This article provides a list of noted sociologists and major contributors to sociology (even if they did not primarily work as sociologists):

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A

• Andrew Abbott American sociologist at the University of Chicago
• Jane Addams (1860-1935), American social worker and reformer
• Theodor Adorno (1903-1969), German cultural sociologist (Frankfurt School)
• Jeffrey C. Alexander, American sociologist
• Louis Althusser (1918-1990), Algerian-French philosopher and sociologist
• Hannah Arendt (1906-1975), German political theorist
• Raymond Aron (1905 - 1983) French philosopher and sociologist
• Johan Asplund (b. 1937) Swedish sociologist

B

• Gregory Bateson (1904-1980), English/American cybernetican
• Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929), French cultural theorist
• Zygmunt Bauman (b. 1925), British sociologist
• Ulrich Beck (1944-), German sociologist
• Daniel Bell (born 1919) sociologist and professor emeritus at Harvard University.
• Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), German cultural sociologist
• Joseph Berger, American theoretical sociologist
• Peter L. Berger (b. 1929), Austro-American sociologist
• Henri Bergson (1859-1941), French philosopher
• Herbert Blumer (1900 - 1997), American sociologist
• Phillip Bonacich American mathematical sociologist
• Scott Boorman American sociologist, Professor of sociology at Yale University
• Thomas Bottomore (1920-1992), British sociologist
• Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002), French sociologist
• Ronald Breiger American Sociologist
• Ernest Burgess (1886-1966), Canadian-born sociologist
• Judith Butler (b. 1956), American gender theorist
• Carter Butts (b. 1974), American mathematical sociologist

C

• Manuel Castells (b. 1942), Spanish sociologist and urban planner
• Cornelius Castoriadis (1922-1997), Greek philosopher and political theorist
• Kathleen Carley American computational sociologist at Carnegie Mellon University
• Nancy Chodorow (b. 1944), American sociologist and gender theorist
• Richard Cloward, American sociologist
• Ronald L. Cohen, American social psychologist
• Stanley Cohen, British sociologist (criminology)
• James S. Coleman (1926-1995), American sociologist
• Auguste Comte (1798-1857), French founder of sociology
• Charles Cooley (1864-1929), American sociologist
• Stefan Czarnowski (1879-1937), Polish sociologist

D

• Hamid Dabashi, American-Iranian cultural critic and intellectual historian
• Robert Dahl (b.1915), American political scientist
• Ralf Dahrendorf (b.1929), German-British sociologist and politician
• Mathieu Deflem, sociologist
• Gilles Deleuze (1925 - 1995), French philosopher
• Nancy Denton, American sociologist and demographer
• Georgi Dimitrov Dimitrov, Bulgarian sociologist
• G. William Domhoff, American sociologist
• W.E.B. DuBois (1868-1963), African-American civil rights leader
• Émile Durkheim (1858-1917), French sociologist

E

• Norbert Elias (1897-1990), German sociologist
• Friedrich Engels (1820-1895), German socialist philosopher
• Kai T. Erikson (1931 -), American sociologist
• Amitai Etzioni (1929 -), American sociologist

F

• Rick Fantasia, American sociologist
• Thomas Fararo (b. 1933), American mathematical sociologist
• Paul Fauconnet (1874-1938) French sociologist
• Scott Feld, American mathematical sociologist
• Gary Alan Fine (b. 1950), American sociologist
• Fei Xiaotong (1910-2005) Chinese sociologist and anthropologist
• Heinz von Foerster (1911-2002), Austrian-American cybernetican
• Michel Foucault (1926-1984), French sociologist
• Charles Fourier (1772-1837), French proto-sociologist
• Andre Gunder Frank (1929-2005), German economic historian and sociologist
• Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), Austrian psycho-analyst
• Hans Freyer (1887 - 1969) German sociologist and philosopher
• Gilberto Freyre (1900-1987), Brazilian sociologist
• Erich Fromm (1900-1980), German-American psychologist

G

• Francis Galton (1822-1911), English statistican
• Harold Garfinkel (b.1917), Professor Emeritus in sociology at Harvard University
• Felix Guattari (1930 - 1992), French institutional psychotherapist, founder of schizoanalysis and ecosophy
• Anthony Giddens (b. 1938), English sociologist
• Corrado Gini (1884-1965), Italian statistician
• Arnold Gehlen (1904 - 1976), German philosopher and sociologist
• Theodor Geiger (1891-1952), German-Danish sociologist
• Ernest Gellner(1925 - 1995), philosopher and social anthropologist
• David Glass, (1911 - 1978), British sociologist
• Max Gluckman (1911-1975), South African/English social anthropologist
• John H. Goldthorpe (b. 1935), British sociologist
• Leo Goodman (b.1928), American social statistician
• Erving Goffman (1922-1982), Canadian interactionistic sociologist
• Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937), Italian Marxist
• Richard Grathoff (1934- ), German sociologist and phenomenologist
• Mark Granovetter, American sociologist
• Andrew M. Greeley, American sociologist, priest, author
• Ludwig Gumplovicz (1838-1909), Polish-Austrian sociologist, one of the founders of European sociology

H

• Jürgen Habermas (b. 1929), German social theorist
• Maurice Halbwachs (1877 - 1945) French philosopher and sociologist
• Stuart Hall (b.1932) British cultural theorist
• Donna Haraway (b. 1944) American gender and technology theorist
• David Harvey (b.1935) British geographer
• Georg F. Hegel (1770-1831), German philosopher
• Richard Hoggart (b. 1918), British sociologist (Birmingham School, culture studies)
• George C. Homans (1910-1989) American behavioural sociologist
• Axel Honneth (b. 1949), German social theorist
• Max Horkheimer (1895-1973), German social philosopher (Frankfurt School)
• Floyd Hunter (b.1912), American sociologist

I

• Octavio Ianni (1926 - ), Brazilian sociologist
• Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406), Arab historian and proto-sociologist
• Kancha Ilaiah, (1952-) Indian political and social scientist

J

• Jane Jacobs (b.1916), US/Canadian writer and activist
• Lewis Wade Jones (1910 - 1979), African-American sociologist and educator

K

• Elihu Katz American sociologist
• Stephen A. Kent Canadian sociologist
• Ibn Khaldun (1332/ah732 - 1406/ah808), North African historian, forerunner of modern historiography, sociology and economics
• Karin Knorr Cetina (b.1944) Austrian-American sociologist
• Alfred L. Kroeber (1876–1960) American anthropologist
• Thomas S. Kuhn (1922-1996), American science theorist
• Antonina Kłoskowska (1919-2001), Polish sociologist

L

• William Labov (b.1927) American sociolinguist and dialectologist
• Jacques Lacan (1901-1981), French psychoanalyst
• Ernesto Laclau , Argentinian sociologist
• Bruno Latour (1947- ) French sociologist of science
• Paul F. Lazarsfeld (1901-1976) Austrian-American sociologist
• Gustave Le Bon (1841-1931) French social psychologist and sociologist
• Henri Lefebvre (1901 - 1991), French Marxist philosopher
• Claude Lévi-Strauss (b. 1908), French anthropologist
• Lucien Lévy-Bruhl (1857-1939) French philosopher, sociologist and ethnographer
• Seymour Martin Lipset (b. 1922), American comparativist sociologist
• Thomas Luckmann (b. 1927), German sociologist
• Niklas Luhmann (1927-1998), German sociologist (systems theory)
• Rosa Luxemburg (1870-1919), German socialist theoretician
• Robert Staughton Lynd (1892 - 1970) American sociologist
• Jean-François Lyotard (1924-1998), French philosopher

M

• Henry Maine (1822-1888), British jurist and legal historian
• Robert Morrison MacIver (1882-1970) Scottish-American sociologist.
• Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942), Polish anthropologist
• Thomas Malthus (1766-1834), English demographer
• Richard Machalek (b. 1946) American sociologist and sociobiologist
• Michael Mann (b. 1942) British-American sociologist
• Karl Mannheim (1893-1947), German-speaking sociologist
• Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979), German-American sociologist (Frankfurt School)
• Wladyslaw Markiewicz (b. 1920) Polish sociologist
• Karl Marx (1818-1883), German political philosopher, social theorist (see Marxism)
• Douglas Massey, American sociologist
• Humberto Maturana(b. 1928), Chilean biologist and philosopher
• John Levi Martin American sociologist
• Marcel Mauss (1872-1950) French sociologist
• Dale McConkey, American sociologist
• Robert McKenzie(1917-1981), Canadian-born Politics professor and psephologist.
• George Herbert Mead (1863-1931) American philosopher and social psychologist
• Margaret Mead (1901-1978), American cultural anthropologist
• Henri Mendras (1927-2003), French sociologist, chronicler of La fin des paysans
• Robert K. Merton (1910-2003) American sociologist
• Robert Michels (1876-1936) German political sociologist
• C. Wright Mills (1916-1962) American sociologist
• J. Clyde Mitchell (1918-1995) British Social Anthropologist
• Brij Mohan (1939--), Indian-American social scientist
• James D. Montgomery American economist and mathematical sociologist
• Charles Murray (b. 1943) American sociologist

N

• Oswald von Nell-Breuning (1890-1991), German Roman Catholic theologian, sociologist and social reformer
• Otto Neurath (1882-1945), Austrian sociologist and political economist
• Peter Neville (d. 2002) British further education lecturer and sociologist
• Robert Nisbet (1913-1996), American sociologist

O

• William F. Ogburn (1886 - 1959), American sociologist
• Claus Offe (1940-), German sociologist
• Lloyd Ohlin, American sociologist
• Franz Oppenheimer (1864-1943) German sociologist and political economist
• Stanislaw Ossowski (1897-1963), Polish sociologist
• Robert Owen (1771 - 1858), Welsh social reformer

P

• Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923), Italian economist and sociologist
• Robert E. Park (1864 - 1944), American sociologist
• Vance Packard (1914-1996), American proto-pop-sociologist
• Ray Pahl, British sociologist
• Talcott Parsons (1902-1979), American functionalist sociologist
• Karl Pearson (1857-1936), English statistician
• Jean Piaget (1896 – 1980), Swiss developmental psychologist
• Adam Possamai, Belgium sociologist of religion
• Nicos Poulantzas (1936-1979), Greek political sociologist
• Samuel H. Preston, Professor of Demography, University of Pennsylvania
• Robert Putnam (b. 1941), American political scientist
• Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865) French socialist or anarchist philosopher

Q

R

• Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown (1881–1955) British social anthropologist
• Aviad Raz (b. 1968) Israeli sociologist and anthropologist
• Jürgen Ritsert , German sociologist
• George Ritzer (b. 1940), American sociologist
• Terje Rød-Larsen (b. 1947) Norwegian diplomat and sociologist
• Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (1888-1973) German-born social philosopher
• Walter Garrison Runciman, 3rd Viscount Runciman of Doxford British sociologist

S

• Harvey Sacks (d. 1975), American sociologist in the ethnomethodology tradition
• Henri Saint-Simon (1760 - 1825), French philosopher and social thinker
• Saskia Sassen, (b. 1949) American sociologist
• Peter Saunders, Australian sociologist
• Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913), Swiss linguist (structuralism)
• Helmut Schelsky (1912-1984), German sociologist
• Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883 – 1950), economist
• Alfred Schütz (1899-1959), Austrian philosopher and sociologist (phenomenology)
• Richard Sennett (b. 1943), American sociologist and public figure
• Ali Shariati (1933-1977), Iranian sociologist
• Charles E. Silberman, American criminologist
• Albion Woodbury Small (1854-1926), American sociologist, founder of Chicago University Dept. of Sociology
• Georg Simmel (1858-1918), German sociologist
• John Skvoretz, American mathematical sociologist
• Adam Smith(1723-1790), Scottish economist and philosopher
• Dorothy E. Smith (b. 1926), British-American sociologist and gender theorist
• Werner Sombart (1863-1941), German economist and sociologist
• Pitirim Sorokin (1889-1968), Russian sociologist
• Herbert Spencer (1820-1903), English philosopher
• Oswald Spengler (1880-1936), German philosopher
• Steven Spitzer, American sociologist
• M N Srinivas (1916 - 1999), Indian sociologist
• Anselm L. Strauss (1916 - 1996), American sociologist (sociology of medicine, qualitative methods)
• William Graham Sumner (1840-1910), American advocate of Social Darwinism
• Eilert Sundt (1817-1875), Norwegian sociologist
• Gerald Suttles, American social constructionist
• Jan Szczepański (1913-2004), Polish sociologist

T

• Gabriel Tarde (1843 - 1904), French sociologist and social psychologist
• W. I. Thomas (1863 - 1947), American social psychologist
• Alexis de Tocqueville (1805 - 1859), French essayist and political analyst
• Ferdinand Tönnies (1855-1936), German sociologist

U

V

• Francisco Varela (1946-2001), Chilean biologist and philosopher
• Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929), American economist and sociologist
• Nildo Viana (b.1965) Brazilian sociologist and philosopher

W

• Immanuel Wallerstein, (b. 1930), American sociologist and historian
• Stanley Wasserman, Professor of Sociology, Psychology, and Statistics at Indiana University.
• Duncan Watts, American mathematical sociologist and network theorist
• Peter Wagner, German sociologist and social theorist
• Lester Frank Ward (1841-1913), important founder of American sociology
• Beatrice Webb (1858-1943), British socialist and social theorist
• Sidney Webb (1859-1947), British socialist and social theorist
• Alfred Weber (1868-1958), German sociologist
• Max Weber (1864-1920), German sociologist
• John Westergaard (b. 1927), British sociologist
• Edward Westermarck (1862-1939), Finnish sociologist and philosopher
• Harrison White, American Sociologist
• William H. Whyte (b. 1917), American sociologist, journalist and peoplewatcher
• William Julius Wilson (b. 1935), American sociologist
• Christopher Winship, American sociologist
• Louis Wirth (1897 - 1952), German-American sociologist
• Edmund Wnuk-Lipinski (b. 1944), Polish sociologist
• Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), British social reformer
• Erik Olin Wright, American sociologist

Y

• Yu Xie Professor of sociology and statistics at the University of Michigan

Z

• Benjamin Zablocki (1941-) Professor for sociology of religion and social psychology at Rutgers
• Eviatar Zerubavel, Cognitive Sociologist, Professor of Sociology at Rutgers
• Jean Ziegler (1934-) professor of sociology at the University of Geneva and the Sorbonne, Paris.
• Slavoj Zizek (b. 1949), Slovenian sociologist and philosopher
• Florian Znaniecki (1882-1958), Polish and American sociologist
• Irving Zola, medical sociologist and disability rights activist

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