The following is a list of self-identified Socialist s. Individuals qualify for this list if known by reason of their identification as socialists in whole or major part. Therefore individuals who might be socialists but who are not known as a result of that are not listed unless their socialism is of importance to their work or their espousal of socialism has become a source of interest in the individual. The list is by country or region and can be searched by name. Other lists of Ideological currents within socialism or by Party Affiliation can be found below.
Some of the listed individuals have been or were committed to other ideologies either before or after their identification with a socialist ideology. Where such individuals have rejected all forms of socialism and socialist ideology in favour of a competing political ideology they will not be found on this list unless they are only known by reason of their time spent in the socialist movement. Given that the boundaries between different ideological currents within socialist movements and definitions of socialism are fiercely contested few will agree as to the inclusion of all the individuals on this list. Some individuals often regarded as socialists by ideological opponents of socialism have been excluded from the list where there is no substantive reason for considering the individual to have been or to be a socialist other than on the basis of such opponents.
In the first instance the criterion for admission to this list is self identification as a socialist. A second lesser criterion is the identification of an individual as a socialist by a socialist movement. Taken together these criteria ensure that those viewed by ideological opponents of socialism as socialists but rejected as such by themselves and by the socialist movement are rejected for inclusion.
See also the List Of Anarchists , List Of Trotskyists and List Of Communists . Some may be miscategorized or have straddled several categories over their lives.
For entries that do not yet have an article in English, a link has been provided to the person's article on another language's Wikipedia, if available.
), Jacques Vergès , Henri Wallon , Émile Zola , Jean Zyromski
), Wilhelm Weitling , Otto Wels , Joseph Weydemeyer , Otto Winzer , Ernst Wollweber , Wilhelm Zaisser , Clara Zetkin
Nikos Beloyannis , Avraam Benaroya , Cornelius Castoriadis , Charilaos Florakis , Manolis Glezos , Alexandros Giotopoulos , Nikos Kazantzakis , Gregoris Lambrakis , Melina Mercouri , Evripidis Mpakirtzis , Michel Pablo , Andreas Papandreou , Georgios Papandreou , Aleka Papariga , Dimitrios Partsalidis , Plato , Miltiadis Porphyrogenis , Pandelis Pouliopoulos , Petros Rousos , Ploutis Servas , Kostas Simitis , Alexandros Svolos , Mikis Theodorakis , Andreas Tsipas , Markos Vafiadis , Aris Velouchiotis , Nikolaos Zachariadis
), Árpád Szakasits , András Szalai , Tibor Szamuely , Béla Szász , Sándor Szerényi , József Szilágyi , István Szirmai , Tibor Szőnyi , Imre Vajda , Eugen Varga , Zoltán Vas , Sándor Zöld
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), Filippo Turati , Nichi Vendola
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Ho Hon , Kim Du-bong , Kim Il-sung , Kim Jong-il , Kim Jong-suk , Li Jong-ok , O Jin-u , Yon Hyong-muk
Choummaly Sayasone , Kaysone Phomvihan , Khamtai Siphandon , Nouhak Phoumsavan , Phoumi Vongvichit , Phoune Sipraseuth , Quinim Pholsena , Somsavat Lengsavad , Souphanouvong
David Alfaro Siqueiros , Cuauhtémoc Amezcua , Ponciano Arriaga , Lucio Cabañas , Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas , Lázaro Cárdenas , Heberto Castillo , Manuel Díaz Ramírez , Javier Elorriaga , Carlos Fuentes , Praxedis G. Guerrero , Frida Kahlo , Hernán Laborde , Hipólito Landero , Vicente Lombardo Toledano , Ricardo Flores Magón , Subcomandante Marcos , Arnoldo Martínez Verdugo , Elena Poniatowska , José Revueltas , Diego Rivera , Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez
), Hamma Hammami , Louisa Hanoune , Mohamed Harmel , Nayif Hawatmeh , George Hawi , Akram Al-Hawrani , Muhammad Hassanein Heikal , Mansoor Hekmat , Salah Al-Jadid , Abdel Salam Jalloud , Bijan Jazani , Ahmed Jibril , Kamal Jumblatt , Walid Jumblatt , Noureddin Kianouri , Mazdak , Ali Mécili , Golda Meir , Shmuel Mikunis , Sail Mohamed , Khalid Mohieddin , Aziz Muhammad , Abdelrahman Munif , Hamid Majid Musa , Fuad Nassar , Gamal Abdel Nasser , Jabra Nicola , Jarallah Omar , Amar Ouzegane , Shimon Peres , Amir Peretz , Muammar Al-Qaddafi , Yitzhak Rabin , Husain Al-Radi , Nawal El-Saadawi , Ali Saleh Al-Saadi , Ali Sabri , Edward Said , Sadeq Sharafkandi Barham Salih , Toma Sik , Moshe Sneh , Avatis Soltanzadeh , Joseph Sprinzak , Léon Sultan , Ehsan Tabari , Yitzhak Tabenkin , Jalal Talabani , Tawfik Toubi , Riad Al-Turk , Meir Vilner , Ali Yata , Abderrahmane Youssoufi , Yusuf Salman Yusuf , Khalid Ahmed Zaki , Tawfik Ziad
Anandyn Amar , Natsagiyn Bagabandi , Jambyn Batmönh , Dogsomyn Bodoo , Horloogiyn Choybalsan , Peljidiyn Genden , Damdiny Sühbaatar , Yumjaagiyn Tsedenbal
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Tony Cabardo , Crisanto Evangelista , Amado Hernandez , Filemon Lagman , José Maria Sison , Luis Taruc
), Adam Rapacki , Michał Rola-Żymierski , Konstanty Rokossowski , Daniel Singer , Marian Spychalski , Maria Szyszkowska , Józef Unszlicht , Adolf Warski , Wanda Wasilewska , Aleksander Zawadzki
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), Nikolay Yezhov , Usman Yusupov , Vasily Zaitsev , Vera Zasulich , Volodymyr Zatonsky , Andrey Zhdanov , Georgy Zhukov , Grigory Zinoviev , Gennady Zyuganov
), Jukka Rahja , Poul Nyrup Rasmussen , Olav Scheflo , Benito Scocozza , Yrjö Sirola , Kalevi Sorsa , Thorvald Stauning , Jens Stoltenberg , Väinö Tanner , Oscar Torp , Martin Tranmæl , Erkki Tuomioja , Lars Werner , Mikael Wiehe , Ernst Wigforss , Sven Wollter
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), Jacob Zuma
), Jorge Sampaio , José Saramago , Mário Soares , José Sócrates , Wilebaldo Solano , Antonio Téllez , Abelard Tona I Nadalmai , Lorenzo Varela , José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
), Mustafa Suphi
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Martin Abern , Mumia Abu-Jamal , Jane Addams , Perry Anderson , Susan B. Anthony , Herbert Aptheker , Anthony Arnove , Stanley Aronowitz , Bob Avakian , Amiri Baraka , Jack Barnes , Edward Bellamy , Francis Bellamy , Victor L. Berger , Daniel Berrigan , Philip Berrigan , Lewis Black , Ella Reeve Bloor , William Blum , Murray Bookchin , Harry Braverman , George Breitman , Earl Browder , Walt Brown , Louise Bryant , James Burnham , Smedley Butler , James P. Cannon , Eric Chester , Noam Chomsky , Todd Chretien , Ward Churchill , John Henrik Clarke , Eldridge Cleaver , Harry Cleaver , Voltairine De Cleyre , Bert Cochran , Lester Cole , Chris Cunningham , Chris M. Cunningham , Leon Czolgosz , Angela Davis , Frank Marshall Davis , Mike Davis , Dorothy Day , Eugene V. Debs , Daniel De Leon , Floyd Dell , David Dellinger , Ron Dellums , Eugene Dennis , Carl Dix , Farrell Dobbs , Sol Dollinger , Hal Draper , Diane Drufenbrock , Shirley Graham Du Bois , W.E.B. Du Bois , Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz , Crystal Eastman , Max Eastman , James T. Farrell , Howard Fast , Lawrence Ferlinghetti , Elizabeth Gurley Flynn , James W. Ford , William Z. Foster , Waldo Frank , H. Bruce Franklin , Betty Friedan , Lenora Fulani , Luigi Galleani , Barbara Garson , John Gates , Joel Geier , Víctor Manuel Gerena , Simon Gerson , Charlotte Perkins Gilman , Benjamin Gitlow , Stan Goff , Bernard Goodman , Shujaa Graham , William Gropper , Woody Guthrie , Camilla Hall , Gus Hall , Lorraine Hansberry , Joseph Hansen , Yip Harburg , Michael Harrington , Tom Hayden , Bill Haywood , Harry Haywood , Lillian Hellman , Ernest Hemingway , Tom Henehan , Mary Alice Herbert , Joe Hill , Lewis Hill , Morris Hillquit , William Hinton , Abbie Hoffman , Daniel Hoan , Mary Cal Hollis , Sidney Hook , Darlington Hoopes , Irving Howe , Leo Huberman , Langston Hughes , Mother Jones , Helen Keller , John Keracher , Charles H. Kerr , James Kilgore , John Oliver Killens , Martin Luther King, Jr. , C. Clark Kissinger , Tony Kushner , Corliss Lamont , Joanne Landy , Sinclair Lewis , Jack London , Meyer London , Audre Lorde , Raymond Lotta , Frank Lovell , Jay Lovestone , Harry Magdoff , Malcolm X , Manning Marable , Vito Marcantonio , Sam Marcy , Julian Mayfield , David McReynolds , Abel Meeropol , Arthur Miller , Peter Moody , Monica Moorehead , Tom Morello , Felix Morrow , A.J. Muste , Oscar Neebe , Huey P. Newton , Frank Norris , David North , George Novack , Clifford Odets , Hugo Oehler , Kate Richards O'Hare , Sara Jane Olson , Lee Harvey Oswald , Michael Parenti , Gregory Peck , David Pierpont , Albert Parsons , Lucy Parsons , Abraham Polonsky , A. Philip Randolph , John Reed , James Robertson , Paul Robeson , Raymond Robins , Gene Roddenberry , Virginia Rodino , Milton Rosen , Mark Rothko , Annette Rubinstein , Bayard Rustin , Charles Ruthenberg , Carl Sandburg , Bernie Sanders , Margaret Sanger , Ralph Schoenman , Bobby Seale , Emil Seidel , Max Shachtman , Ben Shahn , Assata Shakur , Ahmed Shawki , Upton Sinclair , Carl Skoglund , Edgar Snow , John Steinbeck , Anna Louise Strong , Paul Sweezy , Studs Terkel , Norman Thomas , A.C. Townley , Benjamin Tucker , Bill Van Auken , Alice Walker , Sam Webb , James Weinstein , Nat Weinstein , Sylvia Weinstein , Lisa Weltman , Peter Werbe , Cornel West , Robert F. Williams , Morris Winchevsky , Ross Winn , Tim Wohlforth , Victoria Woodhull , Richard Wright , Omali Yeshitela , Frank Zeidler , John Zerzan , Howard Zinn
), Trường Chinh , Văn Tiến Dũng , Võ Chí Công , Võ Nguyên Giáp , Võ Văn Kiệt
), João Bernardo Vieira , Francis Wodié , Henri Zongo
), Vladimir Velebit , Veljko Vlahović , Azem Vllasi , Svetozar Vukmanović-Tempo , Sreten Žujović
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