Persons Influential in Atheism
Further information: Lists of atheists- Diagoras of Melos (fifth century BCE)
- Theodorus the Atheist (c. 340-c. 250 BCE)
- Ibn al-Rawandi (827 – 911 CE)
- Bertrand Russell (1872 – 1970)
- Christopher Hitchens
- Daniel Dennett
- Richard Dawkins
- Sam Harris
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