List of known anarchists

An anarchist is a proponent of anarchy or anarchism .

This list shows encyclopaedically relevant persons who see themselves as anarchists or have (at least temporarily) understood themselves, were or are members of anarchist groups, have submitted theoretical work or have carried out actions mentioned in the humanities and social sciences .

Precursors or pioneers of anarchism before modernity are not listed here.

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• Émile Armand pseudonym for Ernest-Lucien Juin . (* 1872; † 1962). Writer .
• Peter Arshinoff (* 1887 in Andriivka, Ukraine ; † 1938 in the Soviet Union). Involved the Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine and writer.
• Victor Arendorff (1878–1958), Swedish writer, poet and journalist
• Francisco Ascaso (born April 1, 1901 in Huesca , † July 20, 1936 in Barcelona ). Militant anarcho-syndicalist of the CNT .
• Zo d'Axa (born May 24, 1864 in Paris , † August 30, 1930 in Marseille ). Satirist, writer and journalist.

B.

Mikhail Bakunin

Alexander Berkman

• Bā Jīn (born November 25, 1904 in Chengdu , Sichuan , † October 17, 2005 in Shanghai ). Chinese writer and publicist.
• François Noël Babeuf (called Gracchus Babeuf ; born November 23, 1760 in Saint Nicaise near Saint-Quentin , † May 27, 1797 in Vendôme ); French journalist and left-wing revolutionary agitator during the first French revolution . Founder and spokesman of the Conspiracy of Equals .
• Mikhail Bakunin ( Russian Михаил Александрович Бакунин ; born May 30, 1814 in Prjamukhino near Tver ; † July 1, 1876 in Bern ). First organizer of the anarchist movement and founder of collectivist anarchism .
• Enrico Baj (born October 31, 1924 in Milan , † June 16, 2003 in Vergiate ). Painter , sculptor and art theorist.
• Harold Barclay (born January 3, 1924 in Alberta , † December 20, 2017 in Vernon, British Columbia); Professor of Anthropology at the University of Alberta, Edmonton.
• Edgar Bauer (born October 7, 1820 in Charlottenburg , † August 18, 1886). Political-philosophical writer and activist.
• Jörg Bergstedt (born July 2, 1964 in Bleckede ). Eco-activist and book author.
• Alexander Berkman (born November 21, 1870 in Vilnius , Lithuania , † June 28, 1936). Writer .
• Marie-Louise Berneri (born March 1, 1918 in Arezzo , † April 13, 1949 in London), Italian author.
• Camillo Berneri (born July 20, 1897 - † May 6, 1937), Italian anarchist
• Luigi Bertoni (born February 6, 1872 in Milan , † January 19, 1947 in Geneva )
• Hakim Bey, actually Peter Lamborn Wilson , (* 1945 in New York ) writer, subcultural artist, philosopher and “ anarchist ontologist ”.
• Janet Biehl (* 1953) theoretician of social ecology .
• Jack Bilbo actually Hugo Cyrill Kulp Baruch (born April 13, 1907 in Berlin , † 1967 in Berlin ). Writer , painter , gallery owner and captain.
• Georg Blumenthal (born October 29, 1872 - † June 27, 1929) German physiocrat and free landlord
• Robert Bodanzky (March 20, 1879 - November 2, 1923), cabaret artist, director, journalist
• Étienne de La Boétie (born November 1, 1530 in Sarlat-la-Canéda , † August 18, 1563 near Bordeaux ). Writer and translator of ancient writings.
• Alfredo Bonanno (* 1937 in Catania ); Italian anarchist
• Jules Bonnot , complete Jules Joseph Bonnot (born October 14, 1876 in Pont-de-Roide , † April 24, 1912 in Paris ) founder of the "Bande à Bonnot", a group of illegalists .
• Murray Bookchin (born January 14, 1921 in New York City , † July 30, 2006 in Burlington , Vermont ) university professor, author and founder of social ecology as a combination of anarchist and ecological thinking.
• Walther Borgius (born November 2, 1870 in Frankfurt (Oder) , † October 1, 1932 in Berlin-Lichterfelde ) German economist and individualistic anarchist
• Ludwig Börne , actually Juda Löb Baruch (born May 6, 1786 in the Jewish ghetto of Frankfurt ; † February 12, 1837 in Paris ). Journalist , literary and theater critic .
• Federico Borrell García (born January 3, 1912 in Benilloba , † September 5, 1936 near Cerro Muriano ). Republican soldier in the Spanish Civil War . He achieved worldwide fame through a photograph by Robert Capa with the title "Loyalist (= Republican) soldier at the moment of his death".
• Lambertus Johannes Bot (born May 28, 1897 in Amsterdam , † December 6, 1988 in The Hague ), was a Dutch author, anti-militarist and anarchist.
• Fritz Brupbacher (born June 30, 1874 in Zurich ; † January 1, 1945 in Zurich ). Doctor and writer .
• Filippo Buonarroti (born November 11, 1761 in Pisa , Duchy of Tuscany , † September 16, 1837 in Paris ). Italian-French revolutionary and publicist. Activist and publishing promoter of the ideas of the Conspiracy of Equals .

C.

Noam Chomsky

• Carlo Cafiero (born September 1, 1846 in Barletta , † July 17, 1892 in Nocera Inferiore ); Activist.
• Berthold Cahn (* May 1871 in Langenlonsheim ; † May 28, 1942 in Sachsenhausen concentration camp ); Activist.
• Marco Camenisch (born January 21, 1952 in Campocologno , Canton of Graubünden ); Militant opponent of nuclear power and “eco-terrorist”.
• Albert Camus (born November 7, 1913 in Mondovi, Algeria ; † January 4, 1960 near Villeblevin, Yonne department , France ); Philosopher and writer.
• Rolf Cantzen (* 1955 in Lingen ); Journalist and author.
• Luisa Capetillo (October 28, 1879 - October 10, 1922); Puerto Rican suffragette and anarchist.
• Sante Geronimo Caserio , (born September 8, 1873 in Motta Visconti in Lombardy , † August 16, 1894 in Lyon ); Propaganda representative indeed.
• Noam Chomsky , in full Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , USA ); Author and Professor of Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology .
• Pierre Clastres (1934–1977), ethnologist .
• Voltairine de Cleyre (born November 17, 1866 in Leslie ( Michigan ), † June 20, 1912 in Chicago ); Author.
• Anton Levien Constandse ; (* 1899; † 1985). Author, magazine editor.
• Andrea Costa (born November 30, 1851 in Imola ; † January 19, 1910 ebf. In Imola), Italian activist, publicist and politician.
• Leon Czolgosz (born January 1, 1873 in Alpena, Michigan, † (executed) October 29, 1901 in Auburn, New York), American worker and anarchist activist of Polish origin, was killed by his fatal assassination attempt on US President William McKinley in 1901 known.

D.

Buenaventura Durruti

• The 3 tornadoes ; A cabaret trio established in West Berlin in 1977 by Arnulf Rating , Günter Thews and Hans-Jochen Krank and dissolved in 1990
• Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis (born December 31, 1846 in Amsterdam , † November 18, 1919 in Hilversum ). First socialist politician in the Netherlands and later an anarchist activist.
• Frans Drion (born September 2, 1874 in The Hague ; † December 13, 1948 there), Dutch teacher, politician and anarchist
• Bernd Drücke (born December 24, 1965 in Unna ) Dr. phil., sociologist, freelance journalist, author and coordinating editor of the monthly newspaper Graswurzelrevolution .
• Buenaventura Durruti (born July 14, 1896 in León , † November 20, 1936 in Madrid ). Revolutionary and central figure in the Spanish Civil War .
• Roel van Duijn complete Roeland Hugo Gerrit van Duijn (born January 20, 1943 in The Hague ). Philosopher and Actor of Provo , later in Parliament.

E.

• David Edelstadt (born May 9, 1866 near Kaluga in Russia , † October 17, 1892 in Denver , Colorado ). Writer.
• Luis Andrés Edo , (born November 7, 1925 in Barcelona , † February 14, 2009 in Barcelona); Spanish anarcho-syndicalist
• George Engel (April 15, 1836 - November 11, 1887), German anarchist
• Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin , (* 1947 in Chattanooga (Tennessee) ). Author and Black Anarchist .

F.

• Sébastien Faure (born January 6, 1858 in Saint-Étienne , † July 14, 1942 in Royan ). Writer.
• Etta Federn-Kohlhaas (born April 28, 1883 in Vienna , † May 9, 1951 in Paris ). Anarcho-syndicalist activist and writer.
• Léo Ferré (born August 24, 1916 in Monaco , † July 14, 1993 in Castellina in Chianti , Italy ). Musician.
• Francisco Ferrer (born January 10, 1859 in Alella near Barcelona, ​​† October 13, 1909 in Barcelona ). Libertarian educator.
• Paul Feyerabend (born January 13, 1924 in Vienna ; † February 11, 1994 in Genolier / Switzerland ). Philosopher and theorist of science.
• Dario Fo (born March 24, 1926 in Sangiano , Italy , † October 13, 2016 in Milan ). Satirical playwright, director, set designer, composer, narrator and actor. 1997 Nobel Prize for Literature .
• Charles Fourier (born April 7, 1772 in Besançon , † October 10, 1837 in Paris ). Social theorist and representative of early socialism .
• Ernst Friedrich (born February 25, 1894 in Breslau , † May 2, 1967 in Le Perreux-sur-Marne , France ). Pacifist , writer.

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Emma Goldman

• Luigi Galleani (1861 - November 4, 1931). Proponent of the violent overthrow of the US government.
• Alexei Gan (* probably 1887 near Moscow ; † September 8, 1942). Avant-garde artist, art, film and theater theorist, graphic designer and filmmaker.
• Juan García Oliver (* 1901 in Reus , Tarragona , † 1980 in Guadalajara , Mexico ). Participant in the Spanish Civil War and founder of the Los Solidarios group , which among other things planned an assassination attempt on Alfonso XIII .
• Allen Ginsberg (born June 3, 1926 in Paterson (New Jersey) , † April 5, 1997 in New York City ). American poet of the Beat Generation .
• William Godwin (born March 3, 1756 in Wisbech , Cambridgeshire , † April 7, 1836). Writer.
• Gregor Gog (born November 7, 1891 in Schwerin , † October 7, 1945 in Tashkent ) was the founder of the Brotherhood of Vagabonds .
• Emma Goldman (born June 27, 1869 in Kaunas , Lithuania , † May 14, 1940 in Toronto , Canada ). Peace activist and women's rights activist .
• Paul Goodman (born September 9, 1911 in New York - † August 2, 1972). American anarchist author, educator
• Pietro Gori (born August 14, 1865 in Messina , † January 8, 1911 in Portoferraio ). Lawyer, journalist, intellectual and poet.
• David Graeber (born February 12, 1961) is an American ethnologist . He teaches at Goldsmiths College of the University of London .
• Jean Grave (born October 16, 1854 in Le Breuil-sur-Couze , † December 8, 1939 in Vienne-en-Val ). Activist.
• Germaine Greer , (born January 29, 1939 in Melbourne ). Author, publicist and feminist
• Otto Gross (born March 17, 1877 in Gniebing-Weißenbach , Styria , † February 13, 1920 in Berlin ). Doctor , psychiatrist and psychoanalyst .
• Daniel Guérin (born May 19, 1904 in Paris , † April 14, 1988 in Suresnes (Hauts-de-Seine) near Paris). Activist, historian and theorist of anarchism.
• James Guillaume (born February 16, 1844 in London , † November 20, 1916 in Paris ) writer and important member of the Jura Federation .

H

Wilhelm Hasselmann

• Johan de Haas (September 1, 1897 - April 10, 1945), Dutch author, anti-militarist and anarchist.
• Hellmut G. Haasis (born January 7, 1942 in Mühlacker ), German historian, writer and publisher.
• Wilhelm Hasselmann (born September 25, 1844 in Bremen , † February 25, 1916 in New York ), formerly a social democratic politician, expelled from the party in 1880, emigrated to the USA, editor, social revolutionary publicist
• Wolfgang Haug (* 1955), publisher and publicist.
• Werner Henneberger , architect, anarcho-syndicalist (1904–1977)
• Émile Henry (* 1872; † 1894). Activist.
• Senna Hoy origin. Johannes Holzmann (* 1882 in Tuchel (West Prussia), † 1914 in Meschtscherskoje) writer.

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• Félix Martí Ibañez , (* 1913 in Cartagena , † 1974 in New York City ) doctor, psychoanalyst, sex reformer during the Spanish Civil War
• Itō Noe , (伊藤 野 枝) (born January 21, 1895 in Fukuoka , Japan, † September 16, 1923 in Fukuoka ) social critic, author, feminist.

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• Albert de Jong (born April 29, 1891 in Amsterdam, † July 27, 1970 in Heemstede ), Dutch author and anarcho-syndicalist
• Année Rinzes de Jong (7 March 1883 - 27 January 1970), Dutch pastor and Christian anarchist
• Gregorio Jover Cortés (* 1891 in Teruel ; † March 22, 1964 in Mexico City ) member of the Federación Anarquista Ibérica during the Spanish Civil War .

K

Peter Kropotkin

• Hendrik Ebo Kaspers (born February 11, 1869 in Reiderwolderpolder (Netherlands), † July 24, 1953 in Santpoort), Dutch antimilitarist.
• Fritz Kater actually Friedrich Kater (born December 19, 1861 in Barleben , † April 20, 1945 in Berlin ). Bricklayer and publisher.
• Ulrich Klan (* 1953). Musician, composer and author.
• Klaus the Geiger (born January 20, 1940 in Dippoldiswalde as Klaus Christian von Wrochem); German violinist, songwriter and street musician.
• Holger Klotzbach (born January 30, 1946 in Duisburg ), cabaret artist , member of the cabaret trio Die 3 Tornados in the 1980s, owner and manager of the Bar Every Reason since 1992 and of the Tipi event tent at the Chancellery in Berlin since 2002 .
• Heiner Koechlin (born January 21, 1918 in Basel ; † May 7, 1996 in Basel) author and publicist, 15-year magazine Akratie
• Fritz Köster (born February 13, 1855; † 1934). Editor and anarcho-syndicalist
• Leopold Kohr (born October 5, 1909 in Oberndorf near Salzburg , † February 26, 1994 in Gloucester , England). Economist, lawyer, philosopher.
• Pieter Adrianus Kooijman (born February 25, 1891 in Rotterdam , † January 17, 1975 in The Hague ), Dutch activist.
• Bernd Kramer (born January 22, 1940 in Remscheid ; † September 5, 2014 in Berlin ). Publisher, founder of Karin Kramer Verlag .
• Karin Kramer (born November 9, 1939; † March 20, 2014 in Berlin ). Publisher, founder of Karin Kramer Verlag .
• Georg Kreisler (born July 18, 1922 in Vienna , † November 22, 2011 in Salzburg ), Austrian poet, chansonnier and cabaret artist
• Pyotr Kropotkin ( Russian Пётр Алексеевич Кропоткин ) (born December 9, 1842 in Moscow , † February 8, 1921 in Dmitrov ). Geographer and writer . Founder of communist anarchism .
• Gabriel Kuhn (* 1972 in Innsbruck ) writer and author.
• Dieter Kunzelmann (born July 14, 1939 in Bamberg ; † May 9, 2018 in Berlin), political activist of the West German student movement of the 1960s and co-founder of Commune I in West Berlin, which existed from 1967 to 1969 .
• Galina Agafja Andrejewna Kuzmenko (* 1892 in Pishchanyj Brid ; † March 23, 1978 in Taras ), participant of Makhovshchina and his wife Nestor Machnos

L.

Gustav Landauer

• Benedict Lachmann (born February 8, 1878 - † December 4, 1941) is an individual anarchist journalist and bookseller
• Gustav Landauer (born April 7, 1870 in Karlsruhe , † May 2, 1919, murdered in Munich - Stadelheim ) a leading theorist and activist.
• Chris Lebeau (born May 26, 1878 in Amsterdam ; † April 2, 1945 in Dachau concentration camp ), Dutch artist and anarchist.
• Arthur Lehning (born October 23, 1899 in Utrecht , † January 1, 2000 in Lys-Saint-Georges , France ) Dutch anarcho-syndicalist and co-founder of the IISG Amsterdam.
• André Léo , actually Victoire Léodile Béra; (* August 18, 1824 in Lusignan , Vienne , † May 20, 1900 in Paris ); French writer, journalist and feminist .
• Friedrich Liebling (born October 25, 1893 in Augustowka / Galicia ( Austria-Hungary ); † February 28, 1982) influenced by Ramus, libertarian psychologist, "Zurich School".
• Bart de Ligt (born July 17, 1883 in Schalkwijk, Netherlands , † September 3, 1938 in Nantes , France), Dutch theologian, author and anarchist.
• Louis Lingg (born September 9, 1864 in Mannheim , † November 10, 1887 in Chicago ) trade unionist and victim of the Haymarket affair .
• Gino Lucetti (born August 31, 1900 - † September 17, 1943), Italian anarchist.
• Luigi Lucheni (born April 22, 1873 in Paris , † October 19, 1910 in Geneva , suicide), also wrongly Luigi Luccheni or Louis Lucheni . Assassin .

M.

Louise Michel

Johann Most

Errico Malatesta

• Nestor Machno ( Ukrainian Нестор Іванович Махно ; born November 7, 1888 in Huljai-Pole , Ukraine , † July 6, 1934 in Paris ). Activist of the Makhnovshchina named after him , theorist.
• John Henry Mackay (born February 6, 1864 in Greenock near Glasgow , Scotland , † May 16, 1933 in Berlin-Charlottenburg ). Main representative of individual anarchism in Germany
• Gildardo Magaña (March 7, 1891 - December 13, 1939), Mexican revolutionary, politician and anarcho-syndicalist.
• Ricardo Flores Magón (born September 16, 1874 in San Antonio Eloxochitlán in Oaxaca , † November 22, 1922 in prison in Leavenworth in the US state of Kansas ). Journalist and man of letters.
• Errico Malatesta (born December 14, 1853 in Capua / Province of Caserta , † July 22, 1932 in Rome ). Writer.
• Judith Malina (born June 4, 1926 in Kiel , † April 10, 2015 in Englewood ). Actress.
• Teresa Mañé Miravet (born November 29, 1865 in Cubelles , † February 5, 1939 in Perpignan ). Educator and publisher.
• Sylvain Maréchal (born August 15, 1750 in Paris, † January 18, 1803 in Montrouge ). Late enlightener, pioneer of anarchism.
• Wilhelm Marr (born November 16, 1819 in Magdeburg , † July 17, 1904 in Hamburg ) worker anarchist, publicist, first propagandist of anarchism in the German-speaking area
• Dora Marsden (born March 5, 1882 in Marsden , Yorkshire , England, † December 13, 1960) feminist, literary editor and author.
• Todd May Professor of Philosophy at Clemson University , South Carolina , USA. Co-founder of post-anarchism .
• Wendy McElroy (* 1951) Canadian representative of individualistic anarchism and “sex-positive” feminist .
• Johannes Methöfer (born August 17, 1863; † October 24, 1933), one of the first anarchists in the Netherlands
• Ida Mett (born July 20, 1901 in Smorgone , Russia , as Ida Gilman ; † June 27, 1973 in Paris , France ). Magazine editor and technical translator.
• Louise Michel (born May 29, 1830 at Broucourt Castle, Haute-Marne department , † January 9, 1905 in Marseille ). Author.
• Lodewijk van Mierop (born January 1, 1876 in Rotterdam, † June 13, 1930 in Bussum ), Dutch pacifist and Christian anarchist .
• Octave Mirbeau (born February 16, 1848 in Trévières, Calvados, † February 16, 1917 in Paris), French journalist, art critic and novelist
• Federica Montseny (born February 12, 1905 in Madrid, † January 14, 1994 in Toulouse), writer and minister in the Second Spanish Republic
• Alan Moore (born November 18, 1953), British author
• Johann Most (born February 5, 1846 in Augsburg , † March 17, 1906 in Cincinnati , USA). Author.
• Erich Mühsam (born April 6, 1878 in Berlin ; murdered † July 10, 1934 in Oranienburg concentration camp ). Activist, publicist and writer .
• Herbert Müller-Guttenbrunn (born June 5, 1887 in Vienna ; † April 10, 1945), Austrian publicist, writer and satirist
• Jürgen Mümken (* 1965). Post-anarchist author.

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Max Nettlau

• Maximilian Nacht , also known as Max Nomad (born September 15, 1881 in Buczacz (East Galicia), † April 18, 1973 in New York City ). Anarchist, later socialist journalist and writer.
• Oscar Neebe (born July 12, 1850 in New York City , † April 22, 1916 in Chicago ). Trade unionists and defendants in the Haymarket Riot trial .
• Max Nettlau , (born April 30, 1865 in Neuwaldegg , today part of Vienna , † July 23, 1944 in Amsterdam ). Historian .
• Saul Newman (born 1972). Post-anarchist political scientist .

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• Sepp Oerter (born September 24, 1870 in Straubing , † December 14, 1928 in Braunschweig ), journalist and activist in the anarchist movement; later SPD, USPD and NSDAP, 1919–1920 Prime Minister of Braunschweig.
• Bartholomeus van Ommeren (April 5, 1859 - September 6, 1907), Dutch editor and anarchist
• Felix Ortt , Dutch author, philosopher and Christian anarchist (1866-1959)
• Ōsugi Sakae (1885–1923) most important Japanese anarcho-syndicalist of the Taishō era

P

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

• Chuck Palahniuk (born February 21, 1962 in Pasco, Washington). Author and freelance journalist.
• Georges Palante (born November 20, 1862 - † August 5, 1925), French philosopher
• Sidney E. Parker (* 1930 in London ). British individualistic anarchist , editor of Minus One and Egoist magazines .
• Willi Paul (born July 1, 1897 in Göttingen; † April 27, 1979), resistance fighter, anarcho-syndicalist
• Abel Paz , actually Diego Camacho (born August 12, 1921 in Almería , † April 13, 2009 in Barcelona ). Revolutionary, resistance fighter against Franco and writer.
• Juan Peiró (born February 18, 1887 in Barcelona, ​​† July 24, 1942 in Paterna), glazier, economist and minister in the Second Spanish Republic
• Utah Phillips (born May 15, 1935 in Cleveland , Ohio - † May 23, 2008 in Nevada City , California ). Folk singer and member of the Industrial Workers of the World .
• May Picqueray (born July 8, 1898 in Savenay , † November 3, 1983 in Paris), militant anarchist
• Giuseppe Pinelli (born October 21, 1928 in Milan , † December 15, 1969 in Milan). Railroad worker and ABC secretary. Died in police custody under unexplained circumstances.
• Theodor Plievier (born February 1892 in Berlin ; † March 12, 1955 in Avegno , Switzerland ), German writer. He was best known for his trilogy of novels about the fighting on the Eastern Front of World War II, consisting of the works of Stalingrad , Moscow and Berlin .
• Amparo Poch y Gascón (born October 15, 1902 in Saragossa , † April 15, 1968 in Toulouse ). Medic and publicist.
• Émile Pouget (born October 12, 1860 in Pont-de-Salars , Aveyron department ; † July 21, 1931 Palaiseau , Seine-et-Oise department ). Direct Action Theorists .
• Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (born January 15, 1809 in Besançon , France , † January 19, 1865 in Passy near Paris ). Economist and sociologist . Founder of the mutualistic current of anarchism (also solidaric anarchism, Proudhonism ).
• Salvador Puig Antich (* 1948 in Barcelona ; † March 2, 1974 in the Modelo prison in Barcelona , executed). Resistance fighters against Franco .

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• Horst Matthai Quelle (born January 30, 1912 in Hanover ; † December 27, 1999 in Tijuana ) German-Mexican philosopher and individual anarchist

R.

Reclus reads “ Le Cri du Peuple ” in his Brussels garden.

• Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown (born January 17, 1881 in Birmingham , † October 24, 1955 in London ) was a pioneer of British social anthropology and an active anarchist in his youth.
• Michel Ragon (* 1924 in Marseille ; † February 2020). Novelist .
• Karl Raichle (born August 31, 1889 in Dettingen unter Teck , † April 16, 1965 in Meersburg ), German tin smith and metal artist, founded the Urach District in Urach in 1928 with the community on the Green Way, which is based on various non-conformist and life-reform ideas .
• Pierre Ramus pseudonym for Rudolf Grossmann (born April 15, 1882 in Vienna ; † May 27, 1942 (?) On the ship to Veracruz , Mexico ). Activist and theorist. The Pierre-Ramus-Gesellschaft has been based in Vienna since 1992 .
• Ravachol actually François Claudius Koeningstein (born October 14, 1859 in Saint-Chamond , Loire department , † July 11, 1892 in Montbrison , Loire department). Propaganda advocate indeed .
• Georg von Rauch (born May 12, 1947 in Marburg an der Lahn , † December 4, 1971 in Berlin ), activist.
• Herbert Read (born December 4, 1893 on the Muscoats estate near Stonegrave ( Yorkshire ), † June 12, 1968 in Stonegrave). Art historian.
• Élisée Reclus (born March 15, 1830 in Sainte-Foy-la-Grande ( Gironde ), † July 4, 1905 in Torhout , Belgium ). Geographer and theorist.
• Abraham Mozes Reens (born September 16, 1870; † September 6, 1930), Jewish, Dutch propagandist for revolutionary socialism and anarchism.
• Jacob van Rees (born April 16, 1854 in Amsterdam , † January 4, 1928 in Hilversum ), Dutch anti-militarist and anarchist.
• Otto Reimers (born September 17, 1902 in Grambek , † October 22, 1984 in Laufenburg ). Author and publicist.
• August Reinsdorf (born January 31, 1849 in Pegau , † February 7, 1885 in Halle ). Propaganda advocate indeed.
• Rio Reiser aka. Ralph Christian Möbius (born January 9, 1950 in Berlin ; † August 20, 1996 in Fresenhagen , North Friesland ), German musician, initially as the front man of the political rock band Ton Steine ​​Scherben , then under his own name. Member of the PDS in the last years of his life .
• Robert Reitzel (born January 27, 1849 in Schopfheim , † March 31, 1898 in Detroit ). Writer, editor of the magazine Der poor Teufel .
• Rudolf Rocker (born March 25, 1873 in Mainz , † September 19, 1958 in Westchester County , USA ). Author and historian .
• Jerry Rubin (born July 14, 1938 in Cincinnati , † November 28, 1994 in Los Angeles ) American activist against the Vietnam War in the 1960s and 1970s.
• Helmut Rüdiger (* 1903 in Frankenberg , † 1966 in Spain ). Editor and publisher, temporarily secretary of the International Workers' Association
• Otto Rühle (born October 23, 1874 in Großvoigtsberg / Saxony ; † June 24, 1943 in Mexico City ), initially a social democratic, later a councilor communist politician and writer, from the mid-1920s he came closer to anarchism and Adler's individual psychology
• Han Ryner (born December 7, 1861 in Nemours , Département d'Oran, Algeria ; † January 6, 1938 in Paris ). Pacifist.

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Victor Serge

Horst Stowasser in Berlin 2007

• Sacco and Vanzetti Ferdinando "Nicola" Sacco (* 1891 in Torremaggiore ( FG ), Italy ) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (* 1888 in Villafalletto ( CN ), Italy). Workers who immigrated from Italy to the United States. Members of the anarchist labor movement . After a controversial trial, executed on the night of August 22nd to 23rd, 1927. Posthumously rehabilitated in 1977.
• Diego Abad de Santillán pseudonym for Sinesio Vaudilio García Fernández (born May 20, 1897 in Reyero , † October 18, 1983 in Barcelona ). Editor, author and economist.
• Alexander Schapiro (born August 6, 1890; † 1942 in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp ) active in the Machno movement and in the Spanish Civil War
• Fritz Scherer (anarchist) (* 1903 in Berlin; † March 14, 1988 in Berlin). Anarchist migrant worker and bookbinder.
• Dieter Schrage (born June 28, 1935 in Hagen ; † June 29, 2011 in Vienna ). Austrian cultural scientist , activist and politician .
• Antje Schrupp  (born on September 22, 1964 in  Weilburg ,  Hessen ); German political scientist , journalist and blogger , book author and translator .
• Fedossij Schchus * (March 13th ^July / March 25th 1893 ^{greg. In} the village Velykomychajliwka ; † June 27th 1921, near Khorushivka ). Involved the Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine
• Ilse Schwipper (born June 24, 1937 in Berlin ; † September 27, 2007 in Berlin ), anarchist feminist .
• Adhémar Schwitzguébel (* 1844 in Sonvilier , † July 23, 1895 in Biel ). Theorist of collectivist anarchism , co-founder of the Jura Federation and member of the First International .
• Salvador Seguí (born December 23, 1886 in Tornabous, † March 10, 1923 in Barcelona), known as El noi del sucre (Catalan for "The Sugar Boy"), was a prominent figure in Spanish anarchism and syndicalism at the beginning of the 20th century .
• Victor Serge , origin. Victor Lvovich Kibalchich (born December 30, 1890 in Brussels , † November 17, 1947 in Mexico ), revolutionary and writer. Serge was actually an anarchist, but joined the Bolsheviks in 1919, despite great skepticism and concerns about their actions .
• John Sinclair (born October 2, 1941 in Flint , Michigan ), American poet and writer
• Antonio Díaz Soto y Gama , Mexican legal scholar, revolutionary and anarcho-syndicalist (1880-1967)
• Augustin Souchy (born August 28, 1892 in Ratibor , Upper Silesia , † January 1, 1984 in Munich ). Antimilitarist .
• August Spies (born December 10, 1855 in Landecker Amt , Hessen , † November 11, 1887 in Chicago ). Editor-in-chief and publisher of Arbeiter-Zeitung , spokesman for the American labor movement in Chicago and Haymarket martyr.
• Lysander Spooner (* 1808; † 1887). Legal philosopher , entrepreneur and opponent of slavery .
• Mollie Steimer (born November 21, 1897 - † July 23, 1980), Russian anarchist.
• Rudolf Steiner (born February 27, 1861 in Donji Kraljevec near Čakovec , Croatia ( Medjimurje ), then Austria ; † March 30, 1925 in Dornach , Switzerland ). Publisher, editor and individual anarchist approx. 1893–1900. Later founder of anthroposophy .
• Jan Sterringa (born February 25, 1870 - † November 27, 1951), Dutch theosophist and anarchist.
• Max Stirner pseudonym for Johann Caspar Schmidt (born October 25, 1806 in Bayreuth ; † June 25, 1856 in Berlin ). Philosopher and journalist . Precursors of individual anarchism .
• Horst Stowasser (born January 7, 1951 in Wilhelmshaven ; † August 30, 2009 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ). Author.
• Artur Streiter (born January 17, 1905 in Neuruppin ; † October 25, 1946 in Schönow ) painter, commissioned draftsman, writer, journalist and literary critic. Member of the FAUD

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Henry David Thoreau

• Frank Tannenbaum (* 1893 in Austria, † 1969 in New York City ). American sociologist and historian
• Fritz Teufel (born June 17, 1943 in Ingelheim ; † July 6, 2010 in Berlin ), political activist of the West German student movement of the 1960s and co-founder of Commune I in West Berlin, which existed from 1967 to 1969
• Clara Thalmann (* as Clara Enser 1910 in Basel ; † January 27, 1987 in France ), resistance fighter in the Spanish civil war, author.
• Paul Thalmann (* 1901 in Basel ; † 1980 in France ), fighter in the Spanish civil war, author and founder of the commune.
• Henry David Thoreau (born July 12, 1817 in Concord , Massachusetts , † May 6, 1862 there). Writer and philosopher , u. a. Author of On the Duty to Disobey the State .
• Uwe Timm (born February 5, 1932; † March 7, 2014 in Barcelona) representative of individual anarchism , co-founder of the “ Mackay Society”, publisher of the libertarian magazine espero
• Claus Timmermann , publisher (* 1866; † 1941)
• Lev Nikolajewitsch Tolstoy (born September 9, 1828 in Yasnaya Polyana , † November 20, 1910 in Astapovo) Russian writer and representative of a religiously inspired anarchism
• B. Traven (* around 1882; † March 26, 1969 in Mexico City ). Writer.
• Lev Tschjorny (* 1890 in Moscow; † September 21, 1921 in Moscow) Russian anarchist of the so-called Third Russian Revolution
• Benjamin Tucker (born April 17, 1854 in South Dartmouth, Massachusetts , † June 22, 1939 in Monaco ). Journalist, author, translator, publisher, editor of Liberty (1881–1908).

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• Raoul Vaneigem (* 1934 in Lessines , Belgium ). Artist, author and cultural philosopher .
• Volin actually Vsevolod Michailowitsch Eichenbaum (* 1882 in Voronezh , Russia , † September 18, 1945 in Paris ). Russian revolutionary.

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Rudolf Rocker and Milly Witkop. Detail of the group photo of an anarchist meeting in 1912

• Kurt Wafner (born November 25, 1918 in Berlin ; † March 10, 2007 in Berlin ). Publishing editor, radio play author and anti-militarist.
• Colin Ward (born August 14, 1924 in Wanstead , Essex , † February 11, 2010). Writer and social historian.
• Josiah Warren (* 1798 in Boston , Massachusetts , † April 14, 1874 in Boston) social reformer , musician, inventor and writer .
• Gerhard Wartenberg , (born February 1, 1904 in Tannroda ( Thuringia ), † December 22, 1942 in Sachsenhausen concentration camp ). Author, magazine editor, anarcho-syndicalist
• Otto Weidt (born May 2, 1883 in Rostock , † December 22, 1947 in Berlin ). Broom-makers and Righteous Among the Nations .
• Simone Weil (born February 3, 1909 in Paris , † August 24, 1943 in Ashford (Kent) ). Philosopher and mystic .
• Clara Gertrud Wichmann (born August 17, 1885 in Hamburg , † February 15, 1922 in The Hague ). Lawyer.
• Hans Widmer (* 1947), Swiss author. Usually under the pseudonym p. m.
• Oscar Wilde (born October 16, 1854 in Dublin, † November 30, 1900 in Paris). Irish writer.
• Michael Wilk (* 1956 in Wiesbaden ) author, doctor, psychotherapist
• Bradley Roland Will (* 1970 in Evanston , Illinois , † October 27, 2006 in Oaxaca de Juarez ). Journalist and indymedia activist. Shot by Mexican police officers.
• Robert Anton Wilson (born January 18, 1932 in Brooklyn , † January 11, 2007 in Capitola near Santa Cruz , California). Author and philosopher.
• Milly Witkop -Rocker (born March 1, 1877 in Slotopol , Ukraine; † November 23, 1955 near Lake Mohegan , USA). Feminist and author.
• Robert Paul Wolff (born December 27, 1933 in New York City ). Political philosopher and individual anarchist.
• George Woodcock (8 May 1912 - 28 January 1995). Canadian. Canadian literary expert, at times anarchist and author of a recognized work on anarchism (1962).
• Paul Wulf (May 2, 1921 - July 3, 1999). Antifascist, anarchist and holder of the Federal Cross of Merit .

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Peter-Paul number

• Peter-Paul Zahl (born March 14, 1944 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † January 24, 2011 in Port Antonio , Jamaica ). Writer.
• Anteo Zamboni (born April 11, 1911 in Bologna , † October 31, 1926 in Bologna ) assassin.
• Emiliano Zapata (born August 8, 1879 in San Miguel Anenecuilco ( Morelos ), † April 10, 1919 in Chinameca ), protagonist of the Mexican Revolution .
• John Zerzan (* 1943 in Oregon ). Primitivist writer.
• Kurt Zube (* July 14, 1905 in Dirschau near Danzig ; † May 7, 1991 in Freiburg / Br. ) Pseud .: KHZ Solneman, founder of the Mackay Society, publisher of individual anarchist literature
• Wolfgang Zucht (* January 30, 1929; † September 17, 2015) ran the Weber & Zucht publishing house in Kassel with his wife Helga Weber (* 1935) , which publishes literature on anarchism and libertarian movements.

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