Favorite People

Philosophers:
Aristotle
Diogenes of Sinope
Epicurus
Søren Kierkegaard
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Karl Popper
Bertrand Russell
Jean-Paul Sartre
Seneca
Socrates
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Politicial and Military Leaders:
Salvador Allende
Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán
Edmund Burke
Niccolò Machiavelli
Michael Parenti
Oscar Arias Sanchez
Sun Tzu

Historians:
Cheikh Anta Diop
John Hope Franklin
Eric Williams
Walter Rodney
Studs Terkel

Howard Zinn

Mathematicians:
Muhammed al-Khowârizmi
Archimedes
Aryabhatta Brahmagupta
Georg Cantor
Eratosthenes
Paul Erdös
Leonhard Euler
Pierre de Fermat
Joseph Fourier
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Kurt Gödel
David Hilbert
Omar al-Khayyam
Pierre-Simon Laplace
G.W. Leibniz
Henri Poincaré
Srinivasa Ramanujan
Bernhard Riemann
Alan Turing

Scientists
Albert Einstein
Michael Faraday
Richard Feynman
Stephan Hawking
James Clark Maxwell
Carl Sagan
Nikola Tesla
Neil deGrasse Tyson

Sociologists & Anthropologists:
Pierre Bourdieu
Joseph Campbell
Auguste Comte
W.E.B. DuBois
Émile Durkheim
Anthony Giddens
Claude Lévi-Strauss 
Robert Merton
C. Wright Mills
Talcott Parsons
Thorstein Veblen
Max Weber

Psychologists and Psychiatrists:
Gordon Allport
Frantz Fanon
Sigmund Freud
William James
Carl Jung
Kurt Lewin
Abraham Maslow
Ivan Pavlov
Jean Piaget
B.F. Skinner
Edward Thorndike
Lev Vygotsky

Economists:
Samuel Bowles

Herbert Gintis

Friedrich Hayek
James J Heckman
David Hume
John Maynard Keynes 
Paul Krugman
Thomas Robert Malthus  
Karl Marx
Raj Patel
David Ricardo
Amartya Sen
Adam Smith
Joseph E Stiglitz
Richard Wolff 

Technologists:
Tim Berners-Lee
Eric Raymond
Richard M. Stallman
Linus Torvalds 
Steve Wozniak

Interdisciplinarians:
Theodor Adorno
Noam Chomsky
Michel Foucault
Jürgen Habermas
Max Horkheimer
Terence (and Brian) McKenna
Marshall McLuhan
George Herbert Mead
Lewis Mumford