All Political Figures
Browse 528 world leaders, thinkers and public figures and see where each one stands on the political spectrum. Take the political compass test to find your own position.
- Adolf Hitler
- Albert Einstein
- Donald John Trump
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Winston Churchill
- Keir Starmer
- Isaac Newton
- Napoleon Bonaparte
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Abraham
- Confucius
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Karl Marx
- Vladimir Lenin
- Joseph Stalin
- Barack Obama
- Stephen Hawking
- Marie Curie
- Galileo Galilei
- Nelson Mandela
- Qin Shi Huang
- Sun Yat-sen
- Steve Jobs
- Elon Musk
- Mozart
- Plato
- Socrates
- Gautama Buddha
- Jesus Christ
- Moses
- Muhammad
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Friedrich Merz
- Che Guevara
- Charles Darwin
- Thomas Edison
- Nikola Tesla
- Alexander the Great
- Cleopatra
- Julius Caesar
- Aristotle
- Sigmund Freud
- William Shakespeare
- Voltaire
- Joan of Arc
- Giorgia Meloni
- Sanae Takaichi
- Ayn Rand
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Deng Xiaoping
- Angela Merkel
- Boris Johnson
- J.K. Rowling
- Oprah Winfrey
- Usain Bolt
- Serena Williams
- Michael Jordan
- Pele
- Diego Maradona
- Xi Jinping
- Hu Jintao
- Mao Zedong
- Kim Il-sung
- Kim Jong-il
- Kim Jong-un
- Fumio Kishida
- Shigeru Ishiba
- Yoshihide Suga
- Shinzo Abe
- Yoon Suk-yeol
- Moon Jae-in
- Park Geun-hye
- Chiang Kai-shek
- Yen Chia-kan
- Chiang Ching-kuo
- Lee Teng-hui
- Chen Shui-bian
- Ma Ying-jeou
- Tsai Ing-wen
- Lai Ching-te
- Narendra Modi
- Joe Biden
- Joko Widodo
- Imran Khan
- Bola Tinubu
- Lula da Silva
- Sheikh Hasina
- Vladimir Putin
- AMLO
- Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
- Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
- Felix Tshisekedi
- Vo Van Thuong
- Abiy Ahmed
- Herbert Hoover
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Harry S. Truman
- John F. Kennedy
- Richard Nixon
- Gerald Ford
- Jimmy Carter
- Ronald Reagan
- George H. W. Bush
- Bill Clinton
- George W. Bush
- Hu Yaobang
- Zhao Ziyang
- Jiang Zemin
- Park Chung-hee
- Chun Doo-hwan
- Roh Tae-woo
- Kim Young-sam
- Kim Dae-jung
- Roh Moo-hyun
- Lee Myung-bak
- Eisaku Sato
- Kakuei Tanaka
- Yasuhiro Nakasone
- Tomiichi Murayama
- Ryutaro Hashimoto
- Junichiro Koizumi
- Yukio Hatoyama
- Ludwig Erhard
- Kurt Georg Kiesinger
- Willy Brandt
- Helmut Schmidt
- Helmut Kohl
- Gerhard Schroder
- Olaf Scholz
- Harold Wilson
- Edward Heath
- James Callaghan
- Margaret Thatcher
- John Major
- Tony Blair
- Gordon Brown
- David Cameron
- Theresa May
- Liz Truss
- Rishi Sunak
- Charles de Gaulle
- Georges Pompidou
- Valery Giscard d Estaing
- Francois Mitterrand
- Jacques Chirac
- Nicolas Sarkozy
- Francois Hollande
- Emmanuel Macron
- Jawaharlal Nehru
- Lal Bahadur Shastri
- Indira Gandhi
- Morarji Desai
- P. V. Narasimha Rao
- Atal Bihari Vajpayee
- Manmohan Singh
- Me
- Cicero
- Augustine of Hippo
- Thomas Aquinas
- Marsilius of Padua
- Niccolo Machiavelli
- Jean Bodin
- Hugo Grotius
- Thomas Hobbes
- John Locke
- Montesquieu
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- David Hume
- Baruch de Spinoza
- Edmund Burke
- Adam Smith
- Immanuel Kant
- Hegel
- Benjamin Constant
- Alexis de Tocqueville
- Friedrich Engels
- John Stuart Mill
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
- Mikhail Bakunin
- Max Weber
- Emile Durkheim
- Antonio Labriola
- Laozi
- Leon Trotsky
- Norberto Bobbio
- Raymond Aron
- Georges Sorel
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty
- Carl J. Friedrich
- Hans Kelsen
- Otto Kirchheimer
- Talcott Parsons
- Benedetto Croce
- Giovanni Gentile
- Michel de Montaigne
- Etienne de La Boetie
- Algernon Sidney
- James Harrington
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- Johann Gottfried Herder
- Giuseppe Mazzini
- Charles Fourier
- Saint-Simon
- Robert Owen
- Protagoras
- Gorgias
- Jeremy Bentham
- Li Zhi
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
- John Dewey
- Frank Johnson Goodnow
- Charles Edward Merriam
- Walter Lippmann
- Carl Schmitt
- Leo Strauss
- Harold Lasswell
- Hans Morgenthau
- Hannah Arendt
- Isaiah Berlin
- Gabriel Almond
- Barrington Moore Jr.
- Robert Dahl
- Charles E. Lindblom
- David Easton
- James Buchanan
- Douglass North
- William Harrison Riker
- John Rawls
- Seymour Martin Lipset
- Giovanni Sartori
- Kenneth Waltz
- Juan Jose Linz
- Samuel P. Huntington
- Giovanni Arrighi
- Immanuel Wallerstein
- Jurgen Habermas
- Antonio Gramsci
- Karl Wolfgang Deutsch
- Elmer Eric Schattschneider
- Philip Converse
- Albert Angus Campbell
- David Truman
- Herbert Simon
- Mancur Olson
- Anthony Downs
- Charles Tilly
- James C. Scott
- Robert Putnam
- Charles Perrow
- Arend Lijphart
- Stein Rokkan
- Guillermo O Donnell
- Adam Przeworski
- Robert H. Bates
- Peter Gourevitch
- Peter Hall
- Paul Pierson
- Paul Sabatier
- Elinor Ostrom
- Vincent Ostrom
- Martha Nussbaum
- Amartya Sen
- Michael Walzer
- Ronald Dworkin
- Michael Sandel
- Alasdair MacIntyre
- Sheldon Wolin
- John Zaller
- Benjamin Page
- Philip Pettit
- Michael Doyle
- James March
- Graham Allison
- Charles Kupchan
- Peter Katzenstein
- Walter Russell Mead
- Robert Jervis
- Robert Keohane
- Joseph Nye
- Stanley Hoffmann
- Stephen Krasner
- Robert Cox
- Susan Strange
- John Mearsheimer
- Barry Posen
- Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
- Jack Snyder
- James Fearon
- Jeffrey Checkel
- Kathryn Sikkink
- Margaret Keck
- Thomas Risse
- Martha Finnemore
- Michael Barnett
- Alexander Wendt
- Alexander Cooley
- Dani Rodrik
- Daron Acemoglu
- James A. Robinson
- Timothy Besley
- Torsten Persson
- Guido Tabellini
- Barry Weingast
- Avner Greif
- Gary King
- Sidney Verba
- Gabriel Negretto
- Carles Boix
- Larry Diamond
- Pippa Norris
- Larry Bartels
- Gary Cox
- Mathew McCubbins
- Ken Shepsle
- Terry M. Moe
- George Tsebelis
- Frances E. Lee
- Sarah Binder
- Barbara Sinclair
- Richard Fenno
- David Mayhew
- Keith Krehbiel
- R Michael Alvarez
- Shanto Iyengar
- Morris Fiorina
- Christopher Achen
- Diana Mutz
- John Aldrich
- Jennifer Hochschild
- Taeku Lee
- Rodney Hero
- Claudine Gay
- Katherine Cramer
- Robert Erikson
- James Stimson
- Christopher Wlezien
- Larry Jacobs
- Frank Baumgartner
- Bryan D. Jones
- John Kingdon
- Jacob Hacker
- Kathleen Thelen
- Margaret Levi
- Ruth Berins Collier
- Evelyne Huber
- Scott Mainwaring
- Stathis Kalyvas
- Kurt Weyland
- Juan Pablo Luna
- Herbert Kitschelt
- Kathleen Bawn
- Adam Sheingate
- Charles Cameron
- Brandice Canes-Wrone
- David Collier
- Susan Stokes
- Carole Pateman
- Jane Mansbridge
- Bonnie Honig
- Iris Marion Young
- Nancy Fraser
- Chantal Mouffe
- Nancy Bermeo
- Daniel Ziblatt
- Steven Levitsky
- Mark Lichbach
- Samuel Popkin
- James Mahoney
- Vivien Schmidt
- Colin Crouch
- Michael Mann
- Saskia Sassen
- Craig Calhoun
- John Dryzek
- Archon Fung
- Bo Rothstein
- David Vogel
- David Held
- Judith Goldstein
- Jeffrey Lewis
- Eitan Hersh
- Justin Grimmer
- Arthur Lupia
- Thomas Carsey
- Lee Epstein
- Andrew Gelman
- Kosuke Imai
- Donald Green
- Alan Gerber
- James Druckman
- Nathaniel Beck
- Simon Jackman
- John Gerring
- Charles Ragin
- Sidney Tarrow
- Doug McAdam
- Robert Nozick
- Charles Taylor
- Michel Foucault
- Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann
- Peter Singer
- Anna Gryzmala-Busse
- Sheri Berman
- Torben Iversen
- Milan W. Svolik
- Randall Schweller
- Erik Voeten
- Nina Tannenwald
- Jennifer Mitzen
- Joseph Grieco
- Evan Medeiros
- Thomas Christensen
- Ian Shapiro
- David Laitin
- David Stasavage
- Wang Huning
- Minxin Pei
- Lin Hsin-i
- Yun-han Chu
- Chuan-Tiong Lin
- Sunhyuk Kim
- Sangho Kim
- Nicholas Onuf
- Judith Butler
- Hyungjun Park
- Masao Maruyama
- Koji Nakakita
- Masao Okonogi
- Fernando Henrique Cardoso
- Azmi Bishara
- Saad Eddin Ibrahim
- Bahgat Korany
- Lin Chia-lung
- Lin Chia-cheng
- Liu Shu-pin
- Huang Teh-fu
- Hsu Yung-ming
- Hsu Szu-chien
- Hao Pei-chih
- Yang Sung-chul
- Kim Dong-hoon
- Kim Han-jung
- Kim Nam-kuk
- Sung Eun Kim
- Jeong Jae-gwan
- Gu Yanwu
- Kang Woo-chang
- Lee Jae-myung
- Kuniko Inoguchi
- Takashi Inoguchi
- Kenichi Ito
- Genki Fujii
- Kumiko Haba
- Hozumi Yatsuka
- Ikuo Kabashima
- Kan Kimura
- Benjamin Lessing
- Joseph Asunka
- Christopher Isike
- Dikeledi Mokoena
- Tarek Masoud
- Jeannie Sowers
- Elizabeth Shakman Hurd
- Eliz Sanasarian
- Sun Tzu
- Yu Ying-shih
- Qin Hui
- Mou Zongsan
- Wang Shaoguang
- Justin Yifu Lin
- Zhang Weiwei
- Cui Zhiyuan
- Ren Jiantao
- Hu Shi
- Yang Du
- Huang Zongxi
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Maxim Gorky
- Georgy Malenkov
- Nikita Khrushchev
- Leonid Brezhnev
- Yuri Andropov
- Konstantin Chernenko
- Mikhail Gorbachev
- Boris Yeltsin
- Homer
- Dante Alighieri
- Boccaccio
- Cervantes
- John Milton
- Goethe
- Schiller
- Victor Hugo
- Honore de Balzac
- Gustave Flaubert
- Leo Tolstoy
- Anton Chekhov
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Mark Twain
- Ernest Hemingway
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Jorge Luis Borges
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Cao Xueqin
- Lu Xun
- Murasaki Shikibu
- Ryunosuke Akutagawa
- Yasunari Kawabata
- Yukio Mishima
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Franz Kafka
- Mike Pence
- Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
- Ruhollah Khomeini
- Ali Khamenei
- Nicolas Maduro
- Benjamin Netanyahu
- Volodymyr Zelensky
- Javier Milei
- JD Vance
- Kamala Harris
- Marco Rubio
- Julius Evola
- Henry George
- Andy Burnham
- Amity Blight