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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.

Following is a 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)
• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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
• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• List of eponyms

Notes

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.

• Lists of English words
• Lists of eponyms