List of advocates of universal basic income

The following is a list of notable individuals who have publicly expressed support or are working for the introduction of a universal basic income (UBI).

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Europe

Dieter Althaus, German politician{{cite news |url= http://www.taz.de/index.php?id=archivseite&dig=2006/10/25/a0070 |website= taz.de |title= 800 Euro für jeden? CDUler findet's gut |first= Hannes |last= Koch |date= 25 October 2006 |access-date= 15 April 2017 |language= de |archive-date= 28 June 2009 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090628020909/http://www.taz.de/index.php?id=archivseite&dig=2006%2F10%2F25%2Fa0070 |url-status= live }}
Tim Berners-Lee, World Wide Web inventor{{Cite web|url=http://www.techinsider.io/tim-berners-lee-supports-basic-income-2016-5|title=Here's why the inventor of the Internet supports basic income|last=Weller|first=Chris|date=31 May 2016|website=Business Insider|publisher=Axel Springer SE|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160821192610/http://www.techinsider.io/tim-berners-lee-supports-basic-income-2016-5|archive-date=21 August 2016|url-status=dead}}
Julen Bollain, Spanish economist, politician and basic income researcher{{cn|date=February 2019}}
Robert Habeck, German politician{{Cite news|date=2020-11-22|title=Grünen votieren auf Parteitag für Grundeinkommen für alle|url=https://www.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/gruenen-votieren-auf-parteitag-fuer-grundeinkommen-fuer-alle-17065512.html|access-date=2020-11-22|newspaper=Faz.net|language=de|archive-date=2020-11-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201122173405/https://www.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/gruenen-votieren-auf-parteitag-fuer-grundeinkommen-fuer-alle-17065512.html|url-status=live|last1=Löhr |first1=Julia }}
Winfried Kretschmann, German politician{{Cite web|last=Liebermann|first=Sascha|date=2011-02-05|title=Was uns blockiert: Winfried Kretschmann, das bedingungslose Grundeinkommen und die Gesellschaft der Zukunft|url=https://blog.freiheitstattvollbeschaeftigung.de/2011/02/05/was-uns-blockiert-winfried-kretschmann-das-bedingungslose-grundeinkommen-und-die-gesellschaft-der-zukunft/|access-date=2021-06-14|website=Freiheit statt Vollbeschäftigung|language=de-DE|archive-date=2021-06-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210614193413/https://blog.freiheitstattvollbeschaeftigung.de/2011/02/05/was-uns-blockiert-winfried-kretschmann-das-bedingungslose-grundeinkommen-und-die-gesellschaft-der-zukunft/|url-status=live}}
Frank Thelen, German entrepreneur and author{{Cite web|title=Löwen-Investor Thelen: Das wahre Problem beim Grundeinkommen ist nicht das Geld|url=https://www.focus.de/finanzen/experten/gastbeitrag-von-frank-thelen-das-grundeinkommen-wird-kommen_id_9974723.html|access-date=23 August 2020|website=FOCUS Online|language=de|archive-date=25 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201025015544/https://www.focus.de/finanzen/experten/gastbeitrag-von-frank-thelen-das-grundeinkommen-wird-kommen_id_9974723.html|url-status=live}}
Richard David Precht, German philosopher and author{{Cite web|title=Warum ich mich für das Grundeinkommen einsetze - Richard David Precht im Interview|url=https://www.xing.com/news/articles/warum-ich-mich-fur-das-grundeinkommen-einsetze-richard-david-precht-im-interview-1904041|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210802185225/https://www.xing.com/news/articles/warum-ich-mich-fur-das-grundeinkommen-einsetze-richard-david-precht-im-interview-1904041|archive-date=2 August 2021|access-date=22 August 2020|website=www.xing.com|date=7 December 2018 |language=en}}
Harald Welzer, German social psychologist{{Cite web|title=Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen – wäre jetzt der richtige Zeitpunkt?|url=https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/der-tag-mit-harald-welzer-wie-findet-deutschland-in-der.2950.de.html?dram:article_id=474207}}
Maja Göpel, German political economist and sustainability scientist{{Cite web|title=Jung & Live 16.04.2020| website=YouTube |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p20ovqcuyFA}}
Gerald Hüther, German neurobiologist and author{{Cite web|date=11 July 2013|title=Generation Grundeinkommen von Neurobiologe inspiriert|url=https://www.grundeinkommen.ch/neurobiologe-beschreibt-aspekte-der-generation-grundeinkommen/|access-date=13 August 2020|website=grundeinkommen|language=de|archive-date=7 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807095654/http://www.grundeinkommen.ch/neurobiologe-beschreibt-aspekte-der-generation-grundeinkommen/|url-status=live}}
Ranga Yogeshwar, Luxembourgish author and science journalist{{Cite web|title=Ranga Yogeshwar: Mensch oder Computer - wer programmiert wen?|url=https://werteundwandel.de/inhalte/ranga-yogeshwar-mensch-und-computer-wer-programmiert-wen/|access-date=2021-02-24|website=Werte und Wandel|date=17 January 2018 |language=de-DE|archive-date=2020-10-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201022112413/https://werteundwandel.de/inhalte/ranga-yogeshwar-mensch-und-computer-wer-programmiert-wen/|url-status=live}}
Alan Watts, British writer{{Cite web|title=Alan Watts was overzealous in his basic income prediction — but he wasn't wrong|url=https://bigthink.com/technology-innovation/alan-watts-basic-income|access-date=2021-02-24|website=bigthink|date=12 February 2019 |language=en|archive-date=2021-01-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210120164453/https://bigthink.com/technology-innovation/alan-watts-basic-income|url-status=live}}
Louise Haagh, political theorist, form chair of the Basic Income Earth Network{{Cite web|title=Biography {{!}} Louise Haagh|url=https://louisehaagh.net/biography/|access-date=2021-01-23|language=en-GB|archive-date=2021-06-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210614174752/https://louisehaagh.net/biography/|url-status=live}}
Rutger Bregman, Dutch author{{Cite web|url=https://www.ted.com/talks/rutger_bregman_poverty_isn_t_a_lack_of_character_it_s_a_lack_of_cash/discussion?c=99716|title=Poverty isn't a lack of character; it's a lack of cash|website=TED (conference)|date=22 May 2017 |access-date=18 March 2019|archive-date=23 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211023170321/https://www.ted.com/talks/rutger_bregman_poverty_isn_t_a_lack_of_character_it_s_a_lack_of_cash/discussion?c=99716|url-status=live}}
Angus Deaton, 2015 Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics{{Cite web|url=http://www.techinsider.io/basic-income-gets-nobel-prize-winners-approval-2016-5|title=A Nobel Prize winner in economics just backed basic income|last=Weller|first=Chris|date=18 May 2016|website=Business Insider|publisher=Axel Springer SE|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161003005953/http://www.techinsider.io/basic-income-gets-nobel-prize-winners-approval-2016-5|archive-date=3 October 2016|url-status=dead}}
André Gorz, Austrian-French social philosopher and journalist[http://www.antenna.nl/~waterman/gorz.html "Critique of Economic Reason"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081006234639/http://www.antenna.nl/~waterman/gorz.html |date=2008-10-06 }}, André Gorz, in: Peter Waterman, Ronaldo Munck, "Labour Worldwide in the Era of Globalisation: Alternative Union Models in the New World Order", Macmillan, London, 1999
Beppe Grillo, Italian comedian, actor, blogger, and politician{{cite web |url= https://beppegrillo.it/basic-income-now-is-the-time/ |title= Universal Basic Income: now is the time |last= |first= |date= 31 March 2020 |website= beppegrillo.it |publisher= Blog di Beppe Grillo |access-date= 24 September 2023}}{{cite news |date= 20 February 2023 |title= M5S, universal basic income is needed for Beppe Grillo "as in Catalonia" |url= https://www.italianpost.news/m5s-universal-basic-income-is-needed-for-beppe-grillo-as-in-catalonia/ |work= Italian Post News |access-date= 24 September 2023}}
Benoit Hamon, candidate for President of France in 2017{{Cite web|url=https://www.benoithamon2017.fr/rue/|title=Le Revenu Universel|access-date=2018-03-24|archive-date=2018-03-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180326002845/http://www.benoithamon2017.fr/RUE/|url-status=live}}
Timotheus Höttges, German manager{{Cite news|url=http://www.zeit.de/2016/01/zukunftsvisionen-timotheus-hoettges-roboter-technik/komplettansicht|title=Der Unterschied zwischen Mensch und Computer wird in Kürze aufgehoben sein|newspaper=Die Zeit |date=30 December 2015 |access-date=2018-03-24|archive-date=2017-03-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170307192126/http://www.zeit.de/2016/01/zukunftsvisionen-timotheus-hoettges-roboter-technik/komplettansicht|url-status=live |last1=Lorenzo |first1=Giovanni di }}
Katja Kipping, The Left, Germany{{cite news |last= Widerquist |first= Karl |date= 18 October 2017 |title= Basic income's third wave |url= https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-trafficking-and-slavery/basic-income-s-third-wave/ |work= openDemocracy |access-date= 22 January 2020 |archive-date= 25 December 2019 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20191225073027/https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-trafficking-and-slavery/basic-income-s-third-wave/ |url-status= live }}
Caroline Lucas, British politician{{cite news |last= Lucas |first= Caroline |date= 15 January 2016 |title= These are the simple reasons why a basic income for all could transform our society for the better |url= https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/if-everyone-was-given-basic-income-it-would-probably-cost-less-cameron-s-means-testing-benefits-a6814701.html |work= The Independent |access-date= 4 October 2020 |archive-date= 8 November 2020 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20201108095925/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/if-everyone-was-given-basic-income-it-would-probably-cost-less-cameron-s-means-testing-benefits-a6814701.html |url-status= live }}
John McDonnell, British politician{{cite web |url= https://www.basicincome.org/news/2015/09/uk-shadow-chancellor-john-mcdonnell/ |title= United Kingdom: Basic income supporter John McDonnell becomes shadow chancellor |last= Yamamori |first= Toru |date= 18 September 2015 |website= Basic Income Earth Network |access-date= 22 January 2020 |archive-date= 23 May 2020 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200523061225/https://basicincome.org/news/2015/09/uk-shadow-chancellor-john-mcdonnell/ |url-status= live }}{{cite news |last= Chapman |first= Ben |date= 31 July 2018 |title= What is universal basic income and how would it work in practice? |url= https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/universal-basic-income-work-john-mcdonnell-shadow-chancellor-a8472031.html |work= The Independent |access-date= 22 January 2020 |archive-date= 5 April 2020 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200405053549/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/universal-basic-income-work-john-mcdonnell-shadow-chancellor-a8472031.html |url-status= live }}
Antonio Negri, Italian Spinozistic-Marxist sociologist and political philosopher{{cite web|url=https://www.angelfire.com/cantina/negri/HAREMI_printable.pdf|title=Empire|access-date=24 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190808233939/http://www.angelfire.com/cantina/negri/HAREMI_printable.pdf|archive-date=8 August 2019|url-status=live}} Michael Hardt – Italian Marxist sociologist Antonio Negri, "Empire", Harvard University Press, 2000, p. 403
Philippe Van Parijs, Belgian philosopher{{Cite web|url=http://bostonreview.net/archives/BR25.5/vanparijs.html|title=A Basic Income for All|website=bostonreview.net|access-date=14 December 2016|archive-date=20 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220203507/http://bostonreview.net/archives/BR25.5/vanparijs.html|url-status=dead}}
Carole Pateman, feminist and political theorist{{Cite web|url=http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2011-03-07-pateman-en.html|title=Securing women's citizenship: Indifference and other obstacles – Carole Pateman|website=www.eurozine.com|access-date=15 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161221015308/http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2011-03-07-pateman-en.html|archive-date=21 December 2016|url-status=dead}}
Thomas Piketty, economist{{Cite news|url=https://www.lemonde.fr/blog/piketty/2017/01/25/pour-un-revenu-universel-credible-et-ambitieux/|title=Pour un revenu universel crédible et audacieux|newspaper=Le Blog de Thomas Piketty|date=25 January 2017 |access-date=2020-06-26|archive-date=2020-03-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200328175922/https://www.lemonde.fr/blog/piketty/2017/01/25/pour-un-revenu-universel-credible-et-ambitieux/|url-status=live}}
Christopher A. Pissarides, 2010 Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmumRUGXQhQ|title=Basic Income at the World Economic Forum of Davos|via=www.youtube.com|access-date=2018-03-24|archive-date=2017-06-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170627092258/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmumRUGXQhQ|url-status=live}}
Jonathan Reynolds, British politician{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2016/02/how-i-learnt-stop-worrying-and-love-basic-income |title=How I learnt to stop worrying and love Basic Income |date=February 17, 2016 |magazine=New Statesman |access-date=October 23, 2021 |archive-date=October 23, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211023170314/https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2016/02/how-i-learnt-stop-worrying-and-love-basic-income |url-status=live }}
Jeremy Corbyn, British politician{{Cite web|last=Cumiskey|first=Lucas|date=2020-04-22|title=Coronavirus: Jeremy Corbyn would 'generally welcome' introduction of Universal Basic Income|url=https://www.islingtongazette.co.uk/news/local-council/coronavirus-jeremy-corbyn-backs-universal-basic-income-3837930|access-date=2021-05-27|website=Islington Gazette|language=en-UK|archive-date=2021-10-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211023170314/https://www.islingtongazette.co.uk/news/local-council/coronavirus-jeremy-corbyn-backs-universal-basic-income-3837930|url-status=live}}
Molly Scott Cato, British politician, academic, environmental and community activist, and green economist{{cite news |last= Scott Cato |first= Molly |date= 7 May 2020 |title= Coronavirus and the Universal Basic Income |url= https://theecologist.org/2020/may/07/coronavirus-and-universal-basic-income |work= The Ecologist |access-date= 3 October 2020 |archive-date= 17 September 2020 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200917153153/https://theecologist.org/2020/may/07/coronavirus-and-universal-basic-income |url-status= live }}
Osmo Soininvaara, Finnish politicianOsmo Soininvaara, "Hyvinvointivaltion eloonjäämisoppi" (A survival doctrine for the welfare state), Juva, WSOY, 1994, 298 p, {{ISBN|951-0-20100-6}}
Guy Standing, British economistGuy Standing and Michael Samson (eds.), "A Basic Income Grant for South Africa", University of Cape Town Press, Cape Town, 2003Standing, Guy (ed.). "Promoting Income Security as a Right: Europe and North America", Anthem Press, London, 2005
Aubrey de Grey, English author and biogerontologist{{Cite web|last=Keep|first=Elmo|title=Can Human Mortality Really Be Hacked?|url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/human-mortality-hacked-life-extension-180963241/|access-date=2021-02-23|website=Smithsonian Magazine|language=en|archive-date=2021-04-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210428151112/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/human-mortality-hacked-life-extension-180963241/|url-status=live}}
Yanis Varoufakis, former finance minister of Greece{{cite news |url = http://www.economist.com/ESDvaroufakis |title = Transcript: Interview with Yanis Varoufakis |publisher = The Economist |date = 31 March 2016 |access-date = 5 June 2016 |archive-date = 30 May 2016 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160530080853/http://www.economist.com/ESDvaroufakis |url-status = live }}
Björn Wahlroos, Finnish billionaire{{Cite web|url=http://www.helsinkitimes.fi/business/11243-is-finland-ready-for-a-basic-income-2.html|title=Is Finland ready for a basic income?|last=Cord|first=David J.|date=17 July 2014|work=Helsinki Times|publisher=Dream Catcher Oy|access-date=24 March 2018|archive-date=19 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171119215047/http://www.helsinkitimes.fi/business/11243-is-finland-ready-for-a-basic-income-2.html|url-status=live}}
Susanne Wiest, German activist
Harald Lesch, German astrophysicist and author{{Cite web|date=17 July 2018|title=Digitale Zukunft gestalten: Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen als realistische Option?|url=https://bc-partners.net/bedingungsloses-grundeinkommen-eine-realistische-option/|access-date=22 August 2020|website=BCP - Business Center - Büroräume mieten|language=de}}
Thomas Straubhaar, Swiss economist
Martin Wehrle, German journalist and author{{Cite web|last=|first=|title=Darum kann unbegrenzter Urlaub böse enden|url=https://www.focus.de/kultur/buecher/martin-wehrle-darum-kann-unbegrenzter-urlaub-boese-enden_id_9724485.html|access-date=2020-09-12|website=FOCUS Online|language=de|archive-date=2020-10-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201030230955/https://www.focus.de/kultur/buecher/martin-wehrle-darum-kann-unbegrenzter-urlaub-boese-enden_id_9724485.html|url-status=live}}
Michael Bohmeyer, German entrepreneur, author and activist{{Cite web|last=|last2=|date=2020-12-09|title=Verein "Mein Grundeinkommen" verlost 20 Grundeinkommen: "Aus einem Vertrauensvorschuss wird Selbstvertrauen"|url=https://www.swr.de/swr2/leben-und-gesellschaft/verein-mein-grundeinkommen-verlost-20-mal-12-000-euro-grundeinkommen-100.html|access-date=2021-06-13|website=swr.online|language=de|archive-date=2021-06-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210613141839/https://www.swr.de/swr2/leben-und-gesellschaft/verein-mein-grundeinkommen-verlost-20-mal-12-000-euro-grundeinkommen-100.html|url-status=live}}
Wolfgang Strengmann-Kuhn, German politician{{Cite web|last=Vogel|first=Marcus Noack, Romek|title=Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen|url=https://www.jobverde.de/magazin/experten-aus-praxis-wissenschaft-und-politik/bedingungsloses-grundeinkommen-im-interview-dr-wolfgang-strengmann-kuhn-von-den-gruenen|access-date=2021-06-13|website=www.jobverde.de|language=de|archive-date=2021-06-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210613151355/https://www.jobverde.de/magazin/experten-aus-praxis-wissenschaft-und-politik/bedingungsloses-grundeinkommen-im-interview-dr-wolfgang-strengmann-kuhn-von-den-gruenen|url-status=live}}
Joe Kaeser, German manager{{Cite web|last=Hägler|first=Max|title=Siemens-Chef Joe Kaeser plädiert für Grundeinkommen|url=https://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/sz-wirtschaftsgipfel-siemens-chef-plaediert-fuer-ein-grundeinkommen-1.3257958|access-date=2021-07-14|website=Süddeutsche.de|date=20 November 2016 |language=de|archive-date=2021-07-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210714190839/https://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/sz-wirtschaftsgipfel-siemens-chef-plaediert-fuer-ein-grundeinkommen-1.3257958|url-status=live}}
Giuseppe Conte, Italian jurist, politician and leader of the Five Star Movement{{Cite web|date=2019-02-04|title=Conte 'proud of basic income' - English|url=http://www.ansa.it/english/news/politics/2019/02/04/conte-proud-of-basic-income_11255339-d2d2-43f6-94d5-b3336774d486.html|access-date=2021-08-27|website=ANSA.it|language=en|archive-date=2021-08-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210827220401/https://www.ansa.it/english/news/politics/2019/02/04/conte-proud-of-basic-income_11255339-d2d2-43f6-94d5-b3336774d486.html|url-status=live}}
Claus Offe, German sociologist{{Citation|last=Offe|first=Claus|title=Wasteful Welfare transactions: Why basic income security is fundamental (2005)|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-22259-8_12|work=Der Wohlfahrtsstaat und seine Bürger|year=2019|pages=267–280|place=Wiesbaden|publisher=Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden|doi=10.1007/978-3-658-22259-8_12|isbn=978-3-658-22258-1|s2cid=158709459 |access-date=2021-08-27|archive-date=2021-10-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211023170329/https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-658-22259-8_12|url-status=live}}
David Casassas, Spanish sociologist{{Cite web|title=David Casassas - Non-capitalist markets? Basic income as part of an anti-capitalist project|url=https://www.praktykateoretyczna.pl/artykuly/david-casassas-non-capitalist-markets-basic-income-as-part-of-an-anti-capitalist-project/|access-date=2021-08-29|website=Praktyka Teoretyczna|language=pl|archive-date=2021-08-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210829141156/https://www.praktykateoretyczna.pl/artykuly/david-casassas-non-capitalist-markets-basic-income-as-part-of-an-anti-capitalist-project/|url-status=live}}
Marcel Fratzscher, German economist{{Cite web|last=Fratzscher|first=Marcel|date=2021-02-26|title=Zeit für soziale Experimente|url=https://www.zeit.de/zustimmung?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zeit.de%2Fwirtschaft%2F2021-02%2Fgrundeinkommen-bge-sozialstaat-wandel-initiative|url-status=live|access-date=2021-08-30|website=www.zeit.de|archive-date=2021-08-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210830210242/https://www.zeit.de/zustimmung?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zeit.de%2Fwirtschaft%2F2021-02%2Fgrundeinkommen-bge-sozialstaat-wandel-initiative}}
Clive Lewis, British politician{{cite news |last= Rodgers |first= Sienna |date= 22 April 2020 |title= Labour rejects idea of universal basic income during Covid-19 crisis |url= https://labourlist.org/2020/04/labour-rejects-idea-of-universal-basic-income-during-covid-19-crisis/ |work= LabourList |access-date= 14 September 2022}}
Oswald Sigg, Swiss journalist{{Cite web|title=Grundeinkommen - Oswald Sigg: Der befreite Menschenfreund|url=https://www.aargauerzeitung.ch/schweiz/oswald-sigg-der-befreite-menschenfreund-ld.1892044|access-date=2021-10-15|website=Aargauer Zeitung|date=12 April 2012 |language=de|archive-date=2021-10-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211015193903/https://www.aargauerzeitung.ch/schweiz/oswald-sigg-der-befreite-menschenfreund-ld.1892044|url-status=live}}
Georges-Louis Bouchez, Belgian politician and lawyer{{Cite web |title=MR-Chef Bouchez wirbt für bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen |url=https://brf.be/national/1592190/ |access-date=2022-04-15 |website=BRF Nachrichten |date=7 April 2022 |language=de-DE}}
Richard Branson, British business magnate{{Cite news |last=Hermsmeier |first=Lukas |date=2019-04-09 |title=Andrew Yang: YangGang-Style |url=https://www.zeit.de/kultur/2019-04/andrew-yang-us-demokraten-wahl-2020-rechtsextremismus/seite-4 |access-date=2024-02-21 |work=Die Zeit |language=de-DE |issn=0044-2070}}
Geoffrey Hinton, British computer scientist{{Cite web |title=AI 'godfather' says universal basic income will be needed |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cnd607ekl99o |access-date=2024-06-19 |website=www.bbc.com |language=en-GB}}
Marius Ostrowski, British-German political theorist{{Cite book |last=Afscharian |first=Dominic |title=A radical bargain for Europe: progressive visions of a European basic income |date=2024 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-1-5381-6793-9 |location=Lanham, Maryland}}

United States and Canada

Peter Barnes, entrepreneur and environmentalist{{Cite web |url=https://medium.com/@peterbarn/can-basic-income-come-to-america-9291569e2963 |title=Can Basic Income Come to America? |first=Peter |last=Barnes |author-link=Peter Barnes (entrepreneur) |date=June 12, 2016 |access-date=March 24, 2018 |archive-date=March 24, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180324224523/https://medium.com/@peterbarn/can-basic-income-come-to-america-9291569e2963 |url-status=live }}{{cite book|last=Barnes|first=Peter|author-link=Peter Barnes (entrepreneur)|title=With Liberty and Dividends for All: How to Save Our Middle Class When Jobs Don't Pay Enough|publisher=Berret-Koehler Publishers|place=San Francisco|year=2014|isbn=978-1-62656-214-1}}
Keith Ellison, Attorney General of Minnesota, former U.S. Congressman and former DNC Deputy Chair{{cite web|last=Coelho|first=Andre|title=Member of Congress from Minnesota Keith Ellison endorses Basic Income|url=http://basicincome.org/news/2017/08/united-states-member-congress-minnesota-keith-ellison-endorses-basic-income/|publisher=Basic Income Earth Network|date=26 August 2017|access-date=27 August 2017|archive-date=23 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211023170317/https://basicincome.org/news/2017/08/united-states-member-congress-minnesota-keith-ellison-endorses-basic-income/|url-status=live}}
James Baker, former U.S. Treasury Secretary{{cite report|last1=Baker III|first1=James A.|author-link1=James Baker|last2=Feldstein|first2=Martin S.|author-link2=Martin Feldstein|last3=Halstead|first3=Ted|author-link3=Ted Halstead|last4=Mankiw|first4=N. Gregory|author-link4=Greg Mankiw|last5=Paulson Jr.|first5=Henry M.|author-link5=Henry Paulson|last6=Shultz|first6=George P.|author-link6=George P. Shultz|last7=Stephenson|first7=Thomas|last8=Walton|first8=Rob|author-link8=S. Robson Walton|title=The Conservative Case for Carbon Dividends|publisher=Climate Leadership Council|url=https://www.clcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/TheConservativeCaseforCarbonDividends.pdf|date=February 2017|access-date=23 March 2018|archive-date=21 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180921033350/https://www.clcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/TheConservativeCaseforCarbonDividends.pdf|url-status=dead}}
Peter Diamond, 2010 Economics Nobel Prize winner{{cite news |url = https://www.macleans.ca/economy/inequality-troubling-the-worlds-top-economists/ |title = Why inequality is troubling the world's top economists |publisher = Macleans |date = 29 August 2017 |access-date = 11 June 2019 |archive-date = 4 August 2019 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190804172012/https://www.macleans.ca/economy/inequality-troubling-the-worlds-top-economists/ |url-status = live }}
Jack Dorsey, founder of Twitter{{cite web |last=Cerullo |first=Megan |title=Universal basic income cause gets a $3 million boost from Jack Dorsey |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jack-dorsey-twitter-guaranteed-income-programs-3-million-donation/ |website=cbsnews |access-date=22 July 2020 |date=10 July 2020 |archive-date=21 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200721021042/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jack-dorsey-twitter-guaranteed-income-programs-3-million-donation/ |url-status=live }}
Martin Feldstein, former Chair of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers
Henry Paulson, former U.S. Treasury Secretary
Robert Reich, former U.S. Secretary of Labor{{Cite web|url=http://robertreich.org/post/116924386855|title=How the New Flexible Economy is Making Workers' Lives Hell|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170716154321/http://robertreich.org/post/116924386855|archive-date=16 July 2017|url-status=dead}}
Greg Mankiw, former Chair of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers
George P. Shultz, former U.S. Treasury Secretary
Curtis Sliwa, activist, radio talk show host and Republican nominee for the 2021 New York City mayoral election{{Cite web |url=https://pix11.com/news/politics/new-york-elections/republican-mayoral-candidate-sliwa-pitches-ubi-program/ |title=NYC Republican mayoral candidate Sliwa pitches universal basic income program |date=August 11, 2021 |website=PIX11 |access-date=August 27, 2021 |archive-date=August 27, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210827145709/https://pix11.com/news/politics/new-york-elections/republican-mayoral-candidate-sliwa-pitches-ubi-program/ |url-status=live }}
Ted Halstead, policy entrepreneur
Pierre Omidyar, founder of eBay{{Cite web |last=Wile |first=Rob |date=February 13, 2017 |title=The Billionaire Founder of eBay Plans to Give Thousands of Kenyans Free Income for 12 Years |url=https://money.com/the-billionaire-founder-of-ebay-plans-to-give-thousands-of-kenyans-free-income-for-12-years/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200814133311/https://money.com/the-billionaire-founder-of-ebay-plans-to-give-thousands-of-kenyans-free-income-for-12-years/ |archive-date=August 14, 2020 |website=Money.com}}
Erik Olin Wright, Marxist sociologist{{Cite web |url=http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~wright/Published%20writing/paper%20for%20basic%20income%20studies.pdf |title=Basic Income as a Socialist Project |access-date=2018-03-24 |archive-date=2017-07-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170727132701/https://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~wright/Published%20writing/paper%20for%20basic%20income%20studies.pdf |url-status=live }}
Andrew Ng, computer scientist, statistician, and artificial intelligence researcher{{Cite web|last=Weller|first=Chris|title=8 high-profile entrepreneurs who have endorsed universal basic income|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/entrepreneurs-endorsing-universal-basic-income-2016-11|access-date=2021-02-23|website=Business Insider|archive-date=2021-01-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210114095512/https://www.businessinsider.com/entrepreneurs-endorsing-universal-basic-income-2016-11|url-status=live}}
Tim Draper, venture capitalist{{Cite news|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/venture-capitalist-tim-draper-wants-to-give-everyone-15000-2016-2|title=The billionaire who wanted to split California into 6 states now has a crazy plan to give everyone $15,000|last=Carson|first=Biz|access-date=2018-03-24|archive-date=2018-03-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180324224425/http://www.businessinsider.com/venture-capitalist-tim-draper-wants-to-give-everyone-15000-2016-2|url-status=live}}
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI{{Cite web|url=http://blog.samaltman.com/technology-and-wealth-inequality|title=Technology and wealth inequality|last=Altman|first=Sam|access-date=2018-03-24|archive-date=2018-03-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180324015310/http://blog.samaltman.com/technology-and-wealth-inequality|url-status=live}}
Chris Hughes, co-founder of Meta Platforms{{Cite web |url=http://basicincome.org/news/2016/10/basic-income-debated-cnn-chris-hughes-eduardo-porter/ |title=VIDEO: Basic Income debated on CNN (Chris Hughes & Eduardo Porter) |date=31 October 2016 |access-date=24 March 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170505034129/http://basicincome.org/news/2016/10/basic-income-debated-cnn-chris-hughes-eduardo-porter/ |archive-date=5 May 2017 |url-status=dead }}
Dan Savage, LGBT activist{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz_X1HqmxZ0|title=- YouTube|website=www.youtube.com|access-date=2018-03-24|archive-date=2018-03-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180314035319/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz_X1HqmxZ0&feature=youtu.be|url-status=live}}
Charles Murray, libertarian political scientist{{Citation|last=Murray|first=Charles|author-link=Charles Murray (political scientist)|title=In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State|publisher=AEI Press|place=Washington, DC|edition=Revised and updated|orig-year=2006|year=2016|isbn=978-1-4422-6071-9}}{{cite web|url=http://www.conallboyle.com/BasicIncomeNewEcon/MurrayReview.pdf|title=Book review: In our hands: A plan to replace the welfare state by Charles Murray|date=February 2007|publisher=Conallboyle.com|access-date=24 July 2013|archive-date=26 November 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131126073925/http://www.conallboyle.com/BasicIncomeNewEcon/MurrayReview.pdf|url-status=live}}
Bill Gross, financial manager{{Cite web|url=https://fortune.com/2016/05/05/bill-gross-universal-income/|title=Comrade Bill Gross Says Federal Reserve Should Pay Your Rent|website=Fortune|access-date=2021-10-23|archive-date=2021-09-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210914053524/https://fortune.com/2016/05/05/bill-gross-universal-income/|url-status=live}}
Robin Chase, co-founder of Zipcar{{Cite web|url=https://fortune.com/2015/11/14/zipcar-co-founder-tech-basic-income/|title=Startup CEO Loves Tech but Fears Millions Will Be Jobless|website=Fortune|access-date=2021-10-23|archive-date=2021-05-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210505001155/https://fortune.com/2015/11/14/zipcar-co-founder-tech-basic-income/|url-status=live}}
Andy Stern, former Service Employees International Union president{{Cite news |url=A universal basic income is an old idea with modern appeal |title=A universal basic income is an old idea with modern appeal |date=14 March 2016 |first=John |last=Thornhill |newspaper=Financial Times |location=London}}
Michael Hudson, economist at University of Missouri–Kansas City{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVxF8DIQqb8 | title=Michael Hudson on Universal Basic Income | website=YouTube }}
Elon Musk, business magnate{{cite news |url= http://mashable.com/2016/11/05/elon-musk-universal-basic-income/ |title= Elon Musk thinks universal income is answer to automation taking human jobs |website= mashable.com |first= Adario |last= Strange |date= 5 November 2016 |access-date= 6 February 2017 |archive-date= 1 September 2020 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200901223023/https://mashable.com/2016/11/05/elon-musk-universal-basic-income/ |url-status= live }}
Ryan Holmes, Hootsuite CEO{{Cite web|url=https://www.fastcompany.com/3050757/how-to-plan-now-for-tomorrows-robotic-workforce|title=How To Plan Now For Tomorrow's Robotic Workforce|first=Ryan|last=Holmes|date=September 9, 2015|website=Fast Company|access-date=October 23, 2021|archive-date=January 28, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210128090736/https://www.fastcompany.com/3050757/how-to-plan-now-for-tomorrows-robotic-workforce|url-status=live}}
Joe Rogan, American podcast host
Paul Vallée, Pythian Group CEO{{Cite web|url=http://indvstrvs.com/paul-vallee-the-boundary-breaker/|title=Paul Vallée – The Boundary Breaker|access-date=2018-03-24|archive-date=2017-01-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170113063108/https://indvstrvs.com/paul-vallee-the-boundary-breaker/|url-status=live}}
Naheed Nenshi, Mayor of Calgary{{Cite news |url=https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2015/06/05/alberta-mayors-stick-back-guaranteed-minimum-income.html |title=Alberta mayors back guaranteed minimum income |newspaper=The Toronto Star |date=5 June 2016 |access-date=24 March 2018 |archive-date=25 March 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180325045110/https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2015/06/05/alberta-mayors-stick-back-guaranteed-minimum-income.html |url-status=live }}
Don Iveson, Mayor of Edmonton
S. Robson Walton, former Walmart Chairman
Andrew Yang, American businessman, attorney, lobbyist, and politician. Founder of Venture for America, and a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate{{Cite web|last=Clifford|first=Catherine|date=2019-06-27|title=Why everyone is talking about free cash handouts—an explainer on universal basic income|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/27/free-cash-handouts-what-is-universal-basic-income-or-ubi.html|access-date=2021-02-23|website=CNBC|language=en|archive-date=2021-02-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210203185340/https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/27/free-cash-handouts-what-is-universal-basic-income-or-ubi.html|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|title= The Freedom Dividend|url=https://2020.yang2020.com/policies/the-freedom-dividend/|work = Friends of Andrew Yang 2020|access-date = July 11, 2023}}
Tulsi Gabbard, former U.S. Representative for Hawaii's 2nd congressional district, and a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate{{Cite web |url=https://gabbard.house.gov/news/in-the-news/newsweek-tulsi-gabbard-and-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-back-universal-basic-income |title=Newsweek | Tulsi Gabbard and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Back Universal Basic Income in Response to Coronavirus | Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard |access-date=2020-08-14 |archive-date=2020-08-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806094947/https://gabbard.house.gov/news/in-the-news/newsweek-tulsi-gabbard-and-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-back-universal-basic-income |url-status=live }}
Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Meta Platforms{{Cite web |url = https://money.cnn.com/2017/05/26/news/economy/mark-zuckerberg-universal-basic-income/index.html |title = Mark Zuckerberg supports universal basic income. What is it? |date = 26 May 2017 |access-date = 2020-08-03 |archive-date = 2020-08-02 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200802105310/https://money.cnn.com/2017/05/26/news/economy/mark-zuckerberg-universal-basic-income/index.html |url-status = live }}{{Cite web |url=http://basicincome.org/news/2017/05/us-mark-zuckerberg-recommends-exploring-universal-basic-income-harvard-graduation-speech/ |title=US: Mark Zuckerberg recommends "exploring" UBI at Harvard graduation speech |access-date=24 March 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170705185912/http://basicincome.org/news/2017/05/us-mark-zuckerberg-recommends-exploring-universal-basic-income-harvard-graduation-speech/ |archive-date=5 July 2017 |url-status=dead }}
Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon{{Cite web|last=Collum|first=Danny Duncan|date=2019-10-22|title=Do We Need Universal Basic Income?|url=https://sojo.net/magazine/december-2019/do-we-need-universal-basic-income|access-date=2021-02-21|website=Sojourners|language=en|archive-date=2021-04-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210429093147/https://sojo.net/magazine/december-2019/do-we-need-universal-basic-income|url-status=live}}{{Unreliable source?|date=April 2025}}
Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2021-02-01|title=Universal basic income will be adopted by more countries - KPMG Australia|url=https://home.kpmg/au/en/home/insights/2020/01/20-predictions-for-the-next-20-years/universal-basic-income-solution-to-tech-displacement.html|access-date=2021-02-23|website=KPMG|language=en-GB|archive-date=2021-01-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210128050648/https://home.kpmg/au/en/home/insights/2020/01/20-predictions-for-the-next-20-years/universal-basic-income-solution-to-tech-displacement.html|url-status=live}}However, note that Bill Gates said that it is too early to implement a universal basic income in 2017. He said that "even the US isn't rich enough [yet] to allow people not to work", but "over time countries will be [...]". Overall, there is "[...] still [...] a lot of work that should be done [...]".

Source: {{cite news|last=Weller|first=Chris|date=27 February 2017|title=Bill Gates says it's too early for basic income, but over time 'countries will be rich enough'|language=en|website=www.businessinsider.com|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-basic-income-2017-2|access-date=23 February 2021|archive-date=20 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210320110552/https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-basic-income-2017-2|url-status=live}}

Tim Cook, CEO of Apple{{Cite web |last=Barker |first=Pam |date=2018-03-02 |title=Apple's Technocrat CEO Tim Cook Seeks 'Elimination Of Money' |url=https://www.europereloaded.com/apples-technocrat-ceo-tim-cook-seeks-elimination-money/ |access-date=2022-10-16 |website=Europe Reloaded |language=en-US}}{{Unreliable source?|date=April 2025}}
Larry Page, co-founder of Google{{Cite news|date=2014-07-07|title=Larry Page's Slacker Utopia|language=en|work=Bloomberg.com|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2014-07-07/larry-page-s-slacker-utopia|access-date=2021-02-23|archive-date=2021-04-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210429093138/https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2014-07-07/larry-page-s-slacker-utopia|url-status=live}}
Ray Kurzweil, American inventor and futurist{{Cite web|last=Kurzweil|first=Ray|date=1 May 2018|title=Supporting universal basic income is a step in world progress|url=https://www.kurzweilai.net/letter-from-ray-supporting-universal-basic-income-as-step-in-world-progress|access-date=12 September 2020|website=kurzweilai.net|language=en-US|archive-date=25 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201025023302/https://www.kurzweilai.net/letter-from-ray-supporting-universal-basic-income-as-step-in-world-progress|url-status=live}}
Neil deGrasse Tyson, American astrophysicist{{Cite web|title=Neil deGrasse Tyson on science denial, political biases, and religious beliefs|url=https://futurism.com/neil-degrasse-tyson-belief|access-date=2021-02-24|website=Futurism|date=21 February 2018 |archive-date=2021-04-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210428151118/https://futurism.com/neil-degrasse-tyson-belief|url-status=live}}
Penn Jillette, American magician, actor, television presenter, and author{{Cite web|title=Ron Bennington Interviews Penn Jillette (2)|url=https://ronbenningtoninterviews.com/2016/08/19/penn-jillette-2-2/|access-date=2021-04-11|website=ronbenningtoninterviews.com|archive-date=2021-04-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210411021516/https://ronbenningtoninterviews.com/2016/08/19/penn-jillette-2-2/|url-status=live}}
Jeremy Rifkin, American economic and social theorist{{Cite web|last=Townsend|first=Leonie|title=Universal Basic Income|url=https://www.foresightfordevelopment.org/talk-tive/universal-basic-income|access-date=2021-05-05|website=Welcome to Foresight For Development|language=en-gb|archive-date=2021-05-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210505215745/https://www.foresightfordevelopment.org/talk-tive/universal-basic-income|url-status=live}}
Erik Brynjolfsson, American author and inventor{{Cite web|last=Widerquist|first=Karl|title=Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, Race Against The Machine {{!}} BIEN — Basic Income Earth Network|date=16 February 2014 |url=https://basicincome.org/news/2014/02/erik-brynjolfsson-and-andrew-mcafee-race-against-the-machine/|access-date=2021-07-20|language=en-US|archive-date=2021-07-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210720150603/https://basicincome.org/news/2014/02/erik-brynjolfsson-and-andrew-mcafee-race-against-the-machine/|url-status=live}}
Andrew McAfee, American research scientist
Timothy Leary, candidate for governor of California in 1969{{Cite web |url=https://reason.com/2017/06/03/the-indestructible-idea-of-the/ |title=The Indestructible Idea of the Basic Income |first=Jesse |last=Walker |date=June 3, 2017 |access-date=August 11, 2021 |archive-date=August 11, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210811232258/https://reason.com/2017/06/03/the-indestructible-idea-of-the/ |url-status=live }}
Eugene McCarthy, candidate for president of the United States in 1968
Peter Diamandis, Greek-American entrepreneur{{Cite web|last=Diamandis|first=Peter H.|title=Why UBI Works|url=https://www.diamandis.com/blog/why-ubi-works|access-date=2021-08-27|website=www.diamandis.com|language=en-us|archive-date=2021-08-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210827210734/https://www.diamandis.com/blog/why-ubi-works|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|date=2018-10-24|title=Peter Diamandis: AI Providing Jobs for the Future Economy|url=https://www.tonyrobbins.com/career-business/the-future-of-work-in-an-ai-economy/|access-date=2021-08-27|website=tonyrobbins.com|language=en|archive-date=2021-08-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210827210733/https://www.tonyrobbins.com/career-business/the-future-of-work-in-an-ai-economy/|url-status=live}}
Albert Wenger, German-American businessman{{Cite web|date=2016-06-17|title=VC Albert Wenger on Basic Income and World After Capital|url=https://www.singularityweblog.com/albert-wenger-world-after-capital/|access-date=2021-08-27|website=Singularity Weblog|language=en-US|archive-date=2020-11-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201108134352/https://www.singularityweblog.com/albert-wenger-world-after-capital/|url-status=live}}
Guy Caron, Canadian politician{{Cite web|title=NDP leadership hopeful Guy Caron calls for basic income ahead of first debate - National {{!}} Globalnews.ca|url=https://globalnews.ca/news/3303374/ndp-leadership-hopeful-guy-caron-calls-for-basic-income-ahead-of-first-debate/|access-date=2021-08-27|website=Global News|language=en-US|archive-date=2021-08-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210827213652/https://globalnews.ca/news/3303374/ndp-leadership-hopeful-guy-caron-calls-for-basic-income-ahead-of-first-debate/|url-status=live}}
Peter Vallentyne, American academic{{Cite web|last=Danaher|first=John|date=2013-12-18|title=Philosophical Disquisitions: Libertarianism and the Basic Income (Part Three)|url=https://philosophicaldisquisitions.blogspot.com/2013/12/libertarianism-and-basic-income-part.html|access-date=2021-11-06|website=Philosophical Disquisitions}}
Hillel Steiner, Canadian political philosopher{{Cite web|last1=V|first1=Peter|last2=evanter|title=Hillel Steiner, "A philosopher's take on Global Basic Income" {{!}} BIEN — Basic Income Earth Network|date=16 September 2017 |url=https://basicincome.org/news/2017/09/hillel-steiner-philosophers-take-global-basic-income/|access-date=2021-11-06|language=en-US}}
Ben Goertzel, American AI researcher{{Cite web|last=Goertzel|first=Ben|date=2017-06-04|title=The Multiverse According to Ben: How To Save the World|url=http://multiverseaccordingtoben.blogspot.com/2017/06/how-to-save-world.html|access-date=2021-11-07|website=The Multiverse According to Ben}}
Michael Tubbs, 79th Mayor of Stockton, California, later special adviser for economic mobility and opportunity for Governor Gavin Newsom{{cn|date=June 2022}}
Karina Gould, Liberal Party of Canada member of Parliament.{{cite news |last= Cox |first= Aidan |date= 13 February 2025 |title= Liberal leadership contender Karina Gould promises EI reforms, universal basic income as PM |url= https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/karina-gould-liberal-party-canada-1.7458221 |work= CBC News |access-date= 27 February 2025}}
Aja Brown, 18th Mayor of Compton, California, initiator of the Compton Pledge{{cite web | url=https://theappeal.org/compton-guaranteed-income-program-aja-brown/ | title=Compton Joins the Growing Number of U.S. Cities to Launch a Guaranteed Income Program | date=28 January 2021 }}
Edward Snowden, American whistleblower{{Cite magazine |last1=vanden Heuvel |first1=Katrina |last2=Cohen |first2=Stephen F. |date=October 28, 2014 |title=Edward Snowden: A 'Nation' Interview |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/snowden-exile-exclusive-interview/ |magazine=The Nation |access-date=October 20, 2019 |archive-date=October 9, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191009152606/https://www.thenation.com/article/snowden-exile-exclusive-interview/ |url-status=dead }}
Peter Thiel, German-American entrepreneur

Asia, Africa, Latin America, Oceania

Richard Di Natale, Australia. An Australian senator from 2011 to 2020 and the leader of the Australian Greens from 2015 to 2020.{{cite web |url= https://greens.org.au/magazine/legalised-cannabis-peoples-bank-ubi-big-ideas-upend-status-quo |title= Legalised cannabis, People's Bank, UBI: big ideas to upend the status quo |last= Natale |first= Richard |date= 20 April 2018 |website= greens.org.au |publisher= Australian Greens |access-date= 27 April 2023}}
Eduardo Suplicy, Brazil[http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/files/21946/11462386621VersaoFinalTrducao-032006.doc/VersaoFinalTrducao-032006.doc "Citizen's Basic Income: The Answer is Blowing in Wind"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161111205439/http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/files/21946/11462386621VersaoFinalTrducao-032006.doc/VersaoFinalTrducao-032006.doc |date=2016-11-11 }} {{DOClink}}, Eduardo Matarazzo Suplicy, USBIG 5th Congress, 2006
Kim Kataguiri, Brazilian Activist and Politician{{Cite web |date=2020-12-29 |title=Kim Kataguiri propõe reorganização dos programas assistenciais do governo |url=https://www.boletimdaliberdade.com.br/2020/12/29/kim-kataguiri-propoe-reorganizacao-dos-programas-assistenciais-do-governo/ |access-date=2022-03-04 |website=Boletim da Liberdade |language=pt-BR}}
Varun Gandhi, Indian Member of Parliament{{Cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/Why-we-need-to-talk-about-a-basic-income/article14463390.ece|title=Why we need to talk about a basic income|first=Feroze Varun|last=Gandhi|newspaper=The Hindu |date=June 30, 2016|via=www.thehindu.com|access-date=October 23, 2021|archive-date=November 11, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201111111847/https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/Why-we-need-to-talk-about-a-basic-income/article14463390.ece|url-status=live}}
Arvind Subramanian, present economic adviser in India{{Cite web|url=http://www.indiabudget.nic.in/e_survey.asp|title=Economic Survey -Volume I|access-date=2018-03-24|archive-date=2018-01-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180112023425/http://indiabudget.nic.in/e_survey.asp|url-status=dead}}
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, 1984 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, South Africa{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gf3n-L5FDy0|title=Archbishop Tutu on Basic Income|via=www.youtube.com|access-date=2018-03-24|archive-date=2017-09-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170910050945/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gf3n-L5FDy0&feature=youtu.be|url-status=live}}
Gareth Morgan, economist, New Zealand{{cite web|url=http://www.bigkahunabook.co.nz/universal-basic-income.aspx |title=Turning tax and welfare in New Zealand on its head |publisher=Big Kahuna |year=2011 |access-date=24 July 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130811200007/http://bigkahunabook.co.nz/universal-basic-income.aspx |archive-date=11 August 2013 }}
Andrew Little, minister of Justice, New Zealand{{Cite web|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/basic-income-talks-hit-new-zealand-2016-3|title=New Zealand is debating a plan to give people free money, no strings attached|first=Chris|last=Weller|website=Business Insider|access-date=2021-10-23|archive-date=2020-11-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201108173449/http://www.businessinsider.com/basic-income-talks-hit-new-zealand-2016-3|url-status=live}}
Johann Rupert, South-African billionaire businessman{{Cite web|last=McFarl|first=Kate|title=South African businessman Johann Rupert calls for basic income {{!}} BIEN — Basic Income Earth Network|date=16 June 2017 |url=https://basicincome.org/news/2017/06/18265/|access-date=2021-02-22|language=en-US|archive-date=2019-08-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190815005003/https://basicincome.org/news/2017/06/18265/|url-status=live}}
Lee Jae-myung, South Korean politician and leader of the Democratic Party of Korea{{cite news |last= Shin |first= Hyonhee |date= 14 September 2021 |title= 'S.Korea's Bernie Sanders' tops presidential polls with talk of universal basic income |url= https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/skoreas-bernie-sanders-tops-presidential-polls-with-talk-universal-basic-income-2021-09-13/ |work= Reuters |access-date= 21 September 2022}}{{cite news |last= Salmon |first= Andrew |date= 5 November 2021 |title= Ex-lawyers to slug it out for Korea's presidency |url= https://asiatimes.com/2021/11/ex-lawyers-to-slug-it-out-for-koreas-presidency/ |work= Asia Times |access-date= 20 September 2022 |quote= Lee Jae-myung advocates universal basic income ...}}{{cite news |last= Hyun-ju |first= Ock |date= 8 June 2020 |title= Universal basic income emerges as political hot potato in S. Korea |url= https://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20200608000918 |work= The Korea Herald |access-date= 20 September 2022 |quote= Gyeonggi Province Gov. Lee Jae-myung, who is a longtime advocate of the basic income system, reiterated his support for the system.}}{{cite magazine |last1= Campbell |first1= Charlie |last2= Kim |first2= Stephen |date= 3 March 2022 |title= The South Korean Presidential Hopeful Who Believes His Childhood Can Help Him Heal His Nation |url= https://time.com/6154471/south-korea-president-election-lee-jae-myung/ |magazine= Time (magazine) |access-date= 20 September 2022}}
Yong Hye-in, South Korean politician of the Basic Income Party{{Cite web|title=Baby on board|url=https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/2021/07/07/opinion/editorials/Yong-Hyein-Basic-income-party/20210707084000522.html|access-date=2021-08-27|website=koreajoongangdaily.joins.com|date=7 July 2021 |language=en|archive-date=2021-08-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210827214958/https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/2021/07/07/opinion/editorials/Yong-Hyein-Basic-income-party/20210707084000522.html|url-status=live}}
Chavit Singson, Filipino businessman and politician.

Historical advocates

=Eighteenth and nineteenth centuries=

Thomas Spence, an eighteenth century English radical, was apparently the first to lay out in full what is now called a universal basic income.{{Cite journal|url=https://www.academia.edu/2698139|title=Two arguments for Basic Income: Thomas Paine (1737-1809) and Thomas Spence (1750-1814)|first=John|last=Marangos|journal=History of Economic Ideas|date=January 2006 |via=www.academia.edu|access-date=2021-10-23|archive-date=2021-05-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210521225911/https://www.academia.edu/2698139/Two_arguments_for_Basic_Income_Thomas_Paine_1737_1809_and_Thomas_Spence_1750_1814_|url-status=live}}

Thomas Paine, a philosopher and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, advocated a capital grant and an unconditional citizens pension in his 1797 pamphlet Agrarian Justice.{{cite book|last=Paine|first=Thomas|author-link=Thomas Paine|editor1-last=Conway|editor1-first=Moncure Daniel|title=The Writings of Thomas Paine|volume=III|year=1895|orig-year=1791–1804|chapter=XXVIII. Agrarian Justice|publisher=G. P. Putnam's Sons|location=New York|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/31271/31271-h/31271-h.htm#link2H_4_0029|access-date=2018-03-24|archive-date=2018-03-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180320110549/http://www.gutenberg.org/files/31271/31271-h/31271-h.htm#link2H_4_0029|url-status=live}}

American economist Henry George advocated a citizen's dividend paid for by a land value tax in an April 1885 speech at a Knights of Labor local in Burlington, Iowa titled "The Crime of Poverty" and later in an interview with former U.S. House Representative David Dudley Field II from New York's 7th congressional district published in the July 1885 edition of the North American Review.{{cite book|last=George|first=Henry|author-link=Henry George|year=1901|orig-year=1885|title=Our Land and Land Policy: Speeches, Lectures and Miscellaneous Writings|chapter=The Crime of Poverty|publisher=Doubleday and McClure Company|pages=217–218|isbn=978-0526825431|quote=As an English friend of mine puts it: No taxes and a pension for everybody; and why should it not be? To take land values for public purposes is not really to impose a tax, but to take for public purposes a value created by the community. And out of the fund which would thus accrue from the common property, we might, without degradation to anybody, provide enough to actually secure from want all who were deprived of their natural protectors or met with accident, or any man who should grow so old that he could not work. All prating that is heard from some quarters about its hurting the common people to give them what they do not work for is humbug. The truth is, that anything that injures self-respect, degrades, does harm; but if you give it as a right, as something to which every citizen is entitled to, it does not degrade. Charity schools do degrade children that are sent to them, but public schools do not.}}{{cite book|last=George|first=Henry|year=1901|orig-year=1885|title=Our Land and Land Policy: Speeches, Lectures and Miscellaneous Writings|chapter=Land and Taxation: A Conversation Between David Dudley Field and Henry George|place=New York|publisher=Doubleday and McClure Company|page=230|isbn=978-0526825431|author-link=Henry George}}
William Morris, British socialist activist{{Cite web|date=2018-02-14|title=Everything you need to know about universal basic income|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/our-voices/battle-of-ideas/universal-basic-income-ubi-human-rights-money-poverty-help-living-costs-a8190326.html|access-date=2021-06-14|website=The Independent|language=en|archive-date=2021-06-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210614223415/https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/our-voices/battle-of-ideas/universal-basic-income-ubi-human-rights-money-poverty-help-living-costs-a8190326.html|url-status=live}}

=Twentieth century=

Buckminster Fuller, architect
Bertrand Russell, philosopher{{cite news |last= Howard |first= Neil |date= 12 March 2015 |title= Basic income and the anti-slavery movement |url= https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-trafficking-and-slavery/basic-income-and-antislavery-movement/ |work= openDemocracy |access-date= 6 October 2021 |archive-date= 6 October 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20211006204648/https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-trafficking-and-slavery/basic-income-and-antislavery-movement/ |url-status= live }}
Huey Long, governor and US Senator from Louisiana, in his Share Our Wealth plan

Jan Pieter Kuiper, Dutch professor of social medicine{{cite journal | url=https://www.cairn-int.info/dossiers-2017-1-page-1.htm | title=Universal Basic Income: The pros and cons | journal=Cairns Dossiers | date=June 2017 | volume=1 | issue=1 | pages=1 }}
American economists James Tobin, Paul Samuelson, and John Kenneth Galbraith signed a document with 1,200 other economists in 1968 calling for the 90th U.S. Congress to introduce in that year a system of income guarantees and supplements.Economists' Statement on Guaranteed Annual Income, 1/15/1968-4/18/1969 folder, General Correspondence Series, Papers of John Kenneth Galbraith, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library. Cited in: Jyotsna Sreenivasan, [https://books.google.com/books?id=yk5NI69ZO9sC "Poverty and the Government in America: A Historical Encyclopedia."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160629172441/https://books.google.com/books?id=yk5NI69ZO9sC |date=2016-06-29 }} (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2009), page 269

American economist Milton Friedman advocated a basic income in the form of a negative income tax in his 1962 book Capitalism and Freedom, and again in his 1980 book Free to Choose.{{Citation|first=Milton|last=Friedman|title=Capitalism and Freedom|publisher=University of Chicago Press|place=Chicago|edition=40th anniversary|year=2002|pages=190–195|orig-year=1962|isbn=978-0-226-26421-9}}{{Citation|first1=Milton|last1=Friedman|first2=Rose|last2=Friedman|author2-link=Rose Friedman|title=Free to Choose: A Personal Statement|publisher=Harcourt|place=New York|edition=1st Harvest|year=1990|pages=119–124|orig-year=1980|isbn=978-0-156-33460-0}}

Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek advocated a guaranteed minimum income in his 1944 book The Road to Serfdom, and reiterated his support in his 1973 book Law, Legislation and Liberty.{{Citation|first=Friedrich|last=Hayek|editor-first=Bruce|editor-last=Caldwell|editor-link=Bruce Caldwell (economist)|title=The Road to Serfdom|publisher=University of Chicago Press|place=Chicago|edition=Definitive|year=2007|pages=[https://archive.org/details/roadtoserfdom00frie/page/147 147–48]|orig-year=1944|isbn=978-0-226-32055-7}}{{Citation|first=Friedrich|last=Hayek|title=Law, Legislation and Liberty|publisher=University of Chicago Press|place=Chicago|volume=2|year=1976|page=87|isbn=978-0-226-32083-0}}

Tony Atkinson - British economist, Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics, and senior research fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford.Atkinson, Anthony B. (2011) [http://www.nuff.ox.ac.uk/users/atkinson/Basic_Income%20Luxembourg%20April%202011.pdf „Basic Income: Ethics, Statistics and Economics”] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201210011500/http://www.nuff.ox.ac.uk/users/atkinson/Basic_Income%20Luxembourg%20April%202011.pdf |date=2020-12-10 }}, nuff.ox.ac.uk; accessed 13 May 2017.

British economist James Meade{{cite book|last=Meade|first=James|author-link=James Meade|title=Efficiency, Equality and the Ownership of Property|year=2012|orig-year=1964|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0415526265}}{{cite news |last= White |first= Stuart |date= 8 November 2013 |title= Citizen ownership: the lost radicalism of the centre? |url= https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/citizen-ownership-lost-radicalism-of-centre/ |work= openDemocracy |access-date= 22 January 2020 |archive-date= 23 May 2020 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200523194836/https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/citizen-ownership-lost-radicalism-of-centre/ |url-status= live }}

C. H. Douglas - British engineer and pioneer of the social credit economic reform movement. {{cite news |date= 4 June 2016 |title= Sighing for paradise to come |url= https://www.economist.com/briefing/2016/06/04/sighing-for-paradise-to-come |newspaper= The Economist |access-date= 22 January 2020 |archive-date= 23 February 2020 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200223064241/https://www.economist.com/briefing/2016/06/04/sighing-for-paradise-to-come |url-status= live }}

Civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. endorsed it under the name of "the guaranteed income" in his 1967 book Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? shortly before his assassination.{{cite book|last=King|first=Martin Luther|author-link=Martin Luther King Jr.|title=Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?|url=http://discuss.forumias.com/uploads/FileUpload/b2/8d3ff69fb83ece167b041de3eb3a2a.pdf|page=171|orig-year=1967|year=2010|publisher=Beacon Press|place=Boston|isbn=978-0-807-00067-0|access-date=2018-03-24|archive-date=2018-03-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180322204457/http://discuss.forumias.com/uploads/FileUpload/b2/8d3ff69fb83ece167b041de3eb3a2a.pdf|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|last=Weissmann|first=Jordan|work=The Atlantic|publisher=Emerson Collective|date=28 August 2013|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/08/martin-luther-kings-economic-dream-a-guaranteed-income-for-all-americans/279147/|title=Martin Luther King's Economic Dream: A Guaranteed Income for All Americans|access-date=24 March 2018|archive-date=22 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200922155331/https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/08/martin-luther-kings-economic-dream-a-guaranteed-income-for-all-americans/279147/|url-status=live}}

French politician Lionel Stoléru argued for UBI in 1974, remarking that it would provide “a means of suppressing and simplifying the entire current series of social programmes”.. L. Stoléru, “Vaincre la pauvreté dans les pays riches” (1974).

U.S. Senator George McGovern from South Dakota sponsored a bill proposed by the National Welfare Rights Organization to enact a $6,500 guaranteed minimum income,{{cite book|last=White|first=Theodore H.|author-link=Theodore H. White|title=The Making of the President 1972|page=190|year=1973|publisher=Atheneum Books|isbn=0-689-10553-3}} and in his 1972 presidential campaign, proposed replacing the personal income tax exemption with a $1,000 tax credit as a minimum-income floor for every citizen.{{cite book|last=White|first=Theodore H.|author-link=Theodore H. White|title=The Making of the President 1972|page=125|year=1973|publisher=Atheneum Books|isbn=0-689-10553-3}}

Virginia Woolf, English writer

=Twenty-first century=

Stephen Hawking, English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author{{cite news |last= Brooks |first= Libby |date= 25 December 2017 |title= Scotland united in curiosity as councils trial universal basic income |url= https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/dec/25/scotland-universal-basic-income-councils-pilot-scheme |work= The Guardian |access-date= 4 October 2020 |quote= Universal basic income is, according to its many and various supporters, an idea whose time has come. The deceptively simple notion of offering every citizen a regular payment without means testing or requiring them to work for it has backers as disparate as Mark Zuckerberg, Stephen Hawking, Caroline Lucas and Richard Branson. |archive-date= 21 October 2020 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20201021024857/https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/dec/25/scotland-universal-basic-income-councils-pilot-scheme |url-status= live }}
Ailsa McKay, Scottish economistAilsa McKay, "Why a citizens' basic income? A question of gender equality or gender bias", Work Employment & Society, June 2007, vol. 21 no. 2, pp. 337–348
Götz Werner, founder, co-owner, and member of the advisory board of dm-drogerie markt{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrWTE0yeVo8|title=Götz Werner - 1000 Euro für Jeden (Freiheit Gleichheit Grundeinkommen)|via=www.youtube.com|access-date=2018-03-24|archive-date=2017-09-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170902205543/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrWTE0yeVo8&feature=related|url-status=live}}
Pope Francis, pope of the Catholic Church{{Cite web|url = https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2020-04/pope-letter-popular-movements-universal-basic-wage.html|title = Pope calls for consideration of 'universal basic wage' for unprotected workers - Vatican News|date = 13 April 2020|access-date = 15 April 2020|archive-date = 16 April 2020|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200416093058/https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2020-04/pope-letter-popular-movements-universal-basic-wage.html|url-status = live}}