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the Biographies of Disbelief section of the Web site.
Here you will find biographies of famous people brave enough to disbelieve.
They include famous atheists, celebrity atheists, famous skeptics, agnostics,
freethinkers, rationalists and secularlists. Not all of them are atheists,
but most were, or are, against organized religion. If you would like to
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Protagoras (420 BCE)
Omar Khayyam (1048?–1131)
Michel De Montaigne
(1533–1592)
Christopher Marlowe
(1564–1593)
William Shakespeare
(1564–1616)
Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)
Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677)
John Locke (1632–1704)
Baron De Montesquieu
(1689–1755)
Voltaire (1694–1778)
Benjamin Franklin
(1706–1790)
David Hume (1711–1776)
Denis Diderot (1713–1784)
John Adams (1735–1826)
Edward Gibbon (1737–1794)
Thomas Paine (1737–1809)
Ethan Allen (1738–1789)
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826)
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
James Madison (1751–1836)
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
Napoleopn Bonaparte (1769–1821)
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860)
Percy Byshee Shelley (1792–1822)
Ralph Walso Emerson (1803-1882)
John Stuart Mill (1806–1873)
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
Charles Darwin (1809–1882)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
(1815–1902)
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
George Holyoake (1817–1906)
George Eliot (1819–1880)
Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906)
Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895)
Frederick James Furnivall (1825–1910)
Matilda Joslyn Gage
(1826–1989)
Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910)
Robert Green Ongersoll (1833–1899)
Mark Twain (1835–1910)
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909)
John Burroughs (1837–1921)
William James (1842–1910)
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)
Friedrich Nietszche
(1844–1900)
Thomas Alva Edison (1847–1931)
Luther Burbank (1849–1926)
Pierre Loti (1850–1923)
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915)
Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
Clarence Darrow (1857–1938)
Emile Durkheim (1858–1917)
Francisco Ferrer (1859–1909)
John Dewey (1859–1952)
George Santayana (1863–1952)
H. G. Wells (1866–1946)
Joseph McCabe (1867–1955)
W.E.B. Du Bois (1868–1963)
Emma Goldman (1869–1940)
Pietro Acciarito (1871–1943)
Bertrand Russell
(1872–1970)
Albert Einstein (1879–1955)
Margaret Sanger (1879–1966)
H.L. Mencken (1880–1956)
Margaret Sanger (1883–1966)
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (1883–1966)
Will Durant (1885–1981)
Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
Joseph Lewis (1889–1968)
Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)
Ariel Durant, born Chaya Kaufman, (1898–1981)
Vardis Fisher (1895–1968)
Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)
Langston Hughes (1902–1967)
Eric Hoffer (1902–1986)
Ayn Rand, born Alisa Zinov'yevna
Rosenbaum, (1905–1982)
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980)
Katharine Hepburn (1907–2003)
Bhagat Singh (1907–1931)
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Simone
de Beauvoir (1908–1986)
A.J. Ayer (1910–1989)
Charles Templeton (1915–2001)
Francis Crick (1916–2004)
Arthur C. Clarke (1917–
)
Ingmar Bergman (1918– )
George Lincoln Rockwell (1918–1967)
Richard Feynman (1918–1988)
Andy Rooney (1919– )
Madalyn Murray O'Hair (1919–1995)
Ludovic Kennedy (1919– )
Primo Levi (1919–1987)
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992)
Gene Roddenberry (1921–1991)
Steve Allen (1921– )
Stanislaw Lem (1921–2006)
Warren Allen Smith (1921– )
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922–
2007)
Barbara Smoker (1923– )
Harry Harrison (1925– )
Fidel Castro (1926– )
Sir David Attenborough (1926– )
Noam Chomsky (1928– )
James Randi (1928– )
Warren Buffett (1930– )
Harold Pinter (1930—)
Robert Anton Wilson (1932–2007)
Carl Sagan (1934–1996)
Woody Allen (1935–
)
Victor J. Stenger (1935–
)
Dick Cavett (1936– )
Florence King (1936–
)
George Carlin (1937–
)
Jared Diamond (1937–
)
Carlos Gaviria Díaz (1937– )
Ricardo Lagos (1938– )
Frank Zappa (1940–1993
)
John Lennon (1940–1980)
Michael Ruse (1940–
)
Gao Xingjian (1940– )
Richard Dawkins (1941–
)
Daniel C. Dennett (1942– )
Billy Connolly (1942– )
David Cronenberg (1943– )
Jan Guillou (1944– )
Polly Toynbee (1946– )
Ibn Warraq (1946– )
Philip Pullman (1946– )
Dave Barry (1947– )
Elton John (1947– )
Salman Rushdie (1947– )
Terry Pratchett (1948– )
Lewis Black (1948– )
John Carpenter (1948–
)
Raymond Joseph Teller (1948–
)
Dan Barker (1949–
)
Ann Druyan (1949– )
Paul Nurse (1949– )
Christopher Hitchens (1949– )
Richard Branson (1950– )
Gabriel Byrne (1950– )
Michelle Bachelet (1951– )
Douglas Adams (1952–2001)
Christopher Reeves (1952–2004)
Carolyn Porco (1953–
)
Michael Newdow (1953– )
Howard Allan Stern (1954– )
Matt Groening (1954– )
Michael Shermer (1954–
)
Penn Fraser Jillette (1955–
)
Bill Gates (1955– )
Bill Maher (1956– )
Thomas Joseph Leykis (1956– )
Berkeley Breathed
(1957– )
Ron Reagan (1958– )
Neil Degrasse Tyson
(1958– )
Natalie Angier (1958–
)
Michel Houellebecq (1958– )
S. T. Joshi (1958– )
Julia Sweeney (1959– )
Marshall David Brain (1961–
)
Taslima Nasrin (1962– )
Kathy Griffin (1963– )
Christer Sturmark (1964– )
Greg Graffin (1964–
)
Adam Carolla (1964–
)
David Cross (1964– )
Adrienne Shelly (1966–2006)
Sam Harris (1967–
)
Ayaan Hirsi Ali (1969–
)
Darren Aronofsky
(1969– )
Patton Oswalt (1969– )
John Carmack (1970–
)
Lance Armstrong (1971–
)
Matt Stone (1971– )
China Miéville (1972– )
Asia Carrera (1973–
)
Nas (1973 – )
Cillian Murphy (1975–
)
Angelina Jolie (1975–
)
Robin Davey (1976–
)
Yellow Thunder Woman (1984–
)
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