Joseph Mazzini Wheeler (24 January 1850 – 5 May 1898) was an English atheist and freethought writer.
Wheeler was born in London. He briefly worked as a lithographer in Edinburgh.[1] He became an atheist after reading the works of Charles Darwin, John Stuart Mill and Herbert Spencer.[2] In 1868, he met George William Foote and they became lifelong friends.[1] Wheeler worked as an editor for Foote's Freethinker journal. He was strongly anti-Christian.[1]
His most well known work was A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages (1889).[1] He was vice-President of the National Secular Society.[3]
Wheeler suffered from a mental breakdown and died in an asylum in 1898.[4]