Famous Freethinkers
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—John Stuart Mill (Autobiography, 1873)
Madison Arnold
Isaac Asimov
Steve Benson
Meg Bowman
Rupert Brooke
Lord Byron
Ernie Chambers
Jerry Coyne
Claude Debussy
Frederick Delius
Ann Druyan
George Eliot
W.C. Fields
Sigmund Freud
Thomas Gore
Ruth Hurmence Green
E.Y. (Yip) Harburg
Hubert Harrison
Zora Neale Hurston
Thomas Jefferson
Jerome Kern
Burton Lane
Aldo Leopold
Jack London
Butterfly McQueen
A.A. Milne
Montesquieu
Robin Morgan
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Ouida
Thomas Paine
Alice Paul
Steven Pinker
Edgar Allan Poe
Katha Pollitt
Ron Reagan
Carl Rogers
Ernestine L. Rose
Carl Sandburg
Claude Shannon
Edward Sorel
Robert Louis Stevenson
Julia Sweeney
Voltaire
Beatrice Webb
Steven Weinberg
Virginia Woolf
Simone de Beauvoir