List of Humanists - C

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  • Mary Calderone: American physician and a public health advocate for sexual education. She served as president and co-founder of the Sex Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS) from 1954 to 1982. Selected as one of the "Humanists of the Year" in 1974 by the American Humanist Association.
  • Helen Caldicott, Australian physician, author, and anti-nuclear advocate who has founded several associations dedicated to opposing the use of nuclear power, depleted uranium munitions, nuclear weapons, nuclear weapons proliferation, war and military action in general. Given the title, "Humanist of the Year" in 1982 by the American Humanist Association.
  • Anton J. Carlson was a signer of the original Humanist Manifesto.
  • Noam Chomsky, American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, and activist.
  • Arthur C. Clarke was a Humanist Laureate in the International Academy of Humanism.
  • Angel Judas (1972 -), military and Spanish poet, author of the first book of poetry in Castilian atheist "Forbidden Verses (the believer)."
  • Auguste Comte, French philosopher. He was a founder of the discipline of sociology and of the doctrine of positivism.
  • Confucius, was a Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn Period of Chinese history.
  • Aaron Copland
  • Brian Cox, British particle physicist, Royal Society University Research Fellow and television personality.
  • Francis Crick was a Humanist Laureate in the International Academy of Humanism.

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