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 adhering to the movements mentioned, others by outsiders.
Political
- Artiguism, after José Gervasio Artigas
- Assadism, after Hafez al-Assad
- Bevanism, after Aneurin Bevan
- , after Otto von Bismarck
- Blairism, after Tony Blair
- Blanquism, after Louis Auguste Blanqui
- Bolivarianism, after Simón Bolívar
- Bonapartism, after Napoleon Bonaparte
- Buharism, after Muhammadu Buhari
- Bushism, after George W. Bush
- Caesarism, after Julius Caesar
- Cameronism, after David Cameron
- Canovismo, after Antonio Cánovas del Castillo
- Cardenism, after Lázaro Cárdenas
- Carlism, after Infante Carlos, Count of Molina
- Carlotism, after Carlota Joaquina of Spain
- Castroism, after Fidel and Raúl Castro
- Chavismo, after Hugo Chávez
- Ceausism, after Nicolae Ceausescu
- Chiracism, after Jacques Chirac
- Clintonism, after Bill and Hillary Clinton
- Cobdenism, after Richard Cobden
- Colbertism, after Jean-Baptiste Colbert
- Corbynism, after Jeremy Corbyn
- Craxism, after Bettino Craxi
- De Leonism, after Daniel De Leon
- Dengism, after Deng Xiaoping
- Đilasism, after Milovan Đilas
- Engelsism, after Friedrich Engels
- Fabianism, after Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus
- Fortuynism, after Pim Fortuyn
- Francoism, after Francisco Franco
- Fujimorism after Alberto Fujimori
- Gaddafism, after Muammar Gaddafi
- Gaitskellism, after Hugh Gaitskell
- Gladstonian Liberalism, after William Ewart Gladstone
- Gandhism, after Mahatma Gandhi
- Garveyism, after Marcus Garvey
- Gaullism, after Charles de Gaulle
- Gruevskism, after Nikola Gruevski
- Guevarism, after Che Guevara
- Haiderism, after Jörg Haider
- Hitlerism, after Adolf Hitler
- Ho Chi Minh Thought, after Ho Chi Minh
- Hoxhaism, after Enver Hoxha
- Husakism, after Gustáv Husák
- Jacksonian democracy, after Andrew Jackson
- Jacobitism, after James II of England
- Jeffersonian democracy, after Thomas Jefferson
- Josephinism, after Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor
- Kahanism, after Meir Kahane
- Kemalism, after Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
- Khrushchevism, after Nikita Khrushchev
- Kimism, after the Kim dynasty
- Kirchnerism, after Néstor and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
- Lassallism, after Ferdinand Lassalle
- Leninism, after Vladimir Lenin
- Lulism, after Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff
- Lumumbism, after Patrice Lumumba
- Luxemburgism, after Rosa Luxemburg
- Machiavellism, after Niccolò Machiavelli
- Maduroism, after Nicolás Maduro
- Magonism, after Ricardo Flores Magón
- Makhnovism, after Nestor Makhno
- Marhaenism, after Sukarno
- Maoism, after Mao Zedong
- Marxism, after Karl Marx
- McCarthyism, after Joseph McCarthy
- Metaxism, after Ioannis Metaxas
- Mobutism, after Mobutu Sese Seko
- Möllemannism, after Jürgen Möllemann
- Nasserism, after Gamal Abdel Nasser
- Nehruism, after Jawaharlal Nehru
- Peronism, after Juan, Eva, and Isabel Martínez de Perón
- Prachanda Path, after Prachanda
- Owenism, after Robert Owen
- Orbanism after Viktor Orban
- Poujadism, after Pierre Poujade
- Powellism, after Enoch Powell
- Putinism after Vladimir Putin
- Rankovićism, after Aleksandar Ranković
- Saddamism, after Saddam Hussein
- Sandinismo, after Augusto César Sandino
- Sankarism, after Thomas Sankara
- Shachtmanism, after Max Shachtman
- Stalinism, after Joseph Stalin
- Sternism, after Avraham Stern
- Strasserism, after Gregor and Otto Strasser
- Thatcherism, after Margaret Thatcher
- Titoism, after Josip Broz Tito
- Trotskyism, after Leon Trotsky
- Trudeauism, after Pierre Trudeau
- Trumpism, after Donald Trump
- Tudjmanism, after Franjo Tuđman
- Uribism, after Álvaro Uribe
- Venizelism, after Eleftherios Venizelos
- Wäisi movement, after Bahawetdin Wäisev
- Wilhelminism, after Wilhelm II
- Wilsonianism, after Woodrow Wilson
- Xiism, after Xi Jinping
- Yeltsinism, after Boris Yeltsin
Religious and philosophical
- Acacian schism - after Acacius of Constantinople
- Ahmadiyya - after Ahmad, other name of Muhammad
- Alevi - after Ali
- Althusserian - after Louis Althusser
- Amish - after Jakob Ammann
- Apollinarism - after Apollinaris of Laodicea
- Arianism - after Christian theologian Arius
- Aristotelianism - after Aristotle
- Arminianism - after Jacobus Arminius
- Augustinism - after Augustine of Hippo
- Averroism - after Averroes
- Bábism - after Siyyid `Alí Muḥammad Shírází or the Báb
- Badawiyyah - after Ahmad al-Badawi
- Bahá'í Faith - after Bahá'u'lláh
- Basilideans - after Basilides
- Bektashi - after Haji Bektash Veli
- Benthamism - after Jeremy Bentham
- Buchmanism - after Frank N. D. Buchman
- Buddhism - after Buddha
- Calvinism - after John Calvin
- Christianity - after Jesus Christ
- Confucianism - after Confucius
- Darqawa - after Muhammad al-Arabi al-Darqawi
- Dominican - after Saint Dominic
- Druze - after Ad-Darazi
- Epicureanism - after Epicurus
- Erastianism - after Thomas Erastus
- Eutychianism - after Eutyches
- Febronianism - after Justinus Febronius
- Franciscan Christianity - after Francis of Assisi
- Frankism - after Jacob Frank
- Feeneyism - after Leonard Feeney
- Gelasian doctrine - after Pope Gelasius I
- Georgism - after Henry George
- Gregorian Reform - after Pope Gregory VII
- Gülen movement - after Fethullah Gülen
- Halveti - after Pir Umar Halveti
- Hanafi - after Abū Ḥanīfa
- Hegelianism - after Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Hobbesianism - after Thomas Hobbes
- Hussites - after Jan Hus
- Hutterite - after Jakob Hutter
- Ismailism - after Isma'il ibn Jafar
- Jansenism - after Cornelius Jansen
- Jerrahi - after Muhammad Nureddin al-Jerrahi
- Jesuism - after Jesus
- Kantianism - after Immanuel Kant
- Kubrawiya - after Najmuddin Kubra
- Laestadianism - after Lars Levi Læstadius
- Luddites - after Ned Ludd
- Lutheranism and Neo-Lutheranism - after Church reformer Martin Luther
- Manichaeism or Manicheism - after Mani
- Marcionism - after Marcion of Sinope
- Marcosians - after Marcus
- Martinism - after Louis Claude de Saint-Martin
- Mazdakism - after Mazdak
- Mennonite - after Menno Simons
- Millerism or Millerite - after William Miller
- Mohism - after Mozi
- Montanism - after Montanus
- Muhammadism - after Muhammad
- Naqshbandi - after Baha-ud-Din Naqshband Bukhari
- Nestorianism - after Nestorius
- Nimatullahi - after Shah Ni'matullah Wali
- Novatianism - after Novatian
- Panglossianism- after "Dr. Pangloss", a character in Voltaire's "Candide"
- Paulicianism - after Paul of Samosata
- Pelagianism - after Pelagius
- Platonism and Neo-Platonism - after Plato
- Priscillianism - after Priscillian
- Puseyism - after Edward Bouverie Pusey
- Pyrrhonism - after Pyrrho
- Pythagoreanism - after Pythagoras
- Qadiriyyah - after Abdul-Qadir Gilani
- Qutbism - after Sayyid Qutb
- Randianism - after Ayn Rand
- Rastafari movement - after Ras Tafari
- Raëlism - after Claude Vorilhon or Raël
- Rifaiyyah - after Ahmed ar-Rifa'i
- Sabellianism - after Sabellius
- Safaviyeh - after Safi-ad-din Ardabili
- Senussi - after Muhammad ibn Ali as-Senussi
- Shadhili - after Abul Hasan al-Shadhili
- Socinianism - after Lelio Sozzini
- Spinozism - after Baruch Spinoza
- Sri Aurobindo Ashram - after Sri Aurobindo
- Suhrawardiyya - after Abu al-Najib al-Suhrawardi
- Thomism - after Thomas Aquinas
- Tijaniyyah - after Ahmad al-Tijani
- Tolstoyism - after Leo Tolstoy
- Valentinianism - after Valentinus
- Wahhabism - after Muhammad ibn Abd-al-Wahhab
- Wycliffite - after John Wycliffe
- Yazidism - after Yazid I
- Zahediyeh - after Zahed Gilani
- Zoroastrianism - after Zoroaster
- Zwingliism - after Huldrych Zwingli
Economic
- Georgism, after Henry George
- Keynesian economics - after John Maynard Keynes
- Malthusianism - after Thomas Robert Malthus
Scientific
- Cartesian dualism - after René Descartes
- Comtism - after Auguste Comte
- Darwinism - after Charles Darwin
- Lamarckism- after Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
- Lysenkoism - after Trofim Lysenko
Other
- Fordism - after Henry Ford
- Freudianism and post-Freudianism - after Sigmund Freud
- Masochism - after Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
- Sadism - after Marquis de Sade
- Social Darwinism - after Charles Darwin
- Taylorism - after Frederick Winslow Taylor
- Victorianism - after Queen Victoria