| Person | Discipline | Lived |
| Noam Chomsky | |
| Max Weber | |
| Wilhelm Wundt | |
| Adam Smith | |
| Leon Festinger | |
| David Ricardo | |
| Ludwig Wittgenstein | |
| Emile Durkheim | |
| John Rawls | |
| Pierre Bourdieu | |
| Francis Fukuyama | |
| William James | |
| H.L.A. Hart | |
| Simone de Beauvoir | |
| John Kenneth Galbraith | |
| Clifford Geertz | |
| Daniel Bell | |
| Auguste Comte | |
| | Person | Discipline | Lived |
| Samuel Huntington | |
| Amartya Sen | |
| Robert Putnam | |
| Joseph Schumpeter | |
| Karl Polanyi | |
| Charles Sanders Peirce | |
| Ronald Dworkin | |
| Mary Wollstonecraft | |
| Jean Piaget | |
| Claude Levi-Strauss | |
| W.V.O. Quine | |
| Thomas Malthus | |
| Margaret Mead | |
| Abraham Maslow | |
| Harold Lasswell | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. | |
| Elizabeth Anscombe | |
| Anthony Giddens | |
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