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Among the School of Brentano are counted (place and period they studied with Brentano):

• Carl Stumpf ( Würzburg, 1866 - 1870)
• Edmund Husserl ( Vienna, 1884 - 1886 )
• Alexius Meinong ( Vienna, 1875 - 1878)
• Christian von Ehrenfels
• Kazimierz Twardowski (Vienna, 1885 - 1889Events January-April January 8 Herman Hollerith receives a patent for his electric tabulating machine January 22 Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, DC. February 11 Meiji Constitution of Japan adopted; 1st Diet convenes in 1890 January 30 ? Crown)
• Anton Marty ( Würzburg, 1866 - 1870)
• Alois Höfler
• Tomás MasarykTomaS Garrigue Masaryk (sometimes called Thomas Masaryk in English) ( March 7, 1850 September 14, 1937) was a Czechoslovak independence advocate who became the first President of Czechoslovakia. Masaryk was born in Hodonin, Moravia, then part of the Austr
• Sigmund FreudSigmund Freud ( May 6, 1856 September 23, 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychology, a movement that popularized the theory that unconscious motives control much behavior. He became interested in hypnotis

Brentano's students were in their turn founders of new schools or movements:

• Stumpf taught Aron Gurwitsch and became the head of the Berlin School ( Max Wertheimer, Kurt Koffka, Wolfgang Köhler)
• Husserl founded the phenomenological movement, influencing:
  • Munich phenomenology ( Johannes Daubert , Adolf Reinach)
  • existential phenomenology ( Jean-Paul Sartre, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Martin Heidegger)
• Meinong was the head of the Graz School and influenced among others Stephan Witasek , Alois Höfler , Vittorio Benussi and Bertrand Russell.
• Christian von Ehrenfels is credited with the introduction of the notion of Gestalt, which led to the establishment of Gestalt psychology.
• Twardowski was the teacher of Tadeusz Kotarbinski and became the "father of Polish logic" as patron of the Lvov-Warsaw school ( Jan Lukasiewicz, Stanislaw Lesniewski, Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz and Alfred Tarski)
• Marty and his disciple Karl Bühler developed an detailed theory of language, which influenced Reinach (who developed a theory of speech acts long before John Austin).

Also scholars such as Bertrand Russell, Roderick Chisholm, George Edward Moore, Gilbert Ryle, John Searle have propagated Brentano's influence to analytic philosophy through their research, editions and publications.

Through the works and teachings of his pupils the philosophy of Franz Brentano has been spread far and wide and indirectly influenced many if not most of the debates in contemporary philosophy, cognitive science and philosophy of mind.