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Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)
Steven Weinberg
American theoretical physicist (1933-2021)
Harry Houdini
Hungarian-born American illusionist, escapologist, and stunt performer (1874–1926)
Susan B. Anthony
American women's rights activist (1820-1906)
B. F. Skinner
American behaviorist (1904–1990)
George Santayana
Spanish-American philosopher
Christopher Hitchens
English American author and journalist (1949–2011)
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and science communicator
Glenn T. Seaborg
American chemist (1912–1999)
Leon M. Lederman
American mathematician and physicist
Sam Harris
American author, philosopher and neuroscientist (born 1967)
Edward O. Wilson
American biologist, naturalist, and writer (1929–2021)
Daniel Dennett
American philosopher (1942–2024)
Stephen Jay Gould
American biologist and historian of science (1941–2002)
Steven Pinker
Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and author, an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of the mind
James Randi
Canadian-American stage magician and skeptical movement adherent
Martin Gardner
American mathematics and science writer (1914–2010)
Albert Ellis
American psychologist (1913–2007)
Simon Newcomb
American astronomer (1835–1909)
Adam Savage
American special effects specialist and television host
Bill Nye
American science educator, comedian, television host, actor, writer, scientist and mechanical engineer
Lawrence M. Krauss
American particle physicist and cosmologist
G. Stanley Hall
American psychologist and educator (1844–1924)
Michael Shermer
American science writer
David Starr Jordan
American ichthyologist and educator (1851-1931)
Douglas Hofstadter
American physicist, computer scientist and professor of cognitive science
Elizabeth Loftus
American cognitive psychologist
Hugo Münsterberg
German-American psychologist (1863-1916)
George O. Abell
American astronomer (1927—1983)
Steve Allen
American actor, comedian, musician and presenter (1921–2000)
Ann Druyan
American author and producer
John Stossel
American consumer reporter, investigative journalist, author and libertarian columnist
James McKeen Cattell
American psychologist (1860–1944)
Bart Bok
Dutch-American astronomer (1906–1983)
Jill Tarter
American astronomer
L. Sprague de Camp
American non- and speculative fiction writer
Ernest Nagel
American philosopher (1901-1985)
Penn & Teller
American illusionists and entertainers
Penn Jillette
American magician and actor (born 1955)
Victor J. Stenger
American philosopher (1935–2014)
Sean M. Carroll
American theoretical cosmologist
Alan Hale
American astronomer and comet discoverer
Eugenie Scott
American anthropologist
Paul Kurtz
American professor of philosophy (1925-2012)
Thomas Sebeok
American semiotician (1920-2001)
PZ Myers
American biologist and blogger
Mary Roach
American science writer
Michael E. Mann
American physicist and climatologist
Sean B. Carroll
American biologist (born 1960)
Robert Todd Carroll
American philosopher
Massimo Pigliucci
chair of the Department of Philosophy at CUNY-Lehman College
Joseph Jastrow
American psychologist (1863-1944)
Kenneth R. Miller
American biologist
Steven Novella
American neurologist, skepticist
Robert M. Price
American theologian
Donald Howard Menzel
American astronomer (1901–1976)
Susan Gerbic
American skepticism activist
Frank H. Netter
American surgeon (1906-1991)