List of agnostics
A number of noted individuals have been agnostics.
A partial list of persons believed to be agnostics:
- Anaxagoras, (d. 462 BCE), philosopher
- Susan B. Anthony, (1820-1906), US feminist
- Emile Berliner, (1851-1929), inventor
- Simón Bolívar, (1783-1830), Venezuelan military commander
- Jorge Luis Borges, (1899-1986), Argentine writer
- Helen Clark, (b. 1950), prime minister of New Zealand
- Charles Darwin, (1809-1882), Founder of The Theory of Evolution
- Matt Groening, (b. 1954), creator of Life in Hell, the Simpsons and Futurama
- Bill Gates, (b. 1955), Founder of Microsoft and Richest person in the world
- Stephen Hawking, (b. 1942), physicist, sometimes deals with the possible implications of his theories on the concept of God
- Robert Heinlein, (1907-1988), (refused on various occasions to commit to a firm belief in any theological or metaphysical propositions)
- Thomas Henry Huxley, (1825-1895), coiner of the term agnosticism
- Robert Ingersoll, (1833 - 1899), American political leader and orator
- Larry King, (b. 1933), broadcast personality
- Dave Matthews, (b. 1967), recording artist
- Protagoras, (d.420 BCE), Greek Sophist and first major Humanist
- Andy Rooney, (b. 1919), broadcast personality
- Bertrand Russell, (1872-1970), Welsh philosopher and mathematician
- Carl Sagan, (1934-1996), astronomer and skeptic
- Charles Templeton, former evangelist, author of A Farewell to God
- Mark Twain, (1835-1910) American author
- Rabbi Sherwin T. Wine, (b. 1928), founder of The Society for Humanistic Judaism, coined the term ignosticism
External Link
- The Celebrity Atheist List (includes living atheists and agnostics)
- Famous black freethinkers
- Famous Dead Nontheists
References
Regarding Carl Sagan: "Unbeliever's Quest" by Jerry Adler, in Newsweek, March 31, 1997.