* [[Alexander Herzen]]<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Zimmerman|first1=Judith E.|title=Herzen, Proudhon and La Voix du Peuple: A Reconsideration|journal=Russian History|date=1984|volume=11|issue=4|pages=422–450|doi=10.1163/18763316-i0000025}}</ref>
* [[Adam Smith]]<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Hoffman|first1=Robert|title=Marx and Proudhon: A Reappraisal of Their Relationship |journal=The Historian|date=1967|volume=29|issue=3|pages=409–430|doi=10.1111/j.1540-6563.1967.tb01785.x|quote=My real masters, those who have caused fertile ideas to spring up in my mind, are three in number: first, the Bible; next, Adam Smith; and last, Hegel.}}</ref>
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* [[Edward Abramowski]]
* [[Mikhail Bakunin]]
* [[Charles Baudelaire]]
* [[Joseph Déjacque]]
* [[Mykhailo Drahomanov]]<ref>{{cite book|editor-last=Rudyntsky|editor-first=Ivan Lysiak|year=1952|last=Rudyntsky|first=Ivan Lysiak|chapter=Drahomanov as a Political Theorist|chapter-url=http://www.ditext.com/rudnytsky/political.html|title=Mykhailo Drahomanov: A Symposium and Selected Writings|url=http://www.ditext.com/drahomanov/title.html|location=[[New York City|New York]]|publisher=Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences|pages=73–74|oclc=461195833}}</ref>
* [[Victor Hugo]]<ref>{{cite book|last1=Canto-Sperber|first1=Monique|editor1-last=Parrine|editor1-first=Mary Jane|title=A Vast and Useful Art: The Gustave Gimon Collection on French Political Economy|date=2004|publisher=Stanford University|pages=84–97|chapter=Proudhon, the First Liberal Socialist}}</ref>
