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Elisabeth Abegg (1882–1974), German educator who rescued Jews during the Holocaust
(A) (Quakers) -
Damon Albarn (b. 1968), English musician, singer-songwriter and record producer
(A) (Quakers) -
Harry Albright (living), Swiss-born Canadian former editor of The Friend, Communications Consultant for FWCC
(A) (Quakers) -
Thomas Aldham (c. 1616–1660), English Quaker instrumental in setting up the first meeting in the Doncaster area
(A) (Quakers) -
Horace Alexander (1889–1989), English writer on India and friend of Gandhi
(A) (Quakers) -
William Allen (1770–1843), English scientist, philanthropist, and abolitionist
(A) (Quakers) -
Edgar Anderson (1897–1969), American botanist
(A) (Quakers) -
Charlotte Anley (1796–1893), English novelist and writer
(A) (Quakers) -
Elizabeth Ashbridge (1713–1755), English Quaker preacher and memoirist
(A) (Quakers) -
Ann Austin (17th century), early English Quaker missionary
(A) (Quakers) -
Iwao Ayusawa (鮎沢巌, 1894–1972), Japanese diplomat
(A) (Quakers) -
Edmund Backhouse (1824–1906), English banker and MP of Parliament for Darlington
(B) (Quakers) -
James Backhouse (1794–1869), UK-born Australian botanist and missionary
(B) (Quakers) -
Edmund Bacon (1910–2005), American architect
(B) (Quakers) -
Ernest Bader (1890–1982), Swiss-born English businessman and philanthropist
(B) (Quakers) -
Joan Baez (b. 1941), American folk singer and peace campaigner
(B) (Quakers) -
Eric Baker (1920–1976), English co-founder of Amnesty International and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
(B) (Quakers) -
Emily Greene Balch (1867–1961), American Nobel Peace Prize winner
(B) (Quakers) -
Chris Barber (1921–2012), English businessman and chairman of Oxfam
(B) (Quakers) -
Robert Barclay (1648–1690), Scottish theologian
(B) (Quakers) -
John Henry Barlow (1855–1924), English Quaker statesman
(B) (Quakers) -
Geoffrey Barraclough (1908–1984), English historian
(B) (Quakers) -
Florence Mary Barrow (1876–1964), aid worker and housing reform activist
(B) (Quakers) -
Bernard Barton (1784–1849), English poet
(B) (Quakers) -
John Barton (1755–1789), English abolitionist
(B) (Quakers) -
John Bartram (1699–1777), American botanist
(B) (Quakers) -
William Bates (d. 1700), a founder of Newton Colony, the third English colony in West Jersey
(B) (Quakers) -
Helen Bayes (b. 1944), UK-born Australian child rights activist
(B) (Quakers) -
Joel Bean (1825–1914), American Quaker minister
(B) (Quakers) -
Anthony Benezet (1713–1784), American educator, abolitionist
(B) (Quakers) -
Caleb P. Bennett (1758–1836), American soldier and politician
(B) (Quakers) -
Douglas C. Bennett (b. 1946), American academic, president of Earlham College
(B) (Quakers) -
Lewis Benson (1906–1986), American printer, expert in Early Quakerism, especially George Fox
(B) (Quakers) -
Hester Biddle (c. 1629–1697), English pamphleteer and preacher
(B) (Quakers) -
Albert Bigelow (1906–1993), American nuclear weapons protester
(B) (Quakers) -
J. Brent Bill (b. 1951), American recorded minister and writer on religion
(B) (Quakers) -
George Birkbeck (1776–1841), one of the English founders of London Mechanics Institute, now Birkbeck, University of London
(B) (Quakers) -
Sarah Blackborow (fl. 1650s – 1660s), English tractarian prominent in discussion of the role of women in the Society and of social issues
(B) (Quakers) -
Barbara Blaugdone (c. 1609–1705), English autobiographer and minister
(B) (Quakers) -
Taylor A. Borradaile (1885–1977), chemist and one of the four founders and first President of the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity; two of the founding principles of Phi Kappa Tau are also two of the Quaker testimonies: Integrity and Equality
(B) (Quakers) -
Elise Boulding (1920–2010), Norwegian-born American educator, sociologist, prominent in the 20th-century peace research movement
(B) (Quakers) -
Kenneth E. Boulding (1910–1993), English economist, educator, poet, and interdisciplinary philosopher
(B) (Quakers) -
Bathsheba Bowers (4 June 1671–1718), American religious author and preacher
(B) (Quakers) -
Samuel Bownas (1676–1753), English travelling minister and writer
(B) (Quakers) -
John Bowne (1627–1695), English-born promoter of religious freedom in colonial America
(B) (Quakers) -
Sandra Boynton (b. 1953), American writer, cartoonist and composer
(B) (Quakers) -
Bertha Bracey (1893–1989), English teacher and aid worker
(B) (Quakers) -
George Bradshaw (1801–1853), English cartographer, printer, publisher, originator of the railway timetable
(B) (Quakers) -
John Bright (1811–1889), English politician
(B) (Quakers) -
Charlie Brooker (b. 1971), English satirist and broadcaster
(B) (Quakers) -
Edmund Wright Brooks (1834–1928), English philanthropist and cement maker
(B) (Quakers) -
Elizabeth Brown (1830–1899), English astronomer and meteorologist
(B) (Quakers) -
Moses Brown (1738–1836), American industrialist and philanthropist
(B) (Quakers) -
Jocelyn Bell Burnell (b. 1943), Northern Irish astrophysicist
(B) (Quakers) -
Edward Burrough (1634–1663), English member of the Valiant Sixty
(B) (Quakers) -
Smedley D. Butler (1881–1940), Major General in the United States Marine Corps and author of War is a Racket
(B) (Quakers) -
Thomas S. Butler (1855–1928), American congressman
(B) (Quakers) -
Charles Roden Buxton (1875–1942), British Member of Parliament
(B) (Quakers) -
George Cadbury (1839–1922), English chocolatier
(C) (Quakers) -
Henry Cadbury (1883–1974), American writer and chairman of the American Friends Service Committee
(C) (Quakers) -
John Cadbury (1801–1889), English chocolatier
(C) (Quakers) -
Richard Tapper Cadbury (1768–1860), English draper, abolitionist, philanthropist
(C) (Quakers) -
Ruth Cadbury (b. 1959), British Member of Parliament
(C) (Quakers) -
David Cadman (b. 1941), English economist and writer
(C) (Quakers) -
Mary Greig Campbell (1907–1989), New Zealand librarian and China relief worker
(C) (Quakers) -
Arthur Capper (1865–1951), governor and American senator from Kansas
(C) (Quakers) -
Thomas Carpenter (1752–1847), fighting Quaker who served in the Revolutionary War and afterward as a glassmaker
(C) (Quakers) -
Pierre Cérésole (1879–1945), Swiss founder of Service Civil International
(C) (Quakers) -
Whittaker Chambers (1901–1961), American ex-communist, ex-Soviet spy who converted to Quakerism
(C) (Quakers) -
Sarah Cheevers (1608–1664), evangelist
(C) (Quakers) -
Henry Christy (1810–1865), English banker, philanthropist and anthropologist
(C) (Quakers) -
Cyrus Clark (fl. 1825–1863), English co-founder of C&J Clark, shoe manufacturers in Street, Somerset
(C) (Quakers) -
William Coddington (1601–1678), first governor of Rhode Island
(C) (Quakers) -
Levi Coffin (1798–1877), American abolitionist
(C) (Quakers) -
John S. Collins (1837–1928), American land developer
(C) (Quakers) -
Peter Collinson FRS (1694–1768), English botanist
(C) (Quakers) -
John Conard (1773–1857), American politician nicknamed the "Fighting Quaker", buried in an Episcopal Church graveyard
(C) (Quakers) -
Anne Finch Conway (1631–1679), English philosopher
(C) (Quakers) -
William Cooper (1754–1809), founder of Cooperstown, New York and father of author James Fenimore Cooper
(C) (Quakers) -
James A. Corbett (1933–2001), American human-rights campaigner
(C) (Quakers) -
Pit Corder (1918–1990), English applied linguist
(C) (Quakers) -
Isaac Crewdson (1780–1844), English Quaker minister and founder of the Evangelical Friends or Beaconites
(C) (Quakers) -
Stephen Crisp (1628–1692), English writer and recorded Quaker minister, also in the Low Countries
(C) (Quakers) -
Joseph Crosfield (1792–1844), English industrialist
(C) (Quakers) -
James Cudworth (1817–1899), steam locomotive designer
(C) (Quakers) -
Adam Curle (1916–2006), first professor of peace studies at the University of Bradford
(C) (Quakers) -
John Dalton (1766–1844), English chemist
(D) (Quakers) -
Abraham Darby I (1678–1717), English ironmaster
(D) (Quakers) -
Abraham Darby II (1711–1763), English ironmaster
(D) (Quakers) -
Abraham Darby III (1750–1791), English ironmaster
(D) (Quakers) -
Judi Dench (b. 1934), English actress
(D) (Quakers) -
Philip Dennis, agriculture missionary to the Miami Nation
(D) (Quakers) -
Caleb Deschanel (b. 1944), American cinematographer
(D) (Quakers) -
William Dewsbury (1671–1688), English Quaker minister
(D) (Quakers) -
Jonathan Dickinson (1663–1722), Jamaican-born colonial American merchant and politician
(D) (Quakers) -
Richard Dillingham (1823–1850), American abolitionist
(D) (Quakers) -
Ambrose Dixon (1619–1687), colonial American
(D) (Quakers) -
Dorcas Dole (fl. later 17th century), English pamphleteer and sectary
(D) (Quakers) -
Stephen Donaldson (1946–1996), English prison and LGBT activist
(D) (Quakers) -
Edward Doubleday (1811–1849), English entomologist and ornithologist
(D) (Quakers) -
Henry Doubleday (1808–1875), English entomologist and ornithologist
(D) (Quakers) -
Henry Doubleday (1810–1902), English scientist and horticulturalist
(D) (Quakers) -
Sue Doughty (b. 1948), English politician
(D) (Quakers) -
Paul Douglas (1892–1976), economist and US senator
(D) (Quakers) -
Margaret Drabble (b. 1939), English novelist
(D) (Quakers) -
Muriel Duckworth (1908–2009), Canadian peace campaigner
(D) (Quakers) -
Cuthbert Dukes (1890–1977), English physician and pathologist
(D) (Quakers) -
Robert Dunkin (1761–1831), English businessman and patron of science
(D) (Quakers) -
Mary Dyer (c. 1611–1660), colonial American religious martyr
(D) (Quakers) -
Solomon Eccles (1618–1683), initially an English composer, later a Quaker preacher
(E) (Quakers) -
Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882–1944), US astrophysicist
(E) (Quakers) -
Paul Eddington (1927–1995), English actor
(E) (Quakers) -
George Edmondson (1798–1863), English educator
(E) (Quakers) -
Fritz Eichenberg (1901–1990), German illustrator
(E) (Quakers) -
George Ellis (b. 1939), American Templeton Prize winning cosmologist
(E) (Quakers) -
Rowland Ellis (1650–1731), Welsh Quaker leader
(E) (Quakers) -
Thomas Ellwood (1639–1713), English religious writer
(E) (Quakers) -
Joshua Evans (1731–1798), minister, journalist, and abolitionist from Haddonfield, New Jersey
(E) (Quakers) -
Katherine Evans (1618–1692), English evangelist
(E) (Quakers) -
Chuck Fager (b. 1942), American civil rights campaigner
(F) (Quakers) -
Marjorie Farquharson (1953–2016), Scottish political scientist and human rights worker with Amnesty International
(F) (Quakers) -
Jane Fearon (1654 or 1656–1737), Northern English pamphleteer who refuted predestination
(F) (Quakers) -
Margaret Fell (1614–1702), "Mother of Quakerism," one of the Valiant Sixty, owner of Swarthmoor Hall, later married to George Fox
(F) (Quakers) -
John Fenwick (1618–1683), English founder of Fenwick's Colony, the first English settlement in West Jersey
(F) (Quakers) -
James Finlayson (1772–1852), Scottish engineer prominent in Finland
(F) (Quakers) -
Mary Fisher (1623–1698), English Quaker preacher
(F) (Quakers) -
Isabella Ford (1855–1924), English feminist and socialist
(F) (Quakers) -
Mary Forster (c. 1620–1687), English polemicist
(F) (Quakers) -
Edwin B. Forsythe (1916–1984), representative for New Jersey
(F) (Quakers) -
Richard J. Foster, American ecumenical leader and reformer, founder of Renovaré
(F) (Quakers) -
John Fothergill (1712–1780), English Quaker physician, preacher and philanthropist
(F) (Quakers) -
Barclay Fox (1817–1855), English diarist
(F) (Quakers) -
Caroline Fox (1819–1871), English diarist
(F) (Quakers) -
George Fox (1624–1691), founder of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
(F) (Quakers) -
Robert Were Fox I (1754–1818), English businessman
(F) (Quakers) -
Robert Were Fox II (1789–1877), English geologist
(F) (Quakers) -
Samuel Fox (1781–1868), English philanthropist and grocer
(F) (Quakers) -
Tom Fox (1951–2006), humanitarian worker with Christian Peacemaking teams, held captive and killed in Iraq
(F) (Quakers) -
Ursula Franklin (1921–2016), German-born Canadian metallurgist and research physicist
(F) (Quakers) -
Francis Frith (1822–1898), English photographer
(F) (Quakers) -
Christopher Fry (1907–2005), English playwright
(F) (Quakers) -
Elizabeth Fry (1780–1845), English prison reformer
(F) (Quakers) -
Joan Mary Fry (1862–1955), English relief worker and social reformer
(F) (Quakers) -
Joseph Fry (1777–1861), English tea dealer and an unsuccessful banker
(F) (Quakers) -
Margery Fry (1874–1958), English penal reformer and college principal
(F) (Quakers) -
Thomas Garrett (1789–1871), American abolitionist
(G) (Quakers) -
Charles Gilpin (1815–1874), member of UK Parliament
(G) (Quakers) -
Rickman Godlee (1849–1925), English surgeon and biographer
(G) (Quakers) -
George Graham (1673–1751), English clockmaker, inventor, and member of the Royal Society
(G) (Quakers) -
Marion Greeves (1894–1979), one of first two female members of the Senate of Northern Ireland
(G) (Quakers) -
Israel Gregg (1775–1847), first captain of the steamboat Enterprise
(G) (Quakers) -
Stephen Grellet (1773–1855), French-born American missionary
(G) (Quakers) -
Philip Gross (b. 1952), English poet, novelist and playwright
(G) (Quakers) -
Edward Grubb (1854–1939), English religious writer
(G) (Quakers) -
Isabel Grubb (1881–1972), Irish historian
(G) (Quakers) -
Paul Grundy (living), founding President of Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative and IBM's Global Director of Healthcare Transformation
(G) (Quakers) -
Joseph John Gurney (1788–1847), English banker, evangelical and abolitionist
(G) (Quakers) -
Elizabeth Haddon (1680–1762), English-born founder of Haddonfield, New Jersey
(H) (Quakers) -
Sheila Hancock (b. 1933), English comedian/actress
(H) (Quakers) -
Edmund Happold (1930–1996), English engineer
(H) (Quakers) -
Jan de Hartog (1914–2002), Dutch-born American playwright, novelist, and social critic
(H) (Quakers) -
Laura Smith Haviland (1808–1898), American abolitionist and social reformer
(H) (Quakers) -
Wilson A. Head (b. 1914), American/Canadian sociologist, human rights activist
(H) (Quakers) -
John Hickenlooper (b. 1952), American politician
(H) (Quakers) -
Edward Hicks (1780–1849), American painter and recorded Quaker minister
(H) (Quakers) -
Elias Hicks (1748–1830), American Quaker minister, originator of the Hicksite Quaker schism of 1827
(H) (Quakers) -
Declan Hill (living), Canadian journalist
(H) (Quakers) -
Gordon Hirabayashi (1918–2012), American sociologist who defied World War II internment orders; moved to Canada to teach in 1959 and remained there until his death
(H) (Quakers) -
Charles Elmer Hires (1851–1937), early promoter of commercially prepared root beer
(H) (Quakers) -
Samuel Hoare Jr (1751–1825), English banker and abolitionist
(H) (Quakers) -
John Hodgkin (1766–1845), English grammarian and calligrapher
(H) (Quakers) -
John Hodgkin (1800–1875), English barrister and Quaker preacher
(H) (Quakers) -
Thomas Hodgkin (1798–1866), English physician, identifier of Hodgkin's lymphoma
(H) (Quakers) -
Thomas Hodgkin (1831–1913), English historian
(H) (Quakers) -
Gerard Hoffnung (1925–1959), English cartoonist, musician and humorist
(H) (Quakers) -
Christopher Holder (c. 1631 – post–1676), English-born American Quaker evangelist
(H) (Quakers) -
David P. Holloway (1809–1883), American representative from Indiana
(H) (Quakers) -
Rush D. Holt, Jr. (b. 1948), American congressman
(H) (Quakers) -
Elizabeth Hooton (1600–1672), pioneer English preacher
(H) (Quakers) -
Herbert Hoover (1874–1964), American president
(H) (Quakers) -
Johns Hopkins (1795–1873), American philanthropist
(H) (Quakers) -
Samuel Howell (1723–1807), Philadelphia merchant and supporter of American independence.
(H) (Quakers) -
Francis Howgill, English preacher and writer
(H) (Quakers) -
Mary Howitt (1799–1888), English poet, children's writer and translator
(H) (Quakers) -
William Howitt (1792–1879), English writer and poet
(H) (Quakers) -
Charles Humphreys (1714–1786), Continental Congressman
(H) (Quakers) -
John Hunn (1849–1926), governor of Delaware
(H) (Quakers) -
Esther Hunt (1751–1820), leader in her Quaker faith on America's frontier
(H) (Quakers) -
John Hunt (1712–1778), English-born minister, one of the "Virginia Exiles"
(H) (Quakers) -
John Hunt (1740–1824), minister and journalist from Moorestown, New Jersey
(H) (Quakers) -
Rufus Jones (1863–1948), American Quaker theologian
(J) (Quakers) -
T. Canby Jones (b. 1921), American Quaker peace campaigner, theologian, and academic
(J) (Quakers) -
Thomas R. Kelly (1893–1941), American missionary, educator, and spiritual writer
(K) (Quakers) -
Malachy Kilbride (living), American peace and social justice campaigner
(K) (Quakers) -
Garry Kilworth (b. 1941), English novelist and short story writer
(K) (Quakers) -
Haven Kimmel (b. 1965), American novelist and children's writer
(K) (Quakers) -
Ben Kingsley (b. 1943), English actor
(K) (Quakers) -
Judith Kirton-Darling (b. 1977), British politician
(K) (Quakers) -
Anne Knight (1792–1860), English children's writer
(K) (Quakers) -
Joseph Lancaster (1778–1838), public education innovator
(L) (Quakers) -
Benjamin Lay (1681–1760), Quaker abolitionist
(L) (Quakers) -
John C. Lettsome (1744–1815), English physician and founder of the Medical Society of London
(L) (Quakers) -
Raph Levien (living), free software author behind Ghostscript and Advogato
(L) (Quakers) -
John Lilburne (1614–1657), Leveller convert to Quakerism
(L) (Quakers) -
Richard Lippincott (1615–1683), an early settler of Shrewsbury, New Jersey
(L) (Quakers) -
Joseph Jackson Lister (1786–1869), amateur British optician and physicist and father of Joseph Lister
(L) (Quakers) -
Kathleen Lonsdale (1903–1971), Irish scientist
(L) (Quakers) -
John Macmurray (1891–1976), philosopher
(M) (Quakers) -
Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge (b. 1952), South African health minister
(M) (Quakers) -
Elizabeth Magie (1866–1948), inventor of Monopoly
(M) (Quakers) -
Ellen Marriage (1865–1946), translator of Balzac
(M) (Quakers) -
Milton Mayer (1908–1986), American journalist and writer
(M) (Quakers) -
James Michener (1907–1997), American author
(M) (Quakers) -
Samuel Moore (c. 1630–1688), early official in New Jersey
(M) (Quakers) -
Ethan Mordden (b. 1949), American writer
(M) (Quakers) -
Ruth Morris (1933–2001), Canadian advocate of the abolition of prisons
(M) (Quakers) -
Lucretia Mott (1793–1880), American abolitionist and suffragist
(M) (Quakers) -
Rich Mullins (1955–1997), American Christian singer and songwriter
(M) (Quakers) -
Lindley Murray (1745–1826), author of Murray's English Reader
(M) (Quakers) -
Edward R. Murrow (1908–1965), journalist
(M) (Quakers) -
James Nayler (1618–1660), former soldier, then member of the Valiant Sixty
(N) (Quakers) -
Edmund Hort New (1871–1931), English artist and illustrator
(N) (Quakers) -
Carrie Newcomer (living), American singer-songwriter
(N) (Quakers) -
Sir George Newman (1870–1948), British chief medical officer
(N) (Quakers) -
Samuel Nicholas (1744–1790), the first commandant of the United States Marine Corps
(N) (Quakers) -
Sally Nicholls (b. 1983), English children's author
(N) (Quakers) -
Nitobe Inazō (新渡戸稲造, 1862–1933), Japanese diplomat, educator and author
(N) (Quakers) -
John Howard Nodal (1831–1909), English journalist and dialectologist
(N) (Quakers) -
Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker (1889–1982), diplomat and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
(N) (Quakers) -
Amelia Opie (1769–1853), English novelist
(O) (Quakers) -
Constantine Overton (1626/1627 – c. 1690), Quaker leader in Shrewsbury, Shropshire
(O) (Quakers) -
Parker Palmer (b. 1939), American writer, teacher, and campaigner
(P) (Quakers) -
David Parlett (b. 1939), English writer and games inventor
(P) (Quakers) -
Alice Paul (1885–1977), American suffragist
(P) (Quakers) -
Edward Pease (1767–1858), English railway owner
(P) (Quakers) -
Joseph Pease (1799–1872), first Quaker British member of Parliament
(P) (Quakers) -
Sir Joseph Whitwell Pease (1824–1903), Liberal politician and businessman
(P) (Quakers) -
Joseph Albert Pease, 1st Baron Gainford (1860–1943), Liberal politician and businessman
(P) (Quakers) -
Joseph Pease, 2nd Baron Gainford (1889–1971), businessman
(P) (Quakers) -
George Pease, 4th Baron Gainford (b. 1926), architect and town planner
(P) (Quakers) -
Isaac Penington (1616–1679), early English Quaker
(P) (Quakers) -
Hannah Callowhill Penn (1671–1726), second wife of William Penn
(P) (Quakers) -
William Penn (1644–1718), English-born founder of Pennsylvania
(P) (Quakers) -
Herb Pennock (1894–1948), American baseball player
(P) (Quakers) -
Olive Pink, Australian botanical illustrator and campaigner for aboriginal rights
(P) (Quakers) -
Robert Pleasants (1723–1801), American abolitionist and educator
(P) (Quakers) -
William Pollard (1828–1893), English Quaker writer and minister
(P) (Quakers) -
Jacob Post (1774–1855), English religious writer
(P) (Quakers) -
Oliver Postgate (1925–2008), English animator, creator of Bagpuss
(P) (Quakers) -
Gerald Priestland, BBC broadcaster
(P) (Quakers) -
Edmond Privat, Swiss ambassador of Esperanto international language, journalist, historian and university teacher
(P) (Quakers) -
Robert Proud (1728–1813), English educator and historian known for research into the Province of Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania Colony)
(P) (Quakers) -
Walter Pumphrey (fl. 1678), English-born American farmer and carpenter
(P) (Quakers) -
William Pumphrey (1817–1905), pioneer English photographer
(P) (Quakers) -
Daniel Quare (1648/1649–1724), English clockmaker and instrument maker
(Q) (Quakers) -
Arthur Raistrick (1896–1991), English conscientious objector, geologist, and industrial archaeologist
(R) (Quakers) -
Edith Reeves (fl. early 20th c.), American silent film actress
(R) (Quakers) -
Richard Reynolds (1735–1816), English ironmaster at Coalbrookdale
(R) (Quakers) -
William Reynolds (1758–1803), English ironmaster and scientist
(R) (Quakers) -
John Richardson (1667–1753), English Quaker minister and autobiographer
(R) (Quakers) -
John Wigham Richardson (1837–1908), English shipbuilder
(R) (Quakers) -
Lewis Fry Richardson (1881–1953), English mathematician and geophysicist
(R) (Quakers) -
Tom Robinson (b. 1950), English rock musician and disc jockey
(R) (Quakers) -
Joseph Rowntree (1801–1859), chocolate maker and educationist
(R) (Quakers) -
Bayard Rustin (1912–1987), American civil rights leader
(R) (Quakers) -
Susanna M. Salter (1860–1961), first woman mayor in the United States
(S) (Quakers) -
Clive Sansom (1910–1981), English, then Tasmanian poet, playwright and educator
(S) (Quakers) -
William Savery (1750–1804), American Quaker preacher, abolitionist and defender of the rights of Native Americans
(S) (Quakers) -
Elizabeth Clare Scurfield (b. 1950), English sinologist
(S) (Quakers) -
Andrea Seabrook (b. c. 1974), American journalist and broadcaster
(S) (Quakers) -
Ian Serraillier (1912–1994), English novelist, poet and children's writer, who joined the Society of Friends in 1939
(S) (Quakers) -
Anthony Sharp (1643–1707), Dublin wool merchant
(S) (Quakers) -
Isaac Sharp (1681–1735), early New Jersey settler and landowner
(S) (Quakers) -
Philip Sherman (1611–1687), English-born first secretary of state of Rhode Island
(S) (Quakers) -
Jeanmarie Simpson (b. 1959), American theatre artist and peace activist
(S) (Quakers) -
Joan Slonczewski (b. 1956), American biologist and science fiction writer
(S) (Quakers) -
Joseph Southall (1861–1944), English painter and pacifist
(S) (Quakers) -
Lawrence and Cassandra Southwick (c. 1600–1660), English-born colonial American Quakers persecuted with their children for their religious beliefs
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Dorothy Stowe (1920–2010), American-born Canadian social activist and environmentalist, co-founder of Greenpeace
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Irving Stowe (1915–1974), American-born social activist and environmentalist, co-founder of Greenpeace
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John Strettell (1721–1786), English merchant
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Robert Strettell (1693–1762), Irish-born American Quaker convert, early mayor of Philadelphia
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Joseph Sturge (1793–1859), British abolitionist
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Thomas Sturge (1787–1866), British businessman, shipowner and philanthropist
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Thomas Sturge the elder (1749–1825), British oil merchant and philanthropist
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Donald Swann (1923–1994), Welsh-born composer, musician and entertainer
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Noah Haynes Swayne (1804–1884), American jurist and politician
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Heather Tanner (1903–1993), English writer and peace campaigner
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Robin Tanner (1904–1988), English artist, etcher and printmaker
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Henry S. Taylor, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1986
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Joseph Taylor (b. 1941), American winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics
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Valerie Taylor (1913–1997), American novelist
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Philip E. Thomas (1776–1861), first president of the B&O Railroad (the first railroad in the US)
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Thomas Tompion (1639–1713), English clockmaker
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Peterson Toscano (b. 1965), American actor, playwright and gay activist
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Theophila Townsend (d. 1692), English writer and activist
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Connor Trinneer (b. 1969), actor
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D. Elton Trueblood (1900–1994), theologian
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Daniel Hack Tuke (1827–1895), English physician and expert in mental illness
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Henry Tuke (1755–1814), English co-founder of the York Retreat
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Henry Scott Tuke, RA RWS (1858–1929), English visual artist, painter and photographer notable for Impressionist style
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James Hack Tuke (1819–1896), English businessman and philanthropist in Ireland
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Samuel Tuke (1784–1857), English philanthropist and campaigner for the mentally ill
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William Tuke (1732–1822), English philanthropist and campaigner for the mentally ill
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James Turrell (b. 1943), American artist
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Edward Burnett Tylor (1832–1917), English anthropologist
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Jo Vallentine (b. 1946), peace activist and senator for Western Australia
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William Vickrey (1914–1996), Canadian economist and Nobel Prize winner
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Elfrida Vipont Foulds (1902–1992), English novelist, school principal and Quaker activist
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Terry Waite (b. 1939), English humanitarian and author, Archbishop of Canterbury's special envoy
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Priscilla Wakefield (1751–1832), English educational writer and philanthropist
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Mary Vaux Walcott (1860-1940), American botanical artist
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George Washington Walker (1800–1859), English missionary in Australia
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Alfred Waterhouse (1830–1905), English architect
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Robert Spence Watson (1837–1911), English solicitor, reformer and writer
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Benjamin West (1738–1820), American painter
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Catherine West (b. 1966), UK Member of Parliament
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Jessamyn West (1902–1984), American novelist
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Joseph Wharton (1826–1909), American merchant, industrialist and philanthropist
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Daniel Wheeler (1771–1840), English minister and missionary
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Barclay White (1821–1906), American Superintendent of Indian Affairs
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Dorothy White (c. 1630–1686), English religious pamphleteer
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George Whitehead (1636–1723), English Quaker lobbyist, preacher and writer
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John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892), American poet
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John Richardson Wigham (1829–1906), Scottish-born Irish inventor and lighthouse engineer
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John Wilbur (1774–1856), prominent American Quaker minister and thinker
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Jemima Wilkinson (excommunicated 1776), the Publick Universal Friend
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Waldo Williams (1904–1971), Welsh-language poet and pacifist
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Lillian Willoughby (c. 1916–2009), American peace campaigner
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Emilie Dorothy Hilliard Willson (c. 1838–1899) American-born wife of John Joseph Willson and artist
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Emilie Dorothy Willson (1867–1918) English artist and twin of Margaret Willson
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Hannah Willson (c. 1829–1918) English artist
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John Joseph Willson (c. 1837–1903) English leather manufacturer and artist
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Margaret Willson (1867–1932) English artist and twin sister of Emilie Dorothy Willson
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Mary A. Hilliard Willson (1871–1928) English artist
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Michael Anthony Hilliard Willson (1863–1943) English artist
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Anna Wing (1914–2013), English actress
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Gerrard Winstanley (1609–1676), English social and religious reformer
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Caspar Wistar (1696–1752), German-born Pennsylvania glassmaker
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John Woolman (1720–1772), American Quaker preacher and campaigner against slavery
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Thomas William Worsdell (1838–1916), English steam locomotive engineer
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Wilson Worsdell (1850–1920), English steam locomotive engineer
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William Yardley (1632–1693), early settler of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, for whom Yardley, Pennsylvania is named
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Thomas Young (1773–1829), English polymath best known for his physics and Egyptology
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Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906), American suffragist, abolitionist, and pioneer of feminism and civil rights (People with Quaker roots)
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Herbert W. Armstrong (1892–1986), American founder of the Worldwide Church of God (People with Quaker roots)
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Kevin Bacon (b. 1958), American actor of Quaker extraction (People with Quaker roots)
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L. S. Bevington (1845–1895), English anarchist poet, essayist and journalist (People with Quaker roots)
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Morris Birkbeck (1764–1825), American farmer, writer, and promoter of emigration to Illinois (People with Quaker roots)
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Daniel Boone (1735–1820), American frontiersman (People with Quaker roots)
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Maria Louisa Bustill (1853–1904), American teacher, mother of Paul Robeson (People with Quaker roots)
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Smedley Butler (1881–1940), U.S. Marine and social activist (People with Quaker roots)
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Ilka Chase (1900–1978), American actress and novelist (People with Quaker roots)
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Benjamin Chew, American chief justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, became Anglican in the 1750s. (People with Quaker roots)
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Ezra Cornell (1807–1874), American founder of Cornell University, expelled for marrying outside the faith (People with Quaker roots)
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Warder Cresson (1798–1860), American campaigner, author, and convert to Judaism (People with Quaker roots)
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Emily Deschanel (b. 1976), American actress and television producer of Quaker extraction (People with Quaker roots)
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Zooey Deschanel (b. 1980), American actress and singer/songwriter/musician of Quaker extraction (People with Quaker roots)
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John Dickinson (1732–1808), American lawyer and governor of Delaware and Pennsylvania (People with Quaker roots)
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Nathan Dunn (1782–1844), American businessman and collector, disowned in 1816 but a follower of Quaker ethics in further life (People with Quaker roots)
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Sarah Stickney Ellis (1799–1872), English writer on women's roles, became a Congregationalist. (People with Quaker roots)
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Samuel Tertius Galton (1783–1844), English businessman and scientist, convert to Anglicanism (People with Quaker roots)
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Jesse Gause (1785–1836), early American leader of Latter Day Saint movement (People with Quaker roots)
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Nathanael Greene (1742–1786), American major-general in the Continental Army, member of the Rhode Island General Assembly, third quartermaster general. Disowned by the Quakers in 1773. (People with Quaker roots)
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Maria Hack (1777–1844), English educational writer and contributor to the Isaac Crewdson controversy (People with Quaker roots)
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Sam Harris (b. 1967), American author of The End of Faith with a possibly lapsed Quaker father (People with Quaker roots)
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Jonathan Hazard (1744–1824), American statesman and anti-federalist (People with Quaker roots)
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Louisa Gurney Hoare (1784–1836), writer on education, convert to Anglicanism (People with Quaker roots)
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Thomas Hornor (1767–1834), Canadian farmer and politician, expelled for freemasonry and joining a militia (People with Quaker roots)
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John Eliot Howard (1807–1883), English chemist and developer of quinine (People with Quaker roots)
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Luke Howard (1772–1864), English chemist and meteorologist, involved in the Beaconite Controversy and later associated with the Plymouth Brethren (People with Quaker roots)
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Alfred Hunt (1817–1888), American industrialist (People with Quaker roots)
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Eric Knight (1897–1943), English-born novelist and children's writer, author of Lassie Come-Home (1940) (People with Quaker roots)
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Lyndon LaRouche (b. 1922), American disowned in 1941 (People with Quaker roots)
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David Lean (1908–1991), British film director (People with Quaker roots)
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Joseph Lister (1827–1912), English surgeon who promoted the idea of sterile surgery (People with Quaker roots)
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E. V. Lucas (1868–1938), English writer (People with Quaker roots)
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Dolley Madison (1768–1849), American first lady (People with Quaker roots)
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Dave Matthews (b. 1967), South African-born American musician (People with Quaker roots)
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Thomas Merton (1915–1968). Though his mother was an American Quaker and he attended some meetings, he was baptized and primarily raised an Anglican. (People with Quaker roots)
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Maria Mitchell (1818–1889), an Australian, one of the first women in astronomy; retained ties to the Quakers, but became a Unitarian. (People with Quaker roots)
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Russ Nelson (b. 1958), American open-source software developer (People with Quaker roots)
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Richard Nixon (1913–1994), American President (People with Quaker roots)
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Thomas Paine (1737–1809), Anglo-American political philosopher and revolutionary; his father was a Quaker, but he was a non-religious deist (People with Quaker roots)
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Hilary Douglas Clark Pepler (1878–1951), English convert to Catholicism, who founded The Guild of St Joseph and St Dominic (People with Quaker roots)
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Bonnie Raitt (b. 1949), American singer and musician (People with Quaker roots)
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Thomas Rickman (1776–1841), English architect and author, and major figure in the Gothic Revival (People with Quaker roots)
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Thomas 'Clio' Rickman (1760–1834), English political pamphleteer and friend of Thomas Paine (People with Quaker roots)
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Ned Rorem (b. 1923), composer of art songs and of a substantial work for organ, "A Quaker Reader" (People with Quaker roots)
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Anna Sewell (1820–1878), English children's writer, converted to Anglicanism about 1838 (People with Quaker roots)
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Joseph Henry Shorthouse (1834–1903), English novelist, converted to Anglicanism in 1861 (People with Quaker roots)
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Hannah Whitall Smith (1832–1911), American-born evangelical holiness preacher, suffragist and temperance campaigner (People with Quaker roots)
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Robert Pearsall Smith (1827–1898), American-born leading figure in the UK Higher Life movement; later began to entertain notions of spiritual wifery, was criticized, and eventually claimed to be a Buddhist. (People with Quaker roots)
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Satyananda Stokes (1882–1946), American raised a Quaker as "Samuel Evans Stokes, Jr.", later converted to Hinduism (People with Quaker roots)
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Cheryl Tiegs (b. 1947), American model, current religious status uncertain (People with Quaker roots)
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William Weeks (1813–1900), American architect and temporary convert to Mormonism (People with Quaker roots)
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Walt Whitman (1819–1892), eminent American poet, born to Hicksite Quaker parents (People with Quaker roots)
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