Who are your favorite current Atheists?

[Esquilax]

I liked Carl Sagan.

But he wasn't an atheist. He was agnostic.

Do you happen to know anything about the roots of either of those words? A-theist, meaning without theism, and a-gnostic, from the root word gnossis, meaning knowledge. The former denotes what you believe, the latter what you claim to know; under an actual understanding of the words, Sagan was both an atheist and an agnostic, as are a lot of us here. Sagan misunderstood what atheism was.