List of people who have expressed views relating to overpopulation as a problem
The people in this list have expressed concerns about human overpopulation.List
A
- Edward Abbey author and essayist
- Baroness Amos UN Under-Secretary-General
- David Attenborough naturalist
- Ian Angus socialist
- Kofi Annan UN Secretary-General
- Aristotle philosopher
- Margaret Atwood novelist
- Isaac Asimov author
B
- Steven Best philosopher and animal rights activist
- Norman Borlaug “father” of Green Revolution
- Albert Bartlett physicist
- Max Born physicist
- Kenneth Boulding economist
- Julia Bradbury presenter
- Richard Branson business leader
- David Brower environmentalist
- Dan Brown author
- Michael Buerk journalist
- George H.W. Bush US President
C
- George Carey Archbishop
- Bernard Chidzero economist and politician
- Hillary Clinton US Secretary of State
- Joel E. Cohen demographer
- Confucius philosopher
- Jacques Cousteau conservationist
D
- Partha Dasgupta economist
- Christian de Duve biologist
- Cameron Diaz actress
E
- Anne H. Ehrlich coauthor with Paul R. Ehrlich
- Paul R. Ehrlich biologist
- Albert Einstein physicist
- Queen Elizabeth II British monarch
- Ralph Waldo Emerson writer
- Stephen Emmott scientist
- Rupert Everett actor
F
- Peter Farb author, anthropologist, ecologist
- Jane Fonda actor, activist
- David Foreman environmentalist
- Baroness Flather politician
- Morgan Freeman actor
G
- Bill Gates business leader
- Bob Geldof musician
- Jane Goodall primatologist
- Al Gore US Vice President
- James P. Grant UN Under-Secretary-General
- Gunther Grass author
- John Gray philosopher
- Jane Goodall conservationist
- John Guillebaud medical doctor, academic
- Tenzin Gyatso 14th Dalai Lama
H
- Richard Hakluyt writer
- Garrett Hardin environmentalist
- Stephen Hawking physicist
- Adrian Hayes polar explorer
- Chris Hedges journalist, activist, author, and Presbyterian minister
- John Holdren scientist, coauthor of Ecoscience
- Kate Humble television presenter
- Aldous Huxley writer
- Douglas Hurd UK Foreign Secretary
I
J
- Boris Johnson politician
- Lyndon B Johnson US President
- Goodluck Jonathan President of Nigeria
- Ashley Judd actor
K
- Helen Keller author, activist, lecturer
- Henry Way Kendall Nobel Laureate, Physics
- Nathan Keyfitz demographer
- John Maynard Keynes economist
- David King chemist
L
- Sam Levenson humourist
- Pentti Linkola writer, deep ecologist
- James Lovelock environmentalist
- Martin Luther King, Jr. clergyman, activist
- Joanna Lumley actor
M
- Niccolò Machiavelli writer
- Digby McLaren geologist
- Bill McKibben environmentalist
- Robert McNamara President of World Bank
- James Madison US President
- Nelson Mandela revolutionary, politician
- Thomas Malthus clergyman, scholar
- Aubrey Manning zoologist
- George Perkins Marsh US diplomat
- Guy McPherson professor emeritus of natural resources and ecology and evolutionary biology
- John Stuart Mill philosopher
- Spike Milligan comedian
- Helen Mirren actor
- George Monbiot writer
- Farley Mowat author, environmentalist
- Norman Myers environmentalist
N
- Jawaharlal Nehru Prime Minister of India
- Richard M. Nixon US President
- Bill Nye educator
O
- Thoraya Obaid UN Under-Secretary-General
- Babatunde Osotimehin UN Under-Secretary-General
P
- Chris Packham naturalist
- Michael Palin comedian
- Michael Parenti political scientist
- Sara Parkin activist, politician
- Paul VI Pope
- Alexandra Paul model, childfree population activist
- Fred Pearce environmental writer
- Norm Phelps animal rights activist
- Prince Philip Royal consort
- Jonathon Porritt environmentalist
R
- Ronald Reagan U.S. President
- Charles Lee Remington scientist, cofounder with Ehrlich of ZPG
- John D. Rockefeller, III philanthropist
- Bertrand Russell philosopher
S
- Peter Scott founder of WWF
- Margaret Sanger birth control activist
- Pete Seeger musician
- Jon Shanklin meteorologist
- Lionel Shriver author
- Karan Singh politician
- William G. Sinkford religious leader
- B.F. Skinner psychologist and author
- Maurice Strong UN Under-Secretary-General
T
- Tertullian theologian
- Crispin Tickell environmentalist
- Arnold Toynbee economic historian
- Ted Turner billionaire businessman and philanthropist
V
- Gore Vidal writer
- William Vogt author, "Road to Survival"
W
- Paul Watson environmental activist
- Alan Weisman author, professor, journalist
- E. O. Wilson author, "father of biodiversity"
