Browse Namesakes
This is a list of namesakes in which the category is Notable Philosophers and Thinkers; and the gender is male
| Name | Lifespan | Other Names | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Niels Henrik Abel | 1802-1829 |  | |
| Pierre Abélard | 1079-1142 | | |
| Alfred Adler | 1870-1937 | | |
| Theodor W. Adorno | 1903-1969 | | |
| Ahmad ibn Hanbal | 780-855 | | |
| Alexis de Tocqueville | 1805-1859 | (Clérel, Tocqueville) | |
| Abu Nasr Muhammad al-Farabi | c. 872-c. 950 | (Alpharabius, Farabi) | |
| Abu Hamid Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Ghazali | 1058-1111 | (Algazel) | |
| Abu Ali al-Husayn ibn Sina | 980-1037 | | |
| Muhammad al-Idrisi | 1099-c. 1165 | | |
| Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi | c. 780-850 | (Algoritmi) | |
| Abu Yusuf Yaqub al-Kindi | 801-873 | | |
| Maurice Allais | 1911-2010 | | |
| al-Masudi | 896-956 | | |
| Abu Bakr Muhammad al-Razi | 865-925 | (Rhazes) | |
| Ja'far al-Sadiq | 702-765 | | |
| Al-Shafi'i | 767-820 | | |
| Ammianus Marcellinus | c. 325-c. 391 | | |
| Anaxagoras | c. 500-428 BC | | |
| Anaximander | c. 610-c. 546 BC | | |
| Anaximenes of Miletus | c. 585-c. 528 BC | | |
| Anselm of Canterbury | 1033-1109 | | |
| Apollonius of Perga | c. 262-c. 190 BC | | |
| Appian of Alexandria | 95-165 | | |
| Thomas Aquinas | 1225-1274 | | |
| Archimedes | c. 287-c. 212 BC | | |
| Archytas | 428-347 BC | | |
| Aristotle | 384-322 BC | | |
| Raymond Aron | 1905-1983 | | |
| François-Marie Arouet "Voltaire" | 1694-1778 | (Voltaire) | |
| Kenneth Arrow | 1921-2017 | | |
| Aryabhata | 476-550 | | |
| Graziadio Isaia Ascoli | 1829-1907 | | |
| Atticus | 1xx-? | | |
| Augustine of Hippo | 354-430 | | |
| Charles Babbage | 1791-1871 | | |
| Francis Bacon | 1561-1626 | | |
| Stefan Banach | 1892-1945 | | |
| Karl Barth | 1886-1968 | | |
| David Benatar | 1966- | | |
| Jeremy Bentham | 1748-1832 | | |
| Henri Bergson | 1859-1941 | | |
| George Berkeley | 1685-1753 | | |
| Ben Bernanke | 1953- | | |
| Daniel Bernoulli | 1700-1782 | | |
| Boethius | 480-524 | | |
| George Boole | 1815-1864 | | |
| Pierre Bourdieu | 1930-2002 | | |
| Giordano Bruno | 1548-1600 | | |
| Joseph Campbell | 1904-1987 | | |
| Albert Camus | 1913-1960 | | |
| Georg Cantor | 1845-1918 | | |
| Gerolamo Cardano | 1501-1576 | | |
| Edward Carpenter | 1844-1929 | | |
| Giovanni Domenico Cassini | 1625-1712 | | |
| Lucius Cassius Dio | c. 155-c. 235 | | |
| Augustin-Louis Cauchy | 1789-1857 | | |
| Jean-François Champollion | 1790-1832 | | |
| Jean Chauvin | 1509-1564 | (Calvin) | |
| Noam Chomsky | 1928- | | |
| Emil Cioran | 1911-1995 | | |
| Zerah Colburn | 1804-1839 | | |
| Auguste Comte | 1798-1857 | | |
| Confucius | c. 551-479 BC | (Kong) | |
| Haskell Curry | 1900-1982 | | |
| Vahakn Dadrian | 1926-2019 | | |
| Florimond de Beaune | 1601-1652 | | |
| Pierre de Fermat | 1607-1665 | | |
| Guidobaldo del Monte | 1545-1607 | | |
| Democritus | c. 460-c. 370 BC | | |
| Florimond de Raemond | 1540-1601 | (de Rémond) | |
| Jacques Derrida | 1930-2004 | | |
| Ferdinand de Saussure | 1857-1913 | | |
| René Descartes | 1596-1650 | | |
| Charles de Secondat | 1689-1755 | | |
| John Dewey | 1859-1952 | | |
| Denis Diderot | 1713-1784 | | |
| Diogenes of Sinope | c. 412-323 BC | | |
| Diophantus of Alexandria | c. 205-c. 290 | | |
| Georges Dumézil | 1898-1986 | | |
| Émile Durkheim | 1858-1917 | | |
| Freeman Dyson | 1923-2020 | | |
| Arthur Eddington | 1882-1944 | | |
| Einhard | c. 775-840 | | |
| Mircea Eliade | 1907-1986 | | |
| Norbert Elias | 1897-1990 | | |
| Empedocles | c. 490-430 BC | | |
| Friedrich Engels | 1820-1895 | | |
| Epictetus | c. 55-c. 135 | | |
| Epicurus | 341-270 BC | | |
| Desiderius Erasmus | 1466-1536 | | |
| Eratosthenes of Cyrene | c. 276-c. 195 BC | | |
| Paul Erdős | 1913-1996 | | |
| Erik Erikson | 1902-1994 | | |
| Rudolf Christoph Eucken | 1846-1926 | | |
| Euclid | c. 330-275 BC | | |
| Leonhard Euler | 1707-1783 | | |
| Fibonacci | c. 1170-c. 1250 | (Bonacci) | |
| Johann Gottlieb Fichte | 1762-1814 | | |
| Michel Foucault | 1926-1984 | | |
| Joseph Fourier | 1768-1830 | | |
| Abraham Fraenkel | 1891-1965 | | |
| Francis of Assisi | c. 1182-1226 | | |
| Viktor Frankl | 1905-1997 | | |
| Gottlob Frege | 1848-1925 | | |
| Sigmund Freud | 1856-1939 | | |
| Milton Friedman | 1912-2006 | | |
| Ragnar Frisch | 1895-1973 | | |
| Erich Fromm | 1900-1980 | | |
| Ljudevit Gaj | 1809-1872 | (Gay) | |
| Évariste Galois | 1811-1832 | | |
| Carl Friedrich Gauss | 1777-1855 | | |
| Gautama Buddha | c. 563-c. 483 BC | | |
| Geoffrey of Monmouth | c. 1100-c. 1155 | | |
| Anthony Giddens | 1938- | | |
| Kurt Gödel | 1906-1978 | | |
| Erving Goffman | 1922-1982 | | |
| Franciscus Gomarus | 1563-1641 | (Gomaer) | |
| Gorgias | c. 485-c. 380 BC | | |
| Gregory of Tours | c. 538-594 | | |
| James Gregory | 1638-1675 | | |
| Hugo Grotius | 1583-1645 | | |
| Hakuin Ekaku | 1686-1769 | | |
| G. H. Hardy | 1877-1947 | | |
| Friedrich Hayek | 1899-1992 | | |
| Hecataeus of Miletus | c. 550-c. 476 BC | | |
| Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | 1770-1831 | | |
| Martin Heidegger | 1889-1976 | | |
| Heraclitus of Ephesus | c. 535-c. 475 BC | | |
| Hero of Alexandria | 10-70 | | |
| Herodotus | c. 484-425 BC | | |
| David Hilbert | 1862-1943 | | |
| Hipparchus of Nicaea | c. 190-c. 120 BC | | |
| Christopher Hitchens | 1949-2011 | | |
| Thomas Hobbes | 1588-1679 | | |
| David Hume | 1711-1776 | | |
| Adolf Hurwitz | 1859-1919 | | |
| Jan Hus | c. 1370-1415 | | |
| Edmund Husserl | 1859-1938 | | |
| Christiaan Huygens | 1629-1695 | | |
| Ibn Khaldun | 1332-1406 | | |
| Isidore of Seville | 560-636 | | |
| William James | 1842-1910 | | |
| Jean Le Rond d'Alembert | 1717-1783 | | |
| Jesus Christ | c. 4 BC-c. 33 | | |
| John Duns Scotus | c. 1266-1308 | | |
| Jordanes | ?-5xx | | |
| Josephus | 37-c. 100 | (Flavius) | |
| Carl Jung | 1875-1961 | | |
| Oriol Junqueras i Vies | 1969- | | |
| Daniel Kahneman | 1934- | | |
| Immanuel Kant | 1724-1804 | | |
| Leonid Kantorovich | 1912-1986 | | |
| Nikolay Karamzin | 1766-1826 | | |
| John Maynard Keynes | 1883-1946 | | |
| Omar Khayyám | 1048-1131 | | |
| Søren Kierkegaard | 1813-1855 | | |
| Karl Knies | 1821-1898 | | |
| Donald Knuth | 1938- | | |
| Andrey Kolmogorov | 1903-1987 | | |
| Jan Amos Komenský | 1592-1670 | (Comenius) | |
| Pyotr Kropotkin | 1842-1921 | | |
| Paul Krugman | 1953- | | |
| Thomas Kuhn | 1922-1996 | | |
| Simon Kuznets | 1901-1985 | | |
| Jacques Lacan | 1901-1981 | | |
| Lactantius | c. 250-c. 325 | (Caecilius, Firmianus) | |
| Joseph Louis Lagrange | 1736-1813 | (Lagrangia) | |
| Laozi | ?-5xx BC | | |
| Pierre-Simon Laplace | 1749-1827 | | |
| Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz | 1646-1716 | | |
| Wassily Leontief | 1906-1999 | | |
| Urbain Le Verrier | 1811-1877 | | |
| Livy | c. 64 BC-17 | (Livius, Patavinus) | |
| Nikolai Lobachevsky | 1792-1856 | | |
| Alain Locke | 1885-1954 | | |
| John Locke | 1632-1704 | | |
| Lucretius | c. 99-c. 55 BC | (Carus) | |
| Martin Luther | 1483-1546 | | |
| Niccolò Machiavelli | 1469-1527 | (Machiavel) | |
| Moses Maimonides | 1135-1204 | | |
| Thomas Robert Malthus | 1766-1834 | | |
| Benoit Mandelbrot | 1924-2010 | | |
| Manetho | ?-2xx BC | | |
| Mani | 216-274 | | |
| Marcus Aurelius | 121-180 | | |
| Alfred Marshall | 1842-1924 | | |
| Karl Marx | 1818-1883 | | |
| Abraham Maslow | 1908-1970 | | |
| Mazdak | ?-c. 524 | | |
| Meng Ke | c. 372-c. 289 BC | | |
| Gerardus Mercator | 1512-1594 | | |
| Robert K. Merton | 1910-2003 | | |
| Jules Michelet | 1798-1874 | | |
| Stanley Milgram | 1933-1984 | | |
| John Stuart Mill | 1806-1873 | | |
| Ferdinand Minding | 1806-1885 | | |
| Mo Di | c. 470-c. 391 BC | | |
| Theodor Mommsen | 1817-1903 | | |
| G. E. Moore | 1873-1958 | | |
| Thomas More | 1478-1535 | | |
| Abu l-Walid Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Rushd | 1126-1198 | | |
| Muhammad | 570-632 | | |
| Max Müller | 1823-1900 | | |
| Gunnar Myrdal | 1898-1987 | | |
| Nagarjuna | c. 150-250 | | |
| John Napier | 1550-1617 | | |
| John Forbes Nash Jr. | 1928-2015 | | |
| Isaac Newton | 1642-1727 | | |
| Nicholas of Cusa | 1401-1464 | | |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | 1844-1900 | | |
| Adolf Noreen | 1854-1925 | | |
| Helmuth Nyborg | 1937- | | |
| Origen | 184-253 | | |
| Luca Pacioli | c. 1447-1517 | | |
| Panini | ?-4xx BC | | |
| Vilfredo Pareto | 1848-1923 | | |
| Parmenides of Elea | c. 515-c. 450 BC | | |
| Talcott Parsons | 1902-1979 | | |
| Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662 | | |
| Pausanias | 110-180 | | |
| Charles Sanders Peirce | 1839-1914 | | |
| Grigori Perelman | 1966- | | |
| Jordan Peterson | 1962- | | |
| Philo | c. 20 BC-c. 50 | | |
| Jean Piaget | 1896-1980 | | |
| Plato | c. 427-347 BC | | |
| Plotinus | c. 205-270 | | |
| Plutarch | c. 46-120 | (Mestrius, Plutarchus) | |
| Henri Poincaré | 1854-1912 | | |
| Polybius | c. 200-c. 118 BC | | |
| Karl Popper | 1902-1994 | | |
| Procopius of Caesarea | 500-565 | | |
| Protagoras | c. 490-c. 420 BC | | |
| Ptolemy | c. 100-c. 168 | (Ptolemaeus) | |
| Pyrrho | c. 360-c. 270 BC | | |
| Pythagoras | c. 580-500 BC | | |
| Willard Van Orman Quine | 1908-2000 | | |
| Srinivasa Ramanujan | 1887-1920 | | |
| Rasmus Rask | 1787-1832 | | |
| Wilhelm Reich | 1897-1957 | | |
| Adolf Reinach | 1883-1917 | | |
| David Ricardo | 1772-1823 | | |
| Bernhard Riemann | 1826-1866 | | |
| David Rittenhouse | 1732-1796 | | |
| Carl Ritter | 1779-1859 | | |
| Carl Rogers | 1902-1987 | | |
| Nouriel Roubini | 1958- | | |
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau | 1712-1778 | | |
| Rupert of Deutz | c. 1075-1129 | | |
| Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970 | | |
| Sallust | 86-c. 35 BC | (Sallustius, Crispus) | |
| Paul Samuelson | 1915-2009 | | |
| George Santayana | 1863-1952 | | |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | 1905-1980 | | |
| Hjalmar Schacht | 1877-1970 | | |
| Arthur Schopenhauer | 1788-1860 | | |
| Joseph Schumpeter | 1883-1950 | | |
| Albert Schweitzer | 1875-1965 | | |
| Amartya Sen | 1933- | | |
| Seneca the Younger | 4 BC-65 | | |
| Claude Shannon | 1916-2001 | | |
| Diodorus Siculus | ?-0xx BC | | |
| Sima Qian | c. 145-86 BC | (Szu-ma) | |
| Georg Simmel | 1858-1918 | | |
| Josias Simmler | 1530-1576 | (Simler) | |
| Ferdo Šišić | 1869-1940 | | |
| B. F. Skinner | 1904-1990 | | |
| Hryhorii Skovoroda | 1722-1794 | | |
| Adam Smith | 1723-1790 | | |
| Willebrord Snellius | 1580-1626 | (Snel van Royen) | |
| Socrates | c. 470-399 BC | | |
| Baruch Spinoza | 1632-1677 | | |
| Rudolf Steiner | 1861-1925 | | |
| Joseph Stiglitz | 1943- | | |
| Svetozar Stojanović | 1931-2010 | | |
| Strabo | c. 64 BC-c. 24 | | |
| Hew Strachan | 1949- | | |
| Suetonius | 69-122 | (Tranquillus) | |
| Sun Tzu | c. 544-c. 496 BC | | |
| Tacitus | c. 56-c. 117 | (Cornelius) | |
| Tertullian | c. 160-c. 225 | (Septimius, Florens, Tertullianus) | |
| Thales | c. 624-c. 546 BC | | |
| Paul-Henri Thiry, Baron d'Holbach | 1723-1789 | (Dietrich) | |
| Henry David Thoreau | 1817-1862 | | |
| Thucydides | c. 460-c. 395 BC | | |
| Jan Tinbergen | 1903-1994 | | |
| Jean Tirole | 1953- | | |
| Leonida Tonelli | 1885-1946 | | |
| Arnold J. Toynbee | 1889-1975 | | |
| Alan Turing | 1912-1954 | | |
| Ulpian | c. 170-223 | (Domitius, Annius, Ulpianus) | |
| Karl Verner | 1846-1896 | (Werner) | |
| Adolf von Harnack | 1851-1930 | (Harnack) | |
| Alexander von Humboldt | 1769-1859 | | |
| John von Neumann | 1903-1957 | (Neumann) | |
| Ludwig von Strümpell | 1812-1899 | (Strümpell) | |
| Lev Vygotsky | 1896-1934 | | |
| Max Weber | 1864-1920 | | |
| Alfred North Whitehead | 1861-1947 | | |
| Norbert Wiener | 1894-1964 | | |
| Andrew Wiles | 1953- | | |
| William of Ockham | c. 1287-1347 | | |
| Geordie Williamson | 1981- | | |
| Johann Joachim Winckelmann | 1717-1768 | | |
| Edward Witten | 1951- | | |
| Ludwig Wittgenstein | 1889-1951 | | |
| Wilhelm Wundt | 1832-1920 | | |
| Xenophanes of Colophon | c. 570-c. 475 BC | | |
| Xenophon | c. 427-c. 355 BC | | |
| Lotfi A. Zadeh | 1921-2017 | | |
| L. L. Zamenhof | 1859-1917 | | |
| Peter Wessel Zapffe | 1899-1990 | | |
| Zeno of Citium | c. 334-c. 262 BC | | |
| Zeno of Elea | c. 490-c. 430 BC | | |
| Philip Zimbardo | 1933-2024 | | |
| Slavoj Žižek | 1949- | | |
| Zoroaster | ?-1xxx BC | |