25 May 2011

Famous People Who Surprisingly Are Atheists

I know these people due to there awesomeness--talented, successful, freaking intelligent, etc, etc. Little did I know that they were in fact atheists. So who says only god-believers get blessed?


-MARK ZUCKERBERG


Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is an American computer programmer best known for creating Facebook while he was a student at Harvard University. He was named Time magazine's Person of the Year. As of 2011, his personal wealth was estimated to be $13.5 billion. He was raised Jewish but describes himself an atheist.









-ADAM SAVAGE


Adam Whitney Savage is an American industrial design and special effects designer/fabricator, actor, educator, and co-host of the Discovery Channel television series MythBusters. He is also an atheist.



-JAMIE HYNEMAN


James Franklin Hyneman is an American special effects expert, best known for being the co-host of the television series MythBusters. He is also the owner of M5 Industries, the special effects workshop where MythBusters is filmed. He is known among Robot Wars devotees for his robot entry, Blendo, which, for a time, was deemed too dangerous for entry in the competition. He is one of the designers of the aerial robotic camera system Wavecam, used in sports and entertainment events. On May 16, 2010, he delivered the commencement address and received an honorary Doctorate of Engineering, from Villanova University. Hyneman identifies strongly with skeptics and atheists.



-KARI BYRON


Kari Elizabeth Byron is a San Francisco-based television host and artist, best known for her featured role on the Discovery Channel show MythBusters. Byron says she's been an atheist since childhood.










-PERCY SHELLEY

Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets and is critically regarded among the finest lyric poets in the English language. Shelley was famous for his association with John Keats and Lord Byron. The novelist Mary Shelley was his second wife. In 1811, Shelley published a pamphlet called The Necessity of Atheism.

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