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This is a list of the major figures of the ideology of Communism who are so self-identified. It does not include figures of Evolutionary Socialism or Anarcho-socialism, who also accepted some of Marx's tenets. For a broader list of all socialists, see List of socialists.

• Man Mohan Adhikari (1920-1999, Nepal)
• Yuri Andropov (1914-1984, USSR)
• Julio Anguita (1941-, Spain)
• Bob Avakian (?, USA)
• Hardial Bains (1939-1997, Canada)
• Vladimir Bakaric (1912-1983, YugoslaviaYugoslavia Jugoslavija in all south Slavic languages) is a term used for three separate political entities that existed during most of the 20th century. Translated, the name means Land of the South Slavs jug in Jugoslavija means south). The first was a ki)
• Jyoti BasuJyoti Basu communist politician from West Bengal, India. Polit Bureau member of Communist Party of India (Marxist). Chief Minister of West Bengal 1977- 2000. Born July 8, 1914 in Calcutta. Grew up in a Bengali middle class family. Basu's father was a judg (1914-, IndiaThe Republic of India is a large multicultural country in South Asia, with a population of over one billion. The Indian economy is the fourth largest in the world, in terms of purchasing power parity, and is the world's second-fastest growing economy.)
• Lavrenty BeriaLavrenty Pavlovich Beria ( Russian: ) ( 29 March, 1899 23 December, 1953), Soviet politician and police chief, is remembered chiefly as the executor of Joseph Stalin's Great Purge of the 1930s, although in fact he presided only over the closing stages of (1899-1953, USSR)
• Enrico BerlinguerEnrico Berlinguer ( May 25, 1922 June 11, 1984), was an Italian politician and was national secretary of the Italian Communist Party (Partito Comunista Italiano or PCI) from 1972 to 1984. Early Career The son of Mario Berlinguer and Maria Loriga, Enrico w (1922-1984, ItalyThe Italian Republic or Italy ( Italian: Italia is a country in the south of Europe, consisting mainly of a boot-shaped peninsula together with two large islands in the Mediterranean Sea: Sicily and Sardinia. To the north, where it borders France, Switzer)
• Norman BethuneStatue of Bethune in Montreal Dr. Henry Norman Bethune ( March 30, 1890 November 12, 1939) was a Canadian physician, medical innovator, and humanitarian. Bethune was born in Gravenhurst, Ontario, Canada. A surgeon, he travelled to Spain (1936-1937) and Ch (1890-1939, Canada)
• Boleslaw Bierut (1892-1956, Poland)
• Maurice Bishop (1944-1983, Grenada)
• Amadeo Bordiga (1889-1970, Italy)
• Leonid Brezhnev (1906-1982, USSR)
• Earl Browder (1891-1973, USA)
• Tim Buck (1891-1973, Canada)
• Nikolai Bukharin (1888-1938, USSR)
• James P. Cannon (1890-1974, USA)
• Santiago Carrillo (1918-, Spain)
• Carlos Carvalhas (1941, Portugal)
• Fidel Castro (1926-, Cuba)
• Nicolae Ceausescu (1918-1989, Romania)
• Michel Chartrand (1916-, Canada)
• Konstantin Chernenko (1911-1985, USSR)
• Horloogiyn Choybalsan (1895-1952, Mongolia)
• James Connolly (1868-1916, Ireland)
• Álvaro Cunhal (1913-, Portugal)
• Pushpa Kamal Dahal (b. ?, Nepal)
• Angela Davis (1944-, USA)
• Deng Xiaoping (1904-1997, PRC)
• Eugene Dennis (1905-1961, USA)
• Georgi Dimitrov (1882-1949, Bulgaria)
• Milovan Dilas (1911-1997, Yugoslavia)
• Aleksandr Dugin (1962-, Russia)
• Rajani Palme Dutt (1896-1974, United Kingdom)
• Friedrich Engels (1820-1895, Germany)
• William Z. Foster (1891-1961, USA)
• William Gallacher (1881-1965, United Kingdom)
• John Gates (1913-, USA)
• Edward Gierek (1913-2001, Poland)
• Wladyslaw Gomulka (1905-1982, Poland)
• Mikhail Gorbachev (1930-, USSR)
• Klement Gottwald (1896-1953, Czechoslovakia)
• Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937, Italy)
• Ted Grant (1913-, United Kingdom)
• Che Guevara (1928-1967, Argentina)
• Abimael Guzmán (1934-, Peru)
• Gus Hall (1910-2000, USA)
• Chris Hani (1942-1993, South Africa)
• Erich Honecker (1912-1994, GDR)
• Enver Hoxha (1908-1985, Albania)
• Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969, Vietnam)
• Hu Jintao (1942-, PRC)
• Robert Hue (1946-, France)
• Gustáv Husák (1913-1991, Czechoslovakia)
• Dolores Ibárruri (1895-1989, Spain)
• Wojciech Jaruzelski (1923-, Poland)
• Jiang Zemin (1926-, PRC)
• János Kádár (1912-1989, Hungary)
• Lazar Kaganovich (1893-1991, USSR)
• Edvard Kardelj (1910-1979, Yugoslavia)
• Babrak Karmal (1929-1996, Afghanistan)
• Kaysone Phomvihan (1920-1992, Laos)
• Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971, USSR)
• Kim Il-sung (1912-1994, DPRK)
• Kim Jong-il (1942-, DPRK)
• Béla Kun (1886-1939, Hungary)
• Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924, USSR)
• Daniel De Leon (1852-1914, USA)
• Karl Liebknecht (1871-1919, Germany)
• Luigi Longo (1900-1980, Italy)
• Jay Lovestone (1897-1990, USA)
• Rosa Luxemburg (1870-1919, Germany)
• Mao Zedong (1893-1976, PRC)
• A.A. MacLeod ( Canada)
• Georgy Malenkov (1902-1988, USSR)
• Georges Marchais (1920-1997, France)
• Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979, Germany)
• Sam Marcy (1911-1998, USA)
• Karl Marx (1818-1883, Germany)
• Govan Mbeki (1910-2001, South Africa)
• Anastas Mikoyan (1895-1978, USSR)
• Vyacheslav Molotov (1890-1986, USSR)
• E. M. S. Namboodiripad (1909-1998, India)
• Agostinho Neto (1922-1979, Angola)
• Dorise Nielson (1902-1980, Canada)
• Abdullah Öcalan (1949-, Turkey)
• Sylvia Pankhurst (1882-1960, United Kingdom)
• Anton Pannekoek (1873-1960, Netherlands)
• Ana Pauker (1893-1960, Romania)
• Jacob Penner (1880-1965, Canada)
• Phil Piratin (1907-, United Kingdom)
• Harry Pollitt (1890-1960, United Kingdom)
• Pol Pot (1925-1998, Cambodia)
• Luís Carlos Prestes (1898-1990, Brazil)
• Mátyás Rákosi (1892-1971, Hungary)
• Fernando Rosas (1946-, Portugal)
• Fred Rose, (1907-1983), Canada)
• J.B. Salsberg (1903-1998, Canada)
• Max Shachtman (1904-1972, USA)
• Joe Slovo (1926-1995, South Africa)
• Maurice Spector (1898-1968, Canada)
• Joseph Stalin (1879-1953, USSR)
• Ta Mok (1926-, Cambodia)
• Ernst Thälmann (1886-1944, Germany)
• Maurice Thorez (1900-1964, France)
• Josip Broz Tito (1892-1980, SFRY)
• Palmiro Togliatti (1893-1964, Italy)
• Leon Trotsky (1879-1936, USSR)
• Yumjaagiyn Tsedenbal (1916-1991, Mongolia)
• Walter Ulbricht (1893-1973, Germany)
• Yusuf Salman Yusuf (1901-1949, Iraq)
• Todor Zhivkov (1911-1998, Bulgaria)
• Gennady Zyuganov (1944-, Russian Federation)