A political scientist is someone who studies or contributes to the field of political science

Notable political scientists:

• Kenneth Arrow - Nobel Memorial Prize winning economist who published influential paper on his widely cited Arrow's Impossibility Theorem
• Duncan Black - Responsible for unearthing the work of many early political scientists, including Charles Dodgson
• Jean-Charles de Borda - 18th century mathematician who devised the Borda count
• Steven Brams
• Marquis de Condorcet - 18th century mathematician and philosopher who contributed the often used Condorcet criterion and devised the concept of a Condorcet method
• Clyde Coombs
• Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (a.k.a. Lewis Carroll) - Famous author of Alice in Wonderland who was also a noted professor of mathematics at Oxford University. He devised Dodgson's Method of voting system.
• Maurice Duverger - French lawyer and sociologist responsible for Duverger's law
• Peter Fishburn
• Thomas Hare - Devised single transfer voting (a.k.a. Hare's method)
• Jeane Kirkpatrick
• Kenneth May
• Samuel Merrill
• William H. Riker - 20th century political scientist who applied game theory to political science.
• Nicolaus Tideman