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Niccolò Machiavelli
Italian diplomat and political and military theorist (1469–1527)
Bertrand Russell
British philosopher and logician (1872–1970)
John Stuart Mill
British philosopher and political economist (1806–1873)
Henry Kissinger
American politician and diplomat (1923–2023)
Milton Friedman
American economist and statistician (1912–2006)
Auguste Comte
French philosopher, mathematician and sociologist (1798–1857)
Jeremy Bentham Rollweiser
British philosopher, jurist, and social reformer (1748–1832)

William Godwin
English journalist, political philosopher and novelist

Mozi
Mozi, personal name Mo Di,
G. E. Moore
English philosopher (1873–1958)
James Mill
Scottish historian, economist, political theorist and philosopher (1773-1836)

John Harsanyi
Hungarian economist (1920-2000)

Francis Hutcheson
Scottish philosopher (1694–1746)

Sai Baba of Shirdi
Indian saint
Mahavatar Babaji
Hindu Yogi

Michel Onfray
French philosopher
Shantideva
Shantideva (Sanskrit: Śāntideva; ; ; ; ) was an 8th-century CE Indian philosopher, Buddhist monk, poet, and scholar at the mahavihara of Nalanda. He was an adherent of the Mādhyamaka philosophy of Nāgārjuna. Abhayadatta Sri also lists Shantideva as one of the eighty-four mahasiddhas and is known as Bhusuku Pa (布苏固巴).
Henry Sidgwick
English philosopher (1838–1900)

Mario Bunge
Argentine-Canadian philosopher (1919-2020)
Nick Bostrom
philosopher and writer (born 1973)
David D. Friedman
American economist, physicist, legal scholar, and libertarian theorist

Gaudapada
Gauḍapāda (Sanskrit: गौडपाद; ), also referred as Gauḍapādācārya (Sanskrit: गौडपादाचार्य; "Gauḍapāda the Teacher"), was an early medieval era Hindu philosopher and scholar of the Advaita Vedanta school of Hindu philosophy. While details of his biography are uncertain, his ideas inspired others such as Adi Shankara who called him a Paramaguru (highest teacher).

John Austin
legal philosopher; (1790-1859)
Henry Hazlitt
American journalist & writer (1894–1993)

William Paley
Christian apologist, natural theologian, utilitarian; (1743-1805)

R. M. Hare
British moral philosopher (1919–2002)
Saul Alinsky
American community organizer and writer (1909–1972)
Eliezer Yudkowsky
American AI researcher and writer (born 1979)
George Grote
English historian and political radical (1794–1871)
William Thompson
philosopher and political writer from Ireland (1775-1833)
J. J. C. Smart
Australian philosopher and academic (1920–2012)
Philip Pettit
Irish philosopher and political theorist
Robert Wright
American journalist and author (born 1957)
James Rachels
American philosopher (1941–2003)
Robert Merrihew Adams
American philosopher (1937-2024)
Pierre Étienne Louis Dumont
Genevan politician, theologian, diplomat and writer (1759-1829)
Élie Halévy
French philosopher and historian (1870-1937)
David Pearce
British transhumanist philosopher (born 1959)
Shelly Kagan
American philosopher
Hastings Rashdall
British philosopher, theologian, historian and Anglican priest (1858-1924)
Toby Ord
Australian philosopher
Richard Brandt
American philosopher (1910–1997)
Kai Nielsen
American philosopher (1926–2021)

Allan Gibbard
American philosopher and social choice theorist

Yew-Kwang Ng
Malaysian-Australian economist
Timothy Sprigge
British philosopher (1932-2007)
Holden Karnofsky
American nonprofit executive
Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek
Polish utilitarian philosopher
Torbjörn Tännsjö
Swedish philosopher
Peter Railton
American philosopher
John Harris
bioethicist and philosopher from the United Kingdom
Ionel Gherea
Romanian philosopher, essayist, and concert pianist
Joshua Greene
American psychologist