The following lists are of prominent jurists, including judges, listed in alphabetical order by jurisdiction.
Premodern
Ancient Near East Ur-Nammu Hammurabi
Ancient Egypt Bakenranef
Ancient Israel
Solomon
Ancient India Manu Chanakya
Ancient Greece Draco Bias of Priene Lycurgus Lysias Solon Zaleucus Charondas Demonax Diagoras of Melos
Ancient Rome Numa Pompilius Gaius Terentilius Harsa Marcus Tullius Cicero Gaius Herennius Modestinus Aemilius Papinianus Paulus Domitius Ulpianus Pamphilus of Caesarea Sozomen
Byzantine Empire Enantiophanes Tribonian Dorotheus Theophilus Antecessor Michael Choumnos Theodore of Dekapolis Anastasius
Islamic Muhammad Abu Hanifa Malik ibn Anas Al-Shafi‘i Ahmad ibn Hanbal Al-Ghazali Ibn Taymiyyah Ibn Khaldun
Medieval Roman Law Glossators: Irnerius Four Doctors of Bologna: Bulgarus Martinus Gosia Jacobus de Boragine Hugo de Porta Ravennate Placentinus Azo of Bologna Accursius Franciscus Accursius Joannes Bassianus Tancred of Bologna Bernard of Botone Cino da Pistoia Bartolus de Saxoferrato Baldus de Ubaldis Matteo D'Afflitto
Canon law Saint Photios the Great Gratian (the Monk) John Scholasticus John Gascoigne Johann Georg Reiffenstuel Hostiensis Raymond of Penyafort Modern jurists by country
Argentina Luis Moreno Ocampo Eugenio Raul Zaffaroni
Australia
Sir Edmund Barton (judge) Sir Garfield Barwick (judge) Sir Gerard Brennan (judge) Julian Burnside (Queen's Counsel) Sir William Deane (judge, Governor-General) Sir Owen Dixon (judge) Dr H.V. Evatt (judge, politician) Robert French (judge) Mary Gaudron (judge) Sir Harry Gibbs (judge) Murray Gleeson (judge) Sir Samuel Griffith (judge) H.B. Higgins (judge) Sir Isaac Isaacs (judge, Governor-General) David Ipp (judge) Michael Kirby (judge) Sir Adrian Knox (judge) Sir Anthony Mason (judge) Lionel Murphy (judge) Richard O'Connor (judge) Geoffrey Robertson (Queen's Counsel) Sir Ninian Stephen (judge) Julius Stone Sir Ronald Wilson (judge)
Austria Ludwig Adamovich Sr., former president of the Austrian Constitutional Court Ludwig Adamovich Jr., former president of the Austrian Constitutional Court Walter Antoniolli, former president of the Austrian Constitutional Court Eugen Ehrlich, legal sociologist Hans Kelsen, Constitutional theorist, draftsman of the Austrian constitution and creator of the Pure Theory of Law Karl Korinek, former president of the Austrian Constitutional Court Franz von Zeiller, draftsman of the final version of the Austrian Civil Code of 1811
Bangladesh A. K. Fazlul Huq Radhabinod Pal Syed Mahbub Murshed Mustafa Kamal Azizul Haque Kamal Hossain Khatun Sapnara
Brazil Pimenta Bueno Eusébio de Queirós Zacarias de Góis e Vasconcelos Cândido Mendes de Almeida Viscount of Rio Branco Ernesto Carneiro Ribeiro Rui Barbosa Clóvis Beviláqua Baron of Rio Branco Joaquim Nabuco Heráclito Fontoura Sobral Pinto Hermes Lima Rosa Weber San Tiago Dantas Evandro Lins e Silva Victor Nunes Leal Alfredo Buzaid Paulo Brossard Raymundo Faoro Joaquim Barbosa Walter Moraes Marco Aurélio Mello Celso Lafer Celso de Mello Francisco Cavalcanti Pontes de Miranda Miguel Reale Augusto Teixeira de Freitas
Brunei Geoffrey Briggs Canada Rosalie Abella Louise Arbour Matthew Baillie Begbie Denise Bellamy William Hume Blake Louise Charron Henry Pering Pellew Crease Brian Dickson John Gomery Peter Hogg Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine Antonio Lamer Bora Laskin John McClung Beverley McLachlin, first female Chief Justice of Canada (2000–2017) Roy McMurtry Louis-Philippe Pigeon F. R. Scott, also a poet (Francis Reginald Scott, or Frank Scott) Robert Taschereau Stephen Waddams
Colombia Carlos Medellín Forero Carlos Lemos Simmonds
Cyprus Solon Nikitas Alecos Markides
Czechoslovakia Emil Hácha František Ladislav Rieger
Czech Republic Petra Buzková Otakar Motejl Petr Pithart Cyril Svoboda
Denmark Alf Ross Anders Sandøe Ørsted
England & Wales
John Selden Sir Francis Bacon Sir Redmond Barry, QC Sir William Blackstone Lord Browne-Wilkinson Sir Edward Coke Lord Denning Albert Venn Dicey Sir Matthew Hale Lord Hutton Lord Goff of Chieveley Thomas More Lord Morris of Borth-y-Gest Lord Scarman Hartley Shawcross Lord Templeman Lord Woolf Lord Mansfield Sir Ronald Waterhouse, QC H. L. A. Hart
France Antoine Dadin de Hauteserre Charles Aubry Jean-Louis Bruguière, investigative magistrate specialized on terrorism cases Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès, main author of the Napoleonic Code Guy Canivet, first president of the Court of Cassation Renaud Denoix de Saint Marc, vice-president of the Conseil d'État Jean-Jacques Gaspard Foelix (1791–1853) founder of the science of comparative law in France. Georges Gurvitch Claude Jorda Edouard de Laboulaye Pierre Mazeaud, president of the Constitutional Council of France Jean-Étienne-Marie Portalis Jean-Paul Beraudo Joseph Dallois Jean-François Fournel
Germany Robert Alexy (1945–2026) Claus-Wilhelm Canaris Philipp Heck, representative of sociological jurisprudence (Interessenjurisprudenz) Roman Herzog, President of the German Constitutional Court and later President of Germany :es: Günther Jakobs Rudolf von Jhering, founder of sociological jurisprudence (Interessenjurisprudenz) Hermann Kantorowicz, proponent of the Free Law School (Freirechtslehre) Burkard Wilhelm Leist (1819–1906) Richard Rosendorff (fl. 1875–1941) Claus Roxin, founder of the "Tatherrschaftslehre" Friedrich Carl von Savigny, 19th century legal scholar of the historical school Carl Schmitt, legal theorist Bernhard Windscheid, leading drafter of the BGB Reinhold Zippelius, German representative of critical rationalism in jurisprudence
Hong Kong Kemal Bokhary (judge) Charles Ching (judge) Andrew Li (judge) Henry Litton (judge) Charles Ching Denys Roberts Robert Ribeiro George Phillippo Yang Ti-liang Patrick Yu
India Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Mahatma Gandhi C. Rajagopalachari Chittaranjan Das Rajendra Prasad B. N. Rau Subodh Markandeya K. K. Mathew Flavia Agnes Upendra Baxi P. B. Gajendragadkar Justice V.R Krishna Iyer Ram Jethmalani Fali S. Nariman N. R. Madhava Menon Nanabhoy Palkhivala Justice P. N. Bhagwati B.S. Chimni M.P. Singh K N Chandrasekharan Pillai Justice Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud Justice Y. V. Chandrachud Radhabinod Pal Hari Singh Gour B. N. Srikrishna Shamnad Basheer M. C. Setalvad Mandagadde Rama Jois Dr. Faizan Mustafa Adish C. Aggarwala
Iran Shirin Ebadi
Ireland William Binchy (Regius Professor of Laws in Trinity College, Dublin) Declan Costello (former President of the High Court and Attorney-General) Susan Denham (Judge of the Supreme Court) Thomas Finlay (former Chief Justice) Dermot Gleeson (Senior Counsel and former Attorney-General) Adrian Hardiman (Judge of the Supreme Court) Gerard Hogan (Senior Counsel, Lecturer in Trinity College, Dublin, co-editor of the later editions of "J.M. Kelly: The Irish Constitution") Ronan Keane (former Chief Justice) John M. Kelly (late Attorney-General and author of the commentary "The Irish Constitution") Hugh Kennedy (late Chief Justice and Attorney-General) John L. Murray (Chief Justice and former Attorney-General) Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh (late Chief Justice, Attorney-General and President of Ireland) Thomas O'Higgins (late Chief Justice) Mary Robinson (former Barrister, Professor and later President of Ireland)
Israel
Miriam Ben-Porat Itzhak Nener Gabriela Shalev
Italy
Thomas Aquinas Alberico Gentili Niccolò Machiavelli Giambattista Vico Cesare Beccaria Francesco Mario Pagano Benedetto Marcello Francesco Carrara Gaetano Filangieri Piero Calamandrei Francesco Carnelutti Pietro della Vigna Vincenzo Caianiello Francesco Parisi Luigi Ferrari Bravo Dionisio Anzilotti Bettina d'Andrea Riccardo Petroni Gino Giugni Giovanni Conso Enrico De Nicola Leopoldo Elia Marco Biagi Giovanni Maria Flick Giuliano Vassalli Gustavo Zagrebelsky
Lebanon
Macau
Sam Hou Fai – Presidente Lai Kin Hong – Presidente Tam Hio Wa – Presidente dos Tribunais de Primeira Instancia Alice Leonor das Neves Costa – Presidente de tribunal colectivo Lau Cheok Va – Presidente
Morocco
Amina, bint al-Hajj ʿAbd al-Latif (fl.1802–1812), scribe and scholar The Netherlands Hugo Grotius Gerhard Diephuis Tobias Asser, played major role in the formation of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, joint recipient of the 1911 Nobel Prize for Peace Johannes Bob van Benthem, first president of the European Patent Office Rudolph Cleveringa, professor at Leiden University who publicly protested against the removal of Jewish colleagues from the university by the German occupier Pieter Kooijmans, judge on the International Court of Justice Henry G. Schermers, professor at Leiden University, founder of Mordenate College and member of the European Commission for Human Rights Bert Röling, judge on the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo
Pakistan
Muhammad Iqbal Abul A'la Maududi Rashid Rehman Ali Ahmad Kurd Abdul Hafiz Pirzada Agha Rafiq Ahmed Khan Shahid Hamid S.M. Zafar Mian Tufail Mohammad Ashtar Ausaf Ali Liaquat Ali Khan Ghulam Farooq Awan Hina Jilani Asma Jahangir Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri Sadiq Khan Wasim Sajjad
Philippines Ricardo C. Puno
Poland Aleksandra Kosiorek
Portugal
Medieval Period: João Das Regras Modern Period: Duarte Nunes de Leão Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo Jorge de Cabedo Pedro Barbosa Belchior Febos Liberalism/Constitucional Monarchy: José Homem Correia Teles Mouzinho da Silveira António Luís de Seabra António Bernardo de Costa Cabral João Franco Manuel da Silva Passos José António de Miranda Pereira de Meneses Henrique O'Neill Guerra Junqueiro Contemporary Period: Manuel de Arriaga Ana Maria Guerra Martins Januário Lourenço José Manuel Hespanha José Manuel Durão Barroso Jorge Miranda José Hermano Saraiva José Dias Ferreira Isabel de Magalhães Colaço Fernando Machado Soares António Menezes Cordeiro Miguel Sousa Tavares Paula Escarameia Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa Maria Lúcia Amaral Manuel Lobo Antunes
Scotland
Colin Boyd, Lord Advocate Lord Cullen of Whitekirk, Lord President of the Court of Session of Scotland Lord Brian Gill, Lord Justice Clerk of Scotland Sir Neil MacCormick Lord Rodger of Earlsferry Lord Donald MacArthur Ross
Serbia Slobodan Jovanović Milovan Milovanović Jovan Sterija Popović Smilja Avramov Mirko Vasiljević Miodrag Majić
Russia (Russian Empire - USSR - Russian Federation) Andrey Vyshinsky Evgeny Pashukanis Major-General Iola Nikitchenko Pavel Yudin Ivan Jakovlevich Fojnickij
Spain Ramón Llàtzer de Dou de Bassols Gloria Begué Cantón Fèlix Maria Falguera Eduardo Garcia de Enterria y Martinez-Carande Baltasar Garzón Juan Sempere y Guarinos
Syria
Issam al-Khalif, President of the Supreme Constitutional Court
South Africa Mandisa Maya Chief Justice of the Republic of South Africa Raymond Zondo Former Chief Justice of the Republic of South Africa Mogoeng Mogoeng Former Chief Justice of the Republic of South Africa Dikgang Moseneke Former Deputy Chief Justice of the Republic of South Africa Mbuyiseli Madlanga Acting Deputy Chief Justice of the Republic of South Africa Zukisa Tshiqi Justice in the Constitutional Court of the Republic of South Africa Tembeka Ngcukaitobi Senior Counsel Dali Mpofu Senior Counsel
Sri Lanka Christopher Weeramantry Mark Fernando Neelan Tiruchelvam Deepika Udagama
Switzerland Eugen Huber, University of Berne, drafter of the Zivilgesetzbuch, the Swiss Civil Code. Walter Kälin
United States
Robert Araujo, S.J. International Law Professor at Loyola University Chicago School of Law Randy Barnett (born 1952), Law Professor at Georgetown University Law Center Paul Butler (professor) (born 1961) is an American lawyer, former prosecutor, and current Law Professor Georgetown University Law Center