The 100 Most Influential Philosophers

As it is difficult to create a definitive list of the 100 most influential philosophers as the impact and influence of a philosopher can vary depending on various factors such as the historical context, cultural background, and personal interpretations. However, here is a list of some philosophers who have had a significant impact on the development of philosophy and have influenced countless others:

1. Socrates – Read more about Socrates
2. Plato – Read more about Plato
3. Aristotle
4. Immanuel Kant
5. Friedrich Nietzsche
6. René Descartes
7. Martin Heidegger
8. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
9. Thomas Aquinas
10. John Locke
11. Baruch Spinoza
12. David Hume
13. Blaise Pascal
14. G.W.F. Hegel
15. Karl Marx
16. Søren Kierkegaard
17. Albert Einstein
18. Sigmund Freud
19. Hannah Arendt
20. Martin Buber
21. Max Weber
22. Ludwig Wittgenstein
23. Michel Foucault
24. Jacques Derrida
25. Jean Baudrillard
26. Friedrich Hayek
27. Noam Chomsky
28. Jürgen Habermas
29. Ayn Rand
30. C.S. Lewis
31. Simone de Beauvoir
32. Isaiah Berlin
33. Richard Rorty
34. Alan Watts
35. Martha Nussbaum
36. J.L. Mackie
37. Iris Murdoch
38. John Rawls
39. Michael Sandel
40. Bernard Williams
41. Charles Taylor
42. Amartya Sen
43. Daniel Dennett
44. Hilary Putnam
45. Thomas Nagel
46. Robert Nozick
47. John Searle
48. Paul Ricoeur
49. Michel de Montaigne
50. Francis Bacon
51. Roger Scruton
52. Tzvetan Todorov
53. Slavoj Žižek
54. Jean-Paul Sartre
55. Gaston Bachelard
56. Claude Lévi-Strauss
57. Roland Barthes
58. Jacques Lacan
59. Gilles Deleuze
60. Félix Guattari
61. Emmanuel Levinas
62. Michel Serres
63. Jean-François Lyotard
64. Jacques Attali
65. Pierre Bourdieu
66. Bruno Latour
67. Alain Badiou
68. Nicolas Bourbaki
69. André Breton
70. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
71. Henri Bergson
72. Edmund Husserl
73. Carl Jung
74. Jean Piaget
75. Lev Vygotsky
76. Erich Fromm
77. Abraham Maslow
78. Carl Rogers
79. Rollo May
80. Viktor Frankl
81. B.F. Skinner
82. Jane Addams
83. W.E.B. Du Bois
84. John Dewey
85. Walter Benjamin
86. Theodor Adorno
87. Max Horkheimer
88. Herbert Marcuse
89. Jürgen Habermas
90. Frantz Fanon
91. Paulo Freire
92. Homi K. Bhabha
93. Edward Said
94. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
95. bell hooks
96. Jacques Rancière
97. Michael Hardt
98. Antonio Negri
99. Judith Butler
100. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

This list is not exhaustive and is meant to be.