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American former atheists and agnostics

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Mark Zuckerberg
American Internet entrepreneur
Czesław Miłosz
Polish-American poet and Nobel laureate (1911–2004)
Jane Fonda
Jane Seymour Fonda is an American actress and activist. Fonda's work spans several genres and over seven decades of film and television. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, eight Golden Globe Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award as well as nominations for a Grammy Award and two Tony Awards. Fonda is also the recipient of various honorary awards including the Honorary Palme d'Or in 2007, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2014, the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in 2017, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2021, and the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2025.
Larry Sanger
American former professor, co-founder of Wikipedia, founder of Citizendium and other projects (born 1968)
W. H. Auden
British-American poet (1907–1973)
Anne Rice
American writer
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Dutch-American political activist and author
Stephen Colbert
Stephen Tyrone Colbert is an American comedian, writer, producer, political commentator, actor, and television host. He is best known for hosting the Comedy Central news satire show The Colbert Report from 2005 to 2014, and the CBS talk show The Late Show with Stephen Colbert since September 2015.
Christian B. Anfinsen
American biochemist (1916–1995)
Dorothy Day
American journalist, social activist, and Catholic convert (1897-1980)
Lil Nas X
American rapper, singer and songwriter (born 1999)
Francis Collins
American geneticist and director of the National Institutes of Health
Peter Steele
American musician (1962–2010)
Frances Farmer
American actress (1913–1970)
Joseph Franklin Rutherford
American lawyer, Watch Tower Society president (1869–1942)
Walker Percy
American philosophical novelist
Denise Levertov
British-American poet (1923-1997)
Roxann Dawson
American actress and director
Allan Sandage
American astronomer (1926–2010)
Claude McKay
Jamaican American writer, poet (1889–1948)
Avery Dulles
Catholic cardinal (1918–2008)
Whittaker Chambers
Defected Communist spy, writer, editor (1901–1961)
Rosalind Picard
American computer scientist
Seraphim Rose
American Orthodox writer and saint (1934–1982)
Bernard Nathanson
American physician, abortion rights activist and writer (1926–2011)
Alex Grey
American painter and performance artist (born 1953)
Lacey Sturm
American singer
Dave Rubin
American political commentator (born 1976)
G. Willow Wilson
American comics writer, prose author, essayist, and journalist
Lee Strobel
American writer
John Dobson
American astronomer (1915–2014)
George R. Price
American population geneticist (1922–1975)
Rodney Stark
American sociologist of religion (1934–2022)
Eben Alexander
American neurosurgeon
Mary Doria Russell
American novelist
Joy Davidman
American poet (1915–1960)
Adam Curry
broadcasting and Internet personality
Léonie Adams
American poet (1899–1988)
John B. Cobb
American theologian
Tasha Smith
American actress, director and producer
Greg Boyd
American theologian and pastor
Heywood Broun
American sportswriter, journalist, and newspaper columnist (1888-1939)
Frank Chodorov
American libertarian thinker (1887–1966)
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
American historian
Edward Feser
American professor of philosophy
John C. Wright
American novelist (born 1961)
Fulton Oursler
American journalist, playwright, editor and writer (1893-1952)
Joseph Pearce
English-American writer (born 1961)
Bruce Lipton
American developmental biologist
John Lawson Stoddard
American writer (1850–1931)
Mary Karr
American poet and essayist
Jennifer Knapp
American Christian musician
Bella Dodd
American communist and anti-communist (1904-1969)
Neal Brennan
American writer, comedian, and producer (born 1973)
J. Neil Schulman
American novelist (1953-2019)
Sohrab Ahmari
American writer and journalist (born 1985)
Howard Storm
American writer
Eugene Genovese
American historian, writer, academic, educator (1930-2012)
Red Jordan Arobateau
American author, playwright, poet and painter
Art Alexakis
American musician