Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (April 17, 1854 - June 22, 1939) was the leading proponent of American individualist anarchism in the 19th century.

Lysander Spooner (January 19, 1808 - May 14, 1887) was an American individualist anarchist, entrepreneur, political philosopher, abolitionist, and legal theorist of the 19th century. He is also known for competing with the U.S. Post Office with his American Letter Mail Company, which was forced out of business by the United States government.

Wendy McElroy (born 1951) is a Canadian individualist anarchist, anarcho-capitalist, and individualist feminist. Among feminists, she distinguishes herself as being sex-positive: defending the availability of pornography and condemning anti-pornography feminism campaigns. She has also voiced criticism of sexual harassment policies, particularly the zero-tolerance policies common to grade schools, …

Murray Newton Rothbard was a highly influential American economist, historian and natural law theorist belonging to the Austrian School of Economics who helped define modern libertarianism. Rothbard took the Austrian School's emphasis on spontaneous order and condemnation of central planning to an individualist anarchist conclusion, which he termed "anarcho-capitalism." He was son of David and Rae Rothbard.

Josiah Warren (1798-1874) was an individualist anarchist, inventor, musician, and author in the United States. He is widely regarded to be the first American anarchist, and some regard the periodical he edited in 1833, "The Peaceful Revolutionist", to be the first anarchist periodical ever published.

Johann Kaspar Schmidt, better known as Max Stirner (the "nom de plume" he adopted from a schoolyard nickname he had acquired as a child because of his high brow ["Stirn"]), was a German philosopher, who ranks as one of the literary grandfathers of nihilism, existentialism, post-modernism and anarchism, especially of individualist anarchism. Stirner's main work is "The Ego and Its Own", …

Stephen Pearl Andrews (March 22, 1812 - May 21, 1886) was an American individualist anarchist and author of several books on the topic.

Karl Hess (May 25, 1923-April 22, 1994), was a speechwriter, editor, political philosopher, hippie, welder, motorcycle racer, tax resister and libertarian. His career included stints on both the Republican right and the New Left before he became an anarcho-capitalist theorist.

James J. Martin (September 18, 1916 - April 4, 2004) was an American historian. He was educated at the University of New Hampshire and the University of Michigan, earning a Ph.D. in history in 1949. He is best known for his work on the history of American individualist anarchism, "Men Against the State", first published in 1953. His 1964 book "American Liberalism and World Politics, 1931-1941" is also well known.

Clarence Lee Swartz was an American individualist anarchist. Swartz most famous writing is a book entitled "What is Mutualism" published in 1927 where he explains the economic system of "mutualism". He edited an anarchist journal called "Voice of the People" and was an assistant editor for Moses Harman's journal entitled "Lucifer, the Light-Bearer".

Fred Woodworth is an anarchist and atheist writer based in the United States. He is an anarchist without adjectives, saying: "I have no prefix or adjective for my anarchism. I think syndicalism can work, as can free-market anarcho-capitalism, anarcho-communism, even anarcho-hermits, depending on the situation. But I do have a strong individualist streak." In his writings he has championed individualism and criticized government intrusions on individual liberty, …

Albert Jay Nock (October 13, 1870 or 1872 - August 19, 1945) was an influential American libertarian author, educational theorist, and social critic of the early and middle 20th century.

Victor Yarros (1865-1956) was a 19th century American anarchist and author. He was a prolific contributor to the individualist anarchist periodical in the United States called "Liberty". Yarros was early on associated with the anarcho-communists but soon converted to individualist anarchism, and was very critical of everything collectivist. Yarros did not see anarchism as a utopian system, but like the other individualists in his league, …

Emile Armand. (1872 - 1962). French individualist anarchist. Wrote "Poésies composées en prison", "l'Initiation individualiste anarchiste" (1923) & "La révolution sexuelle et la camaraderie amoureuse" (1934). A founder of "Ligue Antimilitariste" with George Mathias Paraf-Javal, another intransigent individualist. Armand said, "The individual or association ought to be able, without having to take into consideration anybody else whatsoever, …

Ezra Heywood (1829-189?) was a 19th century North American individualist anarchist, slavery abolitionist, and feminist. Heywood saw what he believed to be a disproportionate concentration of capital in the hands of a few as the result of a selective extension of government-backed privileges to certain individuals and organizations. He said: "Government is a northeast wind, drifting property into a few aristocratic heaps, …

Charles Joseph Antoine Labadie (April 18, 1850 - October 7, 1933) was an American labor organizer, anarchist, social activist, printer, publisher, essayist, and poet. Labadie was born on April 18, 1850, in Paw Paw, Michigan. "Jo", as he was always called, joined the newly formed Socialist Labor Party in Detroit at the age of 27 and soon was distributing socialist tracts on street corners.

Joe Peacott is an individualist anarchist writer based in the United States. He is a leading figure at BAD Press, a publishing outlet for individualist anarchist philosophy. Peacott, in the traditional of the 19th century American individualist anarchists, supports private property in the sense of worker-owners having their own possessive property except for in land where supports titles only while the land is being occupied or used and opposes profit in economic relations.

John Henry Mackay (Greenock, Scotland, 1864 - May 16, 1933 in Stahnsdorf, Germany) was an individualist anarchist, thinker, writer, and homosexual. Raised in Germany, Mackay was the author of "Die Anarchisten" (The Anarchists) (1891) and "Der Freiheitsucher" (The Searcher for Freedom) (1921). Mackay was published in the United States in his friend Benjamin Tucker's magazine, "Liberty".

William Batchelder Greene (1819-1878) was a 19th century individualist anarchist, Unitarian minister, soldier and currency reformer in the United States. He was the son of Democratic journalist and Boston post-master Nathaniel Greene. He is best known for the works "Mutual Banking", which proposed an interest-free banking system, and "Transcendentalism", a critique of the New England philosophical school. In 1850 and 1851, he organized citizens of Brookfield, …

Steven Tracy Byington (birthname "Stephen") (December 10 1869 - October 12, 1957) was a noted intellectual, translator, and American individualist anarchist. He was born in Westford, Vermont, and later moved to Ballardvale, Massachusetts. A one-time proponent of Georgism, he converted to individualist anarchism after associating with Benjamin Tucker. He was a firm believer in the promotion of individualist anarchism through education.

Kevin Carson is an author and contemporary self-described mutualist and individualist anarchist. He has written a book called "Studies in Mutualist Political Economy" as well as several published articles and maintains a blog on the topic. In addition to individualist anarchist Benjamin Tucker's "big four" monopolies (land, money, tariffs, and patents), …

John William Lloyd (J. William Lloyd) is most noted as an American individualist anarchist. Lloyd was born in New Jersey, and later moved to Grahamville, Florida. He based his individualist anarchism upon natural law, rather than on egoism as Benjamin Tucker did; this was a source of conflict amidst otherwise friendly relations between Tucker and himself. Lloyd later modified his position to minarchism.

Henry Appleton was a 19th century American individualist anarchist. He was an editorial assistant to Benjamin Tucker, and a significant contributor to "Liberty". Appleton was a graduate of Brown University.

Brian Doherty is a Senior Editor at "Reason" magazine. He is the author of "This is Burning Man" (Little, Brown, 2004) and "Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement" (PublicAffairs, 2007). Before working for the Cato Institute in the early '90s, he served as an intern at "Liberty Magazine" and wrote on music and popular culture at The Independent Florida Alligator.

Sir Herbert Edward Read, MC, DSO (1893-1968) was an English poet and critic of literature and art. He was born in Kirkbymoorside in North Yorkshire. His studies at the University of Leeds were interrupted by the outbreak of World War I, during which he served in France, where he received both the Military Cross and the Distinguished Service Order. During the war, Read founded with Frank Rutter the journal "Arts and Letters", …

Joshua K. Ingalls (July 16, 1816 - ?), both in Swansea, MA, was an inventor, land reformer and individualist anarchist. He was an associate of Benjamin Tucker and the "Boston anarchists." He believed that government protection of idle land was the foundational source of all limitations on individual liberty. This was in disagreement with Tucker who, while also opposing protection of idle land, …

James L. Walker (sometimes used the pen name Tak Kak) was an American individualist anarchist of the Egoist school. He was one of the main contributors to "Liberty". He worked out Egoism on his own some years before encountering the Egoist writings of Max Stirner, and was surprised with the similarities. He published the first twelve chapters of "Philosophy of Egoism" in the May 1890 to September 1891 issues of "Egoism".

Wordsworth Donisthorpe was an English individualist anarchist and inventor, pioneer of photography. His father was George E. Donisthorpe, an inventor as well, his brother, Horace Donisthorpe, was a myrmecologist.

Henry Bool (185?-1922) was an American individualist anarchist. Bool was born in England and later moved the Ithaca, NY where he lived as a businessman for 30 years before returning to England. While in the U.S. Bool began reading and adopting the philosophy of the American individualist anarchists as his own; he said "I am a believer in the doctrines of the individualistic school of Anarchists, to which Garrison, Emerson, Proudhon, Thoreau, Spooner, Andrews, …

Laurance Labadie (1898 - 1975) was an American individualist anarchist and author. He was the son of American anarchist Joseph Labadie. His writings include "Origin and Nature of Government" and "Anarchism Applied to Economics". In "Anarchism Applied to Economics" Labadie writes: "In a world where inequality of ability is inevitable, anarchists do not sanction any attempt to produce equality by artificial or authoritarian means.

Jeremy Sapienza is an American political writer and thinker. He is an internet entrepreneur and, as the founder of Anti-State.Com, a leading spokesman for modern market anarchism. He is also the main proponent of Control Decay Theory, which holds that as wealth grows, spheres of control diminish. He currently resides in New York, New York, and is openly gay. His philosophy is a blend of thought of American individualist anarchists such as Josiah Warren, Lysander Spooner, …

Joseph Albert (known as Albert Libertad or Libertad) (24th November 1875 - 12th November 1908) was an individualist anarchist in France. He was born in Bordeaux, and died in Paris. Abandoned by his parents as a baby, Libertad was a child of the Public Assistance in Bordeaux. As a result of a childhood illness he lost the use of his legs, but he put his handicap to good use: he used his crutches as weapons against the police.

Dr. M. E. Lazarus was an American individualist anarchist from Guntersville, AL where he owned a small farm. Lazarus wrote under the pseudonym "Edgeworth." He is the author of several essays and anarchist pamphlettes including "Land Tenure: Anarchist View" (1889).

Sidney Parker, also known as S. E. Parker, (1930 - ?) is a British egoist individualist anarchist who wrote articles and edited anarchist journals from 1963-1993.

Enrico Arrigoni (pseudonym: Frank Brand) (b. February 20, 1894 near Milan, d. December 7, 1986) was an Italian individualist anarchist influenced by the work of Max Stirner. He once said: "I am probably the only individualist left among the Italian anarchists today."

Henry Meulen (1882 - 1978) was a British individualist anarchist and economist. He was an editor of the periodical called "The Individualist", published by the Personal Rights Association and actively promoted the philosophy of free banking. He is the author of "Free Banking: An Outline of a Policy on Individualism" (London: Macmillan, 1934) and "Individualist Anarchism" (Glasgow: The Strickland Press, 1949).