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Alphabetical A

Abbey, Edward (American humorist)
Acton, Lord (British historian)
Adams, Abigail (American First Lady)
Adams, Douglas ('Chief Fantasist')
Adams, Henry (American historian)
Adams, James Luther (Unitarian theologian)
Adams, John (American President)
Adams, John Quincy (American President)
Adams, Phillip (Australian atheist)
Adams, Samuel (American revolutionary)
Addams, Jane (Author, activist)
Addison, Joseph {English essayist}
Adrian IV {Catholic Pope}
Afridi, Asghar Ali {Pakistani student}
Aguilar, Clemente Díaz {Guatemalan missionary}
Alcott, Amos Bronson (American teacher)
Allen, A A {American faith-healer}
Allen, Ethan (American revolutionary)
Allen, Woody (American filmmaker)
Alley, Robert S (American historian)
Allport, Gordon (American educator)
Altman, Robert (American film director)
Amiel, Henri Frédéric (Swiss poet)
Amos, Tori (American singer)
Anderson, Maxwell (American playwright)
Angelou, Maya (American poet)
Angier, Natalie (American journalist)
Annet, Peter (British Freethought journalist)
Anouilh, Jean (French playwright)
Anselm of Canterbury {Medieval scholar}
Anthony, Susan B (American suffragist)
Aquinas, Thomas {Catholic philosopher}
Aquinas, Thomas (Catholic philosopher)
Aragon, Louis (French surrealist)
Archer, Glenn L (American jurist)
Archer, William (Scottish playwright)
Arendt, Hannah (German-American political scientist)
Aristophanes (Atheniam poet)
Aristotle (Greek philosopher)
Armstrong, Herbert W {American escatologist}
Armstrong, James (Methodist bishop)
Armstrong, Karen (Historian)
Arnaud-Amaury {French abbot}
Arnold, Matthew (English poet)
Aron, Raymond (French political writer)
Arouet, François Marie (French philosopher)
Ascham, Roger {Elizabethan writer}
Ashcroft, John {US attorney general}
Asimov, Isaac (Russian-American writer)
Athanasius (Bishop of Alexandria)
Atkinson, Brooks (American journalist)
Atkinson, Rowan (British comic)
Atta, Mohamed {Egyptian terrorist}
Atwood, Margaret (Canadian writer)
Auden, W H (English poet)
Augustine of Hippo {Christian philosopher}
Augustine of Hippo (Christian philosopher)
Aurelius, Marcus (Roman emperor)
Ayer, A J (British philosopher)

Alphabetical B

Backus, Isaac (Colonial Baptist)
Bacon, Francis (English philosopher)
Bacon, Francis {English philosopher}
Baez, Joan (American singer, activist)
Bagehot, Walter (British economist)
Bailey, Cyril (Historian)
Baird, Robert (American writer)
Baker, Russell (American writer)
Bakker, Jim {Crooked televangelist}
Bakunin, Mikhail (Russian anarchist)
Baldwin, James (American writer)
Ball, W P (English writer)
Balzac, Honoré de (French writer)
Baraka, Imamu Amiri (American writer)
Baring-Gould, S (Clergyman)
Barker, Dan (American atheist)
Barnum, P T (American showman)
Barth, Alan (American journalist)
Bateman, Romaine {Un-American pastor}
Bauer, Gary {American politician}
Baxter, Rev Michael {Morality professor}
Bayard, Thomas F (American politician)
Bayle, Pierre (French encyclopedist)
Beach, Bert (Seventh-Day Adventist)
Beard, Charles Austin (American historian)
Beauvoir, Simone de (French writer)
Bebel, August (German socialist)
Beckett, Samuel (Irish absurdist)
Beecher, Henry Ward (American abolitionist)
Beecher, Lyman (American cleric)
Beevers, John (Historian)
Behe, Michael {Christian creationist}
Bellamy, Francis ('Pledge of Allegiance' author)
Bellarmine, Robert {Catholic Doctor}
Bennett, Congressman {Florida Representative}
Bennett, John C (Separationist)
Bentham, Jeremy (British reformer)
Bernard, Saint {French theologian}
Berlin, Sir Isaiah (Russian-British essayist)
Bernhardt, Sarah (French actress)
Berninghausen, David K (American educator)
Berra, Tim (American Zoologist)
Besant, Annie (English philosopher)
Beveridge, W I B (American scientist)
Beyle, Marie-Henri (French novelist)
Bierce, Ambrose (American writer)
Bigandet, Paul (Catholic bishop)
Bilal, Sayed (Pakistani student)
Billings, Josh (American aphorist)
Billingsley, Lloyd (American author)
Binstead, Arthur (London gambler)
Birnie, Richard (British author)
Bismarck, Otto von (German chancellor)
Black, Hugo (American jurist)
Black, Jeremiah (American jurist)
Black, Loring (American representative)
Blackmun, Harry (American jurist)
Blair, Eric Arthur (British writer)
Blake, Charles E {American pastor}
Blake, William (English Romantic poet)
Blake, William {English Romantic poet}
Blanshard, Paul (American separationist)
Blau, Joseph (American separationist)
Blessington, Marguerite (Irish countess)
Bloom, Alan (American educator)
Bohr, Niels (Danish physicist)
Bolingbroke, Henry (British statesman)
Bon, Gustave Le (French psychologist)
Bonaparte, Napoleon (Emperor of France)
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich (German theologian)
Boniface VIII (Catholic Pope)
Boniface VIII {Catholic Pope}
Bono, Edward De (Maltese writer)
Boorstin, Daniel (American historian)
Borden, Morton (American separationist)
Born, Max (German mathematician)
Bowen, Margaret (Leader, Advanced Adventists)
Bowles, Linda {American theocracy advocate}
Bradlaugh, Charles (British politician) Page
Bradlaugh, Charles (British politician) Section
Bradlaugh Bonner, Hypatia (British activist)
Bradley, Bill (American athelete, politician)
Branden, Nathaniel (American psychologist)
Brann, William Cowper (American journalist)
Brant, Irving (American journalist)
Brecht, Bertolt (German playwright)
Brennan, William, Jr. (American jurist)
Breasted, James Henry (American historian)
Breton, André (French surrealist)
Bronowski, Jacob (Polish-British mathematician)
Brontë, Emily (English novelist)
Brooks, David (Atheistic writer)
Broun, Heywood (American writer)
Brown, James A C (American writer)
Brown, John Mason (American critic)
Browne, Sir Thomas (English writer)
Browning, Robert (British poet)
Bruce, Lenny (American comic)
Bruno, Giordano (Italian philosopher)
Bryan, Albert V, Jr. (American jurist)
Bryan, William Jennings {American politician}
Bryce, James (British historian)
Bryson, Joseph (US Congressman)
Buchanan, James (American President)
Buchanan, Pat {American politician}
Buck, Pearl S (American author)
Buckley, William F, Jr. {American commentator}
Buddha (Indian mystic)
Buckle, Thomas (British historian)
Bukowski, Charles (American poet)
Buñuel, Luis (Spanish film director)
Burbank, Luther (American horticulturist)
Burgess, Anthony (British novelist)
Burke, Edmund (British politician)
Burnham, James (American writer)
Burns, Robert (Scottish poet)
Burroughs, William S (American writer)
Burton, Sir Richard (English explorer)
Burton, Richard (Welsh actor)
Bury, J B (Freethought historian)
Bush, George, Sr. {American President}
Bush, George W {American President}
Bush, George W (American President)
Bush, Laura (American First Lady)
Bussy-Rabutin, Comte de (French soldier, writer)
Butler, Nicholas (American educator)
Butler, Samuel (English author)
Butts, Freeman (American writer, painter)
Byron, Lord (British poet)

Alphabetical C

Caen, Herb (Amreican columnist)
Calvin, John {Protestant reformer}
Campbell, Joseph (American anthropologist)
Camus, Albert (French-Algerian philosopher)
Carlin, George (American comic)
Carlyle, Thomas (Scottish historian)
Carter, Angela (British author)
Carter, Jimmy (American President)
Casas, Bartolom&eacute de las (Historian, critic)
Cassirer, Ernst (German philosopher)
Castellani, John {Director, Teen Challenge}
Castelli, Jim (American journalist)
Cave, William (Christian historian)
Céline, Louis-Ferdinand (French author)
Celsus (Roman encyclopedist)
Cervantes, Miguel de (Spanish writer)
Chadwick, John (Unitarian minister)
Chancellor, John (American journalist)
Chaplin, Charlie (British-American filmmaker)
Charles, R H {Preacher}
Carvaka (Hindu philosopher?)
Chase, Ilka (American actress)
Chavis, Steve {Promise Keepers leader}
Chesterton, Gilbert Keith (English author)
Child, Lydia Maria (American abolitionist)
Chillingworth, William (Anglican theologian)
Chomsky, Noam (American linguist)
Chrysostom, John {Christian Father}
Churchill, Winston (British statesman)
Cicero (Roman philosopher)
Cioran, Emil (Rumanian-French philosopher)
Clark, Russell G (American jurist)
Clarke, Arthur C (British novelist)
Clay, Henry (American politician)
Clemens, Samuel (American writer)
Clement of Alexandria {Christian theologian}
Cleveland, Grover (American President)
Clifford, W K (English physicist)
Clinton, Bill (American President)
Clinton, DeWitt (American governor)
Clinton, Randy {Faith-based charity boss}
Clopton, Richard (Writer)
Cobb, Sanford H (American separationist)
Cobden, Richard (British reformer)
Codrescu, Andrei (American journalist)
Cohen, Chapman (British atheist)
Cohen, Edmund D (American phychologist)
Cohen, Morris R (Russian-American educator)
Cohen, Steve (Tennessee senator)
Coleridge, Sir John {British jurist}
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (British poet)
Collier, John (American sociologist)
Collins, Anthony (British philosopher)
Colman, Lucy (American abolitionist)
Colton, Charles Caleb (English clergyman)
Commager, Henry Steele (American historian)
Comte, Auguste (French philosopher)
Confucius (Chinese philosopher)
Connolly, Cyril (English literary critic)
Connor, Kenneth {Radical Religious Right activist}
Conrad, Joseph (Polish-English novelist)
Conway, Dr. (Clergyman)
Coolidge, Calvin (American President)
Coulter, Ann {Christian columnist}
Cousins, Norman (American journalist)
Craig, James Kevin {Christian Reconstructionist}
Crane, Stephen (American writer)
Cranky, Mr. (Pseudonymous film critic)
Crews, Dennis (American journalist)
Crick, Francis (British biophysicist)
Crisp, Quentin (English author, activist)
Criswell, W A {Ameican pastor}
Cromartie, Michael {American theocrat}
Cronkite, Walter (American journalist)
Crowley, Aleister (British occultist)
Cudworth, Ralph (British philosopher)
Cummings, William {Ameican chaplain}
Cuomo, Mario (American governor)
Curley, Charles E {Un-American clergyman}
Curry, Thomas J (American clergyman)

Alphabetical D

d'Holbach, Baron (French philosopher)
da Vinci, Leonardo (Florentine artist)
Darrow, Clarence (American lawyer)
Darwin, Charles (British naturalist)
Davies, Robertson (Canadian novelist)
Dawkins, Richard (African-British zoologist)
Dawson, Joseph (Baptist separationist)
DeCasseres, Benjamin (American author, artist)
Defoe, Daniel (British author)
DeLay, Tom {US Representative}
Deloria, Vine Victor, Jr. (Sioux writer)
Dembski, William {Christian theologian}
Demosthenes (Greek orator)
Denck, Hans (Anabaptist leader)
Dennett, Daniel (American author)
Dershowitz, Alan (Harvard law professor)
Descartes, René (French mathematician)
Dewey, John (American educator)
Dick, Philip K (Sci-fi writer)
Dickens, Charles (British novelist)
Dickinson, Emily (American poet)
Diderot, Denis (French Encyclopédie)
Dietrich, Marlene (German-American actress)
Dietrick, Ellen (American suffragist)
Dillard, Annie (American author)
Diogenes (Greek Cynic)
Disraeli, Benjamin {British prime minister}
Dix, Gregory (Benedictine monk)
Dobbs, J R "Bob" (fictional character?)
Dobson, James {Politicized Preacher}
Dobzhansky, Theodosius (Ukraine-American geneticist)
Dolenz, Micky (Monkees drummer)
Donahue, Phil (American journalist)
Dorsen, Norman (American edicator)
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor (Russian novelist)
Douglass, Frederick (American abolitionist)
Douglas, John (English sportsman)
Douglas, Marjorie Stoneham (American conservationist)
Douglas, William O (American jurist)
Doyle, Arthur Conan (British author)
Draper, John William (British-American chemist)
Drees, Willem B (Dutch physicist)
Dreiser, Theodore (American novelist)
Dribert, Tom (Writer)
Du Bois, W E B (American educator)
Dupuis, Charles (Historian)
Durant, Will (American historian)
Dwyer, Cynthia (American hostage [Iran, 1980])

Alphabetical E

Eckenrode, H J (American historian)
Eco, Umberto (Italian semiologist)
Eddington, Arthur (British astronomer)
Edell, Dr. Dean (American radio personality)
Edison, Thomas (American inventor)
Edwards, Don (American representative)
Edwards, John {American psychic}
Edwards, Paul (American philosopher)
Ehrenreich, Barbara (American author)
Einstein, Albert (German-American physicist)
Eisenhower, Dwight {American President}
Eliot, George (British novelist)
Eliot, T S (American-British poet)
Ellegard, Alvar (Swedish educator)
Elliot, Hugh (Philosopher of science)
Ellis, Havelock (British psychologist)
Ellsworth, Oliver (American jurist)
Elon, Amos (Israeli author)
Emerson, Ralph Waldo (American essayist)
Emerson, Thomas I (American law educator)
Encisco, Martin Fernández de {Spanish jurist}
England, John (Catholic bishop)
Epicurus (Greek philosopher)
Erasmus, Desiderius (Dutch humanist)
Ericson, Edward (American separationist)
Erikson, Eric (German-American psychologist)
Ertz, Susan (American novelist)
Ervin, Sam (American senator)
Estevez, Jorge Medina {Vatican spokesman}
Eusebius of Caesarea {Church historian}
Eusebius of Nicomedia {Church historian}
Evans, Mary Ann (British novelist)

Alphabetical F

Falwell, Jerry (American televangelist)
Falwell, Jerry {American moralist}
Farquahr, George (Irish dramatist)
Farr, Diane ("Loveline" host)
Farrar, Frederic William
Faulkner, William (American writer)
Feherty, David (American golfer)
Feibleman, James K (American philosopher)
Feinberg, Kenneth {Head of 9-11 Fund}
Fellini, Federico (Italian filmmaker)
Ferraro, Geraldine (American politician)
Ferrer, Francisco (Spanish educator)
Feuerbach, Ludwig (German philosopher)
Feynman, Richard P (American physicist, raconteur)
Feibleman, James (American philosopher)
Field, David Dudley (American jurist)
Fillmore, Millard (American President)
Fiske, John (American historian)
Flammarion, Camille (French astronomer)
Flast, Florence (American separationist)
Flew, Antony (British Philosopher)
Flint, Robert (Theistic apologist)
Foote, GW (Freethought writer)
Forster, E M (English novelist)
Foster, Ezola {American politician}
France, Anatole (French writer)
Frankel, Razelle (American writer)
Frankl, Victor (Austrian psychiatrist)
Franklin, Benjamin (American revolutionary)
Frazer, James (Scottish anthropologist)
Frederick the Great (Prussian king)
Freneau, Philip (American author)
Freud, Sigmund (Austrian psychiatrist)
Friedrich, Carl J (Political scientist)
Fromm, Erich (American psychologist)
Frost, Robert (American poet)
Froude, J A (British historian)
Frye, Northrop (Canadian critic)
Fuller, Margaret (American writer)
Fuller, Bucky (American inventor)
Fuller, Zelotes (Separationist)

Alphabetical G

Gagarin, Yuri (Soviet cosmonaut)
Gage, Matilda Joslyn (American suffragist)
Galilei, Galileo (Italian astronomer)
Gallup, George, Jr. (American pollster)
Galsworthy, John (English novelist)
Gandhi, Indira (Indian prime minister)
Gandhi, Mohandas K (Indian activist)
Gardener, Helen H (American suffragist)
Gardner, John W (American educator)
Gardner, Martin (American mathematician)
Garfield, James A (American President)
Garman, Gene (Constitutional scholar)
Garrison, Winfred E (Separationist)
Gates, Bill (Microsoft co-founder)
Gaustad, Edwin S (Ameican historian)
Gaylor, Anne Nicol (American separationist)
Gibbon, Edward (English historian)
Gibson, Edmund {Bishop of London}
Gide, André (French author)
Gilbert, Arthur (Rabbi)
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins (American author)
Ginger, Ray (American author)
Giraudoux, Jean (French writer)
Gish, Duane T {Christian creationist}
Gitt, Josiah W (American editor)
Glennie, John Stuart (English writer)
Godwin, William (English philosopher)
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (German writer)
Gogh, Vincent van (Dutch painter)
Goldman, Emma (American anarchist)
Goldsmith, Joanne (American separationist)
Goldwater, Barry (American senator)
Gora (Indian atheist)
Gordon, Colin (Australian educator)
Gore, Al {American vice-president}
Gortner, Marjoe (American evangelist, actor)
Gould, Stephen Jay (American paleontologist)
Graham, Billy {American cleric}
Graham, Billy (American cleric)
Grant, Ulysses S (American President)
Graves, Kersey (American lecturer)
Greeley, Horace (American editor)
Green, Ruth Hurmence ("Born-Again Skeptic")
Greenaway, Kate (English illustrator)
Greene, Graham (English novelist)
Greene, Maxine (American educator)
Greg, William Rathbone (Unitarian theologian)
Gregory I {Catholic Pope}
Gregory VII {Catholic Pope}
Gregory XVI {Catholic Pope}
Griffiths, Rachel (Australian actress)
Grill, Jim (Internet provider)
Grote, George (British historian)
Gui, Bernard {Christian inquisitor}

Alphabetical H

Hacker, Frederick (American psuchiatrist)
Haldane, J B S (Scottish-Indian geneticist)
Haldeman-Julius, Emanuel (American publisher)
Hallam, Henry (British historian)
Halle, Louis J (American diplomat, naturalist)
Ham, Ken {Australian creationist}
Ham, Mordecai Fowler {American pastor}
Hand, Learned (American jurist)
Handy, Robert T (Church historian)
Hankins, Barry (American separationist)
Hardin, Garrett (Ecologist)
Harding, Warren G (American President)
Hardy, Thomas (English author)
Harlan, John Marshall (American jurist)
Harper, William R (Episcopal curate)
Harrington, Michael (American activist)
Harris, Lou (American pollster)
Hart, Johnny {Comic artist}
Harte, Bret (American writer)
Hartmann, Edward von (German philosopher)
Harvey, Bro. Jack {American pastor}
Hatch, Orrin {American Senator}
Hatfield, Mark (American senator)
al-Haydar, Tariq (Saudi student)
Hayes, Judith (American writer)
Hayes, Rutherford B (American President)
Hazlitt, William (English essayist)
Hecht, Ben (American writer)
Hegel, Georg (German philosopher)
Hegstad, Roland (American editor)
Heine, Heinrich (German poet)
Heinlein, Robert A (American author)
Heller, Joseph (American novelist)
Helms, Jesse {American Senator}
Helwys, Thomas (Founder of Baptists)
Hemingway, Ernest (American novelist)
Henry, Wanda (American separationist)
Hepburn, Katharine (American actress)
Herbert, Frank (Science-fiction writer)
Herrick, Jim (American freethinker)
Herzen, Alexander (Russian political theorist)
Herzl, Theodor (Zionist)
Higginson, Thomas (American soldier)
Hilary of Poitiers (Christian leader)
Hindley, Charles {Huckster: "Mother Shipton"}
Hippocrates (Greek physician)
Hitchens, Christopher (British journalist)
Hitler, Adolf {Nazi leader}
Hoagland, Edward (American novelist)
Hobbes, Thomas (English philosopher)
Hoffer, Eric (American philosopher)
Hofstader, Richard (American social critic)
Holbach, Baron (French philosopher)
Hollingdale, R J (British author)
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. (American jurist)
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr. (American physician)
Holyoake, George (English reformer)
Homrighausen, Elmer (American educator)
Honorius of Autun {Catholic theologian}
Hood, Thomas (English poet)
Hook, Sidney (American philosopher)
Hoover, Herbert (American President)
Hovick, Rose Louise (American stripper)
Hovind, Kent {American fundamentalist}
Hoyle, Fred (English astronomer)
Hsun Tzu (Chinese philosopher)
Hubbard, Elbert (American writer)
Huebmaier, Balthasar (Anabaptist)
Hughes, Langston (American poet)
Hugo, Victor (French dramatist)
Hume, David (Scotish philosopher)
Humphrey, Edward Frank (American historian)
Humphrey, Nicolas (British philosopher)
Huxley, Aldous (English novelist)
Huxley, Julian (British biologist)
Huxley, Thomas Henry (British biologist)
Hymers, R L {Un-American pastor}

Alphabetical I

Ignatius de Loyola {Spanish monk}
Inge, William Ralph (British clergyman)
Ingersoll, Robert (American orator)
Innocent III {Catholic Pope}
Ionesco, Eugène (Rumanian-French playwright)
Irion, Mary Jean (American writer, educator)
Ito Hirobumi (Japanese prime minister)

Alphabetical J

Jackson, Andrew (American President)
Jackson, Robert H (American jurist)
Jackson, Samuel M (American educator, cleric)
James II (King of England)
James, Fob {Alabama Governor}
Jaspers, Karl (Austrian philosopher)
Jeans, James Hopwood (British physicist)
Jefferson, Thomas (American President)
Jerome, Saint {Cloistered Christian Monk}
Jesus (Jewish nationalist)
Joad, C E M (English philosopher)
John XXIII (Catholic Pope)
John Chrysostom {Christian Father}
John of Damascus {Christian scholar}
John of Lackland (King of England)
John Paul II (Catholic Pope)
John Paul II {Catholic Pope}
Johnson, Lyndon Baines (American president)
Johnson, Marguerite (American poet)
Johnson, Paul {British moralist}
Johnson, Philip {Christian creationist}
Johnson, Richard Mentor (American vice-president)
Johnson, Samuel (British lexicographer)
Johnston, Patrick (American assemblyman)
Jones, Franklin P {American businessman}
Jones, Jenkin Lloyd (Chicago clergyman)
Jones, LeRoi (American writer)
Jones, Star {Corporate spokesperson}
Joshi, S T (India-born Literary critic)
Josselyn, Lynne (American Ecumentalist)
Joyce, James (Irish novelist)
Julius Caesar (Roman statesman)
Jung, Carl (Swiss psychiatrist)
Justin Martyr (Christian apologist)

Alphabetical K

Kaminer, Wendy (American lawyer, writer)
Kane, John L (American jurist)
Kane, Margaret Fox (Spiritualism founder)
Kant, Immanuel (German philosopher)
Khayyám, Omar (Persian poet)
Keats, John (English poet)
Keen, Sam (American writer)
Kegel, Martha (American activist)
Keith, Bill {Louisiana senator}
Kelley, Dean (American separationist)
Kempis, Thomas à {Christian writer}
Kennedy, Anthony M (American jurist)
Kennedy, D James {Politicized TV Preacher}
Kennedy, Ted (American senator)
Kennedy, John F (American president)
Kennedy, Robert F (American senator)
Kennedy, Thomas (American separationist)
Kennen, George F (American diplomat)
Kepler, Johannes (German astronomer)
Kersh, Gerald (British journalist)
Keyes, Alan {American ambassador}
Kharms, Daniil (Leningrad eccentric)
Khayyám, Omar (Persian poet)
Khomeini, Ayatollah {Islamic ruler}
Killea, Lucy (California legislator)
Kierkegaard, Søren (Danish philosopher)
King, Florence (American author)
King, Martin Luther, Jr. (American activist)
Kirkland, Mickey {Alabama minister}
Klapp, Oren (American sociologist)
Knight, Margaret (British commentator)
Knox, John {Scottish Presbyterian}
Koestler, Arthur (British philosopher)
Krassner, Paul (American satirist)
Kraus, Karl (Austrian satirist)
Kristol, Irving {American religoius neoconservative}
Krutch, Joseph Wood (American naturalist)
Kurtz, Paul (American Humanist)

Alphabetical L

Laden, Osama bin {Jihad criminal}
LaFollette, Suzanne (American Editor)
Lagerlöf, Selma (Swedish novelist)
LaHaye, Beverly {Christian activist}
LaHaye, Tim {Christian moralist, occultist}
Lamont, Corliss (American Humanist)
Landor, Walter Savage (English poet)
Lane, Robert E (American political scientist)
Lang, Walter {American creationist}
Laplace, Pierre (French astronomer)
Laswell, Harold D (American political scientist)
Laudan, Larry (Philosopher of science)
LaVey, Anton (Founder: Church of Satan)
Lawrence, D H (British author)
Laycock, Douglas (American law scholar)
Leakey, Richard (Kenyan conservationist)
LeBar, James {Catholic exorcist}
Lec, Stanislaw Jerzy (Polish aphorist)
Lecky, William E H (Irish historian)
Lee, Gypsy Rose (American stripper)
Lee, Robert E (Confederate general)
Legge, James (British Orientalist)
Lehrer, Tom (American mathematician)
Leland, John (Baptist separationist)
Lennon, John (British musician)
Leo X {Catholic Pope}
Leo XIII {Catholic Pope}
Lerner, Max (American author)
Lerner, Michael {American Rabbi}
Levy, Leonard (American historian)
Lewis, Joseph (American atheist)
Lewis, Sinclair (American novelist)
Lewis, Rev W D {Christian pastor}
Leykis, Tom (American radio host)
Liddy, G Gordon (American attorney)
Lieberman, Joseph {American Senator}
Lifton, Robert J MD (American psychiatrist)
Lincoln, Abraham (American President)
Lindborg, Gustaf (Swedish author)
Lindner, Robert (American psychoanalyst)
Lippman, Walter (American journalist)
Little, David (American liberty scholar)
Locke, John (English philosopher)
London, Jack (American novelist)
Lorimer, George C (Baptist preacher)
Love-Jensen, John (American scientist)
Lovecraft, H P (American fantasy author)
Lowell, Amy (American poet)
Lowell, C Stanley (American separationist)
Lowell, James Russell (American poet)
Loyola, Ignatius de {Spanish monk}
Lucas, F L (British writer)
Lucretius (Roman poet)
Luther, Martin {German reformer}

Alphabetical M

Macaulay, Lord Thomas (English historian)
MacLaine, Shirley {American actress}
MacLeish, Archibald (American critic, educator)
Madge, John (American social scientist)
Madison, James (American President)
Maeterlinck, Count Maurice (Belgian symbolist)
Magellan, Ferdinand (Portuguese navigator)
Malinowski, Bronislaw (Polish-American anthropologist)
Mallock, William H (Victorian novelist)
Malone, James (Catholic Archbishop)
Manheim, Karl (Hungarian sociologist)
Mann, Thomas (German critic)
Mansel, Dean (Christian theologian)
Manson, Marilyn (Rock star)
Mao Tse-tung (Chinese Chairman)
Marcus Aurelius (Roman emperor)
Marlowe, Christopher (English dramatist)
Marquis, Don (American journalist)
Martin, Emma (British Freethought Pamphleteer)
Martin, Michael (American philosopher)
Martineau, Harriet (British sociologist)
Marx, Karl (German political theorist)
Mason, George (American statesman)
Mason, Jackie (Jewish comic)
Masters, Edgar Lee (American poet)
Maugham, Somerset (British novelist)
Maxwell, James Clerk (British physicist)
Mayr, Ernst (Harvard educator)
McCabe, Joseph (Former Catholic priest)
McCain, John {American senator}
McCarthy, Joseph {American senator}
McCarthy, Martha M (American educator)
McConkie, Bruce {Mormon leader}
McGinley, Phyllis (American poet)
McKown, Delos (Atheistic writer)
Mead, Margaret (American anthropologist)
Mead, Sidney E (Historian)
Medawar, Sir Peter Brian (Brazilian-British immunologist)
Meiklejohn, Alexander (First Amendment scholar)
Meinhold, Wilhelm (German historian)
Melville, Herman (American novelist)
Mencken, H L (American critic)
Meredith, George (English novelist)
Merloo, Joost A (Sociologist)
Merton, Thomas (French-American monk)
Meslier, Jean (Priest turned atheist)
Michener, James A (American novelist)
Miegge, Giovanni (Separationist)
Mill, John Stuart (British philosopher)
Miller, Arthur (American dramatist)
Miller, William (American escatologist)
Millikan, Robert (American physicist)
Mills, Charles Wright (American sociologist)
Milman, Dean (English historian)
Milne, A A (English children's writer)
Milton, John (English poet)
Misago, Augustin {Catholic bishop}
Mises, Ludwig von (Austrian economist)
Mizner, Wilson (Amercian dramatist, raconteur)
Moehlman, Conrad Henry (American writer)
Moloney, Daniel P {Christian editor}
Mondale, Walter (American vice-president)
Monod, Jacques (French biochemist)
Monroe, James (Amreican president)
Montagu, Ashley (British anthropologist)
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de (French essayist)
Montalembert, Comte de (French Catholic liberal)
Montesquieu, Charles de (French lawyer)
Montherlant, Henry de (French dramatist)
Moody, Joel (Writer)
Moore, Roy {Alabama judge}
Moore, Thomas (Irish poet)
Morgan, G Campbell {Christian preacher}
Morgan, Robert B (American senator)
Morley, John (English Liberal)
Morris, Henry {Christian creationist}
Morrow, Lance (American journalist)
Mosheim, Johann von (Church historian)
Moynihan, Daniel Patrick (American senator)
Muller, Herbert J (American scholar)
Müller, Friedrich Max (German-British Orientalist)
Munch, Edvard (Norwegian painter)
Mundine, Anthony {Australian rugby player}
Munro, H H (Scottish author)
Murphy, Lionel (Australian jurist)
Murray, Bill {American evangelist}
Murray, John Courtney
Murray O'Hair, Madalyn (American atheist)
Mayr, Ernst (Harvard educator)

Alphabetical N

Nabokov, Vladimir (Russian-American novelist)
Napoleon (Emperor of France)
Nasrin, Taslima (Bangladeshi humanist)
Nathan, George Jean (American writer)
Nehru, Jawaharlal (Indian nationalist)
Newton, Isaac (English physicist)
Nesin, Aziz (Turkish writer, activist)
Niedermeyer, Frederick David {Christian theologian}
Nielsen, Kai (Canadian philosopher)
Niemoller, Martin (German pastor)
Nietzsche, Friedrich (German philosopher)
Nisbet, Robert (American sociologist)
Noelle, David C (American Humanist)
Noll, Mark A (American historian)
Norton, Charles Eliot (American publisher)
Nugent, Ted (American rock star)
Numan, Gary (Recording artist)

Alphabetical O

O'Casey, Sean (Irish dramatist)
O'Connor, David K (American educator)
O'Connor, Flannery (American novelist)
Ochs, Phil (American folk singer)
Odo of Cluny {Catholic saint}
O'Hair, Madalyn Murray (American atheist)
Olasky, Marvin {Advisor to GW Bush}
Omar, Kalif {Islamic leader}
Omar, Mullah Mohammed {Taliban leader}
Oppenheimer, Robert (American physicist)
Orwell, George (British writer)
Osborne, John (British playwright)
Osgood, Jeffery L {Baptist pastor}
Ott, Paul {Christian broadcaster}
Ouida (British novelist)
Overton, William (American jurist)
Owen, Robert (British reformer)
Oxnam, G Bromley (Methodist bishop)

Alphabetical P

Paget, James (British pathologist)
Paine, Thomas (British-American revolutionary)
Parker, Star {Anti-welfare poster child}
Parker, Theodore (American reformer)
Parris, Matthew (British commentator)
Pascal, Blaise (French philosopher)
Pascal, Blaise {French philosopher}
Pasha, Izak-el Mu-eed {American Imam}
Paulsen, Friedrich (Educator)
Peirce, Charles S (American scientist)
Peter, Lawrence (American educator)
Pettine, Raymond J (American jurist)
Pfeffer, Leo (American separationist)
Phelan, Father {Catholic priest}
Phillips, Wendell (American abolitionist)
Pierce, Franklin (Amercian President)
Pike, E Royston (Author)
Pinker, Steven (Cognitive scientist)
Pirsig, Robert M (American Zen philospher)
Pius IX {Catholic Pope}
Pius XII (Catholic Pope)
Planck, Max (German physicist)
Plato (Greek philosopher)
Poe, Edgar Allan (American writer)
Polish, Daniel (American rabbi)
Polk, James K (American President)
Pollitt, Katha (American columnist)
Polybius (Roman statesman)
Pope, Alexander (English poet)
Popper, Karl (German-English philosopher of science)
Pound, Ezra (American poet)
Price, Charles (American jurist)
Price, Robert M (Bible historian)
Priestly, Joseph (English-American scientist)
Procter, Richard A (Astronomer)
Protagoras (Greek philosopher)
Putnam, Samuel (Former minister)
Pyle, Ernie {Indiana journalist}

Alphabetical Q

Qasmi, Abdul Wahid {Blasphemy prosecutor}
Quayle, Dan (US Vice-President)
Queequeg (Melville character)
Quintus Ennius (Roman poet)

Alphabetical R

Rabinove, Samuel (American lawyer, separationist)
Radhakrishnan, Sarvepalli (Indian philosopher)
Ramée, Marie Louise de la (British novelist)
Rand, Ayn (American novelist, philosopher)
Randi, James (American illusionist, skeptic)
Randolph, Edmund (American founding father)
Rao, Goparaju Ramachandra (Indian atheist)
Ratzinger, Joseph {Catholic Cardinal}
Rawson, A L (Historian)
Raymo, Chet (American educator)
Raymond of Aguilers {Crusades chronicler}
Reade, W Winwood (English traveler)
Reagan, Ronald {American President}
Reed, Ralph {American theocrat}
Rehnquist, William {American jurist}
Reinach, Salomon (Hebrew scholar)
Remsberg, John E (American writer)
Renan, Ernest (French historian)
Renard, Jules (French novelist)
Reynolds, Joshua (British painter)
Reznor, Trent (American singer)
Rice, Fredric L (American skeptic)
Ridpath, John Clark (Historian, cyclopædist)
Rivers, Eugene {American preacher}
Roberts, Stephen Henry (Historian)
Robertson, J M (Freethought historian)
Robertson, Pat {American theocrat}
Robinson, James Harvey (American historian)
Robinson, Richard (British philosopher)
Rochefoucauld, François Duc de La (French writer)
Rockefeller, Nelson (American vice-president)
Roddenberry, Gene (Creator of Star Trek)
Rodriguez, Henry {Parish president, Louisiana}
Roloff, Lester {Child-brutality preacher}
Romano, Ray (Atheistic activist)
Roosevelt, Eleanor (American diplomat)
Roosevelt, Franklin D (American President)
Roosevelt, Theodore (American President)
Root, Elihu (American lawyer)
Rose, Ernestine L (American atheist, suffragist)
Ross, Hugh {Christian creationist}
Ross, Leonard Q (Polish-American sociologist)
Rossiter, Clinton (American historian)
Rostand, Jean (French biologist)
Rosten, Leo (Polish-American sociologist)
Rousseau, Jean Jacques (French philosopher)
Rower, Heinrich (Cleric)
Royall, Anne Newport (American separationist)
Royle, Edward (Historian)
Runcie, Robert (Anglican Archbishop)
Runion, Wendell {Christian broadcaster}
Rushdie, Salman (Indian-British novelist)
Ruskin, John (English artist)
Russell, Bertrand (British philosopher)
Russell, Charles Taze {American escatologist}

Alphabetical S

Sade, Marquis de (French author)
Sagan, Carl (American astronomer)
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de (French journalist)
Saki [H H Munro] (Scottish author)
Salacrou, Armand (French dramatist)
Sandberg, Carl (American author, poet)
Sanger, Margaret (American activist)
Santayana, George (Spanish-American philosopher)
Sargent, Lyman (American sociologist)
Sarton, George (American science historian)
Savonarola, Girolamo {Dominican prophet}
Scalia, Antonin {US Supreme Court Justice}
Schaff, Philip (Swiss-American historian)
Schein, Ed (American psychologist)
Schelling, Friedrich (German philosopher)
Schlafly, Phyllis {Radical Religious Right activist}
Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr. (American historian)
Schmidt, Johan Kaspar (Anarchist philosopher)
Schnitzler, Arthur (Austrian physician, playwright)
Schoeck, Helmut (German sociologist)
Schopenhauer, Arthur (German philosopher)
Schreiner, Olive (South African activist)
Schroeder, Theodore (American civil libertarian)
Schulz, Charles (American comic artist)
Schund, Dr. {German theologian}
Schwarzkopf, Norman {American general}
Schweitzer, Albert (French physician)
Selden,John (English jurist)
Semple, Etta (Freethought publisher)
Seneca (Roman philosopher)
Seneca {Roman philosopher}
Serban, George (American psychiatrist)
Sexton, Anne (American poet)
Sextus (Greek philosopher)
Shaffer, Butler D (American educator)
Shakespeare, William (English playwright)
Sharon, Ariel {Israeli Prime Minister}
Sharp, Samuel (Egyptologist)
Shaw, George Bernard (Irish-British playwright)
Sheen, Fulton J (Catholic bishop)
Shelley, Mary (English novelist)
Shelley, Percy Bysshe (British poet) Page
Shelley, Percy Bysshe (British poet) Section
Shermer, Michael (American skeptic)
Sherrington, Charles (British biologist)
Shestov, Leo (Russian philosopher)
Shipton, Mother {Hoax of Charles Hindley}
Shriver, Sargent (American politician)
Silius Italicus (Latin epic poet)
Simmons, Paul D (American theologian)
Simonds, Robert {Anti-Education activist}
Simpson, George Gaylord (Harvard paleontologist)
Sinclair, Upton (American novelist)
Sloan, Gary (American educator)
Smart, J J C (American philosopher)
Smith, Al (American Governor)
Smith, Clark Ashton (American author, artist)
Smith, Goldwin (Educator)
Smith, George H (American philosopher)
Smith, Kay Nolte (American actress)
Smith, Lillian (American author)
Smith, Logan Pearsall (American aphorist)
Smith, Tony (American political scientist)
Smoker, Barbara (British secularist)
Socrates (Greek philosopher)
Sogol, Joel (American lawyer)
Sontag, Susan (American writer)
Sontbeil, Ursula {Hoax of Charles Hindley}
Soury, Jules (French physician)
Sowell, Thomas (American economist)
Spear, Samuel T (Episcopal priest)
Spencer, Herbert (British philosopher)
Spinoza, Baruch (Jewish-Dutch philosopher)
Spong, John Shelby (Episcopal Bishop)
St John, Arthur (British novelist)
St John, Arthur {British novelist}
Stalin, Josef (Soviet dictator)
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady (American suffragist)
Stanton, Theodore (American writer)
Steegen, Gerrit ter (German hymn writer)
Steele, Sir Richard (Irish-English writer)
Steele, Sir Richard {Irish-English writer}
Steffens, Lincoln (American muckraker)
Steiger, Rod (American actor)
Stein, Gertrude (American writer)
Stein, Gordon (American philosopher)
Steinem, Gloria (American feminist)
Steinmetz, Charles (German-American inventor)
Stendhal (French novelist)
Stenger, Vic (American physicist)
Sterling, George (American poet)
Stern, Howard (American radio host)
Stevens, John Paul (American jurist)
Stevens, Wallace (American poet)
Stirner, Max (Anarchist philosopher)
Stöffler, Johannes {German educator}
Stone, Lucy (American suffragist)
Stoner, J B {Christian racist}
Storr, Anthony (British psychiatrist)
Story, Joseph (American jurist)
Strabo (Greek geographer)
Strauss, David Friedrich (German philosopher)
Strawson, Galen (British philosopher)
Stump, Eleanore (American philosopher)
Sullivan, Morris (American writer)
Sumner, Charles (American abolitionist)
Sumner, William Graham (American sociologist)
Swaggart, Jimmy {Crooked televangelist}
Swift, Jonathan (Irish-English writer)
Swift, Jonathan {Irish-English writer}
Swinburne, A C (British poet)
Swing, David (American clergyman)
Swomley, John M, Jr. (American civil libertarian)
Szasz, Thomas (American psychiatrist)

Alphabetical T

Taft, William Howard (American President, jurist)
Teale, Edwin Way (American nature writer)
Teller, Woolsey (Astronomer)
Tennyson, Alfred (English poet lauriate)
Terry, Randall {Anti-choice terrorist}
Tersteengen, Gerhard (German hymn writer)
Tertullian {Christian writer}
Tertullian (Christian writer)
Thomas Aquinas {Catholic philosopher}
Thomas Aquinas (Catholic philosopher)
Thoreau, Henry David (American writer)
Tischendorf, Baron von (Biblical scholar)
Titov, Gherman (Soviet cosmonaut)
Tocqueville, Alexis de (French historian)
Toland, John (Irish philosopher)
Tolles, Mitchell {American artist}
Tolstoy, Leo (Russian novelist)
Torvalds, Linus (Finnish-American computer scientist)
Trivers, Robert L (American anthropologist)
Trosch, David {Catholic priest}
Truett, George W (American Baptist)
Truman, Harry (American President)
Trumbull, M M (American general)
Tuchman, Barbara (Pulitzer winner)
Tucholsky, Kurt (German writer)
Turgenev, Ivan (Russian novelist)
Tutu, Desmond {South African clergyman}
Twain, Mark (American writer)
Tyler, John (American President)
Tyndall, John (Irish physicist)

Alphabetical U

Unamuno, Miguel de (Spanish philosopher)
Underwood, Benjamin (American separationist)
Unruh, Leslee {Anti-choice advocate}
Updike, John (American author, critic)
Ustinov, Peter (British actor, director)

Alphabetical V

Valerian {Roman Emperor}
Valéry, Paul (French poet, philosopher)
Varro, Marcus Terentius (Roman scholar, satirist)
Vedder, Eddie (Pearl Jam singer)
Ventura, Jesse (American wrestler, governor)
Vernon, Thomas S (American educator)
Vetter, George B (Religion scholar)
Vidal, Gore (American writer)
Vinci, Leonardo da (Florentine artist)
Voltaire (French philosopher)
Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr. (American writer)
Vries, Peter De (American writer)

Alphabetical W

Waal, Frans de (Primatologist)
Wald, George (American biochemist)
Wald, Kenneth D (American educator)
Waldman, Lois (Writer)
Walker, Alice (African-American poet)
Waller, Edmund (English poet)
Warren, Josiah (Inventor, musician)
Washburn, Lemuel K (Freethinker)
Washington, George (American President)
Waters, Roger (English songwriter)
Watson, James (American biologist)
Watson, Richard (Theologian)
Watt, James {American public servant}
Watzlawick, Paul (Austrian-American philologist)
Waugh, Evelyn (British novelist)
Waugh, Evelyn {British novelist}
Weaver, Rufus V (Writer, separationist)
Webster, Daniel (American lawyer)
Weddington, Sarah (American attorney)
Weicker, Lowell (American statesman)
Weinberg, Steven (Physicist)
Weisskopf, Victor (Austrian physicist)
Wells, H G (British author)
Wesley, John (English evangelist)
Westbrook, Richard B (Bible scholar)
Westcott, B F (British Bible scholar)
Westermarck, Edward A (Finnish anthropologist)
Weyrich, Paul {American theocrat}
Wheelis, Allen (American psychoanalyst)
White, A D (American educator)
White, Ida (Writer)
White, Ralph K (American psychologist)
White, William Allen (American editor)
Whitehead, Alfred North (English mathematician)
Whitehorn, Katherine (British journalist)
Whitman, Cedric (American classicist)
Whitman, Walt (American poet)
Wiesel, Elie (Jewish writer)
Wilberforce, Samuel {Bishop of Oxford}
Wilde, Oscar (Irish-born writer)
Wildmon, Donald E {American theocrat}
Wilkie, Wendell (American politician)
William the Conqueror (King of England)
Williams, Harry A (British writer)
Williams, Roger (English-American separationist)
Williams, Tennessee (American playwright)
Wills, Fingal O'Flahertie (Irish-born writer)
Wilson, Bird (American historian)
Wilson, Edward O (Philosopher)
Wilson, Robert Anton (American philosopher)
Wilson, Woodrow (American President)
Wine, Sherwin T (Rabbi, separationist)
Wiseman, Thomas A, Jr. (American jurist)
Witherspoon, John (American clergyman)
Wolfe, Alan (Political scientist)
Wolfe, Tom (American satirist)
Wollstonecraft, Mary (English Freethinker)
Wood, Ian (Anti-creationism activist)
Wood, James E, Jr. (American separationist)
Wright, Frances (American activist)
Wright, James (American representative)
Wright, Sally (Great-granddaughter of Pledge author)

Alphabetical X

Xenophanes (Greek philosopher)

Alphabetical Y

Yajnavalkya (Vedic sage)
Yeats, William Butler (Irish poet)
Young, Edward {English poet}

Alphabetical Z

Zangwill, Israel (British playwright)
Zappa, Frank (American composer)
Zeno (Greek Stoic)
Zindler, Frank R (American science writer)
Zola, Émile (French writer)
Zollman, Carl (American lawyer)
Zukav, Gary (American spiritual teacher)