| | Geboortedatum | Overlijdensdatum | Geboorteplaats | Overlijdensplaats | Stroming |
|---|
| Thales van Milete (ca.652 - ca.545 v. Chr.) | 652 BC JL | 545 BC JL | | | |
| Confucius (551-479 v.Chr.) | 28 oktober 551 BC JL | 479 BC JL | | | |
| Parmenides van Elea (ca 540 - ca 480 v. Chr.) | 540 BC JL | 480 BC JL | | | |
| Heraclitus (ca.535-Ca.475 v.Chr.) | 535 BC JL | 475 BC JL | | | |
| Socrates (469-399 v. Chr.) | 469 BC JL | 399 BC JL | | | |
| Plato (428-347 v.chr.) | 428 BC JL | 347 BC JL | | | |
| Aristoteles (384-322 v.Chr.) | 384 BC JL | 322 BC JL | | | |
| Epicurus (341-270 v.Chr.) | 341 BC JL | 270 BC JL | | | |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 v.Chr.) | 6 januari 106 BC JL | 7 december 43 BC JL | | | |
| Lucius Annaeus Seneca (± 4 v.Chr-65 n.Chr) | 4 BC JL | | | | |
| Augustinus van Hippo (354-430) | | | | | |
| Alcuinus van York (ca. 735-804) | | | | | |
| Avicenna (ca. 980–1037) | | | | | |
| Anselmus van Canterbury (1033-1109) | | | | | |
| Al-Ghazali (1058-1111) | | | | | |
| Averroës (1126-1198) | | | | | |
| Roger Bacon (1214 - 1294) | | | | | |
| Thomas van Aquino (1225-1274) | | | | | |
| Nicolaas van Cusa (1401-1464) | | | | | |
| Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499) | | | | | |
| Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494) | | | | | |
| Thomas More (1478-1535) | | | | | |
| Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) | | | | | |
| Sen no Rikyū (1522-1591) | | | | | |
| Jean Bodin (1530-1596) | | | | | |
| Étienne de La Boétie (1530-1563) | | | | | |
| Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) | | | | | |
| Francis Bacon (1561–1626) | | | | | |
| Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) | | | | | |
| Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639) | | | | | |
| Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) | | | | | |
| René Descartes (1596-1650) | | | | | |
| John Locke (1632–1704) | | | | | |
| Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) | | | | | |
| Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) | | | | | |
| Gottfried Wilhelm (von) Leibniz (1646 – 1716) | | | | | |
| Jean Meslier (1664-1729) | | | | | |
| Christian Freiherr von Wolff (1679 - 1754) | | | | | |
| George Berkeley (1685-1753) | | | | | |
| Charles de Montesquieu (1689-1755) | | | | | |
| Voltaire (1694 - 1778) | | | | | |
| David Hume (1711–1776) | | | | | |
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) | | | | | |
| Adam Smith (1723-1790) | | | | | |
| Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) | | | | | |
| Edmund Burke (1729–1797) | | | | | |
| Johann Gottfried von Herder (1744-1803) | | | | | |
| Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) | | | | | |
| William Godwin (1756-1836) | | | | | |
| Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762-1814) | | | | | |
| Johannes Kinker (1764–1845) | | | | | |
| Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) | | | | | |
| Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775-1854) | | | | | |
| Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) | | | | | |
| Auguste Comte (1798-1857) | | | | | |
| Ludwig Feuerbach (1804-1872) | | | | | |
| Max Stirner (1806-1856) | | | | | |
| Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865) | | | | | |
| Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) | | | | | |
| Mikhail Bakunin (1814–1876) | | | | | |
| Karl Heinrich Marx (1818-1883) | | | | | |
| Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911) | | | | | |
| Franz Brentano (1838-1917) | | | | | |
| Ernst Mach (1838-1916) | | | | | |
| Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) | | | | | |
| Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) | | | | | |
| Hans Vaihinger (1852–1933) | | | | | |
| Georg Simmel (1858-1918) | | | | | |
| Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) | | | | | |
| Henri Bergson (1859-1941) | | | | | |
| John Dewey (1859-1952) | | | | | |
| Paul Valéry (1871-1945) | | | | | |
| Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) | | | | | |
| Ernst Cassirer (1874-1945) | | | | | |
| Max Scheler (1874-1928) | | | | | |
| Oswald Spengler (1880-1936) | | | | | |
| José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955) | | | | | |
| Ernst Bloch (1885-1977) | | | | | |
| Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) | | | | | |
| Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) | | | | | |
| Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) | | | | | |
| Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) | | | | | |
| Max Horkheimer (1895-1973) | | | | | |
| Norbert Elias (1897-1990) | | | | | |
| Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979) | | | | | |
| Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-2002) | | | | | |
| Erich Fromm (1900–1980) | | | | | |
| Sir Karl Raimund Popper (1902–1994) | | | | | |
| Maria Zambrano (1904–1991) | | | | | |
| John Wisdom (1904-1993) | | | | | |
| Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) | | | | | |
| Ayn Rand (1905-1982) | | | | | |
| Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) | | | | | |
| Michael Oakeshott (1901-1990) | | | | | |
| Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) | | | | | |
| Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) | | | | | |
| Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) | | | | | |
| Roland Barthes (1915-1980) | | | | | |
| John Rawls (1921-2002) | | | | | |
| Thomas Samuel Kuhn (1922-1996) | | | | | |
| Joseph Margolis (1924-2021) | | | | | |
| Jean-François Lyotard (1924-1998) | | | | | |