List of eponymous adjectives in English

An eponymous adjective is an adjective which has been derived from the name of a person, real or fictional. Persons from whose name the adjectives have been derived are called eponyms.

Following is a list of eponymous adjectives in English.

A–C

 * Aaronic – Aaron (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
 * 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)
 * 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)
 * 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)
 * 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