Talk:Lists of atheists/Xml



  Pietro Acciarito 1871 1943    </Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Italian anarchist activist who attempted to assassinate King Umberto I. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Zackie Achmat</Name> <BirthYear>1962</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>South African anti-HIV/AIDS activist; founder of the Treatment Action Campaign. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Clark Adams</Name> <BirthYear>1969</BirthYear> <DeathYear>2007</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Prominent American freethought leader and activist. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Ayaan Hirsi Ali</Name> <BirthYear>1969</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture>Ayaan-Hirsi-Ali-VVD.NL-1200x1600.JPG</Picture> <Text>Dutch feminist and politician. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Baba Amte</Name> <BirthYear></BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Respected Indian social activist, known for his work with lepers. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Natalie Angier</Name> <BirthYear>1958</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Nonfiction writer and science journalist for The New York Times; 1991 winner of Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Dan Barker</Name> <BirthYear>1949</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American atheist activist. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Peter Brearey</Name> <BirthYear>1939</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1998</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British secularist, socialist and journalist, Editor of The Freethinker from 1993 until his death. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Yaron Brook</Name> <BirthYear>1961</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Current president and executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>William Montgomery Brown</Name> <BirthYear>1855</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1937</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Episcopal bishop and Communist author. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Richard Carrier</Name> <BirthYear>1969</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>historian, philosopher, and atheist activist. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Chapman Cohen</Name> <BirthYear>1868</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1954</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>English freethought writer and lecturer, and an editor of The Freethinker and president of the National Secular Society. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Margaret Downey</Name> <BirthYear></BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>is an atheist activist who is the current President of Atheist Alliance International. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Joseph Edamaruku</Name> <BirthYear>1934</BirthYear> <DeathYear>2006</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Indian journalist, author, leader in the rationalist movement, and winner of the International Atheist Award in 1979. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Sanal Edamaruku</Name> <BirthYear>1955</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Indian rationalist, president of the Indian Rationalist Association. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Reginald Vaughn Finley, Sr.</Name> <BirthYear>1974</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>("The Infidel Guy"): Internet radio host and Podcaster in Atlanta, Georgia, co-founder of the Atheist Network and founder of FreethoughtMedia.com. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>David D. Friedman</Name> <BirthYear>1945</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Economist, law professor, novelist, and libertarian activist. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Annie Laurie Gaylor</Name> <BirthYear>1955</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>co-founder of the Freedom From Religion Foundation and, with her husband Dan Barker, is the current co-president. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Emma Goldman</Name> <BirthYear>1869</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1940</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Lithuanian-born radical, known for her writings and speeches defending anarchist communism, feminism, and atheism. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Goparaju Ramachandra Rao|Gora</Name> <BirthYear>1902</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1975</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Indian atheist leader, co-founder with his wife of the Atheist Centre in Andhra Pradesh. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Saraswathi Gora</Name> <BirthYear>1912</BirthYear> <DeathYear>2006</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Indian social activist, wife of Gora and leader of the Atheist Centre for many years, campaigning against untouchability and the caste system. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>John William Gott</Name> <BirthYear>1866</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1922</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>English trouser salesman and leader of the Freethought Socialist League, the last person in Britain to be sent to prison for blasphemy. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>E. Haldeman-Julius</Name> <BirthYear>1889</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1951</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American social reformer and publisher, most noted as the editor of Appeal to Reason newspaper. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Erkki Hartikainen</Name> <BirthYear>1942</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>is a Finnish atheist activist. He is the chairman of the Atheist Association of Finland (Suomen Ateistiyhdistys) and former chairman of the Union of Freethinkers of Finland (Vapaa-ajattelijoiden liitto), the biggest atheistic association in Finland. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Austin Holyoake</Name> <BirthYear>1826</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1874</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>English freethought printer and publisher, vice-president and first treasurer of the National Secular Society. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>George Holyoake</Name> <BirthYear>1817</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1906</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture>Holyoake2.JPG</Picture> <Text>English secularist. Holyoake was the last person in England to be imprisoned (in 1842) for being an atheist. He coined the term "secularism" in 1846. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Ellen Johnson</Name> <BirthYear></BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>President of American Atheists, 1995-2008. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Edwin Kagin</Name> <BirthYear>1940</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>lawyer, activist, founder of the Camp Quest secular summer camp, and American Atheists' Kentucky State Director. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Norma Kitson</Name> <BirthYear>1933</BirthYear> <DeathYear>2002</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>South African anti-apartheid activist. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Dave Kong</Name> <BirthYear>19</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Director of the California chapter of the American Atheists. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Peter Kropotkin</Name> <BirthYear>1842</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1921</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture>Kropotkin Nadar.jpg</Picture> <Text>Russian anarchist communist activist and geographer, best known for his book, Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution, which refutes social Darwinism. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Paul Kurtz</Name> <BirthYear>1925</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Buffalo, best known for his prominent role in the United States humanist and skeptical communities. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Joseph Lewis</Name> <BirthYear>1889</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1968</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American freethinker and atheist, president of Freethinkers of America 1920&amp;ndash;1968. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Emma Martin</Name> <BirthYear></BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>(c.1811&amp;ndash;1851): English socialist and freethinker. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Hemant Mehta</Name> <BirthYear></BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>(c.1983&amp;ndash;): Author of I Sold My Soul on eBay, chair of the Secular Student Alliance and author of the blog FriendlyAtheist.com. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Taslima Nasrin</Name> <BirthYear>1962</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Bangladeshi physician, writer, feminist human rights activist and secular humanist. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Michael Newdow</Name> <BirthYear>1953</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American physician and attorney, who sued a school district on the grounds that its requirement that children recite the U.S. Pledge of Allegiance, containing the words "under God", breached the separation-of-church-and-state provision in the establishment clause of the United States Constitution. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Madalyn Murray O'Hair</Name> <BirthYear>1919</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1995</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>founder of American Atheists, campaigner for the separation of church and state; filed the lawsuit that led the US Supreme Court to ban teacher-led prayer and Bible reading in public schools. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Keith Porteous Wood</Name> <BirthYear>19</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Executive Director, formerly General Secretary, of the National Secular Society in the United Kingdom. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>James Randi</Name> <BirthYear></BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>, (1928&amp;ndash;): magician, debunker, and founder of the James Randi Educational Foundation. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>A. Philip Randolph</Name> <BirthYear></BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>, (1889&amp;ndash;1979): African-American civil rights leader. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Ron Reagan</Name> <BirthYear>1958</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American magazine journalist, board member of the politically activistic Creative Coalition, son of former U. S. President Ronald Reagan. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>J. M. Robertson</Name> <BirthYear>1856</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1933</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Scottish journalist, advocate of rationalism and secularism, social reformer and Liberal Member of Parliament. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Terry Sanderson</Name> <BirthYear>1946</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British secularist and gay rights activist, author and journalist, President of the National Secular Society since 2006. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Margaret Sanger</Name> <BirthYear>1879</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1966</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture>MargaretSanger-Underwood.LOC.jpg</Picture> <Text>American birth-control activist, founder of the American Birth Control League, a forerunner to Planned Parenthood. The masthead motto of her newsletter, The Woman Rebel, read: "No Gods, No Masters". </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Vinayak Damodar Savarkar</Name> <BirthYear>1883</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1966</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Indian revolutionary freedom fighter, and Hindu nationalist leader. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Robert I. Sherman</Name> <BirthYear></BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>atheist advocate and member of Illinois Green Party. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Bhagat Singh</Name> <BirthYear>1907</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1931</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Indian revolutionary freedom fighter. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Charles Lee Smith</Name> <BirthYear>1887</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1964</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>an atheist activist in the United States and an editor of the Truth Seeker until his death. He also founded the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism. Smith was arrested twice in 1928 for selling atheist literature and for blasphemy. Since he refused to swear an oath to God on the Bible, he was not allowed to testify in his own defense. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Barbara Smoker</Name> <BirthYear>1923</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British humanist activist and freethought advocate. Wrote the book Freethoughts: Atheism, Secularism, Humanism – Selected Egotistically from The Freethinker. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Charles Southwell</Name> <BirthYear>1814</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1860</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>English freethinker and journalist. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Marie Souvestre</Name> <BirthYear>1830</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1905</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>French headmistress, a feminist educator who sought to develop independent minds in young women. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>David Suzuki</Name> <BirthYear>1936</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Canadian university professor, science broadcaster, and environmental activist. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Polly Toynbee</Name> <BirthYear>1946</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>columnist for The Guardian. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>David Aaronovitch</Name> <BirthYear>1954</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British journalist, author and broadcaster. Aaronovitch calls himself "Godless" and an atheist, but says that he has "no desire to proselytise for atheism". </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Douglas Adams</Name> <BirthYear>1952</BirthYear> <DeathYear>2001</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British radio and television writer, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Tariq Ali</Name> <BirthYear>1943</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British-Pakistani historian, novelist, filmmaker, political campaigner and commentator. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Jorge Amado</Name> <BirthYear>1912</BirthYear> <DeathYear>2001</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Brazilian author. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Eric Ambler</Name> <BirthYear></BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>OBE (1909&amp;ndash;1998): influential English writer of spy novels who introduced a new realism to the genre. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Isaac Asimov</Name> <BirthYear>1920</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1992</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture>Isaac.Asimov02.jpg</Picture> <Text>Russian-born American author of science fiction and popular science books. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Diana Athill</Name> <BirthYear>1917</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1992</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British literary editor, novelist and memoirist who worked with some of the most important writers of the 20th century. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Iain Banks</Name> <BirthYear>1954</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Scottish author, writing mainstream fiction as Iain Banks and science fiction as Iain M. Banks. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Pierre Berton</Name> <BirthYear></BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>CC, O.Ont (1920&amp;ndash;2004): Noted Canadian author of non-fiction, especially Canadiana and Canadian history, and was a well-known television personality and journalist. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Wilfrid Scawen Blunt</Name> <BirthYear>1840</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1922</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>English poet, writer and diplomat. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>William Boyd</Name> <BirthYear></BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>CBE (1952&amp;ndash;): Scottish novelist and screenwriter. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Aldo Braibanti</Name> <BirthYear>1922</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Italian writer and dramatist, famous for having been sentenced to nine years' imprisonment for 'plagiarism'. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Marshall Brain</Name> <BirthYear>1961</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Author of WhyWontGodHealAmputees.com and GodIsImaginary.com and HowStuffWorks founder.</Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Howard Brenton</Name> <BirthYear>1942</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>English playwright, who gained notoriety for his 1980 play The Romans in Britain. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Brigid Brophy|Brigid Brophy, Lady Levey</Name> <BirthYear>1929</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1995</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>English novelist, essayist, critic, biographer, and dramatist. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Alan Brownjohn</Name> <BirthYear>1931</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1995</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>English poet and novelist. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Jason Burke</Name> <BirthYear>1970</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1995</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British journalist, chief foreign correspondent of The Observer. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Lawrence Bush</Name> <BirthYear>19</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Author of several books of Jewish fiction and non-fiction, including Waiting for God: The Spiritual Explorations of a Reluctant Atheist. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Mary Butts</Name> <BirthYear>1890</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1937</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>English modernist writer. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>João Cabral de Melo Neto</Name> <BirthYear></BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>, (1920&amp;ndash;1999): Brazilian poet, considered one of the greatest Brazilian poets of all time. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Angela Carter</Name> <BirthYear>1940</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1992</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>English novelist and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realism and science fiction works. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Luigi Cascioli</Name> <BirthYear>19</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Italian author, who trained to become a Roman Catholic priest, but he left to become a pronounced atheist, arguing that Jesus never existed. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Arthur C. Clarke|Sir Arthur C. Clarke</Name> <BirthYear>1917</BirthYear> <DeathYear>2008</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture>Clarke sm.jpg</Picture> <Text>British scientist and science-fiction author. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Edward Clodd</Name> <BirthYear>1840</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1930</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>English banker, writer and anthropologist, an early populariser of evolution, keen folklorist and chairman of the Rationalist Press Association. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Claud Cockburn</Name> <BirthYear>1904</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1981</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Renowned radical British writer and journalist, controversial for his communist sympathies. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Jonathan Coe</Name> <BirthYear>1961</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British novelist and satirical writer. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>G. D. H. Cole</Name> <BirthYear>1889</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1959</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>English political theorist, economist, writer and historian. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Ivy Compton-Burnett</Name> <BirthYear></BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>DBE (1884&amp;ndash;1969): English novelist. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Edmund Cooper</Name> <BirthYear>1926</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1982</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>English poet and prolific writer of speculative fiction and other genres, published under his own name and several pen names. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>William Cooper (novelist)|William Cooper</Name> <BirthYear>1910</BirthYear> <DeathYear>2002</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>English novelist. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Jim Crace</Name> <BirthYear>1946</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>English writer, winner of numerous awards. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Anthony Daniels (psychiatrist)|Theodore Dalrymple</Name> <BirthYear>1949</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>pen name of British writer and retired physician Anthony Daniels. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Rhys Davies</Name> <BirthYear>1901</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1978</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Welsh novelist and short story writer. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Isaac Deutscher</Name> <BirthYear>1907</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1967</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British journalist, historian and biographer. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>John Diamond (journalist)</Name> <BirthYear>1953</BirthYear> <DeathYear>2001</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British broadcaster and journalist, noted for his column chronicling his fight with cancer. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Ruth Dudley Edwards</Name> <BirthYear>19</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Irish historian, crime novelist, journalist and broadcaster. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Carol Ann Duffy</Name> <BirthYear>1955</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Award-winning British poet, playwright and freelance writer. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Turan Dursun</Name> <BirthYear>1934</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1990</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Islamic scholar, imam and mufti, and latterly, an outspoken atheist. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Greg Egan</Name> <BirthYear>1961</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Australian computer programmer and science fiction author. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Barbara Ehrenreich</Name> <BirthYear>1941</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American feminist, socialist and political activist. She is a widely read columnist and essayist, and the author of nearly 20 books. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>George Eliot</Name> <BirthYear>1819</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1890</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Mary Ann Evans, the famous novelist, was also a humanist and propounded her views on theism in an essay called ''Evangelical Teaching'. .</Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Harlan Ellison</Name> <BirthYear>1934</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American science fiction author and screenwriter. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Gavin Ewart</Name> <BirthYear>1916</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1995</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British poet. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Oriana Fallaci</Name> <BirthYear>1929</BirthYear> <DeathYear>2006</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Italian journalist, author, and political interviewer. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Vardis Fisher</Name> <BirthYear>1895</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1968</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American writer, scholar. Author of atheistic Testament of Man series. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Robert Fisk</Name> <BirthYear>1946</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Multi-award-winning British journalist, Middle East correspondent for The Independent, "probably the most famous foreign correspondent in Britain" according to the New York Times. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Thomas W. Flynn|Tom Flynn</Name> <BirthYear>19</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American author and Senior Editor of Free Inquiry magazine. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Ken Follett</Name> <BirthYear>1949</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British author of thrillers and historical novels. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Paul Foot</Name> <BirthYear>1937</BirthYear> <DeathYear>2004</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British investigative journalist, political campaigner, author, and long-time member of the Socialist Workers Party. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>E. M. Forster</Name> <BirthYear></BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>OM (1879&amp;ndash;1970): English novelist, short story writer, and essayist, best known for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy in early 20th century British society. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>John Fowles</Name> <BirthYear>1926</BirthYear> <DeathYear>2005</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>English novelist and essayist, noted especially for The French Lieutenant's Woman and The Magus (novel). </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Frederick James Furnivall</Name> <BirthYear>1825</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1910</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>English philologist, one of the co-creators of the Oxford English Dictionary. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Alex Garland</Name> <BirthYear>1970</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British novelist and screenwriter, author of The Beach and the screenplays for 28 Days Later and Sunshine. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Constance Garnett</Name> <BirthYear>1861</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1946</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>English translator, whose translations of nineteenth-century Russian classics which first introduced them widely to the English and American public. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Nadine Gordimer</Name> <BirthYear>1923</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>South African writer and political activist. Her writing has long dealt with moral and racial issues, particularly apartheid in South Africa. She won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1991. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Linda Grant (journalist)</Name> <BirthYear>1951</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British journalist and novelist. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Robert Graves</Name> <BirthYear>1895</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1985</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>English poet, scholar, translator and novelist, producing more than 140 works including his famous annotations of Greek myths and I, Claudius. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Graham Greene</Name> <BirthYear></BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>OM, CH (1904&amp;ndash;1991): English]] novelist, short story writer, playwright, screenwriter, travel writer and critic. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Germaine Greer</Name> <BirthYear>1939</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Australian feminist writer. Greer describes herself as a "Catholic atheist". </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Jan Guillou</Name> <BirthYear>1944</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Swedish author and Journalist. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Daniel Handler</Name> <BirthYear>1970</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American author better known under the pen name of Lemony Snicket. Handler has admitted to being both an atheist and a secular humanist. Handler has hinted that the Baudelaires in his children's book series A Series of Unfortunate Events might be atheists. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Sam Harris (author)|Sam Harris</Name> <BirthYear>1967</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American author, researcher in neuroscience, author of The End of Faith and Letter to a Christian Nation. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Harry Harrison</Name> <BirthYear>1925</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American science fiction author, anthologist and artist whose short story The Streets of Ashkelon took as its hero an atheist who tries to prevent a Christian missionary from indoctrinating a tribe of irreligious but ingenuous alien beings. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Tony Harrison</Name> <BirthYear>1937</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>English poet, winner of a number of literary prizes. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Simon Heffer</Name> <BirthYear>1960</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British journalist and writer. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Zoë Heller</Name> <BirthYear>1965</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British journalist and novelist. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Ernest Hemingway</Name> <BirthYear>1899</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1961</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture>ErnestHemingway.jpg</Picture> <Text>American novelist, short story writer and journalist. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Dorothy Hewett</Name> <BirthYear>1923</BirthYear> <DeathYear>2002</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Australian feminist poet, novelist, librettist, and playwright. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Archie Hind</Name> <BirthYear>1928</BirthYear> <DeathYear>2008</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Scottish writer, author of The Dear Green Place, regarded as one of the greatest Scottish novels of all time. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Christopher Hitchens</Name> <BirthYear>1949</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture>Christopher Hitchens crop.jpg</Picture> <Text>Author of God Is Not Great, journalist and essayist. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Thomas Jefferson Hogg</Name> <BirthYear>1792</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1862</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British biographer, and co-author with Percy Bysshe Shelley of The Necessity of Atheism. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>R. J. Hollingdale</Name> <BirthYear>1930</BirthYear> <DeathYear>2001</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>English biographer and translator of German philosophy and literature, President of The Friedrich Nietzsche Society, and responsible for rehabilitating Nietzsche's reputation in the English-speaking world. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Michel Houellebecq</Name> <BirthYear>1958</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>French novelist. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Mick Hume</Name> <BirthYear>1959</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British journalist &amp;ndash; columnist for The (London) Times and editor of Spiked. Described himself as "a longstanding atheist", but criticised the 'New Atheism' of Richard Dawkins and co. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Alfred Edward Housman|A. E. Housman</Name> <BirthYear>1859</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1936</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>English poet and classical scholar, best known for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Stanley Edgar Hyman</Name> <BirthYear>1919</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1970</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American literary critic who wrote primarily about critical methods. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Susan Jacoby</Name> <BirthYear>1945</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>an American atheist, secularist, and author, most recently of the New York Times best seller, The Age of American Unreason, which is about anti-intellectualism. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Robin Jenkins</Name> <BirthYear>1912</BirthYear> <DeathYear>2005</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Scottish writer of about thirty novels, though mainly known for The Cone Gatherers. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Simon Jenkins</Name> <BirthYear>1943</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British journalist, newspaper editor, and author. A former editor of The Times newspaper, he received a knighthood for services to journalism in the 2004 New Year honours. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>S. T. Joshi</Name> <BirthYear>1958</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American editor and literary critic. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Ludovic Kennedy</Name> <BirthYear>1919</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British journalist, author, and campaigner for voluntary euthanasia. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Paul Krassner</Name> <BirthYear>1932</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American founder and editor of the freethought magazine The Realist, and a key figure in the 1960s counterculture. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Pär Lagerkvist</Name> <BirthYear>1891</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1974</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Swedish author who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1951. He used religious motifs and figures from the Christian tradition without following the doctrines of the church. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Philip Larkin</Name> <BirthYear></BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>CH, CBE, FRSL (1922&amp;ndash;1985): English poet, novelist and jazz critic. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Marghanita Laski</Name> <BirthYear>1915</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1988</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>English journalist and novelist, also writing literary biography, plays and short stories. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Rutka Laskier</Name> <BirthYear>1929</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1943</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Polish Jew who was killed at Auschwitz concentration camp at the age of 14. Because of her diary, on display at Israel's Holocaust museum, she has been dubbed the "Polish Anne Frank." </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Stanislaw Lem</Name> <BirthYear>1921</BirthYear> <DeathYear>2006</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Polish science fiction novelist and essayist. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Giacomo Leopardi</Name> <BirthYear>1798</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1837</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Italian poet, linguist, essayist and philosopher. Leopardi is legendary as an out-and-out nihilist. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Primo Levi</Name> <BirthYear>1919</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1987</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Italian novelist and chemist, survivor of Auschwitz concentration camp. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Georg Christoph Lichtenberg</Name> <BirthYear>1742</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1799</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>German scientist, satirist, philosopher and anglophile. Known as one of Europe's best authors of aphorisms. Satirized religion using aphorisms like "I thank the Lord a thousand times for having made me become an atheist." </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Pierre Loti</Name> <BirthYear>1850</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1923</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>French novelist and travel writer. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>H. P. Lovecraft</Name> <BirthYear>1890</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1937</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American novelist. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Franco Lucentini</Name> <BirthYear>1920</BirthYear> <DeathYear>2002</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Italian writer, journalist, translator and editor of anthologies. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Norman MacCaig</Name> <BirthYear>1910</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1996</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Scottish poet, whose work is known for its humour, simplicity of language and great popularity. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Heather Mallick</Name> <BirthYear>1959</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Canadian columnist, author and lecturer. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Lucy Mangan</Name> <BirthYear>19</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British journalist, columnist for The Guardian. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>W. Somerset Maugham</Name> <BirthYear></BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>CH (1874&amp;ndash;1965): English playwright, novelist, and short story writer, one of the most popular authors of his era. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Charles Maurras</Name> <BirthYear>1868</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1952</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>French author, poet, and critic, a leader and principal thinker of the reactionary Action Française. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Joseph McCabe</Name> <BirthYear>1867</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1955</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture>Joseph-mccabe-1910.jpg</Picture> <Text>English writer, anti-religion campaigner. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Mary McCarthy (author)|Mary McCarthy</Name> <BirthYear>1912</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1989</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American writer and critic. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Ian McEwan</Name> <BirthYear></BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>, CBE (1948&amp;ndash;): British author and winner of the Man Booker Prize. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>China Miéville</Name> <BirthYear>1972</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British Science Fiction author. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Arthur Miller</Name> <BirthYear>1915</BirthYear> <DeathYear>2005</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture>Arthur-miller.jpg</Picture> <Text>American playwright and essayist, a prominent figure in American literature and cinema for over 61 years, writing a wide variety of plays, including celebrated plays such as The Crucible, A View from the Bridge, All My Sons, and Death of a Salesman, which are widely studied. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>David Mills (author)</Name> <BirthYear>1959</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Author who argues in his book Atheist Universe that science and religion cannot be successfully reconciled. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>John Mortimer|Sir John Mortimer</Name> <BirthYear></BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>CBE QC (1923&amp;ndash;): English barrister, dramatist and author, famous as the creator of Rumpole of the Bailey. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Martin O'Hagan</Name> <BirthYear>1950</BirthYear> <DeathYear>2001</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Northern Irish journalist, the most prominent journalist to be assassinated during the the Troubles. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Ananda Selah Osel</Name> <BirthYear>1982</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>poet, essayist, and magazine editor. Osel calls himself an atheist, Buddhist, and nihilist. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>John Oswald (activist)</Name> <BirthYear></BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>(c.1760&amp;ndash;1793): Scottish journalist, poet, social critic and revolutionary. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Frances Partridge</Name> <BirthYear>1900</BirthYear> <DeathYear>2004</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>English member of the Bloomsbury Group and a writer, probably best known for the publication of her diaries. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Camille Paglia</Name> <BirthYear>1947</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American post-feminist literary and cultural critic. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Matthew Parris</Name> <BirthYear>1949</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>South African-born British journalist and former Conservative politician. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Pier Paolo Pasolini</Name> <BirthYear>1922</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1975</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Italian poet, intellectual, film director, and writer. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Harold Pinter</Name> <BirthYear>1930</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British playwright, screenwriter, poet, actor, director, author, and political activist, best known for his plays The Birthday Party (1957), The Caretaker (1959), The Homecoming (1964), and Betrayal (1978). Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2005. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Terry Pratchett</Name> <BirthYear>1948</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture>Terry pratchett.jpg</Picture> <Text>English Fantasy author known for his satirical Discworld series. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Philip Pullman</Name> <BirthYear></BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture>Philip Pullman 2005-04-16.png</Picture> <Text>CBE (1946&amp;ndash;): British author of His Dark Materials fantasy trilogy for young adults, which have atheism as a major theme. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Craig Raine</Name> <BirthYear>1944</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>English poet and critic, the best-known exponent of Martian poetry. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Ayn Rand</Name> <BirthYear>1905</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1982</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Russian-born American author and founder of Objectivism. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Derek Raymond</Name> <BirthYear>1931</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1994</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>English writer, credited with being the founder of English noir. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Claire Rayner</Name> <BirthYear></BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>OBE (1931&amp;ndash;): British journalist best-known for her role for many years as an agony aunt. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Ron Reagan</Name> <BirthYear>1958</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American magazine journalist, board member of the politically activist Creative Coalition, son of former U. S. President Ronald Reagan. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Stan Rice</Name> <BirthYear>1942</BirthYear> <DeathYear>2006</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American poet and artist, Professor of English and Creative Writing at San Francisco State University, and husband of writer Anne Rice. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Salman Rushdie</Name> <BirthYear>1947</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture>Salman Rushdie.jpg</Picture> <Text>Indian-born British essayist and author of fiction. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>José Saramago</Name> <BirthYear>1922</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture>Josesaramago.jpg</Picture> <Text>Portuguese writer, playwright and journalist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Dan Savage</Name> <BirthYear>1964</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Author and sex advice columnist. Despite his atheism, Savage considers himself Catholic "in a cultural sense." </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Percy Bysshe Shelley</Name> <BirthYear>1792</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1822</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture>Portrait of Percy Bysshe Shelley by Curran, 1819.jpg</Picture> <Text>British Romantic poet, contemporary and associate of John Keats and Lord Byron, and author of The Necessity of Atheism. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Michael Shermer</Name> <BirthYear>1954</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Science writer and editor of Skeptic magazine. Has stated that he is an atheist, but prefers to be called a skeptic. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Joan Smith (novelist and journalist)|Joan Smith</Name> <BirthYear>1953</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>English novelist, journalist and human rights activist. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Warren Allen Smith</Name> <BirthYear>1921</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Author of Who's Who in Hell. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>David Ramsay Steele</Name> <BirthYear>19</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Author of Atheism Explained: From Folly to Philosophy''. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>George Warrington Steevens</Name> <BirthYear>1869</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1900</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British journalist and writer. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Robert Louis Stevenson</Name> <BirthYear>1850</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1894</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, especially famous for his works Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Matt Taibbi</Name> <BirthYear>1970</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American journalist and political writer, currently working at Rolling Stone. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Allen Tate</Name> <BirthYear>1899</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1979</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American poet, essayist and social commentator, and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress 1943&amp;ndash;1944. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Vladimir Tendryakov</Name> <BirthYear>1923</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1984</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Russian short story writer and novelist. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Tiffany Thayer</Name> <BirthYear>1902</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1959</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American author, advertising copywriter, actor and founder of the Fortean Society. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Bill Thompson (technology writer)|Bill Thompson</Name> <BirthYear>1960</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>English technology writer, best known for his weekly column in the Technology section of BBC News Online and his appearances on Digital Planet, a radio show on the BBC World Service. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>James Thomson (B.V.)|James Thomson ('B.V.')</Name> <BirthYear>1834</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1882</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British poet and satirist, famous primarily for the long poem The City of Dreadful Night (1874). </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Nicholas Tomalin</Name> <BirthYear>1931</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1973</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British journalist and writer, one of the top 40 journalists of the modern era. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Freda Utley</Name> <BirthYear>1898</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1978</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>English scholar, best-selling author and political activist. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Kurt Vonnegut</Name> <BirthYear>1922</BirthYear> <DeathYear>2007</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American author, writer of Cat's Cradle, among other books. Vonnegut said "I am an atheist (or at best a Unitarian who winds up in churches quite a lot)." </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Ethel Lilian Voynich</Name> <BirthYear>1864</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1960</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Irish-born novelist and musician, and a supporter of several revolutionary causes. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Francis Wheen</Name> <BirthYear>1957</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British journalist, writer and broadcaster. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Leonard Woolf</Name> <BirthYear>1880</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1969</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Noted British political theorist, author, publisher, and civil servant, husband of author Virginia Woolf. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Gao Xingjian</Name> <BirthYear>1940</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Chinese émigré novelist, dramatist, critic, translator, stage director and painter. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2000. </Text> </Person>

<Person> <Name>John Baskerville</Name> <BirthYear>1706</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1775</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>English typesetter, printing innovator and typefounder, designer of the typeface that bears his name. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Larry Flynt</Name> <BirthYear>1942</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American publisher and the head of Larry Flynt Publications. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Stephen Girard</Name> <BirthYear>1750</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1831</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture>Stephen Girard.jpg</Picture> <Text>French sailor turned American banker and philanthropist. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Allan Pinkerton</Name> <BirthYear>1819</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1884</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Scottish-born American detective and spy, best known for creating the Pinkerton Agency, the first detective agency of the United States. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Graeme Samuel</Name> <BirthYear></BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Australian businessman, currently serving as the chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Christer Sturmark</Name> <BirthYear>1964</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Swedish IT entrepreneur and chairman of The Swedish Humanist Organisation. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Will Wyatt</Name> <BirthYear>1942</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British media consultant and company director, formerly a journalist, television producer and senior executive at the BBC. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Mark Zuckerberg</Name> <BirthYear>1984</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Founder and CEO of Facebook </Text> </Person>

<Person> <Name>Dave Allen (comedian)</Name> <BirthYear>1936</BirthYear> <DeathYear>2005</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture>Dave Allen.jpg</Picture> <Text>Irish comedian, popular on United Kingdom and Australian television in the 1960s, 1970s and also in the 1990s. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Keith Allen</Name> <BirthYear>1953</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British comedian, actor, singer and writer, father of Lilly Allen. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Wil Anderson</Name> <BirthYear>1974</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Australian television, radio and stand-up comedian, former host of ABC's The Glass House. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Matt Besser</Name> <BirthYear>1967</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American comedian </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Abie Philbin Bowman</Name> <BirthYear>19</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Irish comedian and columnist, writer/director/performer of Jesus: The Guantanamo Years. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Marcus Brigstocke</Name> <BirthYear>1973</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>English comedian, satirist and presenter of The Late Edition </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>George Carlin</Name> <BirthYear>1937</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture>Carlin.jpg</Picture> <Text>American comedian, actor and author; outspoken atheist who has described religion as being "the greatest bullshit story ever told," that "there's an invisible man living in the sky." </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Adam Carolla</Name> <BirthYear>1964</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American comedian, actor and comedy writer. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Jimmy Carr</Name> <BirthYear>1972</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>English-Irish comedian. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Pat Condell</Name> <BirthYear>1951</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>English stand up comedian, writer and secularist. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>David Cross</Name> <BirthYear>1964</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American actor and comedian. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Ben Elton</Name> <BirthYear>1959</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>English comedian, writer and director. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Janeane Garofalo</Name> <BirthYear>1964</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American actor and comedian. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Ricky Gervais</Name> <BirthYear>1961</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture>RickyGervaisBAFTA07.jpg</Picture> <Text>British comedian and actor, co-creator of the original version of The Office. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Kathy Griffin</Name> <BirthYear>1963</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American comedian. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Robin Ince</Name> <BirthYear>1969</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British comedian. (According to his official MySpace page )</Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Dom Joly</Name> <BirthYear>1967</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Award-winning British television comedian and journalist, best known as the star of Trigger Happy TV. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Dermot Morgan</Name> <BirthYear>1952</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1998</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Irish comedian and actor, who achieved international renown as Father Ted Crilly in the Channel 4 sitcom Father Ted. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Patton Oswalt</Name> <BirthYear>1969</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American actor and comedian. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Linda Smith (comedian)|Linda Smith</Name> <BirthYear>1958</BirthYear> <DeathYear>2006</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>English comedian and comedy writer, president of the British Humanist Association from 2004 until her death. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Julia Sweeney</Name> <BirthYear>1959</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American actor and comedian. Alumna of Saturday Night Live, author/performer of a one-woman autobiographical stage show about finding atheism: Letting Go of God. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Mark Thomas</Name> <BirthYear>1963</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>English comedian, presenter, political activist and reporter, best known for political stunts on his show, The Mark Thomas Comedy Product on UK Channel 4. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Gene Weingarten</Name> <BirthYear>1951</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Humor writer for The Washington Post. </Text> </Person>

<Person> <Name>Mary Adams (broadcaster)|Mary Adams</Name> <BirthYear>1898</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1984</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>English producer and administrator in the BBC, instrumental in setting up the BBC's television service. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Phillip Adams</Name> <BirthYear>1939</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Australian broadcaster, writer, film-maker, left-wing radical thinker and iconoclast. He was the Australian Humanist of the Year in 1987. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Robert Altman</Name> <BirthYear>1925</BirthYear> <DeathYear>2006</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American film director, recognised in 2006 with an Academy Honorary Award. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Brannon Braga</Name> <BirthYear>1965</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American TV producer and writer, creator of Star Trek: Enterprise. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Jim Broadbent</Name> <BirthYear>1949</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>English Academy Award-, Golden Globe- and BAFTA-winning theatre, film and television actor. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Jeremy Brock</Name> <BirthYear>1959</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British actor, producer, writer, and director, whose work includes Mrs. Brown and the BAFTA award winning screenplay for The Last King of Scotland. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Derren Brown</Name> <BirthYear>1971</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>English psychological illusionist, mentalist, and skeptic of paranormal phenomena. Professed to being an atheist in his book Tricks of the Mind and described Bertrand Russell's collection of essays Why I Am Not a Christian "an absolute joy." </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Luis Buñuel</Name> <BirthYear>1900</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1983</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Spanish film-maker, activist of the surrealist movement. Known for his one-liner, "Thank God I'm still an atheist." </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Richard Carleton</Name> <BirthYear>1943</BirthYear> <DeathYear>2006</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Current affairs journalist for  Australia's 60 Minutes. Described as a "devout atheist". </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Adam Carolla</Name> <BirthYear>1964</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American comedic radio personality and television personality, best known for co-hosting the radio program Loveline and the television series The Man Show. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Adithya</Name> <BirthYear>1974</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Indian Actor. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Asia Carrera</Name> <BirthYear>1973</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Former American pornographic actress. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Noël Coward|Sir Noël Coward</Name> <BirthYear>1899</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1973</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>English actor, playwright and composer of popular music. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Russell T Davies</Name> <BirthYear>1963</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Welsh television producer and writer, most famous for reviving Doctor Who on British television. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>William B. Davis</Name> <BirthYear>1938</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Canadian actor, known for his role as the Cigarette Smoking Man in The X-Files. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Stanley Donen</Name> <BirthYear>1924</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American film director, best known for his musicals including Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and Singin' in the Rain; awarded honorary Academy Award for lifetime achievement. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Amanda Donohoe</Name> <BirthYear>1962</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>English film, stage and television actress. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>David Edgar</Name> <BirthYear>1948</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British playwright, noted for his adaptation of Charles Dickens's novel Nicholas Nickleby. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Brian Flemming</Name> <BirthYear>1966</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American film director and playwright, notable for his 2005 film The God Who Wasn't There. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Denis Forman|Sir Denis Forman</Name> <BirthYear>1917</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British Director (1949&amp;ndash;1954) and later Chair (1971&amp;ndash;1973) of The British Film Institute, Chairman and Managing Director of Granada Television, and Director of the Royal Opera House in London. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Jodie Foster</Name> <BirthYear>1962</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture>Jodie Foster.4785.jpg</Picture> <Text>American film actress, director, and producer. Two-time Academy Award-winner. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Paul Giamatti</Name> <BirthYear>1967</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American film and television actor. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Peter Greenaway</Name> <BirthYear></BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>, CBE (1942&amp;ndash;): Welsh-born English film director. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>David Hare (dramatist)|Sir David Hare</Name> <BirthYear>1947</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Award-winning English dramatist and theatre and film director. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Katharine Hepburn</Name> <BirthYear>1907</BirthYear> <DeathYear>2003</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture>Katharine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story trailer.jpg</Picture> <Text>American actress who appeared in 53 films from 1932 to 1994; winner of four Academy Awards for Best Actress. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Penn Jillette</Name> <BirthYear>1955</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American magician, co-host of the television show Bullshit!, on which he has identified himself as an atheist and criticized various religious beliefs. He has also taken the Blasphemy Challenge.</Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Sarah Kane</Name> <BirthYear>1971</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1999</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>English playwright. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Skandar Keynes</Name> <BirthYear>1991</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>English actor (Chronicles of Narnia films). </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Michael Kinsley</Name> <BirthYear>1951</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American political journalist, commentator, and television host. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Jerzy Kawalerowicz</Name> <BirthYear>1922</BirthYear> <DeathYear>2007</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Polish film director. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Nigella Lawson</Name> <BirthYear>1960</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>English journalist, food writer, broadcaster and television presenter. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Tom Leykis</Name> <BirthYear>1956</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American radio talk-show host. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Kevin Macdonald (director)|Kevin Macdonald</Name> <BirthYear>1967</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Scottish two-time BAFTA winning director, most famous for his films The Last King of Scotland and Touching the Void. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Seth MacFarlane</Name> <BirthYear>1973</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Creator, animator, executive producer, actor, writer for American Dad and Family Guy. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Paul Mazursky</Name> <BirthYear>1930</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American director, producer and actor. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Ian McKellen|Sir Ian McKellen</Name> <BirthYear>1939</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture>Ian McKellen.jpg</Picture> <Text>English stage and screen actor. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Stephen Merchant</Name> <BirthYear>1974</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British actor and writer, co-creator of The Office. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>George Meyer</Name> <BirthYear>1956</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Producer and writer for The Simpsons. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Warren Mitchell</Name> <BirthYear>1926</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>English actor, most famously in the long-running BBC TV series Till Death Us Do Part. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Cillian Murphy</Name> <BirthYear>1976</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Irish stage and screen actor. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Bruce Parry</Name> <BirthYear>1969</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>English former Royal Marine instructor who presents the BBC / Discovery Channel documentary Tribe. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Julia Pascal</Name> <BirthYear>1949</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British Jewish playwright and theatre director. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Julia Phillips</Name> <BirthYear>1944</BirthYear> <DeathYear>2002</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Academy Award-winning film producer and author, the first woman to win an Oscar as a producer. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Sarah Polley</Name> <BirthYear>1979</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Canadian actress and director. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Fyfe Robertson</Name> <BirthYear>1902</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1987</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Scottish television journalist. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Griff Rhys Jones</Name> <BirthYear>1953</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Welsh comedian, writer, actor and television presenter. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Andy Serkis</Name> <BirthYear>1964</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>English actor and director, best known for his portrayal of Sméagol/Gollum in The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Don Siegel</Name> <BirthYear>1912</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1991</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Influential American film director and producer. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Steven Soderbergh</Name> <BirthYear>1963</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture>Steven soderbergh by soyignatius.jpg</Picture> <Text>American filmmaker, Academy Award-winning director of such films as Traffic, Erin Brockovich, Ocean's Eleven, and Sex, Lies and Videotape. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>David Starkey</Name> <BirthYear></BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>CBE (1945&amp;ndash;): English historian, television and radio presenter, and specialist in the Tudor period. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>J. Michael Straczynski</Name> <BirthYear>1954</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American writer and producer, creator of Babylon 5. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Teller (magician)</Name> <BirthYear>1948</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American magician, co-host of the television show Bullshit!. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Kenneth Tynan</Name> <BirthYear>1927</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1980</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Influential and often controversial British theatre critic and writer. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Ram Gopal Varma</Name> <BirthYear>1962</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Indian film director, writer and film producer. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Wynford Vaughan-Thomas</Name> <BirthYear></BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>CBE (1908&amp;ndash;1987): Welsh newspaper journalist and radio and television broadcaster with a lengthy career. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Paul Verhoeven</Name> <BirthYear>1938</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1987</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Dutch BAFTA Award nominated film director, screenwriter, and film producer, filming in both the Netherlands and the United States, best known for the American feature films RoboCop, Total Recall, Basic Instinct and Starship Troopers. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Joss Whedon</Name> <BirthYear>1964</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American screenwriter and director, most famous for creating the Buffy the Vampire Slayer franchise. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Gene Wilder</Name> <BirthYear>1933</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American actor best known for his role as Willy Wonka. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Robyn Williams</Name> <BirthYear>1944</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Australian science journalist and broadcaster, interviewer and host of the Science Show on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Ted Willis, Baron Willis|Ted Willis</Name> <BirthYear>1914</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1992</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British television dramatist, also politically active in support of the Labour Party. </Text> </Person>

<Person> <Name>G. E. M. de Ste. Croix</Name> <BirthYear>1910</BirthYear> <DeathYear>2000</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British historian, specializing in examining the classical era from a historical materialist perspective. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Constantine Fitzgibbon</Name> <BirthYear>1919</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1983</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Irish-American historian and novelist. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>George Grote</Name> <BirthYear>1794</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1871</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>English classical historian, best known in the field for a major work, the voluminous History of Greece, still read. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Robin Lane Fox</Name> <BirthYear>1946</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>English academic and historian, currently a Fellow of New College, Oxford, Lecturer in Ancient History at Exeter College, Oxford and University Reader in Ancient History. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Tony Parker</Name> <BirthYear>1923</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1996</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>English oral historian, whose work was dedicated to giving a voice to British and American society's most marginalised figures. </Text> </Person>

<Person> <Name>William Douglas, 1st Baron Douglas of Kirtleside|William Sholto Douglas, Baron Douglas of Kirtleside</Name> <BirthYear></BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>, Marshal of the Royal Air Force GCB, MC, DFC (1893&amp;ndash;1969): Distinguished British airman, a senior figure in the Royal Air Force up to and during World War II. </Text> </Person>

<Person> <Name>Roy Bailey (folk singer)|Roy Bailey</Name> <BirthYear>1935</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British socialist folk singer. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Matthew Bellamy</Name> <BirthYear>1978</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British guitarist, pianist and vocalist with Muse. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Björk</Name> <BirthYear>1965</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture>Bjork Hurricane.jpg</Picture> <Text>Icelandic singer/song writer, composer and producer. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Isaac Brock (musician)|Isaac Brock</Name> <BirthYear>1975</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American singer, guitarist, banjoist, and songwriter for the indie rock band Modest Mouse. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Geoffrey Burgon</Name> <BirthYear>1941</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British composer notable for his television and film themes. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Henry Burstow</Name> <BirthYear>1826</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1916</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>English shoemaker, singer and bellringer from Horsham, Sussex, best known for his vast repertoire of songs, many of which were collected in the folksong revival of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Ferruccio Busoni</Name> <BirthYear>1866</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1924</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Italian composer, pianist, teacher of piano and composition, and conductor. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Greydon Square|Eddie Collins</Name> <BirthYear></BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture>Greydon Square GAGOP.jpg</Picture> <Text>, also known by his stage name Greydon Square, is an American hip hop artist, and an outspoken atheist who promotes discussion on theological issues. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Wayne Coyne</Name> <BirthYear>1961</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American lead singer, guitarist, and principal songwriter for the band The Flaming Lips. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Justin Currie</Name> <BirthYear>1964</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Scottish singer and songwriter, best known as a founder member of Del Amitri. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Frederick Delius</Name> <BirthYear></BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>CH (1862&amp;ndash;1934): Noted English composer. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Ani DiFranco</Name> <BirthYear>1970</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Singer, guitarist, and songwriter. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Brian Eno</Name> <BirthYear>1948</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>English electronic musician, music theorist and record producer, known as the father of modern ambient music. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Fenriz</Name> <BirthYear>1971</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Norwegian drummer and lyricist for the two-piece black metal band Darkthrone. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Liam Gallagher</Name> <BirthYear></BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>, (1972&amp;ndash;): Lead singer for Oasis, younger brother of Noel Gallagher. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Noel Gallagher</Name> <BirthYear></BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>, (1967&amp;ndash;): Lead guitarist for Oasis, older brother of Liam Gallagher. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Bob Geldof</Name> <BirthYear></BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>, (1951&amp;ndash;): Irish singer/songwriter, organized the Live Aid and Live 8 charity concerts. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>David Gilmour</Name> <BirthYear>1946</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>English guitarist and vocalist with Pink Floyd. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Dave Godin</Name> <BirthYear>1936</BirthYear> <DeathYear>2004</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>English champion of African-American music who coined the term 'Northern soul'. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Greg Graffin</Name> <BirthYear>1964</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Lead singer of the punk rock band Bad Religion. Received his zoology PhD with the thesis Monism, Atheism and the Naturalist Worldview: Perspectives from Evolutionary Biology. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Kathleen Hanna</Name> <BirthYear>1968</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Lead singer of Le Tigre. She was quoted in an interview saying, "I don't believe in God, but I believe God invented four-tracks". </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Henry Holmes (composer)|Henry Holmes</Name> <BirthYear>1839</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1905</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>English violinist and composer. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Leoš Janá?ek</Name> <BirthYear>1854</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1928</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Czech composer, famous for his Glagolitic Mass. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Alex Kapranos</Name> <BirthYear>1972</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Lead singer of Scottish band Franz Ferdinand. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Linton Kwesi Johnson</Name> <BirthYear>1952</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British-based dub poet. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Lemmy</Name> <BirthYear>1945</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>English rock singer and bass guitarist, most famous for founding the rock band Motörhead. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Till Lindemann</Name> <BirthYear>1963</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Lead singer of the German industrial metal band, Rammstein </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Emcee Lynx</Name> <BirthYear>1980</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>anarchist hip hop musician who identifies as potentially pantheist, agnostic or atheist. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Peter Maxwell Davies|Sir Peter Maxwell Davies</Name> <BirthYear></BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>CBE (1934&amp;ndash;): English composer and conductor, currently Master of the Queen's Music. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>George Melly</Name> <BirthYear>1926</BirthYear> <DeathYear>2007</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>English jazz and blues singer, critic, writer and lecturer. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Napalm Death</Name> <BirthYear></BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>grindcore/death metal band from Birmingham, England. All members hold atheistic outlooks. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov</Name> <BirthYear>1844</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1908</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture>NARK.jpg</Picture> <Text>Russian Nationalist composer, member of "The Five", best-known for the symphonic suite Scheherazade. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Richard Rodgers</Name> <BirthYear>1902</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1979</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American composer of the music for more than 900 songs and 40 Broadway musicals, best known for his songwriting partnerships with the lyricists Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Ned Rorem</Name> <BirthYear>1923</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American composer </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Eric Sams</Name> <BirthYear>1926</BirthYear> <DeathYear>2004</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British musicologist and Shakespeare scholar. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Wayne Static</Name> <BirthYear>1965</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Frontman for Industrial Metal band Static-X </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Richard Strauss</Name> <BirthYear>1864</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1949</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>German composer of the late Romantic and early modern era, particularly noted for his tone poems and operas. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Tracey Thorn</Name> <BirthYear>1962</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>English pop singer and songwriter, best known as one half of the duo Everything but the Girl. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Michael Tippett|Sir Michael Tippett</Name> <BirthYear></BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>OM (1905&amp;ndash;1998): English composer, regarded as one of the greatest of the 20th century. </Text> </Person>

<Person> <Name>John Anderson (philosopher)</Name> <BirthYear>1893</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1962</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Scottish-born Australian philosopher, Professor of Philosophy at Sydney University for over thirty years, and founder of the empirical brand of philosophy known as 'Sydney realism'. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Hector Avalos</Name> <BirthYear>1958</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Mexican-American professor of Religious Studies at Iowa State University and author of several books about religion. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>A. J. Ayer</Name> <BirthYear>1910</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1989</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British philosopher and advocate of logical positivism. Though technically he viewed the idea of God existing as meaningless, he was happy to call himself an atheist. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Julian Baggini</Name> <BirthYear>1968</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British writer specialising in philosophy, author of Atheism: A Very Short Introduction. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Mikhail Bakunin</Name> <BirthYear>1814</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1876</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Russian philosopher, writer and anarchist. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Simone de Beauvoir</Name> <BirthYear>1908</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1986</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>French author and existentialist philosopher. Beauvoir wrote novels and monographs on philosophy, politics, social issues and feminism. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Simon Blackburn</Name> <BirthYear>1944</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British academic atheist philosopher known for his efforts to popularise philosophy. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Albert Camus</Name> <BirthYear>1913</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1960</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>French philosopher and novelist, a luminary of existentialism. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Rudolf Carnap</Name> <BirthYear>1891</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1970</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>German philosopher who was active in central Europe before 1935 and in the United States thereafter. He was a leading member of the Vienna Circle and a prominent advocate of logical positivism. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Robert Todd Carroll</Name> <BirthYear>1945</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American writer and academic, professor of philosophy at Sacramento City College until 1997, and keeper of the Skeptic's Dictionary website. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Noam Chomsky</Name> <BirthYear>1928</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American linguist, philosopher, political activist, author, and lecturer, Institute Professor and professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, credited with the creation of the theory of generative grammar. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Auguste Comte</Name> <BirthYear>1798</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1857</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>French positivist thinker, credited with coining the term "sociologie" (sociology). </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>André Comte-Sponville</Name> <BirthYear>1952</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>French philosopher, author of L'Esprit de l'athéisme (2006) and The Little Book of Atheist Spirituality (2007). </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Marquis de Condorcet</Name> <BirthYear>1743</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1794</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>French philosopher, mathematician, and early political scientist who devised the concept of a Condorcet method. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Benedetto Croce</Name> <BirthYear>1886</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1952</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Italian philosopher and public figure. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Gilles Deleuze</Name> <BirthYear>1925</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1995</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>French philosopher of the late 20th century. From the early 1960s until his death, Deleuze wrote many influential works on philosophy, literature, film, and fine art. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Daniel Dennett</Name> <BirthYear>1942</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American philosopher, author of Breaking the Spell. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Diagoras of Melos</Name> <BirthYear>5</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Ancient Greek poet and sophist known as the Atheist of Milos, who declared that there were no Gods. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Denis Diderot</Name> <BirthYear>1713</BirthYear> <DeathYear>84</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture>Louis-Michel van Loo 001.jpg</Picture> <Text>editor-in-chief of the Encyclopédie. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Theodore Drange</Name> <BirthYear>1934</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Philosopher of religion and Professor Emeritus at West Virginia University. Drange authored Nonbelief &amp; Evil: Two arguments for the nonexistence of God. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Paul Edwards (philosopher)|Paul Edwards</Name> <BirthYear>1923</BirthYear> <DeathYear>2004</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Austrian-American moral philosopher and editor of The Encyclopedia or Philosophy. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach</Name> <BirthYear>1804</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1872</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>German philosopher whose major work, The Essence of Christianity, maintains that religion and divinity are projections of human nature. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>A. C. Grayling</Name> <BirthYear>1949</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British philosopher and author of, among others, Against All Gods: Six Polemics on Religion and an Essay on Kindness. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>John Harris (bioethicist)|John Harris</Name> <BirthYear>1947</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British professor of bioethics at the University of Manchester, and member of the UK Human Genetics Commission. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Claude Adrien Helvétius</Name> <BirthYear>1715</BirthYear> <DeathYear>71</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>French philosopher whose ethical and social views helped shape the school of utilitarianism later made famous by Jeremy Bentham. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Baron d'Holbach</Name> <BirthYear>1723</BirthYear> <DeathYear>89</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture>Paul Heinrich Dietrich Baron d'Holbach.jpg</Picture> <Text>French philosopher and encyclopedist, most famous as being one of the first outspoken atheists in Europe. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>David Kellogg Lewis</Name> <BirthYear>1941</BirthYear> <DeathYear>2001</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American philosopher. One of the leading thinkers of the second half of the 20th century. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Peter Lipton</Name> <BirthYear>1954</BirthYear> <DeathYear>2007</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British philosopher, the Hans Rausing Professor and Head of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University until his unexpected death in November 2007. He was "one of the leading philosophers of science and epistemologists in the world." </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Kazimierz ?yszczy?ski|Kazimierz Lyszczynski</Name> <BirthYear>1634</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1689</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Polish noble and philosopher, author of philosophical treatise De non existentia Dei, condemned to death penalty for atheism and executed. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>J. L. Mackie|John Leslie Mackie</Name> <BirthYear>1917</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1981</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Australian philosopher who specialized in meta-ethics as a proponent of moral skepticism. Wrote The Miracle of Theism, discussing arguments for and against theism and concluding that theism is rationally untenable. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Michael Martin (philosopher)|Michael Martin</Name> <BirthYear>1932</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>analytic philosopher and professor emeritus at Boston University, author of, amongst others, Atheism: A Philosophical Justification (1989) and The Impossibility of God (2003). </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Harriet Martineau</Name> <BirthYear>1802</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1876</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>was an English writer and philosopher, renowned in her day as a controversial journalist, political economist, abolitionist and life-long feminist. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Karl Marx</Name> <BirthYear>1818</BirthYear> <DeathYear>83</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture>Karl Marx.jpg</Picture> <Text>German author of Das Kapital, known for his assertion that "Religion is... the opiate of the people." </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Colin McGinn</Name> <BirthYear>1950</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British philosopher and author, best known for his work in the philosophy of mind. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Jean Meslier</Name> <BirthYear>1678</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1733</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>French village Catholic priest who was found, on his death, to have written a book-length philosophical essay, entitled Common Sense but commonly referred to as Meslier's Testament, promoting atheism. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Julien Offray de La Mettrie</Name> <BirthYear>1709</BirthYear> <DeathYear>51</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>French physician and philosopher, earliest materialist writer of the Enlightenment, claimed as a founder of cognitive science. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>John Stuart Mill</Name> <BirthYear>1806</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1873</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>The famous philosopher declared his atheism, and that of his father, in a famous essay published posthumously. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Kai Nielsen</Name> <BirthYear>1926</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>adjunct professor of philosophy at Concordia University in Montreal and professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Calgary. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Friedrich Nietzsche</Name> <BirthYear>1844</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1900</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture>Nietzsche1882.jpg</Picture> <Text>German philosopher whose Beyond Good and Evil sought to refute traditional notions of morality. Nietzsche penned a memorable secular statement of the Doctrine of Eternal Recurrence in Thus Spake Zarathustra and is forever associated with the phrase, "God is dead" (first seen in his book, The Gay Science). </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Piergiorgio Odifreddi</Name> <BirthYear>1950</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Italian mathematician, philosopher and science writer. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Michel Onfray</Name> <BirthYear>1958</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>French philosopher, founder of Université populaire de Caen, and author of Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Graham Oppy</Name> <BirthYear>1960</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Australian philosopher and Associate Dean of Research at Monash University, and Associate Editor of the Australasian Journal of Philosophy. His main area of research is the philosophy of religion. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Leonard Peikoff</Name> <BirthYear>1933</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>an Objectivist philosopher, he is Ayn Rand's intellectual and legal heir. He is a former professor of philosophy, a former radio talk show host, and founder of the Ayn Rand Institute. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Herman Philipse</Name> <BirthYear>1951</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>professor of philosophy at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Philipse has written many philosophical works in Dutch, including the widely-read Atheist Manifesto and the Unreasonableness of Religion (Atheistisch manifest &amp; De onredelijkheid van religie. </Text> </Person> <Person>	<Name>James Rachels</Name>	<BirthYear>1941</BirthYear>	<DeathYear>2003</DeathYear>	<Nationality></Nationality>	<Field></Field>	<Description></Description>	<Notes></Notes>	<Picture></Picture>	<Text>American philosopher who specialized in ethics. </Text> </Person> <Person>	<Name>Bertrand Russell</Name>	<BirthYear></BirthYear>	<DeathYear></DeathYear>	<Nationality></Nationality>	<Field></Field>	<Description></Description>	<Notes></Notes>	<Picture>Russell1907-2.jpg</Picture>	<Text>, (1872&amp;ndash;1970): British philosopher and mathematician. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950. Though he considered himself an agnostic in a purely philosophical context, he said that the label atheist conveyed a more accurate understanding of his views in a popular context. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>George Santayana</Name> <BirthYear>1863</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1952</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Philosopher in the naturalist and pragmatist traditions who called himself a "Catholic atheist." </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Jean-Paul Sartre</Name> <BirthYear>1905</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1980</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>French existentialist philosopher, dramatist and novelist who declared that he had been an atheist from age twelve. Although he regarded God as a self-contradictory concept, he still thought of it as an ideal toward which people strive. He rejected the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964. According to Sartre, his most-repeated summary of his existentialist philosophy, "Existence precedes essence," implies that humans must abandon traditional notions of having been designed by a divine creator. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Michael Schmidt-Salomon</Name> <BirthYear>1967</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>German philosopher, author and former editor of MIZ (Contemporary Materials and Information: Political magazine for atheists and the irreligious) </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Arthur Schopenhauer</Name> <BirthYear>1788</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1860</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Pessimistic German philosopher and author of the book The World as Will and Representation. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>John Searle</Name> <BirthYear>1932</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American philosopher, Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, widely noted for contributions to the philosophy of language, the philosophy of mind, and to social philosophy. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Peter Singer</Name> <BirthYear>1946</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Australian utilitarian philosopher, proponent of animal rights, and Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>George H. Smith</Name> <BirthYear>1949</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Libertarian philosopher, author and educator. Smith authored Atheism: The Case Against God. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Quentin Smith</Name> <BirthYear>1952</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Philosopher and professor of philosophy at Western Michigan University. Smith co-authored the book Theism, Atheism and Big Bang Cosmology with William Lane Craig. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Max Stirner</Name> <BirthYear>1806</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1856</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>German-born anarchist philosopher and author of The Ego and Its Own</Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Theodorus the Atheist</Name> <BirthYear></BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>(lived around 300 BCE): Philosopher of the Cyrenaic school who taught that the goal of life was to obtain joy and avoid grief. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Alan White (philosopher)|Alan White</Name> <BirthYear>1922</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1992</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Canadian-born philosopher and author. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Bernard Williams|Sir Bernard Williams</Name> <BirthYear></BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>FBA (1929&amp;ndash;2003): British philosopher, widely cited as the most important British moral philosopher of his time. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Sherwin Wine</Name> <BirthYear>1928</BirthYear> <DeathYear>2007</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Founder of the non-theistic Society for Humanistic Judaism, who has also called himself an "ignostic". </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Slavoj Žižek</Name> <BirthYear>1949</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Slovenian sociologist, postmodern philosopher, and cultural critic. </Text> </Person>

<Person> <Name>Guy Aldred</Name> <BirthYear>1886</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1963</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>English anarchist communist and a prominent member of the Anti-Parliamentary Communist Federation. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Subhashini Ali</Name> <BirthYear>19</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Indian Marxist politician and President of the All India Democratic Women's Association. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Graham Allen (politician)|Graham Allen</Name> <BirthYear>1953</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British Labour politician and Member Member of Parliament for Nottingham North, and a Distinguished Supporter of the British Humanist Association and an honorary associate of the National Secular Society. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Salvador Allende</Name> <BirthYear>1908</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1973</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Chilean Marxist politician, President of Chile from November 1970 until his death during the coup d'état of September 11, 1973. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>William Crawford Anderson</Name> <BirthYear>1877</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1919</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British socialist politician, a founder member of the Union of Democratic Control. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Julio Anguita</Name> <BirthYear>1941</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Spanish politician and a former teacher, Mayor of Córdoba 1979&amp;ndash;1988, then General Secretary of the Communist Party of Spain 1988&amp;ndash;1998. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Clement Attlee</Name> <BirthYear></BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, PC (1883&amp;ndash;1967): Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951, under whose government the National Health Service and Welfare State were established. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Bob Avakian</Name> <BirthYear>19</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, and author of Away With All Gods! (2008). </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Edward Aveling</Name> <BirthYear>1849</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1898</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>English Marxist activist and partner of Karl Marx's daughter Eleanor. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Uri Avnery</Name> <BirthYear>1923</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>German-born Israeli journalist, left-wing peace activist, and former Knesset member. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Leo Blair (senior)|Leo Blair</Name> <BirthYear>1923</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Barrister and father of Tony Blair, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Bessie Braddock</Name> <BirthYear></BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>JP (1899&amp;ndash;1970): British Labour politician, vice-chairman of the party in 1968. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Charles Bradlaugh</Name> <BirthYear>1833</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1891</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture>Charles Bradlaugh.jpg</Picture> <Text>Political activist and one of the most famous English atheists of the 19th century. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Alastair Campbell</Name> <BirthYear>1957</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Director of Communications and Strategy for the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2003. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Douglas_Campbell_%28Michigan_politician%29 | Douglas Campbell</Name> <BirthYear>1959</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Atheist advocate and member of the Green Party of Michigan. Member, national advisory board, Godless Americans Political Action Committee. Co-founder, Michigan Godless Americans Political Action Committee. Green Party candidate for Governor of Michigan, 2002 &amp; 2006.</Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Michael Cashman</Name> <BirthYear>1950</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British actor turned Labour politician, a Member of the European Parliament since 1999. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Colin Challen</Name> <BirthYear>1953</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British Labour politician. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Nick Clegg</Name> <BirthYear>1967</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Leader of the Liberal Democrats since 2007. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Dimitris Christofias</Name> <BirthYear>1946</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Greek Cypriot politician, President of Cyprus 2008-Present. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Georges Clemenceau</Name> <BirthYear>1841</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1929</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>French statesman, physician and journalist, prime minister of France 1906-1909 and 1917-1920. Led France during World War I and was one of the major voices behind the Treaty of Versailles. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Robin Cook</Name> <BirthYear>1946</BirthYear> <DeathYear>2005</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Secretary of State for Foreign &amp; Commonwealth Affairs of the UK (1997&amp;ndash;2001), whose funeral service was held in the High Kirk of Scotland, where he was described as a "Presbyterian atheist." </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>James Connolly</Name> <BirthYear>1868</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1916</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Irish socialist leader. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Vaso ?ubrilovi?</Name> <BirthYear>1897</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1990</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Bosnian student, a conspirator in the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Meghnad Desai, Baron Desai</Name> <BirthYear>1940</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British economist, writer and Labour politician. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Frank Dobson</Name> <BirthYear>1940</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British Labour politician and member of Parliament for Holborn and St. Pancras. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Jack Dormand</Name> <BirthYear>1919</BirthYear> <DeathYear>2003</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British educationist and Labour politician. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Herbert Fisher</Name> <BirthYear></BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>OM (1865&amp;ndash;1940): English historian, educator, and Liberal politician. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Donald Findlay</Name> <BirthYear></BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>QC (1951&amp;ndash;): Senior Scottish advocate and Queen's Counsel. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Shreela Flather, Baroness Flather</Name> <BirthYear>1934</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British Conservative peer in the House of Lords, the first Asian woman to receive a peerage. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Michael Foot</Name> <BirthYear>1913</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British politician and writer, leader of the Labour Party 1980&amp;ndash;1983. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Giuseppe Garibaldi</Name> <BirthYear>1807</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1882</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture>Giuseppe Garibaldi (1866).jpg</Picture> <Text>Leader of the Italian Risorgimento, unifier of Italy, "Hero of the Two Worlds". </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>George Taubman Goldie|Sir George Taubman Goldie</Name> <BirthYear>1846</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1925</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Manx administrator who, as founder of the Royal Niger Company, played a major role in the founding of Nigeria. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>W?adys?aw Gomu?ka</Name> <BirthYear>1905</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1982</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Polish Communist leader. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Mikhail Gorbachev</Name> <BirthYear>1931</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture>Mikhail Gorbachev 1987.jpg</Picture> <Text>Former Soviet president and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Roy Hattersley</Name> <BirthYear></BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>PC (1932&amp;ndash;): British Labour Party politician, author and journalist, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party 1983&amp;ndash;1992. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Bill Hayden</Name> <BirthYear>1933</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Governor-General of Australia (1989&amp;ndash;1996). . </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Theodor Herzl</Name> <BirthYear>1860</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1904</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Austro-Hungarian Jewish journalist and founder of modern political Zionism. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Douglas Houghton, Baron Houghton of Sowerby|Douglas Houghton</Name> <BirthYear></BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>PC CH (1898&amp;ndash;1996): British Labour politician. . </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Enver Hoxha</Name> <BirthYear>1908</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1985</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Communist ruler who declared Albania the first atheist state, and who has been identified as an "arch-atheist." </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Robert Hughes, Baron Hughes of Woodside</Name> <BirthYear>1932</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British Labour politician. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Nilde Iotti</Name> <BirthYear>1920</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1999</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Italian politician, the first woman to became president of the Italian Chamber of Deputies for three consecutive legislatures 1979&amp;ndash;1992. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Dale Jackaman (Canadian politician)|Dale Jackaman</Name> <BirthYear>1956</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Canadian politician. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Thomas A. Jackson|Tommy Jackson</Name> <BirthYear>1879</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1955</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>English founder of the Socialist Party of Great Britain and later the Communist Party of Great Britain. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Joel Joffe, Baron Joffe</Name> <BirthYear></BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>CBE (1932&amp;ndash;): South Africa-born British Labour peer in the House of Lords. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Reginald Johnston|Sir Reginald Johnston</Name> <BirthYear>1874</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1938</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Scottish diplomat and tutor of Puyi, the last emperor of China, later appointed as commissioner of British-held Weihaiwei. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>M. Karunanidhi</Name> <BirthYear>1924</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Nikita Khrushchev</Name> <BirthYear>1894</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1971</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Soviet General Secretary, 1953-1964. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Oona King</Name> <BirthYear>1967</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Former Labour MP for Bethnal Green and Bow (1997-2005). </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Neil Kinnock</Name> <BirthYear></BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>PC (1942&amp;ndash;): British Labour politician, Leader of the Opposition and Labour Party leader 1983&amp;ndash;1992. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Aleksander Kwasniewski</Name> <BirthYear>1954</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Former President of Poland (1995-2005). </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Vladimir Ilyich Lenin</Name> <BirthYear>1870</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1924</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Marxist revolutionary, Bolshevik Leader and President of the All Russian Congress of Peoples' Soviets. Lenin considered atheist propaganda to be essential to promoting communism. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Ken Livingstone</Name> <BirthYear>1945</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Mayor of London 2000-08. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Alexander Lukashenko</Name> <BirthYear>1954</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>President of Belarus, self-described "Russian Orthodox atheist." </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Heather Mac Donald</Name> <BirthYear></BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>(c.1956&amp;ndash;): American writer and lawyer, member of the Manhattan Institute and author of The Burden of Bad Ideas: How Modern Intellectuals Misshape Our Society. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Gus Macdonald, Baron Macdonald of Tradeston</Name> <BirthYear></BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>CBE, PC (194056&amp;ndash;): distinguished British Labour politician. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>John Maxton, Baron Maxton</Name> <BirthYear>1936</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Scottish politician, MP and now member of the House of Lords. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Violet Milner, Viscountess Milner|Violet Milner</Name> <BirthYear>1872</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1958</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>English Edwardian society Lady and editor of the political monthly, '' National Review. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Slobodan Miloševi?</Name> <BirthYear>1941</BirthYear> <DeathYear>2006</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Serbian politician, former President of Serbia and of Yugoslavia. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn</Name> <BirthYear></BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>OM, PC (1838&amp;ndash;1923): British Liberal statesman, writer and newspaper editor. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Mo Mowlam</Name> <BirthYear>1949</BirthYear> <DeathYear>2005</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Former Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Elaine Murphy, Baroness Murphy</Name> <BirthYear>1949</BirthYear> <DeathYear>2005</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British politician and a member of the House of Lords, and a doctor and academic, formerly Professor of Psychiatry of Old Age at Guy's Hospital. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Barack Obama, Sr.</Name> <BirthYear>1936</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1982</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>A senior economist for the Kenyan government, ex-Muslim, and father of United States presidential candidate Barack Obama. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Culbert Olson</Name> <BirthYear>1876</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1962</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American politician and Governor of California (1939&amp;ndash;1943). </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Marion Phillips</Name> <BirthYear>1881</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1932</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Australia-born Labour Party politician and British Member of Parliament. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Phil Piratin</Name> <BirthYear>1907</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1995</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British member of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) and one of their few Members of Parliament. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Gilbert Romme</Name> <BirthYear>1750</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1795</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture>Gilbert Romme.jpg</Picture> <Text>French politician and mathematician who developed the French Republican Calendar. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Manabendra Nath Roy</Name> <BirthYear>1887</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1954</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>born Narendra Nath Bhattacharya, popularly known as M. N. Roy, was a Bengali Indian revolutionary, internationally known political theorist and activist, founder of the Communist parties in Mexico and India. He later denounced communism, as exponent of the philosophy of radical humanism. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Brian Sedgemore</Name> <BirthYear>1937</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>former left-wing British Labour Party politician. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Phil Sawford</Name> <BirthYear>1950</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British politician and former Member of Parliament for Kettering. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington</Name> <BirthYear>1877</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1946</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Irish suffragist and nationalist. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Owen Sheehy-Skeffington</Name> <BirthYear>1909</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1970</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Irish university lecturer and Senator. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Bhagat Singh</Name> <BirthYear>1907</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1931</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Indian freedom fighter. Wrote a pamphlet entitled Why I am an atheist. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Joseph Stalin</Name> <BirthYear>1879</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1953</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Soviet ruler. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Pete Stark</Name> <BirthYear></BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture>Pete Stark.jpg</Picture> <Text>, (D-CA) (1931&amp;ndash;): U.S. Representative; first openly atheist member of Congress. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Eddie Tabash</Name> <BirthYear></BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>is an American lawyer and atheist activist and debater. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Peter Tatchell</Name> <BirthYear></BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>, human rights activist </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>William Thompson (philosopher)|William Thompson</Name> <BirthYear>1775</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1833</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Irish socialist and economist. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Xuan Thuy</Name> <BirthYear>1775</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1833</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>North Vietnamese political figure, foreign minister for North Vietnam 1963&amp;ndash;65, official leader of the delegation to the secret talks with Henry Kissinger, and the main negotiator at the earliest meetings with Kissinger. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Palmiro Togliatti</Name> <BirthYear>1893</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1964</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Italian politician, the leader of Italian Communist Party from 1927 to his death in 1964. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Leon Trotsky</Name> <BirthYear>1879</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1940</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Marxist theorist. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Bengt Westerberg</Name> <BirthYear>1943</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Swedish politician, leader of the Liberal People's Party from 1983 to 1995. Minister for Social Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister from 1991 to 1994. Currently holds office as the Deputy President of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in Geneva, Switzerland. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Phillip Whitehead</Name> <BirthYear>191937</BirthYear> <DeathYear>2005</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British Labour politician, television producer and writer. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Alan Wolfe</Name> <BirthYear>19</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American political scientist and sociologist, director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Mao Zedong</Name> <BirthYear>1893</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1976</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>was a Chinese military and political leader, who led the Communist Party of China to victory in the Chinese Civil War, and was the leader of the People’s Republic of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976. Under his leadership, China officially became an atheist state. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Kim Jong-il</Name> <BirthYear>1941</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>The current ruler of North Korea. </Text> </Person>

<Person> <Name>Peter Atkins</Name> <BirthYear>1940</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>English chemist, Professor of chemistry at Lincoln College, Oxford in England. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Julius Axelrod</Name> <BirthYear>1912</BirthYear> <DeathYear>2004</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American Nobel Prize winning biochemist, noted for his work on the release and reuptake of catecholamine neurotransmitters and major contributions to the understanding of the pineal gland and how it is regulated during the sleep-wake cycle. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Edward Battersby Bailey|Sir Edward Battersby Bailey</Name> <BirthYear></BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>FRS (1881&amp;ndash;1965): British geologist, director of the British Geological Survey. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett|Patrick Blackett</Name> <BirthYear></BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>OM, CH, FRS (1897&amp;ndash;1974): Nobel Prize winning English experimental physicist known for his work on cloud chambers, cosmic rays, and paleomagnetism. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Susan Blackmore</Name> <BirthYear>1951</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>English psychologist and memeticist, best known for her book The Meme Machine. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Hermann Bondi</Name> <BirthYear>1919</BirthYear> <DeathYear>2005</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Anglo-Austrian mathematician and cosmologist, best known for co-developing the steady-state theory of the universe and important contributions to the theory of general relativity. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Paul D. Boyer</Name> <BirthYear>1918</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American biochemist and Nobel Laureate in Chemistry in 1997. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Sean M. Carroll</Name> <BirthYear>1956</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American cosmologist specializing in dark energy and general relativity. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar</Name> <BirthYear>1910</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1995</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Indian American astrophysicist known for his theoretical work on the structure and evolution of stars. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1983. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>William Kingdon Clifford</Name> <BirthYear></BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>FRS (1845&amp;ndash;1879): English mathematician and philosopher, co-introducer of geometric algebra, the first to suggest that gravitation might be a manifestation of an underlying geometry, and coiner of the the expression "mind-stuff". </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Frank Close</Name> <BirthYear></BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>OBE (1845&amp;ndash;1879): British particle physicist, Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, known for his lectures and writings making science intelligible to a wider audience, for which he was awarded the Institute of Physics's Kelvin Medal and Prize. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Francis Crick</Name> <BirthYear>1916</BirthYear> <DeathYear>2004</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>English molecular biologist, physicist, and neuroscientist; noted for being one of the co-discoverers of the structure of the DNA molecule in 1953. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1962. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Howard Dalton|Sir Howard Dalton</Name> <BirthYear></BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>FRS (1944&amp;ndash;2008): British microbiologist, Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from March 2002 to September 2007. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Richard Dawkins</Name> <BirthYear>1941</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture>Richard dawkins.jpg</Picture> <Text>British zoologist, biologist, creator of the concepts of the selfish gene and the meme; outspoken atheist and popularizer of science, author of The God Delusion and founder of the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Arnaud Denjoy</Name> <BirthYear>1884</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1974</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>French mathematician, noted for his contributions to harmonic analysis and differential equations. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Paul Dirac</Name> <BirthYear>1902</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1984</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture>Dirac.gif</Picture> <Text>British theoretical physicist, one of the founders of quantum mechanics, predicted the existence of antimatter, and won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1933. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Albert Ellis</Name> <BirthYear>1913</BirthYear> <DeathYear>2007</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American psychologist who in 1955 developed Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy. Ellis described himself as a probabilistic atheist, meaning that while he acknowledged that it is impossible to be certain that there is no god, he believed that the likelihood that a god exists is so small that it was not worth his (or anyone else's) attention. . </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Leon Festinger</Name> <BirthYear>1919</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1989</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American social psychologist famous for his Theory of Cognitive Dissonance. . </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Richard Feynman</Name> <BirthYear>1918</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1988</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American theoretical physicist, best known for his work in renormalizing Quantum electrodynamics (QED) and his path integral formulation of quantum mechanics. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Sigmund Freud</Name> <BirthYear>1856</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1939</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Father of psychoanalysis. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Erich Fromm</Name> <BirthYear>1900</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1980</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>renowned Jewish-German-American social psychologist, psychoanalyst, and humanistic philosopher, associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Christer Fuglesang</Name> <BirthYear>1957</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>, Swedish astronaut and physicist. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Vitaly Ginzburg</Name> <BirthYear>1916</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Russian theoretical physicist and astrophysicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2003. He was also awarded the Wolf Prize in Physics in 1994/95. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Jonathan Haidt</Name> <BirthYear></BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>(c.1964&amp;ndash;): Associate professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, focusing on the psychological bases of morality across different cultures, and author of The Happiness Hypothesis. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Edward Thomas Hall|E. T. 'Teddy' Hall</Name> <BirthYear>1924</BirthYear> <DeathYear>2001</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>English archaeological scientist, famous for exposing the Piltdown Man fraud and dating the Turin Shroud as a medieval fake. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Sir James Hall, 4th Baronet|Sir James Hall</Name> <BirthYear>1761</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1832</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Scottish geologist and chemist, President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and leading figure in the Scottish Enlightenment. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>G. H. Hardy</Name> <BirthYear>1877</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1947</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>a prominent English mathematician, known for his achievements in number theory and mathematical analysis. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Peter Higgs</Name> <BirthYear>1929</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British theoretical physicist, recipient of the Dirac Medal and Prize, perhaps best known for his prediction of the existence of a new particle, the Higgs boson, nicknamed the "God particle". </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Nicholas Humphrey</Name> <BirthYear>1943</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British psychologist, working on consciousness and belief in the supernatural from a Darwinian perspective, and primatological research into Machiavellian intelligence theory. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Julian Huxley|Sir Julian Huxley</Name> <BirthYear></BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>FRS (1887&amp;ndash;1975): English evolutionary biologist, a leading figure in the mid-twentieth century evolutionary synthesis, Secretary of the Zoological Society of London (1935-1942), the first Director of UNESCO, and a founding member of the World Wildlife Fund. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Frédéric Joliot-Curie</Name> <BirthYear>1900</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1958</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>French physicist and Nobel Laureate in Chemistry in 1935. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Harold Kroto</Name> <BirthYear>1939</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>1996 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Alfred Kinsey</Name> <BirthYear>1894</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1956</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American biologist, sexologist and professor of entomology and zoology. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Richard Leakey</Name> <BirthYear>1944</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Kenyan paleontologist, archaeologist and conservationist. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Félix Le Dantec</Name> <BirthYear>1869</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1917</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>French biologist, noted for his work on bacteria. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>John Leslie (physicist)|Sir John Leslie</Name> <BirthYear>1766</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1832</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Scottish mathematician and physicist best remembered for his research into heat; he was the first person to artificially produce ice, and gave the first modern account of capillary action. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>H. Christopher Longuet-Higgins</Name> <BirthYear></BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>FRS (1923&amp;ndash;2004): English theoretical chemist and a cognitive scientist. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>John Maynard Smith</Name> <BirthYear>1920</BirthYear> <DeathYear>2004</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture>John Maynard Smith.jpg</Picture> <Text>British evolutionary biologist and geneticist, instrumental in the application of game theory to evolution, and noted theorizer on the evolution of sex and signalling theory. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Ernst Mayr</Name> <BirthYear>1904</BirthYear> <DeathYear>2005</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>a renowned taxonomist, tropical explorer, ornithologist, historian of science, and naturalist. He was one of the 20th century's leading evolutionary biologists. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Peter Medawar|Sir Peter Medawar</Name> <BirthYear>1915</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1987</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Nobel Prize-winning British scientist best known for his work on how the immune system rejects or accepts tissue transplants. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Jonathan Miller</Name> <BirthYear>1934</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British physician, actor, theatre and opera director, and television presenter. Wrote and presented the 2004 television series, Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief, exploring the roots of his own atheism and investigating the history of atheism in the world. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Peter D. Mitchell</Name> <BirthYear>1920</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1992</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>1978-Nobel-laureate British biochemist. Atheist mother, and himself atheist from age 15. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Jacques Monod</Name> <BirthYear>1910</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1976</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>French biologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965 for discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Desmond Morris</Name> <BirthYear>1928</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>English zoologist and ethologist, famous for describing human behaviour from a zoological perspective in his books The Naked Ape and The Human Zoo. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Fritz Müller</Name> <BirthYear>1821</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1897</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>German biologist who emigrated to Brazil, where he studied the natural history of the Amazon rainforest and was an early advocate of evolutionary theory. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Hermann Joseph Muller</Name> <BirthYear>1890</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1967</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American geneticist and educator, best known for his work on the physiological and genetic effects of radiation (X-ray mutagenesis). He won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1946. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>PZ Myers</Name> <BirthYear>1957</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American biology professor at the University of Minnesota and a science blogger via his blog, Pharyngula. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Paul Nurse</Name> <BirthYear>1949</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>2001 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Linus Pauling</Name> <BirthYear>1901</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1994</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture>Linus Pauling NIH.jpg</Picture> <Text>American chemist, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry (1954) and Peace (1962) </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>John Allen Paulos</Name> <BirthYear>1945</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Professor of mathematics at Temple University in Philadelphia and writer, author of Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don't Add Up (2007) </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Ivan Pavlov</Name> <BirthYear>1849</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1936</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Nobel Prize winning Russian physiologist, psychologist, and physician, widely known for first describing the phenomenon of classical conditioning. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Massimo Pigliucci</Name> <BirthYear>1964</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Professor of Ecology and Evolution at the Stony Brook University and is known as an outspoken critic of creationism and advocate of science education. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Steven Pinker</Name> <BirthYear>1954</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Canadian-born American psychologist. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Norman Pirie</Name> <BirthYear></BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>FRS (1954&amp;ndash;): British biochemist and virologist co-discoverer in 1936 of viral crystallization, an important milestone in understanding DNA and RNA. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Frank P. Ramsey</Name> <BirthYear>1903</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1930</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British mathematician who also made significant contributions in philosophy and economics. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Richard J. Roberts</Name> <BirthYear>1943</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British biochemist and molecular biologist. He won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1993 for the discovery of introns in eukaryotic DNA and the mechanism of gene-splicing. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Steven Rose</Name> <BirthYear>1938</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Professor of Biology and Neurobiology at the Open University and University of London, and author of several popular science books. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Oliver Sacks</Name> <BirthYear>1933</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>United States-based British neurologist, who has written popular books about his patients, the most famous of which is Awakenings. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Carl Sagan</Name> <BirthYear>1934</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1996</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American astronomer and astrochemist, a highly successful popularizer of astronomy, astrophysics, and other natural sciences, and pioneer of exobiology and promoter of the SETI. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Robert Sapolsky</Name> <BirthYear>1957</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Professor of Biological Sciences and Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences at Stanford University. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Amartya Kumar Sen</Name> <BirthYear>1933</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>1998 Nobel Laureate in Economics. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Claude Elwood Shannon|Claude Shannon</Name> <BirthYear>1916</BirthYear> <DeathYear>2001</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American electrical engineer and mathematician, has been called "the father of information theory", and was the founder of practical digital circuit design theory. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Michael Smith (chemist)|Michael Smith</Name> <BirthYear>1932</BirthYear> <DeathYear>2000</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British-born Canadian biochemist and Nobel Laureate in Chemistry in 1993. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Richard Stallman</Name> <BirthYear>1953</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American software freedom activist, hacker, and software developer. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Victor J. Stenger</Name> <BirthYear>1935</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American physicist, emeritus professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Hawaii and adjunct professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado. Author of the book God: The Failed Hypothesis. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Eleazar Sukenik</Name> <BirthYear>1889</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1953</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Israeli archaeologist and professor of Hebrew University in Jerusalem, undertaking excavations in Jerusalem, and recognising the importance of the Dead Sea Scrolls to Israel. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Leonard Susskind</Name> <BirthYear>1940</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American theoretical physicist; a founding father of superstring theory and professor of theoretical physics at Stanford University. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Raymond Tallis</Name> <BirthYear>1946</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Leading British gerontologist, philosopher, poet, novelist and cultural critic. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Linus Torvalds</Name> <BirthYear>1969</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Finnish software engineer, creator of the Linux kernel. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Alan Turing</Name> <BirthYear>1912</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1954</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture>Alan Turing Memorial Closer.jpg</Picture> <Text>English mathematician, logician, and cryptographer; often considered to be the father of modern computer science. The Turing Award, often recognized as the "Nobel Prize of computing", is named after him. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Matthew Turner</Name> <BirthYear></BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>(d. c.1789): chemist, surgeon, teacher and radical theologian, author of the first published work of avowed atheism in Britain (1782). </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>William Grey Walter|W. Grey Walter</Name> <BirthYear>1910</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1977</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American neurophysiologist famous for his work on brain waves, and robotician. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>James D. Watson</Name> <BirthYear>1928</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture>James Watson.jpg</Picture> <Text>1962-Nobel-laureate co-discover of the structure of DNA. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Steven Weinberg</Name> <BirthYear>1933</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture>Steven-weinberg.jpg</Picture> <Text>American theoretical physicist. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979 for the unification of electromagnetism and the weak force into the electroweak force. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>David Sloan Wilson</Name> <BirthYear>1949</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American evolutionary biologist, son of Sloan Wilson, proponent of multilevel selection theory and author of several popular books on evolution. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Lewis Wolpert</Name> <BirthYear></BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>CBE FRS FRSL (1929&amp;ndash;): developmental biologist, author, and broadcaster. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Steve Wozniak</Name> <BirthYear>1950</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>co-founder of Apple Computer and inventor of the Apple I and Apple II. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Elizur Wright</Name> <BirthYear>1804</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1885</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American mathematician and abolitionist, sometimes described as the "father of life insurance" for his pioneering work on actuarial tables. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Victor Weisskopf</Name> <BirthYear>1908</BirthYear> <DeathYear>2002</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Austrian-American theoretical physicist, co-founder and board member of the Union of Concerned Scientists. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Albert Einstein</Name> <BirthYear>1879</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1955</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>German-born theoretical physicist, best known for his theory of relativity and recipient of the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics. </Text> </Person>

<Person> <Name>Scott Atran</Name> <BirthYear>1952</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American anthropologist. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Herbert de Souza</Name> <BirthYear>1935</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1997</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Brazilian sociologist and activist against economic injustice and government corruption in Brazil, and founder of the Brazilian Institute of Social Analysis and Economics (IBASE). </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Émile Durkheim</Name> <BirthYear>1858</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1917</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>French sociologist whose contributions were instrumental in the formation of sociology and anthropology. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Norman Finkelstein</Name> <BirthYear>1953</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American political scientist and author, specialising in Jewish-related issues, especially the Holocaust and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Thor Heyerdahl</Name> <BirthYear>1914</BirthYear> <DeathYear>2002</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Norwegian ethnographer and adventurer, famous for his Kon-Tiki expedition. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Mayer Hillman</Name> <BirthYear>1931</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British political scientist, architect and town planner, a Senior Fellow Emeritus at the Policy Studies Institute. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Baruch Kimmerling</Name> <BirthYear>1939</BirthYear> <DeathYear>2007</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Romanian-born professor of sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Kemal Kiri?ci</Name> <BirthYear>19</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Turkish political scientist, professor at the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Bo?aziçi University, Istanbul. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Peter Lawrence (anthropologist)|Peter Lawrence</Name> <BirthYear>1921</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1987</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British-born Australian anthropologist, pioneer in the study of Melanesian religions noted for his work on cargo cults. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Edmund Leach|Sir Edmund Leach</Name> <BirthYear>1910</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1989</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British social anthropologist, a Fellow of the British Academy. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>James H. Leuba</Name> <BirthYear>1868</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1946</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American psychologist, one of the leading figures of the early phase of the American psychology of religion movement. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Alfred Radcliffe-Brown</Name> <BirthYear>1881</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1955</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>English social anthropologist who developed the theory of Structural functionalism. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Robert Spitzer (psychiatrist)|Robert Spitzer</Name> <BirthYear>19</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American psychiatrist, Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University, a major architect of the modern classification of mental disorders. </Text> </Person>

<Person> <Name>Lance Armstrong</Name> <BirthYear>1971</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture>NIH-lancearm2.jpg</Picture> <Text>American cyclist. Winner of the Tour De France 7 consecutive times. Lance Armstrong was quoted by ET Magazine in 2004 as saying "If there was a god, I'd still have both nuts." (Armstrong lost one testicle due to cancer.)</Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Robin Dixon, 3rd Baron Glentoran|Robin Dixon</Name> <BirthYear></BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>CBE (1935&amp;ndash;): British Olympic gold medal bobsledder, army Major, businessman, British and Northern Irish politician, latterly a member of the House of Lords. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Jonathan Edwards (athlete)|Jonathan Edwards</Name> <BirthYear>1966</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British triple jumper. Former Olympic, European and World champion. Holds the current world record in the event. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Hugh Falkus</Name> <BirthYear>1917</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1996</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British writer, film maker, World War II pilot, but best known as an angler, with seminal books on salmon and sea trout fishing. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>David Feherty</Name> <BirthYear>1958</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Irish golfer, a former European Tour and PGA Tour professional who now works as a writer and broadcaster. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Olga Galchenko</Name> <BirthYear>1990</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Juggler. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Robert Smith (football)|Robert Smith</Name> <BirthYear>1972</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>former Minnesota Vikings running back and NFL Network football analyst. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Savielly Tartakower</Name> <BirthYear>1887</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1956</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Polish and French chess Grandmaster, the king of chess journalism in the 1920s and 30s. </Text> </Person>

<Person> <Name>Klaas Hendrikse</Name> <BirthYear>1947</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Dutch liberal preacher within the Protestant church in the Netherlands, who calls himself an "atheist pastor". </Text> </Person>

<Person> <Name>Abu Abraham</Name> <BirthYear>1924</BirthYear> <DeathYear>2002</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Indian political cartoonist, journalist, and author. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Jemima Blackburn</Name> <BirthYear>1957</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Scottish painter and illustrator, especially of evocative images of rural life in 19th century Scotland. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Iwona Blazwick</Name> <BirthYear></BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>OBE (19??&amp;ndash;): British art gallery curator, Director of the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Berkeley Breathed</Name> <BirthYear>1957</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American cartoonist, children's book author/illustrator, director, and screenwriter, best known for the cartoon strip Bloom County. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Joan Brossa</Name> <BirthYear>1919</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1998</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Spanish graphic designer and plastic artist, one of the leading early proponents of visual poetry in Catalan literature. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Mitch Clem</Name> <BirthYear>1982</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>American cartoonist and webcomic author. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Eric de Maré</Name> <BirthYear>1910</BirthYear> <DeathYear>2002</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British architectural photographer. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Barry Driscoll</Name> <BirthYear>1926</BirthYear> <DeathYear>2006</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British painter, wildlife artist and sculptor. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Sam Fullbrook</Name> <BirthYear>1922</BirthYear> <DeathYear>2004</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Prize-winning Australian artist. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Alfred Gilbert|Sir Alfred Gilbert</Name> <BirthYear>1854</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1934</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>English sculptor and goldsmith, central participant in the New Sculpture movement. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Ernst Gombrich|Sir Ernst Gombrich</Name> <BirthYear></BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>OM, CBE (1909&amp;ndash;2001): Austrian-born British art historian. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>George Grosz</Name> <BirthYear>1893</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1959</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>German draughtsman and painter, a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objectivity group. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Alfred Hrdlicka</Name> <BirthYear>1928</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Austrian sculptor, draughtsman, painter and artist, whose 2008 religious work about the Apostles, Religion, Flesh and Power, attracted criticism over its homoerotic theme. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Mark Hofmann</Name> <BirthYear>1954</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Prolific counterfeiter and ex-Mormon who murdered two people in Salt Lake City, Utah. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Sebastian Horsley</Name> <BirthYear>1962</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>English artist and writer, best known for having undergone a voluntary crucifixion. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Giulio Mancini</Name> <BirthYear>1558</BirthYear> <DeathYear>1630</DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Italian biographer and writer on art, art collector and noted physician. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Alexander McQueen</Name> <BirthYear></BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>CBE (1969&amp;ndash;): English fashion designer. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Grayson Perry</Name> <BirthYear>1960</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>English artist, best known for his ceramics and for cross-dressing, the first ceramic artist and public transvestite to win the Turner Prize. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Bryan Robertson (curator)|Bryan Robertson</Name> <BirthYear></BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>OBE (1925&amp;ndash;2002): English curator and arts manager, "the greatest Director the Tate Gallery never had". </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Martin Rowson</Name> <BirthYear>1959</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>British political cartoonist, novelist and satirist. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Normal Bob Smith|"Normal" Bob Smith</Name> <BirthYear>1969</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture>Hatemail225 me.jpg</Picture> <Text>American graphic artist, who prompted controversy with his creation of Jesus Dress Up. </Text> </Person> <Person> <Name>Kurt Westergaard</Name> <BirthYear>1935</BirthYear> <DeathYear></DeathYear> <Nationality></Nationality> <Field></Field> <Description></Description> <Notes></Notes> <Picture></Picture> <Text>Danish cartoonist, creator of a controversial cartoon of the Muslim prophet Muhammad wearing a bomb as a turban which was part of the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy. </Text> </Person>

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