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2 unusual facts about Renaissance man


Khalil Kain

Kain has also portrayed Roosevelt Nathaniel Hobbs in the 1994 comedy drama, Renaissance Man.

Renaissance Man

Polymath, a person whose expertise spans a significant number of different subject areas


Alonso III Fonseca

Fonseca was an extremely erudite man, a Renaissance man and patron of numerous artists of the time, who was in touch with important thinkers such as Erasmus of Rotterdam.

Chinese mathematics

Learning them all perfectly was required to be a perfect gentleman, or in the Chinese sense, a "Renaissance Man".

Colfax Township, Mecosta County, Michigan

This town is also the home to the characters of Jef Mallett's Frazz, a comic strip about a school janitor named Edwin "Frazz" Frazier, a Renaissance man and ultra-triathlete.


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Aroon Tikekar

His lectures given at the University of Mumbai on Justice Mahadev Govind Ranade were published in his book Ranade - The Renaissance Man.

Donald Laycock

He was described by his fellow authors of Skeptical (David Vernon, Dr Colin Groves and Simon Brown) as a 20th Century 'Renaissance Man' as his interests were wide ranging from Melanesian languages, to channelling, Tarot cards and bawdy songs.

Even in Blackouts

The story supposedly begins in Sicily, where guitarist and "punk rock renaissance man" John 'Jughead' Pierson had been visiting his friends in the Italian band, The Manges, following the dissolution of his previous band Screeching Weasel.

William Adlam

He was somewhat a renaissance man, an admirer of the French philosopher Voltaire and in 1780, whilst a lieutenant colonel, produced a print of Voltaire sitting at his desk.