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) Brolic – Broly 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) Eutychian – Eutyches of Constantinople (as in Eutychianism) 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 – John Hunter and William Hunter (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