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A polymath (Greek: πολυμαθής, romanized: polymathēs, lit. 'having learned much'; Latin: homo universalis, lit. 'universal human') or polyhistor (Greek: πολυΐστωρ, romanized: poly'īstor, lit. 'well-learned') is an individual whose knowledge spans many different subjects, known to draw on complex bodies of knowledge to solve specific problems.
Embodying a basic tenet of Renaissance humanism that humans are limitless in their capacity for development, the concept led to the notion that people should embrace all knowledge and develop their capacities as fully as possible. This is expressed in the term Renaissance man, often applied to the gifted people of that age who sought to develop their abilities in all areas of accomplishment: intellectual, artistic, social, physical, and spiritual.
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Well-known and celebrated polymaths include
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Michelangelo
- Benjamin Franklin
- Isaac Newton
- Thomas Jefferson
- Leon Battista Alberti
- Avicenna
- Robert Hooke
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Al-Biruni
- Hildegard of Bingen
- Ibn al-Haytham
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Mikhail Lomonosov
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Alan Turing
- John von Neumann
- Omar Khayyam
- Charles Sanders Peirce
- Henri Poincaré
- Isaac Asimov
- Nicolaus Copernicus
- Johann Weikhard von Valvasor
- René Descartes
- Aristotle
- Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor
- Averroes
- Archimedes
- Hypatia
- Blaise Pascal
- Africanus Horton
- Wang Wei
- Pierre-Paul Riquet
- Leonhard Euler
- Émilie du Châtelet
- Nikola Tesla
- Thomas Edison
- Florence Nightingale
- Bertrand Russell
- B. R. Ambedkar
- Nicole Oresme
- Thomas Young
- Sequoyah
- Pierre-Simon Laplace
- Maya Angelou
- Friedrich Engels
- Johannes Trithemius
- Aleister Crowley
- Galileo Galilei
- Roger Bacon
- Carl Friedrich Gauss
- Christopher Wren
- Alexander von Humboldt
- Andreas Vesalius
- Tycho Brahe
- Christiaan Huygens
- John Locke
- Antoine Lavoisier
- James Clerk Maxwell
- Hermann von Helmholtz
- Alfred North Whitehead
- Gerolamo Cardano
- Filippo Brunelleschi
- Arthur C. Clarke
- Steven Pinker
- Herbert A. Simon
- Galileo Ferraris
- George Boole
- Ibn Tufayl
- Al-Kindi
- Al-Farabi
- Al-Jazari
- Jan Ingenhousz
- Vitruvius
- Iannis Xenakis
- Buckminster Fuller
- Hermann Weyl
- Norbert Wiener
- Santiago Calatrava
- Michael Faraday
- Giordano Bruno
- Maimonides
- Ibn Khaldun
- Abbas ibn Firnas
- Abu Zayd al-Balkhi
- Judah Loew ben Bezalel
- Joseph Bonifacio of Andrada and Silva
- Guillaume Postel