List of socialists from the Indian Subcontinent
- Hafizullah Amin
- Abdul Qadir Dagarwal
- Babrak Karmal
- Sultan Ali Keshtmand
- Mir Akbar Khaibar
- Suleyman Layeq
- Meena Keshwar Kamal
- Mohammad Najibullah
- Mohammed Rafie
- Anahita Ratebzad
- Asadullah Sarwari
- Shahnawaz Tanai
- Nur Mohammad Taraki
- Mohammad Aslam Watanjar
India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka
- R. Kuchelan
- Basawon Singh (Sinha)
- Sheel Bhadra Yajee
- Acharya Narendra Deva
- Sheikh Abdullah
- Hector Abhayavardhana
- Gangadhar Adhikari
- Man Mohan Adhikari
- Eqbal Ahmad
- Muzaffar Ahmed
- Tajuddin Ahmed
- Tariq Ali
- Mulk Raj Anand
- Chandrashekhar Azad
- Maulana Azad
- Hardial Bains
- Sirimavo Bandaranaike
- Solomon Bandaranaike
- A. B. Bardhan
- Jyoti Basu
- Manorama Basu
- Madan Kumar Bhandari
- Maulana Bhashani
- Sukanta Bhattacharya
- Baburam Bhattarai
- Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
- Seneka Bibile
- Golap Borbora
- Subhas Chandra Bose
- Harpal Brar
- Nripen Chakraborty
- Jogesh Chandra Chattopadhyay
- Yashwantrao Balwantrao Chavan
- Pushpa Kamal Dahal
- Madhu Dandavate
- Haji Mohammad Danesh
- S. A. Dange
- Jatin Das
- Dasarath Deb
- Colvin R. de Silva
- Narendra Deva
- Faiz Ahmed Faiz
- George Fernandes
- Indira Gandhi
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Vivienne Goonewardena
- A. K. Gopalan
- Abul Mansur Habibullah
- Abdul Haque
- Mubashir Hassan
- Sibte Hassan
- Allama Iqbal
- Mian Iftikharudin
- Ishaq Mohammad
- Mohammad Abdul Jalil
- Siritunga Jayasuriya
- Rokeya Kabeer
- Alamgir Kabir
- Shahidullah Kaiser
- Ghulam Nabi Kalu
- Krishan Kant
- Mahmud Ali Kasuri
- Badshah Khan
- Khan Wali Khan
- Rafi Ahmed Kidwai
- Saifuddin Kitchlew
- B. P. Koirala
- Damodar Dharmanand Kosambi
- D. D. Kosambi
- Deepa Kumar
- Ram Manohar Lohia
- Charu Majumdar
- Yusuf Meherally
- Asoka Mehta
- Vinod Mishra
- Ila Mitra
- Anil Moonesinghe
- Mujibur Rahman
- Sarojini Naidu
- E. M. S. Namboodiripad
- J. P. Narayan
- Mathai Manjooran
- N. Nandhivarman
- Hassan Nasir
- E. K. Nayanar
- Jawaharlal Nehru
- Madhav Kumar Nepal
- Biju Patnaik
- N. M. Perera
- V. Prabhakaran
- J. A. Rahim
- Hasan Hafizur Rahman
- Saidur Rahman
- Mahinda Rajapakse
- Shivaram Rajguru
- B. T. Ranadive
- Niharranjan Ray
- T. Nagi Reddy
- Atindra Mohan Roy
- M. N. Roy
- Edmund Samarakkody
- Jam Saqi
- Manik Sarkar
- Kondapalli Seetharamaiah
- Lakshmi Sehgal
- Mrinal Sen
- Abu Jafar Shamsuddin
- Lal Bahadur Shastri
- Siraj Sikder
- Ananta Singh
- Yogendra Shukla
- Bhagat Singh
- Moni Singh
- Gayatri Spivak
- Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy
- Sukhdev
- Puchalapalli Sundarayya
- Harkishan Singh Surjeet
- Soumyendranath Tagore
- Rohana Wijeweera
- Mulayam Singh Yadav
- Sajjad Zaheer