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 Eponymous adjectives in English, List of Adjectives in English