Can you name some famous living Atheists?

Question

Are there any? Whether it be a model, actress, or just a general celebrity?

Answer 1

Some of the people listed are no longer Atheists Like Angelina Joli. She says she will teach her kids all religions and mostly follows Buddhism. Just search celebrity atheists and you will get a good list, but don't think that its current. Hollywood is always changing what they believe,

Answer 2

I don't know how accurate that list above is, as some of those names seem suspicious to me........but I know that a LOT of people in the entertainment areas are, because being an "athiest" gives people the luxury of feeling that they are then unaccountable for anything they do to any kind of higher power. So it can be just one big, selfish hedonistic party! Do what you like, to whomever and with whomever you like, live only for yourself.........that's what these people love to do, and actually thinking they might have a God to answer to for anything, would just flat-out rain on their little ol' parade, now wouldn't it? So what a monumental convenience to just throw up your arms and proclaim "Hey!.....there is no God!"

Answer 3

Lol uh... Carlin and Reeve died... relatively recently...

Answer 4

woody allen is all i know lol.

Answer 5

Note: Not all living, but you can sort that out with a bit of research



Woody Allen, Marlon Brando, George Carlin, George Clooney, Marlene Dietrich, Jodie Foster, Katherine Hepburn, Sally Jesse Raphael, Christopher Reeve, Howard Stern and Uma Thurman.



* Forrest J. Ackerman

* Douglas Adams

* Phillip Adams

* Brandy Alexandre

* Ayaan Hirsi Ali

* Tariq Ali

* Woody Allen

* Shulamit Aloni

* Thomas J. Altizer

* Natalie Angier

* Lance Armstrong

* Liv Arnesen

* Madison Arnold

* Darren Aronofsky

* Isaac Asimov

* Peter William Atkins



B



* Julian Baggini

* Russell Baker

* J.G. Ballard

* Iain M. Banks

* Clive Barker

* Dan Barker

* MC Paul Barman

* Dave Barry

* Richard Bartle

* Bill Bass

* Matt Bellamy

* Steve Benson

* Ingmar Bergman

* Pierre Berton

* Matt Besser

* Paul Bettany

* Björk

* Susan Blackmore

* Bill Blass

* Jim Bohanan

* Sir Herman Bondi

* Pierre Boulez

* T. Coraghessan Boyle

* Nathaniel Branden

* Marlon Brando

* Richard Branson

* Berkeley Breathed

* Julia Hartley Brewer

* Marcus Brigstocke

* Isaac Brock

* Rodney Brooks

* Andrew Brown

* Bill Bryson

* Peter Buck

* Warren Buffett

* Gabriel Byrne

* John Byrne



C



* Dean Cameron

* Mike Carey

* George Carlin

* John Carmack

* Adam Carolla

* John Carpenter

* Asia Carrera

* Fidel Castro

* Dick Cavett

* Stephen Chapman

* Dov Charney

* Vic Chesnutt

* Noam Chomsky





C cont.



* Mohammed Choukri

* Robin Christopher

* Chumbawamba

* Alexander Cockburn

* Billy Connolly

* John Conway

* Alex Cox

* Francis Crick

* David Cronenberg

* David Cross

* Alan Cumming

* Justin Currie



D



* Ron Dakron

* Rodney Dangerfield

* Julia Darling

* Russell T Davies

* Mark Jonathan Davis

* William B. Davis

* Richard Dawkins

* Jeff Dee

* Daniel Dennett

* David Deutsch

* Ani DiFranco

* Micky Dolenz

* Amanda Donohoe

* Phil Donahue

* Roddy Doyle



E



* Christopher Eccleston

* Dean Edell

* Jonathan Edwards

* Paul Edwards

* Greg Egan

* Barbara Ehrenreich

* Paul Ehrlich

* Albert Ellis

* Bret Easton Ellis

* Warren Ellis

* Harlan Ellison

* William Empson

* Garth Ennis

* Brian Eno



F



* Oriana Fallaci

* Diane Farr

* David Feherty

* Jules Feiffer

* Larry Fessenden

* Ludwig Andreas von Feuerbach

* Richard Feynman

* Harvey Fierstein

* Bob Fingerman

* Reginald Finley

* Brian Flemming

* Larry Flynt

* Dario Fo

* Dave Foley

* James Forman

* Jodie Foster

* John Fowles

* Robin Lane Fox

* Stephen Fry



G



* Noel Gallagher

* Janeane Garofalo

* Bob Geldof

* Jack Germond

* Ricky Gervais

* Prabhir Ghosh

* David Gilmour





G cont.



* Ira Glass

* James Gleick

* Jean Luc Godard

* Theo van Gogh

* Al Goldstein

* Nadine Gordimer

* Michael Goudeau

* Greg Graffin

* Richard E. Grant

* A. C. Grayling

* Stephen Greenblatt

* Susan Greenfield

* Germaine Greer

* Kathy Griffin

* Rachel Griffiths



H



* Joe Haldeman

* Kathleen Hanna

* Yip Harburg

* Sam Harris

* Harry Harrison

* Nina Hartley

* Roy Hattersley

* James A. Haught

* Bill Hayden

* Judith Hayes

* Stan Hayes

* Robert Heinlein

* Nat Hentoff

* Katharine Hepburn

* Richard Herring

* Paul Hester

* Christopher Hitchens

* Philip Hobsbaum

* Douglas Hofstadter

* Jerry Holkins

* Ted Honderich

* General Choi Hong-Hi

* Sidney Hook

* Derek Humphry



I



* Eddie Izzard



J



* Penn Jillette

* Billy Joel

* Angelina Jolie

* Kirk Jones

* Lionel Jospin



K



* Joachim Kahl

* Wendy Kaminer

* Jonathan Katz

* Dawna Kaufmann

* Kawaljeet Kaur

* Diane Keaton

* Ken Keeler

* Ludovic Kennedy

* Kevin Kline

* Eli Khamarov

* Margot Kidder

* Kim Il-Sung

* Florence King

* Neil Kinnock

* W. P. Kinsella

* Michael Kinsley

* Melvin Konner

* Frank Kozik

* Kramer

* Paul Krassner

* Ron Kuby

* Milan Kundera



K



* Paul Kurtz



L



* Ring Lardner Jr.

* Mr. Lavanam

* Richard Leakey

* Alexander I. Lebed

* Bruce Lee

* Stewart Lee

* Tom Lehrer

* Mike Leigh

* Stanislaw Lem

* Vladimir Lenin

* Gerda Lerner

* Michael Lewis

* Tom Leykis

* James Lipton

* Denis Loubet

* H.P. Lovecraft

* Arjen Lucassen



M



* Heather Mac Donald

* Seth MacFarlane

* John Malkovich

* Mike Malloy

* 'Manda

* Barry Manilow

* Shirley Manson

* Mao Zedong

* Michael Martin

* Karl Marx

* Nick Mason

* Armistead Maupin

* John McCarthy

* Malachy McCourt

* Evelyn McDonnell

* Ian McEwan

* Todd McFarlane

* Montana McGlynn

* Sir Ian McKellen

* Alexander McQueen

* Butterfly McQueen

* Jonathan Meades

* Antonio Mendoza

* Stephen Merchant

* Tom Metzger

* China Mi

* Arthur Miller

* Frank Miller

* Jonathan Miller

* Mike Mills

* Marvin Minsky

* Warren Mitchell

* John Money

* Hans Moravec

* Henry Morgentaler

* Desmond Morris

* James Morrow

* John Mortimer

* Markos 'Kos' Moulitsas Z

* Frank Mullen

* Cillian murphy



N



* Taslima Nasrin

* Ramendra Nath

* Ted Nelson

* Randy Newman

* Mike Nichols

* Jack Nicholson

* Kai Nielsen





N cont.



* Oscar Niemeyer

* Friedrich Nietzsche

* Robert Nozick

* Gary Numan

* Ronald Numbers



O



* Madalyn Murray O'Hair

* Bob Odenkirk

* Patton Oswalt



P



* Camille Paglia

* Andy Partridge

* Mark Pauline

* Leonard Peikoff

* Paul Pfalzner

* Julia Phillips

* Joaquin Phoenix

* Ferdinand Piech

* Steven Pinker

* Neal Pollack

* Katha Pollitt

* Paula Poundstone

* Vladimir Pozner

* Terry Pratchett

* Paul Provenza

* Philip Pullman



Q



* Robin Quivers



R



* Justin Raimondo

* Ayn Rand

* James Randi

* Ray Romano

* Ron Reagan Jr.

* Rick Reynolds

* Trent Reznor

* Griff Rhys-Jones

* Mordecai Richler

* Christopher Ricks

* Matt Ridley

* Brian Ritchie

* Brad Roberts

* Chris Robinson

* Gene Roddenberry

* Richard Rodgers

* Joe Rogan

* Neil Rogers

* Henry Rollins

* Andy Rooney

* Richard Rorty

* Arundhati Roy

* Jane Rule

* Salman Rushdie

* Douglas Rushkoff

* Bertrand Russell

* Karen Russell



S



* Oliver Sacks

* Mona Sahlin

* Sebasti

* Sandbox

* Robert Sapolsky

* Jos

* Pamela Sargent

* Max Sawicky

* John Sayles

* Arthur Schopenhauer

* Tom Schulman

* Eugenie Scott

* Captain Sensible

* Nick Seymour

* Robert I. Sherman





S cont.



* Michael Shermer

* Robert Silverberg

* Bob Simon

* Claude Simon

* Simplot, J.R.

* Joe Simpson

* Peter Singer

* Marie Skłodowska-Curie

* Slayer

* J.J.C. Smart

* Robert Smith (football)

* George H. Smith

* Robert Smith

* Lee Smolin

* Steven Soderbergh

* Todd Solondz

* Annika Sorenstam

* George Soros

* Joseph Stalin

* Richard Stallman

* Peter Steele

* Bruce Sterling

* Howard Stern

* J. Michael Straczynski

* Ken Stringfellow

* Julia Sweeney

* Matthew Sweet



T



* James Taranto

* Teller

* Studs Terkel

* Louis Theroux

* Pat Tillman

* Tom Tomorrow

* Linus Torvalds

* Solomon Tulbure

* Ted Turner

* Bill Tytla



V



* Eddie Vedder

* Paul Verhoeven

* Gore Vidal

* Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

* Sarah Vowell



W



* Matt Wagner

* Annika Walter

* Harry Waters

* Roger Waters

* James Watson

* Peter Watts

* Steven Weinberg

* Gene Weingarten

* Joss Whedon

* Earl Wild

* Harland Williams

* Sean Williams

* Ted Williams

* Ian Wilmut

* Rabbi Sherwin T. Wine

* Tom Wolfe

* Lewis Wolpert

* Steve Wozniak

* Bruce Wright



Y



* Irvin D. Yalom



Z



* Frank Zappa

* Zarkov

* Nick Zed