This is a list of notable economists, mathematicians, political scientists, and computer scientists whose work has added substantially to the field of game theory. For a list of people in the field of video games rather than game theory, please see list of ludologists.
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
William Hamilton - evolutionary biology
John Harsanyi - equilibrium theory (Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1994)
Peter L. Hurd - evolution of aggressive behavior
Rufus Isaacs - differential games
John Maynard Smith - evolutionary biology
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 - Minimax 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
Alvin E. Roth - market design (Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences 2012)
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 (Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences 2012)
Thomas Schelling - bargaining (Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2005) and Models of Segregation.
