can you name some famous atheists?

Question

can you guys give some examples of famous atheists(true atheists, not deists, etc.)

and a short description

Answer 1

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A

Forrest J. Ackerman (d.)

Douglas Adams (d.)

Phillip Adams

Brandy Alexandre

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Tariq Ali

Woody Allen

Shulamit Aloni

Thomas J. Altizer

Natalie Angier

Lance Armstrong

Liv Arnesen

Madison Arnold

Isaac Asimov (d.)

Peter William Atkins

B

Kevin Bacon

Russell Baker

J.G. Ballard (d.)

Iain M. Banks

Clive Barker

Dan Barker

MC Paul Barman

Dave Barry

Richard Bartle

Bill Bass

Matt Bellamy

Steve Benson

Ingmar Bergman (d.)

Pierre Berton (d.)

Matt Besser

Paul Bettany

Björk

Susan Blackmore

Bill Blass (d.)

Jim Bohanan

Sir Herman Bondi (d.)

Pierre Boulez

T. Coraghessan Boyle

Nathaniel Branden

Marlon Brando (d.)

Richard Branson

Berkeley Breathed

Julia Hartley Brewer

Marcus Brigstocke

Isaac Brock

Charlie Brooker

Rodney Brooks

Andrew Brown

Derren Brown

Peter Buck

Gabriel Byrne

John Byrne

C

Dean Cameron

James Cameron

George Carlin (d.)

Fidel Castro

Billy Connolly

Alan Cumming

D

Rodney Dangerfield (d.)

Richard Dawkins

Micky Dolenz

Phil Donahue

E

Roger Ebert

Christopher Eccleston

Dean Edell

Jonathan Edwards

F

Harvey Fierstein

Larry Flynt

Dave Foley

Peter Fonda

Jodie Foster

G

Janeane Garofalo

Ricky Gervais

Jean Luc Godard

Kathy Griffin

H

Katharine Hepburn (d.)

Christopher Hitchens

I

Eddie Izzard

J

Penn Jillette

Billy Joel

Angelina Jolie

Kirk Jones

K

Diane Keaton

Kevin Kline

L

Hugh Laurie

Cloris Leachman

Bruce Lee

M

Norm Macdonald

Seth MacFarlane

Bill Maher

John Malkovich

Barry Manilow

Shirley Manson

Mao Zedong

Michael Martin

Frank Miller

Martin Mull

N

Randy Newman

Mike Nichols

Jack Nicholson

Friedrich Nietzsche

Gary Numan

O

Barack Obama Sr.

P

Joaquin Phoenix

Brad Pitt

Paula Poundstone

Paul Provenza

Q

Robin Quivers

R

Daniel Radcliffe

Ray Romano

Ron Reagan Jr.

Carl Reiner

Gene Roddenberry (d.)

Henry Rollins

Andy Rooney

S

Sarah Silverman

Robert Smith (football)

Robert Smith

Howard Stern

Julia Sweeney

T

Teller

Ted Turner

W

Harry Waters

Joss Whedon

Gene Wilder

Z

Frank Zappa (d.)

Source(s): www.celebatheists.com

Answer 2

Albert Einstein, Francis Crick, Noam Chomsky, Friedrich Nietzsche, Bertrand Russell, Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Jean-Paul Sartre, Karl Popper, Ayn Rand, Sir Arthur C Clark, Stephen Hawking, Arthur Miller, George Orwell, Percy Shelley, Kurt Vonnegut, Richard Rogers, James Watson, Steve Wozniak, Ivan Pavlov, Linus Pauling, Richard Leakey, Ernst Mayr, Alfred Kinsey and Richard Feynman, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Bruce Lee, Howard Stern, Emma Thompson, Teller, Gene Roddenberry, Daniel Radcliffe, Helen Mirren, Sir Ian McKellan, John Malkovich, Jodie Foster, George Carlin , Adam Carolla, Kevin Bacon and Natalie Portman

Answer 3

Woody Allen

Lance Armstrong

Warren Buffett

Bill Gates

Angelina Jolie

Ricky Gervais

There are lots of them.

Source(s): http://www.celebatheists.com/wiki/Main_Page

Answer 4

Stephan Hawkin

Answer 5

Penn and Teller

Bill Gates

Richard Dawkins

I hope I don't have to write up descriptions for these guys.

Answer 6

Here's a list.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famous_atheists

Answer 7

Abe Lincoln: president of the United States who abolished slavery.

Thomas Edison: most famous for his work with the light bulb which he actually stole from Joseph Wilson Swan.

Richy Gervais: the funniest bastard on this planet! He is most famous as being the creator of the show The Office.

Answer 8

Richard Feynman off the top of my head. Brilliant physicist, decent drummer, boobie aficionado.

Answer 9

Bertrand Russell, a brilliant philosopher and social commentator! His writings are very interesting,and you can find his books in any bookstore or public library!

Answer 10

Stalin

Lenin

Mao

Pol Pot

Ghangis Khan

Hideki Tojo

Just about every mass murderer in history besides Hitler was an atheist.

Over 100 million people have been killed by these "famous atheists", and in the cases of Lenin and Stalin, many were killed in the name of atheism. They targeted religious institutions because they believed religion would upset their cause.