Who are your favorite current Atheists?

[Fidel_Castronaut]

In this country (Ger) in most places religion plays a small enough role that people don't feel persecuted enough to rally behind a leader figure needed for giving them hope or unity. If you're not growing up in some rural village in deep bavaria, no one really cares whether you're atheist anyways. Our atheist/secular activists like Michael Schmidt-Salomon are perceived as moderately well-known public intellectuals, and that's that. Many of our left leaning politicians are already openly secular or atheist.

Yeah I'd say that's pretty much identical over here. We have mainstream politicians who are atheist (leader of the labour party being an example) which leads me to believe it might be more of a U.S. phenomenon where atheists aren't able to get much mainstream coverage (or indeed 'come out') so take refuge on the interwebs and build a following there.