Browse Namesakes

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NameLifespanOther Names
Abraham Fraenkel1891-1965(Adolf, Halevi)
Abraham Maslow1908-1970
Adam Smith1723-1790
Adolf Hurwitz1859-1919
Adolf Noreen1854-1925(Gotthard)
Adolf Reinach1883-1917(Bernhard, Philipp)
Adolf von Harnack1851-1930(Karl, Gustav)
Ahmad ibn Hanbal780-855
Alain Locke1885-1954(LeRoy)
Alan Turing1912-1954
Albert Camus1913-1960
Albert Schweitzer1875-1965
Alexander von Humboldt1769-1859
Alexis de Tocqueville1805-1859(Charles, Henri)
Alfred Adler1870-1937
Alfred Marshall1842-1924
Alfred North Whitehead1861-1947
Abu Ali al-Husayn ibn Sina980-1037(Avicenna)
al-Masudi896-956('Ali)
Al-Shafi'i767-820(Muhammad)
Amartya Sen1933-
Ammianus Marcellinusc. 325-c. 391
Anaxagorasc. 500-428 BC
Anaximanderc. 610-c. 546 BC(Aniximander)
Anaximenes of Miletusc. 585-c. 528 BC
Andrew Wiles1953-
Andrey Kolmogorov1903-1987
Anselm of Canterbury1033-1109
Anthony Giddens1938-
Apollonius of Pergac. 262-c. 190 BC(Apollonios)
Appian of Alexandria95-165
Archimedesc. 287-c. 212 BC
Archytas428-347 BC
Aristotle384-322 BC(Aristoteles)
Arnold J. Toynbee1889-1975(Joseph)
Arthur Eddington1882-1944(Stanley)
Arthur Schopenhauer1788-1860
Aryabhata476-550
Atticus1xx-?(Attikos)
Auguste Comte1798-1857
Augustin-Louis Cauchy1789-1857
Augustine of Hippo354-430
Baruch Spinoza1632-1677
Ben Bernanke1953-
Benoit Mandelbrot1924-2010
Bernhard Riemann1826-1866
Bertrand Russell1872-1970
Blaise Pascal1623-1662
Boethius480-524(Anicius, Severinus)
B. F. Skinner1904-1990(Burrhus)
Carl Friedrich Gauss1777-1855(Karl)
Carl Jung1875-1961
Carl Ritter1779-1859(Karl)
Carl Rogers1902-1987
Charles Babbage1791-1871
Charles de Secondat1689-1755(Montesquieu)
Charles Sanders Peirce1839-1914
Christiaan Huygens1629-1695(Christian)
Christopher Hitchens1949-2011
Claude Shannon1916-2001
Confuciusc. 551-479 BC(Qiu)
Daniel Bernoulli1700-1782
Daniel Kahneman1934-
David Benatar1966-
David Hilbert1862-1943
David Hume1711-1776
David Ricardo1772-1823
David Rittenhouse1732-1796
Democritusc. 460-c. 370 BC
Denis Diderot1713-1784
Desiderius Erasmus1466-1536
Mo Dic. 470-c. 391 BC(Mozi)
Diodorus Siculus?-0xx BC
Diogenes of Sinopec. 412-323 BC
Diophantus of Alexandriac. 205-c. 290
Donald Knuth1938-
Edmund Husserl1859-1938
Edward Carpenter1844-1929
Edward Witten1951-
Einhardc. 775-840
Hakuin Ekaku1686-1769
Emil Cioran1911-1995(Mihai)
Émile Durkheim1858-1917
Empedoclesc. 490-430 BC
Epictetusc. 55-c. 135(Epiktetos)
Epicurus341-270 BC(Epikouros)
Eratosthenes of Cyrenec. 276-c. 195 BC
Erich Fromm1900-1980
Erik Erikson1902-1994
Erving Goffman1922-1982
Euclidc. 330-275 BC(Eukleides)
Évariste Galois1811-1832
Ferdinand de Saussure1857-1913
Ferdinand Minding1806-1885(Ernst, Adolf)
Ferdo Šišić1869-1940
Fibonaccic. 1170-c. 1250(Leonardo)
Florimond de Beaune1601-1652
Florimond de Raemond1540-1601
Francis of Assisic. 1182-1226(Francesco)
Francis Bacon1561-1626
Franciscus Gomarus1563-1641(François)
François-Marie Arouet "Voltaire"1694-1778
Freeman Dyson1923-2020
Friedrich Engels1820-1895(Frederick)
Friedrich Hayek1899-1992(August)
Friedrich Nietzsche1844-1900
Gautama Buddhac. 563-c. 483 BC(Buddha, Siddhartha)
Geoffrey of Monmouthc. 1100-c. 1155
Geordie Williamson1981-
Georg Cantor1845-1918
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel1770-1831
Georg Simmel1858-1918
George Berkeley1685-1753
George Boole1815-1864
G. E. Moore1873-1958(George, Edward)
George Santayana1863-1952(Jorge)
Georges Dumézil1898-1986
Gerardus Mercator1512-1594
Gerolamo Cardano1501-1576
Giordano Bruno1548-1600
Giovanni Domenico Cassini1625-1712
G. H. Hardy1877-1947(Godfrey, Harold)
Gorgiasc. 485-c. 380 BC
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz1646-1716
Gottlob Frege1848-1925
Graziadio Isaia Ascoli1829-1907
Gregory of Toursc. 538-594
Grigori Perelman1966-
Guidobaldo del Monte1545-1607
Gunnar Myrdal1898-1987
Haskell Curry1900-1982(Brooks)
Hecataeus of Miletusc. 550-c. 476 BC(Hekataios)
Helmuth Nyborg1937-
Henri Bergson1859-1941
Henri Poincaré1854-1912(Jules)
Henry David Thoreau1817-1862
Heraclitus of Ephesusc. 535-c. 475 BC(Herakleitos)
Hero of Alexandria10-70(Heron)
Herodotusc. 484-425 BC
Hew Strachan1949-(Francis, Anthony)
Hipparchus of Nicaeac. 190-c. 120 BC
Hjalmar Schacht1877-1970
Hryhorii Skovoroda1722-1794(Gregory, Grigory, Hryhoriy)
Hugo Grotius1583-1645
Ibn Khaldun1332-1406(Abdur-Rahman)
Immanuel Kant1724-1804
Isaac Newton1642-1727
Isidore of Seville560-636
Jacques Derrida1930-2004(Jackie, Élie)
Jacques Lacan1901-1981
Ja'far al-Sadiq702-765
James Gregory1638-1675
Jan Husc. 1370-1415
Jan Amos Komenský1592-1670(John)
Jan Tinbergen1903-1994
Jean-François Champollion1790-1832
Jean Chauvin1509-1564(John)
Jean Piaget1896-1980
Jean-Jacques Rousseau1712-1778
Jean-Paul Sartre1905-1980
Jean Tirole1953-
Jeremy Bentham1748-1832
Jesus Christc. 4 BC-c. 33
Johann Gottlieb Fichte1762-1814
Johann Joachim Winckelmann1717-1768
John Duns Scotusc. 1266-1308
John Dewey1859-1952
John Maynard Keynes1883-1946
John Locke1632-1704
John Stuart Mill1806-1873
John Napier1550-1617
John Forbes Nash Jr.1928-2015
John von Neumann1903-1957(János, Lajos)
Jordan Peterson1962-(Bernt)
Jordanes?-5xx
Joseph Campbell1904-1987
Joseph Fourier1768-1830
Joseph Louis Lagrange1736-1813(Giuseppe, Lodovico)
Joseph Schumpeter1883-1950
Joseph Stiglitz1943-(Eugene)
Josephus37-c. 100(Titus)
Josias Simmler1530-1576
Jules Michelet1798-1874
Karl Barth1886-1968
Karl Knies1821-1898(Gustav, Adolf)
Karl Marx1818-1883
Karl Popper1902-1994
Karl Verner1846-1896(Carl, Adolf, Adolph)
Meng Kec. 372-c. 289 BC(Mencius)
Kenneth Arrow1921-2017(Joseph)
Kurt Gödel1906-1978
Lactantiusc. 250-c. 325(Lucius)
Laozi?-5xx BC(Lao-Tzu)
Leonhard Euler1707-1783
Leonid Kantorovich1912-1986
Leonida Tonelli1885-1946
Jean Le Rond d'Alembert1717-1783
Lev Vygotsky1896-1934
Livyc. 64 BC-17(Titus)
Ljudevit Gaj1809-1872(Ludwig)
Lotfi A. Zadeh1921-2017(Aliasker)
Luca Paciolic. 1447-1517
Lucius Cassius Dioc. 155-c. 235
Lucretiusc. 99-c. 55 BC(Titus)
Ludwig von Strümpell1812-1899(Adolf, Heinrich)
Ludwig Wittgenstein1889-1951
L. L. Zamenhof1859-1917(Ludwik, Lejzer)
Manetho?-2xx BC
Mani216-274
Marcus Aurelius121-180
Martin Heidegger1889-1976
Martin Luther1483-1546
Maurice Allais1911-2010
Max Müller1823-1900(Friedrich)
Max Weber1864-1920(Maximilian)
Mazdak?-c. 524
Michel Foucault1926-1984
Milton Friedman1912-2006
Mircea Eliade1907-1986
Moses Maimonides1135-1204(Moshe)
Abu l-Walid Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Rushd1126-1198(Averroes)
Muhammad570-632
Abu Nasr Muhammad al-Farabic. 872-c. 950
Abu Hamid Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Ghazali1058-1111
Muhammad al-Idrisi1099-c. 1165(Dreses)
Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmic. 780-850
Abu Bakr Muhammad al-Razi865-925
Nagarjunac. 150-250
Niccolò Machiavelli1469-1527(Nicholas)
Nicholas of Cusa1401-1464
Niels Henrik Abel1802-1829
Nikolai Lobachevsky1792-1856
Nikolay Karamzin1766-1826
Noam Chomsky1928-
Norbert Elias1897-1990
Norbert Wiener1894-1964
Nouriel Roubini1958-
Omar Khayyám1048-1131(Umar)
Origen184-253(Origenes)
Oriol Junqueras i Vies1969-
Panini?-4xx BC
Parmenides of Eleac. 515-c. 450 BC
Paul Erdős1913-1996
Paul Krugman1953-
Paul Samuelson1915-2009(Anthony)
Paul-Henri Thiry, Baron d'Holbach1723-1789(d'Holbach, Heinrich)
Pausanias110-180
Peter Wessel Zapffe1899-1990
Philip Zimbardo1933-2024(George)
Philoc. 20 BC-c. 50
Pierre Abélard1079-1142(Peter)
Pierre Bourdieu1930-2002
Pierre de Fermat1607-1665
Pierre-Simon Laplace1749-1827
Platoc. 427-347 BC(Platon)
Plotinusc. 205-270
Plutarchc. 46-120(Lucius)
Polybiusc. 200-c. 118 BC(Polybios)
Procopius of Caesarea500-565
Protagorasc. 490-c. 420 BC
Ptolemyc. 100-c. 168(Claudius)
Pyotr Kropotkin1842-1921(Peter)
Pyrrhoc. 360-c. 270 BC
Pythagorasc. 580-500 BC
Sima Qianc. 145-86 BC(Chien)
Ragnar Frisch1895-1973
Srinivasa Ramanujan1887-1920
Rasmus Rask1787-1832
Raymond Aron1905-1983(Claude, Ferdinand)
René Descartes1596-1650
Robert K. Merton1910-2003(King)
Rudolf Christoph Eucken1846-1926
Rudolf Steiner1861-1925(Joseph, Lorenz)
Rupert of Deutzc. 1075-1129
Sallust86-c. 35 BC(Gaius)
Seneca the Younger4 BC-65
Sigmund Freud1856-1939
Simon Kuznets1901-1985
Slavoj Žižek1949-
Socratesc. 470-399 BC(Sokrates)
Søren Kierkegaard1813-1855
Stanley Milgram1933-1984
Stefan Banach1892-1945
Straboc. 64 BC-c. 24
Suetonius69-122(Gaius)
Svetozar Stojanović1931-2010
Tacitusc. 56-c. 117(Publius)
Talcott Parsons1902-1979
Tertullianc. 160-c. 225(Quintus)
Thalesc. 624-c. 546 BC
Theodor W. Adorno1903-1969
Theodor Mommsen1817-1903
Thomas Aquinas1225-1274(Tommaso)
Thomas Hobbes1588-1679
Thomas Kuhn1922-1996
Thomas Robert Malthus1766-1834
Thomas More1478-1535
Thucydidesc. 460-c. 395 BC(Thoukudides)
Sun Tzuc. 544-c. 496 BC(Wu)
Ulpianc. 170-223(Gnaeus)
Urbain Le Verrier1811-1877
Vahakn Dadrian1926-2019
Viktor Frankl1905-1997
Vilfredo Pareto1848-1923
Wassily Leontief1906-1999
Wilhelm Reich1897-1957
Wilhelm Wundt1832-1920
Willard Van Orman Quine1908-2000
Willebrord Snellius1580-1626
William of Ockhamc. 1287-1347
William James1842-1910
Xenophanes of Colophonc. 570-c. 475 BC
Xenophonc. 427-c. 355 BC
Abu Yusuf Yaqub al-Kindi801-873(Alkindus)
Zeno of Citiumc. 334-c. 262 BC
Zeno of Eleac. 490-c. 430 BC
Zerah Colburn1804-1839
Zoroaster?-1xxx BC(Zarathustra)