The following is a list of notable individuals who have publicly expressed support for or are working for the introduction of a universal basic income (UBI).
Europe
Dieter Althaus, German politician
Tim Berners-Lee, World Wide Web inventor
Julen Bollain, Spanish economist, politician and basic income researcher
Robert Habeck, German politician
Winfried Kretschmann, German politician
Frank Thelen, German entrepreneur and author
Richard David Precht, German philosopher and author
Harald Welzer, German social psychologist
Maja Göpel, German political economist and sustainability scientist
Gerald Hüther, German neurobiologist and author
Ranga Yogeshwar, Luxembourgish author and science journalist
Alan Watts, British writer
Louise Haagh, political theorist, form chair of the Basic Income Earth Network
Rutger Bregman, Dutch author
Angus Deaton, 2015 Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics
André Gorz, Austrian-French social philosopher and journalist
Beppe Grillo, Italian comedian, actor, blogger, and politician
Benoit Hamon, candidate for President of France in 2017
Timotheus Höttges, German manager
Katja Kipping, The Left, Germany
Caroline Lucas, British politician
John McDonnell, British politician
Antonio Negri, Italian Spinozistic-Marxist sociologist and political philosopher
Philippe Van Parijs, Belgian philosopher
Carole Pateman, feminist and political theorist
Thomas Piketty, economist
Christopher A. Pissarides, 2010 Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics
Jonathan Reynolds, British politician
Jeremy Corbyn, British politician
Molly Scott Cato, British politician, academic, environmental and community activist, and green economist Osmo Soininvaara, Finnish politician Guy Standing, British economist Aubrey de Grey, English author and biogerontologist Yanis Varoufakis, former finance minister of Greece Björn Wahlroos, Finnish billionaire Susanne Wiest, German activist Pope Francis, pope of the Catholic Church Harald Lesch, German astrophysicist and author Thomas Straubhaar, Swiss economist Martin Wehrle, German journalist and author Michael Bohmeyer, German entrepreneur, author and activist Wolfgang Strengmann-Kuhn, German politician Joe Kaeser, German manager Giuseppe Conte, Italian jurist, politician and leader of the Five Star Movement Claus Offe, German sociologist David Casassas, Spanish sociologist Marcel Fratzscher, German economist Clive Lewis, British politician Oswald Sigg, Swiss journalist Georges-Louis Bouchez, Belgian politician and lawyer