List of agnostics

A number of noted individuals have been agnostics. A partial list of persons believed to be agnostics:\n*Protagoras, (d.420 BCE), Greek Sophist and first major Humanist\n*Anaxagoras, (d. 462 BCE), philosopher\n*Simón Bolívar, (1783-1830), Venezuelan military commander\n*Jorge Luis Borges, (1899-1986), Argentine writer\n*Charles Darwin, (1809-1882), Founder of The Theory of Evolution\n*Susan B. Anthony, (1820-1906), US feminist\n*Thomas Henry Huxley, (1825-1895), coiner of the term agnosticism\n*Robert Ingersoll, (1833 - 1899), American political leader and orator\n*Mark Twain, (1835-1910) American author\n*Emile Berliner, (1851-1929), inventor\n*Bertrand Russell, (1872-1970), Welsh philosopher\n*Robert Heinlein, (1907-1988), (refused on various occasions to commit to a firm belief in any theological or metaphysical propositions)\n*Andy Rooney, (b. 1919), broadcast personality\n*Rabbi Sherwin T. Wine, (b. 1928), founder of The Society for Humanistic Judaism, coined the term ignosticism\n*Larry King, (b. 1933), broadcast personality\n*Carl Sagan, (1934-1996), astronomer and skeptic\n*Stephen Hawking, (b. 1942), physicist, sometimes deals with the possible implications of his theories on the concept of God \n*Helen Clark, (b. 1950), prime minister of New Zealand\n*Matt Groening, (b. 1954), creator of Life in Hell, the Simpsons and Futurama\n*Bill Gates, (b. 1955), Founder of Microsoft and Richest person in the world\n*Dave Matthews, (b. 1967), recording artist

External Link

\n* The Celebrity Atheist List (includes living atheists and agnostics)\n*Famous black freethinkers\n*Famous Dead Nontheists

References

Regarding Carl Sagan: "Unbeliever's Quest" by Jerry Adler, in Newsweek, March 31, 1997. \nSee also: List of people by belief, list of people, list of atheists Category:Atheism and agnosticism\n