Well Known Atheists and
Agnostics
Atheists:
Douglas Adams - wrote the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series.
Woody Allen - Writer/director.
Anaxagoras - old Greek philosopher, 1st person to put forth
the idea
of evolution around 600 BC.
Lance Armstrong - cancer beating, uber fundraiser for fighting
cancer, 7 time Tour de Franch winner.
Isaac Asimov - science/science ficiton author, has a book
for
every classification of the Dewey Decimal System.
Dave Barry - American author.
Jeremy Bentham - British all around smart guy, came up with
Utilitarianism.
Ingmar Bergman - director.
Ambrose Bierce - notable American author.
Marlon Brando - Academy Award winning actor.
Richard Branson - rich guy owner of Virgin enterprizes.
Leonid Brezhnev - Russian leader.
Warren Buffet - richer guy... 2nd richest man in the world, just
donated $37 billion to fight AIDS and illiteracy.
George Gordon Lord Byron - British author/poet.
Albert Camus - French/Algerian Nobel Prize winning author.
George Carlin - comedian/actor/writer.
Andrew Carnegie - original rich benefector.
Adam Carolla - comedian, original of The Man Show.
Noam Chomsky - MIT linguist.
Arthur C. Clarke - sci-fi author of 2001: A Space Odyssey,
et al.
George Clooney - actor.
Joseph Conrad - author of Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, et
al.
Auguste Comte - French philosopher, founder of sociology.
Francis Crick - DNA double helix biologist, won Nobel Prize.
Alan Cumming - actor, Tony winner.
Marie Curie - chemist/physicist who won 2 Nobel Prizes.
Rodney Dangerfield - comedian/actor.
Richard Dawkins - really smart British biologist.
Denis Diderot - compiled the first rigorous encyclopedia.
Ani DiFranco - singer.
Paul Dirac - Nobel Prize winner in physics.
Richard Feynman - Nobel Prize winner in physics.
Larry Flynt - 1st Amendment rights advocate, magazine publisher.
Jodie Foster - Academy Award winner actress.
Sigmund Freud - psycologist.
Giuseppe Garibaldi - Italian revolutionary.
Janeane Garofolo - comedian/actress.
Mikhail Gorbachev - Russian leader.
Stephen Jay Gould - biologist/author.
Che Guevara - Latin American revolutionary.
Robert Heinlein - author.
Ernest Hemingway - Nobel Prize winning author.
Katharine Hepburn - 4 time Academy Award winning actress.
Billy Joel - singer.
Angelina Jolie - actress.
James Joyce - poet/author.
Alfred Kinsey - that sex study guy... go watch the movie
Kinsey.
Vladimir Lenin - Russian leader.
John Malkovich - actor.
Marilyn Manson - singer.
Mao Zedong - Chinese leader.
Christopher Marlowe - author.
Karl Marx - political philosopher.
H. L. Menchen - author/journalist/social critic.
Arthur Miller - Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, married Marilyn
Monroe.
Marilyn Monroe - actress, old school hottie.
Jawaharlal Nehru - Indian leader.
Michael Newdow - brought Pledge case to Supreme Court and is
working on taking "In God We Trust" off our money.
Friedrich Nietzsche - philosopher.
Penn and Teller - magicians.
Ayn Rand - author of Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead,
founded
Objectivism.
Ron Reagan - president's son, stem-cell advocate.
Christopher Reeve - Superman, stem-cell usage advocate.
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - Russian composer of Flight of the Bumble
Bee.
Gene Roddenberry - created Star Trek series.
Salmon Rushdie - Booker Prize winning author of Midnight's
Children and The Satanic Verses.
Bertrand Russell - British mathematician, won Nobel Prize for
Literature.
Marquis de Sade - early erotic writer.
Carl Sagan - astronomer/physicist/writer of Contact, et al.
Camille Saint-Saens - French classical composer.
Margaret Sanger - early birthcontrol advocate.
Jean-Paul Sartre - French Nobel Prize winning author.
William Shatner - "We've.... got to.... try." Captain James
Tiberius Kirk.
George Bernard Shaw - Irish playwright, winner of the Nobel Prize
in Literature.
Percy Bysshe Shelley - British poet.
Burrhus Frederic Skinner - came up with Behaviorism.
George Soros - rich guy.
Josef Stalin - Russian leader.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton - worked with Susan B. Anthony for women's
right to vote.
Pat Tillman - left NFL to fight in army and was killed by
'friendly'
fire.
Uma Thurman - actress who killed Bill.
Leon Trotsky - Russian revolutionary.
Ted Turner - owns the Braves, CNN, TBS, TCM, TNT, donated $1
billion to the United Nations Foundation, launched the Goodwill Games,
and most importantly, created Captain Planet.
Kurt Vonnegut - American author.
James D. Watson - DNA double helix biologist, won Nobel Prize.
Steven Weinberg - Nobel Prize winner in physics.
Agnostics:
Margaret Atwood - author of The Handmaid's Tale.
Antonio Banderas - actor Zorro.
Lewis Black - comedian.
Helen Clark - Prime Minister of New Zealand.
Clarence Darrow - lawyer in the Scopes Trial, defending
Scopes.
Charles Darwin - did some science stuff and wrote some book.
Richard Dreyfuss - actor in Jaws and Mr. Holland's Opus.
Emile Durkheim - philosopher, wrote Suicide.
Umberto Eco - author of The Name of the Rose, et al.
Bill Gates - just donated over $30 to charity.
Matt Groening - Simpson's creator.
Larry King - CNN interviewer.
Bill Maher - comedian, has his own show.
Dave Matthews - singer/songwriter.
Bill Nye - the science guy... Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill.
Protagoras - 450 BC said the existance of god is unknowable.
Keanu Reeves - "woah"
Matt Stone - South Park creator.
Mark Twain - Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn author.
James Taylor - singer/songwriter.