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Notable Secular Humanists

  • Activists and educators, such as Yelena Bonner, Barbara Ehrenreich, Mel Hurtig, Henry Morgentaler, James Randi, Margaret Sanger, David Suzuki
  • Authors, such as Douglas Adams, Isaac Asimov, Margaret Atwood, Iain Banks, Pierre Berton, Arthur C. Clarke, Greg Egan, William Golding, Robert Graves, Harry Harrison, H.P. Lovecraft, Arthur Miller, Farley Mowat, George Orwell, Terry Pratchett, Philip Pullman, Salman Rushdie, Dan Savage, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kurt Vonnegut
  • Film, radio, TV, and theatre stars, such as Woody Allen, Charlie Chaplin, David Cronenberg, Russell T. Davies, Katharine Hepburn, Penn and Teller, Seth MacFarlane, Jack Nicholson, Omar Sharif, J. Michael Straczynski, Ted Turner, Paul Verhoeven, Joss Whedon
  • Musicians, such as Björk, David Bowie, Ani DiFranco, Mick Jagger, Frank Zappa
  • Philosophers, such as Mikhail Bakunin, Albert Camus, Noam Chomsky, John Dewey, Denis Diderot, Paul KurtzJohn Stuart Mill, Bertrand Russell, Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Politicians and lawyers, such as Clarence Darrow, Mikhail Gorbachev, Jawaharlal Nehru
  • Scientists and engineers, such as Francis Crick, Richard Dawkins, Paul Dirac, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, Sigmund Freud, Stephen Jay Gould, James Hall, Stephen Hawking, Peter Higgs, Linus Pauling, Ivan Pavlov, Carl Sagan, Andrei Sakharov, Benjamin Spock, Richard Stallman, Frank J. Tipler, Linus Torvalds, Alan Turing, James D. Watson, Steven Weinberg, Steve Wozniak
  • Other people, including Andrew Carnegie, Larry Flynt, Allan Pinkerton, George Carlin, Michel Foucault, Lance Armstrong, Berkeley Breathed
  • Agnostics, such as H.L. Mencken, Mark Twain, Robert Anton Wilson, Warren Buffett, Carrie Fischer, Matt Groenig, Larry King, Bill Maher, Andy Rooney, Matt Stone, David Attenborough, Marie and Pierre Curie, Charles Darwin, Thomas Henry Huxley
  • Humanists, including Gene Roddenberry, Rod Serling
  • Secularist organizations

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