List of Communists: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

This is a list of the major figures of the ideology of Communism who are so self-identified. It does not include figures of Evolutionary Socialism or Anarcho-socialism, who also accepted some of Marx's tenets. For a broader list of all socialists, see List of socialists.

• Salvador Allende (1908-1973, Chile)
• Yuri Andropov (1914-1984, USSR)
• Maurice Bishop (1944-1983, Grenada)
• Leonid Brezhnev (1906-1982, USSR)
• Nikolai Bukharin (1888-1938, USSR)
• Fidel Castro (1926-, Cuba)
• Nicolae Ceausescu (1918-1989, Romania)
• Konstantin Chernenko (1911-1985, USSR)
• Pushpa Kamal Dahal (b. ?, Nepal)
• Deng Xiaoping (1904-1997, PRC)
• Friedrich Engels (1820-1895, Germany)
• Mikhail Gorbachev (1930-, USSR)
• Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937, Italy)
• Che Guevara (1928-1967, Argentina)
• Abimael Guzmán (1934-, Peru)
• Erich Honecker (1912-1994, GDR)
• Enver Hoxha (1908-1985, Albania)
• Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969, Vietnam)
• Hu Jintao (1942-, PRC)
• Jiang Zemin (1926-, PRC)
• Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971, USSR)
• Kim Il-sung (1912-1994, DPRK)
• Kim Jong-il (1942-, DPRK)
• Béla Kun (1886-1939, Hungary)
• Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924, USSR)
• Daniel De Leon (1852-1914, USA)
• Rosa Luxemburg (1870-1919, Germany)
• Mao Tse-tung (1893-1976, PRC)
• Karl Marx (1818-1883, Germany)
• Abdullah Öcalan (1949-, Turkey)
• Joe Slovo (1926-1995, South Africa)
• Joseph Stalin (1879-1953, USSR)
• Ernst Thälmann (1886-1944, Germany)
• Josip Broz Tito (1892-1980, SFRY)
• Palmiro Togliatti (1893-1964, Italy)
• Leon Trotsky (1879-1936, USSR)
• Gennady Zyuganov (1944-, Russian Federation)