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An anarchist is a person who rejects of any form of compulsory government (cf. "state") and supports its elimination. Anarchism can be summarised as the belief that all forms of rulership are undesirable and should be abolished.

This is a list of individuals who have been identified as anarchists, by themselves, or by independent informed sources. This list only deals with real people notable for the reasons below. For lists of specific types of anarchists not included here, see list of anarchist musicians and list of fictional anarchists.

People who identify as anarchists

This section of the list includes only people who have explicitly stated that they are anarchists. Persons who have merely expressed viewpoints critical of the state or those with anti-authoritarian stances are excluded. Such sentiments are insufficient to identity one as an anarchist.

Example

• Example (DoB–DoD): Details of individual.

Activists and educators

• Diego Abad de Santillán (1897–1983): Spanish author and leading figure of the Spanish anarchist movement.
• Leonard Dalton Abbott (1878–1953): American socialist publicist and co-founder of the Rand School of Social Science.
• Pietro Acciarito (1871–1943): Italian anarchist activist known for attempting to assassinate the king Umberto I.
• Guy Aldred (1886–1963): English anarchist communist founder of The Bakunin Press and prominent member of the Anti-Parliamentary Communist Federation.
• Ashanti Alston (19??—): American former Black Panther and current publisher of the @narchist Panther Zine.
• David Andrade (1859–1928): Australian founder of the Melbourne Anarchist Club.
• Michele Angiolillo (1871–1897): Italian anarchist and assassin of Antonio Cánovas del Castillo, Spanish Prime Minister.
• Salvador Puig Antich (1948–1974): Catalan anarchist executed by Spanish authorities under the dictatorship of Francisco Franco and subject of the film Salvador (Puig Antich).
• Arahata Kanson (1887–1981): Japanese socialist activist briefly involved with anarcho-syndicalism.
• Peter Arshinov (1887–1937): Russian former Bolshevik whom became an accomplice of Nestor Makhno.
• Francisco Ascaso (1901–1936): Spanish anarcho-syndicalist activist.
• Kate Austin (1864–1902): American journalist and advocate of feminism.
• Sherman Austin (1984—): American political prisoner and musician.
• Paul Avrich (1931–2006): American Queens College professor and historian.
• Noam Chomsky (1928—): Libertarian socialist MIT professor of linguistics.
• Emma Goldman (1869–1940): Lithuanian-born anarchist communist radical, known for her writings and speeches.
• Germaine Greer (1939—): Australian feminist academic and writer.

Authors

• Edward Abbey (1927–1989): American green anarchist author and environmentalist.
• Stephen Pearl Andrews (1812–1886): American individualist anarchist author.
• Ba Jin (1904–2005): considered to be one of the most important and widely-read Chinese writers of the twentieth century.
• James Robert Baker (1946–1997): American author of satirical, gay-themed transgressional fiction.
• Murray Bookchin (1921–2006): American libertarian socialist author and radical anti-capitalist.
• Alan Moore (1953—): English graphic novelist known for writing V for Vendetta, the story of an anarchist terrorist living in a fascist England.
• Robert Anton Wilson (1932—): American author and philosopher.
• Howard Zinn (1922—): American historian and political scientist influenced by anarchism and Marxism.

Business

Not really likely to have anyone in here, except maybe some ancaps.

Film, radio and television

• Julian Beck (1925–1985): American actor and founder of The Living Theatre.

Philosophy

• Edward Abramowski (1868–1918): Polish philosopher.
• Emile Armand (1872–1962): French individualist anarchist.
• Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1908–1865): French mutualist economist and first individual to call himself an anarchist.

Politics and law

Doubt there'll be anyone in here.

Science and technology

Nothing yet.

Sport

• Jeff Monson (1971—): American mixed martial arts fighter and submission wrestler.

Visual Arts

• Ramón Acin (1887–1936): Spanish avant-garde artist and writer.
• Charles Angrand (1856–1926): French Neo-Impressionist pointillist painter.
• Carlo Carrà (1881–1961): Italian painter, famous for his work The Funeral of the Anarchist Galli.

People who have been considered anarchists

This section of the list includes people who have not explicitly stated that they are anarchists, but have been considered anarchists by other sources. These people may not have identified as anarchists because they predated the term's popular usage, it was considered an epithet, they did not regard themselves as anarchists, they dislike specific ideological labels, or for a variety of other reasons. The categorisation of many of these people as anarchists may be controversial.

Activists and educators

• Michael Albert (1947—): Co-editor of ZNet and co-editor and founder of Z Magazine.

Authors

• Kathy Acker (1947–1997): American experimental novelist and sex-positive feminist.
• Terry Pratchett (1948—): English Fantasy author known for his satirical Discworld series.

Business

Not really likely to have anyone in here, except maybe some ancaps.

Comedians

• Bill Hicks (1961–1994): American satirist, who described his work as "Chomsky with dick jokes."

Politics and law

Doubt there'll be anyone in here.

Science and technology

Nothing yet.

See also

• List of revolutionaries
• List of socialists

External links

• "Prominent Anarchists and Left-Libertarians", from flag.blackened.net
• "Who are the major anarchist thinkers?", from An Anarchist FAQ
• The Antiauthoritarian Encyclopedia from the Daily Bleed Calendar
• Libertarian Communist Library - contains works of many prominent anarchists