This is a list of persons who self-identify as Fascists or a variant (e.g., National Socialists, Rexists, Falangists, etc.) and who have made major contributions to this ideology, either literarily, politically or militarily. It is organised by country or region.
- Rudolfs Bangerskis (1878-1958)
- Gustavs Celmins (1899-1968)
- Oskars Dankers (1883-1965)
Possible Successors
In addition, many other notable political figures have been labelled as Fascists, due to anti-immigration, protectionist, nationalistic and sometimes racist political beliefs, but have not so called themselves and in many cases have objected strenuously to the association. Ever since 1945, self-identification as a Fascist (outside Iberia) has been the hallmark of fringe extremists, and not of politicians, many moderately successful, as those below. They could, in fact, be described, as Bill Bennett did Pat Buchanan, of "flirting with Fascism," within democratic societies. Martin A. Lee , in The Beast Reawakens (ISBN 0316519596), calls them "National Populists with a Neofascist edge."
- Christoph Blocher (1940-), Switzerland
- Umberto Bossi (1943- ), Italy
- Patrick Buchanan (1938-), USA
- Kyle Chapman (?), New Zealand
- Filip Dewinter (1962-), Belgium
- Karel Dillen (1925-), Belgium
- David Duke (1950- ), USA
- Louis Farrakhan (1933- ), USA
- Gianfranco Fini (1952- ), Italy
- Anton Foljambe (?), New Zealand
- Nick Griffin (1959-), UK
- Carl I. Hagen (1944-), Norway
- Jörg Haider (1950-), Austria
- Tony Halme (1963-), Finland
- Pauline Hanson (1954-), Australia
- Shintaro Ishihara (1932-), Japan
- Meir Kahane (1932-1990), Israel
- Pia Kjćrsgaard (1947-), Denmark
- Lyndon LaRouche (1922-), USA
- Jean-Marie Le Pen (1928-), France
- Eduard Limonov (?), Russia
- Bruno Mégret (1949-), France
- Winston Peters (1945-), New Zealand
- Paulo Portas (1962-), Portugal
- Aigars Prusis (1976-), Latvia
- Efraín Ríos Montt (1926-), Guatemala
- Vojislav Šešelj (1954-), Serbia
- Corneliu Vadim Tudor (1949-), Romania
- Vladimir Zhirinovsky (1946-), Russia
Several philosophers have been noted as proto-Fascists or inspirations for Fascism by Fascists themselves. Although most never lived to see Fascism and of those who did, many were ambivalent to, critical of, or repudiated it. Fascism can be viewed as the child not of any one of these thinkers, but as a synthesis of some of the thoughts of all of them, put together by the founders of Fascism in the 1920s and 30s.