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. Conservatism or political conservatism is any of several historically related political philosophies or political ideologies. ...

Conservative activists, authors, and media personalities

• Barbara Amiel
• Fred Barnes
• John Batchelor
• Glenn Beck
• William Bennett
• Tony Blankley
• Brent Bozell
• David Brooks
• Pat Buchanan
• William F. Buckley
• James Burnham
• Tucker Carlson
• Whittaker Chambers
• Chuck Colson
• Ann Coulter
• Andrew Coyne
• Danielle Crittenden
• Anthony Daniels (aka Theodore Dalrymple)
• John Derbyshire
• James Dobson
• Matt Drudge
• Dinesh D'Souza
• Max Eastman
• Steve Forbes
• Diane Francis
• David Frum
• Robert Fulford
• John Gibson
• Jonah Goldberg
• Bob Grant
• Sean Hannity
• David Horowitz
• Brit Hume
• Laura Ingraham
• Michael Johns
• George Jonas
• Robert Kagan
• Mikhail Katkov
• Roger Kimball
• Russell Kirk
• Hilton Kramer
• Charles Krauthammer
• Irving Kristol
• William Kristol
• Larry Kudlow
• Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
• Michael Ledeen
• G. Gordon Liddy
• Rush Limbaugh
• Michelle Malkin
• Michael Medved
• Edwin Meese
• Peggy Noonan
• Jay Nordlinger
• Grover Norquist
• Oliver North
• Robert Novak
• Daniel Pipes
• Norman Podhoretz
• David Pryce-Jones
• Barbara Olson
• John O’Sullivan
• Dorothy Rabinowitz
• Ralph E. Reed, Jr.
• Diane Ravitch
• Pat Robertson
• William Safire
• Steve Sailer
• Michael Savage
• Richard Mellon Scaife
• Joe Scarborough
• Max Shachtman
• Phyllis Schlafly
• Laura Schlessinger
• Ben Stein
• Mark Steyn
• Andrew Sullivan
• James Taranto
• Auberon Waugh
• George Will

Barbara Amiel Black, Baroness Black of Crossharbour (born Barbara Amiel), is a journalist, and the wife of newspaper magnate Lord Black of Crossharbour. ... Fred Barnes, an American journalist and political commentator, is the executive editor of the news publication The Weekly Standard, co-host with Mort Kondracke of The Beltway Boys on the Fox News Channel, and also regularly appears on Foxs Special Report with Brit Hume. ... John Batchelor is a writer and conservative radio host who is syndicated on the ABC radio network. ... Conservative commentator Glenn Beck appears on the cover of his 2003 book, The Real America: Messages from the Heart and Heartland Glenn Beck (born February 10th,1965) is a popular conservative American talk-radio host. ... William John Bennett (born July 3, 1943) served as United States Secretary of Education from 1985 to 1988. ... Tony Blankley is the editorial page editor of, and a weekly columnist for, The Washington Times. ... L. Brent Bozell III is the founder and president of the Media Research Center, the Parents Television Council, and the Cybercast News Service. ... David Brooks, conservative commentator for the New York Times and other publications. ... Patrick Buchanan Patrick Joseph Buchanan (born November 2, 1938), is an American author, syndicated columnist, and television commentator. ... William Frank Buckley Jr. ... James Burnham (1905-1987) was a popular political theorist, activist and intellectual, known for his work The Managerial Revolution, published in 1941, which heavily influenced George Orwells Nineteen Eighty-Four. Burnhams theories are thought to have been influenced by Bruno Rizzis book La Bureaucratisation du Monde which... Tucker Carlson, from 6 December 2004 broadcast of Crossfire. ... Whittaker Chambers in 1939 Jay Vivian (Whittaker) Chambers (April 1, 1901 – July 9, 1961) was an American writer, editor, political operative and defector best known for his accusation and testimony against Alger Hiss, relating to espionage and subversion. ... Charles Wendell Chuck Colson was the chief counsel for President Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1973. ... Ann Coulter on the cover of TIME in April 2005. ... Andrew Coyne, MA , BA is a Canadian journalist and columnist. ... Danielle Crittenden (1963-) is a Canadian author and journalist. ... Anthony (A.M.) Daniels is a British physician and writer who frequently uses the pen name Theodore Dalrymple. ... John Derbyshire (born 3 June 1945) is a British-born author who lives in the United States and became a naturalized citizen in 2002. ... Dr. James Dobson Dr. James Clayton Dobson (born April 21, 1936) is a conservative Christian psychologist who presents a daily radio program called Focus on the Family on over 6,000 stations worldwide in more than a dozen languages. ... Matt Drudge Matthew Drudge (born October 27, 1966) is an American Internet news personality who is frequently called a cybergossip. He is best known as the proprietor of the popular U.S.-based Drudge Report website, which made national waves when it was the first to break the news of... Dinesh DSouza Dinesh DSouza (born April 25, 1961 in Bombay, India) is an American conservative author. ... Max Forrester Eastman (January 4, 1883–March 25, 1969) was a leftist American writer. ... Malcolm Stevenson Steve Forbes Jr. ... Diane Francis (born 7th November 1946) is a Canadian journalist and author. ... David Frum (born 1960) is a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush, and the author of the first insider book about the Bush presidency. ... Alternate use: see Robert Fulford (croquet player) for the English croquet player. ... John Gibson is a common name, shared by: John Gibson (1790-1866) - British sculptor John Gibson - Territorial Secretary of Indiana Territory John Gibson - Host of cable TV shows on MSNBC and FOX News John C. L. Gibson - Linguist and Bible scholar. ... Jonah Jacob Goldberg (born March 21, 1969) is an American conservative commentator, probably best known for his contributions on politics and culture to National Review Online, where he is the editor-at-large. ... There have been several famous people called Bob Grant, including: Bob Grant (radio) (born 1929), a New York City radio personality Bob Grant (actor), a British TV comedy actor. ... Sean Patrick Hannity (born December 30, 1961, in New York City, New York) is an American conservative talk radio host, co-host of Fox News Channels political debate program Hannity & Colmes, and the author of two books. ... David Horowitz David Horowitz (born January 10, 1939) was born to a Jewish family in Forest Hills, New York and is a writer and political commentator. ... Brit Hume (born June 22, 1943) is the managing editor of the Fox News Channel. ... Laura Ingraham (born January 1, 1965 in Glastonbury, Connecticut) is an American conservative talk radio host and author. ... Michael Johns (September 8, 1964 - ) is an American health care executive, former federal government of the United States official and conservative policy analyst and writer. ... George Jonas (1935–) is a Hungarian-born conservative Canadian writer, poet and journalist. ... Robert Kagan (born 1958) is an American neoconservative scholar and political commentator. ... Mikhail Nikiforovich Katkov (1818-1887) was a conservative Russian journalist influential during the reign of Alexander III. On finishing his course at the Moscow University Katkov devoted himself to literature and philosophy, and showed so little individuality that during the reign of Nicholas I he never once came into disagreeable... Roger Kimball is a conservative U.S art critic and social commentator. ... Russell Kirk (1918-1994), was an American historian, moralist, social critic, and man of letters, best known as the father of modern conservatism. ... Hilton Kramer (1928-) is an U.S conservative cultural critic and commentator. ... Charles Krauthammer Charles Krauthammer, M.D. (born March 13, 1950 in New York) is a syndicated columnist who appears in the Washington Post and other publications. ... Irving Kristol (1920-) is considered the founding godfather of American neoconservatism, a prominent Jew, and the father of William Kristol. ... William Kristol featured on BBC Newsnight William Bill Kristol (born December 23, 1952 in New York City) is an American political commentator and columnist. ... Larry Kudlow is the Economics editor of National Review and the co-host of CNBCs Kudlow and Cramer with Jim Cramer. ... Erik Ritter von Kuehnelt-Leddihn (July 31, 1909 - May 26, 1999) was an Austrian Catholic aristocrat intellectual. ... Michael Ledeen (born August 1, 1941) is an expert on U.S. foreign policy and a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. ... George Gordon Battle Liddy (born November 30, 1930) was the chief operative for President Richard Nixons White House Plumbers unit that broke into the Watergate complex in 1972 and led to Nixons resignation in 1974. ... Rush Hudson Limbaugh III (born January 12, 1951 in Cape Girardeau, Missouri) is a popular American entertainer and radio talk show host. ... Michelle Malkin Michelle Malkin (born October 20, 1970 in Philadelphia) is an American journalist, author, and political commentator. ... Michael Medved (born October 1948) is an American nationally syndicated conservative radio talk show host, film critic and author. ... Edwin Meese III (born December 2, 1931 in Oakland, California) served as the seventy-fifth Attorney General of the United States (1985 - 1988). ... Peggy Noonan, on Hannity and Colmes. ... Jay Nordlinger is an U.S conservative journalist and columnist. ... Grover Norquist Grover Glenn Norquist (born October 19, 1956), the president of the noted anti-tax lobbying group Americans for Tax Reform, is a well-connected conservative activist with close ties to business and to the media. ... Oliver North Lieutenant-Colonel Oliver Laurence North (USMC-Retired) (b. ... Robert David Novak (born February 26, 1931) is a U.S. conservative columnist (Inside Report, since 1963; until 1993 co-written with Rowland Evans) who is also a well-known television personality. ... // Daniel Pipes Daniel Pipes is a Jewish American neoconservative journalist, author, activist, and expert on Islamism and terrorism. ... Norman Podhoretz is considered to be a neo-con (neo-conservative) and believed to be a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. ... David Pryce-Jones (1936-) is a conservative British author and commenter. ... Barbara Kay Olson (December 27, 1955 – September 11, 2001) was a conservative American television commentator who worked for FOX News, CNN and several other outlets. ... John O’Sullivan (April 25, 1942-) is a British conservative political commentator and journalist. ... Dorothy Rabinowitz is U.S conservative journalist and commentator. ... Ralph E. Reed, Jr. ... Diane Ravitch is an author, a professor of Education at New York University (NYU), and a historian of education who sits on the board of the National Assessment of Educational Progress. ... Pat Robertson Marion Gordon Robertson, better known as Pat Robertson (born March 22, 1930), is an American Christian televangelist, entrepreneur, humanitarian, and right wing political activist. ... William L. Safire (born December 17, 1929), columnist for The New York Times and author of fifteen books, writes syndicated op-ed pieces, generally with a conservative viewpoint. ... Steve Sailer (born December 4, 1958) is a reporter, movie critic for The American Conservative, VDARE.com columnist, and founder of the Human Biodiversity Institute, which runs the invitation-only Human Biodiversity discussion group for scientists. ... Michael Savage Michael Savage is the psuedonym for Dr. Michael Alan Weiner, PhD (born March 31, 1942). ... Richard Mellon Scaife Richard Mellon Scaife (born July 3, 1932) is an American billionaire philanthropist and owner–publisher of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. ... Joe Scarborough Charles Joseph Scarborough (born April 9, 1963) is the host of the program Scarborough Country on MSNBC and has served in the United States House of Representatives, from 1995 to 2001, as a Republican from Florida. ... Max Shachtman (September 10, 1904 - 1972) is best known as an American Trotskyist theorist. ... Phyllis McAlpin Stewart Schlafly (born August 15, 1924) is an American conservative political activist known for her opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). ... Laura Schlessinger Laura Schlessinger, (born January 16, 1947) is the popular and controversial American host of the Dr. Laura radio call-in show. ... Ben Stein Benjamin Jeremy Stein (born November 25, 1944, in Washington, D.C.,) is an American attorney, former game show host, actor, screenwriter, former political speechwriter, law professor, economist, author, columnist, as well as a commercial personality. ... Mark Steyn is a Canadian journalist, columnist, and film and theatre critic. ... Andrew Sullivan Andrew Sullivan (born August 10, 1963) is an Anglo-American journalist and intellectual, known both for his heterodox personal-political identity (HIV-positive, gay, libertarian/conservative and Catholic) and for his pioneering efforts in the field of weblog journalism. ... James Taranto is a columnist for The Wall Street Journal and editor of its online editorial page, OpinionJournal. ... Auberon Alexander Waugh (November 17, 1939–January 16, 2001) was a British author and journalist. ... George Frederick Will (born May 4, 1941) is an American conservative columnist, journalist, and author. ...

Business people

• Lord Beaverbrook
• Conrad Black
• Henry Kravis
• Clare Boothe Luce
• Henry Luce
• Louis B. Mayer
• Norris McWhirter
• Ross McWhirter
• Rupert Murdoch
• Axel Springer

Sir William Maxwell Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook (May 25, 1879 - June 9, 1964) was a Canadian–British business tycoon and politician. ... Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour, OC, PC (born August 25, 1944 in Montreal, Quebec), is a Canadian-born British biographer, financier and newspaper magnate. ... Henry R. Kravis, born January 6, 1944 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States, is a business financier and investor. ... Categories: People stubs | U.S. dramatists and playwrights | Ambassadors of the United States | 1903 births | 1987 deaths ... Henry Robinson Luce (April 3, 1898 - February 28, 1967) was an influential American publisher. ... Louis B. Mayer (July 4, 1885–October 29, 1957) was an American film producer. ... Norris Dewar McWhirter, CBE (August 12, 1925 - April 19, 2004) was a writer, right wing political activist and television presenter. ... Alan Ross McWhirter (12 August 1925 - 27 November 1975) was, with his twin brother, Norris McWhirter, co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records. ... Rupert Murdoch Keith Rupert Murdoch (born March 11, 1931), Australian-born American media proprietor, is the major shareholder and managing director of News Corporation, one of the worlds largest and most influential media corporations. ... Axel Springer (d. ...

Entertainers

• Edward Arnold
• Stephen Baldwin
• Ward Bond
• Sonny Bono
• Lara Flynn Boyle
• Michael Caine
• Emma Caulfield
• Charles Coburn
• Claudette Colbert
• Bo Derek
• Shannon Doherty
• Robert Duvall
• Clint Eastwood
• James Garner
• Mel Gibson
• Patricia Heaton
• Charlton Heston
• Paul Lukas
• David Lynch
• Jackie Mason
• Victor Mature
• Adolphe Menjou
• George Murphy
• Wayne Newton
• Ted Nugent
• Laurence Olivier
• Ronald Reagan
• Ginger Rogers
• Ben Stein
• Jimmy Stewart
• Preston Sturges
• Robert Taylor
• Fred Thompson
• John Wayne
• Bruce Willis
• James Woods

Edward Arnold (February 18, 1890 - April 26, 1956) was an American character actor. ... Stephen Baldwin (born May 12, 1966) is an American actor. ... Ward Bond (April 9, 1903 - November 5, 1960) was an American film actor. ... Sonny Bono Salvatore Phillip Sonny Bono (February 16, 1935 – January 5, 1998) was an American record producer, singer, actor, and politician whose career spanned over three decades. ... Lara Flynn Boyle Lara Flynn Boyle (born March 24, 1970) is an Irish-American actress born in Davenport, Iowa. ... Michael Caine Sir Maurice Joseph Micklewhite, CBE (born 14 March 1933), known professionally as Sir Michael Caine, is a British film actor. ... Emma Caulfield (born April 8, 1973 as Emma Chukker) is an actress, best known for playing the character of the ex-demon Anya in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. ... Charles Douville Coburn (June 17, 1877 – August 30, 1961) was an American film and theater actor. ... Photo still of Claudette Colbert Claudette Colbert (September 13, 1903 _ July 30, 1996) was a French-American actress. ... Bo Derek circa 2000. ... Categories: People stubs | 1971 births | American actors ... Robert Duvall Robert Selden Duvall (born on January 5, 1931 in San Diego, California) is an American film actor and director. ... Clint Eastwood in the 1960s Clint Eastwood Clinton Eastwood, Jr. ... James Garner on 8 Simple Rules James Garner (born April 7, 1928) is an American film and television actor. ... Mel Gibson as William Wallace on Braveheart (1995) Mel Gibson (born January 3, 1956) is an American-born Australian-reared actor, director and producer best known for acting in the Mad Max movie series, the Lethal Weapon series, Braveheart and directing the 2004 blockbuster The Passion of the Christ. ... Patricia Heatons red hair has become something of a trademark for her. ... Charlton Heston (born John Charles Carter on October 4, 1924), is an American film actor noted for heroic roles. ... Paul Lukas (May 26, 1887 - August 15, 1971) was a Hungarian actor. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Jackie Mason (born Jacob Maza on June 9, 1931, in Sheboygan, Wisconsin) is an ordained rabbi and an American stand-up comedian. ... Mature in Cry of the City (1948) Victor Mature (born in Louisville, Kentucky; 1915–1999) was an American film actor. ... February 18, 1890 - October 29, 1963 Adolphe Jean Menjou (February 18, 1890 – October 29, 1963) was an American actor. ... George Lloyd Murphy (July 4, 1902 – May 3, 1992) was an American dancer, actor and politician. ... Wayne Newton Carson Wayne Newton (born April 3, 1942) is an American singer and entertainer based in Las Vegas, Nevada. ... Ted Nugent Ted Nugent (born December 13, 1948) aka the Nuge and the Motor City Madman is a guitarist from Detroit, Michigan, originally gaining fame as a member of the Amboy Dukes. ... Laurence Olivier, as photographed in 1939 by Carl Van Vechten Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM (May 22, 1907 – July 11, 1989) was an English actor and director, esteemed by many as the greatest actor of the 20th century. ... Order: 40th President Vice President: George H.W. Bush Term of office: 20 January 1981 – 20 January 1989 Preceded by: Jimmy Carter Succeeded by: George H.W. Bush Date of birth: 6 February 1911 Place of birth: Tampico, Illinois Date of death: 5 June 2004 Place of death: Bel-Air... Ginger Rogers (1911–1995) Virginia Katherine McMath (July 16, 1911 – April 25, 1995), better known as Ginger Rogers, was an American actress and dancer. ... Ben Stein Benjamin Jeremy Stein (born November 25, 1944, in Washington, D.C.,) is an American attorney, former game show host, actor, screenwriter, former political speechwriter, law professor, economist, author, columnist, as well as a commercial personality. ... Jimmy Stewart, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1934 James Maitland Stewart (May 20, 1908 – July 2, 1997) was an American film actor beloved for his persona as an average guy who faces adversity and tries to do the right thing, an image which was largely reflected in his own personality. ... Preston Sturges (August 29, 1898-August 6, 1959), originally Edmund Preston Biden, was a screenwriter and director born in Chicago. ... There are many people known as Robert Taylor, including: Robert Taylor (actor) Robert Taylor (aviation artist) Robert Taylor (composer) Robert Taylor (computer scientist) Sir Robert Taylor (architect) Robert Taylor (athlete) Robert Taylor (UK politician) Robert Love Taylor (US politician) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other... Fred Dalton Thompson (born August 19, 1942) is an American lawyer, actor and former Republican senator from Tennessee. ... John Wayne (May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), nicknamed Duke, was an Irish-American film actor whose career spanned the evolutionary phase of American cinema, appearing in silent movies and talkies alike. ... Bruce Willis Bruce Willis (born March 19, 1955 as Walter Bruce Willis) is an American actor. ... James Howard Woods (born April 18, 1947) is an American actor. ...

Historians

• Rupert Allason (aka Nigel West)
• Stephen Ambrose
• Anne Applebaum
• Jacques Barzun
• Nicholas Bethell
• Conrad Black
• Michael Bliss
• Daniel J. Boorstin
• Max Boot
• Herbert Butterfield
• Alan Clark
• Robert Conquest
• Maurice Cowling
• Gordon A. Craig
• Donald Creighton
• Geoffrey Elton
• Niall Ferguson
• Francis Fukuyama
• François Furet
• Eugene D. Genovese
• Victor Davis Hanson
• Max Hastings
• Arthur Herman
• J. H. Hexter
• Klaus Hildebrand
• Andreas Hillgruber
• Gertrude Himmelfarb
• Alistair Horne
• Samuel P. Huntington
• Martin Gilbert
• Andrew Gordon
• Paul Johnson
• Donald Kagan
• Frederick Kagan
• John Keegan
• Leopold Labedz
• Bernard Lewis
• Basil Liddell Hart
• John Lukacs
• Alfred Thayer Mahan
• Samuel Eliot Morison
• W.L. Morton
• Roland Mousnier
• Lewis Bernstein Namier
• Charles Oman
• Steve Ozment
• Richard Pipes
• Ronald Radosh
• Leopold von Ranke
• Condoleezza Rice
• Gerhard Ritter
• Andrew Roberts
• Hans Rothfels
• A. L. Rowse
• Alan Sked
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• Norman Stone
• Hugh Thomas
• Hugh Trevor-Roper
• Auberon Waugh
• John Wheeler-Bennett
• Keith Windschuttle

Rupert William Simon Allason is a politician in the United Kingdom. ... Stephen Ambrose, at the 2001 premier of Band of Brothers Stephen Edward Ambrose (January 10, 1936 – October 13, 2002) was a popular historian and biographer of Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. ... Anne Applebaum is a journalist and author who has written extensively about issues related to communism and the development of civil society in Eastern Europe and the USSR / Russia. ... Jacques Barzun Jacques Martin Barzun (1907-) continues to be a leading voice in the fields of literature, education, and cultural history. ... Nicholas William Bethell, 4th Baron Bethell (July 19, 1938-) is a British historian of Eastern and Central Europe. ... Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour, OC, PC (born August 25, 1944 in Montreal, Quebec), is a Canadian-born British biographer, financier and newspaper magnate. ... Michael Bliss (born 1941) is a Canadian historian and outspoken public figure. ... Categories: People stubs | 1914 births | 2004 deaths | American writers | Rhodes scholars | Pulitzer Prize winners | Librarians of Congress ... Max Boot (born September 12, 1969) is an author and military historian noted for his support of a strong U.S. leadership role in the world. ... Herbert Butterfield (1900-1979) was an English historian and philosopher of history (see philosophy of history) who is remembered chiefly for a slim volume entitled The Whig Interpretation of History 1931. ... See also: Alan Clarke, Allan Clarke Alan Kenneth Mackenzie Clark (April 13, 1928 _ September 5, 1999) was a British Conservative politician, historian and diarist. ... Robert Conquest Dr. George Robert Ackworth Conquest (born July 15, 1917), British historian, became one of the best-known writers on the Soviet Union with the publication in 1968 of his classic account of Stalins purges of the 1930s, The Great Terror. ... Maurice John Cowling (born 1926) is a historian and a Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge. ... Gordon Alexander Craig (November 13, 1913-) is a Scottish-born U.S historian of German, Swiss and of diplomatic history. ... Donald Grant Creighton, CC , MA , BA (July 15, 1902-December 19, 1979) was a noted Canadian historian. ... Geoffrey Rudolph Elton (August 17, 1921–December 3, 1994) was a well known British historian of the Tudor period. ... Niall Ferguson Niall Ferguson (April 18, 1964—), born in Glasgow in Scotland, is a well-known and widely published British historian of modern imperialism. ... Francis Fukuyama (born October 27, 1952 in Chicago) is an influential American political economist and author. ... François Furet (27 March 1927 - 12 July 1997) is an influential French historian who attacked the way the French Revolution is interpreted by Marxist historians. ... Eugence Dominic Genosvese (May 19, 1930-) was formally a Marxist and historian of the American South. ... Victor Davis Hanson (born 1953) is an American military historian and political essayist, best known as a scholar of ancient warfare as well as a commentator on modern warfare. ... Sir Max Hastings is a British journalist, editor, historian and author. ... Arthur Herman is a conservative Amercian historian of Anglo-American history. ... Jack H. Hexter (1910 – 1996) was an American historian, a specialist in Tudor and seventeenth century British history, and well known for his comments on historiography. ... Klaus Hildebrand (1941-) is an German conservative historian whose area of expertise is 19th-20th German political and military history. ... Andreas Fritz Hillgruber (January 18, 1925-May 8, 1989) was an conservative West German historian. ... Gertrude Himmelfarb (born August 8, 1922) is an American historian known for her studies of the intellectual history of the Victorian era, particularly of Social Darwinism; and as a conservative cultural critic. ... Sir Alistair Allan Horne (November 9, 1925-) is a British historian of modern France, known for books including one on the Paris Commune. ... Samuel Phillips Huntington (born April 18, 1927) is a political scientist known for his analysis of the relationship between the military and the civil government, his investigation of coup detats, and his thesis that the central political actors of the 21st century will be civilizations rather than nation-states. ... Sir Martin Gilbert (born October 25, 1936 in London) is a British historian and biographer and author of over seventy books on a range of historical subjects. ... Andrew Gordon is a British naval historian. ... Paul Johnson (born Paul Bede Johnson on November 2, 1928 in Lancashire, England) is a British Roman Catholic conservative historian, journalist and author. ... Donald Kagan (born 1932) is a Yale historian specializing in ancient Greece, notable for his four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War. ... Frederick Kagan, brother to foreign policy analyst Robert Kagan, is a professor of military history at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. ... Sir John Keegan (born 1934) is an English military historian specializing in 20th-century wars. ... Leopold Labedz (1920-) is a Anglo-Polish historian of the Soviet Union. ... Prof. ... Basil Henry Liddell Hart (October 31, 1895 _ January 29, 1970) was a military historian and is considered among the great military strategists of the 20th century. ... John Lukacs is a historian who has authored more than twenty books, including Five Days in London, May 1940 and The New Republic. ... Alfred Thayer Mahan Rear Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan (27 September 1840 - 1 December 1914) was a United States Navy officer, naval strategist, and educator, widely considered the worlds foremost theorist of military sea power. ... RAdm Samuel Eliot Morison (1887-1976), USN historian Samuel Eliot Morison, RAdm, USNR (July 9, 1887 – May 15, 1976) was an American historian, notable for producing scholarly works that were both authoritative and highly readable, an ability recognized with two Pulitzer Prizes. ... William Lewis Morton (December 13, 1908-December 7, 1980) was a noted Canadian historian who specialized in the development of the Canadian west. ... Roland Emile Mousnier (September 7, 1907-February 9, 1993) was a French historian of the early modern period in France and of the comparative studies of different civilizations. ... Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier (June 27, 1888 - August 19, 1960) was a significant British historian. ... Sir Charles William Chadwick Oman (Jan. ... Steven E. Ozment is a American historian of early modern Germany and a Lutheran theologian. ... Richard Edgar Pipes (b. ... Ronald Radosh is an American historian who wrote a book concluding that the Rosenbergs were guilty of espionage. ... Leopold Von Ranke in 1877 Leopold von Ranke (December 21, 1795- May 23, 1886) was one of the greatest German historians of the 19th century, and is frequently considered the founder of scientific history. ... Condoleezza Condi Rice (born November 14, 1954), is the second United States Secretary of State in the administration of President George W. Bush. ... Gerhard Albert Ritter (April 6, 1888-July 1, 1967) was a well-known German conservative historian. ... Andrew Roberts is a conservative UK historian. ... Hans Rothfels (1891-1976) was a conservative German nationalist historian. ... A. L. Rowse ( December 4, 1903 – October 3, 1997) was a British historian best known for his poetry about Cornwall and his work on Elizabethan England. ... Dr Alan Sked is a lecturer in European Studies at the London School of Economics. ... Solzhenitsyn was exiled from the Soviet Union for his book The Gulag Archipelago. ... Norman Stone (1941-) is a British historian of modern Europe, especially Central and Eastern Europe. ... Hugh Thomas (born 1931), now Lord Thomas of Swynnerton, is a British historian. ... Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton (January 15, 1914 - January 26, 2003) was a notable historian of early modern Britain and Nazi Germany. ... Auberon Alexander Waugh (November 17, 1939–January 16, 2001) was a British author and journalist. ... Sir John Wheeler Wheeler-Bennett (October 13, 1902-1975) was a British historian of German and diplomatic history. ... Keith Windschuttle (born 1942) is a right-wing Australian historian and journalist who is the author of several books, including The Killing of History (1994) and The Fabrication of Aboriginal History (2002) which disputes current historical views on Australian history. ...

Novelists & Poets

• John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir
• William F. Buckley
• Vladimir Bukovsky
• G. K. Chesterton
• Tom Clancy
• Michael Crichton
• Robertson Davies
• Fyodor Dostoevsky
• T. S. Eliot
• Robert Frost
• George Gissing
• Nikolai Gogol
• Nathaniel Hawthorne
• P.D. James
• Rudyard Kipling
• C.S. Lewis
• Malcolm Muggeridge
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• Evelyn Waugh

John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (August 26, 1875 – February 11, 1940), was a Scottish novelist and politician who served as Governor General of Canada. ... William Frank Buckley Jr. ... Vladimir Bukovsky early photo Vladimir Bukovsky (Влади́мир Константи́нович Буко́вский) (b. ... G.K. Chesterton Gilbert Keith Chesterton (May 29, 1874 – June 14, 1936) was an English writer of the early 20th century. ... Tom Clancy Thomas Leo Clancy Jr. ... Dr. John Michael Crichton (born October 23, 1942) is an author and producer. ... Robertson Davies in 1984 Robertson Davies, CC , B.Litt. ... Fyodor Dostoevsky. ... T.S. Eliot (by E.O. Hoppe, 1919) Thomas Stearns Eliot (September 26, 1888 – January 4, 1965), Anglo-American poet, dramatist, and critic. ... Robert Frost Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) is, in the estimation of many, the greatest American poet of the 20th century and one of the greatest poets writing in English in the 20th century. ... George Gissing (November 22, 1857 - December 28, 1903) was a British novelist. ... Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol (Russian: Никола́й Васи́льевич Го́голь) (March 31, 1809 - March 4, 1852) was a Ukrainian-born Russian writer. ... Nathaniel Hawthorne (July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was a 19th century American novelist and short story writer. ... Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park (born 3 August 1920 in Oxford) is a British writer of crime fiction and member of the House of Lords. ... Rudyard Kipling, British author Joseph Rudyard Kipling (December 30, 1865 – January 18, 1936) was a British author and poet, born in India. ... Clive Staples Lewis (November 29, 1898 – November 22, 1963), commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis, was an author and scholar. ... Malcolm Muggeridge (March 24, 1903 - November 14, 1990) was a famous British journalist, author and media personality. ... Solzhenitsyn was exiled from the Soviet Union for his book The Gulag Archipelago. ... Evelyn Waugh, as photographed in 1940 by Carl Van Vechten Evelyn Arthur St. ...

Philosophers

• Marcus Aurelius
• Aristotle
• Allan Bloom
• Louis Gabriel Ambroise de Bonald
• Edmund Burke
• Robert Filmer
• Alexander Hamilton
• Heraclitus
• Thomas Hobbes
• Nikolay Karamzin
• James Madison
• Joseph de Maistre
• Plato
• Konstantin Pobedonostsev
• Ayn Rand
• George Santayana
• Roger Scruton
• Leo Strauss

Marcus Aurelius Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus (April 26, 121 – March 17, 180) was Roman Emperor from 161 to his death in 180. ... Aristotle (sculpture) Aristotle (Greek: Αριστοτέλης AristotelÄ“s) (384 BC – March 7, 322 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher. ... Allan Bloom, in his middle age. ... Louis Gabriel Ambroise, vicomte de Bonald (October 2, 1754 - November 23, 1840), French philosopher and politician, was born at Le Monna, near Millau in Aveyron. ... Edmund Burke The Right Honourable Edmund Burke (January 12, 1729 – July 9, 1797) was an Anglo-Irish statesman, author, orator and political philosopher, who served for many years in the British House of Commons as a member of the Whig Party. ... Sir Robert Filmer (1588 - May 26, 1653), English political writer, was the son of Sir Edward Filmer of East Sutton in Kent. ... A portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull, 1792. ... Heraclitus of Ephesus (Greek Herakleitos) (about 535 - 475 BC), known as The Obscure, was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Ephesus in Asia Minor. ... Thomas Hobbes portrait by John Michael Wright (National Portrait Gallery, London) Thomas Hobbes (April 5, 1588–December 4, 1679) was a noted English political philosopher, most famous for his book Leviathan (1651). ... Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin (December 1, 1766--1826) a Russian author credited with reforming the Russian literary language. ... Order: 4th President Vice President: George Clinton; Elbridge Gerry Term of office: March 4, 1809 – March 4, 1817 Preceded by: Thomas Jefferson Succeeded by: James Monroe Date of birth: March 16, 1751 Place of birth: Port Conway, Virginia Date of death: June 28, 1836 Place of death: Montpelier, Virginia First... Joseph de Maistre (1753- February 26, 1821) was a French writer, who was one of the most influential spokesmen for a counter-revolutionary and authoritarian conservatism, in the period following the French Revolution. ... PLATO, an apronym for Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operation, was one of the first generalized Computer assisted instruction systems, originally built by the University of Illinois (U of I) and later taken over by Control Data (CDC), who provided the machines it ran on. ... Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonostsev (Константин Иванович Победоносцев in Russian) (1827 - 1907) was a Russian jurist, statesman, and thinker. ... Ayn Rand (February 2, 1905–March 6, 1982; first name pronounced (IPA) (rhymes with mine)), born Alissa Alice Zinovievna Rosenbaum, was a popular and controversial American philosopher and novelist, best known for her philosophy of Objectivism and her novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. ... George Santayana (16 December 1863- 26 September 1952) was a philosopher. ... Professor Roger Vernon Scruton (born 27 February 1944) is a leading British academic philosopher, and founder of Claridge Press. ... Leo Strauss Leo Strauss (September 20, 1899 – October 18, 1973), was a Jewish German-American political philosopher who has been greatly influential in America. ...

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. (later reflected more libertarian positions, particuarly on abortion and gay issues)

• 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 Wałęsa

  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.

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Konrad Adenauer - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... French politician Louis Barthou Jean Louis Barthou (August 25, 1862 – October 9, 1934) was a French politician of the Third Republic. ... Sir Robert Laird Borden (June 26, 1854–June 10, 1937) was the eighth Prime Minister of Canada from October 10, 1911 to July 10, 1920. ... The Prime Minister of Canada, the head of the Canadian government, is usually the leader of the political party with the most seats in the Canadian House of Commons. ... The Unionist Party was formed in 1917 by MPs in Canada who supported the Union government formed by Sir Robert Borden during World War I. In May 1917, Conservative Prime Minister Borden proposed the formation of a national unity government or coalition government to Liberal leader Sir Wilfrid Laurier in... Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ... John Caldwell Calhoun (March 18, 1782 – March 31, 1850), was a prominent United States politician in the first half of the 19th century. ... A senate is a deliberative body, often the upper house or chamber of a legislature. ... State nickname: Palmetto State Other U.S. States Capital Columbia Largest city Columbia Governor Mark Sanford Official languages English Area 82,965 km² (40th)  - Land 78,051 km²  - Water 4,915 km² (6%) Population (2000)  - Population {{{2000Pop}}} (26th)  - Density 51. ... In several countries, Secretary of State is a senior government position. ... The Secretary of War was a member of the Presidents Cabinet, beginning with George Washingtons administration. ... A vice president is an officer in government or business who is next in rank below a president. ... 1824 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1828 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... The Right Honourable Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG , OM , CH , FRS , PC (November 30, 1874 – January 24, 1965) was a British statesman, best known as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. ... The Conservative Party is the largest political party on the centre-right in the United Kingdom. ... The Liberal Party was one of the two major British political parties from the early 19th century until the 1920s, and a third party of varying strength and importance up to 1988, when it merged with the Social Democratic Party to form a new party which would become known as... A prime minister may be either: the chief or leading member of the cabinet of the top-level government in a country having a parliamentary system of government; or the official, in countries with a semi-presidential system of government, appointed to manage the civil service and execute the directives... German soldiers at the Battle of Stalingrad World War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the worlds nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives. ... 1940 was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1951 was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... 1955 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Right Honourable John George Diefenbaker, PC , LL.B , MA , BA (September 18, 1895 – August 16, 1979) was the thirteenth Prime Minister of Canada (1957 – 1963). ... The Prime Minister of Canada, the head of the Canadian government, is usually the leader of the political party with the most seats in the Canadian House of Commons. ... Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (December 21, 1804 - April 24, British Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and author. ... The Conservative Party is the largest political party on the centre-right in the United Kingdom. ... A prime minister may be either: the chief or leading member of the cabinet of the top-level government in a country having a parliamentary system of government; or the official, in countries with a semi-presidential system of government, appointed to manage the civil service and execute the directives... 1868 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1874 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1880 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (December 21, 1804 - April 24, 1881) was a British Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and author. ... Order: 34th President Vice President: Richard Nixon Term of office: January 20, 1953 – January 20, 1961 Preceded by: Harry S. Truman Succeeded by: John F. Kennedy Date of birth: October 14, 1890 Place of birth: Denison, Texas Date of death: March 28, 1969 Place of death: Washington, D.C. First... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km (over 11 miles) into the air, August 9, 1945 after the Allied atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. ... Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (   listen?) (November 22, 1890 – November 9, 1970), in France commonly referred to as le général de Gaulle, was a French military leader and statesman. ... The Free French Forces (Forces Françaises Libres in French) were French fighters who decided to go on fighting against Germany after the Fall of France and German occupation and to fight against Vichy France in World War II. General Charles de Gaulle was a member of the French Cabinet in... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km (over 11 miles) into the air, August 9, 1945 after the Allied atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. ... Barry Goldwater Barry Morris Goldwater (January 1, 1909 – May 29, 1998) was a United States politician and a founding figure in the modern conservative movement in the USA. Goldwater personified the shift in balance in American culture from the Northeast to the West. ... The Republican Party, often called the GOP (for Grand Old Party, although one early citation described it as the Gallant Old Party) [1], is one of the two major political parties in the United States. ... 1964 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... A senate is a deliberative body, often the upper house or chamber of a legislature. ... State nickname: The Grand Canyon State, The Copper State Other U.S. States Capital Phoenix Largest city Phoenix Governor Janet Napolitano Official languages English Only State Area 295,254 km² (6th)  - Land 294,312 km²  - Water 942 km² (0. ... A portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull, 1792. ... Title page of an early Federalist compilation. ... The United States Secretary of the Treasury is the finance minister of the Federal Government of the United States. ... 1789 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1795 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Born in Hagi, Yamaguchi, Prince Itō Hirobumi (伊藤 博文 Itō Hirobumi 1841–1909, also called Hirofumi/Hakubun) was a Japanese politician and the countrys first Prime Minister (and the 5th, 7th and 10th). ... John Jay, first Chief Justice of the United States Oil painting by Gilbert Stuart, 1794 John Jay (December 12, 1745 – May 17, 1829) was an American politician, statesman, revolutionary, diplomat and jurist. ... Title page of an early Federalist compilation. ... The Chief Justice of the United States is the head of the Judicial Branch of the government of the United States, and presides over the Supreme Court of the United States. ... 1789 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1794 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Rudolphus Franciscus Marie Lubbers or Ruud Lubbers (born May 7, 1939) was the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, from 2001 until February 20, 2005, when he resigned because of continuous press attention about an allegation of sexual harassment. ... The Prime Minister of the Netherlands or Minister President is in the Politics_of_the_Netherlands the head of government and active executive authority of the Dutch Government. ... The Right Honourable Sir John Alexander Macdonald, GCB, QC (January 11, 1815 - June 6, 1891) was the first Prime Minister of Canada from July 1, 1867 - November 5, 1873 - and - October 17, 1878 - June 6, 1891. ... The Prime Minister of Canada, the head of the Canadian government, is usually the leader of the political party with the most seats in the Canadian House of Commons. ... Red Tory is a nickname given to a political tradition in Canadas conservative political parties. ... The famous Mannerheims equestrian statue by the Mannerheim road in downtown Helsinki, the capital of Finland Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (June 4, 1867 – January 28, 1951) was Finlands reputed Commander-in-Chief and later President of Finland (1944–1946). ... John Randolph (June 2, 1773 - May 24, 1833) was a Representative and a Senator from Virginia, USA. He was born in Cawsons, Virginia, known as John Randolph of Roanoke to distinguish him from relatives. ... A legislature is a governmental deliberative body with the power to adopt laws. ... A senate is a deliberative body, often the upper house or chamber of a legislature. ... 1825 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1827 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... State nickname: Old Dominion Other U.S. States Capital Richmond Largest city Virginia Beach Governor Mark R. Warner (D) Official languages English Area 110,862 km² (35th)  - Land 102,642 km²  - Water 8,220 km² (7. ... Order: 40th President Vice President: George H.W. Bush Term of office: 20 January 1981 – 20 January 1989 Preceded by: Jimmy Carter Succeeded by: George H.W. Bush Date of birth: 6 February 1911 Place of birth: Tampico, Illinois Date of death: 5 June 2004 Place of death: Bel-Air... The Republican Party, often called the GOP (for Grand Old Party, although one early citation described it as the Gallant Old Party) [1], is one of the two major political parties in the United States. ... Seal of the President of the United States The President of the United States is the head of state of the United States. ... 1981 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1989 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Gustav Stresemann (May 10, 1878 - October 3, 1929) was a German politician and statesman during the Weimar Republic and the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. ... The Right Honourable Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC, FRS (born 13 October 1925), born Margaret Hilda Roberts, is a British stateswoman and was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990, the only woman as of 2005 to serve in that position, and the... The Conservative Party is the largest political party on the centre-right in the United Kingdom. ... 1979 is a common year starting on Monday. ... 1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Order: 43rd President of United States Vice President: Dick Cheney Term of office: January 20, 2001 – Present (Current Term will end on January 20, 2009. ... The Republican Party, often called the GOP (for Grand Old Party, although one early citation described it as the Gallant Old Party) [1], is one of the two major political parties in the United States. ... Seal of the President of the United States The President of the United States is the head of state of the United States. ... 2001 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Term of office from December 22, 1990 until December 23, 1995 Profession Electrician and shipyard worker Political party none, see Solidarity for details First Lady Danuta WaÅ‚Ä™sowa Date of birth September 29, 1943 Place of birth Popowo, Poland Date of death Place of death Lech WaÅ‚Ä™sa (pronounced , born... Solidarity (Polish Solidarność) is a Polish trade union federation founded in September 1980 at the GdaÅ„sk Shipyards, originally led by Lech WaÅ‚Ä™sa. ... Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1 May 1769–14 September 1852) was an Anglo-Irish soldier and statesman, widely considered one of the leading military and political figures of the 19th century. ... Note: This article is about the military usage of the word marshal. For other usages, see the end of this article. ... W*nkers ... A prime minister may be either: the chief or leading member of the cabinet of the top-level government in a country having a parliamentary system of government; or the official, in countries with a semi-presidential system of government, appointed to manage the civil service and execute the directives... Lee Kuan Yew (also spelt Lee Kwan-Yew) (born September 16, 1923) (Chinese: 李光耀; pinyin: ) was the first Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore from 1959 to 1990. ... The Prime Minister of Singapore is the elected head of government of the Republic of Singapore (and prior of August 9, 1965, the State of Singapore), being the leader of the largest party in the unicameral Parliament. ...

Televangelists

• Jerry Falwell
• Pat Robertson