Editing List of agnostics (section)

===Media and arts===
* [[John Adams (composer)|John Adams]] (born 1947): American composer<ref name="chicagotribune">{{cite web |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2013/09/03/john-adams-takes-biblical-passion-drama-into-21st-century/ |title=John Adams takes biblical Passion into 21st century – tribunedigital – chicagotribune |work=Chicago Tribune |access-date=8 April 2015 |archive-date=22 January 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150122180737/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-09-03/entertainment/ct-ent-0904-classical-adams-mary-20130904_1_the-other-mary-mary-magdalene-john-adams |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Hideaki Anno]] (born 1960): Japanese animation and film director; known for his work on the popular anime series ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]''<ref>
On his religious beliefs:
ANNO: "I don't belong to any kind of organized religion, so I guess I could be considered agnostic. Japanese spiritualism holds that there is kami (spirit) in everything, and that's closer to my own beliefs." [https://web.archive.org/web/20020606012703/http://masterwork.animemedia.com/Evangelion/anno.html Anno's Roundtable Discussion].</ref>
* [[Simon Baker]] (born 1969): Australian television and movie actor<ref>"I was religious when I was younger. I was Catholic, raised Catholic. I had certain issues about that. I consciously lapsed. I made a conscious decision to avoid it. I'm agnostic. I'm not saying I don't have faith; I absolutely have faith but don't necessarily have faith in God. I have faith in humanity." ''Guardian's' Simon Baker refocuses anger of youth into busy career'' by Luane Lee, ''Scripps Howard News Service'', 2 January 2003.</ref>
* [[David Bazan]] (born 1976): American singer, songwriter, musician and former frontman of [[Pedro The Lion]], an indie rock outfit associated with [[Christian rock]] that was controversial among Christians for their language and off-kilter views about religion; his solo career has been focused around his newfound agnosticism.
* [[Monica Bellucci]] (born 1964): Italian actress and fashion model<ref>{{cite web |title=Monica-Bellucci.net |url=http://www.monica-bellucci.net/quotes.php |publisher=Monica Bellucci |access-date=12 June 2012 |author=Monica Bellucci |quote=I am an agnostic, even though I respect and am interested in all religions. If there's something I believe in, it's a mysterious energy; the one that fills the oceans during tides, the one that unites nature and beings. |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120623043046/http://www.monica-bellucci.net/quotes.php |archive-date=23 June 2012 }}</ref>
* [[Tom Bergeron]] (born 1955): American television personality and game show host; host of ''[[America's Funniest Home Videos]]'', ''[[Hollywood Squares]]'' and ''[[Dancing with the Stars]]''<ref name="Tom Bergeron">[http://www.pennfans.net/view/Audio_Archive/PennRadio/Penn.Jillette.Radio.Show.2006.10.30/ Interview with Penn Jillette] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081001175933/http://www.pennfans.net/view/Audio_Archive/PennRadio/Penn.Jillette.Radio.Show.2006.10.30/ |date=1 October 2008}} in which he mentions his agnosticism.</ref>
* [[Ingmar Bergman]] (1918–2007): Swedish director, writer and producer for film, stage and television<ref>{{cite book |title=Ingmar Bergman: Interviews |year=2007 |publisher=Univ. Press of Mississippi |isbn=978-1-57806-218-8 |author=Raphael Shargel<!-- |access-date=22 April 2012--> |page=174 |quote=A religious reconciliation, for example, appears unlikely for Mr. Bergman, an agnostic. "I hope I never get so old I get religious," he said.}}</ref>
* [[Irving Berlin]] (1888–1989): American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, author of [[God Bless America]].<ref>"'God Bless America,' a favorite song of believers, was written by Irving Berlin. It now turns out that Berlin was an agnostic. In ''Freethought Today'' (Madison, Wisconsin, Freedom From Religion Foundation, May 2004) Dan Barker documents that Berlin, the son of a Jewish cantor, was an agnostic, that 'patriotism was his religion.'" Warren Allen Smith, ''Gossip from Across the Pond: Articles Published in the United Kingdom's Gay and Lesbian Humanist, 1996–2005'', p. 106.</ref>
* [[Hector Berlioz]] (1803–1869): French Romantic composer<ref>{{cite book |title=Berlioz: Servitude and Greatness, 1832–1869 |year=2003 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=9780520240582 |page=136 |author=David Cairns |edition=2 |quote=Berlioz spoke of himself as an atheist, at most as an agnostic.}}</ref>
* [[Gael García Bernal]] (born 1978): Mexican actor and director; claims to be "culturally [[Catholic Church|Catholic]]" and "spiritually agnostic"<ref>[http://www2.indiewire.com/people/int_Bernal_Gael_021112.html INTERVIEW: Padre, Padre: Mexico's Native Son Gael Garcia Bernal Stars in the Controversial "The Crime of Father Amaro"<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081208123300/http://www2.indiewire.com/people/int_Bernal_Gael_021112.html |date=8 December 2008 }}</ref>
* [[Lewis Black]] (born 1948): American stand-up comedian, author, playwright, social critic and actor<ref>{{cite book |title=The Quotable Atheist |year=2008 |publisher=Nation Books |isbn=9781568584195 |author=Jack Huberman<!--|access-date=12 June 2012--> |quote=Introduced as an "angry agnostic" on Comedy Central's Bar Mitzvah Bash.}}</ref>
* [[Johannes Brahms]] (1833–1897): German composer and pianist<ref>{{cite book |title=Johannes Brahms: A Biography |year=2012 |publisher=Random House Digital, Inc. |isbn=9780307809896 |page=620 |author=Jan Swafford<!-- |access-date=2 May 2013 |quote=George Henschel came to Brahms's apartment in the afternoon of April 3, to find the rooms already overflowing with a display of funeral pomp ironic for an agnostic who had lived plainly: silver crosses on black velvet, a huge brass candelabrum with candles blazing, flowers piled higher than the coffin.}}-->}}</ref>
* [[Georges Brassens]] (1921–1981): French singer-songwriter and poet<ref>{{cite book |title=Georges Brassens And Jacques Brel: Personal And Social Narratives In Post-war Chanson |year=2005 |publisher=Liverpool University Press |isbn=9780853237686 |page=[https://archive.org/details/georgebrassensja00tink/page/37 37] |author=Chris Tinker<!-- |access-date=14 May 2013--> |quote=Brassens, agnostic, could never be certain about the existence of God, one way or the other. |url=https://archive.org/details/georgebrassensja00tink/page/37 }}</ref>
* [[Benjamin Britten]] (1913–1976): English composer, conductor, and pianist; a central figure of 20th-century [[British classical music]]<ref>"His life partner, Peter Pears, would describe Britten as "an agnostic with a great love for Jesus Christ." [http://www.sfchoral.org/pnotes/britten_requiem_ct.pdf Benjamin Britten (1913–1976)] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130203003719/http://sfchoral.org/pnotes/britten_requiem_ct.pdf |date=3 February 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Illegal Harmonies: Music in the Modern Age |year=2011 |publisher=Black Inc. |isbn=9781921870217 |page=77 |author=Andrew Ford |edition=3<!-- |access-date=17 April 2013--> |quote=In place of the Frenchman's unquestioning faith, for example, there was Britten's agnosticism; and in contrast to the uxorious Messiaen, Britten was a homosexual: this, at a time when homosexual practices were still illegal in the United Kingdom.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Resonant witness: conversations between music and theology |year=2011 |publisher=Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |isbn=9780802862778 |pages=192–193 |editor1=Jeremy Begbie |editor2=Steven R. Guthrie<!-- |access-date=17 April 2013--> |quote=I have already cited British composers whom one might describe as "mystical agnostics", yet it is striking that these (with the arguable exceptions of Vaughan Williams and Benjamin Britten), are scarcely to be counted among the major innovators in twentieth-century music.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Britten: War Requiem |year=1996 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9780521446334 |page=16 |author=Mervyn Cooke<!-- |access-date=31 May 2013--> |quote=From the Tribunal's subsequent report we learn (intriguingly) that Britten also declared, "I do not believe in the Divinity of Christ, but I think his teaching is sound and his example should be followed."}}</ref>
* [[Gavin Bryars]] (born 1943): English composer and double bassist<ref>{{cite book |title=Billboard |page=40 |author=Bradley Bambarger<!-- |access-date=28 May 2013--> |chapter=Classical – Keeping Score |date=23 January 1999 |quote="Although an agnostic myself," says English composer Gavin Bryars, "I find that the conventions of religion – the rituals – can be very consoling. If you have ever been to a secular funeral, you know that they tend to be chaotic things."}}</ref>
* [[Rose Byrne]] (born 1979), Australian actress<ref>"Actress Rose Byrne on 'Knowing' Religion & the End of the World" in BBook.com: [http://www.blackbookmag.com/article/actress-rose-byrne-on-knowing-religion-and-the-end-of-the-world/6808] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120426182117/http://www.blackbookmag.com/movies/actress-rose-byrne-on-knowing-religion-and-the-end-of-the-world-1.27974|date=26 April 2012}} "Yeah, I'd say I'm agnostic".</ref>
* [[Dick Cavett]] (born 1936): American television talk show host<ref>{{cite news |title=Ghost Stories |url=http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/02/07/ghost-stories/?_r=0#more-9 |access-date=30 June 2013 |author=Dick Cavett |date=7 February 2007 |quote=I'm not an atheist exactly, but remain what you might call "suggestible". (Is there a category of almost-atheist? A person who does not have the courage of his nonconvictions? I guess Woody Allen has, as so often, had the ultimate comic word on the subject. "You cannot prove the nonexistence of God; you just have to take it on faith.") |archive-date=18 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210118050619/https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/02/07/ghost-stories/?_r=0#more-9 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Charlie Chaplin]] (1889–1977): English comic actor, film director and composer best known for his work in the United States during the silent film era<ref>{{cite book |title=My Father, Charlie Chaplin |pages=239–240 |author=Charles Chaplin, Jr.<!-- |access-date=28 October 2012--> |quote="I'm not an atheist," I can remember him saying on more than one occasion. "I'm definitely an agnostic. Some scientists say that if the world were to stop revolving we'd all disintegrate. But the world keeps on going. Something must be holding us all in place—some Supreme Force. But what it is I couldn't tell you.}}</ref>
* [[Aaron Copland]] (1900–1990): American composer<ref>{{cite book |title=Aaron Copland:: The Life and Work of an Uncommon Man |year=1999 |publisher=University of Illinois Press |isbn=9780252069000 |page=28 |author=Howard Pollack<!-- |access-date=30 April 2013--> |quote=Arnold Dobrin similarly reported, "Aaron Copland has not followed the religion of his parents. He is an agnostic but one who is deeply aware of the grandeur and mystery of the universe."}}</ref>
* [[Salvador Dalí]] (1904–1989): Spanish surrealist painter born in Figueres, Spain. Dalí, a skilled draftsman, became best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed{{by whom|date=January 2014}} to the influence of Renaissance masters. His arguably best-known work, ''[[The Persistence of Memory]]'', was completed in 1931. Dalí's expansive artistic repertoire included film, sculpture, and photography, in collaboration with a range of artists in a variety of media. He allegedly claimed to be both an agnostic and a Roman Catholic.<ref>{{cite book|title=Salvador Dalí, 1904–1989 |year=1994 |publisher=Benedikt Taschen |isbn=9783822802984 |author1=Robert Descharnes |author2=Gilles Néret<!-- |access-date=11 August 2012--> |page=[https://archive.org/details/salvadordali190400robe/page/166 166] |quote=Dalí, dualist as ever in his approach, was now claiming to be both an agnostic and a Roman Catholic. |url=https://archive.org/details/salvadordali190400robe/page/166 }}</ref>
* [[Miles Davis]] (1926–1991): American trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.<ref>{{cite book |author1=George Grella |title=Miles Davis' Bitches Brew |date=October 22, 2015 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=9781628929454 |quote=Miles, by consistently going against the prevailing flow, was not just demonstrating that he was his own man, he was marking himself as an apostate. Not that he cared: he was agnostic. But jazz cared.}}</ref>
* [[Daniel Day-Lewis]] (born 1957): English-Irish actor, three-time [[Academy Award for Best Actor]] winner<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.indexmagazine.com/interviews/daniel_day_lewis.shtml |title=Daniel Day-Lewis, 2002 |publisher=Indexmagazine.com |access-date=9 December 2011 |archive-date=11 December 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111211223823/http://www.indexmagazine.com/interviews/daniel_day_lewis.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Leonardo DiCaprio]] (born 1974): American actor<ref>Hiatt, Brian (5 August 2010). "[https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/leonardo-dicaprio-faces-his-demons-20100805  Leonardo DiCaprio Faces His Demons] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161102221706/http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/leonardo-dicaprio-faces-his-demons-20100805 |date=2 November 2016 }}". Rolling Stone. "I'm not an atheist, I'm agnostic. What I honestly think about is the planet, not my specific spiritual soul floating around."</ref>
* [[Ronnie James Dio]] (1942–2010): American heavy metal singer ([[Elf (band)|Elf]], [[Rainbow (rock band)|Rainbow]], [[Black Sabbath]], [[Dio (band)|Dio]], [[Heaven & Hell (band)|Heaven & Hell]])<ref name="youtube">Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/CLuUDrrP44k Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20111204130542/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLuUDrrP44k&gl=US&hl=en Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLuUDrrP44k |title=Ronnie James Dio talks religion – YouTube |via=YouTube |access-date=8 April 2015}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
* [[Richard Dreyfuss]] (born 1947): American actor<ref>{{Cite news |last=Pires |first=Candice |date=2016-07-24 |title=Richard Dreyfuss: 'When I die I want the chance to hit God in the face' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/jul/24/richard-dreyfuss-reckless-when-i-die-i-want-the-chance-to-hit-god-in-the-face |access-date=2024-01-28 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
* [[Thomas Eakins]] (1844–1916): American realist painter, photographer, sculptor, and fine arts educator; widely acknowledged to be one of the most important artists in American art history<ref>{{cite book |title=Thomas Eakins and the Uses of History |year=2010 |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press |isbn=9780812241983 |author=Akela Reason<!-- |access-date=31 May 2012--> |page=119 |quote=Eakins's selection of this subject has puzzled some art historians who, unable to reconcile what appears to be an anomalous religious image by a reputedly agnostic artist, have related it solely to Eakins's desire for realism, thus divesting the painting of its religious content. Lloyd Goodrich, for example, considered this illustration of Christ's suffering completely devoid of "religious sentiment" and suggested that Eakins intended it simply as a realist study of the male nude body. As a result, art historians have frequently associated 'Crucifixion' (like Swimming) with Eakins's strong interest in anatomy and the nude.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Thomas Eakins: Art, Medicine, and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia |year=2007 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=9780300116557 |author=Amy Beth Werbel<!-- |access-date=31 May 2012--> |page=37 |quote=Given Eakins' outspoken agnosticism, his motivation to paint a crucifixion scene is frankly curious.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Thomas Eakins Rediscovered: Charles Bregler's Thomas Eakins Collection at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts |year=1997 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=9780300061741 |author1=Kathleen A. Foster |author2=Mark Bockrath<!-- |access-date=31 May 2012--> |page=[https://archive.org/details/thomaseakinsredi0000fost/page/233 233] |quote=Samuel Murray, himself a Catholic, "believed that Eakins never was a Christian"; Bregler described TE as an agnostic. |url=https://archive.org/details/thomaseakinsredi0000fost/page/233 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The Revenge of Thomas Eakins |year=2006 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=9780300108552 |author=Sidney Kirkpatrick<!--|access-date=31 May 2012--> |page=[https://archive.org/details/revengeofthomase00kirk/page/55 55] |quote=Further, Eakins' agnosticism and his views on such topics as science and technology, evident in his youth and carried on throughout his career, more directly coincided with the accepted doctrine and practices of Jefferson faculty members than perhaps with any other fraternity of like-minded professionals in the city. |url=https://archive.org/details/revengeofthomase00kirk/page/55 }}</ref>
* [[Christopher Eccleston]] (born 1964): English actor<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.npr.org/2016/07/11/485551725/christopher-eccleston-on-the-a-word-and-rethinking-his-faith-after-the-leftovers |work=Fresh Air |title=Christopher Eccleston On 'The A Word,' And Rethinking His Faith After 'The Leftovers' |first=Terry |last=Gross |date=11 July 2016 |access-date=1 November 2017 |quote=And I know – I'm no longer so certain. I – so I guess I would have to say agnostic now. |archive-date=10 November 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171110162657/https://www.npr.org/2016/07/11/485551725/christopher-eccleston-on-the-a-word-and-rethinking-his-faith-after-the-leftovers |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Zac Efron]] (born 1987): American actor, star of movies such as ''[[High School Musical]]'' and ''[[17 Again (film)|17 Again]]'';<ref>[http://www.nationalledger.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=16&num=15140 Zac Efron & Nikki Blonsky's Secret Off Screen Romance?] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071224215122/http://www.nationalledger.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=16&num=15140 |date=24 December 2007 }} By Tina Sims, ''The National Ledger'', 1 August 2007 (Retrieved 25 March 2008)</ref> was raised agnostic<ref>"I was raised agnostic, so we never practiced religion..." "Zac Efron – the new American hearthrob", Strauss, Neil ''Rolling Stone'', 23 August 2007, p. 43.</ref> (his paternal grandfather was Jewish)
* [[Billie Eilish]] (2001-present): American singer and songwriter<ref>{{cite web |last1=Law |first1=Jeannie Ortega |title=Billie Eilish reveals she was 'super religious' as a child, details what she thinks of God now |url=https://www.christianpost.com/news/billie-eilish-reveals-she-was-super-religious-as-a-child-details-what-she-thinks-of-god-now.html |website=THE CHRISTIAN POST |publisher=The Christian Post, INC |access-date=30 December 2024 |date=24 July 2020}}</ref>
* [[Carrie Fisher]] (1956–2016): American actress, screenwriter and novelist<ref>{{cite book|last=Smith |first=Warren Allen |author-link=Warren Allen Smith |title=Who's Who in Hell |date=25 October 2000 |publisher=Barricade Books |isbn=978-1-56980-158-1 |quote=I would describe myself as an enthusiastic agnostic who would be happy to be shown that there is a God. |url=https://archive.org/details/whoswhoinhellhan00smit }}</ref>
* [[Gabriel Fauré]] (1845–1924): French composer, organist, pianist and teacher; one of the foremost French composers of his generation; his musical style influenced many 20th-century composers<ref>{{cite book |title=Gabriel Fauré |year=1969 |publisher=[[Chilton Book Co.]] |page=74 |author1=Émile Vuillermoz |author2=Steven Smolian<!-- |access-date=12 May 2013--> |quote=We have just said that Faure was not a religious man. He was incapable of intolerance or sectarianism, but his agnosticism was complete.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=French music since Berlioz |year=2006 |publisher=Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |isbn=9780754602828 |page=174 |editor1=Richard L. Smith |editor2=Caroline Potter<!-- |access-date=12 May 2013--> |quote=The resolutely agnostic Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924) was certainly one of its greatest alumni.}}</ref>
* [[Henry Fonda]] (1905–1982): American film and stage actor<ref>
"Henry Fonda claims to be an agnostic. Not an atheist but a doubter." [[Howard Teichmann]], ''Fonda: My Life'', p. 303.</ref>
* [[Emilia Fox]] (born 1974): English actress<ref>In response to the question "Do you believe in God?", Fox said "I would love to, but I wonder sometimes what he believes in. Religion seems to have been created by man to help and guide humankind. I've no idea, really."{{cite web |url=http://www.iconocast.com/00006/R0/News7.htm |title=Analyse this: Inside the mind of actress Emilia Fox |publisher=iconocast.com}}{{dead link |date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}</ref>
* [[William Friedkin]] (1935–2023): American film and television director, producer and screenwriter, known for directing the action thriller film ''[[The French Connection (film)|The French Connection]]'' and the supernatural horror film ''[[The Exorcist (film)|The Exorcist]]''.<ref>{{cite web |author1=Brent Lang |title=Director William Friedkin on Clashes With Pacino, Hackman and Why an Atheist Couldn't Helm 'Exorcist' |url=https://www.thewrap.com/william-friedkin-why-atheist-couldnt-direct-exorcist-84886/ |website=The Wrap |access-date=4 October 2020 |date=April 12, 2013 |quote=My personal beliefs are defined as agnostic. I'm someone who believes that the power of God and the soul are unknowable, but that anybody who says there is no God is not being honest about the mystery of fate. I was raised in the Jewish faith, but I strongly believe in the teachings of Jesus. |archive-date=25 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210625173202/https://www.thewrap.com/william-friedkin-why-atheist-couldnt-direct-exorcist-84886/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Gilberto Gil]] (born 1942): Brazilian singer, guitarist, and songwriter, known for both his musical innovation and political commitment<ref name=astor>{{cite news |first=Michael |last=Astor |title=Brazilian pop star Gil tours U.S. |url=https://www.usatoday.com/life/music/2007-03-16-2248300129_x.htm |work=[[Associated Press]] via [[USA Today]]  |location=[[Rio de Janeiro]], Brazil |date=16 March 2007 |access-date=17 May 2008}}</ref>
* [[Jean-Luc Godard]] (1930–2022): French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and [[film criticism|film critic]]; often identified with the 1960s French film movement ''La Nouvelle Vague'', or "[[French New Wave|New Wave]]"<ref>{{cite book |title=Derek Jarman and Lyric Film: The Mirror and the Sea |year=2004 |publisher=University of Texas Press |isbn=9780292702240 |author=Steven Dillon<!-- |access-date=24 September 2012--> |page=20 |quote=Le Fanu characterizes Tarkovsky as a metaphysical opposite of Godard: a spiritual creator contrasted with an ironic one, a believer in the creative power of the word compared to an agnostic.}}</ref>
* [[Matt Groening]] (born 1954): American creator of animated TV series ''[[The Simpsons]]'' and ''[[Futurama]]'', and the comic ''[[Life in Hell]]''<ref>See [http://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php?section=library&page=sidelines_19_3 "Sidelines" section of ''Free Inquiry magazine'', Volume 19, Number 3] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060523013926/http://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php?section=library&page=sidelines_19_3 |date=23 May 2006 }}, which references a quote from ''New York Times Magazine'', 12–27–98.</ref>
* [[Bob Guccione]] (1930–2010): American founder and publisher of ''[[Penthouse (magazine)|Penthouse]]'' magazine<ref name="getreligion">{{cite web |url=http://www.getreligion.org/2010/10/mr-penthouse-seminarian |title=Mr. Penthouse, seminarian? — GetReligion |date=21 October 2010 |publisher=getreligion.org |access-date=8 April 2015 |archive-date=21 December 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141221085208/http://www.getreligion.org/2010/10/mr-penthouse-seminarian |url-status=live }}</ref>[http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1989-07-28/news/8902210064_1_bob-guccione-penthouse-magazine-israelis] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130513062930/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1989-07-28/news/8902210064_1_bob-guccione-penthouse-magazine-israelis |date=13 May 2013 }}
* [[Neil Patrick Harris]] (born 1973): American actor, producer, singer, and director; best known for ''[[Doogie Howser, M.D.]]'' and ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]''; as a child, belonged to an Episcopal Church with his family, where his parents sing in a choir;<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gross |first=Terry |date=January 1, 2015 |title=What's It Like To Be Neil Patrick Harris? He Gives You Options |url=https://www.wyso.org/2015-01-01/whats-it-like-to-be-neil-patrick-harris-he-gives-you-options |url-status=live |archive-date=March 28, 2025 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250328095659/https://www.wyso.org/2015-01-01/whats-it-like-to-be-neil-patrick-harris-he-gives-you-options}}</ref> has designated himself as an agnostic on his Myspace<ref>{{cite web |last1=Harris |first1=Neil Patrick |title=Neil Patrick Harris |url=https://www.myspace.com/nphmyspace |website=Myspace |publisher=Myspace LLC |access-date=29 November 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130224125706/https://www.myspace.com/nphmyspace |archive-date=24 February 2013}}</ref>
* [[Hergé]] (1907–1983): Belgian cartoonist; creator of ''[[The Adventures of Tintin]]''
* [[Gustav Holst]] (1874–1934): English composer, arranger and teacher; best known for his orchestral suite ''[[The Planets]]''; composed a large number of works across a range of genres, although none achieved comparable success<ref>{{cite web |title=Gustav Holst |url=http://www.classical-music.com/topic/gustav-holst |work=BBC Music Magazine |access-date=12 May 2013 |author=Bayan Northcott |quote=For Holst, the function of the composer was not so much to express his or her personality as to serve as a kind of supra-personal receptor to potentially musical impulses from all around, and not least – though Holst himself seems to have remained essentially agnostic – from above. |archive-date=4 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131204001924/http://www.classical-music.com/topic/gustav-holst |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=About Holst |year=2012 |publisher=Barnes Music Festival |url=http://barnesmusicfestival.com/about-holst/|access-date=12 May 2013 |quote=Both musicians were agnostic and flirted with atheism. |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130216063359/http://barnesmusicfestival.com/about-holst/ |archive-date=16 February 2013 }}</ref>
* [[John Humphrys]] (born 1943): English radio and television presenter who hosted a series of programmes interviewing religious leaders, ''Humphrys in Search of God''<ref>"He [Humphrys] went looking for God and ended up an angry agnostic – unable to believe but enraged by the arrogance of militant atheists." [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article2367028.ece In God we doubt] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716091848/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article2367028.ece |date=16 July 2011 }}, John Humphrys ''The Sunday Times'', 2 September 2007 (Retrieved 1 April 2008)</ref>
* [[Leoš Janáček]] (1854–1928): Czech composer<ref name="google">{{cite book |title=Janácek Studies |author=Wingfield, P. |date=1999 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9780521573573 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GHanbI1YeDMC |page=47 |access-date=8 April 2015}}</ref>
* [[Gene Kelly]] (1912–1996): American dancer, actor, singer, film director and producer, and choreographer<ref>Yudkoff, Alvin ''Gene Kelly: A Life of Dance and Dreams'', Watson-Guptill Publications: New York, NY (1999) pp. 58–59</ref>
* [[Myles Kennedy]] (born 1969): American musician, singer, and songwriter; lead vocalist and guitarist of the rock band [[Alter Bridge]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://classicrock.teamrock.com/features/2014-07-16/religion-myles-kennedy |title=Religion: Myles Kennedy - Classic Rock |access-date=11 September 2016 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304114253/https://classicrock.teamrock.com/features/2014-07-16/religion-myles-kennedy |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Larry King]] (1933–2021): host of ''[[Larry King Live]]''<ref name="Larry King">"When we got married, I said, 'Look, since I'm agnostic, I have no right to tell you not to teach them what you believe. But give them an opening.' So if they ever ask me, I'd tell them the same thing I'm telling you: 'I don't buy that God, I don't know if there's an afterlife.' {{cite book|title=Stars of David: Prominent Jews Talk About Being Jewish |url=https://archive.org/details/starsofdavidprom00pogr/page/318 |last=Pogrebin |first=Abigail |year=2005 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/starsofdavidprom00pogr/page/318 318–322] |publisher=Broadway |location=New York |isbn=978-0-7679-1612-7 }}</ref>
* [[Janez Lapajne]] (born 1967): Slovenian film director, producer, screenwriter, film editor and [[production designer]]<ref>{{cite news |author1=I. Harb |author2=M. Košir |name-list-style=amp |date=20 November 2009 |url=http://www.delo.si/tiskano/html/zadnji/Vikend |title=Slovenci niso pobijali tjulnjev, ampak sami sebe (Slovenians Didn't Kill Seals, They Killed Each Other – interview with Janez Lapajne) |publisher=Delo – priloga Vikend – Lapajne said: "First of all, I do not want to belong to any ideological group, which is probably understandable for an agnostic." ("Najprej, ne želim pripadati nobeni ideološki skupini, kar je za agnostika verjetno razumljivo.") |access-date=1 January 2010 |archive-date=1 May 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100501073251/http://www.delo.si/tiskano/html/zadnji/Vikend |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Cloris Leachman]] (1926–2021): American actress<ref name="grandparents">{{cite web |url=http://www.grandparents.com/gp/content/expert-advice/celebrity/article/cloris-leachman-loves-her-grandkids.html |title=Cloris Leachman Drives Fast, Dances Well, Adores Her Grandkids – Grandparents.com {{pipe}} "Does faith play a big role in your life?" Cloris Leachman: Not in a God, no. I am an atheist. I'm not even atheist. I don't think any of us has the answer. I'm an agnostic." |publisher=grandparents.com |access-date=8 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120302232507/http://www.grandparents.com/gp/content/expert-advice/celebrity/article/cloris-leachman-loves-her-grandkids.html |archive-date=2 March 2012 |url-status=dead  }}</ref>
* [[Stan Lee]] (1922–2018) American comic book writer, editor, actor, producer, publisher, television personality; former president and chairman of [[Marvel Comics]]<ref>The Onion: "Is there a God?" Stan Lee: "Well, let me put it this way... [Pauses.] No, I'm not going to try to be clever. I really don't know. I just don't know." [https://avclub.com/articles/is-there-a-god,1413/ Is There A God] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131103090624/http://www.avclub.com/articles/is-there-a-god,1413/ |date=3 November 2013 }}, ''The Club'', 9 October 2002.</ref>
* [[Lemmy]] (1945–2015): English rock singer and bass guitarist; founder of the rock band [[Motörhead]]<ref>{{cite web |last=Green |first=Thomas |title=Q&A: Musician Lemmy Kilmister |date=27 November 2011 |url=http://www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/theartsdesk-qa-musician-lemmy-kilmister |publisher=The Art Desk |access-date=7 July 2012 |archive-date=4 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161204143630/http://www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/theartsdesk-qa-musician-lemmy-kilmister |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Joe Lipari]] also known as J.R. Lipari, (born October 5, 1979) is an American comedian, artist, agnostic minister & yoga teacher.
* [[James Hetfield]] (born 1963): American [[Heavy metal music|heavy metal singer]] and rhythm guitarist; co-founder of the heavy metal band [[Metallica]]<ref>{{cite web |last=Green |first=Chris |title=Q&A: Musician James Hetfield |date=16 March 2009 |url=http://chrisyong.net/james-hetfield-interview-on-christian-science/ |publisher=Chris Yong |access-date=8 March 2015 |archive-date=2 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402112339/http://chrisyong.net/james-hetfield-interview-on-christian-science/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Annie Lennox]] (born 1954): Scottish recording artist<ref>{{cite news |author=Lennox, Annie |title=Annie Lennox on the Secret History of Christmas Songs |url=https://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/12/18/annie-lennox-on-how-to-write-a-christmas-carol/ |date=18 December 2010 |work=The Wall Street Journal |publisher=Dow Jones |access-date=24 December 2010 |archive-date=27 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190327100542/https://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/12/18/annie-lennox-on-how-to-write-a-christmas-carol/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Andrew Lloyd Webber]] (born 1948): Lloyd Webber views Jesus as "one of the great figures of history" and wrote the rock opera ''[[Jesus Christ Superstar]]'' about him. The opera was controversial with conservative Christian groups.<ref name=alw>{{cite web|author=Guy Flatley|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/10/31/archives/they-wrote-it-and-theyre-glad-they-wrote-superstar.html|title=They rote It—And They're Glad|work=[[The New York Times]]|location=New York City|date=12 April 2020|access-date=2020-04-12|archive-date=23 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200723052856/https://www.nytimes.com/1971/10/31/archives/they-wrote-it-and-theyre-glad-they-wrote-superstar.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[René Magritte]] (1898–1967): Belgian surrealist artist<ref>{{cite book |title=René Magritte, 1898–1967 |year=1994 |publisher=Benedikt Taschen |isbn=9783822805466 |page=[https://archive.org/details/renemagritte18980000meur_h1e1/page/70 70] |author=Jacques Meuris<!-- |access-date=27 June 2013--> |quote=We shall not at this juncture risk analyzing an agnostic Magritte haunted perhaps by thoughts of ultimate destiny. "We behave as if there were no God" (Marien 1947). |url=https://archive.org/details/renemagritte18980000meur_h1e1/page/70 }}</ref>
* [[Gustav Mahler]] (1860–1911): Austrian Late-Romantic composer and conductor<ref>"It is particularly poor salesmanship for Ms. Raabe to cite Mahler's supposed ''conversion'' from Judaism to Catholicism. In both law and common understanding, a choice made under duress is discounted as lacking in free will. Mahler converted as a mere formality under compulsion of a bigoted law that barred Jews from directorship of the Vienna Hofoper. Mahler himself joked about the conversion with his Jewish friends, and, no doubt, would view with bitter amusement the obtuseness of Ms. Raabe's understanding of the cruel choice forced on him: either convert to Christianity or forfeit the professional post for which you are supremely destined. When Mahler was asked why he never composed a Mass, he answered bluntly that he could never, with any degree of artistic or spiritual integrity, voice the Credo. He was a confirmed agnostic, a doubter and seeker, never a soul at rest or at peace." Joel Martel, [https://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/22/arts/l-mahler-and-religion-forced-to-be-christian-136425.html MAHLER AND RELIGION; Forced to Be Christian] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101004236/https://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/22/arts/l-mahler-and-religion-forced-to-be-christian-136425.html |date=1 November 2020 }}, ''The New York Times''.</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Gustav Mahler: A Life in Crisis |year=2004 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=9780300103403 |pages=63–64 |author=Stuart Feder<!-- |access-date=17 August 2012--> |chapter=Mahler at Midnight |quote=Mahler had followed the common path of assimilationist Jews, particularly those who were German-speaking and university-educated: toward a dignified job, a position in the community, and a respectable income. Besides the fact that anti-Semitism was rife in Vienna, the post Mahler sought was a government position and normally open only to those who declared themselves to belong to the state religion, Catholicism. Mahler's superior, the intendant of the opera, reported directly to the emperor. Like the many Jews who were candidates for lesser government jobs, Mahler was officially baptized on 23 February 1897. His appointment arrived soon after.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Why Mahler?: How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed Our World |year=2010 |publisher=Random House Digital, Inc. |isbn=9780375423819 |author=Norman Lebrecht<!-- |access-date=17 August 2012--> |page=84 |quote=In January 1897 Mahler is told that "under present circumstances it is impossible to engage a Jew for Vienna." "Everywhere", he bemoans, "the fact that I am a Jew has at the last moment proved an insurmountable obstacle." But he does not despair, having made arrangements to remedy his deficiency. On February 23, 1897, at Hamburgs Little Michael Church, Gustav Mahler is baptized into the Roman Catholic faith. He is the most reluctant, the most resentful, of converts. "I had to go through it," he tells Walter. "This action," he informs Karpath, "which I took out of self-preservation, and which I was fully prepared to take, cost me a great deal." He tells a Hamburg writer: "I've changed my coat." There is no false piety here, no pretense. Mahler is letting it be known for the record that he is a forced convert, one whose Jewish pride is undiminished, his essence unchanged. "An artist who is a Jew," he tells a critic, "has to achieve twice as much as one who is not, just as a swimmer with short arms has to make double efforts". After the act of conversion he never attends Mass, never goes to confession, never crosses himself. The only time he ever enters a church for a religious purpose is to get married.}}</ref><ref>"He was born a Jew but has been described as a life-long agnostic. At one point he converted to Catholicism, purely for the purpose of obtaining a job that he coveted – director of the Court Opera of Vienna. It was unthinkable for a Jew to hold such a prestigious position, hence the utilitarian conversion to the state religion." Warren Allen Smith, ''Celebrities in Hell'', pp. 76–77.</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=On Ecstasy |year=2008 |publisher=Melbourne Univ. Publishing |isbn=9780522855340 |page=39 |author=Barrie Kosky<!-- |access-date=25 May 2013--> |quote=Mahler's ambivalent Jewish-Christian Nietzschean agnostic personality found a living, breathing, sweating counterpart in Bernstein's muscles, bones and flesh.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Klemperer on Music: Shavings from a Musician's Workbench |year=1986 |publisher=Toccata Press |location=London |pages=133–147 |author=Otto Klemperer |editor=Martin J. Anderson<!-- |access-date=25 May 2013--> |quote=Mahler was a thoroughgoing child of the nineteenth century, an adherent of Nietzsche, and typically irreligious. For all that, he was – as all his compositions testify – devout in the highest sense, though his piety was not to be found in any church prayer-book.}}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Mahler, Gustav |url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Gustav_Mahler.aspx#2 |encyclopedia=Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying |publisher=Encyclopedia.com |access-date=29 June 2013 |author=Kenneth Lafave |year=2002 |quote=From the beginning, Mahler declared that his music was not for his own time but for the future. An agnostic, he apparently saw long-term success as a real-world equivalent of immortality. "Mahler was a thoroughgoing child of the nineteenth century, an adherent of Nietzsche, and typically irreligious," the conductor Otto Klemperer recalled in his memoirs, adding that, in his music, Mahler evinced a "piety. . . not to be found in any church prayer-book." This appraisal is confirmed by the story of Mahler's conversion to Catholicism in 1897. Although his family was Jewish, Mahler was not observant, and when conversion was required to qualify as music director of the Vienna Court Opera—the most prestigious post in Europe—he swiftly acquiesced to baptism and confirmation, though he never again attended mass. Once on the podium, however, Mahler brought a renewed spirituality to many works, including Beethoven's Fidelio, which he almost single-handedly rescued from a reputation for tawdriness. |archive-date=25 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131225095321/http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Gustav_Mahler.aspx#2 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Dave Matthews]] (born 1967): American musician and actor<ref>"'It would be safe to say that I'm agnostic,' Matthews says. 'However, I do feel as though we owe a faith to the world and to ourselves. We owe a grace and gratitude to things that have brought us here. But I think it's very ignorant to say, 'Well, for everything, God has a plan.' That's like an excuse.... Maybe the real faithful act is to commit to something, to take action, as opposed to saying, 'Well, everything is in the hand of God.'" See [http://www.celebatheists.com/?title=Dave_Matthews Boston Globe Article 'Dave Matthews Gets Serious – and Playful' by Steve Morse] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090122093424/http://celebatheists.com/?title=Dave_Matthews |date=22 January 2009 }} (4 March 2001)</ref>
* [[Brian May]] (born 1947): English musician and astrophysicist most widely known as the guitarist, songwriter and occasional singer of the rock band [[Queen (band)|Queen]]<ref>{{cite web|last1=RT|title=Brian May to RT: I still feel Freddie's around|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBm1Qfpa_nY|website=YouTube|access-date=11 May 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170724025940/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBm1Qfpa_nY|archive-date=24 July 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Paul McCartney]] (born 1942): English musician, singer and composer<ref>"We all feel roughly the same. We're all agnostics." [http://www.beatlesinterviews.org/dbbtspb.int2.html Playboy Interview with The Beatles: A candid conversation with England's mop-topped millionaire minstrels] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120314065009/http://www.beatlesinterviews.org/dbbtspb.int2.html |date=14 March 2012 }}. Interviewed by Jean Shepherd, February 1965 issue.</ref>
* [[David Mitchell (comedian)|David Mitchell]] (born 1974): British actor, comedian and writer<ref>{{Cite book |last=Mitchell |first=David |title=Back Story: A Memoir|publisher=[[HarperCollins]] |year=2012 |pages=157–158 |isbn=978-0007351725}}</ref>
* [[Edvard Munch]] (1863–1944): Norwegian Symbolist painter, printmaker and an important forerunner of expressionist art; known for ''[[The Scream]]''<ref>{{cite book |title=Edvard Munch: symbols & images, Volume 1978, Part 2 |year=1978 |publisher=National Gallery of Art |author1=Edvard Munch |author2=Arne Eggum<!-- |access-date=27 April 2012--> |page=237 |quote=But Munch was not completely averse to every form of religion; one might rather say that throughout his life he remained a thoughtful agnostic.}}</ref>
* [[Ernest Newman]] (1868–1959): English music critic and musicologist<ref>{{cite book |title=Edward Elgar: A Creative Life |year=1999 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780198163664 |page=423 |author=Jerrold Northrop Moore<!-- |access-date=12 May 2013--> |quote=Newman was an agnostic.}}</ref>
* [[Conor Oberst]] (born 1980): American singer-songwriter; fronts the band [[Bright Eyes (band)|Bright Eyes]]<ref>Oberst said: "If I'm forced to categorize myself I guess I'd say I was an agnostic." {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20071010175920/http://harpmagazine.com/articles/detail.cfm?article_id=5535 Conor Oberst and Bright Eyes: Bright Ideas]}}, by A. D. Amorosi, ''Harp'' magazine, May 2007. (Retrieved 15 October 2007)</ref>
* [[Hubert Parry]] (1848–1918): English composer, teacher and historian of music<ref>{{cite book |title=The Rough Guide to Classical Music |year=2010 |publisher=Penguin |isbn=9781405383219 |author=Joe Staines |edition=5<!-- |access-date=4 September 2012--> |page=398 |quote=Parry was an avowed agnostic yet he produced some of Britain's finest sacred choral music.}}</ref>
* [[Pedro Pascal]] (born 1975): Chilean and American actor<ref>{{Cite journal |date= February 23, 2017 |title=Bad Hombre Pedro Pascal |journal=Solar Magazine}}</ref>
* [[Neil Peart]] (1952–2020): Canadian drummer and lyricist for progressive rock band Rush; many Rush song lyrics criticize religion and theism<ref>"I'm a linear thinking agnostic, but not an atheist folks." {{cite book |title=The Masked Rider: Cycling in West Africa |last=Peart |first=Neil |year=1996 |publisher=ECW Press |isbn=978-1-55022-667-6}}</ref>
* [[Sean Penn]] (born 1960): American actor, twice winner of the [[Academy Award for Best Actor]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=2004 {{!}} Oscars.org {{!}} Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2004 |access-date=2023-07-05 |website=www.oscars.org |language=en |archive-date=2 November 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151102070144/https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2004 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=2009 {{!}} Oscars.org {{!}} Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2009 |access-date=2023-07-05 |website=www.oscars.org |language=en |archive-date=2 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161102115358/https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2009 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Brendan Perry]] (born 1959): English singer and multi-instrumentalist best known for his work as the male half of the duo [[Dead Can Dance]] with [[Lisa Gerrard]]<ref>When asked whether he believed in God, he replied: "I generally am wary of the black and white veering more towards the grey with regard to these matters but am closer to atheism when push comes to shove in terms of not believing the extravagant claims of theology. After all "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" – Carl Sagan If the following definition of an atheist is correct then I would certainly [[Nailing the colours|nail my flag to that mast!]] :o) "An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support." – John Buchan" [http://forum.brendan-perry.com/comments.php?DiscussionID=674&page=1 Brendan believe in God or something??]{{dead link |date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}.</ref>
* [[Chris Pine]] (born 1980): American actor<ref>{{cite news |title=Interview Chris Pine |work=Femalefirst.co.uk |date=16 June 2006 |url=http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/entertainment/Chris+Pine-19117.html |access-date=26 August 2009 |archive-date=12 August 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120812005513/http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/entertainment/Chris+Pine-19117.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Brad Pitt]] (born 1963): American actor; stated that he did not believe in God, and that he was mostly agnostic<ref>"'''BILD: Do you believe in God? Brad Pitt (smiling):''' 'No, no, no!' '''BILD: Is your soul spiritual? Brad Pitt:''' 'No, no, no! I'm probably 20 per cent atheist and 80 per cent agnostic. I don't think anyone really knows. You'll either find out or not when you get there, until then there's no point thinking about it.'" [http://www.bild.de/BILD/news/bild-english/celebrity-gossip/2009/07/22/brad-pitt-interview/inglourious-basterd-star-on-angelina-jolie-and-six-kids.html Brad Pitt interview: "With six kids each morning it is about surviving!"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091124034749/http://www.bild.de/BILD/news/bild-english/celebrity-gossip/2009/07/22/brad-pitt-interview/inglourious-basterd-star-on-angelina-jolie-and-six-kids.html |date=24 November 2009 }} By Norbert Körzdörfer, ''Bild''.com, 23 July 2009</ref>
* [[Sidney Poitier]] (1927–2022): Bahamian American actor, film director, author, and diplomat;<ref>{{cite book |title=Life Beyond Measure: Letters to My Great-Granddaughter |year=2009 |publisher=HarperCollins |isbn=978-0-06-149620-2 |author=Sidney Poitier<!-- |access-date=4 April 2013--> |page=84 |quote=The question of God, the existence or nonexistence, is a perennial question, because we don't know. Is the universe the result of God, or was the universe always there?}}</ref> his views are closer to deism<ref>{{cite book |title=Life Beyond Measure |year=2009 |publisher=HarperCollins |isbn=9780061737251 |pages=85–86 |author=Sidney Poitier<!-- |access-date=4 April 2013--> |quote=I don't see a God who is concerned with the daily operation of the universe. In fact, the universe may be no more than a grain of sand compared with all the other universes.... It is not a God for one culture, or one religion, or one planet.}}</ref>
* [[Hugo Riemann]] (1849–1919): German music theorist and composer<ref>{{cite book |title=Harmonic Function in Chromatic Music: A Renewed Dualist Theory and an Account of Its Precedents |year=1994 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=9780226318080 |author=Daniel Harrison<!-- |access-date=10 July 2012--> |page=256 |quote=On the matter of undertones, then, we may fairly conclude that Hugo Riemann was a churchgoing agnostic.}}</ref>
* [[Joe Rogan]] (born 1967): American comedian, podcaster, social critic and [[Ultimate Fighting Championship|UFC]] color commentator
* [[Andy Rooney]] (1919–2011): American broadcast personality; specified that he was an agnostic and ''not'' an atheist,<ref>Rooney wrote: "I call myself an agnostic, not an atheist, because in one sense atheists are like Christians or Muslims. They're sure of themselves. A Christian says with certainty, there is a god; an atheist says with certainty, there is no god. Neither knows" ''Sincerely, Andy Rooney'' (2001), Public Affairs {{ISBN|1-58648-045-6}}</ref> but also called himself an atheist<ref>Rooney said: "Why am I an atheist? I ask you: Why is anybody not an atheist? Everyone starts out being an atheist. No one is born with belief in anything. Infants are atheists until they are indoctrinated. I resent anyone pushing their religion on me. I don't push my atheism on anybody else. Live and let live. Not many people practice that when it comes to religion." Marian Christy, "Conversations: We make our own destiny", Boston Globe, 30 May 1982 (from Newsbank).</ref><ref>Rooney said: "I am an atheist... I don't understand religion at all. I'm sure I'll offend a lot of people by saying this, but I think it's all nonsense." From a [http://www.tuftsdaily.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2004/11/19/419d9928aafe0 speech at Tufts University, 18 November 2004] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050829201743/http://www.tuftsdaily.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2004/11/19/419d9928aafe0 |date=29 August 2005 }}.</ref>
* [[Tim Rice]] (born 1944): Wrote the rock opera ''[[Jesus Christ Superstar]]'' about Jesus. The opera was controversial with conservative Christians.<ref name=alw/>
* [[Larry Sanger]] (born 1968): American co-founder of Wikipedia.<ref name="larrysanger">{{cite web |url=http://larrysanger.org/2011/01/nope-i-am-not-a-jew-nttawwt/ |title=Larry Sanger Blog » I am not Jewish (not one of the Frozen Chosen) |publisher=larrysanger.org |access-date=8 April 2015 |archive-date=23 January 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150123002408/http://larrysanger.org/2011/01/nope-i-am-not-a-jew-nttawwt/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Franz Schubert]] (1797–1828): Austrian composer<ref>{{cite book |title=Franz Schubert: a biography |year=1996 |publisher=Clarendon Press |isbn=978-0-19-816523-1 |author=Elizabeth Norman McKay<!-- |access-date=20 April 2012--> |page=308 |quote=...quite what he expected: no doubt on account of both his agnosticism and his lack of money or sure prospects...}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Church Music in the Nineteenth Century |year=1967 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=London |isbn=978-0837196954 |page=166 |author=Arthur Hutchings<!-- |access-date=12 May 2013--> |quote=The unctuous style we hear every Christmas is found in church music by Schubert and the Chevalier Neukomm, both known in private letters to be agnostic.}}</ref>
* [[Robert Schumann]] (1810–1856): German composer and influential music critic; widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the [[Romantic era]]<ref>{{cite book |title=Robert Schumann: Herald of a "New Poetic Age" |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780199839315 |page=471 |author=John Daverio<!-- |access-date=12 May 2013--> |quote=Yet Schumann's religiosity was devoid of dogmatism. In a self-characterization written in 1830, he described himself as "religious, but without religion"; according to Wasielewski, this description held into the 1850s.|date=10 April 1997}}</ref>
* [[Ridley Scott]] (born 1937): English film director and producer; ''[[Alien (film)|Alien]]'' (1979), ''[[Blade Runner]]''<ref>{{cite web |title=Ridley Scott interview |url=https://timeout.com/london/feature/2674/ridley-scott-interview |publisher=TimeOut London |access-date=1 October 2012 |author=Cath Clarke |quote=God occupies the director's thoughts more than He used to, says Scott, who's an agnostic, converted from atheism. 'You could have ten scientists in this room. You could ask them all: who's religious? About three to four will put their hands up. I've asked these guys from Nasa. And they say: When you get to the end of your theories, you come to a wall... you come to a question. Who thought up this shit?' Scott was turned off religion by his Church of England upbringing ("altar boy... terrible burgundy wine... all that stuff"). Now? "Now my feeling goes with 'could be.'" |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121014081428/http://www.timeout.com/london/feature/2674/ridley-scott-interview |archive-date=14 October 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Adrienne Shelly]] (1966–2006): American actor, screenwriter and director<ref>Adrienne Shelly said: "I'm an optimistic agnostic. I'd like to believe." Rhys, Tim (August 1996), [http://www.moviemaker.com/magazine/editorial.php?id=285 Suddenly Adrienne Shelly] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120308020116/http://www.moviemaker.com/magazine/editorial.php?id=285 |date=8 March 2012}}, ''[[MovieMaker Magazine]]''. Retrieved 12 February 2007.</ref>
* [[Rogério Skylab]] (born 1956): Brazilian singer-songwriter, poet and essayist, notorious for the underground hit "[[Matador de Passarinho]]"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tc.batepapo.uol.com.br/convidados/arquivo/musica/rogerio-skylab-cantor-e-compositor.jhtm|title=BATE-PAPO COM ROGÉRIO SKYLAB|author=UOL|date=2002|access-date=October 24, 2003|language=Portuguese|archive-date=21 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180621143706/http://tc.batepapo.uol.com.br/convidados/arquivo/musica/rogerio-skylab-cantor-e-compositor.jhtm|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Richard Strauss]] (1864–1949): German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras<ref>{{cite book |author1=Bryan Gilliam |title=The Life of Richard Strauss |date=1999 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9780521578950 |page=25 |chapter=1: Musical development and early career |quote=Strauss was agnostic by his mid-teens and he remained so until the end of his life. Even months before his death, the composer declared: "I shall never be converted, and I will remain true to my old religion of the classics until my life's end!"}}</ref>
* [[Howard Stern]] (born 1954): American radio personality, television host, author, actor, and photographer<ref>"I know intellectually there is no god. But in case there is, I don't want to piss him off by saying it." Howard Stern, [http://macgregorhill.wordpress.com/religion/atheism/famous-skeptics/ Interview w/ Steppin' Out] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130617075403/http://macgregorhill.wordpress.com/religion/atheism/famous-skeptics/ |date=17 June 2013 }}, 21 May 2004.</ref>
* [[Sting (musician)|Sting]] (born 1951): English musician and lead singer of [[The Police]]<ref>"I am an agnostic and I was interested in reading the pre-Christian idea that winter is more about regeneration than salvation. I stayed away from that triumphal, 'God is in his heaven, isn't everything wonderful?' kind of thing."{{cite web |url=http://www.sting.com/news/news.php?uid=6341 |title=Archived copy |access-date=5 October 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101128122911/http://sting.com/news/news.php?uid=6341 |archive-date=28 November 2010  }}</ref>
* [[Matt Stone]] (born 1971): American co-creator of the cartoon series ''[[South Park]]''; considers himself an agnostic Jew (his mother is Jewish),<ref>Stone said "...I'm Jewish simply because... my mom is Jewish... but... I grew up completely secular and completely agnostic... I am the worst Jew in the world. I know nothing about the religion. I'm completely agnostic (my poor mother)." [https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4109371 'South Park' Creator Matt Stone on Fighting Terrorism] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210531053653/https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4109371 |date=31 May 2021 }} on NPR's program ''Fresh Air'', 14 October 2004, (quote begins at 15:05, ends at 16:00)</ref> though he has also denied the existence of God<ref>When asked if there was a God, Stone answered "No." [https://avclub.com/content/node/24569 Is there a God?] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060901045639/http://www.avclub.com/content/node/24569 |date=1 September 2006}}, by Stephen Thompson, The Onion A.V. Club, 9 October 2002</ref>
* [[Osamu Tezuka]] (1928–1989): Japanese [[cartoonist]], [[Mangaka|manga artist]], animator, [[movie producer|producer]], activist and [[medical doctor]]; creator of ''[[Astro Boy (1960s)|Astro Boy]]'', ''[[Kimba the White Lion]]'' and ''[[Black Jack (manga)|Black Jack]]''; often credited as the "godfather of [[anime]]", and is often considered the Japanese equivalent to [[Walt Disney]]<ref>{{cite book |title=The Astro Boy Essays: Osamu Tezuka, Mighty Atom, and the Manga/Anime Revolution |year=2007 |publisher=Stone Bridge Press, Inc. |isbn=9781933330549 |page=141 |author=Frederik L. Schodt<!--|access-date=15 March 2013--> |quote=His family was associated with a Zen Buddhist sect, and Tezuka is buried in a Tokyo Buddhist cemetery, but his views on religion were actually quite agnostic and as flexible as his views on politics.}}</ref>
* [[Jhonen Vasquez]] (born 1974): American [[comic book writer]], and [[cartoonist]]; known for the animated series ''[[Invader Zim]]''{{cn|date=June 2023}}
* [[Giuseppe Verdi]] (1813–1901): Italian composer, one of the most influential of the 19th century<ref>Dan Barker, ''The Good Atheist – Living a Purpose-Filled Life Without God'', p. 93.</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=The Cambridge Companion to Verdi |year=2004 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9780521635356 |page=13 |editor=Scott L. Balthazar<!-- |access-date=2 May 2013--> |quote=Verdi sustained his artistic reputation and his personal image in the last years of his life. He never relinquished his anticlerical stance, and his religious belief verged on atheism. Strepponi described him as not much of a believer and complained that he mocked her religious faith. Yet he summoned the creative strength to write the Messa da Requiem (1874) to honor Manzoni, his "secular saint", and conduct its world premiere.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=The letters of Arturo Toscanini |year=2002 |publisher=Alfred A. Knopf |isbn=9780375404054 |page=262 |author=Arturo Toscanini |editor=Harvey Sachs<!-- |access-date=2 May 2013--> |quote=I've asked you whether you're religious, whether you believe! I do – I believe – I'm not an atheist like Verdi, but I don't have time to go into the subject.}}</ref>
* [[Montel Williams]] (born 1956): American television host, actor and motivational speaker.<ref>{{Cite web| url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0931354/bio| title=Montel Williams| website=[[IMDb]]| access-date=27 May 2020| archive-date=13 July 2016| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160713223517/http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0931354/bio| url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Ralph Vaughan Williams]] (1872–1958): British composer. Despite the variety of his works with religious connections, Vaughan Williams was decidedly not a believer. According to his classmate Bertrand Russell, Williams was an atheist while attending Cambridge. According to his widow, he later became an agnostic.<ref>"Here we have a man who, while at Cambridge, was 'a most determined atheist'--those were the words of his fellow-undergraduate Bertrand Russell—and who was dismissed at the age of 25 from his post as organist in a church at South Lambeth because he refused to take Communion. Later, according to his widow, he 'drifted into a cheerful agnosticism.'" [https://www.jstor.org/stable/766153 The Unknown Vaughan Williams] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200613142117/https://www.jstor.org/stable/766153 |date=13 June 2020 }}, [[Michael Kennedy (music critic)|Michael Kennedy]], ''Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association'', Vol. 99. (1972–1973), pp. 31–41.</ref>
* [[Billie Joe Armstrong]] (born 1972): American Musician and band member of Green Day