A political theorist is someone who engages in constructing or evaluating political theory, including political philosophy. Theorists may be academics or independent scholars.
Ancient Aristotle Chanakya Cicero Confucius Mencius Plato Socrates
Medieval al-Farabi Dante Alighieri Averroes Thomas Aquinas Ibn Khaldun John of Salisbury Maimonides Muhammad William of Ockham
Renaissance and early modern Jeremy Bentham Edmund Burke Benjamin Franklin Hugo Grotius Johann Gottfried von Herder Thomas Hobbes Immanuel Kant John Locke Niccolò Machiavelli James Madison John Milton Thomas More Montesquieu Samuel von Pufendorf Adam Smith Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Late modern Muhammad Asad Hayk Asatryan Mikhail Bakunin Frédéric Bastiat Samuel Taylor Coleridge Juan Donoso Cortés Émile Durkheim Friedrich Engels Julius Evola René Guénon William Godwin Emma Goldman Friedrich Hayek Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Theodor Herzl Peter Kropotkin Muhammad Iqbal Rose Wilder Lane Gustave Le Bon Vladimir Lenin György Lukács Rosa Luxemburg Joseph de Maistre Herbert Marcuse Charles Maurras Karl Marx John Stuart Mill Adam Müller Thomas Paine Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Vinayak Damodar Savarkar Joseph Schumpeter Oswald Spengler Lysander Spooner Max Stirner Leo Strauss Leon Trotsky Alexis de Tocqueville Max Weber Mary Wollstonecraft
Born in 20th century Theodor Adorno Tariq Ali Louis Althusser Gabriel Almond Hannah Arendt Raymond Aron Kenneth Arrow Isaiah Berlin Murray Bookchin Wendy Brown James Burnham Cornelius Castoriadis Noam Chomsky Dobrica Ćosić Robert Dahl Raya Dunayevskaya Ronald Dworkin David Easton Frantz Fanon Nancy Fraser Michael Freeden Betty Friedan David D. Friedman Erich Fromm Francis Fukuyama Muammar Gaddafi Antonio Gramsci Che Guevara Amy Gutmann Jürgen Habermas Ho Chi Minh Hans-Hermann Hoppe C. L. R. James Ruhollah Khomeini Russell Kirk Leszek Kołakowski Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Will Kymlicka Ernesto Laclau Ali Latifiyan Alasdair MacIntyre Harvey Mansfield Chantal Mouffe Antonio Negri Robert Nozick Martha Nussbaum Michael Oakeshott Karl Popper Robert D. Putnam Sayyid Qutb Ayn Rand John Rawls Michael Walzer Murray Rothbard Wilhelm Röpke Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar James C. Scott Carl Schmitt Roger Scruton Charles Taylor Eric Voegelin Simone Weil John Zerzan Howard Zinn
See also Political science Political scientist Politics List of political philosophers
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