List of ideologies named after people

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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.

## Social and political

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* Ambedkarism, after B. R. Ambedkar
* Artiguism, after José Gervasio Artigas
* Assadism, after Hafez al-Assad
* Berlusconism, after Silvio Berlusconi
* Bevanism, after Aneurin Bevan
* Bidenism, after Joe Biden[1]
* Bismarckism, after Otto von Bismarck
* Blairism, after Tony Blair
* Blanquism, after Louis Auguste Blanqui
* Bolivarianism, after Simón Bolívar
* Bonapartism, after Napoleon Bonaparte
* Brezhnevism, after Leonid Brezhnev
* Buharism, after Muhammadu Buhari
* Bushism, after George W. Bush
* Caesarism, after Julius Caesar
* Cameronism, after David Cameron
* Canovismo, after Antonio Cánovas del Castillo[2]
* 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[3][4][5]
* 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
* Deng Xiaoping Theory, after Deng Xiaoping
* Đilasism, after Milovan Đilas
* Engelsism, after Friedrich Engels
* Erdoğanism, after Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
* Evoism, after Evo Morales
* Fabianism, after Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus
* Fortuynism, after Pim Fortuyn
* Fourierism, after Charles Fourier
* 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[6][7]
* Guevarism, after Che Guevara
* Haiderism, after Jörg Haider[8][9][10][11]
* Hansonism, after Pauline Hanson
* Hitlerism (best known as Nazism), after Adolf Hitler
* Ho Chi Minh Thought, after Ho Chi Minh
* Hoppeanism, after Hans-Herman Hoppe
* Hoxhaism, after Enver Hoxha
* Husakism, after Gustáv Husák
* Jacksonian democracy, after Andrew Jackson
* Jacobinism, after Jacobins[12]
* Jacobitism, after James II of England
* Jeffersonian democracy, after Thomas Jefferson
* Josephinism, after Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor
* Kádárism, after János Kádár
* Kahanism, after Meir Kahane
* Katterism, after Bob Katter
* Kemalism, after Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
* Khomeinism, after Ruhollah Khomeini
* Khrushchevism, after Nikita Khrushchev
* Korwinism, after Janusz Korwin-Mikke
* Kimilsungism, after Kim Il-sung
* Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism, after Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il
* Kirchnerism, after Néstor and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
* Kurzism, after Sebastian Kurz[13]
* Langism, after Jack Lang
* Lassallism, after Ferdinand Lassalle
* Leninism, after Vladimir Lenin
* Longism, after Huey Long
* Lulism, after Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff
* Lumumbism, after Patrice Lumumba
* Luxemburgism, after Rosa Luxemburg
* Machiavellianism, after Niccolò Machiavelli
* Macronism, after Emmanuel Macron[14]
* Maduroism, after Nicolás Maduro[15][16]
* Magonism, after Ricardo Flores Magón
* Makhnovism, after Nestor Makhno
* Marhaenism, after Sukarno
* Maoism, after Mao Zedong
* Marxism, after Karl Marx
* Maxtonism, after Graeme Maxton
* McCarthyism, after Joseph McCarthy
* Metaxism, after Ioannis Metaxas
* Mentzenism, after Sławomir Mentzen
* Mobutism, after Mobutu Sese Seko
* Möllemannism, after Jürgen Möllemann[17][18]
* Mussolinism, after Benito Mussolini
* Nasserism, after Gamal Abdel Nasser
* Nehruism, after Jawaharlal Nehru
* Obamaism, after Barack Obama[19][20]
* Orbanism after Viktor Orban
* Owenism, after Robert Owen
* Peronism, after Juan, Eva, and Isabel Perón
* Pinochetism, after Augusto Pinochet
* Prachanda Path, after Prachanda
* 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
* Schumerism, after Chuck Schumer[21]
* Shachtmanism, after Max Shachtman
* Stalinism, after Joseph Stalin
* Sternism, after Avraham Stern[22]
* 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
* Xi Jinping Thought, after Xi Jinping
* Yeltsinism, after Boris Yeltsin

## Religious and philosophical

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* 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
* Baháʼí 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
* Cartesian dualism, after René Descartes
* 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
* Foucauldianism, after Michel Foucault
* 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 (best known as Christianity), 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
* Saint-Simonianism after Henri de Saint-Simon
* 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

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* Abenomics, after Shinzo Abe
* Bidenomics, after Joe Biden
* Georgism, after Henry George
* Keynesian economics, after John Maynard Keynes
* Malthusianism, after Thomas Robert Malthus
* Orbanomics, after Viktor Orban
* Trumponomics, after Donald Trump

## Scientific

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* Bayesianism, after Thomas Bayes
* Comtism, after Auguste Comte
* Darwinism, after Charles Darwin
* Lamarckism, after Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
* Lysenkoism, after Trofim Lysenko

## Other

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* Flandersism, after Ned Flanders (considered fictional, seen in the animated comedy sitcom The Simpsons)
* 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
* Vaushism, after Ian Kochinski
* Victorianism, after Queen Victoria

## Political parties named after people

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* 1-Pacman Party List, after Manny Pacquiao
* ANTAURO (backonym for National Alliance of Workers, Farmers, University Students, and Reservists), after Antauro Humala
* Duterte Youth (backonym for Duty to Energize the Republic through the Enlightenment of the Youth Sectoral Party-list Organization), after Rodrigo Duterte
* DuterTen, after Rodrigo Duterte
* EVO Pueblo, after Evo Morales
* KiBam, after Kiko Pangilinan and Bam Aquino
* KUCHMA Electoral Bloc of Political Parties (backonym for Constitution – Ukraine – Honour – Peace – Antifascism), after Leonid Kuchma
* LAPY (backonym for What Yaracuy Achieved), after Eduardo Lapi
* Lega per Salvini Premier, after Matteo Salvini
* List of Marjan Šarec, after Marjan Šarec
* Lytvyn Bloc, after Volodymyr Lytvyn
* Party for a Rule of Law Offensive (official abbreviation: Schill), after Ronald Schill
* Party of Alenka Bratušek, after Alenka Bratušek
* Party of Miro Cerar, after Miro Cerar
* Party of the U (backonym for Union Party for the People), after Álvaro Uribe
* Petro Poroshenko Bloc, after Petro Poroshenko
* Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance, after Sahra Wagenknecht
* Șor Party, after Ilan Shor
* ȘOR (backonym for Chance. Duties. Realization.), after Ilan Shor
* Russian National Autonomous Party (often nicknamed Fencik Party), after Stefan Fencik
* Team Robredo–Pangilinan, after Leni Robredo and Kiko Pangilinan
* Tomio Okamura's Dawn of Direct Democracy, after Tomio Okamura
* Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, after Yulia Tymoshenko

## Notes

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1. ^ "Bidenism's One-Two Punch". 29 April 2021.
2. ^ Pascual, Pedro (1986). Partidos políticos y constitucionales en España. Fragua.
3. ^ Kommunalwahlen in Frankreich: Rot-Grün: Gemeinsame Liste für Paris, Die Tageszeitung from 12 March 2001
4. ^ EU vote a body blow for Chirac, The Age from 31 May 2005
5. ^ European Press Review: End of Death Penalty in Iraq?, Deutsche Welle from 18 December 2003
6. ^ Macedonia's Protests Could Threaten a Fragile Region, Newsweek from 14 June 2016
7. ^ Mazedonische Journalistin erhält erst Drohungen, dann Preis, Der Standard from 22 March 2018
8. ^ Haiderismus ohne Haider, Die Tageszeitung from 18 May 2001
9. ^ Philosoph Glucksmann über den "Haiderismus", Der Standard from 25 March 2002
10. ^ Israel: „Der Haiderismus lebt auch ohne Haider weiter“, Die Presse from 12 October 2008
11. ^ End of an era looms for far right populist Haider, The Guardian from 29 September 2006
12. ^ Jacobins [fr], the origin of the name.
13. ^ "Kurzism Doesn't Travel Well". 6 January 2019.
14. ^ "Le macronisme survivra-t-il à Emmanuel Macron après 2027 ?". Le Monde.fr. 17 January 2023.
15. ^ Maduroism and the Destruction of Venezuela, The Globalist from 2 October 2017
16. ^ Nicolas Maduro and the Country That Is Disintegrating in His Hands, HuffPost from 6 December 2017
17. ^ Abschied von der 18, Der Tagesspiegel from 26 October 2002
18. ^ Ehrgeiz kommt vor dem Fall, Die Weltwoche from 6 November 2002
19. ^ Memmi, Elliott A. S. (2015). "Does "Obamaism" Exist? An Analysis of Ideology and its Place in the Obama Era". Inquiries Journal. 7 (2).
20. ^ Packer, George (6 April 2009). "Obamaism". The New Yorker.
21. ^ "NRA-ILA | Schumerism".
22. ^ Laqueur, Walter (2003) [1972]. "Jabotinsky and Revisionism". A History of Zionism (Google Book Search) (3rd ed.). London: Tauris Parke Paperbacks. p. 377\. ISBN 978-1-86064-932-5. OCLC 249640859. Retrieved 18 November 2008.