List of socialists from the United States and Canada
- Hardial Bains
- Norman Bethune
- Charles Boylan
- Ed Broadbent
- Annie Buller
- Tim Buck
- Marc Carbonneau
- Gerald Cohen
- M. J. Coldwell
- Florence Custance
- Libby Davies
- Tommy Douglas
- Ross Dowson
- Pierre Ducasse
- Gilles Duceppe
- James Gareth Endicott
- Arthur Herbert Evans
- Seymour J. Farmer
- Miguel Figueroa
- Joe Flexer
- Charles Gagnon
- Cy Gonick
- Margaret Haile
- Todd Hardy
- Buzz Hargrove
- Eric Alfred Havelock
- Dan Heap
- Abraham Albert Heaps
- Andrea Horwath
- Carole James
- Ted Jolliffe
- W. A. Kardash
- Stanley Knowles
- Peter Kormos
- Jacques Lanctôt
- Louise Lanctôt
- Samuel Lawrence
- James Laxer
- Robert Laxer
- Irving Layton
- Jack Layton
- Donald C. MacDonald
- Jack MacDonald
- Angus MacInnis
- Grace MacInnis
- A. A. MacLeod
- Agnes Macphail
- Bev Meslo
- William Moriarty
- Dorise Nielson
- Joseph W. Noseworthy
- Jacob Penner
- Sarah Polley
- John Queen
- Harry Rankin
- Judy Rebick
- Svend Robinson
- William Cecil Ross
- Paul Rose
- Stanley Ryerson
- Sid Ryan
- J. B. Salsberg
- F. R. Scott
- A. E. Smith
- Stewart Smith
- Sandra L. Smith
- Maurice Spector
- Graham Spry
- William Horace Temple
- Pierre Vallières
- Mel Watkins
- George Woodcock
- J. S. Woodsworth
- Joseph Zuken
United States
- Martin Abern
- Mumia Abu-Jamal
- Jane Addams
- Perry Anderson
- Herbert Aptheker
- Anthony Arnove
- Stanley Aronowitz
- Bob Avakian
- Amiri Baraka
- Paul A. Baran
- Jack Barnes
- Edward Bellamy
- Francis Bellamy
- Victor L. Berger
- Daniel Berrigan
- Philip Berrigan
- Lewis Black
- Ella Reeve Bloor
- William Blum
- Grace Lee Boggs
- James Boggs
- Murray Bookchin
- Harry Braverman
- Stephen Eric Bronner
- George Breitman
- Cyril Briggs
- Albert Brisbane
- Earl Browder
- Norman Oliver Brown
- Walt Brown
- Louise Bryant
- Alex Buchman
- James Burnham
- Smedley Butler
- Abraham Cahan
- James P. Cannon
- Joseph Carter
- Ralph Chaplin
- Eric Chester
- Noam Chomsky
- Todd Chretien
- Ward Churchill
- John Henrik Clarke
- Eldridge Cleaver
- Harry Cleaver
- Voltairine de Cleyre
- Bert Cochran
- Lester Cole
- Charles Cornell
- Harold Cruse
- Chris Cunningham
- Christopher Cunningham
- George William Curtis
- Charles Curtiss
- Leon Czolgosz
- Clarence Darrow
- Angela Davis
- Frank Marshall Davis
- Mike Davis
- Dorothy Day
- Eugene V. Debs
- Daniel De Leon
- Sam Dewitt
- Floyd Dell
- David Dellinger
- Ron Dellums
- Eugene Dennis
- Carl Dix
- Farrell Dobbs
- Sol Dollinger
- Hal Draper
- Diane Drufenbrock
- Shirley Graham Du Bois
- W. E. B. Du Bois
- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
- Crystal Eastman
- Max Eastman
- Albert Einstein
- Richard T. Ely
- James T. Farrell
- Howard Fast
- Duncan Ferguson
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
- James W. Ford
- John Bellamy Foster
- William Z. Foster
- Louis Fraina
- Waldo Frank
- H. Bruce Franklin
- Clara Fraser
- Betty Friedan
- Lenora Fulani
- Luigi Galleani
- Barbara Garson
- Laura Garza
- John Gates
- Joel Geier
- Víctor Manuel Gerena
- Simon Gerson
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Benjamin Gitlow
- Martin Glaberman
- Stan Goff
- Mike Gold
- Bernard Goodman
- Sam Gordon
- Shujaa Graham
- Horace Greeley
- Laurence Gronlund
- William Gropper
- Woody Guthrie
- Margaret Haile
- Camilla Hall
- Gus Hall
- Fred Hampton
- Lorraine Hansberry
- Joseph Hansen
- Yip Harburg
- Michael Harrington
- Nina Hartley
- Tom Hayden
- Bill Haywood
- Harry Haywood
- Dorothy Healey
- Lillian Hellman
- Ernest Hemingway
- Tom Henehan
- Mary Alice Herbert
- Granville Hicks
- Joe Hill
- Lewis Hill
- Morris Hillquit
- William Hinton
- Abbie Hoffman
- Daniel Hoan
- Mary Cal Hollis
- Sidney Hook
- Darlington Hoopes
- Irving Howe
- William Dean Howells
- Leo Huberman
- Hosea Hudson
- Langston Hughes
- Julius Jacobson
- Mother Jones
- Leon J. Kamin
- Helen Keller
- Florence Kelley
- John Keracher
- Charles H. Kerr
- Tom Kerry
- James Kilgore
- John Oliver Killens
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- C. Clark Kissinger
- Tony Kushner
- Corliss Lamont
- Joanne Landy
- Sinclair Lewis
- Richard Lewontin
- Jack London
- Meyer London
- Audre Lorde
- Raymond Lotta
- Frank Lovell
- Sarah Lovell
- Jay Lovestone
- Dyer Lum
- John Albert Macy
- Harry Magdoff
- Malcolm X
- Sherry Mangan
- Manning Marable
- Vito Marcantonio
- Sam Marcy
- Julian Mayfield
- David McReynolds
- Abel Meeropol
- Arthur Miller
- Monica Moorehead
- Tom Morello
- Felix Morrow
- A. J. Muste
- Oscar Neebe
- Huey P. Newton
- Frank Norris
- David North
- George Novack
- Conor Oberst
- Clifford Odets
- Hugo Oehler
- Kate Richards O'Hare
- Sara Jane Olson
- Lee Harvey Oswald
- Mary White Ovington
- Chandler Owen
- Michael Parenti
- Christian Parenti
- William L. Patterson
- Gregory Peck
- Leonard Peltier
- James Petras
- David Pierpont
- Albert Parsons
- Gram Parsons
- Lucy Parsons
- Utah Phillips
- Abraham Polonsky
- A. Philip Randolph
- Evelyn Reed
- John Reed
- Zack de la Rocha
- James Robertson
- Paul Robeson
- Raymond Robins
- Gene Roddenberry
- Virginia Rodino
- Milton Rosen
- Mark Rothko
- Annette Rubinstein
- Bayard Rustin
- Charles Ruthenberg
- Carl Sandburg
- Bernie Sanders
- Margaret Sanger
- Ralph Schoenman
- Bobby Seale
- Pete Seeger
- Emil Seidel
- Max Shachtman
- Ben Shahn
- Assata Shakur
- Ahmed Shawki
- Paul N. Siegel
- Upton Sinclair
- Carl Skoglund
- Edgar Snow
- August Spies
- John Steinbeck
- Anna Louise Strong
- Paul Sweezy
- Studs Terkel
- Norman Thomas
- Michael Thorburn
- A. C. Townley
- Robert Trivers
- Benjamin Tucker
- Bill Van Auken
- Kurt Vonnegut
- Louis Waldman
- Ian Wallace
- Alice Walker
- William English Walling
- Josiah Warren
- Sam Webb
- James Weinstein
- Nat Weinstein
- Sylvia Weinstein
- Lisa Weltman
- Cornel West
- Doxey Wilkerson
- Robert F. Williams
- Morris Winchevsky
- Ross Winn
- Tim Wohlforth
- Eric Wolf
- George Washington Woodbey
- Victoria Woodhull
- Richard Wright
- Atlee Yarrow
- Omali Yeshitela
- Frank Zeidler
- Robert Allen Zimmerman(Bob Dylan)
- Howard Zinn