Sebastian Brant

Sebastian Brant

male, deceased (1521)
German Renaissance humanist, From Strasbourg, German, Humanist, brandt, satirist
Sebastian Brant (also Brandt) (1457 - May 10, 1521), German humanist and satirist, was born in Strasbourg. He studied at Basel, took the degree of...
Poliziano

Poliziano

male, deceased (1494)
Renaissance Latin, Italian Renaissance humanist, Renaissance Latin author, manto, florentine, Classical scholar…Humanist, Humanist Latin
Angelo Ambrogini, best known as Poliziano (July 14, 1454 - September 24, 1494) was a Florentine classical scholar and poet, one of the revivers of...
Sherwin Wine

Sherwin Wine

male, 81 years old (Michigan, United States)
University of Michigan, Farmington Hills, Birmingham Temple, Reform Judaism’s, Sherwin Theodore Wine, Society for Humanistic Judaism…American Humanist Association, Humanist
Rabbi Sherwin Theodore Wine (b. January 25, 1928 in Detroit, Michigan), founded the Birmingham Temple, the first congregation of Humanistic...
Leonardo Bruni

Leonardo Bruni

male, deceased (1444)
Italian Renaissance writer, Italian Renaissance humanist, Renaissance Latin author, humanism, from Arezzo, Italian Renaissance author…Humanist
Leonardo Bruni (or "Leonardo Aretino") ("c".1370 - March 9 1444), was a leading humanist, historian and a chancellor of Florence. He has been...
Abraham Maslow

Abraham Maslow

male, deceased (1970) (Brooklyn, New York, United States)
Abraham (Harold) Maslow, Motivation theorist, pater patriae, Jewish American, writer, Psychologist…Humanist, American Humanist Association
Abraham (Harold) Maslow was an American psychologist. He is mostly noted today for his proposal of a hierarchy of human needs, considered the...
Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

female, deceased (1995)
Humanist, assassinated, atheism, atheist, activist, American atheist
Madalyn Murray O'Hair was an American who founded American Atheists, and campaigned for the separation of church and state. She was murdered at age...
Eugenie Scott

Eugenie Scott

female, 64 years old
Anthropologist, Eugenie Carol Scott, National Center for Science Education, physical anthropologist, Physical anthropology, Anti-creationism…Humanist
Eugenie Carol Scott (born October 24 1945) is an American physical anthropologist who has been the executive director of the National Center for...
Corliss Lamont

Corliss Lamont

male, deceased (1995)
The New School alumni, New School University alumni, civil liberties, Columbia University alumni, Marxist, Harvard University alumni…Humanist
Corliss Lamont (March 28, 1902-April 26, 1995), was a humanist and Marxist philosopher, and advocate of various left-wing and civil liberties...
Peter Ustinov

Peter Ustinov

male, deceased (2004) (Westminster, Mississippi, United States)
Peter Alexander Baron von Ustinov, British Military, World War II, music hall performer, Best Supporting Actor Golden Globe, Lord Rectors of the University of Dundee…Humanist
Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov, CBE (April 16, 1921 – March 28, 2004), born Peter Alexander Baron von Ustinov, was an Academy Award-winning Br...
Buckminster Fuller

Buckminster Fuller

male, deceased (1983)
buckyballs, Solar building designer, Richard Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller, fullerene, architecture writer, human…Humanist
Richard Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller was an American visionary, designer, architect, poet, author, and inventor. Throughout his life, Fuller was conc...