| 理论家 | lǐ lùn jiā | theorist / theoretician |  |
| 华罗庚 | Huà Luó gēng | Hua Luogeng (1910-1985), Chinese number theorist | |
| 陈伯达 | Chén Bó dá | Chen Boda (1904-1989), communist party theorist, interpreter of Maoism | |
| 张闻天 | Zhāng Wén tiān | Zhang Wentian (1900-1976), CCP party leader and theorist | |
| 布哈林 | Bù hā lín | Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin (1888-1938), Soviet revolutionary theorist, executed after a show trial in 1937 | |
| 薛福成 | Xuē Fú chéng | Xue Fucheng (1838-1894), Qing official and progressive political theorist | |
| 邹韬奋 | Zōu Tāo fèn | Zou Taofen (1895-1944), journalist, political theorist and publisher | |
| 陈景润 | Chén Jǐng rùn | Chen Jingrun (1933-1996) Chinese number theorist | |
| 鲍德里亚 | Bào dé lǐ yà | Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007), French cultural theorist and philosopher | |
