Who are some of the MOST famous atheists today?
For example in sports and entertainment? movies and media, etc?
2007-05-03 07:31:27 · 26 answers · asked by JayDee 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
WOW!!!!!!!
2007-05-03 07:47:58 · update #1
Sure there is a long list. The devil has it and is using it to make seating arangements at his table in the lake of fire.
2007-05-03 07:36:17 · answer #1 · answered by rico3151 6 · 0⤊ 8⤋
Abraham Lincoln
Charles Darwin
Albert Einstein
Aldous Huxley
Andrew Carnegie
Isaac Asimov
Arthur C. Clarke
Ernest Hemingway
Ayn Rand
Benjamin Franklin
Dave Mathews
Carl Sagan
Bertrand Russell
Billy Joel
Clarence Darrow
Voltaire
Gene Roddenbery
Friedrich Nietzsche
Frank Zappa
Galileo Galilei
George Bernard Shaw
Gloria Steinam
Helen Keller
James Madison
John Adams
Kurt Vonnegut
2007-05-03 07:43:03 · answer #2 · answered by NeoArt 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Penn Jillette (host of NBC's Identity) and his partner Teller
Richard Dawkins
Woody Allen
Ingmar Bergman
Warren Buffett - Businessman
Katherine Hepburn – Actress
Florence King
Dr. Dean Edell
Douglas Adams – Author
Harlan Ellison - Science Fiction Author
Howard Hughes, American manufacturer, film producer, and recluse (1905-1976).
Jack Germond
Dave Matthews – Musician
Arthur C. Clarke – Science Fiction Author
Quentin Crisp
Harry Harrison
Christopher Reeve – Actor
Albert Ellis
Clive Barker
Michael Crichton – Author
2007-05-03 07:42:47 · answer #3 · answered by atheist jesus 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Angelina Jolie, Julianne Moore, Woody Allen, Lance Armstrong, Lewis Black, Warren Buffett, George Carlin, Adam Carolla, John Carpenter, David Cronenberg, Ani DiFranco, Micky Dolenz, Harvey Fierstein, Jodie Foster, Janeane Garofalo, Bill Gates, Bob Geldof, Seth Green, Katharine Hepburn, Penn Jillette, Billy Joel, Diane Keaton, Bruce Lee, H.P. Lovecraft, John Malkovich, Barry Manilow, Sir Ian McKellen, Randy Newman, Mike Nichols, Jack Nicholson, Keanu Reeves, Gene Roddenberry, Henry Rollins, Andy Rooney, Salman Rushdie, Bob Simon, Steven Soderbergh, Annika Sorenstam, Howard Stern, Eddie Vedder
2007-05-03 07:41:10 · answer #4 · answered by Jess H 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
To name just a few freethinkers: American Red Cross founder Clara Barton, birth control proponent Margaret Sanger, physicist Albert Einstein, entrepreneur/philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, inventor Thomas Edison, physicist Marie Curie, feminists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, journalist H.L. Mencken, philosopher Bertrand Russell, attorney Clarence Darrow, labor activist Joe Hill, reformer Jane Addams, painter Joseph Turner, poets Robert Burns and Percy Shelley, dancer Isadora Duncan, biologist Charles Darwin, psychologist Sigmund Freud, composer Johannes Brahms.
Historically, the term "freethinker" also encompassed the nonChristian Voltairean Deists of the Age of Reason who believed only in a nature's god, such as patriot Thomas Paine, and presidents Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and John Adams.
2007-05-03 07:40:49 · answer #5 · answered by Mi Atheist Girl 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Contemporary: Bill Gates, Gene Roddenberry, Joss Whedon, Stephen King, Lewis Black, Andy Rooney, George Carlin, David Gilmour (Pink Floyd), Sir Arthur C. Clarke, Penn Jillette, Scott Adams (Dilbert), Dave Barry (Columnist), Angelina Jolie, Salman Rushdie, Linus Torvalds (programmer).
2007-05-03 07:40:30 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
There are many lists. They only include the atheists who have come out in the open about their disbelief in Gods. Most of them that are younger with still living careers don't expose themselves in America because they fear the economic effects.
So such lists are likely to be very incomplete.
To get an idea of some of the problems in putting such a list together please take a look at this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_atheists
It is the discussion page of the people putting the list together that is more interesting than the list itself.
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2007-05-03 07:59:06 · answer #7 · answered by U-98 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
David Bowie. George Carlin. Bob Geldof. Ani DiFranco. Penn & Teller. Andy Rooney. George Clooney. Natalie Portman. Adam Carolla. Lance Armstrong....
There are lists all over the place.
2007-05-03 07:44:15 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Angelina Jolie.
2007-05-03 07:42:49 · answer #9 · answered by eri 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dave Matthews
Kurt Vonnegut
Woody Allen
Ron Reagan (Pres. Reagan's son)
And of course, Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins.
2007-05-03 07:45:32 · answer #10 · answered by queenie 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Bill Gates; Lance Armstrong; Pat Tillman ( the football player who was killed in Iraq); Stephen Hawking; Richard Dawkins; Angelina Jolie...etc.....
Edit - uh Stranger...John Travolta and Tom Cruise are Scientologists...I don't believe they actually qualify as atheists....
2007-05-03 07:39:14 · answer #11 · answered by Stormilutionist Chasealogist 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋