Religion: Atheist
- ️Wed Dec 17 2008
Religion: Atheist
LISTS
See also Agnostics.
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forrest J. Ackerman | Author | 24-Nov-1916 | 4-Dec-2008 | Mr. Science Fiction |
| Douglas Adams | Author | 11-Mar-1952 | 11-May-2001 | Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |
| Scott Adams | Cartoonist | 8-Jun-1957 | Creator, Dilbert | |
| Steve Albini | Music Producer | 22-Jul-1962 | Big Black, Rapeman, Shellac | |
| Brandy Alexandre | Pornstar | 17-Jul-1964 | Twin Peeks, Whore of the Roses | |
| Zhores I. Alferov | Scientist | 15-Mar-1930 | Developed solar cells for the Sputnik program | |
| Ayaan Hirsi Ali | Activist | 13-Nov-1969 | Submission | |
| Salvador Allende | Head of State | 26-Jul-1908 | 11-Sep-1973 | Chilean President, deposed by Pinochet |
| Pedro Almodóvar | Film Director | 25-Sep-1951 | Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! | |
| Barbara Amiel | Journalist | 4-Dec-1940 | Director of The Spectator | |
| Natalie Angier | Journalist | 16-Feb-1958 | Science reporter | |
| Lance Armstrong | Cyclist | 18-Sep-1971 | 7-time Tour De France winner | |
| Svante Arrhenius | Chemist | 19-Feb-1859 | 2-Oct-1927 | Explored electrolytic conductivity |
| Isaac Asimov | Author | 2-Jan-1920 | 6-Apr-1992 | Foundation |
| Julian Assange | Hacker | 3-Jul-1971 | Founder of Wikileaks | |
| David Attenborough | Naturalist | 8-May-1926 | Life on Earth | |
| Vincent Auriol | Head of State | 27-Aug-1884 | 1-Jan-1966 | President of France, 1947-54 |
| Julius Axelrod | Chemist | 30-May-1912 | 29-Dec-2004 | Research of neurotransmitters |
| A. J. Ayer | Philosopher | 29-Oct-1910 | 27-Jun-1989 | Language, Truth and Logic |
| Mikhail Bakunin | Anarchist | 30-May-1814 | 1-Jul-1876 | Pioneer of the Anarchist movement |
| Dave Barry | Columnist | 3-Jul-1947 | Dave Barry's Guide to Life | |
| Bill Bass | Scientist | 30-Aug-1928 | Human decomposition | |
| Simone de Beauvoir | Activist | 9-Jan-1908 | 14-Apr-1986 | The Second Sex |
| Daniel Bell | Sociologist | 10-May-1919 | 25-Jan-2011 | The End of Ideology |
| William Bennett | Musician | 1960 | Whitehouse | |
| Jeremy Bentham | Philosopher | 15-Feb-1748 | 6-Jun-1832 | Proponent of Utilitarianism |
| Ingmar Bergman | Film Director | 14-Jul-1918 | 30-Jul-2007 | Scenes from a Marriage |
| Lavrenty Beria | Government | 29-Mar-1899 | 23-Dec-1953 | Chief of the NKVD, 1940-46 |
| Sali Berisha | Head of State | 15-Oct-1944 | Prime Minister of Albania | |
| Alexander Berkman | Anarchist | 21-Nov-1870 | 28-Jun-1936 | A.B.C. of Anarchism |
| Hector Berlioz | Composer | 11-Dec-1803 | 8-Mar-1869 | French romantic composer |
| J. D. Bernal | Physicist | 10-May-1901 | 15-Sep-1971 | X-ray crystallography |
| Jello Biafra | Singer | 17-Jun-1958 | Dead Kennedys | |
| Andy Biersack | Singer | 26-Dec-1990 | Lead singer, Black Veil Brides | |
| Bjork | Singer/Songwriter | 21-Nov-1965 | Eccentric Icelandic performer | |
| Susan Blackmore | Author | 29-Jul-1951 | The Meme Machine | |
| Maurice Blanchot | Philosopher | 22-Sep-1907 | 20-Feb-2003 | L'Espace littéraire |
| Ernst Bloch | Philosopher | 8-Jul-1885 | 4-Aug-1977 | Principle of Hope |
| Pierre Boulez | Composer | 26-Mar-1925 | Modern composer and conductor | |
| Louise Bourgeois | Sculptor | 25-Dec-1911 | 31-May-2010 | Crouching Spider |
| Paul D. Boyer | Chemist | 31-Jul-1918 | ATP process | |
| Charles Bradlaugh | Activist | 26-Sep-1833 | 30-Jan-1891 | Atheistic Iconoclast |
| Richard Branson | Business | 18-Jul-1950 | Founder of Virgin chain | |
| Tinto Brass | Film Director | 26-Mar-1933 | Caligula | |
| Berke Breathed | Cartoonist | 21-Jun-1957 | Cartoonist of Bloom County | |
| Bertolt Brecht | Playwright | 10-Feb-1898 | 14-Aug-1956 | Mother Courage and Her Children |
| Dara � Briain | Comic | 4-Feb-1972 | Mock the Week | |
| Percy Williams Bridgman | Physicist | 21-Apr-1882 | 20-Aug-1961 | High-pressure physics |
| Rodney Brooks | Scientist | 30-Dec-1954 | Robotics and artificial intelligence researcher | |
| Susan Brownmiller | Activist | 15-Feb-1935 | Feminist, Against Our Will | |
| Giordano Bruno | Scientist | 1548 | 17-Feb-1600 | Heretic cosmologist |
| Peter Buck | Guitarist | 6-Dec-1956 | R.E.M. | |
| Nikolai Bukharin | Economist | 9-Oct-1888 | 15-Mar-1938 | Soviet theoretical economist |
| Charles Bukowski | Author | 16-Aug-1920 | 9-Mar-1994 | Love is a Dog from Hell |
| Luis Buñuel | Film Director | 22-Feb-1900 | 29-Jul-1983 | That Obscure Object of Desire |
| Walter Bradford Cannon | Scientist | 19-Oct-1871 | 1-Oct-1945 | Fight or flight response |
| George Carlin | Comic | 12-May-1937 | 22-Jun-2008 | Seven Dirty Words |
| John Carmack | Computer Programmer | 20-Aug-1970 | Lead programmer of Doom, Quake | |
| Adam Carolla | Radio Personality | 27-May-1964 | Loveline, The Man Show | |
| John Carpenter | Film Director | 16-Jan-1948 | Escape from New York | |
| Asia Carrera | Pornstar | 6-Aug-1973 | Mensa member, pornstar | |
| Fidel Castro | Head of State | 13-Aug-1926 | Dictator of Cuba for almost fifty years | |
| Raúl Castro | Government | 3-Jun-1931 | President of Cuba | |
| Dick Cavett | Talk Show Host | 19-Nov-1936 | The Dick Cavett Show | |
| David Chalmers | Philosopher | 20-Apr-1966 | Philosopher of Consciousness | |
| Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar | Astronomer | 19-Oct-1910 | 21-Aug-1995 | Evolutionary stages of stars |
| Dov Charney | Business | 31-Jan-1969 | American Apparel CEO | |
| Georges Charpak | Physicist | 1-Aug-1924 | 29-Sep-2010 | Subatomic particle detectors |
| Noam Chomsky | Linguist | 7-Dec-1928 | Linguist, dissident intellectual | |
| Arthur C. Clarke | Novelist | 16-Dec-1917 | 19-Mar-2008 | 2001: A Space Odyssey |
| Nick Clegg | Politician | 7-Jan-1967 | Leader of the Liberal Democrats | |
| Voltairine de Cleyre | Anarchist | 17-Nov-1866 | 20-Jun-1912 | Anarchist without an adjective |
| Alexander Cockburn | Columnist | 6-Jun-1941 | 20-Jul-2012 | The Nation, CounterPunch |
| Marshall A. Cohen | Business | c. 1935 | CEO of Molson, 1988-96 | |
| Auguste Comte | Sociologist | 19-Jan-1798 | 5-Sep-1857 | Positivist founder of Sociology |
| John Conway | Mathematician | 26-Dec-1937 | Game of Life | |
| Wayne Coyne | Musician | 13-Jan-1961 | Frontman for The Flaming Lips | |
| Francis Crick | Scientist | 8-Jun-1916 | 28-Jul-2004 | Co-Discoverer of the structure of DNA |
| Benedetto Croce | Philosopher | 25-Feb-1866 | 20-Nov-1952 | Philosophy of Spirit |
| David Cronenberg | Film Director | 15-Mar-1943 | Videodrome | |
| Ben Croshaw | Critic | 24-May-1983 | Zero Punctuation | |
| David Cross | Actor | 4-Apr-1964 | Mr. Show with Bob and David | |
| Alan Cumming | Actor | 27-Jan-1965 | Nightcrawler in X-Men | |
| Peter Cundall | TV Personality | 1-Apr-1927 | Host of Gardening Australia, 1989-2008 | |
| S. E. Cupp | Pundit | 23-Feb-1979 | Losing Our Religion | |
| Ivor Cutler | Poet | 15-Jan-1923 | 3-Mar-2006 | Glasgow Dreamer |
| Leon Czolgosz | Assassin | 1873 | 29-Oct-1901 | President McKinley's assassin |
| Theodore Dalrymple | Author | 11-Oct-1949 | Life at the Bottom | |
| Terence Davies | Film Director | 10-Nov-1945 | The House of Mirth | |
| Frank Dalby Davison | Author | 23-Jun-1893 | 24-May-1970 | Dusty |
| Richard Dawkins | Biologist | 26-Mar-1941 | Zoologist and evolutionary biologist | |
| Marquis de Sade | Author | 2-Jun-1740 | 2-Dec-1814 | 120 Days of Sodom |
| Daniel C. Dennett | Philosopher | 28-Mar-1942 | Leading Darwinist and philosopher | |
| Jared Diamond | Scientist | 10-Sep-1937 | Collapse of societies | |
| Ani DiFranco | Singer/Songwriter | 23-Sep-1970 | Bisexual folk/punk icon | |
| Phyllis Diller | Comic | 17-Jul-1917 | 20-Aug-2012 | The original female stand-up comic |
| Paul Dirac | Physicist | 8-Aug-1902 | 20-Oct-1984 | The Principles of Quantum Mechanics |
| Cory Doctorow | Blogger | 17-Jul-1971 | Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom | |
| Micky Dolenz | Actor | 8-Mar-1945 | Drummer for The Monkees | |
| Joel Dorius | Educator | 4-Jan-1919 | 14-Feb-2006 | Professor fired for gay porn arrest |
| Natalie Dormer | Actor | 11-Feb-1982 | Anne Boleyn on The Tudors | |
| Ann Druyan | Author | 13-Jun-1949 | Co-wrote Cosmos with husband Carl Sagan | |
| Felix Dzerzhinsky | Government | 11-Sep-1877 | 20-Jul-1926 | The Black Pope of Bolshevism |
| George Eastman | Inventor | 12-Jul-1854 | 14-Mar-1932 | Inventor of the Kodak camera |
| Umberto Eco | Author | 5-Jan-1932 | Foucault's Pendulum, The Name of the Rose | |
| Dr. Dean Edell | Radio Personality | c. 1941 | Syndicated call-in radio doctor | |
| Barbara Ehrenreich | Author | 26-Aug-1941 | Nickel and Dimed | |
| Paul R. Ehrlich | Scientist | 29-May-1932 | The Population Bomb | |
| Albert Einstein | Physicist | 14-Mar-1879 | 18-Apr-1955 | Theory of relativity |
| Albert Ellis | Psychologist | 27-Sep-1913 | 24-Jul-2007 | Rational emotive behavior therapy |
| Warren Ellis | Author | 16-Feb-1968 | Transmetropolitan | |
| Harlan Ellison | Author | 27-May-1934 | I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream | |
| Brian Eno | Music Producer | 15-May-1948 | Here Come The Warm Jets | |
| Hugh Everett | Physicist | 11-Nov-1930 | 19-Jul-1982 | Many Worlds Theory of quantum physics |
| Robert Faurisson | Scholar | 25-Jan-1929 | French Holocaust denier | |
| Ludwig Feuerbach | Philosopher | 28-Jul-1804 | 13-Sep-1872 | Das Weses des Christentums |
| Richard Feynman | Physicist | 11-May-1918 | 15-Feb-1988 | Surely he's joking |
| Joseph Fletcher | Sociologist | 10-Apr-1905 | 28-Oct-1991 | Situation ethics |
| Larry Flynt | Business | 1-Nov-1942 | Publisher of HUSTLER | |
| Dario Fo | Playwright | 26-Mar-1926 | Italian playwright and Nobel laureate | |
| Dave Foley | Actor | 4-Jan-1963 | The Kids in the Hall | |
| Michael Foot | Politician | 23-Jul-1913 | 3-Mar-2010 | Leader, House of Commons, 1976-79 |
| Lita Ford | Musician | 23-Sep-1959 | Band member The Runaways | |
| Jodie Foster | Actor | 19-Nov-1962 | The Silence of the Lambs | |
| Anatole France | Novelist | 16-Apr-1844 | 13-Oct-1924 | French novelist |
| Frederick the Great | Royalty | 24-Jan-1712 | 17-Aug-1786 | King of Prussia 1740-86 |
| Anna Freud | Relative | 3-Dec-1895 | 9-Oct-1982 | Daughter of Sigmund Freud |
| Sigmund Freud | Psychiatrist | 6-May-1856 | 23-Sep-1939 | Die Traumdeutung |
| Janeane Garofalo | Comic | 28-Sep-1964 | Actor, Comedian, Author, Activist | |
| Bob Geldof | Musician | 5-Oct-1951 | Live Aid, Boomtown Rats | |
| Jack Germond | Columnist | 30-Jan-1928 | Fat Man in a Middle Seat | |
| Ricky Gervais | Actor | 25-Jun-1961 | The Office | |
| David Gilmour | Guitarist | 6-Mar-1946 | Guitarist for Pink Floyd | |
| Vitaly L. Ginzburg | Physicist | 4-Oct-1916 | 8-Nov-2009 | Type-II superconductors |
| Ira Glass | Radio Personality | 3-Mar-1959 | This American Life | |
| Jean-Luc Godard | Film Director | 3-Dec-1930 | Vivre sa Vie | |
| Whoopi Goldberg | Actor | 13-Nov-1955 | Sister Act | |
| Emma Goldman | Anarchist | 27-Jun-1869 | 14-May-1940 | Anarchist and feminist libertarian |
| Al Goldstein | Business | 10-Jan-1936 | Founder of Screw magazine | |
| Wladyslaw Gomulka | Head of State | 6-Feb-1905 | 1-Sep-1982 | Head of Polish Communists, 1956-70 |
| Raisa Gorbachev | First Lady | 5-Jan-1932 | 20-Sep-1999 | First Lady of the Soviet Union |
| Nadine Gordimer | Author | 20-Nov-1923 | South African novelist | |
| Gordon Gould | Physicist | 17-Jul-1920 | 16-Sep-2005 | Invented the laser, arguably |
| Spalding Gray | Actor | 5-Jun-1941 | 11-Jan-2004 | Swimming to Cambodia monologist |
| Seth Green | Actor | 8-Feb-1974 | Dr. Evil's son Scott | |
| Sasha Grey | Pornstar | 14-Mar-1988 | The Girlfriend Experience | |
| Kathy Griffin | Actor | 4-Nov-1960 | Vicki on Suddenly Susan | |
| Virgil Griffith | Computer Programmer | 6-Mar-1983 | Author of WikiScanner | |
| Rachel Griffiths | Actor | 20-Feb-1968 | Brenda Chenowith on Six Feet Under | |
| Shenae Grimes | Actor | 24-Oct-1989 | Annie Wilson on 90210 | |
| Che Guevara | Activist | 14-Jun-1928 | 9-Oct-1967 | Revolutionary icon |
| Jorge Guinle | Socialite | 5-Feb-1916 | 5-Mar-2004 | Brazilian playboy |
| J. B. S. Haldane | Biologist | 5-Nov-1892 | 1-Dec-1964 | Haldane's principle |
| Joe Haldeman | Novelist | 9-Jun-1943 | The Forever War | |
| Kathleen Hanna | Musician | 12-Nov-1969 | Riot Grrrl extraordinaire | |
| G. H. Hardy | Mathematician | 7-Feb-1877 | 1-Dec-1947 | A Mathematician's Apology |
| Michael Harrington | Activist | 24-Feb-1928 | 31-Jul-1989 | The Other America |
| Sam Harris | Author | 1967 | The End of Faith | |
| Harry Harrison | Novelist | 12-Mar-1925 | 15-Aug-2012 | Stainless Steel Rat series |
| Nina Hartley | Pornstar | 11-Mar-1959 | Little Bill's slutty wife in Boogie Nights | |
| Herbert A. Hauptman | Mathematician | 14-Feb-1917 | 23-Oct-2011 | X-ray diffraction studies |
| Harry Hay | Activist | 7-Apr-1912 | 24-Oct-2002 | Gay activist, founder The Mattachine Society |
| Bill Haywood | Labor Leader | 4-Feb-1869 | 18-May-1928 | Industrial Workers of the World |
| Amber Heard | Actor | 22-Apr-1986 | And Soon The Darkness | |
| Hugh Hefner | Publisher | 9-Apr-1926 | Founder, Playboy magazine | |
| Katharine Hepburn | Actor | 12-May-1907 | 29-Jun-2003 | The Philadelphia Story |
| Melville J. Herskovits | Anthropologist | 10-Sep-1895 | 25-Feb-1963 | The Myth of the Negro Past |
| Peter Higgs | Physicist | 29-May-1929 | Higgs boson and Higgs field | |
| Christopher Hitchens | Journalist | 13-Apr-1949 | 15-Dec-2011 | Agent provocateur |
| Roald Hoffmann | Chemist | 18-Jul-1937 | Woodward-Hoffmann reaction | |
| Mark W. Hofmann | Criminal | 7-Dec-1954 | Forger, murderer | |
| Douglas Hofstadter | Author | 15-Feb-1945 | Godel, Escher, Bach | |
| A. E. Housman | Poet | 26-Mar-1859 | 30-Apr-1936 | A Shropshire Lad |
| Enver Hoxha | Head of State | 16-Oct-1908 | 11-Apr-1985 | Ruler of Albania, 1944-85 |
| Russell A. Hulse | Physicist | 28-Nov-1950 | Co-Discovered first binary pulsar | |
| David Hume | Philosopher | 7-May-1711 | 25-Aug-1776 | Empiricist nonpareil |
| Zora Neale Hurston | Novelist | 7-Jan-1891 | 28-Jan-1960 | Their Eyes Were Watching God |
| John Irving | Novelist | 2-Mar-1942 | The World According to Garp | |
| Eddie Izzard | Comic | 7-Feb-1962 | Bloke in a dress going on and on | |
| George Jackson | Criminal | 23-Sep-1941 | 21-Aug-1971 | Soledad Brother |
| J. Hughlings Jackson | Doctor | 4-Apr-1835 | 7-Oct-1911 | Father of British neurology |
| François Jacob | Scientist | 17-Jun-1920 | Operon theory of genetic control | |
| Susan Jacoby | Author | 4-Jun-1945 | Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism | |
| Stephan Jenkins | Musician | 27-Sep-1964 | Lead singer, Third Eye Blind | |
| Johannes V. Jensen | Author | 20-Jan-1873 | 25-Nov-1950 | The Long Journey |
| Penn Jillette | Magician | 5-Mar-1955 | Talking half of the Penn and Teller duo | |
| Jack Johnson | Boxing | 31-Mar-1878 | 10-Jun-1946 | First black heavyweight champion |
| Frédéric Joliot | Physicist | 19-Mar-1900 | 14-Aug-1958 | Artificial radioactivity |
| Irène Joliot-Curie | Physicist | 12-Sep-1897 | 17-Mar-1956 | Artificial radioactivity |
| Neil Jordan | Film Director | 25-Feb-1950 | The Crying Game | |
| Ted Kaczynski | Criminal | 22-May-1942 | The Unabomber | |
| Paul Kammerer | Biologist | 17-Aug-1880 | 23-Oct-1926 | Proponent of Lamarckian inheritance |
| Diane Keaton | Actor | 5-Jan-1946 | Kay in The Godfather films | |
| Jack Kevorkian | Doctor | 26-May-1928 | 3-Jun-2011 | Euthanasia enthusiast |
| Margot Kidder | Actor | 17-Oct-1948 | Lois Lane in Superman | |
| Mark Tapio Kines | Film Director | 26-Apr-1970 | Foreign Correspondents | |
| Alfred Kinsey | Scientist | 23-Jun-1894 | 25-Aug-1956 | Researched human sexual behavior |
| James Kirby | Electronic Musician | 9-May-1974 | V/Vm, The Caretaker | |
| Melanie Klein | Psychologist | 30-Mar-1882 | 22-Sep-1960 | The Psychoanalysis of Children |
| Charles Knowlton | Doctor | 10-May-1800 | 20-Feb-1850 | Early advocate of birth control |
| Arthur Koestler | Author | 3-Sep-1905 | 3-Mar-1983 | Darkness at Noon |
| Joan W. Konner | Journalist | c. 1929 | Dean, Columbia School of Journalism, 1988-97 | |
| Paul Krassner | Author | 9-Apr-1932 | Editor, The Realist | |
| Thomas Kretschmann | Actor | 8-Sep-1962 | Immortel | |
| Sir Harold Kroto | Chemist | 7-Oct-1939 | Co-Discovered fullerenes | |
| Paul Kurtz | Philosopher | 21-Dec-1925 | The pope of unbelievers | |
| Ray Kurzweil | Inventor | 12-Feb-1948 | Age of Spiritual Machines | |
| Aleksander Kwasniewski | Head of State | 15-Nov-1954 | President of Poland, 1995-2005 | |
| Corliss Lamont | Activist | 28-Mar-1902 | 26-Apr-1995 | Millionaire socialist |
| Elsa Lanchester | Actor | 28-Oct-1902 | 26-Dec-1986 | Bride of Frankenstein |
| Lev Landau | Physicist | 22-Jan-1908 | 1-Apr-1968 | Superfluidity of helium |
| Chris Langton | Biologist | 1948 | Father of Artificial Life | |
| Ring Lardner, Jr. | Playwright | 19-Aug-1915 | 31-Oct-2000 | Screenwriter, M*A*S*H |
| Gerald A. Larue | Scholar | ? | The Way of Positive Humanism | |
| Hugh Laurie | Actor | 11-Jun-1959 | Jeeves and Wooster, House | |
| Alphonse Laveran | Doctor | 18-Jun-1845 | 18-May-1922 | Found the parasite that causes malaria |
| Tom Lehrer | Comic | 9-Apr-1928 | Comedic songwriter | |
| Stanislaw Lem | Author | 12-Sep-1921 | 27-Mar-2006 | Solaris |
| Lemmy | Singer | 24-Dec-1945 | Bassist for Motorhead | |
| Vladimir Lenin | Head of State | 22-Apr-1870 | 21-Jan-1924 | Revolutionary leader of Soviet Union |
| Michael Lewis | Author | 15-Oct-1960 | Liar's Poker | |
| Tom Leykis | Radio Personality | 1-Aug-1956 | Syndicated talk radio host | |
| James Lick | Business | 25-Aug-1796 | 1-Oct-1876 | Lick Observatory |
| Abraham Lincoln | Head of State | 12-Feb-1809 | 15-Apr-1865 | 16th US President, 1861-65 |
| Till Lindemann | Singer | 4-Jan-1963 | Rammstein frontman | |
| Jared Loughner | Assassin | 10-Sep-1988 | Tucson Safeway shooter | |
| H. P. Lovecraft | Author | 20-Aug-1890 | 15-Mar-1937 | The Call of Cthulhu |
| Heather Mac Donald | Columnist | c. 1956 | Neoconservative bombthrower | |
| Seth MacFarlane | Actor | 26-Oct-1973 | Creator of Family Guy | |
| John Malkovich | Actor | 9-Dec-1953 | Subject of Being John Malkovich | |
| Marilyn Manson | Singer | 5-Jan-1969 | Goth shock rocker | |
| Christopher Marlowe | Playwright | 6-Feb-1564 | 30-May-1593 | Doctor Faustus |
| Karl Marx | Economist | 5-May-1818 | 14-Mar-1883 | Das Kapital, Communist Manifesto |
| Ernst Mayr | Biologist | 5-Jul-1904 | 3-Feb-2005 | Evolutionary biologist |
| John McCarthy | Computer Programmer | 4-Sep-1927 | 24-Oct-2011 | Created LISP programming language |
| Malachy McCourt | Actor | 20-Sep-1931 | Father Meehan on Oz | |
| Michael McDermott | Criminal | 4-Sep-1958 | Mucko killed seven coworkers | |
| Ian McEwan | Novelist | 21-Jun-1948 | Amsterdam | |
| Todd McFarlane | Cartoonist | 16-Mar-1961 | Spawn | |
| Ian McKellen | Actor | 25-May-1939 | Gandalf the Grey | |
| Margaret A. McKenna | Educator | c. 1946 | President of Lesley University, 1985-2007 | |
| Butterfly McQueen | Actor | 7-Jan-1911 | 22-Dec-1995 | Gone with the Wind |
| H. L. Mencken | Critic | 12-Sep-1880 | 29-Jan-1956 | The American Language |
| Stephen Merchant | Film/TV Producer | 24-Nov-1974 | The Office, Extras | |
| Tom Metzger | Activist | 9-Apr-1938 | White supremacist | |
| Anastas Mikoyan | Politician | 25-Nov-1895 | 21-Oct-1978 | Knew where the shrimps stay in winter |
| Marvin Minsky | Scientist | 9-Aug-1927 | Father of Artificial Intelligence | |
| Peter Mitchell | Chemist | 29-Sep-1920 | 10-Apr-1992 | ADP to ATP conversion in mitochondia |
| Momus | Critic | 11-Feb-1960 | Scottish music critic, famous for 15 people | |
| Jacques Monod | Scientist | 9-Feb-1910 | 31-May-1976 | Operon theory of genetic control |
| Mo Mowlam | Politician | 18-Sep-1949 | 19-Aug-2005 | Former Labour MP |
| Martin Mull | Comic | 18-Aug-1943 | Fernwood Tonight | |
| Hermann J. Muller | Scientist | 21-Dec-1890 | 5-Apr-1967 | Genetic effects of radiation |
| Cillian Murphy | Actor | 25-May-1976 | Disco Pigs | |
| Benito Mussolini | Head of State | 29-Jul-1883 | 28-Apr-1945 | Fascist Dictator of Italy |
| Thomas Nagel | Philosopher | 4-Jul-1937 | What is it like to be a bat? | |
| Ted Nelson | Computer Programmer | 17-Jun-1937 | Hypertext pioneer, Xanadu | |
| Michael Newdow | Activist | 24-Jun-1953 | Waged war against "under God" | |
| Ingrid Newkirk | Activist | 11-Jul-1949 | President of PETA | |
| Randy Newman | Songwriter | 28-Nov-1943 | I Love L.A., Short People | |
| Jack Nicholson | Actor | 22-Apr-1937 | Chinatown | |
| Robert Nozick | Philosopher | 16-Nov-1938 | 23-Jan-2002 | Libertarian philosopher |
| Gary Numan | Musician | 8-Mar-1958 | Cars | |
| Bill Nye | TV Personality | 27-Nov-1955 | Bill Nye the Science Guy | |
| Madalyn Murray O'Hair | Religion | 13-Apr-1919 | Sep-1995 | Atheist spokeswoman |
| Bernardo O'Higgins | Head of State | 20-Aug-1778 | 24-Oct-1842 | Supreme Director of Chile, 1817-23 |
| Barack Obama, Sr. | Relative | 18-Jun-1936 | 24-Nov-1982 | Father of President Barack Obama |
| Revilo P. Oliver | Activist | 7-Jul-1908 | 10-Aug-1994 | Founding member, John Birch Society |
| Culbert L. Olson | Politician | 7-Nov-1876 | 13-Apr-1962 | Governor of California, 1939-43 |
| Patton Oswalt | Comic | 27-Jan-1969 | Mr. Show, King of Queens | |
| Kerry Packer | Business | 17-Dec-1937 | 26-Dec-2005 | Richest man in Australia |
| Camille Paglia | Author | 2-Apr-1947 | Self-described feminist | |
| Carl Panzram | Criminal | 28-Jun-1891 | 5-Sep-1930 | Relentless sociopath, serial killer |
| Albert Parsons | Activist | 20-Jun-1848 | 11-Nov-1887 | Haymarket Martyr |
| Lucy Parsons | Anarchist | 1853 | 7-Mar-1942 | Anarchist labor organizer |
| Andy Partridge | Musician | 11-Nov-1953 | XTC singer/songwriter | |
| Pier Paolo Pasolini | Film Director | 5-Mar-1922 | 2-Nov-1975 | Salo: The 120 Days of Sodom |
| Robert Patrick | Actor | 5-Nov-1958 | Mimetic polyalloy in Terminator 2 | |
| Mark Pauline | Performance Artist | 14-Dec-1953 | Survival Research Labs | |
| Linus Pauling | Chemist | 28-Feb-1901 | 19-Aug-1994 | Scientist and peacenik |
| John Allen Paulos | Mathematician | 4-Jul-1945 | Innumeracy | |
| Simon Pegg | Actor | 14-Feb-1970 | Shaun of the Dead | |
| Leonard Peikoff | Philosopher | 15-Oct-1933 | Proseletyzer of objectivism | |
| Harvey Pekar | Author | 8-Oct-1939 | 12-Jul-2010 | American Splendor |
| Roger Penrose | Mathematician | 8-Aug-1931 | Theory of cosmic censorship | |
| Philippe II, duc d'Orléans | Royalty | 2-Aug-1674 | 2-Dec-1723 | Regent of France, 1715-23 |
| Steven Pinker | Linguist | 18-Sep-1954 | The Language Instinct | |
| Paula Poundstone | Comic | 29-Dec-1959 | Asexual comic | |
| Terry Pratchett | Novelist | 28-Apr-1948 | Discworld sci-fi series | |
| Philip Pullman | Novelist | 19-Oct-1946 | His Dark Materials | |
| Robin Quivers | Talk Show Host | 8-Aug-1952 | Howard Stern's sidekick | |
| Daniel Radcliffe | Actor | 23-Jul-1989 | Harry Potter | |
| David Rakoff | Author | 27-Nov-1964 | 9-Aug-2012 | Don't Get Too Comfortable |
| Ted Rall | Cartoonist | 26-Aug-1963 | Godless heathen cartoonist | |
| Ayn Rand | Author | 2-Feb-1905 | 6-Mar-1982 | Atlas Shrugged |
| James Randi | Magician | 7-Aug-1928 | The Amazing Randi | |
| Rands | Blogger | 1970 | Managing Humans | |
| Ron Reagan | Relative | 28-May-1958 | Son of Ronald Reagan | |
| Wilhelm Reich | Scientist | 24-Mar-1897 | 3-Nov-1957 | Founder of Orgonomy |
| Oscar Riddle | Biologist | 27-Sep-1877 | 29-Nov-1968 | Prolactin |
| Diego Rivera | Painter | 8-Dec-1886 | 24-Nov-1957 | Mexican painter |
| Geraldo Rivera | Journalist | 4-Jul-1943 | Fox News commentator | |
| Rene Rivkin | Business | 6-Jun-1944 | 1-May-2005 | Disgraced Australian stockbroker |
| Chris Robinson | Musician | 20-Dec-1966 | Lead singer, The Black Crowes | |
| Ernestine Rose | Activist | 13-Jan-1810 | 4-Aug-1892 | Suffragette and abolitionist |
| Henry Roth | Author | 8-Feb-1906 | 13-Oct-1995 | Call It Sleep |
| Murray Rothbard | Economist | 2-Mar-1926 | 7-Jan-1995 | Anarcho-capitalist |
| Arundhati Roy | Author | 24-Nov-1961 | The God of Small Things | |
| Jane Rule | Author | 28-Mar-1931 | 27-Nov-2007 | Desert of the Heart |
| Douglas Rushkoff | Author | 18-Feb-1961 | Cyberculture analyst | |
| Bertrand Russell | Mathematician | 18-May-1872 | 2-Feb-1970 | Mathematician, atheist, and social critic |
| Oliver Sacks | Doctor | 9-Jul-1933 | Awakenings | |
| Carl Sagan | Astronomer | 9-Nov-1934 | 20-Dec-1996 | Popular astronomer, host of Cosmos |
| Margaret Sanger | Activist | 14-Sep-1879 | 6-Sep-1966 | Birth control advocate |
| José Saramago | Author | 16-Nov-1922 | 18-Jun-2010 | Brilliant Portuguese novelist |
| Wallace Sargent | Astronomer | 15-Feb-1935 | Astrophysicist at CalTech | |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | Philosopher | 21-Jun-1905 | 15-Apr-1980 | Nausea, No Exit |
| Dan Savage | Columnist | 7-Oct-1964 | Weekly sex columnist | |
| John Sayles | Film Director | 28-Sep-1950 | The Secret of Roan Inish | |
| John Searle | Philosopher | Dec-1932 | Chinese Room Argument, Philosopher of Language | |
| Mobutu Sese Seko | Head of State | 14-Oct-1930 | 7-Sep-1997 | Dictator, bled Zaire dry |
| Captain Sensible | Bassist | 23-Apr-1954 | Ex-bassist, The Damned | |
| Claude Shannon | Scientist | 30-Apr-1916 | 24-Feb-2001 | Pioneer in information theory |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley | Poet | 4-Aug-1792 | 8-Jul-1822 | Prometheus Unbound |
| Michael Shermer | Journalist | 8-Sep-1954 | Skeptic Magazine | |
| Claude Simon | Novelist | 10-Oct-1913 | 6-Jul-2005 | Le Tricheur |
| Clive Sinclair | Business | 30-Jul-1940 | Sinclair ZX80 | |
| Stellan Skarsgård | Actor | 13-Jun-1951 | Breaking the Waves | |
| B. F. Skinner | Psychologist | 20-Mar-1904 | 18-Aug-1990 | Radical Behaviorism |
| Michael Smith | Chemist | 26-Apr-1932 | 4-Oct-2000 | Oligonucleotide-based mutagenesis |
| Robert Smith | Musician | 21-Apr-1959 | Lead singer of The Cure | |
| Steven Soderbergh | Film Director | 14-Jan-1963 | Traffic | |
| Todd Solondz | Film Director | 15-Oct-1959 | Welcome to the Dollhouse | |
| George Soros | Business | 12-Aug-1930 | Financial speculator | |
| Mira Sorvino | Actor | 28-Sep-1967 | Mighty Aphrodite | |
| Carl Spitteler | Poet | 24-Apr-1845 | 29-Dec-1924 | The Olympic Spring |
| Lysander Spooner | Activist | 19-Jan-1808 | 14-May-1887 | No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority |
| John Stagliano | Pornstar | 29-Nov-1950 | Adventures of Buttman | |
| Josef Stalin | Head of State | 18-Dec-1878 | 5-Mar-1953 | Brutal dictator, Soviet Union |
| Richard Stallman | Computer Programmer | 16-Mar-1953 | Founder, GNU software project | |
| Doug Stanhope | Comic | 25-Mar-1967 | The Man Show | |
| Pete Stark | Politician | 11-Nov-1931 | Congressman, California 13th | |
| Peter Steele | Musician | 4-Jan-1962 | 14-Apr-2010 | Frontman for Type O Negative |
| Bruce Sterling | Author | 14-Apr-1954 | Schismatrix | |
| Lynne Stewart | Attorney | 8-Oct-1939 | Attorney convicted of supporting the Islamic Group | |
| Sticky Fingaz | Musician | 3-Apr-1970 | Black Trash | |
| Oliver Stone | Film Director | 15-Sep-1946 | JFK | |
| Leo Strauss | Philosopher | 20-Sep-1899 | 18-Oct-1973 | Patron saint of Neoconservatism |
| John E. Sulston | Scientist | 27-Mar-1942 | Genetic regulation of organ development | |
| Kim Il Sung | Head of State | 15-Apr-1912 | 8-Jul-1994 | North Korea's official deity |
| Donald Sutherland | Actor | 17-Jul-1935 | The Dirty Dozen | |
| Julia Sweeney | Comic | 10-Oct-1959 | Androgyne Pat on Saturday Night Live | |
| Algernon Charles Swinburne | Poet | 5-Apr-1837 | 10-Apr-1909 | Masochist Victorian poet |
| Matt Taibbi | Journalist | 2-Mar-1970 | The Great Derangement | |
| James Taranto | Columnist | 1966 | Wall Street Journal | |
| Teller | Magician | 14-Feb-1948 | The nonspeaking half of Penn and Teller | |
| H. Brian Thompson | Business | c. 1940 | Global Telecom & Technology | |
| Pat Tillman | Military | 6-Nov-1976 | 22-Apr-2004 | NFL player turned Army Ranger |
| Linus Torvalds | Computer Programmer | 28-Dec-1969 | Created the kernel for the GNU/Linux OS | |
| B. Traven | Novelist | c. 1890 | 26-Mar-1969 | Treasure of the Sierra Madre |
| Leon Trotsky | Activist | 26-Oct-1879 | 21-Aug-1940 | Bolshevik exile, murdered by Stalin |
| Alan Turing | Mathematician | 23-Jun-1912 | 7-Jun-1954 | Computing pioneer |
| Mark Twain | Author | 30-Nov-1835 | 21-Apr-1910 | Huckleberry Finn |
| Tyler, The Creator | Rapper | 6-Mar-1991 | OFWGKTA rapper | |
| Harold C. Urey | Chemist | 29-Apr-1893 | 5-Jan-1981 | Discovered Deuterium |
| Vincent van Gogh | Painter | 30-Mar-1853 | 29-Jul-1890 | Troubled and brilliant painter |
| Eddie Vedder | Singer | 23-Dec-1964 | Lead singer, Pearl Jam | |
| Craig Venter | Biologist | 14-Oct-1946 | Engineered the first man-made bacterial cell | |
| Jesse Ventura | Wrestling | 15-Jul-1951 | Wrestler turned Governor of Minnesota | |
| Gore Vidal | Author | 3-Oct-1925 | 31-Jul-2012 | Visit to a Small Planet |
| Kurt Vonnegut | Novelist | 11-Nov-1922 | 11-Apr-2007 | Slaughterhouse Five |
| Sarah Vowell | Radio Personality | 27-Dec-1969 | This American Life | |
| Andrei Vyshinsky | Government | 10-Dec-1883 | 22-Nov-1954 | Soviet Prosecutor General during the Great Purge |
| Roger Waters | Songwriter | 9-Sep-1943 | Bassist for Pink Floyd | |
| James Watson | Scientist | 6-Apr-1928 | Co-Discoverer of DNA | |
| Randy Weaver | Victim | 3-Jan-1948 | Ruby Ridge Incident | |
| Steven Weinberg | Physicist | 3-May-1933 | Electroweak Theory | |
| Gene Weingarten | Columnist | 2-Oct-1951 | Below the Beltway | |
| Joss Whedon | Film/TV Producer | 23-Jun-1964 | Creator of Buffy, Angel, and Firefly | |
| Leslie A. White | Anthropologist | 19-Jan-1900 | 31-Mar-1975 | The Science of Culture |
| Geert Wilders | Politician | 6-Sep-1963 | Dutch Freedom Party | |
| John Wilmot | Poet | 1-Apr-1647 | 26-Jul-1680 | Sodom, or the Quintessence of Debauchery |
| Mike Wilson | Film Director | 18-Feb-1976 | Michael Moore Hates America | |
| David Wojnarowicz | Artist | 14-Sep-1955 | 22-Jul-1992 | One Day This Kid |
| Steve Wozniak | Computer Programmer | 11-Aug-1950 | Co-Founder of Apple Computer | |
| Frances Wright | Activist | 6-Sep-1795 | 13-Dec-1852 | Utopian abolitionist |
| Will Wright | Computer Programmer | 20-Jan-1960 | Created SimCity, The Sims | |
| Wilhelm Wundt | Psychologist | 16-Aug-1832 | 31-Aug-1920 | Father of Experimental Psychology |
| Matthew Yglesias | Blogger | 18-May-1981 | Big Media Matt | |
| Eliezer Yudkowsky | Scientist | 11-Sep-1979 | Co-Founder, Singularity Institute | |
| Giuseppe Zangara | Assassin | 7-Sep-1900 | 20-Mar-1933 | Tried to kill Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Frank Zappa | Composer | 21-Dec-1940 | 4-Dec-1993 | Joe's Garage |
| Philip Zimbardo | Psychologist | 23-Mar-1933 | 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment | |
| Fritz Zwicky | Astronomer | 14-Feb-1898 | 8-Feb-1974 | Astrophysicist at CalTech |
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