# Adjectives derived from people's names. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 5, 2009, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adjectives-derived-from-peoples-names/512746 "2009-10-05T23:37:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adjectives-derived-from-peoples-names/512746/1 "2009-10-05T23:37:20Z")
Well there’s lots of literary ones. Beckettian Shavian Dickensian Orwellian Joycean And a media related one. Reithian What other ones are there? ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Credible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a8b319/32.png) [@Justin\_Credible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Credible)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adjectives-derived-from-peoples-names/512746/2 "2009-10-05T23:47:58Z")
Lovecraftian Draconian ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adjectives-derived-from-peoples-names/512746/3 "2009-10-05T23:54:00Z")
Disneyesque ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adjectives-derived-from-peoples-names/512746/4 "2009-10-06T00:14:04Z")
Rubenesque Stalineque And the all time winner: Hitleriffic. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adjectives-derived-from-peoples-names/512746/5 "2009-10-06T00:23:22Z")
Edwardian Elizabethan Georgian Jacobean (from the Latin form of James) Jacobite (ditto) Victorian (all from British monarchs) ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adjectives-derived-from-peoples-names/512746/6 "2009-10-06T00:34:50Z")
Darwinian ---
**Author:** ![MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adjectives-derived-from-peoples-names/512746/7 "2009-10-06T00:42:56Z")
Jeffersonian ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adjectives-derived-from-peoples-names/512746/8 "2009-10-06T00:47:05Z")
> [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](#): > > Jeffersonian And the related Jacksonian, not to mention Kennedyesque and Nixonian. Oh, also quixotic, which most people probably wouldn’t recognize as coming from a person. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adjectives-derived-from-peoples-names/512746/9 "2009-10-06T00:48:42Z")
Kafkaesque Jacksonian (as **Captain Carrot** noted in a virtual, but earlier, simulpost) Machiavellian ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adjectives-derived-from-peoples-names/512746/10 "2009-10-06T01:01:57Z")
Tolkienesque. ---
**Author:** ![Springtime\_for\_Spacers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Springtime\_for\_Spacers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Springtime_for_Spacers)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adjectives-derived-from-peoples-names/512746/11 "2009-10-06T01:07:48Z")
Thatcherite Reaganite Have I heard Dylanesque? ---
**Author:** ![RhapsodyInBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RhapsodyInBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RhapsodyInBlue)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adjectives-derived-from-peoples-names/512746/12 "2009-10-06T01:47:09Z")
Byronic ---
**Author:** ![Chicken\_Fingers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Chicken\_Fingers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicken_Fingers)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adjectives-derived-from-peoples-names/512746/13 "2009-10-06T01:55:25Z")
Sadistic. Masochistic. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adjectives-derived-from-peoples-names/512746/14 "2009-10-06T02:05:12Z")
Seussian ---
**Author:** ![Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7cd45c/32.png) [@Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glory)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adjectives-derived-from-peoples-names/512746/15 "2009-10-06T05:46:54Z")
Pavlovian. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adjectives-derived-from-peoples-names/512746/16 "2009-10-06T05:54:49Z")
Stentorian ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adjectives-derived-from-peoples-names/512746/17 "2009-10-06T06:12:00Z")
Randian Crowleyan LaVeyan Fortean ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adjectives-derived-from-peoples-names/512746/18 "2009-10-06T06:27:17Z")
Shakespearean. ---
**Author:** ![Amber\_in\_Treasury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc79bd/32.png) [@Amber\_in\_Treasury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amber_in_Treasury)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adjectives-derived-from-peoples-names/512746/19 "2009-10-06T08:42:21Z")
Freudian Jungian [Gehrrible!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=11414166&postcount=47) ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_I\_Was](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@Sam\_I\_Was](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_I_Was)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adjectives-derived-from-peoples-names/512746/20 "2009-10-06T09:41:19Z")
Would Christian count, being that it’s not actually a part of his name? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adjectives-derived-from-peoples-names/512746.md?page=2)