American libertarians

president of the United States from 1801 to 1809 (1743–1826)

American Founding Father, philosopher, and political activist (1737–1809)

Clinton Eastwood Jr. is an American actor, filmmaker and musician. After achieving success in the Western TV series Rawhide, Eastwood rose to international fame with his role as the "Man with No Name" in Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy of spaghetti Westerns during the mid-1960s and as antihero cop Harry Callahan in the five Dirty Harry films throughout the 1970s and 1980s. These roles, among others, have made Eastwood an enduring cultural icon of masculinity. Elected in 1986, Eastwood served for two years as the mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California.

American economist and statistician (1912–2006)

American musician (1940–1993)

David Keith Lynch was an American filmmaker, producer, actor, painter, and musician. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema, with his films often characterized by a distinctive surrealist sensibility that gave rise to the adjective "Lynchian". In a career spanning more than five decades, he received numerous accolades, including an Academy Honorary Award, the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Film Festival, a Palme d'Or and Best Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival, two César Awards, and a (posthumous) Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement, in addition to nominations for four Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, and nine Primetime Emmy Awards.

American author and aeronautical engineer (1907–1988)

Keith Rupert Murdoch is a former business magnate, investor, and media mogul. Through his company News Corp, he is the owner of hundreds of local, national, and international publishing outlets around the world, including in the United Kingdom, in Australia, in the United States, book publisher HarperCollins, and the television broadcasting channels Sky News Australia and Fox News. He was also the owner of Sky, 21st Century Fox, and the now-defunct News of the World. With a net worth of US$21.7 billion as of 2 March 2022, Murdoch is the 31st-richest person in the United States and the 71st richest in the world according to Forbes magazine. Due to his extensive wealth and influence over media and politics, Murdoch has been described as an oligarch.

American writer (1920–1986)

American politician (born 1935)

Austrian-American economist (1881–1973)

American novelist, short story writer, essayist, painter, and spoken word performer (1914–1997)

Kurt Vogel Russell is an American actor. He began his career as a child actor before transitioning to leading roles as an adult in various genres such as action adventures, science-fiction, westerns, romance films, comedic films, and family dramas. He is known for collaborating with filmmakers such as John Carpenter and Quentin Tarantino, and has received a Critics' Choice Super Award as well as various award nominations, including for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award.

American journalist and author (1937–2005)

Timothy Alan Dick, known professionally as Tim Allen, is an American actor and comedian. He is known for playing Tim "The Toolman" Taylor on the ABC sitcom Home Improvement (1991–1999) for which he won a Golden Globe Award and Mike Baxter on the ABC/Fox sitcom Last Man Standing (2011–2021). He voices Buzz Lightyear for the Toy Story franchise (1995–present) for which he won an Annie Award and played Scott Calvin and Santa Claus in The Santa Clause franchise (1994–2023).

American biochemist (1944–2019)

American journalist and writer (1880–1956)

American economist, recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics (1919–2013)

American economist (1930-2014)

American actress and television producer (1936-2017)

American economist and financial advisor (born 1926)

African American folklorist, novelist, short story writer, and Civic Rights advocate (1891–1960)

American novelist (1896–1970)

American actress (1939–2010)

American actor (born 1970)

American political philosopher (1938–2002)

American author (1906–1936)

American economist (1911–1991)

American children's writer, diarist, and journalist (1867-1957)

American rock musician

American actor (born 1945)

United States Senator from Kentucky since 2011

American actor, animator and filmmaker (born 1969)

American science fiction writer (1926–2001)

American programmer & open source advocate (1957-)

American politician and military officer (1909–1998)

American actor, animator and filmmaker (born 1971)

Benjamin Aaron Shapiro is an American conservative political commentator, media host, attorney, and movie director. He writes columns for Creators Syndicate, Newsweek, and Ami Magazine, and is editor emeritus for The Daily Wire, which he co-founded in 2015. Shapiro is the host of The Ben Shapiro Show, a daily political podcast and live radio show. He was editor-at-large of Breitbart News from 2012 until his resignation in 2016. Shapiro has also authored sixteen non-fiction books.

American writer, artist, film director (born 1957)

American libertarian socialist author, orator, and philosopher (1921–2006)

American actor (born 1980)

American economist

American publisher

American broadcaster, comedian, and actor (born 1967)

American professional wrestler, actor, and politician

Peter Andreas Thiel is a German and American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and conservative political activist. A co-founder of PayPal (1998), Palantir Technologies (2003), and Founders Fund (2005), he was also the first outside investor in Facebook (2004). According to The New York Times, as of December 2025, Thiel's estimated net worth stood at US$27.5 billion, placing him among the 100 richest individuals in the world.

American comedian (born 1958)

American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States since 1991

American feminist academic and critic (born 1947)

Hungarian psychiatrist (1920-2012)

British-American programmer and businessman (1945–2021)

Jesse Ventura is an American politician, Vietnam veteran, actor, and retired professional wrestler. After achieving fame in the World Wrestling Federation, he served as the 38th governor of Minnesota from 1999 to 2003. He was elected governor with the Reform Party and is the party's only candidate to win a major government office.

American musician (1947–2024)

Austrian school economist and libertarian anarcho-capitalist philosopher

Scott Adams was an American cartoonist, author, and conservative commentator. He was best known for the creator of the Dilbert comic strip and nonfiction works of business, self-improvement, commentary, and satire.

American journalist and abolitionist (1805–1879)

American singer

American radio and television personality (born 1954)

American anarchist writer and feminist