Famous atheists

Diagoras of Melos was an ancient Greek atheist, poet and sophist of the 5th century BC.

Below is a list of famous atheism categorized by the century in which they lived. See also: Celebrity atheists

## Contents

* 1 5th Century B.C.
* 2 4th Century B.C.
* 3 18th Century
* 4 19th Century
* 5 20th Century
* 6 Famous agnostics
* 7 See also

## 5th Century B.C.[edit]

* Diagoras of Melos

## 4th Century B.C.[edit]

* Epicurus

## 18th Century[edit]

* Marquis de Sade, 1740–1814

## 19th Century[edit]

Karl Marx

* Karl Marx, 1818-1883
* Vladimir Lenin, 1870-1924
* Edgar Allen Poe, 1809-1849
* Susan B. Anthony, 1820-1906
* Johannes Brahms, 1833–1897
* Samuel Clemens, 1835-1910
* Andrew Carnegie, 1835-1919
* Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844–1900
* Thomas Edison, 1847-1931
* Ivan Pavlov, 1949-1936
* Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939
* Clarence Seward Darrow, 1857-1938
* Richard Strauss, 1864-1949
* Marie Curie, 1867-1934

Friedrich Nietzsche

* Bertrand Russell, 1872-1970
* Joseph Stalin, 1878–1953
* Leon Trotsky, 1879–1940
* Helen Keller, 1880-1968
* Virginia Woolf, 1882-1941
* Diego Rivera, 1886-1957
* Jawaharlal Nehru, 1889-1964
* Mao Zedong, 1893–1976
* Ernest Hemingway, 1899-1961

## 20th Century[edit]

Jean Paul Sartre

* Jean-Paul Sartre, 1905–1980
* Linus Pauling, 1901-1994
* Paul Dirac, 1902-1984
* George Orwell, 1903–1950
* Ayn Rand, 1905-1982
* Frida Kahlo, 1907-1954
* Katherine Hepburn, 1907-2003
* Subrahmanyan Chandresekhar, 1910-1995
* Alan Turing, 1912-1954
* Claude Shannon, 1916-2001
* Richard Feynman, 1918-1988
* Rodney Dangerfield, 1921-2004
* Kurt Vonnegut, 1922-2007
* Marlon Brando, 1924-2004
* James Watson, 1928-
* Peter Higgs, 1929-
* Gene Wilder, 1933-
* Steven Weinberg, 1933-
* Woody Allen, 1935-
* Barack Obama, Sr., 1936–1982
* Leonard Susskind, 1940-

Christopher Hitchens

* Bruce Lee, 1940–1973
* Stephen Hawking, 1942-
* Mick Jagger, 1943-
* David Gilmour, 1946-
* Raymond Joseph Teller, 1948-
* Christopher Hitchens, 1949–2011
* Douglas Adams, 1952-2001
* Penn Jillette, 1955-
* Jamie Hyneman, 1956-
* Sean Carroll, 1966-
* Adam Savage, 1967-
* James Cameron, 1971-
* Seth Godin, 1960 -

## Famous agnostics[edit]

* Famous agnostics

## See also[edit]

* Atheism quotes