List of polymaths
List of polymaths
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
- Kenneth E. Boulding, economist, educator, poet, religious mystic, devoted Quaker, systems scientist, and interdisciplinary philosopher
- Jacob Bronowski, physicist, biologist, writer
- William F. Buckley Jr., Novelist, journalist, pianist, secret agent
- 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
- Michael Polanyi, physical chemist, philosopher, theologian, economist
- Walter Pitts, Cognitive scientist, Mathematical-logician, Philosopher
- Anatol Rapoport Mathematician, Psychologist, Pianist, General systems theorist
- Gore Vidal, Author, Actor, Historian, Playwright, Political commentator