page_title: List of deists
hierarchical_section_title: List of deists
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Porträt von Hermann Weyl
context_page_description: This is a partial list of people who have been categorized as Deists, the belief in a deity based on natural religion only, or belief in religious truths discovered by people through a process of reasoning, independent of any revelation through scriptures or prophets. They have been selected for their influence on Deism, or for their fame in other areas.
  Ethan Allen, early American revolutionary and guerrilla leader
  Al-Maʿarri, was a blind Arab philosopher, poet and writer, and a controversial rationalist.
  Luis Walter Alvarez, American experimental physicist and inventor, who spent nearly all of his long professional career on the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1968, and took out over 40 patents, some of which led to commercial products.
  Anaxagoras, Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher.
  Neil Armstrong, American NASA astronaut, test pilot, aerospace engineer, university professor, United States Naval Aviator, and the first person to set foot upon the Moon.
  Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist famous for his founding contributions in the fields of statistical mechanics and statistical thermodynamics.
context_section_description: This is a partial list of people who have been categorized as Deists, the belief in a deity based on natural religion only, or belief in religious truths discovered by people through a process of reasoning, independent of any revelation through scriptures or prophets. They have been selected for their influence on Deism, or for their fame in other areas.
  Ethan Allen (1738–89), early American revolutionary and guerrilla leader
  Al-Maʿarri (973–1058), was a blind Arab philosopher, poet and writer, and a controversial rationalist.
  Luis Walter Alvarez (1911–1988), American experimental physicist and inventor, who spent nearly all of his long professional career on the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1968, and took out over 40 patents, some of which led to commercial products.
  Anaxagoras (c. 500–428 BC), Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher.
  Neil Armstrong (1930–2012), American NASA astronaut, test pilot, aerospace engineer, university professor, United States Naval Aviator, and the first person to set foot upon the Moon.
  Ludwig Boltzmann (1844–1906), Austrian physicist famous for his founding contributions in the fields of statistical mechanics and statistical thermodynamics.
  Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821), French military and political leader
  Max Born (1882–1970), German-British physicist and mathematician who was instrumental in the development of quantum mechanics. He also made contributions to solid-state physics and optics and supervised the work of a number of notable physicists in the 1920s and 30s. Born won the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics (shared with Walther Bothe).
  Nick Cave (1957–), Australian musician, songwriter, poet, author and actor.
  Émilie du Châtelet (1706–1749), French mathematician, physicist, and author during the Age of Enlightenment. Her crowning achievement is considered to be her translation and commentary on Isaac Newton's work Principia Mathematica.
  Jean le Rond d'Alembert (1717–1783), French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher, and music theorist. He was also co-editor with Denis Diderot of the Encyclopédie.
  Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519), Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer. described as a deist by some sources. most historians have deemed him a Roman Catholic.
  Paul Davies (1946–), British physicist and science writer and broadcaster
  Humphry Davy (1778–1829), British chemist and inventor.
  Rodrigo Duterte (1945-), 16th President of the Philippines.
  Thomas Alva Edison (1847–1931), American inventor and businessman.
  Antony Flew (1923–2010), British analytic philosopher and prominent former atheist; during his last years he openly made an allegiance to Deism and stated to have acknowledged the existence of an Intelligent Creator of the universe, the Aristotelian God.
  Benjamin Franklin (1706–90), American polymath; one of the Founding Fathers of the United States
  Martin Gardner (1914–2010), American popular mathematics and science writer specializing in recreational mathematics, but with interests encompassing micromagic, stage magic, literature (especially the writings of Lewis Carroll and G. K. Chesterton), philosophy, scientific skepticism, and religion.
  William Lloyd Garrison (1805–1879), American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer. He is best known as the editor of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator, and was one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society, he promoted "immediate emancipation" of slaves in the United States.
  Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855), German mathematician and physical scientist who contributed significantly to many fields, including number theory, statistics, analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, geophysics, electrostatics, astronomy and optics.
  Brett Gurewitz (1962–), guitarist and songwriter for the American punk rock band Bad Religion
  Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury (1583–1648), British soldier, diplomat, historian, poet an
caption: Hermann Weyl
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