FAMOUS ATHEISTS, AGNOSTICS & HUMANISTS

Many famous people don't/didn't believe in god. Some call(ed) themselves atheists, others, agnostics; and some think/thought of themselves as humanists. Here are a few of the better known individuals -- you can find more information about any of them on http://en.wikipedia.org:

Before Common Era (BCE)

Socrates (469 - 399)

Epicurus (341 - 270)

Lucretius (99 - 55)

17th Century

Voltaire (1694 - 1791)

18th Century

Hume, David (1711 - 1776)

Diderot, Denis (1713 - 1784)

Smith, Adam (1723 - 1790)

Paine, Thomas (1737 - 1809)

Bentham, Jeremy (1748 - 1832)

Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759 - 1797)

Shelly, Percy Bysshe (1792 - 1822)

19th Century

Mill, John Stuart (1806 - 1873)

Darwin, Charles (1809 - 1882)

Eliot, George (1819 - 1880)

Huxley, Thomas (1825 - 1895)

Twain, Mark (1835 - 1910)

Besant, Annie (1847 -1933)

Wells, HG (1866 - 1946)

Curie, Marie (1867 - 1934)

Russell, Bertrand (1872 - 1970)

Einstein, Albert (1879 - 1955)

Keynes, Maynard (1883 - 1946)

Buck, Pearl (1892-1973)

Huxley, Aldous (1894 - 1963)

20th Century

Popper, Karl (1902 - 1994)

Blackham, H. J. (1903 - 2009)

Sartre, Jean-Paul (1905 - 1980)

Arendt, Hannah (1906-1975)

Hepburn, Katharine (1907-2003)

Beauvoir, Simone de  (1908 - 1986)

Bacon, Francis (1909 - 1992)

Berlin, Isaiah (1909 - 1997)

Ayer, Alfred J (1910 - 1989)

Miller, Arthur (1915 - 2005)

Crick, Francis (1916 - 2004)

Clarke, Arthur C (1917 - 2008)

Bergman, Ingmar (1918 - 2007)

Feynman, Richard (1918 - 1988)

Kennedy, Ludovic (1919 - 2009)

Asimov, Isaac (1920 - 1992)

Ustinov, Peter (1921 - 2004)

Vonnegut, Kurt (1922 - 2007)

Gordimer, Nadine (1923 - )

Vidal, Gore (1925 - )

Attenborough, David (1926 - )

Melly, George (1926 - 2007)

Monkhouse, Bob (1928 - 2003)

Watson, James D. (1928 - )

Barker, Ronnie (1929 - 2005)

Rayner, Claire (1931 - )

Duffy, Maureen (1933 - )

Miller, Jonathan (1934 - )

Sagan, Carl (1934 - 1996)

Allen, Woody (1935 - )

McKellen, Ian (1939 - )

Lennon, John (1940 - 1980)

Dawkins, Richard (1941 - )

Blackstone, Baroness Tessa (1942 - )

Dennett, Daniel (1942 - )

Kinnock, Baroness Glenys (1944 - )

Leakey, Richard (1944 - )

Asher, Jane (1946  - )

Pullman, Phillip (1946 - )

Toynbee, Polly (1946 - )

Rushdie, Salman (1947 - )

McEwan, Ian (1948 - )

Pratchett, Terry (1948 - )

Taylor, James (1948 - )

Grayling, Antony C (1949 - )

Hitchens, Christopher (1949 - )

Murray, Jenni (1950 - )

Blackmore, Dr Susan (1951 - )

Honeyball, Mary (1952 - )

Adams, Douglas (1952 - 2001)

Pinker, Steven (1954 - )

Gervais, Ricky (1961 - )

Smith, Linda (1958 - 2006)

Thompson, Emma (1959 - )