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

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.)

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.

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_athe...

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.