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
• Anicius Manlius Severinus Boëthius
• Albrecht Dürer
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Mikhail Lomonosov
• Athanasius Kircher
• Rhazes
• Herbert Simon
• Leonardo da Vinci