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== Manually generated lists ==
This is a partial list of persons who significantly contributed to the development of voting theory.
* [[w:Kenneth Arrow|Kenneth Arrow]]- Discoverer of [[Arrow's impossibility theorem]]
* [[w:Duncan Black|Duncan Black]]- Discoverer of [[W:Black's theorem|Black's theorem]].
* [[w:Jean-Charles de Borda|Jean-Charles de Borda]]- A discoverer of the [[Borda count]]
* [[Steven Brams]]- The leading intellectual proponent of [[approval voting]]
* [[Marquis de Condorcet]]- A discoverer of the [[Condorcet method]]
* [[Peter Fishburn]]- A leading proponent of [[approval voting]]. He and Brams commonly work together.
* [[w:Allan Gibbard|Allan Gibbard]]- A discoverer of the [[Gibbard-Satterthwaite theorem]].
* [[Thomas Hare]]- Discoverer of [[single transferable vote]].
* [[Ramon Llull]]- A discoverer of the [[Borda count]] and [[Condorcet method]].
* [[w:Mark Satterthwaite|Mark Satterthwaite]]- A discoverer of the [[Gibbard-Satterthwaite theorem]].
* [[w:Donald Saari|Donald Saari]]- A leading intellectual proponent of the [[Borda count]].
* [[w:Robert J. Weber|Robert J. Weber]]- The scholar credited with coining the term "''approval voting''" to refer to [[approval voting]] in the early [[w:1970s|1970s]].
 
Note, there are other manually-generated lists that may have more useful information: