List of utilitarians

This is an incomplete list of advocates of utilitarianism and/or consequentialism.

Ancient & Medieval

 * Epicurus
 * Lucretius
 * Mozi
 * Roger Bacon

17th century

 * Richard Cumberland
 * John Gay
 * Bernard Mandeville

18th century
• John Brown

• Cesare Beccaria

• Jeremy Bentham

• Thomas Cooper

• Soame Jenyns

• William Johnson Fox

• Anthony Hammond

• Claude Adrien Helvétius

• Baron d'Holbach

• Francis Hutcheson

• Edmund Law

• James Mill

• John Neal

• William Paley

• Joseph Priestley

• Jean Baptiste Say

• Thomas Rutherforth

• Thomas Southwood Smith

• Thomas Perronet Thompson

• William Thompson

• Abraham Tucker

19th century
• John Austin

• Samuel Bailey

• Alexander Bain

• George Bentham

• Peregrine Bingham the Younger

• Bernard Bolzano

• Edwin Chadwick

• John Collier

• Charles Darwin

• Francis Ysidro Edgeworth

• Henry Fawcett

• Thomas Fowler

• William Godwin

• George Grote

• Richard Hildreth

• William Stanley Jevons

• Edward Livingston

• James MacKaye

• Alfred Marshall

• Harriet Taylor Mill

• John Stuart Mill

• G. E. Moore

• J. Howard Moore

• John L. O'Sullivan

• Hastings Rashdall

• David Ricardo

• David George Ritchie

• Lionel Robbins

• Henry Sidgwick

• James Fitzjames Stephen

• Leslie Stephen

• William Thompson

20th century
• Richard Brandt

• Milton Friedman

• Esperanza Guisán

• R. M. Hare

• H. L. A. Hart

• Roy Harrod

• John Harsanyi

• Henry Hazlitt

• Ludwig von Mises

• Arthur Cecil Pigou

• Karl Popper

• James Rachels

• Bertrand Russell

• Ching-Lai Sheng

• J. J. C. Smart

• Timothy Sprigge

Living
• Jacob M. Appel

• Joseph Bankman

• Sam Bankman-Fried

• Jonathan Baron

• Yves Bonnardel

• Tyler Cowen

• Julia Driver

• Jonathan Glover

• Dan Goldstick

• Robert E. Goodin

• Joshua Greene

• Brad Hooker

• Shelly Kagan

• Eric Kaufmann

• Lawrence Krauss

• Zell Kravinsky

• Helga Kuhse

• Richard Layard

• Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek

• Ludvig Lindström

• William MacAskill

• Dylan Matthews

• Yew-Kwang Ng

• Alastair Norcross

• David Olivier

• Michel Onfray

• Toby Ord

• David Pearce

• Steven Pinker

• Stuart Rachels

• Jacy Reese Anthis

• Bart Schultz

• Peter Singer

• Scott Sumner

• L. W. Sumner

• Torbjörn Tännsjö

• Robert Wright