FAMOUS ATHEISTS
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A
Forrest J. Ackerman, Don Adams, Douglas Adams, John Adams, Phillip Adams, Jane Addams, Brandy Alexandre, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Tariq Ali, Amy Alkon, David Allen, Ethan Allen, Steve Allen, Woody Allen, Pedro Almodóvar, Shalamit Aloni, Thomas J. Altizer, Gillian Anderson, Natalie Angier, Susan B. Anthony, Aristotle, Lance Armstrong, Liv Arnesen, Madison Arnold, Darren Aronofsky, Francois Maire Arouet (Voltaire), Isaac Asimov, Peter William Atkins, David Attenborough, Margaret Atwood, A. J. Ayer.


B
Kevin Bacon, Julian Baggini, Russel Baker, Mikhail Bakunin, J.G. Ballard, Jose Manuel Balmaceda, David Baltimore, Honore de Balzac, Roger Williams Banished, Iain M. Banks, Clive Barker, Dan Barker, M.C. Paul Barman, Dave Barry, Richard Bartle, Bill Bass, Patrick Bateson, Greg Bear, Simone de Beauvoir, Matt Bellamy, Monica Bellucci, Steve Benson, Jeremy Bentham, Ingmar Bergman, Jesse Bering, Irving Berlin, Hector Berlioz, Pierre Berton, Matt Besser, Paul Bettany, Ambrose Bierce, Alexandre Cesar Leopold Bizet, Björk, Lewis Black, Susan Blackmore, Bill Blass, Jim Bohanan, Napoléon Bonaparte, Sir Herman Bondi, Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner, Jorge Luis Borges, Pierre Boulez, David Bowie, Paul D. Boyer, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Charles Bradlaugh, Nathaniel Branden, Brannon Braga, Johannes Brahms, Marshall David Brain, Marlon Brando, Sir. Richard Branson, Berkley Breathed, Julia Hartley Brewer, Isaac Brock, Rodney Brooks, Andrew Brown, Robert Browning, Jacob Bronowski, Lenny Bruce, Bill Bryson, Pearl S. Buck, Peter Buck, Warren Buffett, Charles Bukowski, Luis Bunuel, Luther Burbank, John Burroughs, Sir. Richard Burton, Gabriel Byrne, John Byrne, Lord Byron.


C
Elizabeth Cady-Stanton, Michael Caine, Dean Cameron, Joseph Campbell, Albert Camus, Mike Carey, George Carlin, John Carmack, Rudolf Carnap, Andrew Carnegie, John Carpenter, Asia Carrera, Sean M. Carroll, Fidel Castro, Henry Cavendish, Dick Cavett, David Chalmers, John Chancellor, Subrahmanyan Chandresekhar, Charlie Chaplin, Stephen Chapman, Dov Charney, Vic Chesnutt, Noam Chomsky, Arthur C. Clarke, Mitch Clem, Georges Clemenceau, Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), Inga Clendinnen, George Clooney, Pat Condell, Billy Connolly, Joseph Conrad, Robin Cook, Adam Corolla, Noel Coward, Michael Crichton, Francis Crick, Benedetto Croce, David Cronenberg, David Cross, Alan Cumming, E. E. Cummings, Marie Curie.


D
Ron Dakron, Rodney Dangerfield, Julia Darling, Clarence Darrow, Charles Darwin, Larry David, Russel T. Davies, Mark Jonathan Davis, William B. Davis, Richard Dawkins, Dorothy Day, Jeff Dee, Simone de Beauvoir, Baron D’Holbach, Eugene Delacroix, Julien Offray de la Mettrie, Pierre Simon de Laplace, Democritus, Marquis de Sade, Claude Achille Debussy, Hugo de Garis, Edgar Degas, Frederick Delius, Daniel Dennett, David Deutsch, John Dewey, Baron d’Holbach, Diagoras, Charles Dickens, Emily Dickinson, Denis Diderot, Ani DiFranco, Paul Dirac, Micky Dolenz, Phil Donahue, Stanley Donen, Amanda Donohoe, Roddy Doyle, Ann Druyan, David Duchovny, Frederick Douglass.


E
Roger Ebert, Christopher Eccleston, Umberto Eco, Dean Edell, Thomas Alva Edison, Jonathan Edwards, Greg Egan, Barbara Ehrenreich, Paul Ehrlich, Albert Einstein, George Eliot, Albert Ellis, Bret Easton Ellis, Warren Ellis, Harlan Ellison, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Empson, Garth Ennis, Brian Eno, Epicurus, Paul Erlich, Daniel Everett.


F
Catherine Fahringer, Oriana Fallaci, Diane Farr, David Feherty, Jules Feiffer, Craig Ferguson, Larry Fessenden, Ludwig Andreas von Feuerbach, Richard Feynman, W. C. Fields, Harvey Fierstein, Bob Fingerman, Reginald Finley, Carrie Fisher, Vardis Fisher, Brian Flemming, Larry Flynt, Dario Fo, Dave Foley, Harrison Ford, Luke Ford, James Forman, Jodie Foster, John Fowles, Robin Lane Fox, Benjamin Franklin, Penn Fraser, Burrhus Frederick, Lucian Freud, Sigmund Freud, Robert Frost, Christer Fuglesang.


G
William M. Gaines, Zona Gale, Galileo Galilei, Albert Gallatin, Noel Gallegher, Janeane Garofalo, Bill Gates, Bob Geldof, Jack Germond, Ricky Gervais, Prabhir Ghosh, Paul Giamatti, Edward Gibbon, David Gilmour, Vitaly Ginzburg, Stephen Girard, Ira Glass, James Gleick, Jean-Luc Godard, Ben Goertzel, Al Goldstein, Alison Gopnik, Mikhail Gorbachev, Nadine Gordimer, Michael Goudeau, Stephen Jay Gould, Greg Graffin, Steve Grand, Richard E. Grant, Ulysses S. Grant, John Gray, A.C. Grayling, Ruth Hurmence Green, Seth Green, Stephen Greenblatt, Susan Greenfield, Alan Greenspan, Germaine Greer, Kathy Griffin, Rachel Griffiths, Matt Groening, Jan Guillou, Thom Gunn.


H

J.B.S. Haldane, Joe Haldeman, Kathleen Hanna, Lorraine Hansberry, Haim Harari, Ernie Harburg, Thomas Hardey, Sam Harris, Harry Harrison, Nina Hartley, Roy Hattersley, James A. Haught, Stephen Hawking, Bill Hayden, Judith Hayes, Pat Hayes, Stan Hayes, Jennifer Michael Hecht, Hugh Hefner, Robert A. Heinlein, Claude Adrien Helvetius, Ernest Hemingway, Nat Hentoff, Katharine Hepburn, Richard Herring, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Peter Higgs, Alfred Hitchcock, Christopher Hitchens, Philip Hobsbaum, Douglas Hofstadter, Sidney Ho, Jerry Holkins, Ted Honderich, General Choi Hong-Hi, Sidney Hook, O.K. Michel Houellebecq, A.E. Housman, Edwin Powell Hubble, Howard Hughes, David Hume, Nicholas Humphrey, Derek Humphry, John Humphrys, Aldous Huxley, Julian Sorell Huxley, Thomas Huxley, Jamie Hyneman.


I
Robert G. Ingersoll, Eddie Izzard.


J
Susan Jacoby, Mick Jagger, William James, Thomas Jefferson, Stephan Jenkins, Penn Jillette, Hu Jintao, Steve Jobs, Billy Joel, Angelina Jolie, Frederic Joliot-Curie, Kirk Jones, S.T. Joshi, Lionel Jospin, James Joyce.


K
Joachim Kahl, Frida Kahlo, Wendy Kaminer, Jonathan Katz, Dawna Kaufmann, Kawaljeet Kaur, Diane Keaton, Ken Keeler, Maynard James Keenan, Helen Keller, Gene Kelly, Ludovic Kennedy, Skandar Keynes, Eli Khamarov, Omar Khayyám, Margot Kidder, Stephen King, Alfred Kinsey, Kevin Kline, Kim Il-Sung, Florence King, Neil Kinnock, W.P. Kinsella, Michael Kinsley, August Kleinzahler, Melvin Konner, Frank Kozik, Paul Krassner, Lawrence Krauss, Harold Kroto, Ron Kuby, Stanley Kubrick, Milan Kundera, Paul Kurtz, Tony Kushner, Aleksander Kwa_niewski


L
Burt Lancaster, Ring Lardner Jr., Philip Larkin, Charles Laughton, Hugh Laurie, Mr. Lavanam, D. H. Lawrence, Richard Leakey, Alexander I. Lebed, Bruce Lee, Stewart Lee, Tom Lehrer, ike Leigh, Stanislaw Lem, Vladimir Lenin, John Lennon, Gerda Lerner, Primo Levi, Michael Lewis, Tom Leykis, G. Gordon Liddy, Abraham Lincoln, James Lipton, Jack London, Pierre Loti, Denis Loubet, Henry Louis, H. P. Lovecraft, Amy Lowell, Lucretius, Alexander Lukashenko.


M
Heather MacDonald, James Madison, Bill Maher, John Malkovich, Make Malloy, Barry Manilow, Marilyn Manson, Shirley Manson, Mao Zedong, Christopher Marlowe, Dave Matthews, Michael Martin, Karl Marx, Nick Mason, Marcello Mastroianni, Henri Matisse, Dave Matthews, Armistead Maupin, Ernst Mayr, Paul Mazursky, Giuseppe Mazzini, Joseph McCabe, Joseph McCabe, John McCarthy, Malachy McCourt, Evelyn McDonnell, Ian McEwan, Todd McFarlane, Montana McGlynn, Sir. Ian McKellen, Sarah McLachlan, Alexander McQueen, Butterfly McQueen, Jonathan Meades, H.L. Mencken, Antonio Mendoza, Stephen Merchant, George Meredith, Prosper Merimee, Jean Meslier, Tom Metzger, George Meyer, China Mieville, John Stuart Mill, Arthur Miller, Frank Miller, Jonathan Miller, Mike Mills, Marvin Minsky, Peter D. Mitchell, Warren Mitchell, Francois Mitterrand, John Money, Jacques Monod, Julianne Moore, Robin Morgan, Henry Morgentaler, Desmond Morris, James Morrow, John Mortimer, Markos ‘Kos’ Moulitsas Z, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Martin Mull, Frank Mullen, Cillian Murphy, P.Z. Myers.


N

Vladimir Nabokov, Fridtjof Nansen, Taslima Nasrin, Ramendra Nath, Jawaharlal Nehru, Ted Nelson, Pablo Neruda, Mike Newdow, Paul Newman, Randy Newman, Mike Nichols, Jack Nicholson, Kai Nielsen, Oscar Niemeyer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Florence Nightingale, Robert Nozick, Gary Numan, Ronald Numbers, Paul Nurse.


O
Joyce Carol Oates, Bob Odenkirk, Piergiorgio Odifreddi, Madalyn Murray O’Hair, Bree Olson, George Orwell, Patton Oswalt, Ouida, Robert Dale Owen.


P
Niccolo Paganini, Camille Paglia, Thomas Paine, Olof Palme, James Parton, Andy Partridge, Mark Pauline, Linus Pauling, Ivan Pavlov, Leonard Peikoff, Sean Penn, Paul Pfalzner, Julia Phillips, Ferdinand Piech, Marge Piercy, Massimo Pigliucci, Steven Pinker, Harold Pinter, Camille Pissarro, Brad Pitt, Edgar Allan Poe, Roman Polanski, Neal Pollack, Katha Pollitt, Karl Popper, Carolyn Porco, Natalie Portman, Paula Poundstone, Vladimir Pozner, Terry Pratchett, Paul Provenza, Philip Pullman.


Q
Robin Quivers.


R
Daniel Radcliffe, Justin Raimondo, Ayn Rand, James Randi, Ron Reagan Jr., Christopher Reeve, Keanu Reeves, Rick Reynolds, Michael Trent Reznor, Griff Rhys-Jones, Mordecai Richler, Christopher Ricks, Matt Ridley, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Brian Ritchie, Diego Rivera, Brad Roberts, Chris Robinson, Gene Roddenberry, Auguste Rodin, Joe Rogan, Carl Rogers, Neil Rogers, Henry Rollins, Ray Romano, Andy Rooney, Richard Rorty, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Arundhati Roy, William L. Rowe, Arthur Rubenstein, Jane Rule, Salman Rushdie, Douglas Rushkoff, Bertrand Russell, Karen Russell.


S
Mona Sahlin, Oliver Sacks, Carl Sagan, Carl Sandburg, Margaret Sanger, George Santayana, Robert Sapolsky, Pamela Sargent, Jean-Paul Sartre, Adam Savage, Max Sawicky, John Sayles, Arthur Schopenhauer, Olive Schreiner, Franz Peter Schubert, Tom Schulman, Charles Schultz, Robert Schumann, Eugenie Scott, John Searle, Sebasti, Will Self, Amartya Kumar Sen, Nick Seymour, William Shakespeare, Claude Shannon, William Shatner, George Bernard Shaw, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert I. Sherman, Ariane Sherine, Michael Shermer, Clay Shirky, Robert Silverberg, Bob Simon, J.R. Simplot, Joe Simpson, Frank Sinatra, Upton Sinclair, Peter Singer, Mano Singham, Marie Sklodowska-Curie, B. F. Skinner, J.J.C. Smart, George H. Smith, Michael Smith, Robert Smith, Warren Allen Smith, Lee Smolin, Steven Soderbergh, Todd Solondz, Edward Sorel, Annika Sorenstam, George Soros, Mira Sorvino, Herbert Spencer, Baruch de Spinoza, Benjamin Spock, Joseph Stalin, Richard Stallman, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Pete Stark, Peter Steele, Gloria Steinem, Leslie Stephen, Bruce Sterling, Howard Stern, Wallace Stevens, Michael Stipe, Gregory Stock, Oliver Stone, Robert Stout, J. Michael Straczynski, Richard Strauss, Meryl Streep, Ken Stringfellow, Christer Sturmark, Leonard Susskind, David Suzuki, Julia Sweeney, Matthew Sweet, Jonathan Swift.


T
William Howard Taft, James Taranto, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Raymond Joseph Teller, Studs Terkel, Theodorus, Louis Theroux, Uma Thurman, Pat Tillman, Leo Tolstoy, Linus Torvalds, Solomon Tulbure, Mao Tse-Tung, Ivan Turgenev, Ted Turner, Bill Tytla.


U
Björn Ulvaeus.


V
Ludwig van Beethoven, Paul Van Buren, Theo van Gogh (film director), Vincent van Gogh, Lucilio (Giulio Cesare) Vanini, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Eddie Vedder, Craig Venter, Giuseppe Verdi, Paul Verhoeven, Gore Vidal, Ludwig Andreas von Feuerbach, Max von Sydow, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Sarah Vowell.


W
Matt Wagner, Wilhelm Richard Wagner, Alice Walker, Robert Walpole, Annika Walter, Ibn Warraq, George Washington, Harry Waters, James Watson, Peter Watts, Sidney Webb, Steven Weinberg, Gene Weingarten, H. G. Wells, Joss Whedon, Walt Whitman, Earl Wild, Oscar Wilde, Gene Wilder, Harland Williams, Robin Williams, Sean Williams, Ted Williams, Bruce Willis, Ian Wilmut, David Sloan Wilson, Rabbi Sherwin T. Wine, Tom Wolfe, Lewis Wolpert, James Wood, Victoria Woodhull, Virginia Woolf, Mary Wollstonecraft, Steve Wozniak, Bruce Wright, Frances Wright, Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Wright, Wilhelm Wundt.


Y
Irvin D. Yalom.


Z
Frank Zappa, Michael Zaslow, Nick Zedd, Mark Zuckerberg.


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