People in Fuller's Orbit
The registry of people in R. Buckminster Fuller's intellectual and personal orbit (201) — 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).
- 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
- 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
- Anton Wilhelm Amo — forebear
- Archimedes — forebear
- Arthur L. Loeb — collaborator
- Athena V. Lord — chronicler
- Benjamin Bloom — influence-on-fuller
- Bertrand Russell — contemporary
- Boris Artzybasheff — 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
- Dana Miller — chronicler
- Daniel López-Pérez — 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
- Edwin Schlossberg — collaborator
- Einar Thorsteinn — influenced-by-fuller
- Eric A. Walker — contemporary
- Euclid — forebear
- Eva Díaz — chronicler
- Federico Neder — chronicler
- Frank Lloyd Wright — contemporary
- Fred Turner — chronicler
- Frei Otto — contemporary
- Friedrich Froebel — forebear
- Galileo Galilei — forebear
- Gene Keyes — chronicler
- George W. Hart — influenced-by-fuller
- Gerard K. O'Neill — contemporary
- Gyorgy Kepes — contemporary
- H. S. M. Coxeter — contemporary
- Halford Mackinder — influence-on-fuller
- Harold Kroto — influenced-by-fuller
- Heinrich Hertz — forebear
- Henry Dreyfuss — contemporary
- Henry Ford — forebear
- Hideo Sasaki — contemporary
- Hsiao-Yun Chu — chronicler
- Hugh Aldersey-Williams — chronicler
- Hugh Ferriss — contemporary
- Hugh Kenner — chronicler
- Immanuel Kant — forebear
- Isaac Newton — forebear
- Isamu Noguchi — friend
- 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 McHale — collaborator
- Jonas Salk — contemporary
- Jonathan Williams — friend
- Josef Albers — contemporary
- Joseph Clinton — collaborator
- Josiah Willard Gibbs — forebear
- K. Michael Hays — chronicler
- Keith Critchlow — contemporary
- Kenneth Snelson — collaborator
- Kiyoshi Kuromiya — collaborator
- Knud Lonberg-Holm — influence-on-fuller
- L. Clark Stevens — chronicler
- László Moholy-Nagy — contemporary
- 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
- Manly P. Hall — contemporary
- Marcel Duchamp — contemporary
- Margaret Fuller — family
- Margaret Mead — contemporary
- 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
- 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
- Norbert Wiener — influence-on-fuller
- Norman Bel Geddes — contemporary
- Norman Brosterman — chronicler
- 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
- Phil Cousineau — chronicler
- Phillip M. Pierson — chronicler
- Plato — forebear
- Pythagoras — forebear
- Quentin Fiore — collaborator
- Ralph Waldo Emerson — influence-on-fuller
- Rammellzee — contemporary
- Richard Buckminster Fuller Sr. — family
- Richard J. Brenneman — chronicler
- Richard Smalley — influenced-by-fuller
- Robert Anton Wilson — influenced-by-fuller
- Robert D. Kahn — chronicler
- Robert Geddes — contemporary
- Robert Marks — chronicler
- Robert R. Potter — chronicler
- Robert Rauschenberg — contemporary
- Robert Sapolsky — contemporary
- Robert Smithson — contemporary
- Robert Snyder — chronicler
- Robert Williams — influenced-by-fuller
- 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
- 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 (Organizations in Fuller's Orbit) — the companion registry of organizations
- Books by Buckminster Fuller (Books by Buckminster Fuller)
- Books About & Related to Buckminster Fuller (Books About & Related to Buckminster Fuller)
- Fuller Reading Wish List (Fuller Reading Wish List)
- Web Sources, Articles & Media on Fuller (Web Sources, Articles & Media on Fuller)