Madelaine Petsch

Madelaine is an actress and YouTuber. She is a vegan and is non-religious. Madelaine on Wikipedia @madelainepetsch

Natalie Portman

Natalie is an actress, filmmaker and activist. She is vegan. She has said "Three times a day I remind myself that I value life and do not want to cause […]

Peter Dinklage

Peter is an actor, producer and animal rights activist. He is an atheist (lapsed Catholic) and a vegan. While working on the "Face Your Food" film, he said: “The images […]

Élisée Reclus

Élisée was a renowned French geographer, writer and anarchist. He was an atheist and an ethical vegetarian. He said “The horse and the cow, the rabbit and the cat, the […]

Benedict Cumberbatch

Benedict is an actor. He is vegan and, as someone who is "at least philosophically" Buddhist, it is unclear whether he holds supernatural beliefs. He has said "No, I’m quite […]

Liz Ross

Liz is an activist who co-founded and runs the Vegan Advocacy Initiative. She is vegan and a secular humanist. @Lizveg

Angela Davis

Angela is a political activist, philosopher, academic professor and author. She is a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. A feminist and a Marxist, Davis was a longtime […]

Michaela Coel

Michaela is an actress, screenwriter, director, producer, and singer, best known for creating and starring in "Chewing Gum" and "I May Destroy You". She is vegan and an atheist (ex-Pentecostal […]

Robin Quivers

Robin is a radio personality, author, and actress. She is vegan (she has written a book about her vegan diet) and an atheist. Robin on Wikipedia @rqui

Bryan Adams

Bryan is a singer, guitarist, composer, record producer, photographer, philanthropist, and activist. He has been vegan since 1989 and is an atheist. Bryan on Wikipedia @bryanadams

Elliot Page

Elliot is an actor and producer. He is vegan and an atheist. Elliot on religion: "Religion has always been used for beautiful things, and also as a way to justify […]

Hemant Mehta

Hemant is an author, blogger, and atheist activist. He is either vegetarian or vegan for ethical reasons. Hemant on Wikipedia @hemantmehta

Yuval Noah Harari

Yuval is a public intellectual, a historian and a professor in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is vegan and an atheist (secular Jewish). He […]

Vivienne Westwood

Vivienne is a fashion designer and businesswoman. She is an atheist and either vegetarian or vegan. Vivienne on Wikipedia @FollowWestwood

Joaquin Phoenix

Joaquin is an actor, environmentalist, animal rights activist, and producer. He is vegan and an atheist. Joaquin on Wikipedia

Rooney Mara

Rooney is an actress, philanthropist and founder of a vegan clothing business. She is vegan and has been reported to be an atheist. Rooney on Wikipedia

Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary was a writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights. She was an advocate of non-human animal ethics and was an inspiration for the satire "A Vindication Of The Rights […]

Jeremy Bentham

Jeremy Bentham was an English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer regarded as the founder of modern utilitarianism. He was an atheist and an early advocate for granting moral consideration and […]

Kristen Bell

Kristen is an actress, singer, producer, and voice actress. She is vegan and a non-religious humanist. Kristen on Wikipedia @KristenBell

Jon Stewart

Jon is a comedian, writer, producer, director, political commentator, actor, and television host (e.g. The Daily Show). He is non-religious (Jewish heritage) and vegan. He and his wife, Tracey, run […]

Peter Tatchell

Peter is a human rights campaigner, best known for his work with LGBT social movements. The Netflix movie, "Hating Peter Tatchell", tells the story of his life and work to […]

James Cameron

James Cameron is a filmmaker and environmentalist. He is vegan and an atheist. James on Wikipedia @JimCameron

Naomi Smith

Naomi is the CEO of Best for Britain, the UK's leading non-partisan advocacy group upholding internationalist values. Before her campaigning and political career she worked in the corporate world and […]

Jose Gonzalez

Jose Gonzalez is an Argentinian-Swedish musician. He is an atheist, a vegetarian/vegan and an effective altruist. Jose on Wikipedia @_JoseGonzalez_

Stephen Fry

Stephen is an actor, comedian and writer. He is a prominent secular humanist and atheist and is vegetarian or maybe more recently, vegan. Stephen on Wikipedia @stephenfry

Thandiwe Newton

Thandiwe is an English actor. She is vegan and an atheist. Thandiwe on Wikipedia @thandiwenewton

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Shelley was one of the major English romantic poets. He was a naturalistic atheist per his pamphlet "The Necessity of Atheism" and an advocate of non-violent resistance. Shelly was an […]

Rebecca Goldstein

Rebecca is an atheist and secular humanist who grants moral consideration to all beings capable of suffering (sentient). See this Twitter conversation and this podcast interview. Rebecca on Wikipedia @platobooktour

Floris van den Berg

"I am a sentientist because: Suffering matters to those who suffer. Sentientism means having compassion for all those who suffer – both human and nonhuman. Sentientism means emancipating all sentient […]

Stijn Bruers

"Sentientism means that we should take into account all and everyone's positive and negative feelings, without arbitrary exceptions. No-one and nothing can consistently or reasonably object to sentientism, because disagreeing […]

Corey Lee Wrenn

Corey is a sociologist and scholar of social movements and human-nonhuman relations. She is a lecturer in the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research at the University of […]

Peter Singer

"I’m a Sentientist because all suffering matters morally and because evidence and reason are the only ways to really understand our world." Peter is often referred to as the “world’s […]

Walter Veit

Walter is an interdisciplinary scientist, philosopher and writer focusing on biology, minds and ethics. He publishes the ‘Science and Philosophy‘ series on Psychology Today and Medium. He is vegan and has a naturalistic worldview.

Michael Dello-Iacovo

"Suffering matters, no matter who experiences it. Sentientism is the label that captures this world view." Michael Dello-Iacovo (michaeldello.com and @MichaelDello) is a PhD candidate in space science, looking at […]

David Pearce

"'May all that have life be delivered from suffering.” (Gautama Buddha) Let's help other creatures, not harm them. Any civilisation worthy of the name will be vegan. Our goal should […]

Heather Browning

Heather is a scientist (zoology and biology), philosopher & a former zookeeper & animal welfare officer. She is now a researcher at the London School of Economics specialising in non-human […]

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