Theocritus (c. 270 BC)
Aristophanes (c. 446 – c. 386 BC)
Thucydides (c.460 B.C.–c.400 B.C.)
Herodotus (c.480-c.429 BCE)
Demosthenes (384-322 B.C.)
Pindar (c. 522 – c. 443 BC)

Sir Thomas More (1478 – 1535)

Richard Hooker (1554 – 1600)
Jean Bodin (1530–1596)
Jerome Cardan (1501-1576)
Thomas Hobbes (1588 – 1679)
René Descartes (1596 –1650)
Francis Bacon (1561 – 1626)
Johannes Kepler (1571 –1630)
Galileo Galilei (1564 –1642)

Nathaniel Lee (c. 1653 – 1692)
William Petty (1623 – 1687)
Henry More (1614 – 1687)
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
William Congreve (1670 – 1729)
Montesquieu (1689 – 1755)
Isaac Newton (1643-1727)
Francis Hutcheson (1694 –1746)
Nicholas Malebranche (1638 – 1715)
John Locke (1632–1704)
George Berkeley (1685 – 1753)
Gottfried Wilhelm (von) Leibniz (1646 - 1716)
John Dryden (1631 – 1700)

David Hume (1711- 1776)
Adam Smith (1723-1790)
Edward Gibbon (1737 – 1794)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 – 1778)
Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
Pierre Simon Laplace (1749 - 1827)
William Woodsworth (1770 – 1850)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772- 1834)
Thomas Malthus (1766-1834)
Jeremy Bentham (c.1748 – 1832)
Friedrich Hegel (1770 –1831)
Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804)

E.M. Foster (1879 –1970)
T. S. Eliot (1888 – 1965)
Virginia Woolf (1882 – 1941)
George Boole (1815 - 1864)
Augustus de Morgan (1806 - 1871)
Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955)
Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882 – 1944)
Samuel Butler (1835 – 1902)