- Ron Paul
Ronald Ernest Paul (born August 20, 1935) is a 10th-term Congressman from Lake Jackson, Texas, a member of the Republican Party, a physician, and a candidate for the 2008 presidential election. He has represented Texas's 14th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1997 and represented Texas's 22nd district in 1976 and from 1979 to 1985. He earned the nickname "Dr.
- Mark Thornton
Mark Thornton is Senior Fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute. He serves as the Book Review Editor of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics and as a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Libertarian Studies . He has served as the editor of the Austrian Economics Newsletter and as a member of the graduate faculties of Auburn University and Columbus State University. He has also taught economics at Auburn University at Montgomery and Trinity University in Texas.
- Harry Browne
Harry Browne was an American libertarian writer, politician, and free-market investment analyst. He was a U.S. Presidential candidate for the Libertarian Party in 1996 and 2000.
- Michael Badnarik
Michael J. Badnarik (born August 1, 1954) is an American software engineer, political figure, and radio talk show host. He was the Libertarian Party nominee for President of the United States in the 2004 elections, and placed fourth in the race, slightly behind independent candidate Ralph Nader. He was recently a Libertarian candidate in the 2006 Congressional elections in Texas for the 10th district seat near Austin. He finished in third place with 4.3% of the vote.
- Mary Ruwart
Dr. Ruwart has proposed meaningful reforms within the FDA. For those depending on scientific breakthroughs to stay alive, it is critical for the next Commissioner to have the vision to tear down the FDA�s barriers against medical innovation. Dr. Ruwart has emerged as the most viable candidate to implement these life-saving changes.
- Steve Kubby
Steve Wynn Kubby (born December 28 1946) is a Libertarian Party activist who played a key role in the drafting and passage of California Proposition 215. The proposition was a ballot initiative to legalize medical marijuana which was approved by voters in 1996. Kubby himself is well-known as a cancer patient who relies on medical cannabis. He has authored two books on drug policy reform: "The Politics of Consciousness", and "Why Marijuana Should Be Legal".
- George Phillies
George Phillies (born 23 July 1947) is a Libertarian Party activist and professor of physics at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He resides in Worcester, Massachusetts. On April 15, 2006, Phillies announced his candidacy for the Libertarian nomination for President of the United States in the 2008 presidential race. Phillies was Libertarian Party candidate for Congress Massachusetts District 3, in 1998. He finished third with 2,887 votes for 1.5% of the total vote.
- Wayne Allyn Root
Wayne Allyn Root (b.July 20, 1961 in Mount Vernon, New York) is a business mogul, television celebrity, TV producer, best-selling author, professional sports handicapper, and prospective Libertarian Party presidential candidate based in Las Vegas, Nevada.
- Neal Boortz
Neal Boortz (born April 6, 1945), is a U.S. talk radio host. His radio show is based in Atlanta, Georgia and is nationally syndicated by Cox Radio and the Jones Radio Networks. Boortz is also a lawyer and best-selling author. He considers himself to be a libertarian, and supports eliminating the war on drugs, lowering taxes, and shrinking the size of government, while disagreeing with the Libertarian Party platform by firmly supporting incremental tax reform, …
- L. Neil Smith
L. Neil Smith (full name Lester Neil Smith III, also known by his nickname El Neil or The Sage of the High Plains) is a libertarian science fiction author and political activist. He was born on May 12 1946 in Denver. His works include the novels "Pallas", "The Forge of the Elders", and "The Probability Broach", …
- Scott Horton
Scott Horton is an assistant editor at Antiwar.com and is the host of "Antiwar Radio". Previously, Horton was host of The Weekend Interview Show on the Republic Broadcasting Network in the United States. Since 1999, he has hosted six shows in Austin, Texas, beginning with "Say it Ain't So" on the infamous underground station Free Radio Austin – twice the target of FCC raids.
- Kenn Gividen
Kenn Gividen (born February 10, 1953) is the president of Columbus Marketing Group, Inc., in Columbus, Indiana. In 2004 Gividen was nominated by the Libertarian Party of Indiana as candidate for governor. He participated in two televised debates, the first of which was aired nationally on C-SPAN. Gividen was one of the few Libertarian candidates in Indiana to be supported by a political action committee (PAC). Gividen is the founder of the Libertarian Writers' Bureau.
- Daniel Imperato
Daniel Imperato (b. March 9, 1958, Boston, Massachusetts) is a candidate for the Libertarian Party nomination for President of the United States. A resident of West Palm Beach, Florida, the 2008 election will be Imperato's first run for political office. Imperato's campaign literature describes him as an "independent Libertarian" and an "alternative candidate" for the Presidency. Imperato grew up as an altar boy on the rough side of Boston, …
- Larry Elder
Laurence Allen "Larry" Elder (born April 27, 1952 in Los Angeles, California) aka "the Sage from South Central" is an American libertarian-minded Republican (he has sometimes referred to his views as "conservatarian") radio and former TV talk show host and author whose "The Larry Elder Show" is nationally syndicated on ABC Radio Networks. The show broadcasts live from 6-9 p.m. (Eastern Time), Monday through Friday.
- Jim Doyle
James Edward (Jim) Doyle (born November 23, 1945) is a Wisconsin politician and member of the Democratic Party. He took office in January 2003 as the 44th Governor of Wisconsin. He defeated incumbent Governor Scott McCallum by a margin of 45% to 41%, a plurality reduced by the relative success of a third party candidate, Ed Thompson, the Libertarian candidate and former Governor Tommy Thompson's younger brother.
- Jim Babka
Jim Babka is a libertarian activist and writer. He attended the University of Akron where he majored in political science. Babka was the press secretary for Libertarian Party presidential candidate Harry Browne in 2000. He currently serves as president of the Downsize DC Foundation and DownsizeDC.org, Inc., and is the host of a radio talk-show called "Downsize DC Conference Call".
- Vin Suprynowicz
Vin Suprynowicz is a U.S. libertarian columnist who writes editorials for the Las Vegas, Nevada based "Las Vegas Review-Journal". He wrote a self-published science fiction novel in 2005 called "The Black Arrow". He wrote an essay called "Gun Grabbers: Masters of the New Plantation". He is also the author of two non-fiction compilations of his newspaper columns: "Send In the Waco Killers" and "The Ballad of Carl Drega".
- Allen Buckley
Allen Buckley was a candidate for the U.S. Senate from the state of Georgia in 2004. He ran as a Libertarian, gaining only 2% of the vote. Buckley is from Smyrna, Georgia and has a Bachelor's degree from Kent State University and Law Degrees from University of Georgia and University of Florida.
- Richard Winger
Richard Lee Winger (born August 27, 1943) has been for the last forty years the leading advocate in the United States for minor political parties, in particular for more equitable laws allowing access to the ballot for minor parties. Though he has no formal education in law, Winger is regarded as a formidable authority on election law, having testified as such in countless court cases across the country, …
- Doug Stanhope
Douglas Gene Stanhope (born March 25, 1967) is an American stand-up comedian.
- David Nolan
David Fraser Nolan founded the Libertarian Party in 1971. He subsequently served the party in a number of roles including National Chair, editor of the party newsletter, chairman of the By-laws Committee, chairman of the Judicial Committee, and Chairman of the Platform Committee. Nolan was born in Washington, D.C., and spent his earliest years growing up in Maryland. During high school, he read much science fiction and came upon the works of Robert Heinlein, …
- Peter McWilliams
Peter Alexander McWilliams was a writer and cannabis activist. A vocal supporter of medical cannabis due to being terminally ill with AIDS and cancer, McWilliams was investigated by the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration and convicted for violating federal marijuana laws, even though medical marijuana was legal under California state law.
- Brian Holtz
Brian Holtz is an American software engineer, blogger, webmaster, and was the Libertarian running for the United States Congress on November 7, 2006 against eight-term incumbent Anna Eshoo in Silicon Valley. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science (University of S. Mississippi Honors College, 1987) and M.S. in Computer Science (University of Michigan, 1990). He worked with Sun Microsystems for 11 years and is now employed by Yahoo.
- Rose Wilder Lane
Rose Wilder Lane (December 5, 1886, De Smet, Dakota Territory – October 30, 1968, Danbury, Connecticut) was an American journalist, travel writer, novelist, and political theorist. Although her mother, Laura Ingalls Wilder, is now the better known writer, Lane's accomplishments remain remarkable.
- Michael Cloud
Michael Cloud is a motivational speaker who was the Massachusetts Libertarian Party candidate for U.S. Senate in 2002. He garnered 19% of the vote in a 2-way race against the Democratic candidate, benefiting from the lack of a Republican candidate in the race. He briefly served as campaign manager for the 1996 Harry Browne for President campaign, replaced by Sharon Ayres. He was formerly known as Michael Emerling.
- Carla Howell
Carla A. Howell (b. 1955) is President of the Center for Small Government. In 2002, she sponsored a ballot measure to end the income tax in Massachusetts. It was the boldest tax cut proposal ever placed on the ballot in United States history, yet it almost won with 45.3% of the vote in a state which has historically been in favor of governmental solutions.
- Bob Smither
Bob Smither (born August 26, 1944) was the Libertarian Party nominee for the 2006 special election in Texas's 22nd congressional district.
- Richard Campagna
Richard V. Campagna of Iowa City, Iowa was the vice-presidential nominee of the Libertarian Party in the 2004 U.S. presidential election. Campagna was chosen at the 2004 Libertarian National Convention along with Libertarian presidential nominee Michael Badnarik. Campagna resides in Iowa. He works as a businessman, consultant, and attorney, and is an active proponent of existentialism. Campagna holds degrees from Brown University (B.A.), New York University (M.A.), St.
- Dave Freudenthal
David Duane "Dave" Freudenthal (born October 12, 1950) is an American politician from the U.S. state of Wyoming. A Democrat, Freudenthal is currently the governor of Wyoming, having been re-elected to a second term on 7 November, 2006. Freudenthal was born in Thermopolis, Wyoming, the seventh of eight children, and grew up on a farm north of town. He graduated from Amherst College in 1973 with a bachelor's degree in economics.
- Ed Crane
Edward H. Crane is the founder and president of the Cato Institute. In the 1970s, he was one of the most active leaders of the Libertarian Party. He was the Party's national chairman from 1974 to 1977, and managed Ed Clark's high-profile 1978 campaign to be Governor of California. In 1977, with the funding of Charles Koch and the assistance of Murray Rothbard, Crane established the Cato Institute, which would grow into the best-known libertarian think-tank in the world.
- Glen Jacobs
Glen Thomas Jacobs (born April 26, 1967) is an American professional wrestler better known by the ring name, Kane. He is performing on the "SmackDown!" brand of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE).
- Rob Kampia
Rob Kampia is the founder and executive director of the Marijuana Policy Project. Born in 1969 in Harleysville, Pennsylvania, Kampia grew up in a Lutheran family and became valedictorian of Souderton Area High School in 1986. He earned a BA in engineering science from Pennsylvania State University in preparation for becoming an astronaut.
- Sharon Harris
Sharon Harris is a libertarian political activist and president of the Advocates for Self-Government. Harris holds a bachelor's degree in journalism and a master's degree in psychology. In 1972, Harris was a founding member of the Libertarian Party of Georgia. In 1994, Harris ran for Commissioner of Agriculture in Georgia, garnering over 600,000 votes in the general election. Harris is best known for her work with the Advocates for Self-Government, …
- Bill Redpath
Bill Redpath was elected chair in July of 2006 at the party's national convention in Portland, Oregon. Bill is the Vice President of a financial consulting firm and holds an MBA from the University of Chicago. Bill and his wife Melinda live in Leesburg, Virginia.
- Stan Jones
Stan Jones (born January 13, 1943, in Bozeman, Montana) is a Libertarian Party politician who has twice run unsuccessfully for the United States Senate in 2002 and 2006, and has run twice unsuccessfully for governor of Montana, in 2000 and 2004. The winner in 2000 was Republican Judy Martz, and in 2004 the winner was Democrat Brian Schweitzer. In 2002 the winner was Democrat Max Baucus. His loss in 2006 was his most significant, …
- Barbara Howe
Barbara Howe is the chair of the Libertarian Party of North Carolina. She was the party's candidate for Governor of North Carolina in 2000 and 2004, and in 2007, was elected to her third term as state chair, having served two terms previously from from 2001 to 2005. Born in Wingate, North Carolina, Howe attended Pfeiffer College, earning degrees in English and psychology.
- Roger MacBride
Roger Lea MacBride (6 August 1929 - 5 March 1995) was a U.S. lawyer, political figure, and television producer. Macbride, who was listed in the New York Social Register, was the treasurer of the Republican Party of Virginia in 1972 and one of the party's electors when Richard Nixon won the popular vote for his second term. MacBride was so repulsed by the Watergate revelations he could not bring himself to vote for his party's nominee.
- Sam Reed
Sam Reed is an American politician. He is a Republican and currently serves as the Secretary of State for Washington. Reed received his bachelor's and master's degrees in political science from Washington State University. He was elected to the office of Secretary of State in 2000, as one of only two Republicans to be elected to statewide office that year, after serving as Thurston County auditor for several decades. Reed is Washington's fourteenth Secretary of State.
- Eric S. Raymond
Eric Steven Raymond (born December 4, 1957), often referred to as ESR, is a computer programmer, author and advocate for the open source movement. His reputation within hacker culture was established when he became the maintainer of the "Jargon File". After the 1997 publication of "The Cathedral and the Bazaar", Raymond became a high-profile representative of the open source movement, and is today one of its most recognized and controversial characters.
- Bill Peirce
William S. Peirce (pronounced "purse"), (born December 7, 1938 in Stoneham, Massachusetts) is the Ohio Libertarian Party's candidate for Ohio Governor in the November 7, 2006 election (2005 Cohen). On November 12, 2005, the Libertarian Party of Ohio made its endorsement of Peirce official.