List of Confucianists

This is a partial list of people who follow Confucianism, selected for their influence on that belief, or for their fame in other areas.

Early Confucians

• Confucius – founder
  • Disciples of Confucius
    • Ten Wise Ones
      • Yan Hui
      • Min Sun
      • Ran Geng
      • Ran Yong
      • Duanmu Ci
      • Zai Yu
      • Ran Qiu
      • Zhong You
      • Yan Yan
      • Bu Shang

• Zisi
• Mencius
• Xun Zi

Neo-Confucians

• Zhang Zai
• Zhou Dunyi

Cheng–Zhu school

• Cheng Hao and Cheng Yi
• Zhu Xi

Lu–Wang school

• Lu Jiuyuan
• Wang Yangming

Yongjia School

• Ye Shi

Japanese Confucianism

Family name comes first in Japanese language.

• Fujiwara Seika
• Hayashi Razan
• Ogyū Sorai
• Toju Nakae

Modern

• Kaji Nobuyuki (b. 1936)
• Kure Tomofusa (b.1946) also known as Go, Chi'ei
• Tsuchida Kenjiro (b. 1949)
• Uno Sei'ichi (1910–2008)
• Yasuoka Masahiro (安岡正篤) (1898–1983)

Korean Confucianism

• Yi Hwang
• Yi I

Vietnamese Confucianism

• Chu Văn An
• Nguyễn Trãi
• Lê Văn Thịnh
• Bùi Quốc Khái
• Trần Thái Tông
• Trương Hán Siêu
• Chu Văn An
• Lê Quát
• Nguyễn Trãi
• Ngô Sĩ Liên
• Lê Thánh Tông
• Nguyễn Bỉnh Khiêm
• Lê Quý Đôn
• Nguyễn Khuyến
• Phan Đình Phùng
• Minh Mạng
• Tự Đức

New Confucians

• Tu Wei-Ming – advocate of "New Confucianism"
• Xiong Shili – founding figure in "New Confucianism"
• Ma Yifu – founding figure in "New Confucianism"

Western Confucians or scholars of Confucianism

• Philip J. Ivanhoe
• Robert Cummings Neville
• Eric L. Hutton

Other

• Wang Fuzhi
• Huang Zongxi
• Gu Xiancheng

See also

• Disciples of Confucius
• List of people by belief
• List of Confucian states and dynasties