Notable Social Democrats
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- This is an abbreviated list of well-known social democrats. For a comprehensive list, see List of social democrats
- Clement Attlee
- Obafemi Awolowo
- José Batlle y Ordóñez
- Otto Bauer
- David Ben-Gurion
- Eduard Bernstein
- Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
- Léon Blum
- Willy Brandt
- Hjalmar Branting
- Gro Harlem Brundtland
- Vince Cable
- Job Cohen
- Brendan Corish
- Tommy Douglas
- Willem Drees
- Friedrich Ebert
- Einar Gerhardsen
- Bob Hawke
- Roy Jenkins
- Wim Kok
- Jack Layton
- David Lewis
- Wilhelm Liebknecht
- Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
- Vasos Lyssaridis
- Dom Mintoff
- David Owen
- Olof Palme
- Wim Schermerhorn
- Shirley Williams
- Joop den Uyl
- José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
- Vera Zasulich
- Frank P. Zeidler
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