can you name 5 famous atheists?

Answer 1

Douglas Adams, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Woody Allen, Lance Armstrong, Darren Aronofsky, Isaac Asimov, Dave Barry, Ingmar Bergman, Lewis Black, Richard Branson, Berkeley Breathed, Warren Buffett, George Carlin, John Carmack, Adam Carolla, John Carpenter, Asia Carrera, Fidel Castro, Dick Cavett, Noam Chomsky, Billy Connolly, Francis Crick, David Cronenberg, David Cross, Alan Cumming, Rodney Dangerfield, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, David Deutsch, Ani DiFranco, Micky Dolenz, Harlan Ellison, Brian Eno, Richard Feynman, Harvey Fierstein, Larry Flynt, Dave Foley, Jodie Foster, Janeane Garofalo, Bill Gates, Bob Geldof, Ricky Gervais, Ira Glass, James Gleick, Seth Green, Robert Heinlein, Nat Hentoff, Katharine Hepburn, Christopher Hitchens, Eddie Izzard, Penn Jillette, Billy Joel, Angelina Jolie, Wendy Kaminer, Diane Keaton, Ken Keeler, Neil Kinnock, Michael Kinsley, Richard Leakey, Bruce Lee, Tom Lehrer, Tom Leykis, James Lipton, H.P. Lovecraft, John Malkovich, Barry Manilow, Todd McFarlane, Sir Ian McKellen, Arthur Miller, Frank Miller, Marvin Minsky, Julianne Moore, Desmond Morris, Randy Newman, Mike Nichols, Jack Nicholson, Gary Numan, Bob Odenkirk, Patton Oswalt, Camille Paglia, Steven Pinker, Paula Poundstone, Terry Pratchett, James Randi, Ron Reagan Jr., Keanu Reeves, Rick Reynolds, Gene Roddenberry, Joe Rogan, Henry Rollins, Andy Rooney, Salman Rushdie, Bob Simon, Steven Soderbergh, Annika Sorenstam, George Soros, Richard Stallman, Bruce Sterling, Howard Stern, J. Michael Straczynski, Julia Sweeney, Matthew Sweet, Teller, Studs Terkel, Tom Tomorrow, Linus Torvalds, Eddie Vedder, Paul Verhoeven, Gore Vidal, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Sarah Vowell, James Watson, Steven Weinberg, Joss Whedon, Ted Williams, Steve Wozniak, Frank Zappa.

Pick 5 that you like...

-SD-

Answer 2

First I should point out that Voltaire wasn't an atheist and neither is Stephen Hawkings although neither fall into the category of religionists. Bertrand Russel, Richard Dawkins, James Randi, Bruce Lee and Fidel Castro were/are atheists.

Answer 3

George Carlin
Keanu Reeves
Bill Bryson
Ricky Gervais
David Attenborough

Answer 4

George Bernard Shaw; Carl Sagan; Albert Einstein; Karl Marx; Bill Gates

Answer 5

You've already gotten the answer, but I'd just like to add that I'm tickled pink to know that the man who made it possible for Christians to participate in Yahoo! Answers was, Bill Gates, an atheist.

Bill gates
- the most charitable person in the world.
- an atheist who changed the world and made it possible for people everywhere to communicate with each other

How do the Christians live with their own hypocrisy?

Answer 6

Albert Einstein, James Randi, Richard Dawkins, Penn and Teller, Daniel Dennett. That's six anyway.

Answer 7

Albert Einstien.

Stephen Hawking.

Steve Irwin

Anton Lavey

Dave Mustane

Answer 8

Bill Gates
Woody Allen
Ernest Hemingway
Voltaire (whoops, forgot to mention it was Voltaire the American artist, though the French writer did have some Atheistic philosophies)
and my favorite: Albert Einstein

Answer 9

Can you name 5 "famous" intelligent questions ?

Your questions of "Can you name 5 famous....... are not famous, but boring"

Answer 10

I don't think I can improve on sadistdave's list. But still, even if there wasn't one famous atheist, that woldn't say anything about how right or wrong atheism is.

Answer 11

Isaac Asimov
Benjamin Franklin
Mark Twain

"Religion is all bunk."
-Thomas Edison

My personal favorite:

"Religions are all alike – founded upon fables and mythologies."
"Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man."
-Thomas Jefferson

Shall I keep going?