Entertainment
Cinema
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- Woody Allen[3][4] – American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
- David Cronenberg[5][6][7] – Canadian filmmaker, screenwriter and actor, one of the principal originators of what is commonly known as the body horror or venereal horror genre
- Stanley Donen[8] – film director and choreographer whose most celebrated works are Singin' in the Rain and On the Town
- Richard Dreyfuss (self -described agnostic)[9] – American actor [10]
- Sergei Eisenstein – Soviet Russian film director and film theorist[11][12][13]
- Harvey Fierstein[14] – American actor, playwright, winner of two Tony Awards
- Stephen Fry[15] – English actor, screenwriter, author, playwright, journalist, poet, comedian, television presenter, film director and a director of Norwich City Football Club
- Keith Gordon[16] – American actor and film director
- Nina Hartley[17] – American pornographic actress, pornographic film director, sex educator, feminist, and author
- Alejandro Jodorowsky – Chilean director[18]
- Stanley Kubrick – American film director, writer, film producer, and photographer[19][20]
- John Landis[21] – American film director, screenwriter, actor, producer, collaborated with Michael Jackson
- Fritz Lang – Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, and occasional film producer and actor.[22][23][24]
- Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) – American actress, model, and singer (converted to Reform Judaism to marry Arthur Miller, and remained within Judaism even after her divorce from him).[25]
- Daniel Radcliffe (self-described atheist)[26][27] – English actor, protagonist of Harry Potter film series
- Harold Ramis (irreligious,[28] agnostic[29]) – American actor, director, and writer specializing in comedy.
- Carl Reiner (self-described Jewish atheist[30]) – American actor, film director, producer, writer, comedian, won nine Emmy Awards and one Grammy Award
- Rob Reiner – American actor, film director, producer, and political activist[31]
- Adrienne Shelly (agnostic[32]) – American actor, screenwriter and director
- Todd Solondz[33] – American independent film screenwriter and director known for his style of dark, thought-provoking, socially conscious satire
- Matt Stone[34][35] – American actor, voice actor, animator, screenwriter, producer, musician, South Park
- Gene Wilder – American actor[36]
Comedy
- Eric Andre (atheist and practitioner of Transcendental Meditation[37]) – American comedian, actor, producer, and musician.
- David Baddiel ("fundamentalist Jewish atheist"[38][39]) – British comedian and television presenter
- Jack Black[40][41] – American comedian, actor and musician, Frat Pack comedian group, Golden Globe award
- Michael Ian Black[42][43] – American comedian, actor, writer, director.
- Rodney Dangerfield (self-described "Logical atheist"[44]) - American stand-up comedian.
- David Cross – American actor and comedian[42][43][45]
- Larry David (1947–) – American actor, writer, comedian, and producer[46]
- Jay Foreman (1984–) – English YouTuber, singer-songwriter, and comedian.[47]
- Myq Kaplan[48] – American stand-up comedian
- Bill Maher (antitheist, self-described atheist,[49][50] apatheist[51][52] and agnostic[53]) – American stand-up comedian, author, host of HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher
- Marc Maron (negative atheist[54]) – American stand-up comedian, radio and podcast host
- Sarah Silverman (irreligious[55][56] agnostic[57]) – American comedian, writer, actor, singer, musician
- Gene Wilder – American actor[36]
Comic book writers
- Neil Gaiman (agnostic[58]) – English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre and films; works include the comic book series The Sandman and novels Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book
Comic book editors
- Stan Lee (agnostic[59]) – American comic book writer, editor, actor, producer, publisher, television personality, and the former president and chairman of Marvel Comics
Music
- Larry Adler[60] – American musician, widely acknowledged as one of the world's most skilled harmonica players
- Irving Berlin (agnostic[61]) – American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history
- Aaron Copland (agnostic[62]) – American composer
- Shalom Hanoch[63] – Israeli rock singer, lyricist, composer, father of Israeli rock[better source needed]
- Richard Hell – American singer, songwriter, bass guitarist, and writer[64]
- Billy Joel (1949–) – American pianist, singer-songwriter and composer.[65]
- Howard Kaylan – American rock and roll musician, best known as a founding member and lead singer of the 1960s band The Turtles, and as "Eddie" in the 1970s rock band Flo & Eddie.[66]
- Geddy Lee[67] – Canadian musician, best known as the lead vocalist, bassist, and keyboardist for the Canadian rock group Rush
- Tom Lehrer (agnostic atheist[68]) – American singer-songwriter, satirist, pianist, and mathematician
- Jenny Lewis[69] – American singer-songwriter musician and actress
- Gustav Mahler (agnostic[70][71][72][73][74][75][76][77]) – Late-Romantic Austrian composer and one of the leading conductors of his generation
- Randy Newman – American singer-songwriter, arranger, composer, and pianist, known for his distinctive voice, mordant (and often satirical) pop songs and for film scores[78][79]
- Anton Rubinstein[80] – Russian pianist, composer and conductor who became a pivotal figure in Russian culture when he founded the Saint Petersburg Conservatory.
- Kurt Weill (agnostic[81]) – German composer
Radio
- Ira Glass – host of This American Life[82]
- Larry King – American television and radio host.[83][84][85]
- Howard Stern (agnostic atheist[86][87]) – American radio personality, television host, author, actor, and photographer
Sports/games
- Mikhail Botvinnik (1911–1995) – Soviet and Russian grandmaster and three-time World Chess Champion, widely considered one of the greatest chess players of all time[88]
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