I am my favorite atheist...

A lot of thought provoking people on these lists. I always enjoyed the way Sam Harris makes his argument. Not on any list I saw was "aron ra "

....me.

Hitchens, Dawkins, James Randi, Stephen Hawking, and PZ Myers pop to mind first. Long list though, and I just finished Penn Jillett’s “God, No,” so he is close also.

Robert G Ingersoll, the great agnostic. He really paved the way when talking about not believing was pretty much unheard of

Dawkins...a beautifully scientific man....but I must say that Ricky Gervais has made me laugh most recently

Stephen Hawking...the best in my opinion.

The living....Tyson, Gervais, Jefferies.
The no longer with us.... Hawking and Carlin.

Me

Was David Silverman until he did some awful shit that got him fired from American Atheists. Richard Dawkins is unashamedly Atheist and is an excellent representative of non-believers.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Hunter Thompson first springs to mind.
Live because why not.

Me

My son

I really like Greg Epstein the author of Good without God.

My brother Dale (author of such great humanist books as “Atheism For Dummies,” “Raising Freethinkers,” “Parenting Beyond Belief” and “In Faith and In Doubt) is one of the most rational and compassionate people I know. Dale’s kids are living proof that religion is not a fundamental requirement for raising a moral and loving family.

Apart from me it's got to be the Hitch

Matt Dillahunty

There are so many! But if I had to just pick one, I’d say Matt Dillahunty.

MEA CULPA - MEA MAXIMA CULPA I unreservedly apologise I confused Celsus with Democritus the founder of modern science. Celsus merely cristicised Christianity.

My favourite atheist is Democritus

Me!

Carl Sagan. With Cosmos he made it easy to be skeptical about Religions and very to accept Human religions when limited to earthly temporal concerns when compared to the vastness, infinity and eternity of the cosmos. Cosmos almost made be panteists but the God I heard on Church was just too small compared to the Cosmos. There are other Atheists heroes like Hitchens, Dawkins, but I prefer Carl Sagan for his humanism and because he was not a Atheist in your face but rather a wanted people to be scientific, skeptic and Atheism would be a product of that skepticism.

Next to myself? Seth Andrews, probably. He manages to express his indignation at the effrontery of theists, especially in the USA, without discarding his compassion for the reasons people are trapped in destructive mindsets.

Seth MacFarlane... hands down!!! Love that man. Smart, articulate, and drop dead gorgeous!! ??

Don’t really have a favorite, but the first public person I took notice of and the first to make an impact on me was George Carlin.