[CCJ]

Chumbawumba was a famous anarchist group.

[QatzelOk]

Some famous anarchist include:

Jeffrey Dahmer

The Columbine killers

Lyndsey England

Donald Rumsfeld

Johnny Rotten

Farah Fawcett [Hair anarchy]

[AsdkAsd]

i still dont fully believe Jrr tolkien was an anarchist, because he was also very religious

Did you know there was such a thing as a Christian Anarchist! Yeah, infact quite a few famous Anarchists happen also to consider themselves as Christians and/or believers in "God". Most anarchists are skeptical of organised religion per se, but the two concepts are not necessarily at odds and many Christian Anarchists would say that anarchism is a confirmation of Heaven on Earth -ie. it is the best political/social system suited to Christianity.

Some famous anarchist include:...

maybe you should learn what an anarchist is first.

[CCJ]

I am religious [a non-Christian Quaker]. That doesn't stop me from believing what I want, politically.

[SpiderMonkey]

What about that bloke who tried to kill Franco? Think he was scottish.

EDIT: Stuart Christie

[AsdkAsd]

I just finished reading Stuart Christie's book, "Granny Made Me an Anarchist"; brilliant. Funny, factual and good explanation of anarchist principles. The guy's an inspiration, he was born and raised not far from me and he was arrested facing the garrote (execution by strangulation) when he was my age!

[SpiderMonkey]

Did you know there was such a thing as a Christian Anarchist! EEK Yeah, infact quite a few famous Anarchists happen also to consider themselves as Christians and/or believers in "God". Most anarchists are skeptical of organised religion per se, but the two concepts are not necessarily at odds and many Christian Anarchists would say that anarchism is a confirmation of Heaven on Earth -ie. it is the best political/social system suited to Christianity.

Not really that surprising. Given the quasi-religious nature of governments, I can easily see how some chrisitians would consider them idolotrous (sp).

[AsdkAsd]

that's exactly how some of them describe government by men against men and indeed the capitalist system itself. And hey, we might not be Christians ourselves but we can learn a lot from these guys. Then again, I really disagree with some of the stuff Ellul said.

[thebull_09]

The most famous of American anarchists is Lysander Spooner. Spooner was an American individualist anarchist, political philosopher, Deist, Unitarian abolitionist, supporter of the labor movement, legal theorist, and entrepreneur of the nineteenth century. He is also known for competing with the U.S. Post Office with his American Letter Mail Company, which was forced out of business by the United States government.
Some of his works include:
No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority; The State vs The Highwaymen; & The Science of Justice.

[KlassWar]

Could you name a few?

Theorists:
Among others:
-> Pierre-Joseph Proudhon.
-> Mijail Bakunin.
-> Pyotr Kropotkin.
-> Emma Goldman.

Were one to accept anarcho-individualists as anarchists, we could easily add Tucker and Stirner as theorists.

Militia Commanders:
Among others:

-> Néstor Makhno.
-> Buenaventura Durruti.
-> Francisco Ascaso.

[Orestes]

Not anarchists per se, but a couple of famous writers seem to have exhibited some libertarian-socialist sentiments, that can be more or less inferred from what they wrote here and there.

(Nice necro btw )

Oscar Wilde in The Soul of Man under Socialism argues for the abolition of private property, yet with the clear intention of making it a springboard for the flourishing of individualism, which is to take precedence from then on.

William Burroughs’ Naked Lunch sets the anarchic Factualists against the Liquefactionists, Senders, and Divisionists, who could be identified with the contemporary ideologies of, respectively, Right, Left, and Centre.

It is known that Kafka had socialist leanings, and within them, he might have shown anarchist tendencies as well (this is still debatable, yet looks plausible to me given the spirit of his works).

Also, Henry Miller was a friend of Emma Goldman and a reader of Stirner, but I don’t know to what extent they actually influenced him.

With Nietzsche it's hard to tell - the anti-statist pronouncements come from around the time of Bismarck's reforms, so it's unclear whether he had a problem with the state as such, or only with a state that diminished the "pathos of distance" between himself and the proles.