List of game theorists

This is a list of notable economists, mathematicians, political scientists, and computer scientists whose work has added substantially to the field of game theory.


 * Derek Abbott - Quantum game theory and Parrondo's games
 * Robert Aumann - equilibrium theory (Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2005)
 * Kenneth Arrow - voting theory (Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1972)
 * Robert Axelrod - repeated Prisoner's Dilemma
 * Steven Brams - cake cutting, fair division, theory of moves
 * John Horton Conway - combinatorial game theory
 * John Harsanyi - equilibrium theory (Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1994)
 * Rufus Isaacs - differential games
 * John Maynard Smith - Evolutionary biology
 * William Hamilton - Evolutionary biology
 * László Mérő - rationality, combinatorial games
 * Oskar Morgenstern - Social organization
 * John Forbes Nash - Nash equilibrium (Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1994)
 * John von Neumann - Minmax theorem, Expected Utility, Social organization, arms race
 * J. M. R. Parrondo - games with a reversal of fortune, such as Parrondo's games
 * Charles E. M. Pearce - games applied to queuing theory
 * George R. Price - theoretical and evolutionary biology
 * Anatol Rapoport - Mathematical psychologist, early proponent of tit-for-tat in repeated Prisoner's Dilemma
 * Ariel Rubinstein - Bargaining theory, learning and language
 * Reinhard Selten - Bounded rationality (Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1994)
 * Lloyd Shapley - Shapley value and core concept in coalition games
 * Thomas Schelling - bargaining (Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2005)