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List of Jewish atheists and agnostics

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This page lists well-known Jewish atheists and agnostics. Based on Jewish law's emphasis on matrilineal descent, religiously conservative Orthodox Jewish authorities would accept an atheist born to a Jewish mother as fully Jewish.[1] A 2011 study found that half of all American Jews have doubts about the existence of God, compared to 10–15% of other American religious groups.[2]

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Entertainment

Cinema

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Woody Allen in Take the Money and Run (1969)
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Stanley Kubrick
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Fritz Lang
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Marilyn Monroe
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Matt Stone

Comedy

Comic book writers

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Neil Gaiman

Comic book editors

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Stan Lee
  • Stan Lee (agnostic[64]) – American comic book writer, editor, actor, producer, publisher, television personality, and the former president and chairman of Marvel Comics

Music

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Tom Lehrer
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Gustav Mahler
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Anton Rubinstein

Radio


Sports/games

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Mikhail Botvinnik
  • Mikhail Botvinnik (1911–1995) – Soviet and Russian grandmaster and three-time World Chess Champion, widely considered one of the greatest chess players of all time[91]
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Humanities

Archaeology

  • Eleazar Sukenik – Israeli archaeologist and professor of Hebrew University in Jerusalem, undertaking excavations in Jerusalem, and recognising the importance of the Dead Sea Scrolls to Israel[92]

Arts

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Arthur Miller

Historians

Law

Literature

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Isaac Asimov
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Franz Kafka
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Janusz Korczak
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Primo Levi
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Marcel Proust

Literary critics

Novelists

Philosophy

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Karl Popper
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Formal, natural and applied sciences

Nobel laureates are marked with an asterisk (*).

Astronomy and cosmology

Biology and medicine

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Élie Metchnikoff

Chemistry

Computer science and artificial intelligence

Engineering

Mathematics

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Paul Erdős
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John von Neumann
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Alfred Tarski
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Stanislaw Ulam

Physics

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Hans Bethe
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Niels Bohr
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Paul Ehrenfest
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Richard Feynman
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Sheldon Glashow
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Lev Landau
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Albert A. Michelson
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J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Joseph Rotblat
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Leo Szilard
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Eugene Wigner
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Public figures

Nobel laureates are marked with an asterisk (*).

Activism

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Norman Finkelstein
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Emma Goldman

Entrepreneurs

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George Soros

Explorers

Military

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Moshe Dayan

Politics

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David Ben-Gurion
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Golda Meir
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Yitzhak Rabin
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Uri Avnery

Public atheists

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Christopher Hitchens
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Social sciences

Economics

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Milton Friedman
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Murray Rothbard
Nobel laureates are marked with an asterisk (*).

Futurist

  • Robert Ettinger – American academic, known as "the father of cryonics" because of the impact of his 1962 book The Prospect of Immortality[345]
  • Herman Kahn – American futurist, military strategist and systems theorist; known for analyzing the likely consequences of nuclear war and recommending ways to improve survivability, a notoriety that made him an inspiration for the title character of Stanley Kubrick's classic black comedy film satire Dr. Strangelove[346]
  • Ray Kurzweil (agnostic[347]) – American author, inventor, futurist, and director of engineering at Google

Journalism

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Amos Oz

Columnists

  • Amy Alkon (negative atheist[353]) – writer of a weekly advice column, Ask the Advice Goddess, which is published in over 100 newspapers within North America
  • Nat Hentoff[354] – American syndicated columnist and music critic

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Steven Pinker

Sociology

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References

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