List of liberal leaders

This is a list of self or otherwise proclaimed liberal leaderss. Some of these people moved away from liberalism, while others espoused other ideologies before turning to liberalism. There are many different views of what constitute liberalism, and some liberals would feel that some of the people on this list were not true liberals. The people on this list have been nominated because they claimed to be liberals, or were very widely perceived to be by others.

Table of contents

1 Albania 2 Argentina 3 Australia 4 Austria 5 Belgium 6 Bolivia 7 Brazil 8 Bulgaria 9 Canada 10 Chile 11 Colombia 12 Czechoslovakia (former) 13 Czech Republic 14 Denmark 15 Ecuador 16 Egypt 17 Estonia 18 Finland 19 Finland 20 France 21 Germany 22 Greece 23 Honduras 24 Hungary 25 India 26 Iran 27 Italia 28 Japan 29 Latvia 30 Lithuania 31 Luxembourg 32 Mexico 33 Netherlands 34 Norway 35 New Zealand 36 Nicaragua 37 Norway 38 Philippines 39 Poland 40 Romania 41 Russia 42 Senegal 43 Serbia 44 Slovenia 45 South Africa 46 Spain 47 Sweden 48 Switzerland 49 Taiwan 50 Thailand 51 Ukraine 52 United Kingdom 53 United States 54 Uruguay

Albania

• Interbellum: Stylian Fan Noli

• Unión Civica Radical: Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear - Hipólito Irigoyen - Arturo Umberto Illia - Raúl Alfonsín

• Alfred Deakin
• Australian Democrats: Natasha Stott Despoja - Andrew Bartlett

• Parti Libèral: Charles Rogier - Hubert Frère-Orban - Paul Janson - Paul Hymans - Paul-Emile Janson
• Vlaamse Liberalen en Democraten: Guy Verhofstadt

• Partido do Movimento Democrático Brasileiro: Tancredo Neves

• Pre-communist period: Ljuben Karavelov - Petko Karavelov - Alexander Malinov
• Zhelyu Zhelev

• Louis Joseph Papineau
• Liberal Party of Canada: Alexander Mackenzie - Wilfrid Laurier - William Lyon Mackenzie King - Louis St. Laurent - Lester Bowles Pearson - Pierre Elliott Trudeau - John Napier Turner - Jean Chrétien - Paul Martin

• National Social Party: Tomáš Masaryk - Edvard Beneš
• non-partisan: Václav Havel

• non-partisan: Václav Havel
• Free Democrats: Jiri Dienstbier

• Radikale Venstre: Carl Theodor Zahle - Hilmar Baunsgaard
• Venstre: Poul Hartling

• Eloy Alfaro

• Kansallinen Edistyspuolue: Kaarlo Juho StÃ¥hlberg

• Keskustapuolue: Esko Aho

• 19th century: Marie-Joseph Marquis de Lafayette - Benjamin Constant de Rebecque - François Guizot - Adolphe Thiers - Jules Grévy
• Parti Radical: Léon Gambetta - Georges Clemenceau - Edouard Daladier - Edouard Herriot - Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber
• Simone Veil

• Liberals before 1918: Rudolf von Bennigsen -
• Freisinn: Theodor Barth - Friedrich Naumann - Max Weber
• Deutsche Demokratische Partei: Walther Rathenau - Theodor Heuss
• Deutsche Volkspartei]: Gustav Stresemann
• LDPD (East-Germany): Wilhelm Külz
• Freie Demokratische Partei: Ralf Dahrendorf - Karl-Hermann Flach - Hans-Dietrich Genscher - Walter Scheel

• Enosis Kentrou: Georgious Papandreou
• Komma Fileleftheron: Eleftherios Venizelos

• Partido Liberal: Roberto Suazo Córdova - José Azcona del Hoyo- Carlos Roberto Reina

• 19th century: Lajos Kossuth - Ferenc Deák
• Alliance of Free Democrats: Árpád Göncz

• 19th century: Count Camillo Benso di Cavour - Giuseppe Mazzini- Francesco Crispi - Agostini Depretis - Giovanni Giolitti - Carlo Rosselli
• Unione Nazionale: Giovanni Amendola
• Partito Liberale Italiano: Benedetto Croce - Luigi Einaudi
• Partito Repubblicano Italiano: Ugo la Malfa - Giovanni Spadolini

• Itagaki Taisuke - Hamaguchi Osachi

• Lithuanian Peasants Union: Kazys Grinius

• Demokratesch Partei: Gaston Thorn

• Pre-revolution: Benito Juárez - Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada - Francisco I. Madero

• Liberals in the nineteenth century: Johan Rudolf Thorbecke - Samuel van Houten
• Joannes Kappeyne van de Coppello - Johannes Pieter Roetert Tak van Poortvliet - Hendrik Goeman Borgesius
• Vrijzinnig-Democratische Bond: Dirk Bos - Aletta Jacobs - Pieter Jacobus Oud
• Liberale Staatspartij: Benjamin Marius Telders
• Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie: Pieter Jacobus Oud - Hans Wiegel - Frits Bolkestein
• Democraten 66: Hans van Mierlo - Jan Terlouw - Thom de Graaf - Boris Dittrich

• Venstre: Johan Sverdrup - Johannes Steen - Lars Sponheim

• Richard John Seddon

• Augusto César Sandino

• Partido Liberal: Manuel Roxas - Diosdado Macapagal - Benigno Aquino

• Hanna Suchocka

• Partidul National Liberal: Ion Brătianu - Ionel C.C. Brătianu

• pre-revolution: Pavel Milyukov - Prince Georgy Yevgenyevich Lvov
• Dissidence during communism: Andrei Sakharov
• Yabloko: Grigorii Yavlinskii

• Parti Démocratique du Sénégal: Abdoulaye Wade

• Liberalna Demokracija Slovenije: Janez Drnovsek

• United Party: Jan Smuts
• South African Liberal Party: Alan Paton
• Progressive Federal Party: Helen Suzman
• Democratic Alliance: Colin Eglin - Tony Leon

• Liberals before 1912: Emilio Castelar u Ripoll - José Canalejas y Mendez
• Izquierda Republicana: Manuel Azaña
• Centro Democratico y Social: Adolfo Suárez

• Folkpartiet Liberalerna: Bertil Ohlin - Gunnar Helén - Per Ahlmark - Ola Ullsten - Bengt Westerberg - Maria Leissner - Lars Leijonborg

• Democratic Progressive Party: Chen Shui-bian

• Whigs: Charles James Fox - Charles Earl Grey
• The Liberal Party: Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston - William Ewart Gladstone - Henry Campbell-Bannerman - Herbert Henry Asquith - David Lloyd George - Herbert Samuel - Archibald Sinclair- John Maynard Keynes - Clement Davies - Jo Grimond - Jeremy Thorpe
• Liberal Democrats: David Steel - Paddy Ashdown - Ralf Dahrendorf - Charles Kennedy

• 18th/19th century: Benjamin Franklin - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison
• Democratic Party: Franklin Delano Roosevelt- Hubert H. Humphrey - Nelson Rockefeller - John F. Kennedy - Robert Kennedy - Edward Kennedy - Allard K. Lowenstein - Eugene McCarthy - George McGovern - Jimmy Carter - Walter Mondale - Bill Clinton - Paul Wellstone

• Partido Colorado: José Batlle y Ordoñez - Julio Maria Sanguinetti