• This article lists notable public figures who acknowledged Marxism as a defining intellectual influence. For Communist politicians and party-builders see list of communists
• Most individuals fall into more than one of the categories below. Each is listed according to the area of activity with which he or she is most closely associated.

Theoreticians

• Eduard Bernstein, German revisionist.
• Amadeo Bordiga, Italian Left Communist
• Guy Debord, French Situationist thinker
• Daniel De Leon, American socialist and Industrial Unionist
• Friedrich Engels, German collaborator of Karl Marx
• Antonio Gramsci, Italian communist thinker.
• Karl Korsch, German philosopher and theorist
• Vladimir Lenin, Russian Bolshevik
• Rosa Luxemburg, German communist
• Georg Lukács, Hungarian literary theorist
• Paul Mattick, US-German economist and council communist thinker.
• Antonio Negri, Italian autonomous marxist
• Anton Pannekoek, Dutch council communist
• Sylvia Pankhurst, British Left Communist and Suffragette
• Otto Rühle , German Left Communist

Philosophers and Sociologists

• Louis Althusser, French Structuralist Marxist
• Étienne Balibar, French Structuralist Marxist
• Cornelius Castoriadis, Turkish/Greek/French co-founder of Socialisme ou Barbarie.
• Christopher Caudwell, English philosopher and writer
• Terry Eagleton, British philosopher and literary critic
• Frank Furedi, British sociologist of the Revolutionary Communist Party.
• Erich Fromm, US Freudian Marxist
• Herbert Marcuse, German-born philosopher and sociologist of the Frankfurt School
• Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and writer

Historians

• Isaac Deutscher, British biographer of Trotsky and Stalin
• Christopher Hill, British - 17th century England
• Rodney Hilton, British - late medieval England and France
• Eric Hobsbawm, British - 19th/20th British and International History
• T. A. Jackson , British - Ireland
• C. L. R. James, Trinidadian
• Henri Lefebvre, French
• E. P. Thompson, British - 18th Century England

Economists

• Paul Mattick US. Also council communist theoretician.
• Paul Sweezy US.

Writers and Artists

• Bertolt Brecht, German dramatist
• Albert Camus, French novelist
• Maxim Gorky, Russian writer
• Herman Gorter , Dutch poet and council communist
• William Morris, British poet, novelist, artist and designer
• Robert Tressell, British novelist

Activists and Journalists

• Angela Davis, US civil rights activist
• Paul Foot, British investigative reporter
• John Reed, US journalist and author of Ten Days that Shook the World

Entertainers

• Corin Redgrave, British actor and Trotskyite
• Vanessa Redgrave, British actor and Trotskyite