List of democratic socialists

This is a partial list of notable democratic socialists.

Politicians

Heads of government

• Salvador Allende, President of Chile (1970–1973)
• Jacobo Árbenz, President of Guatemala (1951–1954)
• Clement Attlee, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1945–1951)
• Michelle Bachelet, President of Chile (2006–2010; 2014–2018)
• David Ben-Gurion, Prime Minister of Israel (1948–1954; 1955–1963)
• Léon Blum, Prime Minister of France (1936–1937; 1938)
• Willy Brandt, Chancellor of Germany (1969–1974)
• Álvaro Colom, President of Guatemala (2008–2012)
• Alexander Dubček, leader of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (1968–1969)
• Peter Fraser, Prime Minister of New Zealand (1940–1949)
• Mauricio Funes, President of El Salvador (2009–2014)
• Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet leader (1985–1991)
• António Guterres, Prime-Minister of Portugal (1995 - 2002) and Secretary General of the United Nations (2016–present)
• Cheddi Jagan, President of Guyana (1992–1997)
• Norman Kirk, Prime Minister of New Zealand (1972–1974)
• Fernando Lugo, President of Paraguay (2008–2012)
• Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1924; 1929–1935)
• Nelson Mandela, President of South Africa (1994–1999)
• Michael Manley, Prime Minister of Jamaica (1972–1980)
• François Mitterrand, President of France (1981–1995)
• Evo Morales, President of Bolivia (2006–2019)
• José Mujica, President of Uruguay (2010–2015)
• Walter Nash, Prime Minister of New Zealand (1957–1960)
• Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India (1947–1964)
• Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden (1969–1976; 1982–1986)
• José Ramos-Horta, President of East Timor (2007–2012)
• Giuseppe Saragat, President of Italy (1964–1971)
• Michael Joseph Savage, Prime Minister of New Zealand (1935–1940)
• Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, President of Brazil (2003–2011, 2023–present)
• Sutan Sjahrir, Prime Minister of Indonesia (1945–1947)
• 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)
• Alexis Tsipras, Prime Minister of Greece (2015–2019)
• Tabaré Vázquez, President of Uruguay (2005–2010; 2015–2020)
• Chris Watson, Prime Minister of Australia (1904)
• Harold Wilson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1964–1970; 1974–1976)
• Lionel Jospin, Prime Minister of France (1997–2002)

Disputed

• Gordon Brown, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (2007–2010) – disputed
• Hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela (1999–2013) – disputed
• James Callaghan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1976–1979) – disputed
• Rafael Correa, President of Ecuador (2007–2017) – disputed

Other politicians

• Niki Ashton, member of Parliament of Canada, two time Leadership candidate
• Obafemi Awolowo, Premier of the Western State of Nigeria (1954–1960)
• Tony Benn, member of the Labour Party and founder of the Socialist Campaign Group
• Eduard Bernstein, member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany
• Aneurin Bevan, father of the National Health Service
• Louis Blanc, member of the French Provisional Government of 1848
• Lee J. Carter, member of the Virginia House of Delegates
• Alexandre Boulerice, deputy leader of the NDP, member of parliament of Canada
• Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition
• Anthony Crosland, member of the Labour Party
• Eugene V. Debs, five-time Socialist Party of America presidential candidate
• Tommy Douglas, father of Medicare
• Evan Durbin, member of the Labour Party
• Michael Foot, leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition
• Peter Hain, member of the Labour Party
• Joel Harden, member of the Ontario Provincial Parliament.
• Michael Harrington, founder of the Democratic Socialists of America
• Denis Healey, member of the Labour Party
• Karl Kautsky, member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany
• Neil Kinnock, leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition
• Kevin Kühnert, member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany
• Ferdinand Lassalle, founder of the General German Workers' Association
• Ken Livingstone, Mayor of London (2000–2008)
• Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, member of the French Parliament in 1848
• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, New York Representative
• Bernie Sanders, Senator from Vermont
• Kshama Sawant, Seattle City Council member
• Norman Thomas, six-time Socialist Party of America presidential candidate
• Rashida Tlaib, Michigan Representative
• Jean-Luc Mélenchon, French presidential candidate
• Zohran Mamdani, Mayor of New York City

Intellectuals and activists

• Edward Bellamy, American author, journalist and political activist
• Fred Hampton, American activist and chairman of the Black Panther Party
• Étienne Cabet, French philosopher and utopian socialist
• Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, Indian polymath
• Jim Cornette, American professional wrestling personality and manager
• Milovan Đilas, Yugoslav communist politician and dissident
• Barbara Ehrenreich, American author and political activist
• Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist
• Friedrich Engels, German philosopher and sociologist
• Erich Fromm, Jewish German philosopher
• Charles Fourier, French philosopher and utopian socialist
• Henry George, American social reformer
• Charles Hall,  British physician, social critic and Ricardian socialist
• Christopher Hitchens, English-American journalist
• Owen Jones, English journalist and political commentator
• Helen Keller, American political activist
• Martin Luther King Jr., African-American civil rights leader
• Naomi Klein, Canadian author and social activist
• Leszek Kołakowski, Polish philosopher and communist dissident
• Rosa Luxemburg, Polish philosopher and economist
• Karl Marx, German philosopher, sociologist and economist
• John Stuart Mill, British philosopher and economist
• George Orwell, English novelist
• Robert Owen, Welsh social reformer and utopian socialist
• Thomas Paine, English-born American philosopher and political theorist
• Bertrand Russell, British philosopher
• Andrei Sakharov, Soviet physicist, dissident and human rights activist
• Henri de Saint-Simon, French political and economic utopian socialist theorist
• Roger Waters, English musician
• Cornel West, American philosopher and political activist
• Richard D. Wolff, American economist
• Howard Zinn, American historian

See also

• List of Democratic Socialists of America members who have held office in the United States

References

Citations

Sources