This is a list of notable biologists, economists, mathematicians, political scientists, and computer scientists whose work has added substantially to the field of game theory.
A Derek Abbott – quantum game theory and Parrondo's games Susanne Albers – algorithmic game theory and algorithm analysis Kenneth Arrow – voting theory (Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1972) Robert Aumann – equilibrium theory (Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2005) Robert Axelrod – repeated Prisoner's Dilemma
B Tamer Başar – dynamic game theory and application robust control of systems with uncertainty Cristina Bicchieri – epistemology of game theory Olga Bondareva – Bondareva–Shapley theorem Steven Brams – cake cutting, fair division, theory of moves
C Jennifer Tour Chayes – algorithmic game theory and auction algorithms John Horton Conway – combinatorial game theory Antoine Augustin Cournot – monopoly and oligopoly games
F Drew Fudenberg – repeated games and reputation effects
H W.D. Hamilton – evolutionary game theory John Harsanyi – equilibrium theory (Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1994) Monika Henzinger – algorithmic game theory and information retrieval John Hicks – general equilibrium theory (including Kaldor–Hicks efficiency) Naira Hovakimyan – differential games and adaptive control Peter L. Hurd – evolution of aggressive behavior
I Rufus Isaacs – differential games
K Ehud Kalai – Kalai–Smorodinsky bargaining solution, rational learning, strategic complexity Anna Karlin – algorithmic game theory and online algorithms Michael Kearns – algorithmic game theory and computational social science Sarit Kraus – non-monotonic reasoning
M John Maynard Smith – evolutionary game theory Oskar Morgenstern – social organization Roger Myerson – mechanism design (Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2007)
N John F Nash – Nash equilibrium (Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1994) John Von Neumann – Minimax theorem, expected utility, social organization, arms race Abraham Neyman – Stochastic games, Shapley value
P Geoff Parker - evolutionary game theory 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 – evolutionary game theory Anatol Rapoport – Mathematical psychologist, early proponent of tit-for-tat in repeated Prisoner's Dilemma
R Julia Robinson – proved that fictitious play dynamics converges to the mixed strategy Nash equilibrium in two-player zero-sum games Alvin E. Roth – market design (Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences 2012) Ariel Rubinstein – bargaining theory, learning and language
S Thomas Jerome Schaefer – computational complexity of perfect-information games Suzanne Scotchmer – patent law incentive models Reinhard Selten – bounded rationality (Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1994) Claude Shannon – studied cryptography and chess; sometimes called "the father of information theory" Lloyd Shapley – Shapley value and core concept in coalition games (Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences 2012) Eilon Solan – Stochastic games, stopping games Thomas Schelling – bargaining (Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2005) and models of segregation
T Éva Tardos – algorithmic game theory Stef Tijs – cooperative game theory (including the Tijs value)
V William Vickrey – auction theory
W Myrna Wooders – coalition theory
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