List of game theorists

This is a list of notable economists, mathematicians, political scientists, and computer scientists whose work has added substantially to the field of game theory.

* Derek Abbott - Quantum game theory and Parrondo's games
* Robert Aumann - equilibrium theory (Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2005)
* Kenneth Arrow - voting theory (Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1972)
* Robert Axelrod - repeated Prisoner's Dilemma
* Steven Brams - cake cutting, fair division, theory of moves
* John Horton Conway - combinatorial game theory
* John Harsanyi - equilibrium theory (Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1994)
* Rufus Isaacs - differential games
* John Maynard Smith - Evolutionary biology
* William Hamilton - Evolutionary biology
* László Mérő - rationality, combinatorial games
* Oskar Morgenstern - Social organization
* John Forbes Nash - Nash equilibrium (Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1994)
* John von Neumann - Minmax theorem, Expected Utility, Social organization, arms race
* J. M. R. Parrondo - games with a reversal of fortune, such as Parrondo's games
* Charles E. M. Pearce - games applied to queuing theory
* George R. Price - theoretical and evolutionary biology
* Anatol Rapoport - Mathematical psychologist, early proponent of tit-for-tat in repeated Prisoner's Dilemma
* Ariel Rubinstein - Bargaining theory, learning and language
* Reinhard Selten - Bounded rationality (Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1994)
* Lloyd Shapley - Shapley value and core concept in coalition games
* Thomas Schelling - bargaining (Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2005)