Thomas Pangle [1944–] is the R. Long Chair in Democratic Studies in the Department of Government at the University of Texas at Austin. He received the AB in 1966 from Cornell University and the PhD in 1972 at the University of Chicago. Prior to coming to UT-Austin in 2004, Thomas Pangle was University Professor at the University of Toronto, where he had been since 1979. Prior to that, he taught at Yale University.

"Thomas Pangle, author of numerous acclaimed studies spanning the entire history of political philosophy from Socrates to today’s various postmodernisms, is arguably the most prominent and accomplished of the many distinguished students of Leo Strauss (1899–1973), himself one of the most influential and controversial figures in postwar American intellectual life...." (Ralph C. Hancock in book review of Political Philosophy and the God of Abraham [2003] in First Things, April 2004)

Other publications include Montesquieu's Philosophy of Liberalism (1973, 1989), The Laws of Plato (1979), The Roots of Political Philosophy, editor (1987), and The Spirit of Modern Republicanism (1988), The Ennobling of Democracy (1992).