The International Academy of Humanism was established to recognize distinguished humanists and to disseminate humanistic ideals and beliefs. The members of the academy, listed below:
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are devoted to free inquiry in all fields of human endeavor,
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are committed to a scientific outlook and the use of the scientific method in acquiring knowledge, and
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uphold humanist ethical values and principles.
The academy's goals include furthering respect for human rights, freedom, and the dignity of the individual; tolerance of various viewpoints and willingness to compromise; commitment to social justice; a universalistic perspective that transcends national, ethnic, religious, sexual, and racial barriers; and belief in a free and open pluralistic and democratic society.
Humanist Laureates
• Pieter Admiraal (MD—Netherlands)
• Shulamit Aloni (Minister of Education—Israel)
• Ruben Ardila (Univ. de Colombia—Colombia)
• Margaret Atwood (author—Canada)
• Kurt Baier (Univ. of Pittsburgh—USA)
• Etienne Baulieu (French Inst. of Health & Medical Rsch—France)
• Baruj Benacerraf (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute—USA)
• Elena Bonner (human rights advocate—Russia)
• Jacques Bouveresse (Collège de France—France)
• Paul D. Boyer (Univ. of California, Los Angeles—USA)
• Mario Bunge (McGill Univ.—Canada)
• Jean-Pierre Changeux (Collège de France—France)
• Patricia Smith Churchland (Univ. of California, San Diego—USA)
• Richard Dawkins (Oxford Univ.—UK)
• José M. R. Delgado (Univ. of Madrid—Spain)
• Daniel C. Dennett (Tufts University—USA)
• Jean Dommanget (Royal Observatory—Belgium)
• Ann Druyan (author, lecturer, producer—USA)
• Umberto Eco (Univ. of Bologna—Italy)
• Luc Ferry (Sorbonne—France)
• Yves Galifret (Union Rationaliste—France)
• Johan Galtung, (Univ. of Oslo—Norway)
• Murray Gell-Mann (Nobel Laureate, Sante Fe Inst.—USA)
• Vitaly Ginzburg (Moscow State University—Russia)
• Rebecca Goldstein (author, professor, Trinity College—USA)
• Adolf Grünbaum (Univ. of Pittsburgh—USA)
• Jürgen Habermas (Univ. of Frankfurt—Germany)
• Margherita Hack (astronomer, astrophysicist—Italy)
• Alberto Hidalgo Tuñón (Univ. de Oviedo—Spain)
• Donald Johanson (Inst. of Human Origins—USA)
• Sergei Kapitza (Moscow Inst. of Physics and Technology—Russia)
• George Klein (Karolinska Inst.—Sweden)
• György Konrád (author—Hungary)
• Sir Harold W. Kroto (University of Sussex—UK)
• Ioanna Kuçuradi (FISP—Turkey)
• Thelma Lavine (George Mason Univ.—USA)
• Richard Leakey (activist and conservationist—Kenya)
• Jean-Marie Lehn (Université Louis Pasteur—France)
• Elizabeth Loftus (professor, Univ. of California/Irvine—USA)
• José Leite Lopes (Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas—Brazil)
• Adam Michnik (author—Poland)
• Jonathan Miller (OBE, MD, author—UK)
• Taslima Nasrin (MD, author—Bangladesh)
• Elaine Pagels (professor, Princeton Univ.—USA)
• Steven Pinker (Harvard Univ.—USA)
• Dennis Razis (MD—Greece)
• Marcel Roche (Inst. de Investigaciones Científicas—Venezuela)
• Salman Rushdie (author, MIT—USA)
• Fernando Savater (philosophy educator—Spain)
• Peter Singer (Princeton Univ.—USA)
• Jens Chr. Skou (Univ. of Aarhus—Denmark)
• J. J. C. Smart (Australian National Univ.—Australia)
• Wole Soyinka (Nobel Laureate, author—Nigeria)
• Barbara Stanosz (Inst. “Ksia˛z·ka i Prasa”—Poland)
• Jack Steinberger (physicist—Switzerland)
• Thomas S. Szasz (State Univ. of New York—USA)
• Sir Keith Thomas (Oxford Univ.—UK)
• Rob Tielman (Univ. of Utrecht—Netherlands)
• Lionel Tiger (Rutgers Univ.—USA)
• Neil deGrasse Tyson (scientist, Hayden Planetarium—USA)
• Mario Vargas Llosa (author—Perú)
• Simone Veil (former president, European Parliament—France)
• Gore Vidal (author—USA)
• Mourad Wahba (Univ. of Ain Shams—Egypt)
• James D. Watson (author, biologist—USA)
• Steven Weinberg (Univ. of Texas, Austin—USA
• Harvey Weinstein (co-founder of Miramax—USA)
• G. A. Wells (Univ. of London—UK)
• Edward O. Wilson (Harvard Univ.—USA)
Deceased
• George O. Abell
• Steve Allen
• Isaac Asimov
• Sir Alfred J. Ayer
• R. Nita Barrow
• Sir Isaiah Berlin
• Brand Blanshard
• Sir Hermann Bondi
• Bonnie Bullough
• Arthur C. Clarke
• Bernard Crick
• Francis Crick
• Milovan Djilas
• Paul Edwards
• Sir Raymond Firth
• Joseph F. Fletcher III
• Antony Flew
• Betty Friedan
• Stephen Jay Gould
• Herbert Hauptman
• Christopher Hitchens
• Sidney Hook
• Lawrence Kohlberg
• Paul Kurtz
• Franco Lombardi
• Jolé Lombardi
• André Michael Lwoff
• Paul B. MacCready, Jr.
• Ernest Nagel
• Conor Cruise O’Brien
• George Olincy
• Indumati Parikh
• John Passmore
• Octavio Paz
• Chaim Perelman
• Sir Karl Popper
• W. V. Quine
• Max Rood
• Richard Rorty
• Carl Sagan
• Andrei Sakharov
• Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
• Svetozar Stojanovic
• V. M. Tarkunde
• Richard Taylor
• Sir Peter Ustinov
• Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
• Lady Barbara Wooton
Secretariat
• Valerií A. Kuvakin (Moscow State Univ.--Russia)
• Gerald A. Larue (Univ. of Southern California--USA)
• Jean-Claude Pecker (Collège de France--France)
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