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The following is a list of notable anarchists, ordered by surname. - Alan Albon
- Diego Abad de Santillán
- Edward Abbey
- Pietro Acciarito
- Ramon Acin
- David Andrade
- Peter Arshinov
- Ba Jin
- Mikhail Bakunin
- Alexander Berkman
- Daniel Berrigan
- Philip Berrigan
- Bob Black
- Ian Bone
- Murray Bookchin
- Gaetano Bresci
- John CageJohn Milton Cage ( September 5, 1912 August 12, 1992) was an experimental music composer and writer, possibly best known (some might say notorious) for his piece 4 33 often described (somewhat erroneously) as "four and a half minutes of silence. He was an
- Agustin Garcia CalvoAgustin Garcia Calvo formed Acratas in 1967 at a Madrid University, influenced by new protest movement amongst students abroad.
- Lev Chernyi
- Noam ChomskyAvram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is an Institute Professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and creator of the Chomsky hierarchy, a classification of formal languages. His works in generative linguistics contributed si¹
- Stuart ChristieStuart Christie Scottish Anarchist is most notorious for his part in the Spanish resistance to the dictator Franco: he was arrested in 1964 carrying explosives to assassinate 'El Caudillo'. Sentenced to twenty years, he served three, being released due to
- Voltairine de CleyreVoltairine de Cleyre ( November 17, 1866 June 6, 1912) was, according to Emma Goldman, "the most gifted and brilliant anarchist woman America ever produced"; yet, even among most anarchists, she is today almost completely unknown. Born on November 17, 186
- Alex ComfortAlexander Comfort ( February 10, 1920 March 26, 2000) was a medical professional, anarchist, pacifist and writer, best known as of 2003 for The Joy of Sex which played a part what is often called the sexual revolution. He was also the author of many other
- Sam DolgoffSam Dolgoff ( 1902- 1990) was an American anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist. Dolgoff was born in Russia, moving as a child to New York City, where he lived in the Bronx and in Manhattan's Lower East Side where he died. His father was a house painter, and
- Buenaventura DurrutiBuenaventura Durruti ( July 14 1896 in Leon, Spain November 20 1936) was a central figure of Spanish anarchism during the period leading up to and during the Spanish Civil War. He started work aged 14 in the railway yard in Leon. In 1917 the Union General
- Lorenzo Komboa Ervin
- Giuseppi Fanelli
- Félix Fénéon
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- Allen Ginsberg
- William Godwin
- Emma Goldman
- Paul Goodman
- Dennis Gould
- Daniel Guérin
- Clifford Harper
- "Big Bill" Haywood
- Joe Hill
- Abbie Hoffman
- Ted Kaczynski
- Peter Kropotkin
- Ursula K. Le Guin
- Anselmo Lorenzo
- Ricardo Flores Magón
- Nestor Makhno
- Errico Malatesta
- Judith Malina
- Subcomandante Marcos¹
- Gregori Maximoff
- Jason McQuinn
- Albert Meltzer
- Louise Michel
- Henry Miller
- Cindy Milstein
- Federica Montseny
- Peter Neville
- Jeff Nuttall
- Garcia Oliver
- Thomas Paine¹
- Albert Parsons
- Lucy Parsons
- Fernand Pelloutier
- Fredy Perlman
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
- Angelo Quattrocchi
- Vernon Richards
- Rudolf Rocker
- Donald Rooum
- Mark Rothko
- Jerry Rubin
- Nicola Sacco (of ' Sacco and Vanzetti')
- Jaggi Singh
- Kotoku Shusui
- Antonio Diaz Soto Y Gama
- Lysander Spooner
- Starhawk
- Max Stirner¹
- Robert Thaxton
- Henry David Thoreau¹
- Leo Tolstoy
- Benjamin Tucker
- Colin Ward
- Charlotte Wilson
- Ross Winn
- George Woodcock
- Martin Wright
- Bartolomeo Vanzetti (of 'Sacco and Vanzetti')
- Victor Yarros
- Emiliano Zapata¹
- John Zerzan
- Howard Zinn
¹ - These individuals have not applied the label "anarchist" to themselves, perhaps because they predated its popular usage (as with Thoreau), or because they dislike catch-all labels ( Subcomandante Marcos is never one to use specifics; Chomsky has called himself an anarchist "fellow-traveller").
The following is a list of notable anarchist music bands
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