Listing of noted atheists

A number of noted individuals have been atheists. In presenting this list, we do not mean to imply that the fact that these people are atheists makes atheism any more likely--that would be a clearly bogus [argumentum ad populum]? and [argumentum ad vericundiam]?.

A partial list of persons believed to be atheists:

Woody Allen

[Nathaniel Branden]?

Marlon Brando

[Richard Branson]?

[George Carlin]?

Adam Carolla

[John Carpenter]?

[Asia Carrera]?

Noam Chomsky

Richard Dawkins

Thomas Edison

Paul Ehrlich

[Larry Flynt]?

[Robbie Fulks]?

[Penn Jillette]?

[Paul Kurtz]?

Karl Marx

Jonathan Meades

[H.L. Mencken]?

[Camille Paglia]?

[[Jacques Prévert]]

Ayn Rand

[Christopher Reeve]?

[Matt Ridley]?

[Richard Rorty]?

Bertrand Russell

Marquis de Sade

Carl Sagan

[George Soros]?

Richard Stallman

Teller?

Linus Torvalds

Ted Turner

Mark Twain

[Gore Vidal]?

Kurt Vonnegut

[Joss Whedon]?

See also:

listing of noted agnostics

listing of noted Buddhists

[listing of noted Christians]?

[listing of noted Confucianists]?

listing of noted Deists

listing of noted Hindus

[listing of noted Jews]?

[listing of noted Muslims]?

[listing of noted Scientologists]?

[listing of noted Taoists]?

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