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This is a list of political philosophers, including some who may be better known for their work in other areas of philosophy. Note, however, that the list is for people who are principally philosophers. The philosophers are listed in order by year of birth to show rough direction of influences and of development of political thought. See also, Political philosophy.

Ancient, medieval and early modern

Confucius (551-479 BCE)
Socrates (470-399 BCE)
Mozi (470-390 BCE)
Xenophon (427-355 BCE)
Plato (427-347 BCE)
Diogenes of Sinope (412-323 BCE)
Aristotle (384-322 BCE)
Mencius (372-289 BCE)
Chanakya (350-283 BC)
Xun Zi (310-237 BCE)
Thiruvalluvar (3rd BCE-2nd CE)
Han Feizi (?-233 BCE)
Cicero (106-43 BCE)
Pliny the Younger (63-113 CE)
Saint Augustine (354-430 CE)
Al-Farabi (870-950)
Averroes (1126-1198)
Maimonides (1135-1204)
St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)
Marsilius of Padua (1270-1342)
William of Ockham (1285–1349)
Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406)
Christine de Pizan (1363–1434)
Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527)
Martin Luther (1483-1546)
John Calvin (1509-1564)
Richard Hooker (1554-1600)

Modern (born pre-19th century)

Jean Bodin (1530-1596)
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
Hugo Grotius (1583-1645)
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)
James Harrington (1611-1677)
Benedict Spinoza (1632-1677)
John Locke (1632-1704)
Montesquieu (1689-1755)
David Hume (1711-1776)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1788)
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
William Blackstone (1723-1780)
Adam Smith (1723-1790)
Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
William Godwin (1756-1836)
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
Henri de Saint-Simon (1760-1825)
Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834)
Benjamin Constant (1767-1830)
Georg W. F. Hegel (1770-1831)
David Ricardo (1772-1823)
Charles Fourier (1772-1837)
James Mill (1773-1836)
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
Auguste Comte (1798-1857)

Born in 19th century

Simion Bărnuţiu (1808-1864)
Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach (1804-1872)
Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)
Max Stirner (1806-1856)
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865)
Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
Mikhail Bakunin (1814-1876)
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Karl Marx (1818-1883)
Friedrich Engels (1820-1895)
Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)
William Graham Sumner (1840-1910)
Peter Kropotkin (1842-1921)
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
Eduard Bernstein (1850-1932)
Thorstein Bunde Veblen (1857-1929)
John Dewey (1859-1952)
Max Weber (1864-1920)
Benedetto Croce (1866-1952)
Rosa Luxemburg (1870-1919)
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
Giovanni Gentile (1875-1944)
Muhammad Iqbal (1877-1938)
Martin Buber (1878-1965)
Otto Bauer (1881-1938)
Georg Lukács (1885-1971)
Sergio Panunzio (1886-1944)
Martin Heidegger (1889-1976)
Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937)
Walter Benjamin (1892-1940)
Max Horkheimer (1895-1973)
Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979)
Leo Strauss (1899-1973)
Alfred Sohn-Rethel (1899-1990)
Friedrich Hayek (1899-1992)

Born in 20th century

Erich Fromm (1900-1980)
Michael Oakeshott (1901-1990)
Karl Popper (1902-1994)
Theodor Adorno (1903-1969)
Raymond Aron (1905-1983)
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975)
Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966)
Simone Weil (1909-1943)
Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997)
Norberto Bobbio (1909-2004)
Albert Camus (1913-1960)
Roland Barthes (1915-1980)
Fazlur Rahman Malik (1919-1988)
Louis Althusser (1918-1990)
Paulo Freire (1921-1997)
John Rawls (1921-2002)
Cornelius Castoriadis (1922-1997)
Sheldon S. Wolin (1922 - )
Frantz Fanon (1925-1961)
Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995)
Michel Foucault (1926-1984)
Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007)
Jürgen Habermas (1929- )
Jacques Derrida (1930-2004)
Félix Guattari (1930-1992)
Ronald Dworkin (1931- )
Charles Taylor (1931- )
Guy Debord (1931-1994)
Harvey C. Mansfield (1932 - )
Antonio Negri (1933- )
Fredric Jameson (1934- )
Wendell Berry (1934 - )
Michael Walzer (1935 - )
Robert Nozick (1938-2002)
Jesús Mosterín (1941- )
Étienne Balibar (1942- )
Lorenzo Peña (1944- )
Slavoj Žižek (1947- )

Others: This section is for people whose inclusion in the above list is being discussed. Their status as philosophers in general and political philosophers specifically is generally verifiable, but controversial. They are listed in order of birth:

Thomas Muntzer (1490–1525)
Rifa' al-Tahtawi (1801-1873)
Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925)
Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957)
Ayn Rand (1905-1982)
Kancha Ilaiah (1952-)