| | Democritus - ancient Greek philosopher and "father of modern science" |
| | Diagoras of Melos - poet and sophist |
| | Epicurus - ancient Greek philosopher |
| | Theodorus the Atheist - ancient Greek philosopher |
| | Andrew Carnegie - American industrialist, businessman and philanthropist whose the second richest man in history |
| | Ivan Pavlov - Russian physiologist, psychologist and physician who won the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1904 for research on the digestive system |
| | Sigmund Freud - Austrian psychiatrist who founded the psychoanalytic school of psychology |
| | Clarence Darrow - American lawyer who was the defense of Tennessee teacher John Scopes in the "Monkey Trial" |
| | Richard Strauss - German composer who began writing music at the age of six and continued almost until his death |
| | Bertrand Russell - British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, pacifist and social activist |
| | Jawaharlal Nehru - follower of Mahatma Gandhi and ledaer of the Indian National Congress |
| | Linus Pauling - chemists who wrote the Millennium Essay in the journal Nature, one of the greatest thinkers and visionaries of the last thousand years. |
| | Paul Dirac - British theoretical physicist who contributed to the early development of quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics |
| | Ayn Rand - Russian-born American writer of "Atlas Shrugged" |
| | Katherine Hepburn - actress who received 12 Academy Award nominations for Best Actress in a film |
| | Jacques Monod - French biologist who contributed greatly to the understanding of the Lac operon as a regulator of gene transcription in cells, suggested the existence of mRNA molecules in the process of protein synthesis, and further contributed to the field of enzymology |
| | Subrahmanyan Chandresekhar - Nobel Prize in Physics and has a space-based X-ray observatory named after him |
| | Alan Turing - English mathematician, logician, computer scientist and cryptanalyst |
| | Francis Crick - co-discoverer of the structure of DNA |
| | Claude Shannon - electronic engineer and mathematician known as "the father of information theory. |
| | Richard Feynman - development of quantum mechanics |
| | Noam Chomsky - American philosopher |
| | James D. Watson - Nobel Prize in physiology/medicine in 1962 as co-discoverer along with Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins of the molecular structure of DNA |
| | Peter Higgs - theoretical physicist and emeritus professor at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland |
| | Warren Buffet - American businessman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway and the richest person in the world in the first half of 2008 |
| | John Searle - American philosopher and spokesperson for the Free Speech Movement in Berkeley during the late 1960s and early '70s |
| | Steven Weinberg - American physicist best known for his work on unification of electromagnetism and the weak force, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in physics |
| | Carl Sagan - American astronomer, astrochemist, and successful popularizer of science |
| | David Suzuki - Canadian zoologist, geneticist, science broadcaster and entironmental activist |
| | George Carlin - comedian |
| | Bruce Lee - American born Chinese martial artist, philosopher, instructor and actor, the founder of the Jeet Kune Do combat form |
| | Leonard Susskind - American physicist specializing in string theory and quantum field theory |
| | Stephen Jay Gould - paleontologist, evolutionary biologist and historian of science |
| | Richard Dawkins - scientist and writer with radical discoveries in biology and popular science books |
| | Daniel Dennett - American philosopher and spy for the OSS |
| | Stephen Hawking - Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge |
| | Mick Jagger - rocker from Rolling Stones |
| | Richard Leakey - conservationist, a promoter of civil rights and a supporter of the Kenyan Safina Party |
| | David Gilmour - rocker from Pink Floyd |
| | Brian Eno - English musician, composer, record producer, music theorist and singer best known as the father of ambient music |
| | David Sloan Wilson - SUNY Distinguished Professor of Biology and Anthropology at Binghamton University in New York, a prolific popular science writer, and a promoter of evolution by group and multi-level selection |
| | Steve Wozniak - Apple founder and computer engineer |
| | Douglas Adams - English writer, dramatist and musician, best known for his Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series |
| | Steven Pinker - experimental psychologist and cognitive scientist best known for his advocacy of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind |
| | PZ Myers - evolutionary developmental biologist and professor of biology at the University of Minnesota |
| | Jodie Foster - Actress who has won three Bafta Awards, two Golden Globes, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a People's Choice Award, and two Emmy nominations |
| | Russell T Davies - Welsh writer and producer of the modern version of the popular science fiction television series Doctor Who |
| | David Chalmers - Australian philosopher, director of the Center for Consciousness and past director of the Center for Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona |
| | Sean Carroll - theoretical cosmologist specializing in general relativity and dark energy |
| | Mark Zuckerberg - Facebook founder and computer programmer |
| | Ray Kurzweil - Inventor of text to speech synthesizer, best selling author, and made famous The Law of Accelerating Returns |