List of agnostics
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The Unofficial and Incomplete List of Agnostics
A number of noted individuals have been agnostics.
A partial list of persons believed to be, or who have claimed to be, agnostics:
- Anaxagoras, (d. 462 BCE), philosopher
- Susan B. Anthony, (1820-1906), US feminist
- Emile Berliner, (1851-1929), inventor
- Jorge Luis Borges, (1899-1986), Argentine writer
- Helen Clark, (b. 1950), prime minister of New Zealand
- Clarence Darrow, (1857-1938), American lawyer
- Charles Darwin, (1809-1882), founder of the theory of evolution
- Heinz Fischer, (b. 1938), President of Austria
- Bill Gates, (b. 1955), founder of Microsoft and richest person in the world
- Matt Groening, (b. 1954), creator of Life in Hell, the Simpsons and Futurama
- Robert Heinlein, (1907-1988), (refused on various occasions to commit to a firm belief in any theological or metaphysical propositions)
- Thomas Henry Huxley, (1825-1895), coiner of the term agnosticism
- Robert Ingersoll, (1833 - 1899), American political leader and orator
- Larry King, (b. 1933), broadcast personality
- Mark Latham, (b.1961), Australian politician and Opposition Leader
- Dave Matthews, (b. 1967), recording artist
- Protagoras, (d.420 BCE), Greek Sophist and first major Humanist
- Andy Rooney, (b. 1919), broadcast personality
- Bertrand Russell, (1872-1970), Welsh philosopher and mathematician
- Carl Sagan, (1934-1996), astronomer and skeptic
- Charles Templeton, (1915-2001) former evangelist, author of A Farewell to God
- Robert Anton Wilson. (b. 1932), author, futurologist, cryptocracy historian
- Rabbi Sherwin T. Wine, (b. 1928), founder of The Society for Humanistic Judaism, coined the term ignosticism
- Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore Minister Mentor
- Frank Zappa, American composer and satirist
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References
Regarding Carl Sagan: "Unbeliever's Quest" by Jerry Adler, in Newsweek, March 31, 1997.
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