Can you name some famous atheists?

Question

Can you add what they were famous for?

eww kinsey was an atheist? he had a lot of sociological and psychological problems..and woody allen--i won't touch that one. Wow a lot of you have been mis informed...bill gates isn't an atheist and if he is then he's confused because he's a philanthropist that gives to churches. So...hmmm... who has the right answer?

Answer 1

Douglas Adams (author)
Isaac Asimov (author)
Ambrose Bierce (author)
Sir Arthur C. Clarke (author)
Stanislaw Lem (author)
James Randi (magician)
Terry Pratchett (author)
Philip Pullman (author)
Ron Reagan (son of a former President)
Salman Rushdie (author)
George Bernard Shaw (author)
Percy B. Shelly (poet)
Kurt Vonnegut (author)
Ibn Warraq (author)
Woody Allen (actor)
George Carlin (comedian)
Janeane Garofalo (comedienne)
Adam Carolla (goofball)
George Meyer (producer on "The Simpsons")
Gene Roddenberry (director)
Joss Whedon (director, writer)
Gene Wilder (actor)
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (composer)
Albert Camus (philosopher, author)
Daniel Dennett (philosopher)
Denis Diderot (author)
Friedrich Nietzsche (ubermensch)
Betrand Russell (philosopher)
Jean-Paul Satre (philosopher)
Mikhail Gorbachev (statesman)
Hu Jintao (statesman)
Francis Crick (biologist, discoverer of DNA)
Richard Dawkins (biologist)
Carl Sagan (astronomer)
Marie Curie (chemist)
G.H. Hardy (mathematician)
Richard Feynmann (physicist, ladies' man)
Paul Dirac (mathematician)
Sigmund Frued (father of psychoanalysis)
Alfred Kinsey (psychologist)
P.Z. Meyers (biologist, blogger)
Richard Leaky (paleontologist)
Ernst Mayr (biologist, philosopher)
Linus Pauling (Nobel laureate in chemistry and peace)
Steven Pinker (cognitive scientist)
Linus Torvalds (computer scientist)
James Watson (discoverer of DNA)

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

''During my last semester in college, I took a course on science fiction. Early on, the guy beside me said that he was sickened to find out that Isaac Asimov was an atheist. He had been reading Foundation at the time, and when he discovered Asimov's beliefs, he quite reading the book and vowed never to read anything by the prolific science-fiction author again.

That knucklehead dropped out of the class soon afterwards, but my nameless former classmate came to mind recently. I'd really love to call him on his bluff. If he refuses to read a book because the author is a non-believer, then I assume he refuses to read all the books by non-believers. On top of that, following this principle, he should never again listen to music, watch a movie, look at art, or use an invention that was created by a non-believer. ''Fine,'' he might say, thinking this only rules out a few things. Actually, he wouldn't be able to read a lot of science fiction, including Brave New World, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Stranger in a Strange Land, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, The Handmaid's Tale, or Fahrenheit 451 (how appropriate). For that matter, he couldn't read Tom Sawyer or Huckleberry Finn, ''Kublah Khan,'' Robinson Crusoe, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, Les Miserables, The Three Musketeers, The Great Gatsby, Ulysses, The Call of the Wild, Moby Dick, Death of a Salesman, Winnie-the-Pooh, ''The Raven,'' Frankenstein, ''Ode on a Grecian Urn,'' Prometheus Unbound, The Grapes of Wrath, Walden, Candide, Slaughterhouse Five, The Color Purple, Leaves of Grass, ''My Luve Is Like a Red Rose,'' Don Juan, For Whom the Bell Tolls, or the poetry of William Wordsworth, Emily Dickinson, and E.E. Cummings. Naturally, He also couldn't watch movies based on any of the works.

Speaking of movies, he wouldn't be able to watch, The African Queen, The Godfather, the first Star Wars trilogy, the Superman trilogy, the Diehard trilogy, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Shining, Jurassic Park, The Silence of the Lambs, Chinatown, or any of the films of Charlie Chaplin, W.C. Fields, Ingmar Bergman, Marlene Deitrich, or Uma Thurman.

According to his own rules, he couldn't enter a building designed by Frank Loyd Wright, attend a ballet staring Baryshnikov, or gaze at The Thinker, ''Whistlers Mother,'' or the paintings of Delacroix, Picasso, Wyeth, and Frida Kahlo. He wouldn't be able to listen to the music of Beethoven, Brahms, Debussy, Haydn, Mahler, Mozart, Verdi, or Wagner, not to mention R.E.M., the Beetles, or, um, Barry Manilow.

He can't look at any pictures sent back from the Hubble telescope, go to a Barnum & Bailey Circus, fly in a hot-air balloon, drink pasteurized milk, or use the services of the Red Cross.

And he wouldn't be able to watch CNN or an Atlanta Braves game. Or the original Twilight Zone series. He'd better be using a Mac, because Windows and DOS-not to mention Word, Hotmail, and Internet Explorer-are all owned by an agnostic. Of course, he wouldn't need to use Internet Explorer, because he couldn't surf the Web, which is a creation of a Unitarian. Come to think of it, he can't use a telephone or a incandescent lighting, either. On top of that, he'd have to leave the US, whose principle founders were deists.

The point of my little thought exercise, or course, is that nonbelievers of all stripes-atheists, humanists, naturalists, agnostics, deists, transcendentalists, Unitarians, and other freethinkers have contributed an awful lot to civilization.''

Answer 4

Trent Reznor-Musician for Nine Inch Nails
Marilyn Manson-Musician
The Lead singer of Rammstein
Lemmy Kilmister of Motorhead

Answer 5

Woody Allen, Bill Gates, Frank Zappa, Richard Dawkins, George Carlin, Isaac Asimov (prolific author)

Actually, it's probably easier for you to click this link than for me to keep typing.

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

Answer 6

The scientists listed previously by others are examples of atheists, but Bill Gates isn't. He's an agnostic.

Answer 7

Isacc Asimov (Science Fiction Author)

Woody Allen (Comedian/Actor)

Carl Sagan (Astronomer and Author)

Douglas Adams (Author)

Answer 8

Benjamin Franklin,
Albert Einstein,
Edgar Allen Poe,
Marie Curie,
Simon Bolivar,
Walt Whitman,
Diego Rivera
Mark Twain, who said:
"Faith is believing what you know ain't so."
"'In God We Trust.' I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true."
"It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand."
Thomas Edison who said: "Religion is all bunk."
and I'll add my favorite quote and it comes
from Frank Lloyd Wright who says:
"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature."

Answer 9

This question is better suited for google than Yahoo Answers. You might start at:

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

Hope that helps

Answer 10

Bill Gates is a hypocrite lol if he is claiming to be an athiest, then why is he giving money to churches? And the rest I've never heard of...hmmm...seems people are picking at straws here...