As it is difficult to create a definitive list of the 100 most influential philosophers as the impact and influence of a philosopher can vary depending on various factors such as the historical context, cultural background, and personal interpretations. However, here is a list of some philosophers who have had a significant impact on the development of philosophy and have influenced countless others:
- Socrates – Read more about Socrates
- Plato – Read more about Plato
- Aristotle
- Immanuel Kant
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- René Descartes
- Martin Heidegger
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Thomas Aquinas
- John Locke
- Baruch Spinoza
- David Hume
- Blaise Pascal
- G.W.F. Hegel
- Karl Marx
- Søren Kierkegaard
- Albert Einstein
- Sigmund Freud
- Hannah Arendt
- Martin Buber
- Max Weber
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Michel Foucault
- Jacques Derrida
- Jean Baudrillard
- Friedrich Hayek
- Noam Chomsky
- Jürgen Habermas
- Ayn Rand
- C.S. Lewis
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Isaiah Berlin
- Richard Rorty
- Alan Watts
- Martha Nussbaum
- J.L. Mackie
- Iris Murdoch
- John Rawls
- Michael Sandel
- Bernard Williams
- Charles Taylor
- Amartya Sen
- Daniel Dennett
- Hilary Putnam
- Thomas Nagel
- Robert Nozick
- John Searle
- Paul Ricoeur
- Michel de Montaigne
- Francis Bacon
- Roger Scruton
- Tzvetan Todorov
- Slavoj Žižek
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Gaston Bachelard
- Claude Lévi-Strauss
- Roland Barthes
- Jacques Lacan
- Gilles Deleuze
- Félix Guattari
- Emmanuel Levinas
- Michel Serres
- Jean-François Lyotard
- Jacques Attali
- Pierre Bourdieu
- Bruno Latour
- Alain Badiou
- Nicolas Bourbaki
- André Breton
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Henri Bergson
- Edmund Husserl
- Carl Jung
- Jean Piaget
- Lev Vygotsky
- Erich Fromm
- Abraham Maslow
- Carl Rogers
- Rollo May
- Viktor Frankl
- B.F. Skinner
- Jane Addams
- W.E.B. Du Bois
- John Dewey
- Walter Benjamin
- Theodor Adorno
- Max Horkheimer
- Herbert Marcuse
- Jürgen Habermas
- Frantz Fanon
- Paulo Freire
- Homi K. Bhabha
- Edward Said
- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
- bell hooks
- Jacques Rancière
- Michael Hardt
- Antonio Negri
- Judith Butler
- Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
This list is not exhaustive and is meant to be.