List of neoconservatives
This is a list of prominent public figures frequently referred to as
neoconservatives. Classifications of this sort are often disputed and so listing here should not be taken as definitive.
- Elliott Abrams
- Linda Chavez
- Richard Cheney, United States Vice President since 2001, former Secretary of Defense, former CEO of Halliburton
- Lynne Cheney, wife of Richard Cheney, a critic of academics opposed to neo-conservatism
- Douglas Feith, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy since 2001
- David Frum, Canadian expatriate, newspaper columnist, and speechwriter
- Francis Fukuyama, author of The End of History, current member of the President's Council on Bioethics
- Samuel Huntington, author of The Clash of Civilizations
- Jeanne Kirkpatrick, former Ambassador to the United Nations, who asserts the existence of a meaningful difference between totalitarianism and authoritarianism (which she believes is often necessary to correct the former)
- Irving Kristol
- Michael Ledeen
- I. Lewis Libby
- Philip Merrill, Chairman of the Export-Import Bank since 2001
- Richard Perle, Chairman of the Defense Policy Board
- Norman Podhoretz
- Condoleezza Rice, National Security Advisor since 2001
- Ronald D. Rotunda, law professor at George Mason University
- Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense since 2001
- Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Secretary of Defense since 2001, a major advocate for the 2003 invasion of Iraq