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List of polymaths
The following is a list of of famous polymaths, or individuals noted for excelling in multiple fields or disciplines.
Ancient
- Aristotle
- Anicius Manlius Severinus Boëthius
- Avicenna
- Averroës
- Biruni
- Maimonides, or RaMBaM, physician, rabbi, and philosopher
- Ptolemy
- Pythagoras
- Abu Bakr Mohammad Ibn Zakariya al-Razi, Razi or Rhazes — medicine, chemistry and philosophy
- Hypatia
- Shen Kua, mathematician, engineer, general, geologist, inventor, author
Renaissance
- Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, magician, theologian, soldier, legal expert, astrologist, alchemist and writer
- Leone Battista Alberti, painter, poet, philosopher, cryptographer, musician and architect
- Sir Thomas Browne, physician, philosopher, literature, medicine, religion, science
- Albrecht Dürer, painter, geometry, fortification
- Desiderius Erasmus, theologian, paedagogue, linguist & philologist, historian, exegete
- Athanasius Kircher, egyptology, geology, and music theory
- Nostradamus, poet, doctor, sculptor, prophet
- Leonardo da Vinci, engineer, physician, artist, juggler, musician and composer
- William Petty, scientist and philosopher
- Theodor Zwinger doctor, ethicist, linguist
Classical
- Alexander Borodin, composer and chemist
- Sir George Cayley, naturalist, physical scientist, engineer, inventor and politician
- Descartes, mathematician and philosopher
- Liu E , writer, musician, physician and entrepreneur
- Leonhard Euler, mathematician, physicist, author
- Benjamin Franklin, politician, physicist, inventor and writer.
- Carl Friedrich Gauss, mathematician, astronomer, physicist, author
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, novelist, poet, philosopher, scientist
- G. W. F. Hegel, philosopher, historian, art theorist, theologian, jurist
- Thomas Hobbes, political theorist, historian, optical scientist, translator, classicist
- Robert Hooke, experimental scientist, natural philosopher, biologist, physicist, architect, inventor
- Christiaan Huygens, natural philiosopher, horologist, astronomer, mathematician, inventor
- Thomas Jefferson, politician, architect, archaeologist and writer.
- Alexandre Kojeve, philosopher, jurist, politician, intellectual historian, polyglot
- Gottfried Leibniz, lawyer, mathematician, philosopher
- Mikhail Lomonosov, literature, education, and science
- John Stuart Mill, philosopher, political writer, economist
- Sir Samuel Morland, mathematician, Latinist, diplomat, spy, inventor
- Paul Morphy, lawyer, chess player, philosopher, author
- Samuel Morse, artist, politician, inventor, educator
- Isaac Newton, mathematician, physicist, alchemist, theologian, economist
- Blaise Pascal, mathematician, physicist, theologian, philosopher (logic, probability, and ethics)
- François-André Danican Philidor, composer, chess player, author
- Henri Poincaré, mathematician, physicist, philosopher
- Adam Smith, jurist, (founding) economist, psychologist, historian, theologian, literary critic
- Nikola Tesla, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer and physicist
- Giambattista Vico, philosopher, historian, jurist
- Max Weber, (founding) sociologist, historian, jurist, philosopher
- Christopher Wren, architect, astronomer and mathematician
Modern
- Isaac Asimov, science-fiction author, non-fiction author, biochemist, science essayist, bible scholar.
- Gregory Bateson, anthropologist, social scientist, linguist and cyberneticist
- Kenneth E. Boulding, economist, educator, poet, religious mystic, systems scientist, and interdisciplinary philosopher
- Jacob Bronowski, physicist, biologist, writer
- William F. Buckley Jr., novelist, journalist, pianist, secret agent
- Ernst Cassirer, historian of philosophy, art, mathematics, science, psychology; philosopher
- Noam Chomsky, linguist, cognitive theorist, information analyst (propaganda theorist), political theorist & commentator, moralist
- Max Euwe, world chess champion, mathematician, author
- Moshe Feldenkrais, engineer, physicist, judo expert, physical therapist
- Erich Fromm, psychologist, philosopher, intellectual historian, sociologist, biblical exegete
- Buckminster Fuller, designer, metal-tradesman, mathematician, professor, theoretician
- Piet Hein, scientist, mathematician, inventor, author, poet, philosopher
- Aldous Huxley, novelist, poet, travel writer, philosopher, occultist, botanist, literary critic, intellectual historian, screenwriter for television & film
- William James, (founding) psychologist, medical scholar, philosopher
- William Stanley Jevons, economist, logician, scientific methodologist, (19th c.) computing engineer
- Emanuel Lasker, world chess champion, mathematician, philosopher, bridge player, author
- Jonathan Miller, opera director, physician, writer
- John von Neumann, mathematician, physicist, chemist, economist, computer scientist
- Walter J. Ong, communication theorist, literature, media studies, psychology, psychiatry, philosophy, theology
- Michael Polanyi, physical chemist, philosopher, theologian, economist
- Walter Pitts, cognitive scientist, mathematical-logician, philosopher
- Kukrit Pramoj, author, economist, historian, novelist, philosopher, statesman
- Anatol Rapoport, mathematician, psychologist, pianist, general systems theorist
- Jose Rizal, Filipino renaissance man
- Bertrand Russell, mathematician, philosopher, writer, political activist
- Albert Schweitzer, philosopher, virtuoso organist (musician), theologian, physician.
- Herbert Simon, cognitive psychologist, computer scientist, economist and philosopher
- Gore Vidal, author, actor, historian, playwright, political commentator
- Ludwig Wittgenstein, cognitive philosopher, mathematical logician, architect, aeronautical engineer, composer
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