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)

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)

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)

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)

Bahá'í – Bahá'u'lláh (as in Bahá'í Faith)

Bakerian – Henry Baker (as in Bakerian Lecture)

Ballardian – J. G. Ballard

Bangsian – John Kendrick Bangs (as in Bangsian fantasy)

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

Carolean – Charles II of England (as in Carolean style)

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

.Chekhovian - Anton Chekhov

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 heliocentrism)

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)

Deleuzian – Gilles Deleuze

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

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 Ordinal)

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 – 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)

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)

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)

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 (as in Hamiltonian path); Alexander Hamilton (as in Hamiltonian economic program)

Hamitic – Ham (as in Hamitic languages)

Harveian – William Harvey (as in Harveian Oration)

Haydnesque – Joseph Haydn

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)

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)

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

Juvenalian – Juvenal (as in Juvenalian satire)

K–M

Kafkaesque – Franz Kafka

Kantian – Immanuel Kant

Keatsian – John Keats

Kemalist – Kemal Atatürk

Kennedyesque – John F. Kennedy

Keynesian – John Maynard Keynes (as in Keynesian economics)

Kierkegaardian – Søren Kierkegaard

Kirbyesque - Jack Kirby

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 – Carl Linnaeus (as in Linnaean taxonomy)

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)

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)

Manichaean – Mani; also Manichaean

manueline – Manuel I of Portugal

Maoist – Mao Zedong

Marcan – Saint Mark the Evangelist, (as in Marcan Priority)

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

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

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)

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)

Mozartean – Wolfgang Mozart

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)

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)

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

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)

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

Rachmaninovian – Sergei Rachmaninoff

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

Sassanid – Sassan (as in Sassanid dynasty); also Sassanian

satanic – Satan (as in Satanic Verses)

Saturnine – Saturn (as in Saturnine temperament)

Schubertian (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; also Trotskyite

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)

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