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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

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