Noted anarchist philosophers Peter Kropotkin and Emma Goldman spent some time in Canada; Goldman died in Toronto in 1940.

The anarchist philosopher, Peter Kropotkin who visited the Channel Islands in 1890, 1896 and 1903 described the agriculture of Jersey in The Conquest of Bread.

Proponents of early free-market socialism include the Ricardian socialist economists, the classical liberal philosopher John Stuart Mill, and the anarchist philosopher Pierre-Joseph Proudhon.

This was responded to a century later by Mikhail Bakunin, the anarchist political philosopher and activist, with "If God did exist it would be necessary to abolish him".

Pao Ching-yen zh:鮑敬言 (also spelled Bao Jingyan), a Chinese anarchist philosopher who presumably lived in the early fourth century C.E.

Paul Goodman (September 9, 1911 - August 2, 1972) was a novelist, playwright, poet and psychotherapist, although now best known as a social critic, anarchist philosopher, and public intellectual.

Inspired by multiple sources, early stories featuring the character often included homages to political and philosophical books, and referenced anarchist philosophers and theorists.

Horst Matthai Quelle was a German-Mexican anarchist philosopher also influenced by Stirner.

Wolfi Landstreicher is a former nom de plume ("Landstreicher" is the German word for vagabond, tramp) of a contemporary anarchist philosopher involved in theoretical and practical activity.

There Grün befriended the anarchist philosopher Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, whose writings had greatly influenced him and whose ideas he helped popularize among German radicals.