List of neo-conservatives

This is a list of prominent public figures frequently referred to as neoconservatives. Classifications of this sort are often disputed, so any listing here should not be taken as definitive.

Public Sector

• Richard Cheney, United States Vice President since 2001, former Secretary of Defense, former CEO of Halliburton.
• Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense since 2001, responsible for the occupation of Iraq.
• Condoleezza Rice, National Security Advisor since 2001
• Douglas Feith, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy since 2001, responsible for planning the occupation of Iraq.
• Larry Franklin, Feith lieutenant being investigated for passsing government secrets to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and Israeli Embassy Officials.
• Elliott Abrams, Senior director, National Security Council.
• Stephen Cambone, first Defense Undersecretary for Intelligence
• Linda Chavez
• David Wurmser, Office of the Vice President, Middle East Adviser.
• I. Lewis Libby, a.k.a Scooter Libby, Chief of Staff to the Vice President. Suspected of having committed treason by revealing the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame as a political reprisal against her husband.
• Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Secretary of Defense since 2001, a major advocate for the 2003 invasion of Iraq and subsequent occupation
• L. Paul Bremer
• William J. Luti, Deputy Undersecretary of Defense.
• Abram Shulsky, Director Office of Special Plans.
• Kenneth Adelman, member of Pentagon's Defense Policy Board.
• Eliot Cohen, member Defense Policy Board.
• John Bolton, Undersecretary of State.
• James Schlesinger, member Defense Policy
• Dov Zakheim, Comptroller, Defense Department.
• Harold Rhode, Foreign Affairs Specialist, Office of Net Assessment, Office of the Secretary of Defense.
• Francis Fukuyama, author of The End of History, current member of the President's Council on Bioethics.

Private Sector

• Richard Perle, Chairman of the Defense Policy Board.
• Norman Podhoretz
• Irving Kristol
• William Kristol, co-founder, Project for the New American Century.
• Michael Ledeen
• Lynne Cheney, wife of Vice President Richard 'Dick' Cheney; critic of academic critics of the second Bush administration. .
• Oliver North, convicted felon and conservative talk show host.
• Robert Kagan, co-founder, Project for the New American Century.
• Daniel Pipes, professional anti-Soviet academic.
• Charles Krauthammer.
• David Frum, Canadian expatriate, newspaper columnist, and speechwriter.
• Jeane Kirkpatrick, former Ambassador to the United Nations, famous for asserting the existence of a meaningful difference between totalitarianism and authoritarianism.
• Philip Merrill, Chairman of the Export-Import Bank since 2001.
• Ronald D. Rotunda, law professor at conservative George Mason University, apologist for denying Prisoner of War status under the 1949 Geneva Conventions to the prisoners from the War in Afghanistan held at Guantanamo Bay.
• Mark Steyn, author of several books, and politics, arts, and culture commentator for, most notably, the Chicago Sun-Times, the UK's Daily Telegraph, and The Irish Times.
• Dennis Miller, comedian and television personality.