Browse Namesakes

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