One Renaissance man in the thick of the green chemical and biofuel revolution is David Milroy.
They are Contemporary Man, a distant relation to Renaissance Man: living by their wits and off their imaginations.
Otellini is a renaissance man, still young and healthy at 62, and loaded down with winnings from the Intel table.
Nick Dudman, who worked with Freeborn on The Empire Strikes Back, remembered him as "a Renaissance man capable of doing absolutely anything".
Often described as a modern-day renaissance man, Metin Arditi combines talents in business, science and the arts with an unequivocal commitment to peace and development.
Gunther Schuller is a musical Renaissance man -- composer, conductor, teacher, advocate and author -- whose interests range from Mozart to Mingus, from Sousa to Satchmo.
That speech might have been his most impressive showing of the week, as Marchionne went all Renaissance Man on his crowd of accomplished women including U.S. Sen.
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But, with all appreciation for technical skills, let us also remember the Aristotelian notion of counterpoise, and the Jeffersonian Renaissance Man before all begin to pursue that elusive degree in computer science.
The man who ultimately did, Charles Babbage, was as much the Renaissance man as Alberti--he also invented the speedometer, the cowcatcher and the mortality tables that are the basis of today's life insurance.
"The phrase 'Renaissance Man' was derived from him, " says David S. Goyer, who has spent a lot of time studying and pondering him, and has created "Da Vinci's Demons, " a sci-fi thriller set in the 1400s.
Since then, Akyroyd has proved himself a true renaissance man with talents not only as an Actor, but as a Producer, Radio Personality, Restaurateur (House of Blues), Wine Maker, and now as distiller of Crystal Head Vodka.
The target man has experienced a renaissance at the JJB, forcing his way back into the England set-up as a foil for Manchester United's Wayne Rooney.
Czartoryski's family is still missing the Renaissance painting " Portrait of a Young Man" by Raphael.
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Prince Henry is thus firmly placed as a man of the Middle Ages rather than as a harbinger of the renaissance.
The portrait of the unidentified young man, perhaps a writer or scholar, is said to be one of the most important Renaissance portraits still in private hands.
At this stage, talk of joining the England ranks was far-fetched yet the renaissance in his career had much to do with his move to Bolton in 2003 where Sam Allardyce reassessed the front man's ability as a goalscorer.
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