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 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 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