List of ideologies named after people
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This list contains names of ideological systems, movements and trends named after persons. The stem may be either a person's real name or a nickname. Some of the eponyms are given by people adhering to the movements mentioned, others by outsiders.
Political
- Ataturkism - after Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
- Batllism - after José Batlle y Ordóñez
- Blairism or Blairite - after Tony Blair
- Castroism - after Fidel Castro
- Chavism - after Hugo Chávez
- Clintonism - after Bill Clinton and his wife, Hillary Clinton
- Francoism - after Francisco Franco
- Gandhism - after Mahatma Gandhi
- Gaullism - after Charles de Gaulle
- Georgist - after Gheorghe I. Brătianu (though this is also the name of a philosophical ideology; see below)
- Gladstonian Liberalism - after William Ewart Gladstone, British statesman
- Jacobitism - after James II of England (Jacobus in Latin)
- Josephinism - after Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor
- Kaczism - after Jarosław Kaczyński
- Kemalism - after Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
- Kimilsungism - after former North Korean leader Kim Il-Sung
- Leninism - after Vladimir Lenin
- Machiavellianism - after Niccolò Machiavelli
- Makhnovism - after Ukrainian anarchist Nestor Mahkno
- Maoism - after Mao Zedong
- Marxism - after German political economist Karl Marx
- McCarthyism - after US Senator Joseph McCarthy
- Nasserism - after Gamal Abdel Nasser
- Pabloism - after Michel Pablo
- Peronism - after former Argentine president Juan Perón and his wife Eva Peron
- Poujadism - after Pierre Poujade
- Rawlsianism - John Rawls
- Reaganism - after Ronald Reagan
- Sandinism - after Augusto César Sandino
- Shachtmanism - after Max Shachtman
- Sparticism - after Spartacus
- Stalinism - after Joseph Stalin
- Strasserism - after Gregor and Otto Strasser
- Thatcherism - after former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher
- Titoism - after Josip Broz Tito
- Trotskyism - after Leon Trotsky
- Uribism - after Álvaro Uribe
- Whitlamism - after Gough Whitlam
- Yeltsinism - after Boris Yeltsin
- Zapatism - after Emiliano Zapata
Religious and philosophical
- Ahmadiyah - after Mirza Ghulam Ahmad
- Alevi - after Ali
- Althusserian - after Louis Althusser
- Amish - after Jakob Ammann
- Arianism - after Christian theologian Arius
- Aristotelianism - after Aristotle
- Arminianism - after Jacobus Arminius
- Augustinism - after Augustine of Hippo
- Averroism - after Averroes
- Bábism - after Siyyid `Alí Muḥammad Shírází or the Báb
- Badawiyyah - after Ahmad al-Badawi
- Bahá'í Faith - after Bahá'u'lláh
- Basilideans - after Basilides
- Bektashi - after Hajji Bektash Wali
- Benthamism - after Jeremy Bentham
- Buchmanism - after Frank N. D. Buchman
- Buddhism - after Buddha
- Calvinism - after John Calvin
- Christianity - after Jesus Christ
- Confucianism - after Confucius
- Darqawa - after Muhammad al-Arabi al-Darqawi
- Dominican - after Saint Dominic
- Epicureanism - after Epicurus
- Erastianism - after Thomas Erastus
- Febronianism - after Justinus Febronius
- Feeneyism - after Leonard Feeney
- Franciscan - after Francis of Assisi
- Georgism - after Henry George
- Halveti - after Pir Umar Halveti
- Hanafi - after Abū Ḥanīfa
- Hegelianism - after Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Hobbesianism - after Thomas Hobbes
- Hutterite - after Jakob Hutter
- Ismailism - after Isma'il ibn Jafar
- Jansenism - after Cornelius Jansen
- Jerrahi - after Muhammad Nureddin al-Jerrahi
- Kantianism - after Immanuel Kant
- Kubrawiya - after Najmuddin Kubra
- Laestadianism - after Lars Levi Læstadius
- Lutheranism and Neo-Lutheranism - after Church reformer Martin Luther
- Manichaeism or Manicheism - after Mani (prophet)
- Martinism - after Louis Claude de Saint-Martin
- Mennonite - after Menno Simons
- Millerism or Millerite - after William Miller (preacher)
- Mohism - after Mozi
- Montanism - after Montan
- Naqshbandi - after Baha-ud-Din Naqshband Bukhari
- Nestorianism - after Nestorius
- Nimatullahi - after Shāh Ni'matullāh-i Walī
- Pelagianism - after Pelagius
- Platonism and Neo-Platonism - after Plato
- Puseyism - after Edward Bouverie Pusey
- Pyrrhonism - after Pyrrho
- Qadiriyyah - after Abdul-Qadir Gilani
- Randianism - after Ayn Rand
- Rastafari movement - after Ras Tafari
- Raëlism - after Claude Vorilhon or Raël
- Rifaiyyah - after Ahmed ar-Rifa'i
- Sabellianism - after Sabellius
- Safaviyeh - after Safi-ad-din Ardabili
- Senussi - after Muhammad ibn Ali as-Senussi
- Shadhili - after Abul Hasan al-Shadhili
- Socinianism - after Lelio Sozzini
- Spinozism - after Baruch Spinoza
- Sri Aurobindo Ashram - after Sri Aurobindo
- Suhrawardiyya - after Abu al-Najib al-Suhrawardi
- Thomism - after Thomas Aquinas
- Tijaniyyah - after Ahmad al-Tijani
- Tolstoyan - after Leo Tolstoy
- Wahhabism - after Muhammad ibn Abd-al-Wahhab
- Yazidism - after Yazid I
- Wycliffite - after John Wycliffe
- Zahediyeh - after Zahed Gilani
- Zoroastrianism - after Zoroaster
- Zwingliism - after Huldrych Zwingli
Economical
- Friedmanism - after Milton Friedman
- Keynesianism - after John Maynard Keynes
- Malthusianism - after Thomas Robert Malthus
Scientific
- Cartesian dualism - after René Descartes
- Comtism - after Auguste Comte
- Darwinism - after Charles Darwin
- Lamarckism- after Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Other
- Fordism - after Henry Ford
- Freudianism and post-Freudianism - after Sigmund Freud
- Masochism - after Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
- Sadism - after Donatien-Alphonse-François de Sade
- Social Darwinism - after Charles Darwin
- Taylorism - after Frederick Winslow Taylor
- Victorianism - after Queen Victoria
