This is a list of prominent public figures frequently referred to as neoconservatives. Classifications of this sort are often disputed (see the neconservative page for a discussion of the terms' controversies), so any listing here should not be taken as definitive.
Public Sector
- Elliott Abrams, Senior director, National Security Council; son-in-law of Norman Podhoretz.
- Kenneth Adelman, member of Pentagon's Defense Policy Board, former member of Reagan administration who praised Aparthied era South Africa for its nuclear proliferation.
- John Bolton, Undersecretary of State.
- L. Paul Bremer, administrator of the U.S. Occupation of Iraq.
- Stephen Cambone, first Defense Undersecretary for Intelligence, Rumsfeld protege.
- Linda Chavez, Hispanic Republican Cabinet Appointee.
- Richard Cheney, United States Vice President since 2001, former Secretary of Defense, former CEO of Halliburton.
- Eliot Cohen, member Defense Policy Board.
- Douglas Feith, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy since 2001, responsible for planning the occupation of Iraq.
- Larry Franklin, Feith lieutenant being investigated for passsing government secrets to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and Israeli Embassy Officials.
- Francis Fukuyama, author of The End of History, leader of non-scientist faction on the President's Council on Bioethics.
- I. Lewis Libby, a.k.a Scooter Libby, Chief of Staff to the Vice President. Suspected of having committed treason by revealing the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame as a political reprisal against her husband.
- William J. Luti, Deputy Undersecretary of Defense.
- Harold Rhode, Foreign Affairs Specialist, Office of Net Assessment, Office of the Secretary of Defense.
- Condoleezza Rice, National Security Advisor since 2001.
- Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense since 2001.
- Abram Shulsky, Director Office of Special Plans.
- Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Secretary of Defense since 2001, a major advocate for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
- David Wurmser, Office of the Vice President, Middle East Adviser.
- Dov Zakheim, former Comptroller, Department of Defense.
- Leo Strauss, political philosopher and founder of Straussianism, which gives a philosophical basis for many neoconservative ideals. (Note that not all Straussians are neoconservatives.)
Private Sector
- Lynne Cheney, wife of Vice President Richard 'Dick' Cheney; critic of academic critics of the second Bush administration, best known for having expressed shame about her daughter's sexuality.
- David Frum, Canadian, newspaper columnist, and speechwriter.
- David Horowitz McCarthyism on Campus (http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=17838)
- Robert Kagan, co-founder, Project for the New American Century.
- Jeane Kirkpatrick, former Ambassador to the United Nations, famous for asserting the existence of a meaningful difference between totalitarianism and authoritarianism.
- Charles Krauthammer.
- Irving Kristol
- William Kristol, co-founder, Project for the New American Century.
- Michael Ledeen
- Philip Merrill, Chairman of the Export-Import Bank since 2001.
- Dennis Miller, comedian.
- Oliver North, conservative talk show host.
- Richard Perle, Chairman of the Defense Policy Board.
- Norman Podhoretz
- Daniel Pipes, anti-Soviet popular historian and activist.
- Ronald D. Rotunda, law professor at conservative George Mason University, apologist for denying Prisoner of War status under the 1949 Geneva Conventions to the prisoners from the War in Afghanistan held at Guantanamo Bay.
- Michael Rubin, lecturer; former Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute; Washington Institute for Near East Policy: Soref Fellow (1999-2000).
- Mark Steyn, author of several books, and politics, arts, and culture commentator for, most notably, the Chicago Sun-Times, the UK's Daily Telegraph, and The Irish Times.
External Links
- RightWeb (http://rightweb.irc-online.org/index.php), a comprehensive and highly critical examination of neoconservatives and neoconservatism (about rightweb (http://rightweb.irc-online.org/about.php)).
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