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List of conservatives

This is a list of prominent public figures frequently referred to as conservatives. Classifications of this sort are sometimes disputed (see the conservatism page for a discussion of the terms' controversies), so any listing here should not be taken as definitive. In general, the men and women here are considered "conservatives" in the modern, partisan, Western sense of the word, and not necessarily in any larger, more complex philosophical sense.

Contents

1 Conservative leaders, authors, and media personalities

Conservative leaders, authors, and media personalities

Business people

Entertainers

Historians

Novelists & Poets

Philosophers

Aristotle
Frederic Bastiat
Allan Bloom
Edmund Burke
Alexis de Tocqueville
Milton Friedman (libertarian)
Friedrich Hayek (libertarian)
Alexander Hamilton
Thomas Hobbes
Nikolay Karamzin
John Locke
James Madison
John Stuart Mill (libertarian)
Ludwig von Mises
Plato
Konstantin Pobedonostsev
Karl Popper
Ayn Rand (libertarian)
George Santayana
Adam Smith (Though considered a conservative thinker today, in his time Smith's ideas were liberal)
Leo Strauss
Max Weber (In his time, Weber was a liberal, but many of his views would be considered right-wing today).

Politicians

John Adams
Federalist First Vice President of the United States (1789-1797) and second President of the United States (1797-1801).

Konrad Adenauer
West German Chancellor (1949-1963).

Louis Barthou
French statesmen and Premier (1913).

Sir Robert Borden
Prime Minister of Canada, leader of a Conservative-Liberal coalition, the Unionist Party of Canada during World War I.

John C. Calhoun
United States Senator for South Carolina, Secretary of State, Secretary of War, seventh United States Vice President (1824-1828).

Winston Churchill
Conservative and Liberal Party politician, United Kingdom Prime Minister in WWII (1940-45, 1951-55).

John Diefenbaker
populist Prime Minister of Canada 1957-1963.

Benjamin Disraeli
Conservative politician, 1st and only Jewish UK Prime Minister (1868, 1874-1880), 1st Earl of Beaconsfield.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
U.S General in World War Two and U.S President (1953-1961).

Charles de Gaulle
Leader of the Free French in World War Two and French President (1958-1969).

Barry Goldwater
Republican candidate for US Presidency, 1964, United States Senator from Arizona.

Alexander Hamilton
Principal author of the Federalist Papers, 1st United States Secretary of the Treasury (1789-1795).

Ito Hirobumi
Famous Japanese conservative politician and one of the architects of modern Japan.

John Jay
Co-author of the Federalist Papers, 1st Chief Justice of the United States (1789-1794).

Ruud Lubbers
Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1982-1994).

Sir John A. Macdonald
First Prime Minister of Canada, considered by most to be the father of the nation and the founder of the Red Tory tradition.

Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
Finnish Marshal & President (1944-1946).

John Randolph of Roanoke
Representative and Senator (1825-1827) from Virginia, United States Minister to Russia.

Ronald Reagan
Republican President of the United States (1981-89).

Gustav Stresemann
German Chancellor (1923) & Foreign Minister (1923-1929).

Margaret Thatcher
Conservative UK Prime Minister (1979-1990).

George W. Bush
Republican President of the United States (2001-).

Lech Walesa
Polish Solidarity trade union leader & Polish President (1990-1995).

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
British field marshal & Tory Prime Minister (1828-30).

Lee Kuan Yew
Prime Minister of Singapore and founder of modern Singapore.

Televangelists

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