# 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)
* Daniel Ortega, President of Nicaragua (1985–1990; 2007–present)
* 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

## 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