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Birthdays of famous freethinkers, freethought history, and freethinking quotations, by category. (Unless otherwise indicated, these are birthdates.)

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Abolitionists
Actors
American Revolution
Anthropologists
Architects
Artists
Astronomers
Athletes
Attorneys & Judges
Authors
Bible Scholars
Biologists
Business
Cartoonists
Chemists
Civil Libertarians
Civil Rights
Comedians
Composers
Critics
Dancers
Directors
Dramatists
Economists
Editors
Educators
Entertainers
Entrepreneurs
Environmentalists
Explorers
Fashion
Feminists
First Amendment
Former Clergy
Freethought Activists
Heretics/Martyrs
Historians
Humanitarians
Humorists
Inventors
Journalists
Judges
Legal events
Linguists
Mathematicians
Monarchs
Musicians
Naturalists
Nobel Prize Winners
Novelists
Oscar Winners
Painters
Performers
Philanthropists
Philosophers
Physicians
Playwrights
Poets
Politicians
Presidents
Prime Ministers
Psychologists
Publishers
Pulitzer Winners
Reformers
Revolutionaries
Scholars
Scientists
Sociologists
Songwriters
Statesmen
Women's Rights
Writers

Abolitionists

Andrews, Stephen Pearl
Anthony, Susan B.
Child, Lydia Marie
Colman, Lucy
Conway, Moncure Daniel
Douglass, Frederick
Garrison, William Lloyd
Lowell, James Russell
Pillsbury, Parker
Taylor, Helen
Wright, Frances

Actors

Bjork
Brando, Marlon
Chaplin, Charlie
Clooney, George
Dietrich, Marlene
Duffy, Patrick
Eccleston, Christopher
Farmer, Frances
Fields, W.C.
Fonda, Henry
Ford, Harrison
Foster, Jodie
Hepburn, Katharine
Jolie, Angelina
Lancaster, Burt
Lanchester, Elsa
Malkovich, John
McQueen, Butterfly
Moore, Julianne
Newman, Paul
Nicholson, Jack
Nielsen, Leslie
Randall, Tony
Reeve, Christopher
Robeson, Paul
Sarandon, Susan
Smith, Kay Nolte
Steiger, Rod
Sweeney, Julia
Thurman, Uma
Willis, Bruce

American Revolution

Allen, Col. Ethan
Franklin, Benjamin
Jefferson, Thomas
Madison, James
Paine, Thomas
Washington, George

Anthropologists

Galton, Sir Francis
Montagu, Ashley

Architects

Wright, Frank Lloyd

Artists

(see also Painters)

Baryshnikov, Mikhail
Bashkirtseff, Marie
Blake, William
Bonheur, Rosa
Delacroix, Eugene
Kahlo, Frida
Greenaway, Kate
Matisse, Henri
Pissarro, Camille
Rodin, Auguste
Turner, Joseph

Astronomers

Delambre, Jean Baptiste
Galilei, Galileo
Halley, Edmund

Athletes

Armstrong Lance
Tillman, Pat
Williams, Ted

Attorneys and Judges

Bancel, Francois
Bradlaugh, Charles
Brennan, Justice William J.
Darrow, Clarence
Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell
Ingersoll, Robert G.
Jaffree, Ishmael
Krekel, Judge Arnold
Pfeffer, Leo
Ricker, Marilla M.
Schroeder, Theodore

Authors

(See also Novelists, Poets, Writers.)

Ali, Ayaan Hirsi
Ali, Tariq
Allen, Col. Ethan
Asimov, Isaac
Beauvoir, Simone de
Burroughs, John
Conway, Moncure Daniel
Dawkins, Richard
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Everett, Daniel
Feynman, Richard
Freud, Sigmund
Fuller, Margaret
Gardener, Helen H.
Gardner, Martin
Gibbon, Edward
Gibson, Ella E
Gould, Stephen J.
Green, Ruth Hurmence
Greenaway, Kate
Hughes, Rupert
Hurston, Zora Neale
Johnson, Sonia
Key, Ellen
La Bruyere, Jean de
Leopold, Aldo
Lewis, Joseph
Lewis, Sinclair
Mailer, Norman
McCollum, Vashti Cromwell
McEwan, Ian
Mencken, H.L.
Mill, John Stuart
Milne, A.A.
Montesquieu, Baron de
Morley, John
Owen, Robert
Parker, Dorothy
Remsburg, John E.
Rooney, Andy
Smith, Adam
Stephen, Sir Leslie
Sterling, Bruce
Strauss, David Friedrich
Sweeney, Julia
Walker, Alice
Watson, Peter
Wells, H.G.
Wolfe, Tom
Wollstonecraft, Mary

Bible Scholars

Bauer, Bruno
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim
Strauss, David Friedrich
Wells, G.A.

Biologists

Gould, Stephen J.
Hamerstrom, Frances
Huxley, Julian

Business

Clodd, Edward

Cartoonists

Benson, Steve
Feiffer, Jules
Groening, Matt
Thurber, James

Chemists

Arrhenius, Svante August
Berthelot, Pierre Eugene Marcelin
Cavendish, Henry
Naquet, Alfred
Priestley, Joseph

Civil Libertarians

Broun, Heywood C.
Carlile, Richard
Darrow, Clarence
Madison, James
Mill, John Stuart
Pfeffer, Leo
Schroeder, Theodore
Voltaire
Williams, Roger

Civil Rights

DuBois, W.E.B.
King Jr., Martin Luther
Mitford, Jessica
Civil Rights Act Passed

Comedians

(see also Humorists)

Allen, Woody
Bruce, Lenny
Carlin, George
Condell, Pat
Cross, David
Fields, W.C.
Idle, Eric
Jones, Terry
Krassner, Paul
Nielsen, Leslie
Sweeney, Julia

Composers

(See also Songwriters & Lyricists)

Beethoven, Ludwig van
Berlioz, Hector
Bizet, Georges
Brahms, Johannes
Burgess, Anthony
Copland, Aaron
Debussy, Claude
Delius, Frederick
Gershwin, George
Joplin, Scott
Mahler, Gustave
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Paganini, Niccolo
Schuman, Robert
Shostakovich, Dmitriy
Strauss, Richard
Tchaikovsky, Peter Illyich
Verdi, Guiseppe

Critics

Arnold, Matthew
Burgess, Anthony
Crisp, Quentin
Parker, Dorothy
Ruskin, John
Zola, Emile

Dancers

Baryshnikov, Mikhail
Duncan, Isadora
Reagan, Ron

Directors

Allen, Woody
Bergman, Ingmar
Bunuel, Luis
Chaplin, Charlie
Cronenberg, David
Jones, Terry
Kubrick, Stanley
Soderbergh, Steven

Dramatists

Merimee, Prosper
Phillpotts, Eden
Schiller, Freidrich von
Wilde, Oscar

Economists

Engels, Friedrich
Galbraith, John Kenneth
Heilbroner, Robert Louis
Marx, Karl
Smith, Adam
Veblen, Thorstein

Editors

Abbot, Francis Ellingwood
Anneke, Mathilde Franziska Giesler
Cohen, Chapman
Colby, Clara Bewick
Douglas, Frederick
Garrison, William Lloyd
Gaylor, Annie Laurie
Holyoake, George Jacob
Kneeland, Abner
Krassner, Paul
Lowell, James Russell
Macdonald, George Everett
Palmer, Elihu
Pozner, Vladimir
Ross, William Stewart
Seaver, Horace
Silver, Queen
Stephen, Sir Leslie

Educators

Dewey, John
Singer, Peter
Taylor, Helen
Voelkel, Titus

Entertainers

(see Performers)

Entrepreneurs

Baskerville, John
Carnegie, Andrew
Edison, Thomas Alva
Girard, Stephen

Environmentalists

Leopold, Aldo

Explorers

Burton, Sir Richard F
Galton, Sir Francis
Magellan, Ferdinand
Nansen, Fridjof

Fashion

Blass, Bill
McQueen, Alexander

Feminists

Ali, Ayaan Hirsi
Anthony, Susan B.
Besant, Annie
Blake, Lillie Devereux
Bodichon, Barbara Leigh Smith
Bowman, Meg
Child, Lydia Marie
Colby, Clara Bewick
Deraismes, Maria
Dietrick, Ellen Battelle
Douglas, Frederick
Ehrenreich, Barbara
Fuller, Margaret
Gardener, Helen H.
Gaylor, Anne Nicol
Gaylor, Annie Laurie
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
Henry, Josephine K.
Ingersoll, Eva
Johnson, Sonia
Lems, Kristin
Matulis, Sherry
Morgan, Robin
Mott, Lucretia
Paul, Alice
Pollitt, Katha
Ricker, Marilla M.
Rose, Ernestine L.
Sanger, Margaret
Semple, Etta
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
Steinem, Gloria
Taylor, Helen
Walker, Barbara G.
Wollstonecraft, Mary
Woodhull, Victoria
Wright, Frances

First Amendment Plaintiffs

Jaffree, Ishmael
Lemon, Alton
McCollum, Vashti Cromwell
Schempp, Ed
Torcaso, Roy

Former Clergy

Abbot, Francis Ellingwood
Barker, Dan
Barlow, Joel
Bruno, Giordano
Conway, Moncure Daniel
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Godwin, William
Inge, William Ralph
Kneeland, Abner
McCabe, Joseph
Nascimento, Francisco Manuel do
Palmer, Elihu
Pillsbury, Parker
Priestley, Joseph
Putnam, Samuel Porter
Spinoza, Benedict
Stephen, Sir Leslie
Strauss, David Friedrich
Talleyrand-Perigord, Charles Maurice
Taylor, Robert
Vanini, Lucilio

Freethought Activists

Abbot, Francis Ellingwood
Ali, Ayaan Hirsi
Anneke, Mathilde Franziska Giesler
Bancel, Francois
Barker, Dan
Bennett, D.M.
Besant, Annie
Bonner, Hypatia Bradlaugh
Bradlaugh, Charles
Carlile, Richard
Cleyre, Voltairine de
Cohen, Chapman
Collins, Anthony
Colman, Lucy
Deraismes, Maria
Fahringer, Catherine
Foote, G.W.
Gage, Matilda Joslyn
Gardener, Helen H.
Gibson, Ella E.
Gora
Green, Ruth Hurmence
Haldeman-Julius, E.
Hall, Sharlot
Holbach, Baron d'
Holyoake, George Jacob
Hubbard, Alice
Hubbard, Elbert
Ingersoll, Maud
Ingersoll, Robert G.
Kneeland, Abner
Knight, Margaret
Knowlton MD, Charles
Krekel, Mattie Parry
Law, Harriet
Leland, Lilian
Lewis, Joseph
Lennstrand, Viktor E.
Lewis, Joseph
MacDonald, Eugene M.
Macdonald, George Everett
McCabe, Joseph
McCollum, Vashti Cromwell
Mendum, Josiah P.
Owen, Robert
Palmer, Courtlandt
Palmer, Elihu
Putnam, Samuel Porter
Remsburg, John E.
Robertson, J.M.
Rose, Ernestine L.
Ross, William Stewart
Schroeder, Theodore
Scott, Thomas
Seaver, Horace
Semple, Etta
Silver, Queen
Slenker, Elmina D.
Smoker, Barbara
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
Taylor, Robert
Tindal, Matthew
Toland, John
Tridon, Edme Marie Gustave
Underwood, Benjamin
Wheeler, Joseph Mazzini

Heretics/Martyrs

Aikenhead, Thomas
Annet, Peter
Bruno, Giordano
Hutchinson, Anne
Manz, Felix
Nascimento, Francisco Manuel do
Servetus, Michael
Vanini, Lucilio

Historians

Ali, Tariq
Carlyle, Thomas
Gibbon, Edward
Hall, Sharlot
Watson, Peter

Humanitarians

Barton, Clara
Dewey, John
Girard, Stephen
Ingersoll, Eva
Nightingale, Florence
Roosevelt, Eleanor

Humorists

(See also Comedians)

Allen, Steve
Thurber, James
Twain, Mark
Wilde, Oscar
Wodehouse, P. G.

Inventors

Burbank, Luther
Clarke, Arthur C.
Edison, Thomas Alva
Galilei, Galileo

Journalists

Alain (Emile-Auguste Chartier)
Bierce, Ambrose
Bourke-White, Margaret
Broun, Heywood C.
Clemenceau, Georges
Colby, Clara Bewick
Foote, G.W.
France, Anatole
Fuller, Margaret
Gaylor, Annie Laurie
Hersh, Seymour
Kinsley, Michael
MacDonald, Eugene M.
Mencken, H.L.
Reagan, Ron
Pozner, Vladimir
Robertson, J.M.
Rooney, Andy
Seldes, George
Thackeray, William Makepeace
Thomas, Helen
Watson, Peter
Wheeler, Joseph Mazzini

Judges

(see Attorneys & Judges)

Legal events

Weiss decision (1890 Wisconsin)
14th Amendment
Blackmun, Justice
Civil Rights Act Passed
Jefferson, Thomas (Statute for Religious Freedom passed)
Jefferson, Thomas (Declaration of Independence)
McCollum, Vashti
Schempp, Ed
Scopes, John
Szasz, Thomas
Torcaso, Roy
Wallace v. Jaffree

Linguists

Everett, Daniel

Mathematicians

Comte, Auguste
Gardner, Martin
Halley, Edmund
Khayyam, Omar
Pascal, Blaise

Monarchs

Caroline, Queen
Catherine II
Frederick II

Musicians

(see Performers)

Naturalists

Burbank, Luther
Burroughs, John

Nobel Prize Winners

Addams, Jane
Arnoldson, Klas Pontus
Arrhenius, Svante August
Bjornson, Bjornstjerne
Boyer, Paul D.
Camus, Albert
Curie, Marie S.
Einstein, Albert
Feynman, Richard
France, Anatole
Kroto, Sir Harold
Lewis, Sinclair
Nansen, Fridjof
O'Neill, Eugene
Pauling, Linus
Russell, Bertrand
Steinbeck, John
Watson, James D

Novelists

Ali, Tariq
Allen, Grant
Atwood, Margaret
Balzac, Honore de
Beauvoir, Simone de
Bjornson, Bjornstjerne
Buck, Pearl
Burgess, Anthony
Butler, Samuel
Conrad, Joseph
Dickens, Charles
Dinesen, Isak
Eliot, George
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Flaubert, Gustave
Fowles, John
France, Anatole
Galsworthy, John
Gorky, Maxim
Heinlein, Robert A.
Heller, Joseph
Hughes, Langston
Hughes, Rupert
Hugo, Victor
Hurston, Zora Neale
Huxley, Aldous
Irving, John
Joyce, James
Kundera, Milan
Le Carre, John
LeGuin, Ursula
Lessing, Doris
Lewis, Sinclair
Linton, Eliza Lynn
London, Jack
Maupassant, Guy de
McEwan, Ian
Melville, Herman
Meredith, George
Michener, James
Moore, George Augustus
Murdoch, Iris
Oates, Joyce Carol
Orwell, George
Ouida
Phillpotts, Eden
Piercy, Marge
Poe, Edgar Allen
Proust, Marcel
Rand, Ayn
Robbins, Tom
Rushdie, Salman
Sand, George
Schreiner, Olive
Sinclair, Upton
Smith, Kay Nolte
Stael, Mme. De
Steinbeck, John
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Strindberg, Johan August
Thackeray, William Makepeace
Tolstoy, Leo
Turgenev, Ivan
Twain, Mark
Vidal, Gore
Vonnegut, Kurt
Walker, Alice
Wells, H. G.
West, Rebecca
Wilde, Oscar
Wodehouse, P. G.
Woolf, Virginia
Zola, Emile

Oscar Winners

Allen, Woody
Baryshnikov, Mikhail
Bergman, Ingmar
Fonda, Henry
Foster, Jodie
Hepburn, Katharine
Jolie, Angelina
Lancaster, Burt
Newman, Paul
Soderbergh, Steven
Steiger, Rod

Painters

(see also Artists)

Bonheur, Rosa
Delacroix, Eugene
Matisse, Henri
Pissarro, Camille
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
Turner, Joseph

Performers/Entertainers/Musicians

Allen, Steve
Barker, Dan
Bjork
DiFranco, Ani
Duncan, Isadora
Fulks, Robbie
Lems, Kristin
Lennon, John
Paganini, Niccolo
Randi, Amazing James
Robeson, Paul
Taylor, James
Zappa, Frank

Philanthropists

Addams, Jane
Bodichon, Barbara Leigh Smith
Buck, Pearl
Carnegie, Andrew
Gallatin, Albert
Girard, Stephen
Newman, Paul

Philosophers

Alain, (Emile-Auguste Chartier)
Bayle, Pierre
Bentham, Jeremy
Bruno, Giordano
Chatelet, Marquise du
Comte, Auguste
Dennett, Daniel C.
Dewey, John
Diderot, Denis
Epicurus
Fromm, Erich
Godwin, William
Hobbes, Thomas
Hoffer, Eric
Holbach, Baron d'
Hume, David
Mill, John Stuart
Montesquieu, Baron de
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Pascal, Blaise
Rand, Ayn
Rousseau, Jean Jacques
Russell, Bertrand
Santayana, George
Sartre, Jean-Paul
Schopenhauer, Arthur
Singer, Peter
Spencer, Herbert
Spinoza, Benedict
Thoreau, Henry David
Vanini, Lucilio
Voltaire
Xenophanes

Physicians

Astruc, Jean
Foote, E.B.
Huxley MD, Thomas Henry
Knowlton MD, Charles
Naquet, Alfred
Noyes MD, Rufus King
Servetus, Michael
Youmans MD, Edward, Livingston

Playwrights

Albee, Edward
Bjornson, Bjornstjerne
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Gorky, Maxim
Hansberry, Lorraine
Hugo, Victor
Ibsen, Henrik
Ionesco, Eugene
Jonson, Ben
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim
Marlowe, Christopher
Moliere
O'Neill, Eugene
Pinter, Harold
Rousseau, Jean Jacques
Shakespeare, William
Stael, Mme. De
Strindberg, Johan August
Viau, Theophile de
Vidal, Gore
Voltaire
Wilde, Oscar

Poets

Ackermann, Louise Victorine
Appleman, Philip
Arnold, Matthew
Atwood, Margaret
Baudelaire, Charles
Blake, William
Brooke, Rupert
Browning, Robert
Burns, Robert
Byron, Lord
Chatterton, Thomas
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Cummings, E. E.
Dickinson, Emily
Frost, Robert
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Housman, A.E.
Hughes, Langston
Jonson, Ben
Keats, John
Khayyam, Omar
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Lowell, Amy
Lowell, James Russell
Lowell, Robert
Marlowe, Christopher
Matulis, Sherry
Meredith, George
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Moliere
Nascimento, Francisco Manuel do
Neruda, Pablo
Parker, Dorothy
Phillpotts, Eden
Piercy, Marge
Poe, Edgar Allen
Pollitt, Katha
Pope, Alexander
Pushkin, Aleksandr
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
Sandburg, Carl
Schiller, Freidrich von
Shakespeare, William
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Stein, Gertrude
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Swinburne, Algernon Charles
Tennyson, Alfred
Viau, Theophile de
Whitman, Walt
Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

Politicians

(see also Presidents, Prime Ministers, Statesmen)

Ali, Ayaan Hirsi
Bradlaugh, Charles
Brandes, Carl
Chamberlain, Daniel Henry
Gallatin, Albert
Garibaldi, Giuseppe
Gibbon, Edward
Goldwater, Barry
Kinnock, Neil
Lennstrand, Viktor E.
Mazzini, Giuseppe
Naquet, Alfred
Owen, Robert Dale
Robertson, J.M.

Presidents

Adams, John
Adams, John Q.
Arriaga, Manoel Jose d'
Balmaceda, Jose Manuel
Bolivar, Simon
Diaz, Porfirio
Grant, Ulysses S. Military
Jefferson, Thomas
Kennedy, John F.
Lincoln, Abraham
Madison, James
Washington, George

Prime Ministers

Ballance, John
Aranda, Pedro Pablo Abaraca
Clemenceau, Georges
Nehru, Jawaharlal
Stout, Robert

Psychologists

Freud, Sigmund
Fromm, Erich
Knight, Margaret
Maslow, Abraham H.
Skinner, B.F.

Publishers

Bennett, D.M.
Foote, E.B.
Haldeman-Julius, E.
Mendum, Josiah P.
Ross, William Stewart
Scott, Thomas
Truelove, Edward
Underwood, Benjamin
Watson, James
Youmans MD, Edward Livingston

Pulitzer Prize Winners

Benson, Steve
Buck, Pearl
Feiffer, Jules
Frost, Robert
Gale, Zona
Hersh, Seymour
O'Neill, Eugene
Sandburg, Carl
Sinclair, Upton
Steinbeck, John

Reformers

Addams, Jane
Adler, Felix
Allsop, Thomas
Anneke, Mathilde Franziska Giesler
Anthony, Susan B.
Arnoldson, Klas Pontus
Ballance, John
Balmaceda, Jose Manuel
Bentham, Jeremy
Besant, Annie
Bodichon, Barbara Leigh Smith
Bonner, Hypatia Bradlaugh
Cleyre, Voltairine de
Debs, Eugene V.
DuBois, W.E.B.
Ehrenreich, Barbara
Foote, E.B.
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
Goldman, Emma
Holyoake, George Jacob
Ibsen, Henrik
Martineau, Harriet
Marx, Karl
Mitford, Jessica
Montagu, Ashley
Montesquieu, Baron de
Owen, Robert
Owen, Robert Dale
Paul, Alice
Pillsbury, Parker
Rose, Ernestine L.
Rousseau, Jean Jacques
Ruskin, John Art
Sanger, Margaret
Sinclair, Upton
Stout, Robert
Thoreau, Henry David
Truelove, Edward
Wells, H. G.
Wollstonecraft, Mary
Wright, Frances
Zola, Emile

Revolutionaries

(see also American Revolution)

Bakunin, Mikhail
Bolivar, Simon
Diaz, Porfirio
Emmet, Robert
Garibaldi, Giuseppe
Goldman, Emma
Johnson, Sonia
Luxemburg, Rosa
Mazzini, Giuseppe
Nehru, Jawaharlal
Platiere, Marie Jeanne Roland de la

Scholars

(see also Bible Scholars)

Appleman, Philip
Astruc, Jean
Bayle, Pierre
Chatelet, Marquise du
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Huxley MD, Thomas Henry
Pfeffer, Leo
Spencer, Herbert

Scientists

Arrhenius, Svante August
Berthelot, Pierre
Born, Max
Boyer, Paul D.
Burbank, Luther
Burroughs, John
Cavendish, Henry
Crick, Francis
Curie, Marie S.
Darwin, Charles
Dawkins, Richard
Delambre, Jean Baptiste
Einstein, Albert
Feynman, Richard
Galilei, Galileo
Galton, Sir Francis
Gould, Stephen J.
Haldane, J.B.S.
Halley, Edmund
Hamerstrom, Frances
Hawking, Stephen
Huxley, Julian
Huxley MD, Thomas Henry
Kroto, Sir Harold
LaMarck, Jean Baptiste
Naquet, Alfred
Pauling, Linus
Priestley, Joseph
Sagan, Carl
Servetus, Michael
Smith, William
Watson, James D

Sociologists

Cape, Emily
Comte, Auguste
Ellis, Havelock
Martineau, Harriet

Songwriters & Lyricists

(see also Composers)

Barker, Dan
Beranger, Pierre Jean de
Berlin, Irving
Bjork
DiFranco, Ani
Gershwin, George
Gorney, Jay
Harburg, E.Y. (Yip)
Kern, Jerome
Lehrer, Tom
Lems, Kristin
Lennon, John
Porter, Cole
Rodgers, Richard
Sondheim, Stephen
Wodehouse, P.G.

Statesmen

Adams, John Q.
Aranda, Pedro Pablo Abaraca
Arriaga, Manoel Jose d'
Arnoldson, Klas Pontus
Barlow, Joel
Bolingbroke, Viscount
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Clemenceau, Georges
Gallatin, Albert
Jefferson, Thomas
Morley, John
Nansen, Fridjof
Owen, Robert Dale
Pitt, William
Stout, Robert
Talleyrand-Perigord, Charles Maurice
Walpole, Robert
Wilkes, John

Women's Rights

(see Feminists)

Writers

(See also Authors, Journalists, Philosophers, Poets, Novelists, Scholars)

Adams, Douglas
Adler, Felix
Ali, Ayaan Hirsi
Ali, Tariq
Allen, Grant
Andrews, Stephen Pearl
Bakunin, Mikhail
Bashkirtseff, Marie
Barker, Dan
Blake, Lillie Devereux
Bonner, Hypatia Bradlaugh
Bowman, Meg
Brandes, Carl
Broun, Heywood C.
Camus, Albert
Clarke, Arthur C.
Cleyre, Voltairine de
Clodd, Edward
Cohen, Chapman
Colman, Lucy
Collins, Anthony
Crisp, Quentin
Darrow, Clarence
Deraismes, Maria
Diderot, Denis
Dillard, Annie
DuBois, W.E.B.
Ehrenreich, Barbara
Feiffer, Jules
Gale, Zona
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
Godwin, William
Goldman, Emma
Hamerstrom, Frances
Harris, Sam
Henry, Josephine K.
Hitchens, Christopher
Hoffer, Eric
Holbach, Baron d'
Hubbard, Alice
Hubbard, Elbert
Huxley, Julian
Inge, William Ralph
Ingersoll, Robert G.
Lennstrand, Viktor E.
Lowell, Amy
Malraux, Andre
Martineau, Harriet
Matulis, Sherry
Maupassant, Guy de
McCabe, Joseph
McEwan, Ian
Merimee, Prosper
Michener, James
Montagu, Ashley
Montaigne, Michel de
Morgan, Robin
Parton, James
Pollitt, Katha
Priestley, Joseph
Pushkin, Aleksandr
Putnam, Samuel Porter
Randi, Amazing James
Roddenberry, Gene
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Rousseau, Jean Jacques
Rule, Jane
Rushdie, Salman
Russell, Bertrand
Sagan, Carl
Sargent, Pamela
Sartre, Jean-Paul
Slenker, Elmina D.
Smoker, Barbara
Sontag, Susan
Steinem, Gloria
Strindberg, Johan August
Taylor, Robert
Thoreau, Henry David
Thurber, James
Tindal, Mathew
Toland, John
Tridon, Edme Marie Gustave
Underwood, Benjamin
Vidal, Gore
Walker, Barbara G.
Watson, Peter


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