Renaissance man

A man who has broad intellectual interests and is accomplished in areas of both the arts and the sciences.

The noun has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: a modern scholar who is in a position to acquire more than superficial knowledge about many different interests
  Synonym: generalist

Meaning #2: a scholar during the Renaissance who (because knowledge was limited) could know almost everything about many topics

Renaissance man may refer to:

• Polymath, a person who excels in multiple fields

• "Renaissance Man" (Voyager episode), the penultimate episode of Star Trek: Voyager

• Renaissance Man (film), a 1994 comedy-drama film directed by Penny Marshall, and starring Danny DeVito, Gregory Hines, James Remar, and Ed Begley, Jr.

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