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Bertrand Russell
British philosopher and logician (1872–1970)
Richard Dawkins
English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (born 1941)
Salman Rushdie
Indian-born British-American novelist (born 1947)
George Porter
British chemist (1920–2002)
Joseph Rotblat
Polish-born British-naturalised physicist
Ken Loach
English film director and screenwriter (born 1936)
Michael Atiyah
British mathematician
John Sulston
British biologist and Nobel laureate (1942–2018)
Iain Banks
Scottish writer (1954–2013)
John Boyd Orr
Scottish nutritionist, Director-General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (1880-1971)
William Beveridge
British economist and social reformer (1879-1963)
Anish Kapoor
British-Indian artist (born 1954)
Jacob Bronowski
Polish-born British mathematician (1908–1974)
Hermann Bondi
Austrian-British mathematician and cosmologist
Ferdinand Canning Scott Schiller
German-born British philosopher
Susan Blackmore
British writer and academic
Warren Ellis
English comics and fiction writer (born 1968)
John Curry
British figure skater (1949–1994)
Raymond Firth
ethnologist from New Zealand
Peter Tatchell
British gay rights activist (born 1952)
Sandi Toksvig
Danish-British comedian, writer and broadcaster
Dora Russell
British writer, feminist and socialist campaigner (1894-1986)
Meghnad Desai, Baron Desai
British economist and politician (born 1940)
Julian Baggini
British philosopher, author and journalist (born 1968)
Richard Wiseman
British psychologist
Hugh Huxley
English biologist (1924-2013)
Edward Aveling
British biologist (1849-1898)
Lewis Wolpert
British biologist (1929–2021)
Anthony Epstein
British pathologist and academic (1921–2024)
Francis Graham-Smith
British astronomer
Eunan O'Kane
British footballer (born 1990)
Humanists UK
charitable organization promoting secular humanism
Steven Rose
British biologist and neurobiologist (1938–2025)
Fenner Brockway
British politician (1888–1988)
Brian Barry
British philosopher (1936–2009)
Shappi Khorsandi
British comedian
Sophie Bryant
Irish mathematician (1850–1922)
Frank Furedi
Hungarian-Canadian sociologist (born 1947)
Polly Toynbee
English journalist and writer
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British politician (1930–2010)
Tommy Sheppard
Scottish politician (born 1959)
Barbara Wootton, Baroness Wootton of Abinger
British sociologist and criminologist (1897-1988)
Layla Moran
British politician (born 1982)
Stewart Lee
English stand-up comedian, writer, director and musician
Shreela Flather, Baroness Flather
British politician (1934-2024)
Michael Levey
British historian and art critic (1927–2008)
Dick Taverne
English barrister; Liberal Democrat life peer (1928-2025)
John L. Harper
British biologist (1925–2009)
Kate Smurthwaite
British comedian
Lynne Featherstone
British politician (born 1951)
Conrad Russell, 5th Earl Russell
British peer, politician and historian (1937-2004)
Morris Ginsberg
Litvak-British sociologist
Bernard Crick
British political theorist and democratic socialist (1929-2008)
Aliyah Saleem
author and secular activist
Geoffrey Robertson
Australian lawyer
David Weatherall
physician and academic (1933-2018)
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British politician (1947–2024)
Doreen Massey, Baroness Massey of Darwen
British politician (1938–2024)
Richard Herring
British comedian and writer
H. J. Blackham
British philosopher (1903–2009)