Who is a famous agnostic?

Answer 1

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson insists on being called an agnostic because to him, atheism carries an air of certainty (which most people ascribe to antitheism) that there definitely is no god. He is simply not interested in the conversation about the existence of god.

National Geographic's Sir David Attenborough says that it simply "never occurred to me to believe in god", and also describes himself as agnostic.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes and Lost World novels, was certainly agnostic for most of his life, although his descent into belief in fairies and other superstitions toward the end of his life may have placed him in the believers' camp.

Aldous Huxley (aka Darwin's bulldog) is the world's first agnostic in that he invented the word "agnostic".

Joseph Heller, author of Catch-22.

Mark Twain, creator of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn.

Noam Chomsky, "smartest person in academia".

David Hume, Immanuel Kant, John Locke and Soren Kierkegaard are famous philosophers and agnostic polemicists.

Confucius, who say a lot of thing.

Alexander Graham Bell, who in fact did not invent the telephone but did invent the word "Hello" as it is spelled and used today.

Edward Teller, the most evil and most mad scientist who has ever lived.

Carl Sagan, inventor of the word "Billions".

Stephen Jay Gould, popular biologist, famously quoted as saying that "science and religion are non-overlapping magisteria", i.e. that it's not possible for one to contradict the other.

Albert Einstein

Charles Darwin

It should be noted that the title of atheist also applies to many of the above; even well-known atheists and antitheists have described themselves as agnostic, such as Richard Dawkins and Bertrand Russell.

Answer 2

There are many famous people without religious faith, be they atheists, agnostics or pantheists. A list of those who are identified as agnostics would include:

Mark Twain, Warren Buffet, Brad Pitt, Charles Darwin, Carl Sagan, Larry King, Clement Attlee, Matt Stone, and Zac Efron, among others.

There is some problem in the definition issue between "agnostic" and "atheist" so I have tried not to include people who lean more towards "god definitely doesn't exist".

Answer 3

See Link below for a list of Agnostics