Former evangelical minister John Loftus was recently profiled for the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel in this article:
Ex-preacher says goodbye to God
John Loftus left his faith, but he hasn’t stopped preaching.
Loftus, 53, grew up in Fort Wayne, ministered for 14 years in several area churches, including Christ’s Church at Georgetown, then started backing out of [...]

Joe E. Holman is a former Church of Christ minister who preached Christianity for nine years but is now an atheist and blogs about his atheism at ministerturnsatheist.org. Here you can read his de-conversion story, “From Gospel Preacher to Good Atheist,” which details how he initially became a deeply committed evangelical, his life preaching the [...]

Richard Carrier recently finished his Ph.D. at Columbia University in ancient history, with a specialization in science, philosophy, historical method, and Greco-Roman religious and intellectual history. He is perhaps best known for his extensive and numerous writings on the Secular Web covering such topics as atheism, ancient history, debate, ethics and values, faith and reason, [...]

Ellen Johnson is a former president of the national organization American Atheists.
American Atheists was founded by its first president, Madalyn Murray O’Hair, in 1963 as part of her campaign against mandatory prayer and bible recitations in public schools within the United States. According to their website:
American Atheists is dedicated to working for the civil rights [...]

This is the first post in an on-going series that will highlight notable atheists, either alive or deceased. As far as I am concerned, a notable atheist is a person who has made significant contributions to advancing atheism or other forms of reasoned unbelief. This is not necessarily the same as a celebrity atheist. You [...]