List of conservatives

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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.

1 Conservative leaders, authors, and media personalities
2 Business people
3 Entertainers
4 Historians
5 Novelists & Poets
6 Philosophers
7 Politicians
8 Televangelists

Conservative leaders, authors, and media personalities

Business people

Entertainers

Historians

Novelists & Poets

Philosophers

Aristotle
Frederic Bastiat (classical liberal)
Allan Bloom
Louis Gabriel Ambroise de Bonald
Edmund Burke
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Juan Donoso Cortés
Alexis de Tocqueville (classical liberal)
Robert Filmer
Milton Friedman (libertarian)
Friedrich Hayek (libertarian)
Alexander Hamilton
Heraclitus
Thomas Hobbes
David Hume (classical liberal)
Nikolay Karamzin
John Locke (considered the father of classical liberalism)
James Madison
Joseph de Maistre
John Stuart Mill (classical liberal)
Ludwig von Mises (libertarian)
Justus Möser
Plato
Konstantin Pobedonostsev
Ayn Rand (libertarian)
George Santayana
Adam Smith (classical 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. (later reflected more libertarian positions, particuarly on abortion and gay issues)