Famous Atheists

"The Asian tsunami was not an act of god but 9/11 was." ~ Matt Ridley

Forrest J.A ckerman, Don Adams, Douglas Adams, John Adams, Phillip Adams, 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, Lance Armstrong, Liv Arnesen, Madison Arnold, Darren Aronofsky, Francois Maire
Arouet (Voltaire), Isaac Asimov, Peter William Atkins, David Attenborough, Margaret Atwood, A. J.
Ayer.

JulianB aggini, Russel Baker, Mikhail Bakunin, J.G. Ballard, David Baltimore, Iain M. Banks,
Clive Barker, Dan Barker, M.C. Paul Barman, Dave Barry, Richard Bartle, Bill Bass, Patrick
Bateson, Greg Bear, Matt Bellamy, Steve Benson, 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, Napoleon
Bonaparte, Sir Herman Bondi, 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, Lenny Bruce, Bill Bryson, Pearl S. Buck,
Peter Buck, Warren Buffett, Charles Bukowski, Luis Bunuel, John Burroughs, Sir. Richard Burton,
Gabriel Byrne, John Byrne, Lord Byron.

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

Ron D akron, 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, Julien Offray de la Mettrie, Pierre Simon de Laplace,
Marquis de Sade, Claude Achille Debussy, Hugo de Garis, Edgar Degas, Daniel Dennett, David
Deutsch, John Dewey, Baron d'Holbach, Diagoras, Charles Dickens, Denis Diderot, Ani DiFranco,
Walt Disney, Micky Dolenz, Phil Donahue, Stanley Donen, Amanda Donohoe, Roddy Doyle, Ann
Druyan, David Duchovny.

Christopher E ccleston, 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,
Paul Erlich.
Oriana F allaci, Diane Farr, David Feherty, Jules Feiffer, Larry Fessenden, Ludwig Andreas von
Feuerbach, Richard Feynman, W. C. Fields, Harvey Fierstein, Bob Fingerman, Reginald Finley,
Vardis Fisher, Brian Flemming, Larry Flynt, Dario Fo, Dave Foley, 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.

William M. G aines, Galileo Galilei, Noel Gallegher, Janeane Garofalo, Bill Gates, Bob Geldof,
Jack Germond, Ricky Gervais, Prabhir Ghosh, Paul Giamatti, David Gilmour, Vitaly Ginzburg, 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, A.C. Grayling, Seth Green, Stephen Greenblatt, Susan
Greenfield, Alan Greenspan, Germaine Greer, Kathy Griffin, Rachel Griffiths, Matt Groening, Jan
Guillou.

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

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Robert G. ngersoll, Eddie Izzard.

WilliamJ ames, 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.

Joachim K ahl, 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, Omar Khayyam, Margot Kidder, Stephen King, Alfred Kinsey, Kevin Kline, Eli
Khamarov, Margot Kidder, Kim Il-Sung, Florence King, Neil Kinnock, W.P. Kinsella, Michael
Kinsley, Melvin Konner, Frank Kozik, Paul Krassner, Harold Kroto, Ron Kuby, Stanley Kubrick,
Milan Kundera, Paul Kurtz, Tony Kushner, Aleksander Kwa_niewski

Ring L ardner Jr., Burt Lancaster, Ring Lardner Jr., Charles Laughton, 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, Pierre Loti, Denis Loubet, Henry Louis,
H. P. Lovecraft, Lucretius, Alexander Lukashenko.
Heather M acDonald, James Madison, Bill Maher, John Malkovich, Make Malloy, Barry Manilow,
Marilyn Manson, Shirley Manson, Mao Zedong, Christopher Marlowe, Michael Martin, Karl Marx,
Nick Mason, Marcello Mastroianni, Henri Matisse, Dave Matthews, Armistead Maupin, Ernst Mayr,
Paul Mazursky, 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, 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, Julianne Moore, Henry Morgentaler, Desmond
Morris, James Morrow, John Mortimer, Markos 'Kos' Moulitsas Z, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,
Frank Mullen, Cillian Murphy, P.Z. Myers.

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

Joyce Carol O ates, Bob Odenkirk, Piergiorgio Odifreddi, Madalyn Murray O'Hair, George Orwell,
Patton Oswalt.

Niccolo P aganini, Camille Paglia, Thomas Paine, Olof Palme, Andy Partridge, Mark Pauline,
Linus Pauling, Leonard Peikoff, Paul Pfalzner, Julia Phillips, Ferdinand Piech, Massimo Pigliucci,
Steven Pinker, Harold Pinter, Camille Pissarro, Edgar Allan Poe, Roman Polanski, Neal Pollack,
Katha Pollitt, Karl Popper, Natalie Portman, Paula Poundstone, Vladimir Pozner, Terry Pratchett,
Paul Provenza, Philip Pullman.

Robin Quivers.
Justin R aimondo, 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, Joe Rogan, Neil Rogers, Henry Rollins, Ray Romano, Andy
Rooney, Richard Rorty, Arundhati Roy, William L. Rowe, Arthur Rubenstein, Jane Rule, Salman
Rushdie, Douglas Rushkoff, Bertrand Russell, Karen Russell.

Mona S ahlin, Oliver Sacks, Carl Sagan, Margaret Sanger, George Santayana, Robert Sapolsky,
Pamela Sargent, Jean-Paul Sartre, Max Sawicky, John Sayles, Arthur Schopenhauer, Franz Peter
Schubert, Tom Schulman, Charles Schultz, Robert Schumann, Eugenie Scott, Sebasti, Will Self,
Amartya Kumar Sen, Nick Seymour, William Shakespeare, Claude Shannon, William Shatner,
George Bernard Shaw, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert I. Sherman, Michael Shermer, Clay Shirky,
Robert Silverberg, Bob Simon, Joe Simpson, 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, Annika Sorenstam, George
Soros, Mira Sorvino, Baruch de Spinoza, Benjamin Spock, Joseph Stalin, Richard Stallman, Pete
Stark, Peter Steele, Gloria Steinem, Leslie Stephen, Bruce Sterling, Howard Stern, Michael Stipe,
Gregory Stock, Oliver Stone, J. Michael Straczynski, Richard Strauss, Ken Stringfellow, Christer
Sturmark, Julia Sweeney, Matthew Sweet, Jonathan Swift.

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

Björn Ulvaeus.
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Ludwig an Beethoven, Paul Van Buren, Theo van Gogh (film director), Vincent van Gogh, Ralph
Vaughan Williams, Eddie Vedder, Paul Verhoeven, Gore Vidal, Ludwig Andreas von Feuerbach,
Max von Sydow, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Sarah Vowell.

Matt W agner, Wilhelm Richard Wagner, Annika Walter, Ibn Warraq, George Washington, Harry
Waters, James Watson, Peter Watts, 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, Rabbi Sherwin T. Wine, Tom Wolfe, Lewis
Wolpert, Virginia Woolf, Steve Wozniak, Bruce Wright, Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Wright, Wilhelm
Wundt.

Irvin D. Yalom.
Frank Zappa, Michael Zaslow, Nick Zedd.