List of futurologists
Notable futurologists include:
| Name | Birth | Death | Field | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adrian Berry | 1937 | living | writer, journalist | |
| Aldous Huxley | 1894 | 1963 | writer (wrote Brave New World) | |
| Alvin Toffler | 1928 | living | technological singularity | |
| Andrey Korotayev | 1961 | living | mathematical modeling of global future[1] | |
| Anne Lise Kjaer | 1962 | living | Future trends, consumer mindsets and mobile technologies | |
| Archibald Low | 1888 | 1956 | space | |
| Arthur C. Clarke | 1917 | 2008 | writer | |
| Arthur Harkins | 1936 | living | innovation studies | |
| Bertrand de Jouvenel | 1903 | 1987 | economist | |
| Bill Joy | 1954 | living | technology dangers | |
| Bruce Sterling | 1954 | living | living design, information technology | |
| Buckminster Fuller | 1895 | 1983 | architect, cosmologist | |
| Carl Sagan | 1934 | 1996 | astronomer | |
| Clem Bezold | living | healthcare | ||
| Dandridge M. Cole | 1921 | 1965 | space colonization | |
| Danila Medvedev | 1980 | living | transhumanist | |
| Darla Jane Gilroy | living | futurist, trendspotting | ||
| David H. Holtzman | living | technology | ||
| Deane Hutton | living | communicator | ||
| Dennis Gabor | 1900 | 1979 | holography | |
| Dirk HR Spennemann | living | space heritage | ||
| Donald Prell | 1924 | living | venture capital, strategic foresight, technological singularity | |
| Douglas Engelbart | 1925 | 2013 | hypertext, mouse | |
| Faith Popcorn | 1948 | living | popcorn report | |
| FM-2030 | 1930 | 2000 | transhumanist | |
| Fred Polak | 1907 | 1985 | social studies | |
| Freeman Dyson | 1923 | living | nuclear engineering, disarmament | |
| Gaston Berger | 1896 | 1960 | cognitive science | |
| Gene Roddenberry | 1921 | 1991 | Creator of the Star Trek franchise. | |
| George Dvorsky | living | transhumanist | ||
| George Friedman | 1949 | living | geopolitics | |
| George Gilder | 1939 | living | society | |
| George Orwell | 1903 | 1950 | writer (wrote 1984) | |
| Gerald Celente | 1946 | living | trend forecaster | |
| Gerard K. O'Neill | 1927 | 1992 | space colonization | |
| Grace Hopper | 1906 | 1992 | women in computing | |
| Graeme Codrington | 1970 | living | Generational Theory, megatrends | |
| H. G. Wells | 1866 | 1946 | writer, historian | |
| Hans Moravec | 1948 | living | robotics, AI | |
| Harlan Cleveland | 1918 | 2008 | diplomacy | |
| Hazel Henderson | 1933 | living | economics | |
| Herman Kahn | 1922 | 1983 | military strategist | |
| Hugo de Garis | 1947 | living | AI | |
| Isaac Asimov | 1920 | 1992 | Writer of science and science fiction | |
| Jacque Fresco | 1916 | living | architect, resource economics, model maker | |
| Jamais Cascio | living | ethics | ||
| James Hughes | living | ethics | ||
| James Lovelock | 1919 | living | environmentalist | |
| Jason Ling | 1975 | living | Social Networking, New Media Technologies and Mobile Technologies | |
| Jean Fourastié | 1907 | 1990 | economist | |
| Jennifer M. Gidley | living | psychologist, educator | ||
| Jeremy Rifkin | 1945 | living | economist, Science & Tech. | |
| Jerry Fishenden | living | Microsoft future | ||
| Jim Carroll (author) | living | futurist and trends and innovation expert | ||
| Jim Dator | living | politics | ||
| Joanne Pransky | living | robotics | ||
| Jody Turner | living | brand anthropology | ||
| Joël de Rosnay | 1937 | living | living molecular biology | |
| John Naisbitt | 1929 | living | megatrends | |
| John Smart | 1960 | living | acceleration | |
| Jules Verne | 1828 | 1905 | aviation, spaceflight, submarine travel | |
| Karel Čapek | 1890 | 1938 | writer who popularized the word robot | |
| Kevin Warwick | 1954 | living | robotics | |
| Krafft Arnold Ehricke | 1917 | 1984 | space colonization | |
| Leonardo da Vinci | 1452 | 1519 | engineer, inventor, scientist | |
| Lidewij Edelkoort | 1950 | living | fashion | |
| M. G. Gordon | 1915 | 1969 | social studies | |
| Magda Cordell McHale | 1921 | 2008 | painter, educator | |
| Mahdi Elmandjra | 1933 | 2014 | economist, sociologist | |
| Mark Pesce | 1962 | living | inventor, writer, engineer | |
| Mark Satin | 1946 | living | political theory | |
| Marshall Brain | 1961 | living | robotics, transhumanism | |
| Marshall McLuhan | 1911 | 1980 | communications | |
| Matthew Simmons | living | peak oil | ||
| Meredith Thring | 1915 | 2006 | inventor | |
| Michael Crichton | 1942 | 2008 | writer; implications of progress in science | |
| Michael E. Arth | 1953 | living | urban design | |
| Michael Rogers | living | New York Times Futurist; MSNBC commentator | ||
| Michael Vassar | 1979 | living | transhumanism, technological singularity | |
| Michio Kaku | 1947 | living | string field theory | |
| Nayef Al-Rodhan | living | transhumanist, sustainable history, singularity dignity, future geopolitics | ||
| Nicholas Negroponte | 1943 | living | OLPC | |
| Nikola Tesla | 1856 | 1943 | energy | |
| Orrin H. Pilkey | living | critic of environmentalists | ||
| Patrick Dixon | 1957 | living | business | |
| Peter C. Bishop | 1944 | living | Educator - Strategic Foresight | |
| Peter Newman | living | sustainability | ||
| Peter Schwartz | 1946 | living | China, Climate Change, Business, Technology | |
| Phil Salin | 1949 | 1991 | cyberspace and the Internet | |
| Philip K. Dick | 1928 | 1982 | writer who produced the novels behind Blade Runner and Minority Report | |
| Ray Kurzweil | 1948 | living | AI, transhumanism, technological singularity | |
| Raymond Spencer Rodgers | 1935 | 2007 | telesphere, food-chain | |
| Renzo Provinciali | 1895 | 1981 | anarchist | |
| Richard C. Duncan | living | peak oil | ||
| Richard Feynman | 1918 | 1988 | physicist and inventor of nanotechnology | |
| Richard Moran | 1950 | living | social scientist | |
| Richard Neville | 1941 | living | author, reporter | |
| Richard Slaughter | living | sociologist | ||
| Robert A. Heinlein | 1907 | 1988 | writer | |
| Robert Anton Wilson | 1932 | 2007 | psychonaut | |
| Robert Jastrow | 1925 | 2008 | NASA scientist, author, spaceflight | |
| Robert Jungk | 1913 | 1994 | journalist | |
| Robert Theobald | 1929 | 1999 | economics | |
| Robin Hanson | 1959 | living | prediction markets, singularity, transhumanism | |
| Ross Dawson | 1962 | living | futurist, speaker, author | |
| Sohail Inayatullah | 1958 | living | political scientist | |
| Stanisław Lem | 1921 | 2006 | writer | |
| Stephen Euin Cobb | 1955 | living | transhumanist | |
| Stewart Brand | 1938 | living | cognitive science | |
| Sydney Jay Mead | 1933 | living | visual futurist | |
| Terence McKenna | 1946 | 2000 | philosopher, psychonaut, speaker | |
| Ted Nelson | 1937 | living | writer, philosopher | |
| Theodore Modis | 1943 | living | business, physics | |
| Timothy Leary | 1920 | 1996 | psychologist, psychedelics enthusiast, transhumanist, space migration, life extension | |
| Vannevar Bush | 1890 | 1974 | analog computing | |
| W. Warren Wagar | 1932 | 2004 | historian | |
| Walter Greiling | 1900 | 1986 | chemist, sociologist | |
| Warren Ellis | 1968 | living | writer | |
| Wendell Bell | 1924 | living | sociology | |
| William Gibson | 1948 | living | novelist (cyberpunk) | |
| William Gilpin | 1813 | 1894 | politician | |
| Willis Harman | 1918 | 1997 | sociocultural evolution | |
| Ziauddin Sardar | 1951 | living | Muslim thought |