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