List of names in A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Rationalists
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"Early in 1697 the clergy had actually succeeded in getting a lad of eighteen, Thomas Aikenhead, hanged for professing deism in general, and in particular for calling the Old Testament “Ezra’s Fables,” ridiculing the doctrines of the Trinity and the Incarnation, and expressing the hope and belief that Christianity would be extinct within a century."--A Short History of Freethought |
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Joseph McCabe published A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Rationalists in 1920 (London: Watts & Co.). Most (though not all) of those listed were also included in A Biographical Dictionary of Ancient, Medieval and Modern Freethinkers (1945)
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A
- Firmin Abauzit
- Ernst Abbe
- Francis Ellingwood Abbot
- George Frederick Abbott
- Leonard Dalton Abbott
- Edmond About
- Thomas Achelis or Thomas Ludwig Bernhard Achelis (Template:BDoMRat mentioned in de:Thomas Otto Achelis, his son)
- ACKERMANN, Louise V.
- ACOLLAS, Professor E.
- ACOSTA, Uriel
- ADAM, Professor Charles, D. es L.
- ADAMS, Charles Francis
- ADAMS, Francis W. L.
- ADAMS, John, President of the United States
- ADAMS, Robert
- ADAMSON, Professor Robert, Ph.D.
- ADCOCK, A. St. John
- ADICKES, Professor E., Ph.D.
- ADLER, Professor Felix, Ph.D.
- AHRENS, Professor Heinrich, Ph.D.
- AIKENHEAD, Thomas
- AIRY, Sir George B., K.C.B., D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S.
- AITZEMA, Lieuwe van
- ALBEE, John
- ALCOTT, Amos Bronson
- ALEMBERT, Jean le Rond d'
- ALFIERI, Count V.
- ALGAROTTI, Count F.
- Thomas Clifford Allbutt
- ALLEN, Grant, B.A.
- ALLEN, Colonel Ethan
- ALLEN, John. M.D.
- ALLINGHAM, William
- ALLMAN, Professor G. J., LL.D., D.Sc., F.R.S.
- ALLSOP, Thomas
- ALTMEYER, Professor J. J., Ph.D., D.C.L.
- ALVIELLA, Count Goblet d'
- AMARI, Professor M.
- AMICIS, Edmondo de
- AMIEL, Henri F.
- ANDERSON, George
B
Ba
- François-Noël Babeuf
- Guido Baccelli
- Robert Bage
- Walter Bagehot
- Jens Immanuel Baggesen
- Julius Bahnsen
- Karl Friedrich Bahrdt
- Samuel Bailey
- George Baillie (Template:BDoMRat)
- Alexander Bain
- Mikhail Bakunin
- James Mark Baldwin
[[File:Bancel-statue-Valence.jpg|thumb|120px|François-Désiré Bancel]]
- William Platt Ball (Template:BDoMRat)
- John Ballance
- José Manuel Balmaceda
- Eduard Baltzer
- Honoré de Balzac
- François-Désiré Bancel (Template:BDoMRat see fr:François-Désiré Bancel)
- Hubert Howe Bancroft
- Giuseppe Baretti
- George Barlow
- Jane Barlow
[[File:Jules Barni.jpg|thumb|120px|Bust of Jules Barni by Athanase Fossé]]
- Joel Barlow
- Antoine Barnave
- J. Edmestone Barnes (Template:BDoMRat)<ref name="sup"/>
- Jules Barni (Template:BDoMRat see fr:Jules Barni and hu:Jules Barni)
- François Odysse Barot (Template:BDoMRat)
- Thomas Squire Barrett (Template:BDoMRat)
- Jules Barthélemy-Saint-Hilaire
- Paul Joseph Barthez
- Hector Alexandre Bartoli (Template:BDoMRat see fr:Hector Alexandre Bartoli)
- Theodor Bartošek (Template:BDoMRat see cs:Theodor Bartošek)
- Giacomo Barzelotti (Template:BDoMRat)
- Johann Bernhard Basedow
- Marie Bashkirtseff
- John Baskerville
- Adolf Bastian
- Henry Charlton Bastian
- Frédéric Bastiat
- Henry Walter Bates
- Angelo Battelli
- Cesare Battisti
- Charles Pierre Baudelaire
- Wolf Wilhelm Friedrich von Baudissin
- Henri Baudrillart
- Bruno Bauer
- Edgar Bauer
- Ernest Belfort Bax
- Pierre Bayle
Be
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 116-119-22-03, Erich Becher.jpg|thumb|120px|Erich Becher]]
- Charles Marsh Beadnell (Template:BDoMRat)
- Louis de Beausobre
- August Bebel
- Cesare Beccaria
- Erich Becher (Template:BDoMRat see de:Erich Becher and sv:Erich Becher)
- Walter Frederick Becker (Template:BDoMRat)
- Hubert Beckers
- William Thomas Beckford
- Thomas Beddoes
- Thomas Lovell Beddoes
- Edward Spencer Beesly
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Elphinstone Waters Begbie (Template:BDoMRat)
- Balthasar Bekker
- Thomas Evans Bell (Template:BDoMRat)
- Gustave Belot
- Hedwig Bender (Template:BDoMRat see de:Hedwig Bender)
- Friedrich Eduard Beneke
- Alfred William Benn
- De Robigne Mortimer Bennett (Template:BDoMRat)
- Arnold Bennett
- Jeremy Bentham
- Pierre-Jean de Béranger
- Henri Louis Bergson
- John Berkenhout
- Hector Berlioz
- Claude Bernard
- Henry Meyners Bernard (Template:BDoMRat)
- Aaron Bernstein
- Eduard Bernstein
- Paul Bert
- Agostino Bertani
- Marcellin Berthelot
- Claude Louis Berthollet
- Domenico Berti (Template:BDoMRat see it:Domenico Berti and sv:Domenico Berti)
- Alphonse Bertillon
- Louis Bertillon
- George Berwick (Template:BDoMRat)
- Walter Besant
- Matilda Betham-Edwards
- Richard Bethell <ref name="sup"/>
- Saverio Bettinelli
- Marie-Henri Beyle
Bi
- Aurelio Bianchi-Giovini (Template:BDoMRat see it:Aurelio Bianchi-Giovini)
- Marie François Xavier Bichat
- Ambrose Bierce
- Alfred Binet
- Jean-Baptiste Biot
- William John Birch (Template:BDoMRat)
- George Birkbeck
- Richard Bithell (Template:BDoMRat)
- Georges Bizet
- Edwin August Björkmann (Template:BDoMRat)
- Bjornstjerne Bjornson
- Grigorevich Blagosvetlov (Template:BDoMRat)
- William Blake
- Louis Blanc
- Louis Auguste Blanqui
- Robert Blatchford
- Linley Blathwayt (Template:BDoMRat)
- Karl Bleibtreu
- Ange François Blein (Template:BDoMRat see fr:Ange François Blein)
- Karl Blind
- Mathilde Blind
- Ivan Bloch
- Charles Blount (deist)
- Henry BLount
- Thomas Pope Blount
- Robert Blum
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- Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage
- Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
- Jean Bodin
- Wilhelm Boerner (Template:BDoMRat)
[[File:Wilhelm Bolin.jpg|thumb|120px|Wilhelm Bolin portrait by Bernhard Reinholdin]]
- Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux
- Nicolas Boindin (Template:BDoMRat see fr:Nicolas Boindin)
- Marie-Louis-Antoine-Gaston Boissier
- Arrigo Boito
- Johan Bojer
- Wilhelm Bolin (Template:BDoMRat see fi:Wilhelm Bolin and sv:Wilhelm Bolin)
- Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
- Simón Bolívar
- Wilhelm Bolsche
- Bernard Bolzano
- Jérôme Bonaparte
[[File:Filippo De Boni.jpg|thumb|120px|Filippo de Boni portrait by Aristide Calani]]
- Napoléon Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte
- Ruggero Bonghi
- Rosa Bonheur
- Filippo de Boni (Template:BDoMRat see it:Filippo De Boni)
- Charles Bonnet
- John Bonnycastle
- Charles Victor de Bonstetten
- James Bonwick
- James Booth (lawyer) (Template:BDoMRat)
- Ignaz von Born
- Ludwig Börne
- George Borrow
- Bernard Bosanquet
- Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc
- Christopher Jacob Boström
- Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes
- Louis Antoine de Bougainville
- Célestin Charles Alfred Bouglé
- Francisque Bouillier
- Henri de Boulainvilliers
- Nicolas Antoine Boulanger
- Léon Bourgeois
- Désiré-Magloire Bourneville
- Émile Boutmy
- Émile Boutroux
- Giovanni Bovio
- Charles Bowen, Baron Bowen
- Charles Bowman (secularist) (Template:BDoMRat)
- Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
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- Edward William Brabrook
- Charles Bradlaugh
- Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner
- Francis Herbert Bradley
- Hans Lien Brækstad (Template:BDoMRat see book translated? by him)
- Teófilo Braga
- Johannes Brahms
[[File:Wilhelm von Braun.jpg|thumb|120px|Daguerreotype of Wilhelm von Braun]]
- George Bramwell
- Edvard Brandes
- Georg Brandes
- Louis Brandin (Template:BDoMRat)
- Hjalmar Branting
- Lily Braun
- Wilhelm von Braun (Template:BDoMRat see sv:Wilhelm von Braun)
- Charles Bray
- Wilhelm Breitenbach (Template:BDoMRat)
- Franz Brentano
- E. Cobham Brewer
- Henry Brewster (writer) (Template:BDoMRat)
- Aristide Briand
[[File:Adolphe Brisson.jpg|thumb|120px|Adolphe Brisson]]
- Horace J. Bridges (Template:BDoMRat)
- John Henry Bridges (Template:BDoMRat)
- Eugene Brieux
- Daniel Garrison Brinton
- Adolphe Brisson (Template:BDoMRat see fr:Adolphe Brisson)
- Eugène Henri Brisson
- Jacques Pierre Brissot
- Augusta Cooper Bristol (Template:BDoMRat)
- Paul Broca
- Benjamin Collins Brodie
- Rupert Brooke
- Stopford Augustus Brooke
- William Brooksbank (writer) (Template:BDoMRat)
- Charles de Brosses
- François-Joseph-Victor Broussais
- Arthur Brown (jurist) (Template:BDoMRat)
- Ford Madox Brown
- George William Brown (reformer) (Template:BDoMRat)
- John Armour Brown (Template:BDoMRat)<ref name="sup"/>
- Titus L. Brown (Template:BDoMRat)
- Walston Hill Brown (Template:BDoMRat)
- William Montgomery Brown
- Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard
- Thomas Browne
- William George Browne
- Robert Browning
- Giordano Bruno
Bu
- Walter James Buchanan (Template:BDoMRat)<ref name="sup"/>
- Robert Buchanan (Owenite) (Template:BDoMRat)
- Robert Williams Buchanan
- Alexander Büchner (Template:BDoMRat)
- Friedrich Büchner
- Henry Thomas Buckle
- Odón de Buen y del Cos
- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
- Ferdinand Buisson
- Charles Buller
- Luther Burbank
- Jakob Burckhardt
- Karl Friedrich Burdach
- Francis Burdett
- William Burdon (Template:BDoMRat)
- Thomas François Burgers
- Jean Lévesque de Burigny
- Thomas Burnet
- James Burnett, Lord Monboddo
- John Burnett
- Émile-Louis Burnouf
- Eugène Burnouf
- John Burns
- Robert Burns
- John Burroughs
- Thomas Burt
- John Hill Burton
- Richard Francis Burton
- J. B. Bury
- Samuel Butler, author of Hudibras
- Samuel Butler, novelist
- Vissarion Belinsky
- Lord Byron
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Ca
[[File:Laureano Calderón Arana, en La Farmacia Moderna.jpg|thumb|120px|Laureano Calderón y Arana]]
- George-Paul-Sylvester Cabanis (Template:BDoMRat)
- Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis
- William Ralph Hall Caine (Template:BDoMRat)
- Wathen Mark Wilks Call (Template:BDoMRat)
- Laureano Calderón y Arana (Template:BDoMRat see es:Laureano Calderón Arana)
- Salvador Calderón y Arana (Template:BDoMRat see es:Salvador Calderón y Arana)
- Charles Callaway (Template:BDoMRat)
- Charles Stuart Calverley
[[File:Tommaso Cannizzaro Grave.jpg|thumb|120px|the grave of Tommaso Cannizzaro]]
- Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès
- Thomas Campbell (poet)
- Giovanni Canestrini
- Stanislao Cannizzaro
- Tommaso Cannizzaro (Template:BDoMRat see it:Tommaso Cannizzaro)
- Carlo Cantoni (Template:BDoMRat see it:Carlo Cantoni)
- Emily Palmer Cape (Template:BDoMRat)
- Giosuè Carducci
- Richard Carlile
- Henry Carlton (jurist) (Template:BDoMRat)
- John Aitken Carlyle (Template:BDoMRat)
- Thomas Carlyle
- Andrew Carnegie
- Bartolomäus von Carneri (Template:BDoMRat)
- Lazare Hippolyte Carnot
[[File:Jean-Louis Carra par Bonneville.jpg|thumb|120px|Jean-Louis Carra. Engraving by François Bonneville]]
- Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot
- Marie François Sadi Carnot
- Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot
- Elme Marie Caro
- Queen Caroline
- Edward Carpenter
- William Benjamin Carpenter
- Herbert Wildon Carr
[[File:Otto Caspari (HeidICON 28791) (cropped).jpg|thumb|120px|Otto Caspari]]
- Jean-Louis Carra (Template:BDoMRat see fr:Jean-Louis Carra)
- Jean Baptiste Nicholas Armand Carrel
- Moritz Carrière
- Julius Victor Carus
- Karl Gustav Carus
- Paul Carus
- Giovanni Jacques de Seingalt Casanova
- Jean Paul Pierre Casimir-Perier
- Otto Caspari (Template:BDoMRat see de:Otto Caspari)
- Walter Richard Cassels
- David Castelli
[[File:Galerie_des_Empereurs-Musée_des_Augustins.jpg|thumb|120px|La Galerie des Empereurs in the Musée Saint-Raymond, Toulouse. From Toulouse monumentale et pittoresque by fr:Jean-Mamert Cayla]]
- Jean-Louis Castilhon
- Catherine the Great
- Carlo Cattaneo
- Giacomo Cattaneo (Template:BDoMRat)
- Charles Cattell (Template:BDoMRat)
- Éléonore-Louis Godefroi Cavaignac
- Felice Carlo Emmanuele Cavallotti
- Henry Cavendish
- Jean-Mamert Cayla (Template:BDoMRat) see fr:Jean-Mamert Cayla)
- Émile-Honoré Cazelles (Template:BDoMRat see s:fr:Auteur:Émile Cazelles)
[[File:Giovanni Alfredo Cesareo.JPG|thumb|120px|Giovanni Alfredo Cesareo]]
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- Joseph Antoine Joachim Cerutti
- Giovanni Alfredo Cesareo (Template:BDoMRat see it:Giovanni Alfredo Cesareo)
- Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour
- Thomas Chaloner (regicide)
- Basil Hall Chamberlain
- Daniel Henry Chamberlain
- Houston Stewart Chamberlain
- Ephraim Chambers
- Robert Chambers (publisher, born 1802)
- Sebastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort
- Adelbert von Chamisso
- Jean-François Champollion
- Francis Leggatt Chantrey
- John Chapman (publisher)
- Jean Antoine Claude Chaptal
- Victor Charbonnel (Template:BDoMRat but :fr:Victor Charbonnel has incoming links)
- Antoine Charma (Template:BDoMRat see fr:Antoine Charma)
- Pierre Charron
- François-Jean de Chastellux
- Gabrielle Émilie du Châtelet
- Thomas Chatterton
- Pierre Gaspard Chaumette
- Pierre-Jean-Baptiste Chaussard
- Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
- André Marie Chénier
- Marie-Joseph Chénier
- Alice Chenoweth
- Charles Victor Cherbuliez
- Maria Luigi Carlo Zenobio Salvatore Cherubini
- Ramón Chíes y Gómez de Riofranco
- Lydia Maria Francis Child
- William Chilton (printer)
- Percival Chubb (Template:BDoMRat)
- Thomas Chubb
- Jules Arsène Arnaud Claretie
- Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke
- Georges Eugène Benjamin Clemenceau
- Samuel Langhorne Clemens
- Martin Clifford
- William Kingdon Clifford
- Mrs. W. K. Clifford
- Henry Cline
- Edward Clodd
- Jean-Baptiste du Val-de-Grâce, baron de Cloots
- Arthur Hugh Clough
- Thomas Clouston
Co
- Chapman Cohen
- Hermann Cohen
- Stanton Coit
- Henry John Coke (Template:BDoMRat)
- John Duke Coleridge
- Jean Guillaume César Alexandre Hippolyte, baron de Colins (Template:BDoMRat see fr:Jean Hippolyte Colins de Ham)
- John Collier (painter)
- Christen Christian Dreyer Collin
- Anthony Collins
- John Churton Collins
- Lucy N. Colman
- Giovanni Battista Comazzi (Template:BDoMRat but we have lots of fleurons from his book. Cf. Henry Coventry (deist))
- Andrew Combe
- George Combe
- Émile Justin Louis Combes
- Thomas Common
- Domenico Comparetti
- Jules Gabriel Compayré
- François-Charles-Louis Comte
- Isidore Marie Auguste François Xavier Comte
- Étienne Bonnot de Mably de Condillac
- Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis of Condorcet
- Marie Louise Sophie Grouchy, Marquise of Condorcet
- Richard Congreve
- Joseph Conrad
- Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque
- Vasile Conta (Basil Conta)
- Hugh Conway
- Moncure Daniel Conway
- William Martin Conway
- Frederick Cornwallis Conybeare
- Keningale Robert Cook (Template:BDoMRat now only remembered as the husband of Mabel Collins)
- Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury
- Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury
- John Gilbert Cooper
- Robert Cooper (Owenite) (Template:BDoMRat)
- Thomas Cooper
- Edward Drinker Cope
- Henri Arthur Marie Cornette (Template:BDoMRat)
- Otto Julius Bernhard von Corvin-Wiersbitzki
- Henry John Stedman Cotton
- Paul Louis Courier
de Méré - Leonard Henry Courtney
- William Leonard Courtney
- Victor Cousin
- Henry Coventry (deist) (Template:BDoMRat but we have lots of fleurons from his book. Cf. Giovanni Battista Comazzi )
- William Coward
- Joseph Cowen
[[File:Vincenzo Crescini.jpg|thumb|120px|Vincenzo Crescini]]
- Johan Nikolai Cramer (Template:BDoMRat)
- Christopher Pearse Cranch
- Walter Crane
- William Randal Cremer
- Vincenzo Crescini (Template:BDoMRat see it:Vincenzo Crescini)
- Benedetto Croce
- David Goodman Croly
- Henry Crompton (Template:BDoMRat)
- Mary Ann Cross (George Eliot)
- John Beattie Crozier (Template:BDoMRat)
- Franz-Valéry-Marie Cumont
- Heinrich Czolbe
D
Da
- Étienne Noël Damilaville
- Jean Philibert Damiron
- Vincenzo Dandolo
- Agnes Mary Frances Darmesteter
- James Darmesteter
- Frances Darusmont
- Charles Darwin
- Erasmus Darwin
- Francis Darwin
- George Howard Darwin
- Leonard Darwin
- Alphonse Daudet
- Pierre Claude François Daunou
- Jacques-Louis David
- Caroline Augusta Rhys Davids
- Thomas William Rhys Davids
- John Davidson (poet)
- Thomas Davidson (philosopher)
- Charles Maurice Davies
- Helen Hamilton Gardner Day
De
- Élie Louis Marie Marc Antoine Debidour (Template:BDoMRat see fr:Antonin Debidour)
- Lauro Adolfo De Bosis
- Claude Achille Debussy
- Charles-Theodore-Henri De Coster
- Saverio Fausto De Dominicis (Template:BDoMRat see it:Saverio Fausto De Dominicis)
- Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand
- Angelo de Gubernatis
- Edward Dowes Dekker (Multatuli)
- Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix
- Marie Yves Delage
- Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre
- Jean-François Casimir Delavigne
- Joseph Rémi Léopold Delbœuf
- Étienne Marie Justin Victor Delbos
- Léon Delbos (Template:BDoMRat)
- Théophile Delcassé
- Jean-Baptiste-Claude Delisle de Sales
[[File:Hector Denis.jpg|thumb|120px|Hector Denis]]
- Alexandre Deleyre
- Augustus De Morgan
- Ève Demaillot (Template:BDoMRat)
- James Steuart Denham
- Joseph Deniker
- Hector Denis (Template:BDoMRat see fr:Hector Denis)
- William F. Denton (Template:BDoMRat)
- César De Paepe
- Agathon Louis de Potter (Template:BDoMRat)
- Louis Joseph Antoine de Potter
- Maria Deraismes
- Pasquale d'Ercole (Template:BDoMRat)
- Francesco de Sanctis
- Léger Marie Deschamps
- Émile Auguste Étienne Martin Deschanel
- Paul Eugène Louis Deschanel
- Marius Deshumbert (Template:BDoMRat)
- André-François Boureau-Deslandes
- Pierre Desmaizeaux
- Lucie Simplice Camille Benoît Desmoulins
- Gustave Le Brisoys Desnoiresterres (Template:BDoMRat see fr:Gustave Desnoiresterres
- Joseph Marie Dessaix
[[File:BadGoisernKonradDeubler.JPG|thumb|120px|Konrad Deubler]]
- Pierre-Joseph Destriveaux (Template:BDoMRat)
- Antoine Louis Claude Destutt de Tracy
- Rowland Detrosier
- Konrad Deubler (Template:BDoMRat see de:Konrad Deubler)
- Willem Deurhoff (Template:BDoMRat)
- Immanuel Oscar Menahem Deutsch
- John Dewey
- Henry de Worms
Di
- Porfirio Díaz
- Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
- Auguste Dide (Template:BDoMRat see fr:Auguste Dide)
- Denis Diderot
- Gustav Diercks (Template:BDoMRat)
- Joseph Dietzgen
- Ashton Wentworth Dilke
- Charles Wentworth Dilke
- Gustav Friedrich Dinter
- Johann Konrad Dippel
- Florence Caroline Dixie
- Bertram Dobell (Template:BDoMRat)
- Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner
- Nikolay Alexandrovich Dobrolyubov
- Arnold Dodel-Port
- Henry Dodwell (deist) (Template:BDoMRat see s:Dodwell, Henry (d.1784) (DNB00))
- Horatio Bryan Donkin
- John Sholto Douglas
- Stephen Arnold Douglas
- Edward Dowden
Dr
- Jacques Philippe Raymond Draparnaud
- John William Draper
- Edmond Dresden (Template:BDoMRat)
- Arthur Drews
- Hans Adolf Eduard Driesch
- William James Charles Maria Drummond of Logiealmond
- Helene von Druskowitz
- Charles Robert Drysdale
- John Dryden (merchant) (Template:BDoMRat)<ref name="sup"/>
Du
- Julius Duboc
- Paul-François Dubois (Template:BDoMRat see fr:Paul-François Dubois)
- Emil du Bois-Reymond
- Pierre-Ulric Dubuisson
- Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux
- Charles Pinot Duclos
[[File:Dulaure, Jacques-Antoine.JPG|thumb|100px|Jacques-Antoine Dulaure]]
- Jean-François Ducos
- William Dudgeon (philosopher)
- Eugen Karl Dühring
- Édouard Dujardin
- Jacques-Antoine Dulaure (Template:BDoMRat see fr:Jacques-Antoine Dulaure)
- Henri Joseph Du Laurens
- Albert Friedrich Benno Dulk (Template:BDoMRat)
- Alexandre Dumas, fils
- George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier
- Léon Dumont
- Pierre Étienne Louis Dumont
- David Duncan (educationist) (Template:BDoMRat see his most well known work)
- Maximilian Wolfgang Duncker
- Jacob Louis Dupont (Template:BDoMRat see fr:Jacques Louis Dupont)
- Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours
- Charles-François Dupuis
- Émile Durkheim
- Jean Victor Duruy
- Théophile-Imarigeon Duvernet (Template:BDoMRat)
E
[[File:Johann Christian Edelmann.jpg|thumb|120px|Johann Christian Edelmann]]
- Johann Augustus Eberhard
- Ernst Theodor Echtermeyer
- Johann Peter Eckermann
- Johann Christian Edelmann (Template:BDoMRat see de:Johann Christian Edelmann)
- Thomas Alva Edison
- Chilperic Edwards (Template:BDoMRat)
- John Passmore Edwards
- Justus van Effen
- Johann Gottfried Eichhorn
- Rudolf Eisler
- Charles William Eliot
- George Eliot
- Pietro Ellero (Template:BDoMRat see it:Pietro Ellero)
- Hugh Samuel Roger Elliot
- John Elliotson
- Alfred Burdon Ellis
- Henry Havelock Ellis
- William Ellis
- Mountstuart Elphinstone
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- William Emerson
- Robert Emmet
- Friedrich Engels
- George Bethune English
- George Ensor
- Johann Eduard Erdmann
- John Ericsson
- François-Louis d'Escherny (Template:BDoMRat see fr:François d'Escherny)
- Alfred Victor Espinas
- José de Espronceda
- Henri-François-Alphonse Esquiros
- George Henry Evans
- Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot)
- Antoine-François Ève (Template:BDoMRat)
- Moses Jacob Ezekiel
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[[File:Bruto_Fabricatore.jpg|thumb|120px|Bruto Fabricatore]]
- Philippe François Nazaire Fabre d'Églantine
- Bruto Fabricatore (Template:BDoMRat see it:Bruto Fabricatore)
- Adolfo Faggi (Template:BDoMRat)
- Auguste Émile Faguet
- Clement Armand Fallières
- Frederick John Fargus
- John Farquhar
- Hippolyte Fauche (Template:BDoMRat see fr:Hippolyte Fauche)
- Félix François Faure
- Sébastien Faure
- Edgar Fawcett
- Henry Fawcett
- Everard Fawkener
- Gustav Theodor Fechner
- Robert Fellowes
- Joseph Fels
- Giuseppe Ferrari
- Francisco Ferrer y Guardia
- Guglielmo Ferrero
- Enrico Ferri
- Luigi Ferri
- Jules François Camille Ferry
- Friedrich Heinrich Feuerbach
- Ludwig Feuerbach
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- Harold Patrick Fielding-Hall (Template:BDoMRat)
- Estanislao Figueras y de Moragas
- Gaetano Filangieri
- Heinrich Finke (Template:BDoMRat see de:Heinrich Finke)
- Francesco Fiorentino
- Johann Georg Fischer
- Ernst Kuno Berthold Fischer
- John Fiske
- Edward FitzGerald
- Nicolas Camille Flammarion
- "Flanor" (Carel Vosmaer)
- Gustave Flaubert
- Charles Thomas Floquet
- Gustave Flourens
- Marie Jean Pierre Flourens
- Benjamin Orange Flower
- Eliza Flower
Fo
- Wilhelm Julius Foerster
- Albany Fonblanque
- Theodor Fontane
- Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
- George William Foote
- Friedrich Karl Forberg
- Auguste Forel
- James George Roche Forlong
- Karl Fortlage
- Niccolò Ugo Foscolo
- Alfred Jules Émile Fouillée
- Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier
- François Marie Charles Fourier
- Charles James Fox
- Elizabeth Vassall Fox
- Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland
[[File:Adolphe Franck.jpg|thumb|120px|Adolphe Franck]]
- Henry Richard Vassall-Fox
- William Johnson Fox
- Anatole France
- Adolphe Franck (Template:BDoMRat see fr:Adolphe Franck)
- Nicolas-Louis François de Neufchâteau
- Edward Frankland
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