Political theorist

A political theorist is someone who engages in political theory.

Notable historic political theorists

• Thomas Paine
• Plato
• Aristotle
• Niccolo Machiavelli
• Hugo Grotius
• Spinoza
• Thomas Hobbes
• John Locke
• Montesquieu
• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
• Karl Marx
• Alexis de Tocqueville
• John Stuart Mill
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Johann Gottfried von Herder

Contemporary Political Theorists:

• David Friedman
• Noam Chomsky
• John Rawls

See also: political science, political scientist, politics