Well-known (usually because they are memed online, or are seen as the major thinkers of anarchism)
- Murray Rothbard
- Gilles Deleuze
- Peter Kropotkin
- Robert Nozick
- Michel Foucault
- William Gillis
- Errico Malatesta
- Adolf Brand
- Ursula K. LeGuin
- Mikhail Bakunin
- Nestor Makhno
- John Zerzan
- Milton Friedman
- Ludwig von Mises
- Buenaventura Durruti
- Hans-Hermann Hoppe
- Jacques Camatte
- Derrick Jensen
- Ayn Rand
- Leo Tolstoy
- Oscar Wilde
- Henry David Thoreau
- Max StirnerSI
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
- Rudolf Rocker
- David Graeber
- Emma Goldman
- Noam Chomsky
- Stefan Molyneux
Somewhat known (not known by people who know little about anarchism, but known well by anarchists or anarchist scholars)
- n1x/nyx land
- Ricardo Mella Cea
- Murray Bookchin
- Kevin Carson
- Albert Camus
- Desert
- Alexander Berkman
- Flower Bomb
- William S. Burroughs
- Jennifer Bilek
- Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin
- Giovanna Berneri
- Bhagat Singh
- Itō Noe
- Camillo Berneri
- Fernando Tarrida del Mármol
- Kuwasi Balagoon
- Subcomandante Marcos
- The Invisible Committee
- Gustav Landauer
- Edward Carpenter
- Louis Lingg
- Alfredo Bonanno
- William Godwin
- Donna Haraway
- David Friedman
- Ricardo Flores Magón
- Samuel Edward Konkin III
- Lucy ParsonsSI
- Benjamin Tucker
- Raoul Vaneigem
- Jun Tsuji
- Monsieur Dupont
- Saul Newman
- Karl Hess
- Luigi Galleani
- Bob Black
- Renzo Novatore
- Lysander Spooner
- Aragon!
- Voltairine de Cleyre
- Mencius Moldbug
- Jason McQuinn
- Vsevolod Mikhailovich Eikhenbaum
- Élisée Reclus
- Nick Land
- Dorothy Day
- Tiqqun
- Albert Jay Nock
- Guy Debord
- Fumiko Kaneko
- Clément Duval
- Laozi
- Leah Feldman
Somewhat obscure (You likely will have to read back further in history or into a specific school of thought to see mentions of these people)
- R Foxtale
- Lucía Sánchez Saornil
- Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinsky
- Roderick T. Long
- Mujeres Libres
- Bonnot Gang
- Giliana Berneri
- Fredy Perlman
- Mercedes Comaposada
- Alexander Schapiro
- Colin Ward
- Liu Shifu
- Clarence Lee Swartz
- Har Dayal
- Nicolas Walter
- Ōsugi Sakae
- Terra Brix
- Anselme Bellegarrigue
- Leonard Peikoff
- Wolfi Landstreicher
- Tegan Eanelli
- Ashanti Alston
- Kenzō Okuzaki
- Josiah Warren
- Kim Chwa-chin
- Francisco Ferrer
- M. P. T. Acharya
- Émile Armand
- Kanno SugakoSI
- Shawn Wilbur
- Jack Donnovan
- Herbert Read
- Jonas Nilsson
- He-Yin Zhen
- Gary Chartier
- Michael Moorcock
- Marie Louise Berneri
- Kōtoku Shūsui
- Severino Di Giovanni
- Pak Yol
- François Claudius Koenigstein
- Martin Sostre
Quite obscure (will require a deeper dive into anarchist schools of thought, even if they did have an impact on anarchist thought)
- Kim Won-bong
- Amparo Poch y Gascón
- John Henry Mackay
- Wu Zhihui
- James L Walker
- Jang Jirak
- Taleed Brown
- Max NettlauSI
- Lee Hoe-yeong
- Louise Berger
- Peter Lamborn Wilson
- Sail Mohamed
- Joan Montseny
- Senya Fleshin
- Ojore Lutalo
- William Batchelder Greene
- Ishikawa Sanshirō
- Sidney Parker
- Brian Behan
- James J. Martin
- Geoffrey Ostergaard
- Hiratsuka Raichō
- Georgy Gogelia
- David Andrade
- Lev Chernyi
- Henri Beylie
- Dora Marsden
- Daniel Guérin
- Taixu
- Federica Montseny
- Zhang Renjie
- Aurelio Chessa
- Ha Ki-rak
- Priya Reddy
- Uchiyama Gudō
- Jonathan Pollak
- Charlotte Wilson
- Alexander Atabekian
- Joseph Déjacque
- Georgy Chulkov
Obscure (Only really known from reading works of other anarchist historians, and even then not a lot is known about them past some of their writings)
- Henri Zisly
- Bobby Whittenberg-James
- Mollie Steimer
- L. Susan Brown
- Abba Gordin
- Panait Mușoiu
- Sha Gan
- Luigi Fabbri
- Varlam Cherkezov
- Liu Shipei
- Makoto Tomioka
- Hatta Shūzō
- Sam Mbah
- Yagi Akiko
- Rō Takenaka
- Insula Qui
- Taiji Yamaga
- Takamure Itsue
- Rebecca Edelsohn
- Wordsworth Donisthorpe
- Huang Wenshan
- Antonio SotoSI
- Toma Sik
- Zhu Qianzhi
- Eliphalet Kimball
- Gregori Maximoff
- Baek Jeong-gi
- Harry Hooton