List of ideologies named after people

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 adherring to the movements mentioned, others by outsiders.

Political

* Batllism - after José Batlle y Ordóñez
* Blairite or Blairism - after Tony Blair
* Castroism - after Fidel Castro
* Clintonism - after Bill Clinton
* Francoism - after Francisco Franco
* Gandhism - after Mahatma Gandhi
* Gaullism - after Charles de Gaulle
* Georgist - after Gheorge I. Brătianu (though this is also the name of a philosophical ideology; see below)
* 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 (note: this link goes to the psychological term)
* Maoism - after Mao Zedong
* Marxism - after German political economist Karl Marx
* McCarthyism - after United States Senator Joseph McCarthy
* Nasserism - after Gamal Abdel Nasser
* Pabloism - after Michel Pablo
* Peronism - after former Argentine president Juan Perón
* 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
* Whitlamism - after Gough Whitlam
* Yeltsinism - after Boris Yeltsin
* Zapatism - after Emiliano Zapata

Religious and Philosophical

* Ahmadiyah - after Mirza Ghulam Ahmad
* Alevi - after Ali
* Althusserianism - after Louis Althusser
* Amish - after Jacob Amman
* Arianism - after Christian theologian Arius
* Aristotelianism - after Aristotle
* Arminianism - after Jacobus Arminius
* Augustinism - after Augustine of Hippo
* Averroism - after Averroes
* Bábism - after 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
* Cartesianism - after Descartes
* Christianity - after Jesus Christ
* Confucianism - after Confucius
* Darbyism - after John Nelson Darby
* 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 (though there's also a political philosophy called this)
* Halveti - after Pir Umar Halveti
* Hanafi - after Abu Hanifa an-Nu‘man
* Hegelianism - after Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
* Hobbesianism - after Thomas Hobbes
* Hutterite - after Jakob Hutter
* Ismaili - after Ismail bin Jafar
* Jansenism - after Cornelius Jansen
* Jerrahi - after Pir Nureddin al-Jerrahi
* Kantianism - after Immanuel Kant
* Kubrawiya - after Najmeddin Kubra
* Laestadianism - after Lars Levi Laestadius
* Lutheranism and Neo-Lutheranism - after Church reformer Martin Luther
* Manicheism - after Mani (prophet)
* Martinism - after Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin
* Mennonite - after Menno Simons
* Millerite - after William Miller (preacher)
* Mohism - after Mozi
* Montanism - after Montan
* Naqshbandi - after Baha-ud-Din Naqshband Bukhari
* Nestorianism - after Nestorius
* Nimatullahi - after Shah Nimatullah
* Pelagianism - after Pelagius
* Platonism and Neo-Platonism - after Plato
* Puseyism - after Edward Bouverie Pusey
* Pyrrhonism - after Pyrrho
* Qadiriyyah - after Abdul Qadir Jilani
* Rastafarianism - after the Ras Tafari
* Raëlism - after Raël
* Rifaiyyah - after Ahmed ar-Rifa'i
* Sabellianism - after Sabellius
* Safaviyeh - after Safi Al-Din
* Senussi - after Muhammad ibn Ali as-Senussi
* Socinianism - after Laelius Socinus
* Shadhili - after Abu-l-Hassan ash-Shadhili
* Sri Aurobindo Ashram - after Sri Aurobindo
* Suhrawardiyya - after Abu al-Najib al-Suhrawardi
* Thomism - after Thomas Aquinas
* Tijaniyyah - after Sidi Ahmed al-Tidjani
* Wahhabism - after Muhammad ibn Abd-al-Wahhab
* Yazidism - may have been after Yazid I
* Wycliffite - after John Wyclif (may be misspelled)
* Zahediyeh - after Zahed Gilani
* Zoroastrianism - after Zoroaster
* Zwingliism - after Huldrych Zwingli

Economical

*Keynesianism - after John Maynard Keynes
*Malthusianism - after Thomas Malthus

cientific

*Cartesian - René Descartes (also a philosopher)
*Comtism - after Auguste Comte
*Darwinism - after Charles Darwin
*Lamarckism- after Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck

Other

* Fordism - after Henry Ford
* Freudianism and post-Freudianism - after Sigmund Freud
* Social Darwinism - after Charles Darwin
* Taylorism - after Frederick Winslow Taylor
* Victorianism - after Queen Victoria

ee also

*Eponym
*Ideology