – Zoroaster ; also Zarathustrian
• Zwinglian – Huldrych Zwingli