Friedrich Nietzsche | Friedrich Schiller | Wilhelm II, German Emperor | Russ Meyer | Wilhelm II | Friedrich Engels | Wilhelm Reich | Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz | Meyer Lansky | Georg Solti | Carl Friedrich Gauss | Karl Friedrich Schinkel | Meyer Schapiro | Friedrich Dürrenmatt | Georg Philipp Telemann | Friedrich Hayek | Caspar David Friedrich | Johann Georg Wagler | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | Friedrich Hölderlin | Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle | Wilhelm Keitel | Friedrich Ebert | Joyce Meyer | Georg Trakl | Georg Forster | Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling | Wilhelm Furtwängler | Roelf Meyer | Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel |
The type species, Astrocaryum aculeatum, was first described by German botanist Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Meyer in 1818 based on a specimen from the Essequibo River in Guyana.