List of deists
This is a partial list of people who have been categorized as deists, the belief in a God based on natural religion only, or belief in religious truths discovered by people through a process of reasoning, independent of any revelation through scripture or prophets. They have been selected for their influence on Deism, or for their fame in other areas.
§ Ethan Allen (1738 – 1789), early American revolutionary and guerrilla leader
§ Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881 – 1938) the founder of the Turkish Republic.
§ Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 – 1821), French military and political leader
§ Marlon Brando (1924 – 2004), famous American actor
§ Cicero (106 BCE – 43 BCE), Roman statesman, lawyer, political theorist, philosopher, and Roman constitutionalist
§ Paul Davies (1946 – ), British physicist and science writer and broadcaster
§ Antony Flew (1923 – ), British philosopher and prominent former atheist
§ Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790), American polymath, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America
§ Frederick the Great (1712 – 1786), Prussian King from the Hohenzollern dynasty
§ Brett Gurewitz (1962 – ), guitarist and songwriter for the American punk rock band Bad Religion
§ Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury (1583 – 1648), British soldier, diplomat, historian, poet and religious philosopher
§ William Hogarth 1697 – 1764), English painter, visual artist and pioneering cartoonist
§ Victor Hugo (1802 – 1885), French writer, artist, activist and statesman
§ David Hume (1711 – 1776), Scottish philosopher, one of the principal early philosophers of empiricism
§ Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, and the 3rd President of the United States[15]
§ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729 – 1781), German writer, philosopher, dramatist, publicist, and art critic
§ John Locke (1632 – 1704), influential English philosopher in the field of empiricism
§ James Madison (1751 – 1836), politician and the fourth President of the United States of America
§ Moses Mendelssohn (1729 – 1786), German philosopher influential in the Jewish Haskalah
§ Thomas Paine (1737 – 1809), English pamphleteer, revolutionary, radical, inventor, and intellectual
§ Elihu Palmer (1764 – 1806), American author and advocate of deism
§ Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744), English poet during the eighteenth century
§ Maximilien Robespierre (1758 – 1794), French revolutionary and lawyer
§ Adam Smith (1723 – 1790), Scottish Philosopher and economist, considered the father of modern economics[23]
§ Lysander Spooner (1808 – 1887), American anarchist, philosopher and abolitionist
§ Matthew Tindal (1657 – 1733), controversial English author whose works were influential on Enlightenment thinking
§ John Toland (1670 – 1722), Irish philosopher, coined the term "pantheism"
§ Mark Twain (1835 – 1910), American author and humorist
§ George Washington (1732 – 1799), the first President of the United States of America
§ Henrik Wergeland (1808 – 1845), Norwegian poet and theologist (by self-definition).
§ Voltaire (1694 – 1778), French Enlightenment writer and philosopher