List of logicians
A logician is a person who studies logic. Some famous logicians are listed below in English alphabetical transliteration order.
A
- Peter Abelard
- Wilhelm Ackermann
- Sergei Adian
- Rodolphus Agricola
- Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz
- Alcuin
- Alan Ross Anderson
- Peter B. Andrews
- Thomas Aquinas
- Lennart Åqvist
- Aristotle
- Heiric of Auxerre
- A. J. Ayer
B
- Bahmanyār
- Jayanta Bhatta
- Alexander Bain
- Yehoshua Bar-Hillel
- Ruth Barcan Marcus
- Henk Barendregt
- Jon Barwise
- James Earl Baumgartner
- John Lane Bell
- Nuel Belnap
- Paul Benacerraf
- Jean Paul Van Bendegem
- Johan van Benthem
- Paul Bernays
- Evert Willem Beth
- Jean-Yves Béziau
- Józef Maria Bocheński
- Boethius
- Bernard Bolzano
- Andrea Bonomi
- George Boole
- George Boolos
- Nicolas Bourbaki
- Thomas Bradwardine
- Richard Brinkley
- Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer
- Alan Richard Bundy
- Franco Burgersdijk
- Jean Buridan
- Walter Burley
C
- Chanakya
- Georg Ferdinand Cantor
- Rudolf Carnap
- Lewis Carroll
- Categoriae decem
- Gregory Chaitin
- Chrysippus
- Alonzo Church
- Leon Chwistek
- Gordon H. Clark
- Paul Joseph Cohen
- Conimbricenses, name by which Jesuits of the University of Coimbra were known
- S. Barry Cooper
- Jack Copeland
- Thierry Coquand
- John Corcoran
- Newton da Costa
- William Craig
- Haskell Curry
- Tadeusz Czeżowski
D
- Dirk van Dalen
- Martin Davis
- Augustus De Morgan
- René Descartes
- Dharmakirti
- Dignāga
- Diodorus Cronus
- Martin Dorp
- John Dumbleton
- Michael A. E. Dummett
- Jon Michael Dunn
E
- Samuel Eilenberg
- Alexander Esenin-Volpin
- John Etchemendy
- Leonhard Euler
F
- Solomon Feferman
- Richard Ferrybridge
- Hartry Field
- Kit Fine
- Melvin Fitting
- Graeme Forbes
- Matthew Foreman
- Michael Fourman
- Roland Fraïssé
- Abraham Fraenkel
- Gottlob Frege
- Harvey Friedman
G
- Dov Gabbay
- Haim Gaifman
- L. T. F. Gamut
- Robin Gandy
- Sol Garfunkel
- Garlandus Compotista
- Akṣapāda Gautama, author of Nyāya Sūtras and founder of Nyaya school of Hindu philosophy
- Gangesha Upadhyaya, author of Tattvacintāmaṇi and founder of Navya-Nyāya
- Peter Geach
- Gerhard Gentzen
- Joseph Diaz Gergonne
- Gilbert de la Porrée
- Jean-Yves Girard
- Kurt Gödel
- Reuben Louis Goodstein
- Valentin Goranko
- Siegfried Gottwald
- Jeroen Groenendijk
H
- Susan Haack
- Petr Hájek
- Leo Harrington
- Robert S. Hartman
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Jean Van Heijenoort
- Leon Henkin
- Jacques Herbrand
- Arend Heyting
- David Hilbert
- Jaakko Hintikka
- Alfred Horn
- William Alvin Howard
- Ehud Hrushovski
- Gérard Huet
I
- Ibn Taymiyyah
- Marsilius of Inghen
J
- Giorgi Japaridze
- Stanisław Jaśkowski
- Richard Jeffrey
- Ronald Jensen
- William Stanley Jevons
- John of St. Thomas/John Poinsot
- William Ernest Johnson
- Dick de Jongh
- Bjarni Jónsson
- Philip Jourdain
- Joachim Jungius
- Jñanasrimitra
K
- David Kaplan
- Alexander S. Kechris
- Howard Jerome Keisler
- Ahmed Raza Khan
- Richard Kilvington
- Robert Kilwardby
- Stephen Cole Kleene
- Tadeusz Kotarbiński
- Robert Kowalski
- Georg Kreisel
- Saul Kripke
- Leopold Kronecker
- Kenneth Kunen
L
- Christine Ladd-Franklin
- Joachim Lambek
- Johann Heinrich Lambert
- Karel Lambert
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Stanisław Leśniewski
- Clarence Irving Lewis
- David Kellogg Lewis
- Adolf Lindenbaum
- Per Lindström
- Ramon Llull
- Martin Löb
- Paul Lorenzen
- Jerzy Łoś
- Hermann Lotze
- Leopold Löwenheim
- Jan Łukasiewicz
M
- Hugh MacColl
- Saunders Mac Lane
- Dugald Macpherson
- Penelope Maddy
- John Mair
- David Makinson
- María Manzano
- Gary R. Mar
- Ruth Barcan Marcus
- Donald A. Martin
- Richard Milton Martin
- Per Martin-Löf
- Pavel Materna
- Yuri Matiyasevich
- C. A. Meredith
- Bob Meyer
- John Stuart Mill
- Grigori Mints
- Richard Montague
- Yiannis N. Moschovakis
- Andrzej Mostowski
N
- Sara Negri
- Edward Nelson
- John von Neumann
- John Henry Newman
- Jean Nicod
- Pyotr Novikov
- Nagarjuna
- Anil Nerode
O
- William of Ockham
- Piergiorgio Odifreddi
- Ivan Orlov
- Ryan Osmun
P
- John Pagus
- Jeff Paris
- Charles Parsons
- Solomon Passy
- Paul of Venice
- Christine Paulin-Mohring
- Giuseppe Peano
- Dan Pedersen
- Charles Sanders Peirce
- Lorenzo Peña
- Chaïm Perelman
- Rózsa Péter
- Paolo da Pergola
- Peter of Spain
- Philo the Dialectician
- Walter Pitts
- Porphyry
- Henry Pogorzelski
- Emil Leon Post
- Dag Prawitz
- Mojżesz Presburger
- Graham Priest
- Arthur Prior
- Hilary Putnam
- Plato
Q
- Willard Van Orman Quine
R
- Michael O. Rabin
- Constantin Rădulescu-Motru
- Frank Plumpton Ramsey
- Petrus Ramus
- Helena Rasiowa
- Carveth Read
- Abraham Robinson
- Raphael M. Robinson
- Julia Robinson
- J. Barkley Rosser
- Richard Routley, later Richard Sylvan
- Frederick Rowbottom
- Ian Rumfitt
- Bertrand Russell
S
- Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri
- Raghunatha Siromani
- Gerald Sacks
- Albert of Saxony
- Rolf Schock
- Moses Schönfinkel
- Ernst Schröder
- Kurt Schütte
- Dana Scott
- Sedulius Scottus
- John Duns Scotus
- Stewart Shapiro
- Fyodor Shcherbatskoy
- Saharon Shelah
- Gila Sher
- William of Sherwood
- Hui Shi
- Simplicius of Cilicia
- Raghunatha Siromani
- Thoralf Skolem
- Dimiter Skordev
- Theodore Slaman
- Raymond Smullyan
- William of Soissons
- Robert M. Solovay
- Richard the Sophister
- Peter of Spain
- John R. Steel
- Martin Stokhof
- Ralph Strode
- Richard Swineshead
- Richard Sylvan, born Richard Routley
T
- Gaisi Takeuti
- Alfred Tarski
- Theophrastus
- Pavel Tichý
- Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg
- Anne Sjerp Troelstra
- Alan Turing
- Kazimierz Twardowski
- Thales Of Miletus
U
- Udayana, author of Nyayakusumanjali
- Udyotakara
- Alasdair Urquhart
- Vladimir Uspensky
V
- Lorenzo Valla
- Moshe Y. Vardi
- Nicolai A. Vasiliev
- Robert Lawson Vaught
- Paul of Venice
- John Venn
- Juan Luis Vives
- Pakṣilasvāmin Vātsyāyana wrote the first known commentary on Goutama's Nyaya Sutras
W
- Hao Wang
- Isaac Watts
- Richard Whately
- Alfred North Whitehead
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Christian Wolff
- W. Hugh Woodin
- John Woods
- Georg Henrik von Wright
Y
- Jin Yuelin
Z
- Jacopo Zabarella
- Lotfi A. Zadeh
- Ernst Zermelo
- Alexander Zinoviev