| Name | Place of birth | Place of death | Nationality | Life | Tendency |
|---|
| Victor Adler | Prague,Austria-Hungary | Vienna,Austria | Austrian | 1852–1918 | Social democracy,Austro-Marxism |
| Theodor W. Adorno[1] | Frankfurt am Main,Hesse-Nassau Province,Prussia,Germany | Visp,Visp,Valais,Switzerland | German | 1903–1969 | Frankfurt School,Western Marxism |
| Louis Althusser | Birmendreïs,French Algeria | Paris,France | French | 1918–1990 | Western Marxism,Structural Marxism,Leninism |
| Samir Amin | Cairo,Egypt | Paris,France | Egyptian and French | 1931–2018 | Third Worldism,Maoism,World-systems theory |
| Otto Bauer | Vienna,Austria-Hungary | Paris,France | Austrian | 1881–1938 | Social Democracy,Austro-Marxism |
| Walter Benjamin[2][3][4] | Berlin,German Empire | Portbou,Catalonia,Spain | German | 1892–1940 | Western Marxism,Marxist hermeneutics |
| Franco "Bifo" Berardi | Bologna,Italy | Still Living | Italian | 1949– | Autonomism |
| Eduard Bernstein | Schöneberg,German Confederation | Berlin,Germany | German | 1850–1932 | Social democracy,Marxist revisionism |
| Caio Prado Júnior | São Paulo,Brazil | São Paulo,Brazil | Brazilian | 1907–1990 | Marxism |
| Ernst Bloch[5] | Ludwigshafen,Germany | Tübingen,West Germany | German | 1885–1977 | Western Marxism,Marxist hermeneutics,Marxist humanism |
| Amadeo Bordiga | Ercolano,Kingdom of Italy | Formia,Italy | Italian | 1889–1970 | ItalianLeft communism,Leninism |
| Bertolt Brecht[6] | Augsburg,German Empire | East Berlin,East Germany | German | 1898–1956 | Marxist literary criticism |
| Nikolai Bukharin | Moscow,Russian Empire | Kommunarka shooting ground,Russian SFSR,Soviet Union | Russian | 1888–1938 | Bolshevism,Left communism (initially),Right opposition (later on) |
| Jacques Camatte | Plan-de-Cuques, Alpes-Maritimes,France | France | French | 1935–2025 | Bordigism,Anarcho-primitivism (later on),Communization (later on) |
| Cornelius Castoriadis[7] | Constantinople,Ottoman Empire | Paris,France | Greek and French | 1922–1997 | Western Marxism,Post-Marxism,Psychoanalytic Marxism,Libertarian socialism |
| Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya[8] | Calcutta,British Raj | Calcutta,India | Indian | 1918–1993 | Marxism |
| V. Gordon Childe | Sydney,Colony of New South Wales | Blackheath, New South Wales,Australia | Australian | 1892–1957 | Marxist archaeology |
| G. A. Cohen | Montreal,Quebec,Canada | Oxford,England | Canadian | 1941–2009 | Analytical Marxism |
| James Connolly | Cowgate,Edinburgh,Scotland,United Kingdom | Kilmainham Gaol,Dublin, Ireland | Irish and Scottish | 1868–1916 | Marxism,Irish republicanism |
| Onorato Damen | Monte San Pietrangeli,Italy | Milan | Italian | 1893–1979 | ItalianLeft communism |
| Gilles Dauvé | France | Still living | French | 1947– | Left communism,Communization |
| Angela Davis | Birmingham, Alabama | Still Living | American | 1944– | Marxist feminism |
| Guy Debord | Paris,France | Bellevue-la-Montagne,Haute-Loire,France | French | 1931–1994 | Situationism |
| Daniel De Leon | Curaçao | New York,State of New York,United States | American | 1852–1914 | De Leonism,Syndicalism |
| Joseph Dietzgen[9] | Blankenberg (nowHennef,German Confederation | Chicago,Illinois,United States | German | 1828–1888 | Marxism |
| Raya Dunayevskaya | Yaryshev,Russian Empire (today,Vinnytsia Oblast,Ukraine) | Chicago,Illinois,United States | American | 1910–1987 | Marxist humanism |
| Terry Eagleton | Salford,Lancashire,England,United Kingdom | Still living | British | 1942– | Marxism |
| Gilles Deleuze | Paris,France | Paris,France | French | 1925–1995 | Freudo-Marxism,Post-Marxism |
| Arghiri Emmanuel | Patras,Greece | Paris,France | Greek | 1911–2001 | Unequal exchange |
| Friedrich Engels | Barmen,Kingdom of Prussia (todayWuppertal,Germany) | London,United Kingdom | German | 1820–1895 | Classical Marxism |
| Frantz Fanon | Fort-de-France,Martinique,France | Bethesda, Maryland,United States | French | 1925–1961 | Marxist humanism,Pan-Africanism,Decolonization |
| John Bellamy Foster | Seattle, Washington,United States | Still living | American | 1953– | Marxism |
| Herman Gorter | Wormerveer | Saint-Josse-ten-Noode,Brussels | Dutch | 1864–1927 | Council communism |
| Antonio Gramsci | Ales,Sardinia,Italy | Rome,Lazio,Italy | Italian | 1891–1937 | Gramscianism,Western Marxism,Marxist humanism,Neo-Marxism |
| Félix Guattari | Villeneuve-les-Sablons,France | Cour-Cheverny,France | French | 1930–1992 | Freudo-Marxism,Post-Marxism |
| Ernesto "Che" Guevara[10][11][12] | Rosario, Santa Fe,Argentina | La Higuera,Vallegrande,Bolivia | Argentine | 1928–1967 | Marxism-Leninism,Guevarism |
| Abimael Guzmán (Gonzalo)[13][better source needed] | Arequipa,Peru | Callao,Peru | Peruvian | 1934–2021 | Marxism-Leninism-Maoism,Gonzalo thought |
| Ted Grant | Germiston,South Africa | London,United Kingdom | South African and British | 1913–2006 | Trotskyism |
| David Harvey | Gillingham, Kent,England,United Kingdom | Still living | British | 1935– | Marxist geography |
| Harry Haywood | South Omaha,Nebraska,United States | Ann Arbor,Michigan,United States | American | 1898–1985 | Marxism-Leninism |
| Rudolf Hilferding | Vienna,Austria-Hungary | Paris,France | Austrian and German | 1877–1941 | Austro-Marxism |
| Max Horkheimer | Zuffenhausen (nowStuttgart),Württemberg,German Empire | Nuremberg,Bavaria,West Germany | German | 1895–1973 | Frankfurt School,Western Marxism |
| Ho Chi Minh | Nghệ An Province,French Indochina | Hanoi,North Vietnam | Vietnamese | 1890–1969 | Marxism-Leninism,Ho Chi Minh Thought |
| Enver Hoxha | Ergiri (todayGjirokastër),Janina Vilayet,Ottoman Empire | Tirana,People's Socialist Republic of Albania | Albanian | 1908–1985 | Marxism-Leninism,Mao Zedong Thought (initially),Hoxhaism |
| C.L.R. James | Trinidad | London,United Kingdom | Trinidadian and British | 1901–1989 | Marxism,Pan-Africanism,Anti-Stalinist left |
| Fredric Jameson | Cleveland,Ohio,United States | Killingworth, Connecticut,United States | American | 1934–2024 | Western Marxism,Marxist hermeneutics |
| Kojin Karatani[citation needed] | Amagasaki,Hyogo Prefecture,Japan | Still living | Japanese | 1941– | Marxist literary criticism |
| Edvard Kardelj[citation needed] | Ljubljana,Duchy of Carniola,Austria-Hungary | Ljubljana,Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia | Yugoslavian | 1910–1979 | Titoism |
| Karl Kautsky | Prague,Austria-Hungary | Amsterdam,Netherlands | Czech, Austrian and German | 1854–1938 | Orthodox Marxism |
| İbrahim Kaypakkaya[citation needed] | Çorum,Turkey | Çorum,Turkey | Turkish | 1949–1973 | Maoism |
| Kim Il-Sung[citation needed] | Chingjong,Korea | Hyangsan,Korea | Korean | 1912–1994 | Marxism-Leninism,Juche |
| Jim Kemmy[citation needed] | Limerick,Ireland | Limerick,Ireland | Irish | 1936–1997 | Marxism |
| Alexandra Kollontai[14] | St Petersburg,Russian Empire | Moscow,Russian SFSR,Soviet Union | Soviet | 1872–1952 | Marxist feminism,Bolshevism |
| Karl Korsch | Tostedt,German Empire | Belmont,Massachusetts,United States | German | 1886–1961 | Western Marxism |
| Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi | Kosben, (nowGoa)British Raj | Pune, Maharashtra,India | Indian | 1907–1966 | Marxism |
| Yalçın Küçük[citation needed] | İskenderun,Hatay,Turkey | Still living | Turkish | 1938– | Marxism |
| Antonio Labriola | Cassino,Papal States | Rome,Kingdom of Italy | Italian | 1843–1904 | Marxism |
| Paul Lafargue | Santiago de Cuba | Draveil,France | French | 1842–1911 | Marxism,Anti-work |
| Henri Lefebvre[15] | Hagetmau,France | Navarrenx,France | French | 1901–1991 | Western Marxism,Hegelian Marxism |
| Vladimir Lenin | Simbirsk,Russian Empire | Gorki Leninskiye,Russian SFSR,Soviet Union | Soviet | 1870–1924 | Leninism,Bolshevism |
| Karl Liebknecht | Leipzig,Kingdom of Saxony,German Empire | Berlin,Weimar Republic | German | 1871–1919 | Spartacism |
| Domenico Losurdo | Sannicandro di Bari,Kingdom of Italy | Ancona,Italy | Italian | 1941–2018 | Marxism |
| Georg Lukács | Budapest,Austria-Hungary | Budapest,People's Republic of Hungary | Hungarian | 1885–1971 | Budapest School,Western Marxism,Hegelian Marxism,Leninism |
| Rosa Luxemburg | Zamość,Vistula Land,Russian Empire | Berlin,Germany | Polish and German | 1871–1919 | Spartacism |
| Herbert Marcuse | Berlin,German Empire | Starnberg,West Germany | German | 1898–1979 | Frankfurt School,Western Marxism |
| José Carlos Mariátegui[16][17] | Moquegua,Peru | Lima,Peru | Peruvian | 1894–1930 | Marxism,Sorelianism |
| Andreas Malm | Mölndal,Sweden | Still living | Swedish | 1977– | Marxism |
| Karl Marx | Trier,Kingdom of Prussia | London,United Kingdom | Prussian and German | 1818–1883 | Classical Marxism |
| Paul Mattick | Stolp,Pomerania,German Empire (nowPoland) | Cambridge,Massachusetts,United States | German | 1904–1981 | Council communism |
| Andy Merrifield | Liverpool,Merseyside,England,United Kingdom | Still living | British | 1960– | "Magical Marxism" |
| István Mészáros | Budapest,Hungary | Margate,England | Hungary | 1930–2017 | Marxism |
| Antonio Negri | Padua,Italy | Paris,France | Italian | 1933–2023 | Autonomism |
| Kwame Nkrumah | Nkroful,Gold Coast (nowGhana) | Bucharest,Romania | Ghanaian | 1909–1972 | Nkrumahism |
| Abdullah Öcalan[citation needed] | Ömerli, Şanlıurfa,Turkey | Still living | Turkish Kurdish | 1948– | Democratic confederalism |
| Sylvia Pankhurst[citation needed] | Manchester,Lancashire,England,United Kingdom | Addis Ababa,Ethiopia | British and Ethiopian | 1882–1960 | Council communism |
| Anton Pannekoek | Vaassen,Netherlands | Wageningen,Netherlands | Dutch | 1873–1960 | Council communism |
| Evgeny Pashukanis | Staritsa,Russian Empire | Soviet Union | Russian | 1891–1937 | Leninism |
| Georgi Plekhanov | Gudalovka (nowGryazinsky District),Tambov Governorate,Russian Empire | Terijoki, Finland | Russian | 1856–1918 | Marxism |
| Bijan Jazani[citation needed] | Tehran,Iran | Tehran,Iran | Iranian | 1938–1975 | Marxism |
| Nicos Poulantzas | Athens,Greece | Paris,France | Greek | 1936–1979 | Structural Marxism,Leninism (initially),Democratic socialism (later on) |
| Isaak Illich Rubin | Dinaburg,Russian Empire | Aktobe,Kazakh SSR,USSR | Soviet Union | 1886–1937 | Marxism |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | Paris,France | Paris, France | French | 1905–1980 | Neo-Marxism,Existentialism |
| Jose Maria Sison[18][19][better source needed] | Ilocos Sur,Philippines | Utrecht,Netherlands | Filipino | 1939 - 2022 | Marxism-Leninism-Maoism |
| Alfred Sohn-Rethel | Neuilly-sur-Seine,France | Bremen,West Germany | German | 1899–1990 | Marxism |
| Mahdi Amel[citation needed] | Harouf,Lebanon | Beirut,Lebanon | Lebanese | 1936–1987 | Marxism |
| Joseph Stalin[20][21] | Gori,Tiflis Governorate,Russian Empire | Kuntsevo Dacha nearMoscow,Russian SFSR,Soviet Union | Soviet | 1878–1953 | Marxism-Leninism,Stalinism |
| Paul Sweezy | New York City,New York,United States | Larchmont,New York (state),United States | American | 1910–2004 | Neo-Marxism |
| Josip Broz Tito[dubious –discuss] | Kumrovec,Croatia-Slavonia,Austria-Hungary | Ljubljana,SR Slovenia,SFR Yugoslavia | Yugoslavian | 1892–1980 | Marxism-Leninism,Titoism |
| Leon Trotsky | Yelizavetgrad,Kherson Governorate,Russian Empire | Coyoacán,Distrito Federal,Mexico | Soviet | 1879–1940 | Leninism,Bolshevism,Trotskyism |
| Alberto Toscano | Italy | Still living | Italy | 1977– | Western Marxism |
| Raymond Williams | Llanfihangel Crucorney,Wales,United Kingdom | Saffron Walden,England,United Kingdom | British ( Welsh) | 1921–1988 | Western Marxism,New Left |
| Karl August Wittfogel | Woltersdorf, Lower Saxony,Province of Hanover,German Empire | New York,State of New York,United States | German and American | 1896–1988 | Marxism |
| Mao Zedong | Shaoshan,Hunan,Qing Dynasty | Beijing,People's Republic of China | Chinese | 1893–1976 | Marxism-Leninism,Maoism |
| Slavoj Žižek | Ljubljana,SR Slovenia,SFR Yugoslavia | Still living | Slovene ( Yugoslavian beforeDissolution of Yugoslavia) | 1949– | Western Marxism,Hegelian Marxism,Psychoanalytic Marxism |