Polymath

A polymath is a person who excels in multiple fields, particularly in both arts and sciences. Another term for this is Renaissance man, as many notable polymaths lived during the European Renaissance period.

Examples include:

• Leone Battista Alberti
• Aristotle
• Anicius Manlius Severinus Boëthius
• Sir Thomas Browne
• Albrecht Dürer
• Benjamin Franklin
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Christiaan Huygens
• Athanasius Kircher
• Mikhail Lomonosov
• Ptolemy
• Pythagoras
• Abu Bakr Mohammad Ibn Zakariya al-Razi, or Rhazes
• Herbert Simon
• Nikola Tesla (electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and physicist)
• Leonardo da Vinci