Willem Johanson Ralph Bartholomy (1940-2004) was a famous Lovian biologist, journalist, philosopher and author. He was the Lovian Freethought Academy's (then Freethought Association) chairman in 2002. His best-known works are Philosophy and Evolution (1990), Darwin's Evolution and the Meanings of Life (1994) and Philosophy and Religion (2003). From 1990-1992 Bartholomy was President of the Lovian Philosophical Society.