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Héloïse d’Argenteuil
Héloïse (c. 1101 – 16 May 1164), variously Héloïse d'Argenteuil or Héloïse du Paraclet, was a French nun, philosopher, writer, scholar, and abbess.
Mortimer J. Adler
American philosopher, author and educator (1902–2001)
Alasdair MacIntyre
Scottish-American philosopher (1929–2025)
Gustavo Gutiérrez
Peruvian theologian (1928–2024)
G. E. M. Anscombe
British analytic philosopher
Louis de Bonald
French philosopher (1754-1840)
Étienne Gilson
French historian and philosopher (1884-1978)
Michael Polanyi
Hungarian-British polymath (1891–1976)
Francisco de Vitoria
Spanish philosopher
Pierre Duhem
French physicist and historian of science (1861-1916)
Charles Taylor
Canadian philosopher (born 1931)
Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov
Russian Symbolist poet, playwright, theatre theorist, translator (1866–1949)
Pietro Pomponazzi
Italian philosopher (1462 – 1525)
Emmanuel Mounier
French philosopher (1905–1950)
E. F. Schumacher
British economist (1911–1977)
Hans Urs von Balthasar
Swiss Catholic theologian (1905–1988)
Adelard of Bath
12th-century English natural philosopher
Antoine Arnauld
French theologian, philosopher, mathematician (1612-1694)
Julius Caesar Scaliger
Italian scholar, physician and philosopher (1484-1558)
Leonardo Boff
Brazilian Catholic liberation theologian (born 1938)
Michael Dummett
British philosopher (1925–2011)
Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Colombian writer and philosopher (1913–1994)
Thomas Cajetan
Catholic cardinal
Francesco Patrizi
Venetian philosopher and scientist (1529-1597)
Pierre Charron
French theologian and philosopher
Byung-Chul Han
German philosopher of South Korean origin
Vincenzo Gioberti
Italian philosopher and politician (1801-1852)
Justus Lipsius
Flemish philologist, philosopher and legal scholar (1547-1606)
Paul Virilio
French philosopher (1932–2018)
Michel de Certeau
French Jesuit and scholar (1925–1986)
Péter Pázmány
Hungarian Catholic cardinal, theologian and statesman (1570–1637)
Thomas Bradwardine
English cleric, mathematician and courtier (c.1300–1349)
Albertus de Saxonia
German theologian and philosopher (c.1320-1390)
Alexander of Hales
English Franciscan theologian and philosopher (c.1185-1245)
Jean-Luc Marion
French philosopher (1946-)
Jaime Balmes
Spanish philosopher (1810–1848)
Maurice Blondel
French philosopher (1861-1949)
Alexius Meinong
Austrian philosopher (1853–1920)
Joseph Görres
German writer and journalist (1776-1848)
Hugo Kołłątaj
historian and philosopher (1750-1812)
Rémi Brague
French philosopher
Frederick Copleston
English Jesuit priest and philosopher (1907–1994)
Dietrich von Hildebrand
German Catholic philosopher and theologian (1889–1977)
Michał Heller
Polish philosopher, theologian, theoretical physicist and Roman Catholic priest
Giles of Rome
Roman Catholic archbishop
Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange
French theologian (1877-1964)
Marian Jaworski
Polish Catholic cardinal (1926–2020)
José Vasconcelos
Mexican writer, philosopher, and politician (1881–1959)
Alfred Delp
German Jesuit priest, and philosopher of the German Resistance (1907-1945)
Francesc Eiximenis
Catalan philosopher, titular Patriarch of Jerusalem, Palestine, and Bishop of Elne
Luis de Molina
Spanish priest and writer
Henry of Ghent
scholastic philosopher
Édouard Le Roy
French mathematician and philosopher (1870-1954)
Ivan Merz
Bosnian-Croatian academic, Catholic layperson, writer, schoolteacher, polyglot and blessed of the Catholic Church (1896–1928)
Robert Spaemann
German philosopher (1927–2018)
Lorenzo Scupoli
Italian philosopher
Josef Pieper
German philosopher (1904-1997)
Walter J. Ong
American philosopher and historian (1912–2003)
Jean Guitton
French philosopher and theologian (1901-1999)
Adam Müller
German publicist, literary critic, political economist, and theorist of the state