13 people you should search for on YouTube
by ChrisChadwick | created - 20 Sep 2012 | updated - 24 Sep 2012 | PublicThese guys will increase your understanding of the world and help you appreciate life and live it to the fullest. Look them up on YouTube and watch as many clips as you can find (hundreds). You'll come out of it a different and better person. Then watch 'Zeitgeist: Moving Forward'. It'll blow you away.
1. Christopher Hitchens
Writer | The World About Us
Christopher Eric Hitchens (born April 13, 1949) was a British-American author, journalist, and literary critic. He was a columnist at Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, The Nation, Slate, and Free Inquiry.
Hitchens is known for his atheism and anti-theism and was a firm believer in the Enlightenment values ...
One of the Four Horsemen with Richard Dawkins, Dan Dennett and Sam Harris. He will be missed.
American philosopher and neuroscientist.
3. Jon Stewart
Producer | The Daily Show
Jon Stewart was born Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz in New York City, New York, to Marian (Laskin), a teacher, and Donald Leibowitz, a physics professor. His family is Ashkenazi Jewish (from Austria, Ukraine, Poland, and Belarus). Stewart moved to Lawrenceville, New Jersey during his childhood. He ...
4. Bill Hicks
Producer | Ninja Bachelor Party
Born in Georgia but raised in Houston since the age of 7, this self-described "Prince of Darkness" was compelled to use the comedy stage as his philosophic soapbox. At 13, he would sneak out of his suburban house to hustle his way onto open-mike night rosters. In two brief decades, Hicks worked his...
5. George Carlin
Actor | Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
George Denis Patrick Carlin was born and raised in Manhattan, New York City, to Mary (Bearey), a secretary, and Patrick John Carlin, an advertising manager for The Sun; they had met while working in marketing. His father was from Donegal, Ireland, and his mother was Irish-American. His parents ...
6. Penn Jillette
Writer | Penn & Teller Get Killed
Penn Jillette was born on March 5, 1955 in Greenfield, Massachusetts, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Penn & Teller Get Killed (1989), Penn & Teller: Bullshit! (2003) and Hackers (1995). He has been married to Emily Zolten Jillette since November 23, 2004. They have two children.
7. Carl Sagan
Writer | Contact
Astronomer, educator and author Carl Sagan was perhaps the world's greatest popularizer of science, reaching millions of people through newspapers, magazines and television broadcasts. He is well-known for his work on the PBS series Cosmos (1980), the Emmy Award and Peabody Award-winning show that ...
8. Richard Feynman
Writer | Infinity
Richard Feynman is one of the twentieth century's greatest physicists. He worked on the atomic bomb project and won the Nobel Prize for his work in quantum electrodynamics. He was one of the chief investigators in the Challenger Shuttle disaster.
9. Stephen Fry
Actor | Gosford Park
Writer, actor, comedian, doer of good works, excellent good friend to the famous and not, Fry lives in his London SW1 flat and his Norfolk house when not traveling. Famous for his public declaration of celibacy in the "Tatler" back in the 1980s, Emma Thompson has characterised her friend as "90 ...
10. Richard Dawkins
Actor | Doctor Who
Richard Dawkins was born on March 26, 1941 in Nairobi, Kenya. He is an actor and writer, known for Doctor Who (2005), Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (2008) and Intersect (2020). He has been married to Lalla Ward since September 1992. He was previously married to Marian Dawkins and Eve Barham.
Evolutionary biologist, best known for writing 'The Selfish Gene' and 'The God Delusion'.
11. A.C. Grayling
Self | The London Programme
A.C. Grayling was born on April 3, 1949 in Luanshya, Zambia.
English philosopher, best known for writing 'The Good Book', 'The Meaning of Things' and 'Among the Dead Cities'.
12. Daniel C. Dennett
Self | Psi
Daniel C. Dennett was born on March 28, 1942 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was a director, known for Psi, The Human Robot (2015) and Victim of the Brain (1988). He was married to Susan Bell. He died on April 19, 2024 in Portland, Oregon, USA.
American philosopher and cognitive scientist, best known for writing 'Darwin's Dangerous Idea', 'Freedom Evolves' and 'Breaking the Spell'.
13. Keith Olbermann
Writer | SportsCenter
Author / sportswriter / radio commentator / TV pundit Keith Olbermann's first book, "The Major League Coaches", was published when he was 14. He began his career as a play-by-play announcer for WHTR while he was still in high school. Beginning college at age 16, he graduated with a Bachelors of ...
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