List of people that have expressed views relating to overpopulation as a problem

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

• 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 Rodham Clinton US Secretary of State
• Confucius philosopher
• Jacques Cousteau conservationist

D

• Partha Dasgupta economist
• Christian de Duve biologist
• Cameron Diaz actress

E

• Paul 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
• 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
• Kate Humble television presenter
• Aldous Huxley writer
• Douglas Hurd UK Foreign Secretary

I

• Jeremy Irons actor

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
• 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
• 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
• Sara Parkin activist, politician
• Paul VI Pope
• Fred Pearce environmental writer
• Prince Philip Royal consort
• Jonathon Porritt environmentalist

R

• Ronald Reagan U.S. President
• 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

V

• Gore Vidal writer

W

• Paul Watson environmental activist
• E. O. Wilson author, "father of biodiversity"