Notable Leaders of The Progressive Era
- Jane Addams, social work
- Susan B. Anthony, suffragist
- Robert P. Bass, New Hampshire politician
- Charles A. Beard, historian and political scientist
- Louis Brandeis, Supreme Court justice
- William Jennings Bryan, Democratic presidential nominee in 1896, 1900, 1908
- Lucy Burns, suffragist
- Andrew Carnegie, steel magnate, philanthropist
- Carrie Chapman Catt, suffragist
- Winston Churchill (novelist), author (not the British politician)
- Herbert Croly, journalist
- John Dewey, philosopher
- W. E. B. Du Bois, Black scholar
- Thomas Edison, inventor
- Irving Fisher, economist
- Abraham Flexner, education
- Henry Ford, automaker
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman, feminist
- Susan Glaspell, playwright, novelist
- Emma Goldman, anarchist, philosopher, writer
- Lewis Hine, photographer
- Charles Evans Hughes, statesman
- William James, philosopher
- Hiram Johnson, California politician
- Samuel M. Jones, politician, reformer
- Florence Kelley, child advocate
- Robert M. La Follette, Sr., Wisconsin politician
- Fiorello LaGuardia, New York City mayor and brother of Ravensbruck concentration camp survivor Gemma LaGuardia Gluck
- Walter Lippmann, journalist
- Mayo Brothers, medicine
- John R. Mott, YMCA leader
- George Mundelein, Catholic leader
- Alice Paul, suffragist
- Ulrich B. Phillips, historian
- Gifford Pinchot, conservationist
- Walter Rauschenbusch, theologian of Social Gospel
- Jacob Riis, reformer
- John D. Rockefeller, Jr., philanthropist
- Theodore Roosevelt, President
- Elihu Root, statesman
- Margaret Sanger, birth control
- Anna Howard Shaw, suffragist
- Upton Sinclair, novelist
- Albion Small, sociologist
- Ellen Gates Starr, sociologist
- Lincoln Steffens, reporter
- Henry Stimson, statesman
- William Howard Taft, President and Chief Justice
- Ida Tarbell, muckraker
- Frederick Winslow Taylor, efficiency expert
- Frederick Jackson Turner, historian
- Thorstein Veblen, economist
- Lester Frank Ward, sociologist
- Booker T. Washington, Black leader, educator
- Woodrow Wilson, President
- Ida B. Wells, Black leader
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