Editing List of eponymous adjectives in English

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{{Dynamic list}}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 [[eponym]]s.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Lobeck|first1=Anne|author-link=Anne Lobeck |last2=Denham|first2=Kristin|author2-link=Kristin Denham |title=Navigating English Grammar: A Guide to Analyzing Real Language|date=2014|publisher=Wiley-Blackwell|location=Chichester, West Sussex|isbn=978-1-118-34030-1|page=151|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2aIRAAAAQBAJ&dq=eponymous%20adjective%20esque&pg=PA151|chapter=Adjective Morphology}}</ref>

Following is a list of eponymous adjectives in English.
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==A–C==
*'''Aaronic''' – [[Aaron]] (as in ''[[Aaronic priesthood (Latter Day Saints)|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 (Bible)|Adam]] (as in ''[[Adamic language]]''); also '''Adamite''' (as in ''[[pre-Adamite|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]]'')
*'''[[Naming of the Americas|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''' –  [[Anthony the Great|St. Anthony the Great]] (as in ''Antonian [[monasticism]]''); [[Antoninus Pius]] (as in ''[[Nervan-Antonian dynasty]]'')
*'''Antonine''' – [[Antoninus Pius]] (as in ''[[Antonine Wall]]''); [[Marcus Aurelius|Marcus Aurelius Antoninus]] (as in ''[[Antonine Plague]]'')
*'''[[Apollonian]]''' – [[Apollo]], of Greek mythology (as in ''[[Delphic Sibyl|Apollonian Oracle]]''); [[Apollonius of Perga]] (as in ''[[Apollonian gasket]]'')
*'''Archimedean''' – [[Archimedes]] (as in ''[[Archimedean screw]]'')
*'''[[Arianism|Arian]]''' – [[Arius]]
*'''Aristotelian''' – [[Aristotle]] (as in ''[[Aristotelian logic]]'')
*'''[[Arminianism|Arminian]]''' – [[Jacobus Arminius]]
*'''Arsacid''' – [[Arsaces I of Parthia]] (as in ''Arsacid dynasty'')
*'''Arthurian''' – [[King Arthur]] (as in ''[[Matter of Britain|Arthurian legend]]'')
*'''Artinian''' – [[Emil Artin]] (as in ''[[Artinian ring]]'')
*'''Ashmolean''' – [[Elias Ashmole]] (as in ''[[Ashmolean Museum]]'')
*'''Asimovian''' – [[Isaac Asimov]] (as in ''[[Three Laws of Robotics|Asimovian robot]]'')
*'''Athanasian''' – [[Athanasius of Alexandria|St. Athanasius]] (as in ''[[Athanasian Creed]]'')
*'''Athenian''' – [[Athena]], of Greek mythology
*'''Atlantean''' – [[Atlas (mythology)|Atlas]]; also '''Atlantic'''
*'''Augustan''' – [[Caesar Augustus]] (as in ''[[Augustan drama]]'')
*'''Augustinian''' – [[Augustine of Hippo|St. Augustine]] (as in ''[[Augustinian Order]]'')
*'''bacchanal''' – [[Dionysus|Bacchus]], of Roman mythology; also "[[bacchanalia]]n"
*'''Bachian''' – [[Johann Sebastian Bach]]
*'''Baconian''' – [[Francis Bacon]] (as in ''[[Baconian cipher]]'')
*'''[[Baháʼí Faith|Baháʼí]]''' – [[Bahá'u'lláh]] (as in ''[[Baháʼí Faith]]'')
* '''Bakerian''' – [[Henry Baker (naturalist)|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]]'')
*'''[[Bolivarianism|Bolivarian]]''' – [[Simón Bolívar]] (as in ''[[Bolivarian Revolution]]'')
*'''Boolean''' – [[George Boole]] (as in ''[[Boolean algebra (logic)|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 (Scottish botanist from Montrose)|Robert Brown]] (as in ''[[Brownian motion]]'')
*'''Brunonian''' – [[John Brown (physician, born 1735)|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]], [[House of Capet|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 [[Caroleans|Carolean soldiers]])
*'''Caroline''' – [[Charles I of England]] (as in ''[[Caroline era]]''); also '''Carolinian'''
*'''Carolingian''' – [[Charlemagne]] (as in ''[[Carolingian|Carolingian dynasty]]'')
*'''Carrollian''' – [[Lewis Carroll]], pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
*'''Carterian''' – [[James Carter (musician)|James Carter]] (as in ''[[In Carterian Fashion]]'')
*'''Cartesian''' – [[René Descartes]] (as in ''[[Cartesian coordinate]]'')
*'''Catilinarian''' – [[Catiline]] (as in ''[[Second Catilinarian conspiracy|Catilinarian conspiracy]]'') 
*'''Chandleresque''' – [[Raymond Chandler]]
*'''Chaucerian ''' – [[Geoffrey Chaucer]] (as in ''[[Rhyme royal|Chaucerian stanza]]'')
*'''[[Chauvinism|chauvinistic]]''' – [[Nicolas Chauvin]]
*'''Chekhovian''' –  [[Anton Chekhov]]
*'''Chestertonian''' – [[G. K. Chesterton]]
*'''Chomskyan''' – [[Noam Chomsky]]; also '''Chomskian'''
*'''Chopinesque''' – [[Frédéric Chopin]]
*'''Chretienite''' - [[Jean Chrétien]]
*'''[[Christianity|Christian]]''' – [[Jesus|Jesus Christ]]
*'''Churchillian''' – [[Winston Churchill]]
*'''[[Churrigueresque]]''' – [[José Benito de Churriguera]]
*'''Ciceronian''' – [[Cicero]]
*'''[[Poor Clares|Clarissine]]''' – [[Clare of Assisi]]
*'''Claudian''' – [[Claudius]] (as in ''[[Julio-Claudian dynasty]]'')
*'''[[Clintonism|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 conquest of Ireland|Cromwellian]]''' – [[Oliver Cromwell]]
*'''Croonian''' – [[William Croone]] (as in ''[[Croonian Lecture]]'')
*'''Cushingoid''' – [[Harvey Cushing]] – American physician
*'''Cyrillic''' – [[Saints Cyril and Methodius|St. Cyril]] (as in ''[[Cyrillic script|Cyrillic]]'')

==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]] (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 ''[[Year zero|Dionysian era]]'')
*'''Diophantine''' – [[Diophantus]] (as in ''[[Diophantine equation]]'')
*'''Dobsonian''' – [[John Dobson (astronomer)|John Dobson]] (as in ''[[Dobsonian|Dobsonian telescope]]'')
*'''Dominican''' – [[Saint Dominic]] (as in ''[[Dominican Order]]'')
*'''Dostoevskian''' – [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]]; also '''Dostoyevskian'''
*'''[[wikt:draconian|draconian]]''' – [[Draco (lawgiver)|Draco]]
*'''[[Dulcinian]]''' – [[Fra Dolcino]]
*'''dylanesque''' – [[Bob Dylan]]
*'''Edisonian''' – [[Thomas Edison]] (as in ''[[Edisonian approach]]'')
*'''[[Edwardian]]''' – [[Edward VII of the United Kingdom|King Edward VII]]
*'''Edwardine''' – [[Edward VI of England|Edward VI]], (as in ''[[Edwardine Ordinals]]'') 
*'''Edwardsian''' – [[Jonathan Edwards (theologian)|Jonathan Edwards]]
*'''Einsteinian''' – [[Albert Einstein]]
*'''Eliotic''' – [[T. S. Eliot]]
*'''Elizabethan''' – [[Elizabeth I of England|Queen Elizabeth I]] (as in ''[[Elizabethan era]]'')
*'''Emersonian''' – [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]] (as in ''[[Emersonian perfectionism]]'')
*'''[[Enochian]]''' – [[Enoch (ancestor of Noah)|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''' – [[Bartolomeo Eustachi|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 (opera)|Falstaff]], [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]]'s fictional character
*'''[[List of forms of electricity named after scientists|Faradic]]''' – [[Michael Faraday]]
*'''Fatimid''' – [[Fatimah|Fatima as-Zahra]] (as in ''[[Fatimid caliphate]]'')
*'''Faulknerian''' – [[William Faulkner]]
*'''Faustian''' – [[Faust (opera)|Faust]], [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe|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 ''[[Brave New World#Fordism and society|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 ''[[Critical pedagogy|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==
*'''Galilean''' – [[Galileo Galilei]] (as in ''[[Galilean moons]]'')
*'''Galvanic''' – [[Luigi Galvani]] (as in ''[[Galvanic cell]]'')
*'''Gandhian''' – [[Mahatma Gandhi]] (as in ''[[Gandhian economics]]'')
*'''gargantuan''' – [[Gargantua]], [[François Rabelais|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, son of Noah|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''' – [[Henry VIII of England|King Henry VIII]] (as in ''[[Henrician Reformation]]''); [[Henry III of France]] (as in ''[[Henrician Articles]]'')
*'''herculean''' – [[Hercules]], of Greek mythology (as in ''[[The Twelve Labours|herculean task]]'')
*'''[[hermaphroditic]]''' – [[Hermaphroditus]], of Greek mythology
*'''hermetic''' – [[Hermes Trismegistus]], a mythological alchemist (as in ''[[hermetically sealed|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]], [[Arthur Conan Doyle|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 (daughter of Poseidon)|Eirene]] (of Greek mythology; meaning peaceable)
*'''Jacksonian''' – [[Andrew Jackson]] (as in ''[[Jacksonian democracy]]''); [[John Hughlings Jackson]] (as in ''[[Jacksonian seizure]]'')
*'''Jacobean''' – [[James I of England|King James I]] (as in ''[[Jacobean era]]'')
*'''Jacobian''' – [[Carl Gustav Jakob Jacobi|Carl Gustav Jacobi]] (as in ''[[Jacobian matrix]]'')
*'''Jacobite''' – [[James II of England|King James II]] (as in ''[[Jacobitism]]'')
*'''Jagiellonian''' – [[Władysław II Jagiełło]] (as in ''[[Jagiellonian dynasty]]'')
*'''Jamesian''' – [[Henry James]]
*'''Japhetic''' – [[Japheth]] (as in ''[[Japhetic theory (linguistics)|Japhetic theory]]'')
*'''Jeffersonian''' – [[Thomas Jefferson]] (as in ''[[Jeffersonian democracy]]'')
*'''Johannine''' – [[John the Evangelist|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|Jove/Jupiter]], of Roman mythology; also '''[[Jovian (Emperor)|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 (mythology)|Juno]], of Roman mythology
*'''Justinianic''' – [[Justinian I]]
*'''Juvenalian''' – [[Juvenal]] (as in ''[[Juvenalian satire]]'')

==K–M==
*'''[[Kafkaesque]]''' – [[Franz Kafka]]<ref>{{cite book|last1=Plotnik|first1=Arthur|title=Better Than Great: A Plenitudinous Compendium of Wallopingly Fresh Superlatives|date=2011|publisher=Viva Editions|location=Berkeley, California|isbn=978-1-57344-660-0|pages=[https://archive.org/details/betterthangreatp0000plot/page/209 209]–215|edition=1st|url=https://archive.org/details/betterthangreatp0000plot|url-access=registration|quote=eponymous adjectives.|chapter=Appendix 3: An Alphabet of Eponymous Acclaim}}</ref>
*'''[[Kantianism|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 ''[[Lamarckism|Lamarckian evolution]]'')
*'''Landian''' – [[Nick Land]] 
*'''Laplacian''' – [[Pierre-Simon Laplace]] (as in ''[[Laplacian vector field|Laplacian field]]'', ''[[Laplacian matrix]]'')
*'''Levitical''' – [[Levi]] (as in ''[[Levitical priesthood (disambiguation)|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''' – [[Luke the Evangelist|Saint Luke the Evangelist]] (as in ''Lucan Theology'') 
*'''Lucasian''' – [[Henry Lucas (politician)|Henry Lucas]] (as in ''[[Lucasian Professor for Mathematics|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]]
*'''[[Wikt:Machiavellian|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 ''[[Renal corpuscle#Eponym|Malpighian corpuscle]]'')
*'''Malthusian''' – [[Thomas Malthus]] (as in ''[[Malthusian catastrophe]]'')
*'''[[Manichaean]]''' – [[Mani (prophet)|Mani]]
*'''[[manueline]]''' – [[Manuel I of Portugal]]
*'''[[Maoism|Maoist]]''' – [[Mao Zedong]]
*'''Marcan''' – [[Mark the Evangelist|Saint Mark the Evangelist]], (as in ''Marcan Priority'')  
*'''Marcusean''' - [[Herbert Marcuse]], relating to [[Herbert Marcuse]] (1898–1979), German-American Marxist philosopher.
*'''Marian''' – [[Mary, the mother of Jesus|Mary]] (as in ''[[Marian apparition]]''); [[Gaius Marius]] (as in ''[[Marian reforms]]'')
*'''Marivaudian''' – Pierre de Marivaux
*'''[[Markov process|Markovian]]''' – [[Andrey Markov]] (as in ''[[Markovian process]]'')
*'''Marlenesque''' – [[Marlene Dietrich]] (as in ''Marlenesque nose'')
*'''Marlovian''' – [[Christopher Marlowe]] (as in ''[[Marlovian theory]]'')
*'''martial''' – [[Mars (god)|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''' – [[Matthew the Apostle|Saint Matthew the Evangelist]], (as in ''Matthean Exception'') 
*'''maudlin''' – [[Mary Magdalene]]
*'''Maxwellian''' – [[James Clerk Maxwell]] (as in ''[[Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution|Maxwellian distribution]]'', ''[[Maxwell's demon|Maxwellian demon]]'')
*'''mazarine''' – [[Cardinal Mazarin]] (as in ''[[Cardinal Mazarin#Mazarine blue colour|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 (mythology)|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 ''[[Muhammadan art|Mohammedan art]]'')
*'''Mosaic''' – [[Moses]] (as in ''[[Torah|Mosaic Law]]'', but not as in ''[[mosaic]] floor'')
*'''Mozartean''' – [[Wolfgang Mozart]]

==N–Q==
*'''Napierian''' – [[John Napier]] (as in ''[[Napierian logarithm]]'')
*'''Napoleonic''' – [[Napoleon I of France|Napoléon Bonaparte]] (as in ''[[Napoleonic code]]'')
*'''[[Narcissism|narcissistic]]''' – [[Narcissus (mythology)|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]]'')
*'''[[Nestorianism|Nestorian]]''' – [[Nestorius]] (as in ''[[Nestorian Schism]]'')
*'''[[Newtonianism|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]]'')
*'''[[Onanism|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''' – [[Candide|Pangloss]], [[Voltaire]]'s fictional character
*'''pappian''' – [[Pappus of Alexandria]] (as in [[pappian plane]])
*'''[[Paracelsianism|Paracelsian]]''' – [[Paracelsus]]
*'''parkinsonian''' – [[James Parkinson]] (as in ''[[Parkinson's disease|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]], [[Charles Dickens|Dickens]]' fictional character
*'''Pelagian''' – [[Pelagius]] (as in ''[[Pelagianism|Pelagian heresy]]'')
*'''Pepysian''' – [[Samuel Pepys]]
*'''Periclean''' – [[Pericles]] (as in ''Periclean Athens'')
*'''Petersonian''' – [[Jordan Peterson]]
*'''Petrine''' – [[Saint Peter]] (as in ''[[Primacy of Simon Peter|Petrine primacy]]''); also [[Peter I of Russia|Peter the Great]] (as in ''[[Petrine baroque]]'')
*'''Phildickian''' – [[Philip K. Dick]]
*'''Piagetian''' – [[Jean Piaget]] (as in ''[[Theory of cognitive development|Piagetian theory]]'')
*'''Pickwickian''' – [[Samuel Pickwick]], [[Charles Dickens|Dickens]]' fictional character
*'''Pigouvian''' – [[Arthur Cecil Pigou]] (as in ''[[Pigouvian Tax]]'')
*'''[[Pinteresque]]''' – [[Harold Pinter]]
*'''Platonic''' – [[Plato]] (as in ''[[Platonic love]]'')
*'''Plinian''' – [[Pliny the Elder|Pliny]] (as in ''[[Plinian eruption]]'')
*'''Plutarchian''' – [[Plutarch]]
*'''plutonic''' – [[Pluto (god)|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 ''[[Monty Python|Pythonic sketches]]'')
*'''Pythonesque''' – [[Monty Python]], fictional character name from television comedy (as in ''[[Monty Python|Pythonesque humour]]'')
*'''Quirinal''' – [[Quirinus]], of Roman mythology (as in ''[[Quirinal Hill]]'')
*'''[[Quixotism|quixotic]]''' – [[Don Quixote]], [[Miguel de Cervantes|Cervantes]]' fictional character

==R–U==
*'''[[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]]''' – [[Haile Selassie of Ethiopia|Ras Tafari]] (Haile Selassie)
*'''Reaganesque''' – [[Ronald Reagan]]
*'''Reithian''' – [[John Reith, 1st Baron Reith|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 ''[[Person-centered psychotherapy|Rogerian therapy]]'')
*'''Rothbardian''' – [[Murray Rothbard|Murray N. Rothbard]]
*'''Rousseauian''' – [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]]
*'''Rubenesque''' – [[Peter Paul Rubens]]
*'''Rumsfeldian''' – [[Donald Rumsfeld]]
*'''Ruthian''' – [[Babe Ruth]]
*'''[[Sadism and Masochism|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'''
*'''[[satan]]ic''' – [[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 (warlord)|Seljuk]] (as in ''[[Seljuk Empire]]'')
*'''Semitic''' – [[Shem]] (as in ''[[Semitic languages]]'')
*'''Senecan''' – [[Seneca the Younger|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 ''[[Radical behaviorism|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|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]]
*'''[[Thomism|Thomist]]''' – [[Thomas Aquinas|St. Thomas Aquinas]] (as in ''[[Thomist philosophy]]'')
*'''Thomsonian''' – Dr. [[Samuel Thomson]] (as in ''Thomsonian Medicine'')
*'''Thoreauvian''' – [[Henry David Thoreau]]
*'''thrasonical''' – [[Eunuchus|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 (mythology)|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 Trudeau|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==
* ''' Vattelian''' – [[Emer de Vattel]]
*'''Vesalian''' – [[Vesalius]]
*'''Vestal''' – [[Vesta (mythology)|Vesta]], of Roman mythology (as in ''[[Vestal Virgin]]'')
*'''Victorian''' – [[Victoria of the United Kingdom|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 Evangelical Church|Waldensian Church]]'')
*'''Wardian''' – [[Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward]] (as in ''[[Wardian Case]]'')
*'''Washingtonian''' – [[George Washington]]; [[Martha Washington]] (as in ''[[Washingtonian movement]]'')
*'''[[Wesleyanism|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''' – [[William III of England|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 (naturalist)|John Woodward]] (as in [[Woodwardian Professor of Geology]])
*'''Wordsworthean''' – [[William Wordsworth]], (as in ''Wadsworthean ego'')
*'''Wronskian''' – [[Josef Hoëné-Wroński]] (as in ''[[Wronskian|Wronskian determinant]]'')
*'''[[Zoroastrian]]''' – [[Zoroaster]] (Zarathustra); also '''Zarathustrian'''
*'''[[Memorialism|Zwinglian]]''' – [[Huldrych Zwingli]]

==See also==
* [[List of eponyms]]

==Notes==
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