List of democratic socialists
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This is a partial list of notable democratic socialists.
Politicians
Heads of government
- Salvador Allende, President of Chile (1970–1973)[1][2][3]
- Jacobo Árbenz, President of Guatemala (1951–1954)[4]
- Clement Attlee, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1945–1951)[5][6][7]
- Michelle Bachelet, President of Chile (2006–2010; 2014–2018)[citation needed]
- David Ben-Gurion, Prime Minister of Israel (1948–1954; 1955–1963)[8][9]
- Léon Blum, Prime Minister of France (1936–1937; 1938)[10]
- Willy Brandt, Chancellor of Germany (1969–1974)[11][12]
- Álvaro Colom, President of Guatemala (2008–2012)[11]
- Alexander Dubček, leader of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (1968–1969)[13]
- Peter Fraser, Prime Minister of New Zealand (1940–1949)[14]
- Mauricio Funes, President of El Salvador (2009–2014)[15]
- Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet leader (1985–1991)[16][17]
- António Guterres, Prime-Minister of Portugal (1995 - 2002) and Secretary General of the United Nations (2016–present)
- Cheddi Jagan, President of Guyana (1992–1997)[18]
- Norman Kirk, Prime Minister of New Zealand (1972–1974)[19]
- Fernando Lugo, President of Paraguay (2008–2012)[15]
- Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1924; 1929–1935)[20]
- Nelson Mandela, President of South Africa (1994–1999)[21][22]
- Michael Manley, Prime Minister of Jamaica (1972–1980)[23]
- François Mitterrand, President of France (1981–1995)[24][25]
- Evo Morales, President of Bolivia (2006–2019)[15]
- José Mujica, President of Uruguay (2010–2015)[15]
- Walter Nash, Prime Minister of New Zealand (1957–1960)[26]
- Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India (1947–1964)[27][28]
- Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden (1969–1976; 1982–1986)[11][13]
- José Ramos-Horta, President of East Timor (2007–2012; 2022–present)[29]
- Giuseppe Saragat, President of Italy (1964–1971)[30]
- Michael Joseph Savage, Prime Minister of New Zealand (1935–1940)[31]
- Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, President of Brazil (2003–2011, 2023–present)[11]
- Sutan Sjahrir, Prime Minister of Indonesia (1945–1947)[32]
- Mário Soares, Founder and Leader of the Socialist Party (1973–1986), Prime-Minister of Portugal (1976–1978; 1983–1986) and President of the Portuguese Republic (1986–1996)
- Kalevi Sorsa, Prime Minister of Finland (1972–1975; 1977–1979; 1982–1987)[33]
- Alexis Tsipras, Prime Minister of Greece (2015–2019)[34]
- Tabaré Vázquez, President of Uruguay (2005–2010; 2015–2020)[11]
- Chris Watson, Prime Minister of Australia (1904)[35]
- Harold Wilson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1964–1970; 1974–1976)[5][36]
- Lionel Jospin, Prime Minister of France (1997–2002)
Disputed
- Gordon Brown, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (2007–2010)[37] – disputed[38]
- Hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela (1999–2013)[39][15] – disputed[11][40][41]
- James Callaghan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1976–1979)[42][43][44][45] – disputed[46][47][48]
- Rafael Correa, President of Ecuador (2007–2017)[15] – disputed[41]
Other politicians
- Niki Ashton, member of Parliament of Canada, two time Leadership candidate
- Obafemi Awolowo, Premier of the Western State of Nigeria (1954–1960)[49]
- Tony Benn, member of the Labour Party and founder of the Socialist Campaign Group[50][51]
- Eduard Bernstein, member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany[52][53]
- Aneurin Bevan, father of the National Health Service[54][55][56][57]
- Louis Blanc, member of the French Provisional Government of 1848[58]
- Lee J. Carter, member of the Virginia House of Delegates[59]
- Alexandre Boulerice, deputy leader of the NDP, member of parliament of Canada
- Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition[60]
- Anthony Crosland, member of the Labour Party[5][61]
- Eugene V. Debs, five-time Socialist Party of America presidential candidate[62]
- Tommy Douglas, father of Medicare[63]
- Evan Durbin, member of the Labour Party[52]
- Michael Foot, leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition[64]
- Peter Hain, member of the Labour Party[65][66]
- Joel Harden, member of the Ontario Provincial Parliament.[67]
- Michael Harrington, founder of the Democratic Socialists of America[52][53]
- Denis Healey, member of the Labour Party[68][69][70]
- Karl Kautsky, member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany[71]
- Neil Kinnock, leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition[72]
- Kevin Kühnert, member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany[73]
- Ferdinand Lassalle, founder of the General German Workers' Association[58]
- Ken Livingstone, Mayor of London (2000–2008)[74]
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, member of the French Parliament in 1848[75]
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, New York Representative[76]
- Bernie Sanders, Senator from Vermont[77]
- Kshama Sawant, Seattle City Council member[78]
- Norman Thomas, six-time Socialist Party of America presidential candidate[79]
- Rashida Tlaib, Michigan Representative[80]
- Jean-Luc Mélenchon, French presidential candidate
- Zohran Mamdani, Mayor of New York City[81]
Intellectuals and activists
- Edward Bellamy, American author, journalist and political activist[11]
- Fred Hampton, American activist and chairman of the Black Panther Party
- Étienne Cabet, French philosopher and utopian socialist[11]
- Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, Indian polymath
- Jim Cornette, American professional wrestling personality and manager[82]
- Milovan Đilas, Yugoslav communist politician and dissident[83]
- Barbara Ehrenreich, American author and political activist[84]
- Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist[85][86][87][88][89]
- Friedrich Engels, German philosopher and sociologist[90][91][92]
- Erich Fromm, Jewish German philosopher[93][94][95]
- Charles Fourier, French philosopher and utopian socialist[11]
- Henry George, American social reformer[11]
- Charles Hall, British physician, social critic and Ricardian socialist[96]
- Christopher Hitchens, English-American journalist[97]
- Owen Jones, English journalist and political commentator[98]
- Helen Keller, American political activist[99]
- Martin Luther King Jr., African-American civil rights leader[100][101][102]
- Naomi Klein, Canadian author and social activist[103]
- Leszek Kołakowski, Polish philosopher and communist dissident[104][105][106]
- Rosa Luxemburg, Polish philosopher and economist[107]
- Karl Marx, German philosopher, sociologist and economist[11][92][90][91]
- John Stuart Mill, British philosopher and economist[108]
- George Orwell, English novelist[109]
- Robert Owen, Welsh social reformer and utopian socialist[11]
- Thomas Paine, English-born American philosopher and political theorist[110]
- Bertrand Russell, British philosopher[111]
- Andrei Sakharov, Soviet physicist, dissident and human rights activist[112]
- Henri de Saint-Simon, French political and economic utopian socialist theorist[11]
- Roger Waters, English musician[113]
- Cornel West, American philosopher and political activist [114]
- Richard D. Wolff, American economist[115]
- Howard Zinn, American historian[116]