Famous atheists

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

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, 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

• 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, 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-

• 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