Freethinkers
From Philosopedia
It is easy to label people, although they may not agree with the label you have chosen for them. Following, however, are examples of individuals in PHILOSOPEDIA who have been described by various labels.
The list following - not meant to be all-inclusive - gives examples of freethinking individuals.
AGNOSTICS
- Steve Allen
- Matthew Arnold
- Margaret Atwood
- Richard Avedon
- Antonio Banderas
- Johannes Brahms
- Andrew Carnegie
- Clarence Darrow
- Thomas H. Huxley
- Robert G. Ingersoll
- Larry King
- Gustav Mahler
- Jessica Mitford
- Robert Louis Stevenson
ATHEISTS
- Isaac Asimov
- Sarah Bernhardt
- Bjork
- Luis Bunuel
- Albert Camus
- Arthur C. Clarke
- W. K. Clifford
- Richard Dawkins
- Marlene Dietrich
- Thomas Alva Edison
- Royston Ellis
- Sigmund Freud
- William Godwin
- Johann Goethe
- Mikhail S. Gorbachev
- Maxim Gorky
- Stephen Hawking
- Sidney Hook
- Frida Kahlo
- John Keats
- Weston La Barre
- John Lennon
- Jack London
- H. L. Mencken
- Taslima Nasrin
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Ayn Rand
- Maurice Ravel
- Diego Rivera
- Richard Rodgers
- Andy Rooney
- Alan Ryan
- George Bernard Shaw
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Gloria Steinem
- Giuseppe Verdi
- Gore Vidal
DEISTS
- Richard F. Burton
- Victor Hugo
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
- James Madison
- [Michel de Montaigne
- Charles Montesquieu
- Thomas Paine
- Aleksandr Pushkin
- George Sand
- Adam Smith
- François-Marie Arouet Voltaire
- George Washington
- Anita Weschler
FREETHINKERS
- Edward Albee
- Susan B. Anthony
- Dan Barker
- Phineas T. Barnum
- Mikhail Baryshnikov
- Samuel Beckett
- Hermann Bondi
- Pierre Boulez
- Margaret Bourke-White
- Marlon Brando
- Pearl Buck
- Samuel Clemens
- George Clooney
- Moncure Conway
- Isadora Duncan
- Havelock Ellis
- Jules Feiffer
- W. C. Fields
- Harrison Ford
- Stephen Foster
- Michel Foucault
- Zona Gale
- William Lloyd Garrison
- Bill Gates
- Anne Nicol Gaylor
- Annie Laurie Gaylor
- George and Ira Gershwin
- Ulysses S. Grant
- Zora Neale Hurston
- Philip Johnson
- Scott Joplin
- James Joyce
- Omar Khayyam
- Abraham Lincoln
- Walter Lippmann
- Ferdinand Magellan
- Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Jack Nicholson
- Edgar Allen Poe
- Sergei Prokofiev
- Marcel Proust
- Carl Sagan
- Upton Sinclair
- Stephen Sondheim
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Gertrude Stein
- John Steinbeck
- Wallace Stevens
- Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Norman Thomas
- P. G. Wodehouse
- Virginia Woolf
- Richard Wright
HUMANITIES HUMANISTS
- About, Edmond
- Adams, Francis
- Alvarez, Alfred
- Asimov, Isaac
- Atwood, Margaret
- Balzac
- Buck, Pearl
- Burgess, Anthony
- Butler, Samuel
- Camus, Albert
- Clemens, Samuel
- Crane, Stephen
- Conrad, Joseph
- Cooke, William
- deMaupassant, Guy
- Dickens, Charles
- Diderot, Denis
- Dillard, Annie
- Dinesen, Isak
- Dos Passos, John
- Dostoyevsky, Fëodor
- Dreiser, Theodore
- Edamaruku, Sanal
- Eliot, George
- Farrell, James T.
- Ellis, Royston
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Flaubert, Gustave
- Forster, E. M.
- Fowles, John
- France, Anatole
- Fuentes, Carlos
- Gale, Zona
- Galsworthy, John
- Gardener, Helen H.
- Goethe, Johann
- Goncourt, Edmond and Jules
- Gorky, Maxim
- Goytisolo, Juan
- Graves, Robert
- Hale, Edward Everett
- Hardy, Thomas
- Harper, Frances
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Heinlein, Robert
- Heller, Joseph
- Hemingway, Ernest
- Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
- Hughes, Rupert
- Hugo, Victor
- Hurston, Zora Neale
- Huxley, Aldous
- James, Henry
- Joyce, James
- Kundera, Milan
- Lawrence, D. H.
- Le Carre, John
- LeGuin, Ursula K.
- Lessing, Doris
- Linton, Eliza Lynn
- London, Jack
- McGahern, John
- Mahfouz, Naguib
- Mann, Thomas
- Maugham, Somerset
- Melville, Herman
- Meredith, George
- Merimee, Prosper
- Michener, James
- Moore, George Augustus
- Murdoch, Iris
- Nasrin, Taslima
- Orwell, George
- Phillpotts, Eden
- Phillpotts, Eden
- Rand, Ayn
- Rizal, José
- Robbins, Tom
- Roy, Arundhati
- Rule, Jane
- Rule, Jane
- Sand, George
- Sarton, May
- Sinclair, Upton
- Slenker, Elizabeth D.
- Smith, Kay Nolte
- Steinbeck, John
- Stevenson, Robert Louis
- Thackeray, William
- Tolstoy, Leo
- Turgenev, Ivan
- Walker, Alice
- Wells , H. G.
- West, Rebecca
- Wilde, Oscar
- Williamson, Clarence Charles
- Wolfe, Tom
- Woolf, Virginia
- Wright, Richard
- Zola Emile Zola
HUMANISTS, NATURALISTIC HUMANISTS, HUMANISTIC NATURALISTS
- Witter Bynner
- Paul Cadmus
- Aaron Copland
- W. E. Du Bois
- Ariel and Will Durant
- James T. Farrell
- Robert Frost
- Robert Heinlein
- Langston Hughes
- Philip Johnson
- Sinclair Lewis
- Thomas Mann
- Somerset Maugham
- Albert B. Nobel
- Eugene O'Neill
- Warren Allen Smith
- William Shakespeare
- Susan Sarandon
- Lionel Trilling
- Walt Whitman
NATURALISTS
- Nicola Abbagnano
- Geoffrey Bruun
- Morris R. Cohen
- Arthur C. Danto
- Mynga Futrell
- Paul Geisert
- Murray Gell-Mann
- Edwin Powell Hubble
- Lucretius
- Patarick Romanell
NON-THEISTS
PANTHEISTS
- Abu Bakr Ibn Al-Tufail
- John Albee
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Rosa Bonheur
- Edward Hoagland
- Robert Schumann
- Alfred Tennyson
- John Toland
- William Wordsworth
PRAGMATISTS
RATIONALISTS
- John Ballance
- Clara Barton
- Bjornstjerne Bjornson
- Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner
- William Cooke
- Ray Dahlitz
- Charles Darwin
- Erasmus Darwin
- Frances Darwin
- George Darwin
- Antony Flew
- Charles Darwin
- Edmond and Jules Goncourt
- J. B. S. Haldane
- Thomas Hardy
- Victor Hugo
- Prosper Merimee
- Innaiah Narisetti
- Baruch Spinoza
- Robert Stout
- Johan Strindberg
- Ivan Turgenev
- G.A. Wells
- Emile Zola
SECULAR HUMANISTS
- David Alexander
- Edd Doerr
- Fred Edwords
- Julian Huxley
- Beth Lamont
- Corliss Lamont
- Mel Lipman
- Paricia Lopez Zaragoza
- James Michener
- Lloyd Morain
- Mary Morain
- Verle Muhrer
- Priscilla Robertson
- Wole Soyinka
- May Swenson
- Gerald Wendt
- Ed Wilson
UNITARIANS, UNIVERSALISTS
- Bela Bartok
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- E. E. Cummings
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
- Max Otto
- Linus Pauling
- Joseph Priestley
- Carl Sandburg
- May Sarton
- Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
- H. G. Wells
- Whitney Young
