Thomas Huxley, coiner of the term agnostic.

Listed here are persons who have identified themselves as agnostics. Also included are those who have expressed the view that it is unknown or inherently unknowable whether God or other deities exist. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (634x735, 116 KB) Description description: Thomas Henry Huxley source: http://geology. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (634x735, 116 KB) Description description: Thomas Henry Huxley source: http://geology. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ...

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• Sir David Attenborough (1926-) - English natural history presenter and anthropologist. ^[1]
• Michelle Bachelet (b. 1951), President of Chile. ^[2]
• Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), Argentine writer. ^[3]
• Warren Buffett (b. 1930), an American investor, considered to be the world's second richest man, identified himself as "Agnostic" in response to Warren Allen Smith, who had asked him whether he believed in God.^[4]
• Henry Cadbury (1883-1974), a biblical scholar and Quaker who contributed to the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, said in a 1936 lecture to Harvard Divinity School students, "Most students ... wish to know whether I believe in the existence of God or in immortality, and if so why. They regard it impossible to leave these matters unsettled – or at least extremely detrimental to religion not to have the basis of such conviction. Now for my part I do not find it impossible to leave them open. ... I can describe myself as no ardent theist or atheist."^[5]
• Helen Clark, New Zealand Prime Minister. ^[6]
• Francis Crick (1916-2004), Nobel-laureate co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, who described himself as a skeptic and an agnostic with "a strong inclination towards atheism."^[7]
• Marie Curie (1867–1934): Polish-French physicist and chemist. She was a pioneer in the field of radioactivity and she became the first and the only Nobel laureate to win two Nobel Prize in two different sciences. She won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911.^[8]
• Clarence Darrow, (1857-1938), American lawyer, who defended John T. Scopes' right to teach Darwin's theory of evolution in the famous Tennessee "Monkey Trial." ^[9]
• Charles Darwin, (1809-1882), founder of the theory of evolution by natural selection, once described himself as being generally agnostic, though he was a member of the Anglican church and attended Unitarian services. ^[10]
• Émile Durkheim (1858-1917), French sociologist, who had a Jewish confirmation at thirteen, was briefly interested in Catholicism after a mystical experience, but later became an agnostic. ^[11]
• Bart D. Ehrman, new testament scholar and "a happy agnostic".^[12]
• Albert Einstein (1879–1955), German-born theoretical physicist who is best known for his theory of relativity and specifically mass-energy equivalence, E = mc². He was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics. In 1999 Einstein was named Time magazine's "Person of the Century", and a poll of prominent physicists named him the greatest physicist of all time. Although not an atheist, Einstein did specifically say that he rejected the idea of a personal god ("The idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naïve") and he specifically stated that he did not believe in life after death.^[13]
• Heinz Fischer, incumbent Austrian President ^[14]
• Carrie Fisher, American actor, screenwriter and novelist.^[15]
• Milton Friedman, American economist, writer and public intellectual, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics.^[16]
• Frederick James Furnivall, (1825-1910), Second editor of the Oxford English Dictionary. ^[17]
• Carlos Gaviria Díaz, (b. 1937), Colombian politician, said "I am an agnostic, like him [Bertrand Russell]." ^[18]
• Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002), an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, science historian and popularizer. Gould called himself a "Jewish agnostic."^[19]
• Matt Groening, (b. 1954), creator of animated TV series The Simpsons, Futurama, and the comic Life in Hell. ^[20]
• Thomas Henry Huxley, (1825-1895), coiner of the term agnosticism

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• Robert G. Ingersoll, (1833 - 1899), American political leader and orator, and known as "The Great Agnostic." ^[21]
• Larry King, (b. 1933), host of Larry King Live. ^[22]
• Ricardo Lagos (b. 1938), the first declared agnostic to be elected president of Chile. ^[23]
• Bill Maher (b. 1956), American comedian and political commentator. ^[24]
• H. L. Mencken (1880-1956), journalist, satirist, social critic, cynic, and freethinker, known as the "Sage of Baltimore".^[25]
• Sherwin B. Nuland(b. 1930), American surgeon and author of How We Die.^[26]
• Paul Nurse (b. 1949), 2001 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, called himself an atheist, but specified that "sceptical agnostic" was a more "philosophically correct" term.^[27]
• Karl R. Popper, philosopher of science, who described his philosophy as critical rationalism, and promoted falsifiability as a necessary criterion of empirical statements in science.^[28]
• Protagoras, (d.420 BCE), Greek Sophist and first major Humanist, who wrote that the existence of the gods was unknowable. ^[29]
• George Lincoln Rockwell, (1918-1967), Founder of the American Nazi Party.^[30]
• Andy Rooney, (b. 1919), broadcast personality, who had specified that he was an agnostic and not an atheist ^[31], but has also called himself an atheist. ^{[32] [33]}
• Karl Rove, Deputy Chief of Staff to President George W. Bush.^{[34] [35]}
• Bertrand Russell, (1872-1970), English philosopher and mathematician, who considered himself a philosophical agnostic, but said that the label "atheist" conveyed a more accurate impression to "the ordinary man in the street." ^[36]
• Carl Sagan, (1934-1996), astronomer and skeptic ^[37]
• Adrienne Shelly (1966-2006), American actor, screenwriter and director.^[38]
• Matt Stone (b. 1971), co-creator of the cartoon South Park, considers himself an agnostic Jew,^[39] though he has also denied the existence of God.^[40]
• Charles Templeton, (1915-2001) former evangelist, author of A Farewell to God ^[41]
• Mark Twain has received many labels including agnostic ^{[42] [43]} and deist^[44]. Many quotations from Twain suggest a sincere belief in a deity, while expressing brutal skepticism and irreverence toward conventional religion's claims to know God's nature. ^[45]
• Robert Anton Wilson. (1932-2007), author, futurologist, cryptocracy historian^[46]

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See also

• List of atheists
• List of humanists
• List of people by belief

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External links

• Agnostics in The Celebrity Atheist List
• Famous black freethinkers
• Famous Dead Nontheists

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