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An anarchist is a person who rejects of any form of compulsory government (cf. "state") and supports its elimination. Anarchism can be summarised as the belief that all forms of rulership are undesirable and should be abolished.

This is a list of individuals who have been identified as anarchists, by themselves, or by independent informed sources. This list only deals with real people notable for the reasons below.

Self-identified anarchists

This section of the list includes only people who have explicitly stated that they are anarchists. Persons who have merely expressed viewpoints critical of the state or those with anti-authoritarian stances are excluded. Such sentiments are insufficient to identity one as an anarchist.

Academics and educators

• Leonard Dalton Abbott (1878–1953): American socialist publicist and co-founder of the Rand School of Social Science.
• Harold Barclay (1924–): Professor emeritus in anthropology at University of Alberta, Canada.
• Paul Avrich (1931–2006): American Queens College professor and historian.
• Noam Chomsky (1928—): Libertarian socialist MIT professor of linguistics.
• John Flaus (1934—): Australian film critic and theorist and philosophical anarchist. Associate of the Sydney Push, an intellectual libertarian group.
• Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia (1859 – 1909): Spanish educator and free thinker, member of the Grand Lodge, delegate to the Second International. Founded la Escuela Moderna (The Modern School), which formed the basis of the Modern Schools of the United States. Was arrested and executed during The Tragic Week.
• Germaine Greer (1939—): Australian feminist academic and writer. A young member of the Sydney Push, she later became an anarchist communist.
• Murray Newton Rothbard (1926–1995): Academic vice president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute and the Center for Libertarian Studies, professor in economics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
• Francisco Zalacosta (?? – ??): Mexican anarchist, played a role in introducing anarchist theory to Mexico; student of Plotino Rhodakanaty; founded an anarchist/socialist oriented school for local peasants in Chalco.

Activists and propagandists

• Diego Abad de Santillán (1897–1983): Spanish author and leading figure of the Spanish anarchist movement.
• M.P.T. Acharya (1887–1951): Indian nationalist revolutionary, figure in the Hindu-German Conspiracy, founding member of the Communist Party of India.
• Guy Aldred (1886–1963): English anarchist communist founder of The Bakunin Press, associate of Ethel MacDonald, and prominent member of the Anti-Parliamentary Communist Federation.
• Ashanti Alston (1954–): American former Black Panther and current publisher of the @narchist Panther Zine.
• David Andrade (1859–1928): Australian co-founder of the Melbourne Anarchist Club.
• Salvador Puig Antich (1948–1974): Catalan anarchist executed by Spanish authorities under the dictatorship of Francisco Franco and subject of the film Salvador (Puig Antich).
• Alexander Atabekian (1868–?): Armenian activist, translator, journal editor and corroborator of Kropotkin.
• Kate Austin (1864–1902): American journalist, feminist, social advocate, and associate of Emma Goldman.
• Sherman Austin (1984—): American political prisoner and musician, and former webmaster of RaisetheFist.com.
• Kuwasi Balagoon (1946–1986): Black Panther, member of the Black Liberation Army and New African anarchist.
• Giovanni Baldelli (1914–986): Anarchist theorist best known for his 1971 work Social Anarchism.
• Adin Ballou (1803–1890): Prominent Christian anarchist and founder of the Hopedale Community.
• Fanya Baron (1896–1936): Russian activist, rumored to have assassinated the head of the Okhrana (tsarist secret police).
• Mark Barnsley (1961–): British activist, cause célèbre following "The Pomona pub stabbings".
• Rafael Barrett (??-??): Spanish correspondent and journalist.
• Henry Bauer: German-born American activist who became radicalized by the Haymarket affair and was subsequently imprisoned as a conspirator in the attempted assassination of Henry Clay Frick.
• Anselme Bellegarrigue (182? — ??): French individual anarchist pamphleteer, journal editor and author of the first anarchist Manifesto.
• Alexander Berkman (1870—1936): American immigrant writer of Russian/Jewish decent. Publisher of The Blast. Companion of Emma Goldman. Attempted to assassinate Henry Clay Frick.
• Marie-Louise Berneri (1918 – 1949), anarchist communist and member of the Freedom Press collective, principal theoretical influence on its War Commentary and Freedom publications.
• Pasquale Binazzi (1873–1944): Italian anarcho-communist, secretary of the chambre du travail, and organizer of the syndicat de l'arsenal in La Spezia; author of various anarchist booklets; co-published Il Libertario (1903–1922), a prominent weekly newspaper with wife, Petroni Carlotta Zelmira Binazzi.
• Abe Bluestein (1909–1997): American editor and union activist
• Alfredo M. Bonanno (1937–): Italian propagandist and activist. A major proponent of insurrectionary anarchism.
• Ian Bone (1947–): English activist, propagandist, and publisher. Co-founder of Class War and The Bristolian. Has made various appearances on BBC television talkshows.
• Henry Bool (185?-1922): American writer and publisher of individualist anarchist essays. Publisher and editor of the Ithaca Journal, an individualist newspaper.
• Per Bylund (1975–): Swedish libertarian writer and thinker. Founding editor of Anarchism.net, designer of Libertatis Æquilibritas, and core member of The Freedom Front (Frihetsfronten).
• Luisa Capetillo (1879 – 1922): Puerto Rican labor organizer; christian anarchist; author of the first feminist thesis written in Puerto Rico.
• Stuart Christie (1946–): Scottish writer, publisher, and translator. Conspired to assassinate Francisco Franco. Re-formed the Anarchist Black Cross and Black Flag.
• Lev Chernyi (?–1921), Russian activist and poet, resister of Bolshevik rule.
• Voltairine de Cleyre (1866–1912): American activist and one of the earliest anarchists without adjectives.
• Dorothy Day (1897–1980): American journalist, Catholic social activist. Co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement.
• Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin (1947–): African American writer, activist, and former member of the Black Panther Party.
• Sébastien Faure (1858–1942): French anarchist, pedagogue and namesake of the Sebastien Faure Century.
• Emma Goldman (1869 – 1940): Lithuanian-born anarchist communist radical, known for her writings and speeches. Publisher of Mother Earth. Leading proponent of Anarcha-feminism.
• Philip Grosser (1890–1933): anti-militarist and author of Uncle Sam's Devil's Island.
• Abbie Hoffman (1936 – 1989): Jewish-American social and political activist in the United States who co-founded the Youth International Party ("Yippies"). Later he became a fugitive from the law, who lived under an alias following a conviction for dealing cocaine.
• Valerio Isca (1900–1996): Italian-American anarchist without adjectives who co-founded the Libertarian Book Club, wrote the preface for the 1960 Italian edition of Nationalism and Culture, and donated photographs to Pacific Street Films for use in Anarchism in America.
• Agnes Inglis (1872–1952): American librarian and archivist who was the primary architect of the Labadie Collection, one of the world’s most complete collections of materials documenting the history of anarchism.
• Noe Ito (1895–1923): Japanese feminist, essayist, translated essays by Emma Goldman into Japanese, editor of Bluestocking, partner of Osugi Sakae. Murdered by the military in what became known as the Amakasu Incident.
• Marius Jacob (1879–1954): French serial burglar, one of the models for Maurice Leblanc's character Arsene Lupin.
• Maya Keyes (1985 – ): American social and political activist and daughter of Alan Keyes, 2008 Republican presidential candidate.
• Shūsui Kōtoku (1871–1911): Japanese activist and journalist who played a leading role in introducing anarchism to Japan in the early 20th century, particularly by translating the works of contemporary anarchists such as Peter Kropotkin into Japanese.
• Gustav Landauer (1870–1919): anarchist theorist and pacifist.
• Wolfi Landstreicher (?? – ): The current pen name of an American insurrectionary anarchist propagandist, noted for publishing various essays and Venomous Butterfly. Also known by the former pen name, "Feral Faun".
• Jeff Luers (?? – ): Environmental activist, currently serving a ten year prison sentence for arson.
• Dyer D. Lum (1839–1893): American anarchist, labor activist and poet.
• Dwight Macdonald (1906-1982): American writer, editor, social critic, philosopher, and political radical.
• Ethel MacDonald (1909—1960): Scottish anarchist, propagandist on Barcelona Loyalist radio, associate of Guy Aldred.
• Michael Matteson (??-??): Australian anti-war activist and draft-dodger.
• Chuck Munson (1965—): American activist and librarian. Editor of Infoshop.org.
• Simon Oosterman (1980 – ): New Zealand political activist and trade unionist. Organized various labour strikes, including the first Starbucks strike.
• Sakae Osugi (1885–1923): Japanese propagandist, publisher, essayist, translator, created Japan's first Esperanto school. He, Noe Ito, and his nephew were murdered in what became known as the Amakasu Incident.
• Joan Peiró (1887–1942): Catalan Anarcho-syndicalist writer, editor of the anarchist newspaper Solidaridad Obrera, two-time Secretary General of the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (National Confederation of Labor, CNT) and Minister of Industry of the Spanish government during the Spanish Civil War.
• Rose Pesotta (1896–1965): Ukrainian-born feminist labor organizer and vice president within the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union.
• Rudolf Rocker (1873–1958): German Anarcho-syndicalist writer, historian, and activist. Influential in the Jewish anarchist movement (despite being non-Jewish.)
• Alexander Schapiro (1882–1946): Russian-born activist who edited Le Voix du Travail and New Trends.
• Kate Sharpley (1895–1978): English anarchist, active in the early shop stewards movement. The Kate Sharpley Library is named in her honor.
• Katie Sierra (1986—): American anarchist-pacifist activist; gained international media attention in Katie Sierra suspension controversy in 2002.
• Jaggi Singh (1971— ): Canadian anti-globalization and social justice activist.
• Lysander Spooner (1808–1887): American individualist anarchist, political agitator and entrepreneur.
• Mollie Steimer (1897–1980): American trade unionist, anti-war activist and free-speech campaigner.
• Benjamin Tucker (1854 – 1939): American editor and publisher of the individualist anarchist periodical Liberty. Leading proponent of Individualist anarchism during the 19th century.
• John Turner (1865–1934): English anarchist, first person ordered deported for violation of the US Anarchist Exclusion Act
• Volin (1882–1945): Russian member of the Black Army and historian of Anarchist Ukraine.
• Charlotte Wilson (1854–1944): Author, editor, and publisher. Co-founded Freedom newspaper in 1886 with Peter Kropotkin, and edited, published, and largely financed it during its first decade.
• Ross Winn (1871—1912): American activist, propagandist, and publisher of numerous anarchist periodicals.
• Cesare Zaccaria (1897–1961.):Italian anarchist, friend of Camillo Berneri, editor of Volontà ("Will", "Will", "Desire") (1946-1957). Married widow of Camillo Berneri, Giovanna.
• Petroni Carlotta Zelmira Binazzi (??–1930): Italian anarcho-communist, co-published Il Libertario (1903–1922), a weekly newspaper, with husband Pasquale Binazzi.

Authors

• Edward Abbey (1927–1989): American green anarchist author and environmentalist.
• John Arthur Andrews (1865–1903): Australian journalist and anarchist activist.
• Stephen Pearl Andrews (1812–1886): American individualist anarchist author.
• Ba Jin (1904–2005): considered to be one of the most important and widely-read Chinese writers of the twentieth century.
• James Robert Baker (1946–1997): American author of satirical, gay-themed transgressional fiction.
• William Bailie (1966–1957): individualist anarchist and biographer of Josiah Warren.
• Walter Block (1941—): Proclaimed "Mr. Libertarian" by Lew Rockwell. Author of Defending the Undefendable.
• Jas H. Duke (1939–1992): Australian Dadaist and performance poet.
• Carl Einstein (1885–1940): German art critic.
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919–): American poet, fiction author, translator, film narrator, painter, and the co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers.
• David D. Friedman (1945–): American libertarian writer and economist who became a leading figure in the anarcho-capitalist community with the publication of his book The Machinery of Freedom.
• Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997): American Beat poet and countercultural figure best known for his 1956 poem "Howl".
• Paul Goodman (1911–1972): American sociologist, poet, writer, and public intellectual.
• Hans Jæger (1854-1910), Norwegian bohemian intellectual, philosopher and political activist.
• Tuli Kupferberg (1923– ): American counterculture poet, author, cartoonist, pacifist anarchist, publisher and co-founder of the band The Fugs.
• Bernard Lazare (1865–1903): French literary critic, political journalist, anarchist and polemist.
• Albert Meltzer (1920–1996): British activist and writer.
• Ida Mett (1901–1973): Russian-born activist and author.
• Alan Moore (1953– ): English graphic novelist known for writing V for Vendetta, the story of an anarchist terrorist living in a fascist England.
• Erich Mühsam (1878–1934): German-Jewish writer, poet, dramatist and cabaret performer.
• П O (1951—): Greek-born Australian poet.
• Angelo Quattrocchi (?? – ): Journalist and author, co-authored The Beginning of the End: France, May 1968 with Tom Nairn.
• Morley Roberts (1857 – 1942): English novelist and short story writer, best known for The Private Life of Henry Maitland.
• Kenneth Rexroth (1905–1982): American poet, translator and critical essayist. He was among the first poets in the United States to explore traditional Japanese poetic forms such as haiku. He is regarded as a chief figure in the San Francisco Renaissance.
• Simone Weil (1909–1943): French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist who fought with the Sebastien Faure Century in the Spanish Civil War.
• Oscar Wilde (1854–1900): Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and short story writer known for his barbed wit; one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London and one of the greatest celebrities of his day.
• Fred Woodworth: American author and publisher of The Match!.
• Michel Zevaco (1860 – 1918): French journalist, novelist, publisher, film director, anti-clerical activist.
• Howard Zinn (1922—): American historian and political scientist influenced by anarchism and Marxism.

Combatants

• Pietro Acciarito (1871–1943): Italian anarchist activist known for attempting to assassinate the King of Italy Umberto I.
• Michele Angiolillo (1871–1897): Italian anarchist and assassin of Antonio Cánovas del Castillo, Spanish Prime Minister.
• Francisco Ascaso (1901–1936): Spanish anarcho-syndicalist militant. Took part in numerous bank robberies and reprisal attacks against anti-anarchists. Member and co-founder of militant cells, Los Justicieros ("The Avengers"), Los Solidarios ("Solidarity"), and Nosotros ("We" / "Us"). The Francisco Ascaso Column, an anarchist militia, was named in his honor.
• Buenaventura Durruti (1896–1936): Spanish CNT/FAI activist, military strategist, and army general.
• Nestor Makhno (1888–1934): Ukrainian anarcho-communist, military strategist, and commander of the Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine.
• Maria Nikiforova (1885–1919): Ukrainian guerilla & terrorist, founded the Black Guards, and commanded a Black Guard regiment, and influenced Nestor Makhno.
• Juan García Oliver (1901–1980): Spanish anarcho-syndicalist revlutionary and leader of the Federación Anarquista Ibérica during the Spanish Civil War.
• Sholom Schwartzbard (1886–1936): Bessarabian-born poet, known for the assassination of the Ukrainian politician Symon Petliura.
• Anteo Zamboni (1911 – 1926): Italian anarchist who failed an attempt to assassinate Benito Mussolini in the city of Bologna, and was killed immediately. Two streets in Bologna bear his name.
• Anatoli Zhelezniakov (1895–1919): Russian sailor, activist, and militant anarchist communist. Defended an anarchist commune against Provisional Government aggression; stormed the Winter Palace during the October Revolution; officially disbanded the Russian Constituent Assembly; delegate to the Congress of Soviets; Soviet armoured train commander; killed by artillery fire commanded by Anton Ivanovich Denikin. Was posthumously declared a "bolshevik" hero of the Soviet Union. A statue of him remains in Kronstadt.

Comedians

• Tony Allen: English stand-up comedian, formerly of the performance group Alternative Cabaret and author of A Summer in the Park.
• Mark Thomas (1963—): English comedian, presenter, political activist and reporter from South London known for his television series The Mark Thomas Comedy Product.
• Penn Jillette (1955–): American comedian and illusionist and self-described anarcho-capitalist.
• Julie McCrossin (1954–): Australian broadcaster, journalist and comedian known for her recurring role on Good News Week.

Actors and entertainers

• Julian Beck (1925–1985): American actor and founder of The Living Theatre.
• Judith Malina (1926—): American theater and film actor, writer, and theatre director; one of the founders and leaders of The Living Theatre.
• Joseph Toscano (1952—): Australian medical practitioner, radio host and activist.

Philosophers

• Edward Abramowski (1868–1918): Polish philosopher.
• Emile Armand (1872–1962): French individualist anarchist.
• Mikhail Bakunin (1814–1876): Well-known Russian revolutionary, and often considered one of the "fathers of modern anarchism".
• Giovanni Baldelli (1914–1986): Italian philosopher and political theorist known for his 1971 work Social Anarchism.
• Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869–1948): Major political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian independence movement. Pioneer of satyagraha, a philosophy of active non-violent resistance based on swaraj.
• Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1908–1865): French mutualist economist and first individual to call himself an anarchist.
• Peter Lamborn Wilson (1945–): Writer, essaiest, poet, philsopher; sometimes writes under the name Hakim Bey. Proposed the concept of the Temporary Autonomous Zone (T.A.Z.).
• Robert Paul Wolff (1933–): American philosopher, academic, and author.
• John Zerzan (1943 – ): American anarcho-primitivist philosopher, author, and talk radio host.

Politicians and lawyers

• Bob Black (1951—): American lawyer and influential post-left anarchist theorist.
• Francesco Saverio Merlino (1856—1930): Italian lawyer, anarchist activist and theorist of libertarian socialism.

Musicians

Main article: List of anarchist musicians

Scientists and engineers

• Alex Comfort (1920 – 2000): English medical professional, gerontologist, and sexologist. Academic lecturer in psychology. Novelist and poet. Anti-nuke activist, conscientious objector, and pacifist.
• Otto Gross (1877 – 1920): Austrian psychologist. Promoted early forms of anti-psychiatry and sexual liberation, and founded an anarchist form of depth psychology.
• Fred Hollows (1929–1993): Australian opthalmologist known for his work restoring sight to people blinded by preventable or easily curable conditions, and founder of The Fred Hollows Foundation. Hollows was a member of the Comunist Party in the 1960s but later adopted anarcho-syndicalism.
• Paul Zilsel (1923–2006): Theoretical physicist; militant activist; former communist; co-founder of Left Bank Books in Seattle, Washington. Son of Edgar Zilsel.

Sportspeople

• Jeff Monson (1971—): American mixed martial arts fighter and submission wrestler.

Visual artist

• Ramón Acín (1887–1936): Spanish anarcho-syndicalist avant-garde artist and writer.
• Charles Angrand (1856–1926): French Neo-Impressionist pointillist painter.
• Enrico Baj (1924–2003): Italian printer, sculptor, writer, and college artist. Known to create works inspired by his philosophy, including Monument to Bakunin and Funeral of the Anarchist Pinelli, the latter being inspired by Carlo Carrà's The Funeral of the Anarchist Galli.
• Senya Fleshin (1894–1981): Ukrainian-born photographer
• Clifford Harper (1949–): English cartoonist and illustrator, creator of Anarchy: A Graphic Guide and Class War Comix.
• Augustus John (1878–1961), Welsh Post-Impressionist painter, draughtsman and etcher.
• Frans Masereel (1889–1972): Flemish painter and one of the greatest woodcut artists of the twentieth-century.
• Jonathan Pollak (1982–): Israeli graphic designer.

Former self-identified anarchists

This section of the list includes people who have explicitly stated that they were anarchists for a time, but later abandoned it in favor of a different political and/or philosophical position.

• Kanson Arahata (1887–1981): Japanese socialist activist briefly involved with anarcho-syndicalism.
• Peter Arshinov (1887–1937): Russian anarchist who took part in anti-tsarist robbery and assassination. Renounced anarchism in favor of Bolshevism. It is speculated this was a ruse to allow him to reenter Russia and promote an underground anarchist movement.
• Alexandru Bogdan-Piteşti (1870 – 1922): Romanian Symbolist poet, essayist, art & literary critic, and journalist. Became an anarchist after briefly studying Law and Letters at the University of Paris. He disassociated from anarchism and associated with the Conservative Party in 1912.
• Murray Bookchin (1921–2006): American libertarian socialist author and radical anti-capitalist. Renounced ties to anarchism in 2001 in favor of a self-titled position, "communalism".
• Paul Brousse (1844 – 1912): French socialist, activist, and propagandist. Member of the Jura federation, a section of the International Workingmen's Association, and edited Bulletin de la Fédération Jurassienne with Peter Kropotkin. Became a reformist/socialist, and a leader of Possibilist thought in the early 1880s.
• Chester Brown (1960 – ): Canadian independent cartoonist. Identified as an anarchist until research into political philosophy for a book, (Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography), shifted his philosophy towards libertarianism.
• Scarlat Callimachi (1921–2006): Romanian journalist, essayist, futurist poet, trade unionist, and communist activist. Became an anarchist while in Paris during World War I. Adopted Bolshevism after attending a rally in which Vladimir Lenin spoke.
• Carlo Carrà (1881–1961): Italian Futurist painter, famous for his work The Funeral of the Anarchist Galli. Identified and associated with anarchists as a young man, but later held more reactionary political views, becoming ultra-nationalist and irredentist before and during World War I, as well as fascist after 1918.
• Andrea Costa (1851–1910): After publishing several anarchist periodicals, renounced anarchism and served as the first socialist in Italy's Chamber of Deputies.
• Alan Grant (1949–): Scottish comic book writer. Became an anarchist during mid 80s and later changed his philosophy in favor of Neo-Tech in mid 90s.
• Tom Morello (1964—): American guitarist; plays alternative rock in Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave, and folk as The Nightwatchman. Morello described himself as having been "the only anarchist in a conservative high school" but has since identified as a nonsectarian socialist.
• Steven Pinker (1954—): Candian-American experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist, and popular science author. Pinker was an anarchist in his youth, until 1969.
• Victor Serge (1890-1947): Russian revolutionary and Francophone writer who was imprisoned as a collaborator of the Bonnot Gang before abandoning anarchism for Bolshevism.
• Robert Anton Wilson (1932–2007): American author and philosopher. Disavowed anarchism in favor of libertarianism.
• Victor S. Yarros (1865–1956): American author. Renounced ties to anarchism in various essays. Was denounced by Benjamin Tucker.

People who have been considered anarchists

This section of the list includes people who have not explicitly stated that they are anarchists, but have been considered anarchists by other sources. These people may not have identified as anarchists because they predated the term's popular usage, it was considered an epithet, they did not regard themselves as anarchists, they dislike specific ideological labels, or for a variety of other reasons. It is also possible that some of the listed individuals might have been anarchists, but a quote in which they self-identified as such was never recorded, and so only the commentary of third parties serves to identify them. The categorisation of many of these people as anarchists may be controversial.

Activists and educators

• Janet Biehl (1953–): social ecologist and long-time companion of Murray Bookchin.
• Steven T. Byington (1859–1967): American intellectual whose translation of The Ego and Its Own was responsible for the popularization of the philosophy of Max Stirner in early 20th century America.
• Har Dayal (1884–1939): Indian revolutionary, founder of the Ghadar Party in India and the Bakunin Institute of California in the US.
• Derrick Jensen (1960—): author and environmental activist known as a critic of civilisation and techology.
• Ivan Illich (1926–2002): Austrian philosopher and social critic noted for his critiques of the institutions of 20th century Western culture, and his advocacy of deschooling.

Authors

• Arthur Desmond (1869–1929): New Zealander individualist author.
• Franz Kafka (1883–1924): Jewish-Bohemian modernist fiction author.
• Ursula K. Le Guin (1929—): American author of science fiction and fantasy noted for her feminist fictional future civilizations.
• Terry Pratchett (1948—): English Fantasy author known for his satirical Discworld series.
• Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910): Russian Christian anarchist writer and pacifist of the Tolstoy family, widely regarded to be one the greatest novelists of all time. Although Tolstoy rejected the label anarchist as he believed anarchism to be revolutionary and thus violent, modern consensus sees him as an important figure of the Christian anarchist movement.

Businesspeople

• Henry Ford (1863-1947) - American founder of the Ford Motor Company and inventor of the assembly line. Sued the Chicago Times for calling him an anarchist.

Comedians

• Bill Hicks (1961–1994): American satirist and social critic, who described his work as "Chomsky with dick jokes."

Musicians

• Bob Dylan (1941–): American singer-songwriter, author, musician, poet, and disc jockey. Was pejoratively labeled an anarchist by United Kingdom newspapers in 1967. The moment he learns of this is recorded in the final scene of the 1967 documentary, Dont Look Back. His response was "give the anarchist a cigarette."
• Serge Utgé-Royo: French singer

Philosophers

• William Godwin (1756-1836): English journalist, political philosopher and novelist. He is considered one of the first exponents of utilitarianism, and one of the first modern proponents of philosophical anarchism.
• Bao Jingyan (405-466), Daoist philosopher, author of Neither Lord nor Subject.
• Laozi: philosopher of ancient China and a central figure in Taoism.
• Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862): American author, poet, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, philosopher, and leading transcendentalist.
• Zeno of Citium (333 BC – 264 BC): Founder of Stoicism, merchant, and student of Crates of Thebes.
• Zhuangzi (ca 370 BC – ca 301 BC): A leading philosopher of Taoism. Allegedly the author of the taoist book, Zhuangzi, named after him.

Politicians and lawyers

• Eugene V. Debs (1855–1926): American labor and political leader, one of the founders of the International Labor Union and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), as well as five-time Socialist Party of America candidate for President of the United States.

Religious figures

• Dave Andrews (1951—): Australian Christian author, theologian and social activist. His books include Christi-Anarchy and Not Religion, But Love.
• Jesus (c 4BC/BCE–30AD/CE): 1st century Jewish teacher who is the central figure of Christianity, and is also an important figure in several other religions.

Revolutionaries

• Sergey Nechayev (1847–1882): Russian nihilist and associate of Mikhail Bakunin, notorious for his pursuit of revolution by any means necessary.

Related lists

• List of anarchist poets
• List of fictional anarchists
• List of Jewish anarchists
• List of Russian anarchists
• List of socialists

External links

• "Prominent Anarchists and Left-Libertarians", from flag.blackened.net
• "Who are the major anarchist thinkers?", from An Anarchist FAQ
• The Antiauthoritarian Encyclopedia from the Daily Bleed Calendar
• Libertarian Communist Library - contains works of many prominent anarchists

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