People in Fuller's Orbit
The registry of people in R. Buckminster Fuller's intellectual and personal orbit (237) — biographers and authors, collaborators, influences, students, and contemporaries — seeded from the Buckyverse Zotero People collection. Each entry now links to a compiled person page (a bio, their role in Fuller's orbit, and bidirectional links to the works they authored or appear in), not merely the raw encyclopedia entry. Grown from the IMP-8/IMP-9 person-entity effort and extended by a long-tail corpus audit; last refreshed 2026-07-02.
People
Relationship to Fuller (controlled vocabulary): collaborator · influence-on-fuller · influenced-by-fuller · friend · family · contemporary · rival-critic · forebear · chronicler (documented / wrote about Fuller) · co-contributor (appeared alongside Fuller in a published anthology).
- Adnan Morshed — chronicler
- Albert Einstein — influence-on-fuller
- Albert Gleaves — contemporary
- Alden Hatch — chronicler
- Alec Nevala-Lee — chronicler
- Alex Gerber — chronicler
- Alexander Graham Bell — forebear
- Alexandra Fuller — family
- Alfred Korzybski — influence-on-fuller
- Alfred North Whitehead — influence-on-fuller
- Alicia Boole Stott — forebear
- Alison Smithson — co-contributor
- Allegra Fuller Snyder — family
- Amei Wallach — chronicler
- Amory Lovins — influenced-by-fuller
- Amy C. Edmondson — collaborator
- Andy Warhol — contemporary
- Anne Griswold Tyng — contemporary
- Anne Hewlett Fuller — family
- Anni Albers — contemporary
- Antoine Picon — chronicler
- Anton Wilhelm Amo — forebear
- Archimedes — forebear
- Arthur L. Loeb — collaborator
- Athena V. Lord — chronicler
- Barry M. Katz — chronicler
- Benjamin Bloom — influence-on-fuller
- Bertrand Russell — contemporary
- Boris Artzybasheff — chronicler
- Brian Danitz — chronicler
- Calvin Tomkins — chronicler
- Cedric Price — contemporary
- Charles Darwin — forebear
- Charles Howard Hinton — influence-on-fuller
- Chris Zelov — chronicler
- Christopher Morley — friend
- CJ Fearnley — chronicler
- Clark Richert — influenced-by-fuller
- Claude Lichtenstein — chronicler
- Cole Gerst — chronicler
- Constance Abernathy — collaborator
- Cyril Stanley Smith — co-contributor
- Dame DC (Doria) Cordova — influenced-by-fuller
- Dana Miller — chronicler
- Daniel López-Pérez — chronicler
- David E. Nye — chronicler
- David Johnston (builder) — influenced-by-fuller
- David Kruschke — influenced-by-fuller
- David W. Orr — influenced-by-fuller
- Donald W. Robertson — chronicler
- Duncan Stuart — collaborator
- E. J. Applewhite — collaborator
- Eduard F. Sekler — co-contributor
- Edward Popko — influenced-by-fuller
- Edwin Schlossberg — collaborator
- Einar Thorsteinn — influenced-by-fuller
- Elizabeth A. T. Smith — chronicler
- Eric A. Walker — contemporary
- Euclid — forebear
- Eva Díaz — chronicler
- Federico Neder — chronicler
- Felicity D. Scott — chronicler
- Frank Lloyd Wright — contemporary
- Fred Turner — chronicler
- Frei Otto — contemporary
- Friedrich Froebel — forebear
- Fumihiko Maki — co-contributor
- Galileo Galilei — forebear
- Gene Keyes — chronicler
- George W. Hart — influenced-by-fuller
- Gerard K. O'Neill — contemporary
- Gyorgy Kepes — contemporary
- H. L. C. Jaffé — co-contributor
- H. S. M. Coxeter — contemporary
- Halford Mackinder — influence-on-fuller
- Harold Kroto — influenced-by-fuller
- Heinrich Hertz — forebear
- Henry Dreyfuss — contemporary
- Henry Ford — forebear
- Henry L. Kamphoefner — contemporary
- Hideo Sasaki — contemporary
- Howard P. Segal — chronicler
- Hsiao-Yun Chu — chronicler
- Hugh Aldersey-Williams — chronicler
- Hugh Ferriss — contemporary
- Hugh Kenner — chronicler
- I. A. Richards — co-contributor
- Immanuel Kant — forebear
- Isaac Newton — forebear
- Isamu Noguchi — friend
- Jacob Bronowski — co-contributor
- Jaime Snyder — family
- James Clerk Maxwell — forebear
- James Meller — chronicler
- James Monroe Hewlett — family
- James R. Killian Jr. — contemporary
- James T. Baldwin — influenced-by-fuller
- James Ward — chronicler
- Jason F. McLennan — influenced-by-fuller
- Jasper Johns — contemporary
- Jeannie Moberly — influenced-by-fuller
- Jerome Agel — collaborator
- Joachim Krausse — chronicler
- Johannes Kepler — forebear
- John Cage — contemporary
- John Denver — friend
- John Dos Passos — contemporary
- John F. Sase — influenced-by-fuller
- John McHale — collaborator
- John Prenis — influenced-by-fuller
- Jonas Salk — contemporary
- Jonathan Massey — chronicler
- Jonathan Williams — friend
- Josef Albers — contemporary
- Joseph Clinton — collaborator
- Josiah Willard Gibbs — forebear
- K. Michael Hays — chronicler
- Keith Critchlow — contemporary
- Kenneth Snelson — collaborator
- Kirby Urner — interpreter
- Kiyoshi Kuromiya — collaborator
- Knud Lonberg-Holm — influence-on-fuller
- L. Clark Stevens — chronicler
- Lancelot L. Whyte — co-contributor
- Le Corbusier — contemporary
- Leonardo da Vinci — forebear
- Lewis Mumford — rival-critic
- Lim Chong Keat — friend
- Linus Pauling — contemporary
- Lloyd Kahn — contemporary
- Lloyd Steven Sieden — chronicler
- Loretta Lorance — chronicler
- Louis Kahn — friend
- Louise Morley Cochrane — chronicler
- Ludwig von Bertalanffy — influence-on-fuller
- Lyndon B. Johnson — contemporary
- László Moholy-Nagy — contemporary
- Manly P. Hall — contemporary
- Marcel Duchamp — contemporary
- Margaret Fuller — family
- Margaret Mead — contemporary
- Margit Staber — co-contributor
- Maria Gough — chronicler
- Marilyn Ferguson — chronicler
- Marina Warner — contemporary
- Mark Wigley — chronicler
- Markus Richter — chronicler
- Marshall McLuhan — influence-on-fuller
- Martin Gardner — contemporary
- Martin Meyerson — contemporary
- Martin Pawley — chronicler
- Mary Laycock — chronicler
- Masato Ohtaka — co-contributor
- Max Bill — co-contributor
- Max Planck — influence-on-fuller
- Medard Gabel — collaborator
- Merce Cunningham — contemporary
- Michael John Gorman — chronicler
- Nathan Aaseng — chronicler
- Nicolas Bourbaki — contemporary
- Nikola Tesla — forebear
- Noam Chomsky — contemporary
- Noel B. Murphy — chronicler
- Norbert Wiener — influence-on-fuller
- Norman Bel Geddes — contemporary
- Norman Brosterman — chronicler
- Norman Cousins — contemporary
- Norman Foster — collaborator
- Olafur Eliasson — influenced-by-fuller
- Paolo Soleri — contemporary
- Patricia Ravasio — chronicler
- Percy Bridgman — influence-on-fuller
- Peter Blake — chronicler
- Peter H. Wagschal — chronicler
- Peter Jon Pearce — collaborator
- Peter Smithson — co-contributor
- Phil Cousineau — chronicler
- Phillip M. Pierson — chronicler
- Pier Luigi Nervi — co-contributor
- Plato — forebear
- Pythagoras — forebear
- Quentin Fiore — collaborator
- Ralph Waldo Emerson — influence-on-fuller
- Rammellzee — contemporary
- Reinhold Martin — chronicler
- Richard Buckminster Fuller Sr. — family
- Richard Held — co-contributor
- Richard J. Brenneman — chronicler
- Richard Lippold — co-contributor
- Richard Smalley — influenced-by-fuller
- Robert Anton Wilson — influenced-by-fuller
- Robert D. Kahn — chronicler
- Robert Geddes — contemporary
- Robert Marks — chronicler
- Robert Pickus — contemporary
- Robert R. Potter — chronicler
- Robert Rauschenberg — contemporary
- Robert Sapolsky — contemporary
- Robert Smithson — contemporary
- Robert Snyder — chronicler
- Robert Williams — influenced-by-fuller
- Roberto G. Trujillo — chronicler
- Roland Nachtigäller — chronicler
- Rosamond Fuller Kenison — family
- Rupert Sheldrake — contemporary
- Russell Davenport — chronicler
- Ruth Asawa — contemporary
- Sam Green — chronicler
- Scott Eastham — chronicler
- Shoji Sadao — collaborator
- Sidney Rosen — chronicler
- Siobhan Roberts — contemporary
- Stan Allen — chronicler
- Stan VanDerBeek — contemporary
- Stanisław Ulam — contemporary
- Steve Baer — influenced-by-fuller
- Stewart Brand — influenced-by-fuller
- Studs Terkel — chronicler
- Susan Sontag — contemporary
- Syeus Mottel — chronicler
- Tatyana Grosman — collaborator
- Taylor Littleton — chronicler
- Ted Nelson — contemporary
- Thomas Edison — forebear
- Thomas Malthus — forebear
- Thomas T. K. Zung — collaborator
- Timothy Stott — chronicler
- Tomás Saraceno — influenced-by-fuller
- Trevor Blake — chronicler
- W. Starling Burgess — collaborator
- Walter Gropius — contemporary
- Walther Bauersfeld — forebear
- Werner Erhard — collaborator
- Werner Heisenberg — influence-on-fuller
- William McDonough — influenced-by-fuller
- Yehudi Menuhin — friend
- Yousuf Karsh — chronicler
See Also
- Organizations in Fuller's Orbit — the companion registry of organizations
- Books by Buckminster Fuller
- Books About & Related to Buckminster Fuller
- Fuller Reading Wish List
- Web Sources, Articles & Media on Fuller