Popular Persons who Declared themselves as Atheists/Humanists.

Media

Abu Abraham  (Cartoonist)

Swaminathan Aiyar (Journalist, Economic times)

RmT Sambandham (Editor Dinamani, Tamil)

Vijay Tendulkar (Marathi writer/journalist)

Films

Adithya (Tamil Actor) [Adithya's Blog]

Amol Palekar (Hindi/Marathi)

Javed Akhtar (Hindi Lyricist) [Javed's Page]

G.Devarajan (Malayalam Music Director)

Rajeev Khandelwal (Hindi Actor) [TOI]

Shriram Lagoo (Hindi/Marathi Actor)

Sahir Ludhianvi (Hindi/Urdu Poet/lyricist)

Sathyaraj (Tamil Actor)

Selvaraghavan (Tamil Director)

Sports

Baichung Bhutia (Football)

Academics

Akeel Bilgrami (Philosophy-California Univ.US)

Amartya Sen (Nobel Economist) 

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (Physics Nobel Laurate-US Citizen)

Meghnad Desai, Baron Desai (Economics, UK Citizen)

Irfan Habib (historian-Marxist)

Samarendra Maulik (1881-1950 zoologist)

P.T.Bhaskara Panicker (Popularization of Science)

Literature/Philosophy

Inkulab (Tamil Poet/Writer)

Johnson Eyeroor (Malayalam Writer)

K. Shivaram Karanth (Kannada Writer, Jnanapith Award)

Thirunalloor Karunakaran (Malayalam Poet/Teacher, Sahitya Academy Award)

Kodavatiganti Kutumbarao (Telugu Writer, Chandamama Editor)

A.N.Murthy Rao (1900-2003) (Kannada Writer. His book devaru won him the Pampa Award of Karnataka Govt)

Sreeni Pattathanam (Founder Bharatiya Yuktiwadi Samgam-Kerala)

Pavanan (Chief Editor Yuktirekha, Kerala Yuktiwadi Samgam)

Sibnarayan Ray (Bengali Writer/Philosopher)

Srirangam Srinivasarao (Telugu Writer, Lyricist)

Poornachandra Tejaswi (Kannada)

Ponkunnam Varkey (1908-2004 Malayalam writer)

Professionals

Lakshmi Sahgal (Captain in INA, a Medical Doctor, & Presidential Contestant vs APJ Kalam)

Prem Sahgal  (Colonel in INA)