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List of polymaths
List of polymaths
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Ancient
- Aristotle
- Anicius Manlius Severinus Boëthius
- Avicenna
- Averroes
- 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
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 — medicine , religion, science
- Albrecht Dürer — painter, geometry, fortification
- Christiaan Huygens — astronomer, mathematician
- Athanasius Kircher — egyptology, geology, and music theory
- Leonardo da Vinci — engineer, physician, artist
- William Petty — scientist and philosopher
- Thomas More
- Desiderius Erasmus
Classical
- Alexander Borodin — Composer and chemist
- Sir George Cayley — naturalist, physical scientist, engineer, inventor and politician
- Liu E — writer, musician, physician and entrepreneur
- Benjamin Franklin — politician, physicist, inventor and writer.
- Karl Friedrich Gauss — mathematician, astronomer and physicist
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — writer, philosopher, scientist
- Thomas Jefferson — politician, architect, archaeologist and writer.
- Gottfried Leibniz — lawyer, mathematician, philosopher
- Mikhail Lomonosov — literature, education, and science
- Isaac Newton — mathematician, physicist, alchemist, theologian, economist
- Henri Poincaré — mathematician, physicist
- Adam Smith
- Nikola Tesla — electrical engineer, mechanical engineer and physicist
- Giambattista Vico
- Christopher Wren — architect, astronomer and mathematician
Modern
- Gregory Bateson — anthropologist, social scientist, linguist and cyberneticist.
- Jacob Bronowski — physicist, biologist, writer
- Noam Chomsky — linguist, psychologist, political writer
- Moshe Feldenkrais — engineer, physicist, judo blackbelt, creator of the Feldenkrais Method
- Jonathan Miller — opera director, physician, writer
- Herbert Simon — cognitive psychologist, computer scientist, economist and philosopher
- Raymond Tallis — novelist, physician, philosopher
- Michael Polanyi — physical chemist, philosopher, theologian, economist
Last updated: 10-24-2004 05:10:45