page_title: List of secular humanists
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hierarchical_section_title: List of secular humanists / A
caption_attribution_description: Michael Francis Atiyah
context_page_description: This is a partial list of notable secular humanists.
context_section_description: Clark Adams (1969–2007): former president of the Humanist Association of Las Vegas and Southern Nevada, and a life member of the American Humanist Association.
  Steve Allen: Humanist Laureate in The International Academy of Humanism, and Chairman of the Council for Secular Humanism, and received the Distinguished Service Award from the American Humanist Association.
  Ralph Alpher: American cosmologist. He is famous for the seminal paper on Big Bang nucleosynthesis called the Alpher–Bethe–Gamow paper.
  Nayef Al-Rodhan: philosopher, neuroscientist and geostrategist. Author of Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man; Emotional Amoral Egoism and Symbiotic Realism.
  Philip Warren Anderson: American physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics. Was one of 21 Nobel Laureates who signed the Humanist Manifesto.
  James J. Andrews: American mathematician, a professor of mathematics at Florida State University who specialized in knot theory, topology, and group theory. He was a member for the organization, "African Americans For Humanism" (AAH) Advisory Board.
  Isaac Asimov: American Humanist Association's "Humanist of the Year" for 1984, Asimov also served as the organization's president from 1985 until his death in 1992, and was further a Humanist Laureate in the International Academy of Humanism.  Taking great personal pride from the association, he became a strong public advocate for the movement.
  Michael Atiyah: British mathematician.
  Margaret Atwood: Canadian author. Named Humanist of the Year in 1987 by the American Humanist Association, and is a Humanist Laureate in the International Academy of Humanism.
  A. J. Ayer: Humanist Laureate in the International Academy of Humanism.
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