List of Quakers
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This is a list of notable people associated with the Religious Society of Friends
, also known as Quakers, who have a Wikipedia page. "Red-links" can be found on the Discussion page until their Wikipedia pages are completed. Entries should include dates and be referenced if possible, or marked "citation needed" if not.
The first part consists of individuals who are known to be or to have been Quakers continually from some point in their lives onward.
The second part consists of individuals whose parents were Quakers or who were Quakers themselves at one time in their lives but then converted to another religion, formally or informally distanced themselves from the Society of Friends, or were disowned by their Friends Meeting.
Religious Society of Friends
The Religious Society of Friends, or Friends Church, is a Christian movement which stresses the doctrine of the priesthood of all believers. Members are known as Friends, or popularly as Quakers. It is made of independent organisations, which have split from one another due to doctrinal differences...
, also known as Quakers, who have a Wikipedia page. "Red-links" can be found on the Discussion page until their Wikipedia pages are completed. Entries should include dates and be referenced if possible, or marked "citation needed" if not.
The first part consists of individuals who are known to be or to have been Quakers continually from some point in their lives onward.
The second part consists of individuals whose parents were Quakers or who were Quakers themselves at one time in their lives but then converted to another religion, formally or informally distanced themselves from the Society of Friends, or were disowned by their Friends Meeting.
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- Harry AlbrightHarry AlbrightHarry James Albright is the Director of Communications for the Friends World Committee for Consultation . He was editor of The Friend Magazine from 1997 to 2004. He is also the co-owner of a training company....
(living), Swiss-born Canadian editor of The Friend, director of communications for FWCCFriends World Committee for ConsultationThe Friends World Committee for Consultation is a Quaker organization that works to communicate between all parts of Quakerism. FWCC's world headquarters is based in London. It has Consultative NGO status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations...
. - Thomas AldhamThomas Aldham-Founder:Nothing is known of Aldham's parentage. He farmed successfully at Warmsworth, near Doncaster. In 1644, he married Mary Killam , whom her son Thomas described as "a Woman that truly feared God, and served him in her Day and Generation." Aldham's son William was instrumental in opening the...
, (c. 1616–1660), English Quaker instrumental in setting up the first meeting in the DoncasterDoncasterDoncaster is a town in South Yorkshire, England, and the principal settlement of the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster. The town is about from Sheffield and is popularly referred to as "Donny"...
area. - William AllenWilliam Allen (Quaker)William Allen FRS, FLS was an English scientist and philanthropist who opposed slavery and engaged in schemes of social and penal improvement in early nineteenth century England.-Early life:...
, (1770–1843), English scientist, philanthropist, and abolitionist. - Edgar AndersonEdgar AndersonEdgar Anderson was an American botanist. His 1949 book Introgressive Hybridization was an original and important contribution to botanical genetics....
, (1897–1969), American botanist. - Susan B. AnthonySusan B. AnthonySusan Brownell Anthony was a prominent American civil rights leader who played a pivotal role in the 19th century women's rights movement to introduce women's suffrage into the United States. She was co-founder of the first Women's Temperance Movement with Elizabeth Cady Stanton as President...
, (1820–1906), American suffragist, abolitionist, and pioneer of feminism and civil rights. - Jan ArnowJan ArnowJan Arnow is most commonly known for her work as the founder and director of the Institute for Intercultural Understanding, the No More Violence Project, and the Stand and Be Counted group, but she is also the author eight published books, a teacher, activist, artist, and mother of three.-About...
, (b. 1947), American writer and peace proponent. - Elizabeth AshbridgeElizabeth AshbridgeElizabeth Ashbridge was an 18th century Quaker minister born in Cheshire, England.-Early life:Elizabeth was born in 1713 in the town of Middlewich in Cheshire, England to Thomas and Mary Sampson. Thomas was a surgeon on sea vessels and Mary was a pious follower of the Church of England...
, (1713–1755), English Quaker preacher and memoirist. - Ann AustinAnn AustinAnn Austin was one of the first women persecuted for her religious beliefs in the American colonies. She attended Blair Academy 1845, going HAM every night....
, (17th c.), early English Quaker missionary. - Iwao AyusawaIwao Ayusawa' was a diplomat and international authority on social and labor issues.-Career:In 1911 he went to Hawaii as a recipient of the Friend Peace Scholarship. He graduated from Haverford College in 1917, and then attended Columbia University, from which he graduated in 1920...
, (1894–1972), Japanese diplomat.
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- Edmund Backhouse, (1824–1906), English banker and MP of Parliament for DarlingtonDarlington (UK Parliament constituency)Darlington is a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election....
. - James BackhouseJames BackhouseJames Backhouse was a botanist and missionary for the Quaker church in Australia.-Early life in England:Backhouse was the fourth child of James and Mary Backhouse a quaker business family of Darlington, County Durham, England. His father died when he was a child and his mother brought him up in a...
, (1794–1869), UK-born Australian botanist and missionary. - Edmund Bacon, (1910–2005), US architect.
- Ernest BaderErnest BaderErnest Bader and his wife, Dora Scott, founded a chemical company, Scott Bader, and gave it to the employees, under terms of Common ownership, forming the Scott Bader Commonwealth, in 1951....
, (1890–1982), Swiss-born English businessman and philanthropist. - Joan BaezJoan BaezJoan Chandos Baez is an American folk singer, songwriter, musician and a prominent activist in the fields of human rights, peace and environmental justice....
, (b. 1941), US folk singer and peace campaigner. - Eric BakerEric Baker (activist)Eric Baker was a British activist and one of the founders of the human rights group Amnesty International, and the second general secretary of the organization...
, (1920–1976), English co-founder of Amnesty InternationalAmnesty InternationalAmnesty International is an international non-governmental organisation whose stated mission is "to conduct research and generate action to prevent and end grave abuses of human rights, and to demand justice for those whose rights have been violated."Following a publication of Peter Benenson's...
and the Campaign for Nuclear DisarmamentCampaign for Nuclear DisarmamentThe Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament is an anti-nuclear organisation that advocates unilateral nuclear disarmament by the United Kingdom, international nuclear disarmament and tighter international arms regulation through agreements such as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty...
. - John BalabanJohn BalabanJohn B. Balaban is an American poet and translator, an authority on Vietnamese literature.-Biography:Balaban was born in a housing project neighborhood in Philadelphia to Romanian immigrant parents, Phillip and Alice Georgies Balaban...
, (b. 1943), American poet and translator. - Emily Greene BalchEmily Greene BalchEmily Greene Balch was an American academic, writer, and pacifist who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946 , notably for her work with the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom .Born in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston into an affluent family, she was amongst the first...
(1867–1961), American Nobel Peace Prize winner. - Chris BallanceChris BallanceChris Ballance is a playwright and Scottish Green Party politician, a former Member of the Scottish Parliament for the South of Scotland region.-Biography:...
, (b. 1952), member of the Scottish Parliament (Green PartyScottish Green PartyThe Scottish Green Party is a green party in Scotland. It has two MSPs in the devolved Scottish Parliament, Alison Johnstone, representing Lothian, and Patrick Harvie, for Glasgow.-Organisation:...
) and playwright. - Mark BallardMark BallardMark Ballard is a former Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Lothians region between 2003 and 2007, representing the Scottish Green Party and was Lord Rector of the University of Edinburgh between 2006 and 2009...
, (b. 1971), member of the Scottish Parliament (Green Party), rector of Edinburgh University. - Robert BarclayRobert BarclayRobert Barclay was a Scottish Quaker, one of the most eminent writers belonging to the Religious Society of Friends and a member of the Clan Barclay. He was also governor of the East Jersey colony in North America through most of the 1680s, although he himself never resided in the...
, (1648–1690), Scottish theologian. - Bernard BartonBernard Barton-External links:* at Find-A-Grave...
, (1784–1849), English poet. - John BartonJohn Barton (quaker)John Barton was one of the nine English Quaker members of the "Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade" set up in 1787 by William Wilberforce and two other Anglicans . Their efforts ultimately led to the passing of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act, 1807 by British Parliament on 25 March...
, (1755–1789), English abolitionist. - John BartramJohn Bartram*Hoffmann, Nancy E. and John C. Van Horne, eds., America’s Curious Botanist: A Tercentennial Reappraisal of John Bartram 1699-1777. Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 243. ....
, (1699–1777), American botanist. - William BatesWilliam Bates (Quaker immigrant)William Bates, or William Bate, was the first European settler of Oaklyn, New Jersey. Bates was a devout Quaker who emigrated from Ireland to West Jersey to escape persecution for his religious beliefs...
(d. 1700), first European settler of Oaklyn, New Jersey. - Joel BeanJoel BeanJoel Bean was a Quaker minister whose name has been associated with a branch of Quakerism that some label “Beanite.”...
(1825–1914), American Quaker minister. - Anthony BenezetAnthony BenezetAnthony Benezet, or Antoine Bénézet , was a French-born American educator and abolitionist.-Biography:Anthony Benezet was born in Saint-Quentin, France, on 31 January 1713. His family were Huguenots. Because of the persecution of Protestants after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685,...
(1713–1784), American educator, abolitionistAbolitionismAbolitionism is a movement to end slavery.In western Europe and the Americas abolitionism was a movement to end the slave trade and set slaves free. At the behest of Dominican priest Bartolomé de las Casas who was shocked at the treatment of natives in the New World, Spain enacted the first...
. - Caleb P. BennettCaleb P. BennettCaleb Prew Bennett was an American soldier and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a veteran of the American Revolution and the War of 1812, and a member of the Democratic Party who served as Governor of Delaware.-Early life and family:Bennett was born in Chester...
, (1758–1836), American soldier and politician. - Douglas C. BennettDouglas C. BennettDouglas C. Bennett is the immediate past president of Earlham College, located in Richmond, Indiana. He was installed as president in 1996. Since 1997, Bennett had also been a member of the political science department at Earlham....
, (b. 1946), American academic, president of Earlham CollegeEarlham CollegeEarlham College is a liberal arts college in Richmond, Indiana. It was founded in 1847 by Quakers and has approximately 1,200 students.The president is John David Dawson...
. - Lewis BensonLewis BensonLewis Benson was perhaps the 20th century’s greatest expert on the writings of George Fox. And although this expertise was widely acknowledged, he was also a voice crying in the wilderness, for he sought to herald a gospel greater than he to a body of modern Quakers with little taste for it...
, (1906–1986), American printer, expert in Early Quakerism, especially George Fox. - Albert BigelowAlbert BigelowAlbert S. Bigelow was a pacifist and former United States Navy Commander, who came to prominence in the 1950s as the skipper of the Golden Rule, the first vessel to attempt disruption of a nuclear test in protest against nuclear weapons.-Peace Movement:Prior to his involvement in the peace...
, (1906–1993), American nuclear weapons protester. - J. Brent BillJ. Brent BillJ. Brent Bill is an American author who now lives in Mooresville, Indiana.He is a graduate of Wilmington College and Earlham School of Religion. Bill is a recorded minister in the Religious Society of Friends...
, (b. 1951), American registered minister and writer on religion. - George BirkbeckGeorge BirkbeckGeorge Birkbeck was a British doctor, academic, philanthropist, pioneer in adult education and founder of Birkbeck College.-Biography:...
, (1776–1841), an English founder of London Mechanics Institute, now Birkbeck, University of LondonBirkbeck, University of LondonBirkbeck, University of London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the federal University of London. It offers many Master's and Bachelor's degree programmes that can be studied either part-time or full-time, though nearly all teaching is...
. - Elise Boulding, (1920–2010), Norwegian-born American educator, sociologist, prominent in the 20th century peace research movement.
- Kenneth E. BouldingKenneth E. BouldingKenneth Ewart Boulding was an economist, educator, peace activist, poet, religious mystic, devoted Quaker, systems scientist, and interdisciplinary philosopher. He was cofounder of General Systems Theory and founder of numerous ongoing intellectual projects in economics and social science. He was...
, (1910–1993), English economist, educator, poet, and interdisciplinary philosopher. - Samuel BownasSamuel BownasSamuel Bownas was a second-generation Quaker, a travelling minister, and a writer. He lived in the Lancaster and Dover area of England...
, (1676–1753), English travelling minister and writer. - John BowneJohn BowneJohn Bowne was an English immigrant residing in the Dutch colony of New Netherland, who is honored today as a pioneer in the American struggle for religious liberty....
, (1627–1695), English-born promoter of religious freedom in colonial America. - Sandra BoyntonSandra BoyntonSandra Keith Boynton is an American humorist, songwriter, children's author and illustrator. Boynton has written and illustrated more than forty books for both children and adults, as well as over four thousand greeting cards, and four music albums...
, (b. 1953), American writer, cartoonist and composer. - George BradshawGeorge BradshawGeorge Bradshaw was an English cartographer, printer and publisher. He is best known for developing the most successful and longest published series of combined railway timetables.-Biography:...
, (1801–1853), English cartographer, printer, publisher, originator of the railway timetable. - John BrightJohn BrightJohn Bright , Quaker, was a British Radical and Liberal statesman, associated with Richard Cobden in the formation of the Anti-Corn Law League. He was one of the greatest orators of his generation, and a strong critic of British foreign policy...
, (1811–1889), English politician. - Edmund Wright BrooksEdmund Wright BrooksEdmund Wright Brooks was an English Quaker philanthropist and cement maker. He was active in the Anti-Slavery movement and also in famine relief in Russia and aid to Armenians...
(1834–1928), English Quaker philanthropist and cement maker. - Moses BrownMoses BrownMoses Brown was a co-founder of Brown University and a New England abolitionist and industrialist, who funded the design and construction of some of the first factory houses for spinning machines during the American industrial revolution, including Slater Mill.-Early life:Brown was the son of...
, (1738–1836), American industrialist and philanthropist. - Jocelyn Bell BurnellJocelyn Bell BurnellSusan Jocelyn Bell Burnell, DBE, FRS, FRAS , is a British astrophysicist. As a postgraduate student she discovered the first radio pulsars with her thesis supervisor Antony Hewish. She was president of the Institute of Physics from October 2008 until October 2010, and was interim president...
, (born 1943), Northern Irish astrophysicistAstrophysicsAstrophysics is the branch of astronomy that deals with the physics of the universe, including the physical properties of celestial objects, as well as their interactions and behavior...
. - Edward BurroughEdward BurroughEdward Burrough was an early English Quaker leader and controversialist. He is regarded as one of the Valiant Sixty, early Quaker preachers and missionaries....
, (1634–1663), English member of the Valiant SixtyValiant SixtyThe Valiant Sixty were a group of early leaders and activists in the Religious Society of Friends . They were itinerant preachers, mostly from northern England who spread the ideas of the Friends during the second half of the Seventeenth Century, and were also called the First Publishers of Truth...
. - Maria Louisa BustillMaria Louisa BustillMaria Louisa Bustill Robeson was a Quaker schoolteacher; the wife of the Reverend William Drew Robeson of Witherspoon Church in Princeton, New Jersey and the mother of Paul Robeson and his siblings.-Birth:...
(1853–1904), American teacher, mother of Paul RobesonPaul RobesonPaul Leroy Robeson was an American concert singer , recording artist, actor, athlete, scholar who was an advocate for the Civil Rights Movement in the first half of the twentieth century...
. - Thomas S. ButlerThomas S. ButlerThomas Stalker Butler was a U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania, serving from March 4, 1897 until his death, having been elected to the House sixteen times. Thomas S. Butler was also the father of the famous Marine Corps General Smedley D...
(1855–1928), US congressman. - Charles Roden BuxtonCharles Roden BuxtonCharles Roden Buxton was an English philanthropist and politician.He was born in London, the third son of Sir Thomas Buxton, 3rd Baronet...
(1875–1942), British member of Parliament.
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- George CadburyGeorge CadburyGeorge Cadbury was the third son of John Cadbury, a Quaker who founded Cadbury's cocoa and chocolate company.-Background:...
, (1839–1922), English chocolatierChocolatierA chocolatier is someone who makes confectionery from chocolate. Chocolatiers are distinct from chocolate makers, who create chocolate from cacao beans and other ingredients.Professional chocolatiers study topics including the following:...
. - Henry CadburyHenry CadburyHenry Joel Cadbury was a biblical scholar, Quaker historian, writer, and non-profit administrator. A graduate of Haverford College, he was a Quaker throughout his life, though essentially an agnostic...
, (1883–1974), US writer and chairman of the American Friends Service CommitteeAmerican Friends Service CommitteeThe American Friends Service Committee is a Religious Society of Friends affiliated organization which works for peace and social justice in the United States and around the world...
. - John CadburyJohn CadburyJohn Cadbury was proprietor of a small chocolate business in Birmingham, England, that later became part of Cadbury plc, one of the world's largest chocolate producers.-Biography:...
, (1801–1889), English chocolatier. - Richard Tapper CadburyRichard Tapper CadburyRichard Tapper Cadbury came to Birmingham in 1794 and started a linen draper's business in partnership with a fellow Quaker His children included John Cadbury who was given help to start a tea and coffee business that would develop into Cadbury's.-Biography:Cadbury came from Exeter and he was born...
, (1768–1860), English draper, abolitionist, philanthropist. - Arthur CapperArthur CapperArthur Capper was an American politician from Kansas. He was the 20th Governor of Kansas from 1915 to 1919 and a United States Senator from 1919 to 1949....
, (1865–1951), governor and US senator from KansasKansasKansas is a US state located in the Midwestern United States. It is named after the Kansas River which flows through it, which in turn was named after the Kansa Native American tribe, which inhabited the area. The tribe's name is often said to mean "people of the wind" or "people of the south...
. - Pierre CérésolePierre CérésolePierre Cérésole was a Swiss engineer, known primarily as the founder of the Service Civil International , or International Voluntary Service for Peace , in 1920, an organisation that helped in reconstruction after the First World War with the goal of achieving an atmosphere of brotherhood...
, (1879–1945), Swiss founder of Service Civil InternationalService Civil InternationalService Civil International is an international non-governmental voluntary service organisation and peace movement with 43 branches and groups worldwide...
. - Whittaker ChambersWhittaker ChambersWhittaker Chambers was born Jay Vivian Chambers and also known as David Whittaker Chambers , was an American writer and editor. After being a Communist Party USA member and Soviet spy, he later renounced communism and became an outspoken opponent later testifying in the perjury and espionage trial...
, (1901–1961), US ex-communist, ex-Soviet spy converted to Quakerism. - Ilka ChaseIlka ChaseIlka Chase was an American actress and novelist.Born in New York City and educated at convent and boarding schools in the United States, England, and France, she was the only child of Edna Woolman Chase, the editor in chief of Vogue magazine, and her first husband, Francis Dane Chase.Chase made...
, (1900–1978), US actress and novelist. - Cyrus Clark, (fl. 1825–1863), English co-founder of C&J ClarkC&J ClarkC. and J. Clark International Ltd, trading as Clarks, is a British, international shoe manufacturer and retailer based in Street, Somerset, England...
, shoe manufacturers in Street, SomersetStreet, SomersetStreet is a small village and civil parish in the county of Somerset, England. It is situated on a dry spot in the Somerset Levels, at the end of the Polden Hills, south-west of Glastonbury. The 2001 census records the village as having a population of 11,066...
. - William CoddingtonWilliam CoddingtonWilliam Coddington was an early magistrate of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and later of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, serving as the Judge of Portsmouth, Judge of Newport, Governor of Portsmouth and Newport, Deputy Governor of the entire colony, and then Governor of the...
, (1601–1678), first governor of Rhode IslandRhode IslandThe state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, more commonly referred to as Rhode Island , is a state in the New England region of the United States. It is the smallest U.S. state by area...
. - Levi CoffinLevi CoffinLevi Coffin was an American Quaker, abolitionist, and businessman. Coffin was deeply involved in the Underground Railroad in Indiana and Ohio and his home is often called "Grand Central Station of the Underground Railroad"...
, (1798–1877), American abolitionist. - John S. CollinsJohn S. CollinsJohn Stiles Collins was an American Quaker farmer from Moorestown Township, New Jersey who moved to southern Florida and attempted to grow vegetables and coconuts on the swampy, bug-infested stretch of land between Miami and the ocean, a barrier island which became Miami Beach.Although the farming...
, (1837–1928), American land developer. - Peter Collinson FRSPeter Collinson FRSPeter Collinson was a Fellow of the Royal Society, an avid gardener, and the middleman for an international exchange of scientific ideas in mid-18th century London...
, (1694–1768), English botanist. - John ConardJohn ConardJohn Conard was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. He was nicknamed the "Fighting Quaker"....
, (1773–1857), US politician nicknamed the "Fighting Quaker", buried in an Episcopal ChurchEpiscopal Church (United States)The Episcopal Church is a mainline Anglican Christian church found mainly in the United States , but also in Honduras, Taiwan, Colombia, Ecuador, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, the British Virgin Islands and parts of Europe...
graveyard. - Anne Finch ConwayAnne Conway, Viscountess ConwayAnne Conway, Viscountess Conway was an English philosopher whose work, in the tradition of the Cambridge Platonists, was an influence on Leibniz....
, (1631–1679), English philosopher. - William CooperWilliam Cooper (judge)William Cooper was the founder of Cooperstown, New York and father of writer James Fenimore Cooper, who apparently used his father as the pattern for the Judge Marmaduke Temple character in his book The Pioneers....
, (1754–1809), founder of Cooperstown, NY and father of author James Fenimore CooperJames Fenimore CooperJames Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the early 19th century. He is best remembered as a novelist who wrote numerous sea-stories and the historical novels known as the Leatherstocking Tales, featuring frontiersman Natty Bumppo...
. - James A. Corbett, (1933–2001), American human-rights campaigner.
- Stephen CrispStephen CrispStephen Crisp , of Colchester.He was a Quaker activist, "traveller in the Ministry" and prolific writer.He is credited with establishing the Quaker faith in the Low Countries . There was a Dutch expatriate community in Colchester and his mother and`second wife were Dutch. In 1683 he bought the...
, (1628–1692), English writer and registered Quaker minister, also in the Low CountriesNetherlandsThe Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
. - Joseph CrosfieldJoseph CrosfieldJoseph Crosfield was a businessman who established a soap and chemical manufacturing business in Warrington, which was in the historic county of Lancashire and is now in the ceremonial county of Cheshire...
, (1792–1844), English industrialist. - James CudworthJames CudworthJames I'Anson Cudworth was Locomotive Superintendent of the South Eastern Railway . He served in this capacity from 1845–76...
, (1817–1899), steam locomotive designer. - Adam CurleAdam CurleAdam Curle was a British academic and Quaker peace activist. His full name was Charles Thomas William Curle; he was known as "Adam" after the town where he was born, L'Isle-Adam, north of Paris.-Background:...
, (1916–2006), first professor of peace studies at the University of BradfordUniversity of BradfordThe University of Bradford is a British university located in the city of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. The University received its Royal Charter in 1966, making it the 40th University to be created in Britain, but its origins date back to the early 1800s...
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- John DaltonJohn DaltonJohn Dalton FRS was an English chemist, meteorologist and physicist. He is best known for his pioneering work in the development of modern atomic theory, and his research into colour blindness .-Early life:John Dalton was born into a Quaker family at Eaglesfield, near Cockermouth, Cumberland,...
, (1766–1844), English chemist. - Abraham Darby IAbraham Darby IAbraham Darby I was the first, and most famous, of three generations with that name in an English Quaker family that played an important role in the Industrial Revolution. He developed a method of producing pig iron in a blast furnace fuelled by coke rather than charcoal...
, (1678–1717), English ironmaster. - Abraham Darby IIAbraham Darby IIAbraham Darby II was the second Abraham Darby in three generations of an English Quaker family that played a role in the period leading up to the Industrial Revolution....
, (1711–1763), English ironmaster. - Abraham Darby IIIAbraham Darby IIIAbraham Darby III was an English ironmaster and Quaker. He was the third Abraham Darby in three generations of an English Quaker family that played a role in the Industrial Revolution....
, (1750–1791), English ironmaster. - James DeanJames DeanJames Byron Dean was an American film actor. He is a cultural icon, best embodied in the title of his most celebrated film, Rebel Without a Cause , in which he starred as troubled Los Angeles teenager Jim Stark...
, (1931–1955), American actor. - Judi DenchJudi DenchDame Judith Olivia "Judi" Dench, CH, DBE, FRSA is an English film, stage and television actress.Dench made her professional debut in 1957 with the Old Vic Company. Over the following few years she played in several of William Shakespeare's plays in such roles as Ophelia in Hamlet, Juliet in Romeo...
, (b. 1934), English actress. - Philip Dennis, agriculture missionary to the Miami Nation.
- Caleb DeschanelCaleb DeschanelJoseph Caleb Deschanel, A.S.C. is an American film cinematographer and film/television director.-Early life:Deschanel was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to a French father and an American mother, who raised him in her Quaker religion. He went to Severn School for high school...
, (b. 1944), American cinematographer. - William DewsburyWilliam DewsburyWilliam Dewsbury was Quaker minister in the early period of the movement. He was born in Allerthorpe, Yorkshire, around 1621. Little is known about his parents and education, apart from the fact that his father died when he was eight years old. Deswbury studied both scripture and other religious...
, (1671–1688), English Quaker minister. - John DickinsonJohn Dickinson (delegate)John Dickinson was an American lawyer and politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Wilmington, Delaware. He was a militia officer during the American Revolution, a Continental Congressman from Pennsylvania and Delaware, a delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention of 1787, President of...
, (1732–1808), American lawyer and governor of Delaware and Pennsylvania. - Jonathan DickinsonJonathan DickinsonJonathan Dickinson was a Quaker merchant from Port Royal, Jamaica who was shipwrecked on the southeast coast of Florida in 1696, along with his family and the other passengers and crew members of the ship....
, (1663–1722), Jamaican-born colonial American merchant and politician. - Richard DillinghamRichard DillinghamRichard Dillingham was a Quaker school teacher from Peru Township in what is now Morrow County, Ohio, U.S.A., who was arrested in Tennessee on December 5, 1848, while aiding the attempted escape of three slaves. Tried April 12, 1849, he was sentenced to three years in the Tennessee State...
, (1823–1850), American abolitionist - Ambrose DixonAmbrose DixonAmbrose Dixon was an early American Quaker pioneer who was born in England and emigrated to the America at an early age where he lived in the Virginia Colony before moving to Maryland....
, (1619–1687), colonial American. - Edward DoubledayEdward DoubledayEdward Doubleday was an English entomologist mainly interested in Lepidoptera.He is best known for Doubleday, E. & Westwood, J.O. The Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera: comprising their generic characters, a notice of their habits and transformations, and a catalogue of the species of each genus....
, (1811-1849), English entomologist and ornithologist. - Henry Doubleday (1808-1875)Henry Doubleday (1808-1875)Henry Doubleday was an English entomologist and ornithologist.Henry Doubleday was the eldest son of Quaker and grocer Benjamin Doubleday and his wife Mary of Epping, Essex. He and his brother Edward Doubleday spent their childhood collecting natural history specimens in Epping Forest...
, English entomologist and ornithologist. - Henry Doubleday (1810–1902), English scientist and horticulturalist.
- Stephen Donaldson, (1946–1996), prisonPrison reformPrison reform is the attempt to improve conditions inside prisons, aiming at a more effective penal system.-History:Prisons have only been used as the primary punishment for criminal acts in the last couple of centuries...
and GLBT activist. - Sue DoughtySue DoughtySusan Kathleen Doughty, known as Sue Doughty, is a politician in the United Kingdom. She was Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Guildford .-Early life:...
, (b. 1948), politician. - Paul DouglasPaul DouglasPaul Howard Douglas was an liberal American politician and University of Chicago economist. A war hero, he was elected as a Democratic U.S. Senator from Illinois from in the 1948 landslide, serving until his defeat in 1966...
, (1892–1976), economist and US senator. - Margaret Drabble, (b. 1939), novelist.
- Polly DraperPolly DraperPolly Carey Draper is an American actress, screenwriter, playwright, producer and director. She is renowned for her ensemble role in ABC's hit series Thirtysomething. In 1998, Draper starred in her screenwriting debut The Tic Code, featuring Gregory Hines which was inspired by her husband Michael...
, (b. 1955), actress and screenwriter. - Muriel DuckworthMuriel DuckworthMuriel Helen Duckworth née Ball, CM, ONS was a Canadian pacifist, feminist and social and community activist. She was a practising Quaker, a religious denomination committed to non-violence. Duckworth maintained that war with its systematic violence against women and children is a major obstacle...
, (1908–2009), Canadian peace campaigner. - Robert DunkinRobert DunkinRobert Dunkin , of Penzance, Cornwall, was a Quaker businessman and a mentor of the young Humphry Davy, a founder of the science of electrochemistry, in the practice of experimental science....
, (1761–1831), English businessman and patron of science. - Mary DyerMary DyerMary Baker Dyer was an English Puritan turned Quaker who was hanged in Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony , for repeatedly defying a Puritan law banning Quakers from the colony...
, (1611?–1660), colonial American religious martyr.
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- Arthur Stanley EddingtonArthur Stanley EddingtonSir Arthur Stanley Eddington, OM, FRS was a British astrophysicist of the early 20th century. He was also a philosopher of science and a popularizer of science...
, (1882–1944), astrophysicist. - Paul EddingtonPaul EddingtonPaul Eddington CBE was an English actor best known for his appearances in popular television sitcoms of the 1970s and 80s: The Good Life, Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister.-Early life:...
(1927–1995), actor. - Fritz EichenbergFritz EichenbergFritz Eichenberg was a German-American illustrator who worked primarily in wood engraving. His best-known works were concerned with religion, social justice and nonviolence....
, (1901–1990), illustrator. - George Ellis, (b. 1939), Templeton PrizeTempleton PrizeThe Templeton Prize is an annual award presented by the Templeton Foundation. Established in 1972, it is awarded to a living person who, in the estimation of the judges, "has made an exceptional contribution to affirming life's spiritual dimension, whether through insight, discovery, or practical...
winning cosmologistPhysical cosmologyPhysical cosmology, as a branch of astronomy, is the study of the largest-scale structures and dynamics of the universe and is concerned with fundamental questions about its formation and evolution. For most of human history, it was a branch of metaphysics and religion...
. - Rowland EllisRowland EllisRowland Ellis was a Welsh Quaker leader.Ellis was the owner of the farm of Bryn Mawr near Dolgellau. He became a Quaker, along with a number of other inhabitants of Dolgellau, after a visit to the town by George Fox in 1657. As a result of religious persecution, he and others emigrated to...
, (1650–1731), Welsh Quaker leader. - Thomas EllwoodThomas EllwoodThomas Ellwood was an English religious writer.He was born in Oxfordshire, the son of a rural squire. Educated at Lord Williams's School, he later joined the Quakers and became a friend of William Penn and John Milton. However, he was persecuted for his faith and spent some time in prison. His...
, (1639–1713), English religious writer. - Joshua EvansJoshua Evans (Quaker minister)Joshua Evans was an American Quaker minister, journalist, and abolitionist.He was born to Thomas Evans and Rebecca Owen in Evesham, Burlington County, New Jersey. Joshua Evans and Priscilla Collins, daughter of John Collins and Elizabeth Moore, were married at Haddonfield Monthly Meeting on...
, (1731–1798), minister from Haddonfield, NJHaddonfield, New JerseyHaddonfield is a borough located in Camden County, New Jersey. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough had a total population of 11,593....
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- Chuck FagerChuck FagerCharles Eugene Fager , known as Chuck Fager, is an American activist, an author, an editor, a publisher and an outspoken and prominent member of the Religious Society of Friends. He is known for his work in both the 1960s Civil Rights Movement and in the Peace movement...
, (b. 1942), American civil rights campaigner. - Margaret FellMargaret FellMargaret Fell or Margaret Fox was a founder of the Religious Society of Friends. Known popularly as the "mother of Quakerism", she is considered one of the Valiant Sixty early Quaker preachers and missionaries.-Life:...
, (1614–1702), English Quaker, one of the Valiant SixtyValiant SixtyThe Valiant Sixty were a group of early leaders and activists in the Religious Society of Friends . They were itinerant preachers, mostly from northern England who spread the ideas of the Friends during the second half of the Seventeenth Century, and were also called the First Publishers of Truth...
. - John FenwickJohn Fenwick (Quaker)John Fenwick founded the first English settlement in West Jersey. In 1675, John Fenwick led a group of English Quakers who emigrated to Salem, New Jersey to escape persecution for their religious beliefs.-Personal life:...
, (1618–1683), English founder of Fenwick's Colony, the first English settlement in West Jersey. - James Finlayson, (1772–1852), Scottish engineer prominent in Finland.
- Mary Fisher, (1623–1698), English Quaker preacher.
- Isabella FordIsabella FordIsabella Ormston Ford was an English social reformer, suffragist and writer. She became a public speaker and wrote pamphlets on issues related to socialism, feminism and worker's rights. After becoming concerned with the rights of female mill workers at an early age, Ford became involved with...
, (1855–1924), English feminist and socialist. - Edwin B. ForsytheEdwin B. ForsytheEdwin Bell Forsythe was an American Republican Party politician, who represented New Jersey in the United States House of Representatives.-Biography:...
, (1916–1984), representative for New Jersey. - Richard J. FosterRichard Foster (religion)Richard J. Foster is a Christian theologian and author in the Quaker tradition. His writings speak to a broad Christian audience. He has been a professor at Friends University and pastor of Evangelical Friends churches. Foster resides in Denver, Colorado...
, ecumenical leader and reformer, founder of RenovaréRenovaréRenovaré is a Christian non-profit organization dedicated to helping individuals and churches to grow in Christlikeness by engaging in intentional Christian spiritual formation...
. - John FothergillJohn Fothergill (physician)John Fothergill FRS was an English physician, plant collector, philanthropist and Quaker.- Life and work :...
, (1712–1780), English Quaker physician and philanthropist. - Barclay FoxBarclay FoxRobert Barclay Fox was a businessman, gardener and diarist, a member of the influential Quaker Fox family of Falmouth.-Family relationships:...
, (1817–1855), English diarist. - Caroline FoxCaroline FoxCaroline Fox was an English diarist. She was the daughter of Robert Were Fox FRS of the influential Fox family of Falmouth, and was the younger sister of both Barclay Fox, also a diarist, and Anna Maria Fox....
, (1819–1871), English diarist. - George FoxGeorge FoxGeorge Fox was an English Dissenter and a founder of the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers or Friends.The son of a Leicestershire weaver, Fox lived in a time of great social upheaval and war...
, (1624–1691), founder of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)Religious Society of FriendsThe Religious Society of Friends, or Friends Church, is a Christian movement which stresses the doctrine of the priesthood of all believers. Members are known as Friends, or popularly as Quakers. It is made of independent organisations, which have split from one another due to doctrinal differences...
. - Robert Were Fox IRobert Were Fox the ElderRobert Were Fox was a Quaker businessman who lived in Falmouth.- Life and work :Fox was born in Fowey, Cornwall, in the United Kingdom, and married Elizabeth Tregelles in 1788. The couple had six sons, including Charles Fox of Trebah, Robert Were Fox FRS of Penjerrick Garden and Alfred Fox of...
, (1754–1818), English businessman. - Robert Were Fox IIRobert Were Fox the YoungerRobert Were Fox FRS was a British geologist, natural philosopher and inventor. He is known mainly for his work on the temperature of the earth and his construction of a compass to measure magnetic dip at sea....
(1789–1877), English geologist. - Samuel Fox, (1781–1868), English philanthropist and grocer.
- Tom Fox (1951–2006), humanitarian worker with Christian Peacemaking teams, held captive and killed in IraqIraqIraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
. - Ursula FranklinUrsula FranklinUrsula Martius Franklin, , is a Canadian metallurgist, research physicist, author and educator who has taught at the University of Toronto for more than 40 years...
, (b. 1921), German-born Canadian metallurgist and research physicist. - Francis FrithFrancis FrithFrancis Frith was an English photographer of the Middle East and many towns in the United Kingdom....
, (1822–1898), English photographer. - Christopher FryChristopher FryChristopher Fry was an English playwright. He is best known for his verse dramas, notably The Lady's Not for Burning, which made him a major force in theatre in the 1940s and 1950s.-Early life:...
, (1907–2005), English playwright. - Elizabeth FryElizabeth FryElizabeth Fry , née Gurney, was an English prison reformer, social reformer and, as a Quaker, a Christian philanthropist...
, (1780–1845), English prison reformer. - Joan Mary FryJoan Mary FryJoan Mary Fry was an English social reformer and a Quaker.-Early life:Joan Fry was born on 27 July 1862 in London, into a wealthy family of Quakers...
(1862–1955), English relief worker and social reformer. - Joseph FryJoseph Fry (tea merchant)Joseph Fry was a tea dealer and an unsuccessful banker. He was the husband of Elizabeth Fry, prison reformer.-Parental family:...
(1777–1861), English teaTeaTea is an aromatic beverage prepared by adding cured leaves of the Camellia sinensis plant to hot water. The term also refers to the plant itself. After water, tea is the most widely consumed beverage in the world...
dealer and an unsuccessful banker. - Margery FryMargery FryMargery Fry was a British prison reformer as well as one of the first women to become a magistrate.Margery Fry was born in London, the eighth child of Sir Edward Fry and his wife, Mariabella Hodgkin , who were Quakers. She was educated at home until, at the age of 17, she went to Miss Lawrence's...
(1874–1958), English penal reformer and college principal.
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- John R. GamblingJohn R. GamblingJohn R. Gambling is an American radio personality. He is the son of John A. Gambling and the grandson of John B. Gambling, and as such was, and once again is, the third-generation host of The Gambling family's very-long-running New York morning radio show...
, (b. 1950), New York radio broadcaster. - Thomas GarrettThomas GarrettThomas Garrett was an abolitionist and leader in the Underground Railroad movement before the American Civil War....
, (1789–1871), American abolitionist. - Charles GilpinCharles Gilpin (politician)Charles Gilpin was a Quaker, orator, politician, publisher and railway director. Amongst his many causes were the movement to repeal the Corn Laws, to establish world peace through the Peace Society, abolition of the death penalty and the anti-slavery movement, enfranchisement by providing...
, (1815–1874), member of UK Parliament. - Rickman Godlee, (1849–1925), English surgeon and biographer.
- George GrahamGeorge Graham (clockmaker)George Graham was an English clockmaker, inventor, and geophysicist, and a Fellow of the Royal Society.He was born to George Graham in Kirklinton, Cumberland. A Friend like his mentor Thomas Tompion, Graham left Cumberland in 1688 for London to work with Tompion...
, (1674?–1751), English clockmakerHorologyHorology is the art or science of measuring time. Clocks, watches, clockwork, sundials, clepsydras, timers, time recorders and marine chronometers are all examples of instruments used to measure time.People interested in horology are called horologists...
, inventor, and member of the Royal SocietyRoyal SocietyThe Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, known simply as the Royal Society, is a learned society for science, and is possibly the oldest such society in existence. Founded in November 1660, it was granted a Royal Charter by King Charles II as the "Royal Society of London"...
. - Marion GreevesMarion GreevesMarion Janet Cadbury Greeves, MBE was the first one of only two female members of the Senate of Northern Ireland, having been elected to serve as an independent member on 20 June 1950, retiring on 10 June 1969....
, (1894–1979), one of first two female members of the Senate of Northern IrelandSenate of Northern IrelandThe Senate of Northern Ireland was the upper house of the Parliament of Northern Ireland created by the Government of Ireland Act 1920. It was abolished with the passing of the Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973.-Powers:...
. - Stephen GrelletStephen GrelletStephen Grellet was a prominent French Quaker missionary.He was born Étienne de Grellet du Mabillier in Limoges, the son to a counsellor of King Louis XVI. Raised as a Roman Catholic he was educated at the military College of Lyons, and at the age of seventeen he entered the body-guard of Louis XVI...
, (1773–1855), French-born American missionary. - Philip GrossPhilip GrossPhilip Gross is a poet, novelist and playwright. He was born in Delabole, Cornwall and grew up in Plymouth. He lives in Penarth, South Wales, and was appointed Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Glamorgan in 2004, a position he still holds. He previously taught creative writing at...
, (b. 1952), English poet, novelist and playwright. - Joseph John GurneyJoseph John GurneyJoseph John Gurney was a banker in Norwich, England and an evangelical Minister of the Religious Society of Friends , whose views and actions led, ultimately, to a schism among American Quakers.-Biography:...
, (1788–1847), English banker, evangelical and abolitionist.
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- Elizabeth HaddonElizabeth HaddonElizabeth Haddon , born in Southwark, London, England, was the founder of Haddon Township and Haddonfield, New Jersey....
, (1680–1762), English-born founder of Haddonfield, NJ. - Ham Seok-heonHam Seok-heonHam Seok-heon was a notable figure in the Religious Society of Friends movement in Korea, and was nicknamed the "Gandhi of Korea." Ham was an important Asian voice for human rights and non-violence during the 20th century, despite numerous imprisonments for his convictions...
, (1901–1989), prominent Quaker, the "Gandhi of Korea". - Cornelia HancockCornelia HancockCornelia Hancock was a celebrated civilian nurse serving the injured and infirmed of the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Biography:...
, (1839–1926), American nurse. - Sheila HancockSheila HancockSheila Cameron Hancock, CBE is an English actress and author.-Early life:Sheila Hancock was born in Blackgang on the Isle of Wight, the daughter of Ivy Louise and Enrico Cameron Hancock, who was a publican. Her sister Billie is seven years older...
, (b. 1933), English comedian. - Edmund HappoldEdmund HappoldProfessor Sir Edmund Happold , better known as Ted Happold, was a structural engineer and founder of Buro Happold.- Career :...
, (1930–1996), English engineer. - Jan de HartogJan de HartogJan de Hartog was a Dutch playwright, novelist and occasional social critic who moved to the United States in the early 1960s and became a Quaker.- Early years :...
, (1914–2002), Dutch-born US playwright, novelist, and social critic. - Jonathan HazardJonathan HazardJonathan J. Hazard was an American statesman and anti-federalist who served as a delegate for Rhode Island in the Continental Congress....
, (1744–1824), US statesman and anti-federalist. - John HickenlooperJohn HickenlooperJohn Wright Hickenlooper is an American politician and current Governor of Colorado. A Democrat, he was previously the Mayor of Denver, Colorado from 2003 to 2011.-Early life, education and career:...
, (b. 1952), US politician. - Edward HicksEdward HicksEdward Hicks was an American folk painter, a distinguished minister of the Society of Friends, and he also became a Quaker icon because of his paintings.-Early life:...
, (1780–1849), US painter and recorded Quaker minister. - Elias HicksElias HicksElias Hicks was an itinerant Quaker preacher from Long Island, New York. He promoted doctrines that embroiled him in controversy that led to the first major schism within the Religious Society of Friends...
, (1748–1830), American Quaker preacher. - Declan HillDeclan HillDeclan Hill is a journalist, academic and consultant. He is one of the world’s foremost experts on match-fixing and corruption in international sports. In 2008, Hill, as a Chevening Scholar, obtained his doctorate in Sociology at the University of Oxford. His book ‘The Fix: Organized Crime and...
, (living), Canadian journalist. - David HobbyDavid HobbyDavid Hobby is an American photographer and author of the Strobist.com lighting blog, a site which promotes lighting techniques — such as off-camera flash — among photographic enthusiasts, often with an emphasis on the practical knowledge rather than the gear.- Professional life :Until July 2008,...
, (b. 1965), US photographer. - Thomas HodgkinThomas HodgkinThomas Hodgkin was a British physician, considered one of the most prominent pathologists of his time and a pioneer in preventive medicine. He is now best known for the first account of Hodgkin's disease, a form of lymphoma and blood disease, in 1832...
, (1798–1866), physician, Hodgkin's lymphoma. - Marshall HodgsonMarshall HodgsonMarshall Goodwin Simms Hodgson , was an Islamic Studies academic and a world historian at the University of Chicago. He was chairman of the interdisciplinary Committee on Social Thought in Chicago...
, (1922–1968), historian. - Gerard HoffnungGerard HoffnungGerard Hoffnung was an artist and musician, best known for his humorous works.- Early years :Born in Berlin, and named Gerhard, he was the only child of a well-to-do Jewish couple, Hildegard and Ludwig Hoffnung...
, (1925–1959), cartoonist, musician and humorist. - Christopher HolderChristopher HolderChristopher Holder was an Anglo-American Quaker minister who was persecuted in the Massachusetts Bay Colony for his beliefs.-Early life:...
, (c. 1631–post 1676), English-born American Quaker evangelist. - David P. HollowayDavid P. HollowayDavid Pierson Holloway was a U.S. Representative from Indiana.Born in Waynesville, Ohio, Holloway moved with his parents to Cincinnati in 1813.He attended the common schools....
, (1809–1883), US representative from Indiana. - Rush D. Holt, Jr.Rush D. Holt, Jr.Rush Dew Holt, Jr. is the U.S. Representative for . He is a member of the Democratic Party. He is currently the only Quaker in Congress.-Early life and education :Rush D. Holt was born to Rush D...
, (b. 1948), US congressman. - Elizabeth HootonElizabeth HootonElizabeth Hooton was one of the earliest preachers in the Religious Society of Friends and was beaten and imprisoned for propagating her beliefs; she was the first woman to become a Quaker minister . She is considered one of the Valiant Sixty, a group of daring Friends preachers...
, (1600–1672), pioneer English preacher. - Herbert HooverHerbert HooverHerbert Clark Hoover was the 31st President of the United States . Hoover was originally a professional mining engineer and author. As the United States Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, he promoted partnerships between government and business...
, (1874–1964), US president. - Johns HopkinsJohns HopkinsJohns Hopkins was a wealthy American entrepreneur, philanthropist and abolitionist of 19th-century Baltimore, Maryland, now most noted for his philanthropic creation of the institutions that bear his name, namely the Johns Hopkins Hospital, and the Johns Hopkins University and its associated...
, (1795–1873), US philanthropist. - Luke HowardLuke HowardLuke Howard FRS was a British manufacturing chemist and an amateur meteorologist with broad interests in science...
, (1772–1864), English chemist and meteorologist. - Francis HowgillFrancis HowgillFrancis Howgill was a prominent early member of the Religious Society of Friends in England. He preached and wrote on the teachings of the Friends and is considered one of the Valiant Sixty--men and women who were early proponents of Friends beliefs and who suffered for those...
, English preacher and writer. - Geoffrey HubbardGeoffrey HubbardGeoffrey Hubbard was director of the National Council for Educational Technology and Chair of the National Extension College's trustees from 1989 to his death in June 1998.He was also a well-known, active Quaker...
, director of the National Council for Educational Technology. - Charles HumphreysCharles HumphreysCharles Humphreys was an American miller and statesman from Haverford, Pennsylvania. He is the son of Daniel Humphreys and Hannah Wynne . He served as a delegate for Pennsylvania to the Continental Congress from 1774 to 1776...
, (1714–1786), Continental Congressman. - John HunnJohn Hunn (governor)John Hunn was an American businessman and politician from Camden, in Kent County, Delaware. He was a member of the Republican Party who served as Governor of Delaware.-Early life and family:...
, (1849–1926), governor of Delaware. - Alfred HuntAlfred Hunt (steel magnate)Alfred Hunt was the first president of Bethlehem Iron Company, precursor of Bethlehem Steel Corporation. He was elected president on July 15, 1860 by the board of directors of the fledgling Bethlehem Iron Company...
, (1817–1888), American industrialist. - John HuntJohn Hunt (Quaker exile)John Hunt was one of the Virginia Exiles, a group of Philadelphia Quakers that were forcibly exiled to Winchester, Virginia during the Revolutionary War.John Hunt was a merchant and Quaker minister from London, England...
, (1712–1778), English-born minister, one of the "Virginia Exiles". - John HuntJohn Hunt (Quaker minister)John Hunt was a prominent Quaker minister and journalist from Moorestown Township, New Jersey. He kept a diary, most of which has been preserved, from 1770 to 1824. The diary relates Hunt's personal activities, concerns and beliefs. It is also a concise source of primary evidence that documents...
, (1740–1824), minister and journalist from Moorestown, NJ. - Erastus HusseyErastus HusseyErastus Hussey was a leading abolitionist, a stationmaster on the Underground Railroad, and one of the founders of the Republican Party....
, (1800–1889), US abolitionist and Underground RailroadUnderground RailroadThe Underground Railroad was an informal network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century black slaves in the United States to escape to free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause. The term is also applied to the abolitionists,...
stationmaster, a founder of the Republican PartyRepublican Party (United States)The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...
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- Rufus Jones, (1863–1948), American Quaker theologian.
- T. Canby JonesT. Canby JonesT. Canby Jones is an advocate of the War of the Lamb, a Quaker peace activist, a professor emeritus of Wilmington College in Ohio, and was a student of Thomas R. Kelly....
, (b. 1921), American Quaker peace campaigner, theologian, and academic.
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- Thomas R. KellyThomas R. KellyThomas Raymond Kelly was an American Quaker educator. He taught and wrote on the subject of mysticism. His books are widely read, especially by people interested in spirituality....
, (1893–1941), missionary, educator, and spiritual writer. - Malachy KilbrideMalachy KilbrideMalachy Kilbride is an Irish-American Social Justice and Peace Activist who primarily works with Washington Peace Center in Washington DC where he also serves as a member of the board. He was born in New York City and spent part of his childhood in Dublin, Ireland...
, (living) is a US peace and social justice campaigner. - Haven KimmelHaven Kimmel- Biography :Haven Kimmel was born in New Castle, Indiana, and was raised in Mooreland, Indiana, the focus of her bestselling memoir, A Girl Named Zippy: Growing up Small in Mooreland, Indiana ....
, (b. 1965), American novelist and children's writer. - Ben KingsleyBen KingsleySir Ben Kingsley, CBE is a British actor. He has won an Oscar, BAFTA, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards in his career. He is known for starring as Mohandas Gandhi in the film Gandhi in 1982, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor...
, (b. 1943), actor. - Anne KnightAnne Knight (children's writer)For this author's namesake, the social reformer, see Anne Knight.Anne Knight was a Quaker children's writer and educationalist.-Life:...
, (1792-1860), children's writer.
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- Benjamin LayBenjamin LayBenjamin Lay was a Quaker philanthropist and abolitionist.-Life and beliefs:Lay was born in Colchester, England. In 1710, he moved to Barbados as a merchant, but his abolition principles, fueled by his Quaker radicalism, became obnoxious to the people who lived there so he moved to Abington,...
, (1681–1760), Quaker abolitionist. - Joseph LancasterJoseph LancasterJoseph Lancaster was an English Quaker and public education innovator.-Life:Lancaster was born the son of a shopkeeper in Southwark, south London....
, (1778–1838), public education innovator. - John LilburneJohn LilburneJohn Lilburne , also known as Freeborn John, was an English political Leveller before, during and after English Civil Wars 1642-1650. He coined the term "freeborn rights", defining them as rights with which every human being is born, as opposed to rights bestowed by government or human law...
, (1614–1657), LevellerLevellersThe Levellers were a political movement during the English Civil Wars which emphasised popular sovereignty, extended suffrage, equality before the law, and religious tolerance, all of which were expressed in the manifesto "Agreement of the People". They came to prominence at the end of the First...
convert to Quakerism. - Richard LippincottRichard LippincottRichard Lippincott was an early settler of Shrewsbury, New Jersey. Lippincott was a devout English Quaker who emigrated to Colonial America to escape persecution for his religious beliefs.- Life :...
, (1615–1683), an early settler of Shrewsbury, New JerseyShrewsbury, New JerseyShrewsbury is a borough in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough population was 3,809....
. - Joseph Jackson ListerJoseph Jackson ListerJoseph Jackson Lister, FRS was an amateur British opticist and physicist and the father of Joseph Lister.-Ancestry:...
, (1786–1869), amateur British opticist and physicist and father of Joseph ListerJoseph Lister, 1st Baron ListerJoseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister OM, FRS, PC , known as Sir Joseph Lister, Bt., between 1883 and 1897, was a British surgeon and a pioneer of antiseptic surgery, who promoted the idea of sterile surgery while working at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary...
. - James LoganJames Logan (statesman)James Logan , a statesman and scholar, was born in Lurgan, County Armagh, Ireland of Scottish descent and Quaker parentage. In 1689, the Logan family moved to Bristol, England where, in 1693, James replaced his father as schoolmaster...
, (1674–1751), William PennWilliam PennWilliam Penn was an English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania, the English North American colony and the future Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. He was an early champion of democracy and religious freedom, notable for his good relations and successful...
's secretary, an Anglican clergyman. - Kathleen LonsdaleKathleen LonsdaleDame Kathleen Lonsdale, DBE FRS was a crystallographer, who established the structure of benzene by X-ray diffraction methods in 1929, and hexachlorobenzene by Fourier spectral methods in 1931...
, (1903–1971), scientist - Raph LevienRaph LevienRaphael Levien is an influential member of the free software developer community, through his creation of the Advogato virtual community and his work with the free software branch of Ghostscript. He is currently employed by Google...
(living), free softwareFree softwareFree software, software libre or libre software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with restrictions that only ensure that further recipients can also do...
author behind GhostscriptGhostscriptGhostscript is a suite of software based on an interpreter for Adobe Systems' PostScript and Portable Document Format page description languages.- Features :...
and AdvogatoAdvogatoAdvogato is an online community and social networking site dedicated to free software development, and was created by Raph Levien. It describes itself as "the free software developer's advocate." Advogato was an early pioneer of blogs, formerly known as "online diaries", and one of the earliest...
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- Svetlana Sotiroff MacDonaldSvetlana Sotiroff MacDonaldSvetlana MacDonald, B.A. M.A., Ph.D., L.L.B. is a London, Ontario-area lawyer, Svetlana MacDonald, B.A. M.A., Ph.D., L.L.B. is a [[London]], [[Ontario]]-area lawyer, Svetlana MacDonald, B.A. M.A., Ph.D., L.L.B...
, (born 1943), a Swiss-born Canadian lawyer and campaigner. - John MacmurrayJohn MacmurrayJohn Macmurray MC was a Scottish philosopher. His thought moved beyond the modern tradition begun by Descartes and continued in Britain by Locke, Berkeley and Hume. He made contributions in the fields of political science, religion, and philosophy of education in a long career of writing,...
, (1891–1976), philosopher. - Dolley MadisonDolley MadisonDolley Payne Todd Madison was the spouse of the fourth President of the United States, James Madison, and was First Lady of the United States from 1809 to 1817...
, (1768–1849), first lady. - Nozizwe Madlala-RoutledgeNozizwe Madlala-RoutledgeNozizwe Madlala-Routledge is a South African politician who was South Africa's Deputy Minister of Defence from 1999 to April 2004 and Deputy Minister of Health from April 2004 to August 2007...
, (b. 1952), South African health minister. - Elizabeth MagieElizabeth MagieElizabeth "Lizzie" J. Phillips née Magie was an American game designer. She invented The Landlord's Game, the precursor to Monopoly.-Early life:...
, (1866–1948), inventor of MonopolyMonopoly (game)Marvin Gardens, the leading yellow property on the board shown, is actually a misspelling of the original location name, Marven Gardens. The misspelling was said to be introduced by Charles Todd and passed on when his home-made Monopoly board was copied by Charles Darrow and thence to Parker...
. - Ellen MarriageEllen MarriageEllen Marriage was an English translator from French, notably of Balzac's novels...
, (1865-1946), translator of Balzac. - Dave MatthewsDave MatthewsDavid John "Dave" Matthews is a South African–born American musician and occasional actor, best known as the lead vocalist, songwriter, and guitarist for the Dave Matthews Band...
, (b. 1967), musician. - Milton MayerMilton MayerMilton Sanford Mayer , a journalist and educator, was best known for his long-running column in The Progressive magazine, founded by Robert Marion LaFollette, Sr in Madison, Wisconsin.- Biography :...
, (1908–1986), US journalist and writer. - James Michener, (1907–1997), US author.
- Samuel MooreSamuel Moore (colonial official)The Honorable Samuel Moore was born around 1630 and died on 27 May 1688, aged about 58, and was notable as one of the civil leaders in the early years of the Province of New Jersey....
, (c.1630-1688), early official in New Jersey. - Joseph MooreJoseph Moore (peace rider)Joseph Moore, born on January 9, 1732 in Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, died on October 7, 1793 in Amwell, Hunterdon Co., N. J., was notable as a Quaker peace negotiator sent to the talks between Native leaders of the Western Confederacy and American government representatives at Sandusky,...
, (1732–1793), mediator between US and the Western ConfederacyWestern ConfederacyThe Western Confederacy, also known as Western Indian Confederacy, was a loose confederacy of North American Natives in the Great Lakes region following the American Revolutionary War...
at Sandusky, Ohio in 1793. - Ethan MorddenEthan MorddenEthan Mordden is an American author.-Biography:Mordden was raised in Pennsylvania, in Venice, Italy, and on Long Island, and is a graduate of Friends Academy in Locust Valley, New York, and the University of Pennsylvania...
, (b. 1949), US writer. - Lucretia MottLucretia MottLucretia Coffin Mott was an American Quaker, abolitionist, social reformer, and proponent of women's rights.- Early life and education:...
, (1793–1880), American abolitionist and suffragist. - Rich MullinsRich MullinsRichard Wayne "Rich" Mullins was an American Contemporary Christian music singer and songwriter born in Richmond, Indiana. He had two sisters and two brothers....
, (1955–1997), American Christian singer and songwriter. - Lindley MurrayLindley MurrayLindley Murray , grammarian, was born in a house near his father's mill, just north of Harper Tavern in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, 18 miles northeast of Harrisburg. He was the eldest son of Robert Murray, the Quaker merchant, and Mary Lindley Murray, whose home was on a hill in Manhattan on what...
, (1745–1826), author of Murray's English Reader. - Edward R. MurrowEdward R. MurrowEdward Roscoe Murrow, KBE was an American broadcast journalist. He first came to prominence with a series of radio news broadcasts during World War II, which were followed by millions of listeners in the United States and Canada.Fellow journalists Eric Sevareid, Ed Bliss, and Alexander Kendrick...
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- James NaylerJames NaylerJames Nayler was an English Quaker leader. He is among the members of the Valiant Sixty, a group of early Quaker preachers and missionaries. At the peak of his career, he preached against enclosure and the slave trade....
, (1618–1660), former soldier and member of the Valiant SixtyValiant SixtyThe Valiant Sixty were a group of early leaders and activists in the Religious Society of Friends . They were itinerant preachers, mostly from northern England who spread the ideas of the Friends during the second half of the Seventeenth Century, and were also called the First Publishers of Truth...
. - Russ NelsonRuss NelsonRussell "Russ" Nelson is an American computer programmer. He was a founding board member of the Open Source Initiative and briefly served as its president in 2005.-Career:...
, (b. 1958), US open source software developer. - Edmund Hort NewEdmund Hort NewEdmund Hort New was an English artist, member of the Birmingham Group, and leading illustrator of his day.-Life and work:New was born in Evesham Worcestershire, a cousin of Thomas New. He studied at the Birmingham Municipal School of Art under Edward R. Taylor and A. J...
, (1871–1931), English artist and illustrator. - Carrie NewcomerCarrie NewcomerCarrie Newcomer is an American singer and songwriter.-Early life and education:Carrie Newcomer was born in Dowagiac, Michigan, and raised in Elkhart, Indiana. She attended Goshen College and received a B.A...
, (living), American singer-songwriter. - Sir George NewmanGeorge Newman (doctor)Sir George Newman GBE, KCB was an English public health physician, Quaker, the first Chief Medical Officer to the Ministry of Health in England, and wrote a seminal treatise on the social problems causing infant mortality.-Introduction:George Newman was educated at Sidcot School in North Somerset ...
, (1870–1948), British chief medical officer - Samuel NicholasSamuel NicholasSamuel Nicholas was the first officer commissioned in the United States Continental Marines and by tradition is considered to be the first Commandant of the Marine Corps.-Early life:...
, (1744–1790), the first commandant of the United States Marine CorpsUnited States Marine CorpsThe United States Marine Corps is a branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for providing power projection from the sea, using the mobility of the United States Navy to deliver combined-arms task forces rapidly. It is one of seven uniformed services of the United States...
. - Sally NichollsSally Nicholls- Life :Nicholls was born and grew up in Stockton-on-Tees. She attended Great Ayton Friends' School until its closure and subsequently Egglescliffe School until 2001.On finishing school, Nicholls chose to travel around the world...
, (b. 1983), English children's author. - Nitobe Inazō, (1862–1933), Japanese diplomat, educator, author.
- Richard NixonRichard NixonRichard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. The only president to resign the office, Nixon had previously served as a US representative and senator from California and as the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961 under...
, (1913–1994), US President. - Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-BakerPhilip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Bakerby Philip Noel-Baker with other authorsby others* Lloyd, Lorna: Philip Noel-Baker and the Peace Through Law in -External links:...
, (1889–1982), diplomat and Nobel Peace PrizeNobel Peace PrizeThe Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel.-Background:According to Nobel's will, the Peace Prize shall be awarded to the person who...
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- Amelia OpieAmelia OpieAmelia Opie, née Alderson , was an English author who published numerous novels in the Romantic Period of the early 19th century, through 1828.-Life and work:...
, (1769–1853), English novelist. - Constantine OvertonConstantine OvertonConstantine Overton , Quaker leader in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. Imprisoned and fined for his beliefs, attendance at Quaker Meetings for Worship, refusing to pay tithes and not taking off his hat in Court and opening his shop on 25th of the Twelfth month.. Sometimes known as "Constant...
, (1626/7–1690?), Quaker leader in Shrewsbury, Shropshire.
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- Parker PalmerParker PalmerParker J. Palmer is an author, educator, and activist who focuses on issues in education, community, leadership, spirituality and social change.-Education:...
, (b. 1939), US writer, teacher, and campaigner. - David ParlettDavid ParlettDavid Parlett is a games scholar from South London, who has studied both card games and board games. His published works include many popular books on games and the more academic volumes "Oxford Guide to Card Games" and "Oxford History of Board Games", both now out of print...
, (b. 1939), English writer and games inventor. - Alice PaulAlice PaulAlice Stokes Paul was an American suffragist and activist. Along with Lucy Burns and others, she led a successful campaign for women's suffrage that resulted in the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1920.-Activism: Alice Paul received her undergraduate education from...
, (1885–1977), US suffragist. - Edward Pease, (1767–1858),English railway owner.
- Joseph Pease, (1799–1872), first Quaker member of the English Parliament.
- Isaac PeningtonIsaac Penington (Quaker)Isaac Penington was one of the early members of the Religious Society of Friends .Penington was the oldest son of Isaac Penington, a Puritan who had served as the Lord Mayor of London. Penington married a widow named Mary Springett and they had five children. Penington's stepdaughter Gulielma...
, (1616–1679), early English Quaker. - William PennWilliam PennWilliam Penn was an English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania, the English North American colony and the future Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. He was an early champion of democracy and religious freedom, notable for his good relations and successful...
, (1644–1718), English-born founder of PennsylvaniaPennsylvaniaThe Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...
. - Olive PinkOlive PinkOlive Muriel Pink was an Australian botanical illustrator, anthropologist, gardener, and activist for aboriginal rights....
, Australian botanical illustrator and campaigner for aboriginal rights. - Robert PleasantsRobert PleasantsRobert Pleasants was an American educator and abolitionist. He was born in Henrico County, Virginia and became a plantation owner and operator of Robert Pleasants & Co., a consignment tobacco exporting company. Pleasants was a Quaker whose commitment to the abolitionist movement was spurred in...
, (1723–1801), American abolitionist and educator. - William PollardWilliam PollardWilliam Pollard was a Quaker writer and recorded minister.-Early life:Pollard was born at Horsham, Sussex, on 10 June 1828, the son of James Pollard and his wife, Susannah. He became a junior teacher at the Friends' School, Croydon in 1843, and in 1849 entered the Flounders Institute at Ackworth,...
, (1828–1893), English Quaker writer and minister. - Oliver PostgateOliver PostgateOliver Postgate was an English animator, puppeteer and writer.He was the creator and writer of some of Britain's most popular children's television programmes...
, (1925–2008), English animator, creator of BagpussBagpussBagpuss is a 1974 UK children's television series, made by Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate through their company Smallfilms. The title character is "an old, saggy cloth cat, baggy, and a bit loose at the seams"...
. - Gerald PriestlandGerald PriestlandGerald Francis Priestland was a news correspondent and newsreader for the BBC.-Early life and work:Gerald Priestland was educated at Charterhouse and New College, Oxford. He began his work at the BBC with a six-month spell writing obituary pieces for broadcast news...
, BBCBBCThe British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
broadcaster - Edmond PrivatEdmond PrivatEdmond Privat was a Francophone Swiss Esperantist. A historian, university professor, author, journalist and peace activist, he was a graduate of the University of Geneva and a lecturer for the World Peace Foundation...
, Swiss ambassador of EsperantoEsperantois the most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language. Its name derives from Doktoro Esperanto , the pseudonym under which L. L. Zamenhof published the first book detailing Esperanto, the Unua Libro, in 1887...
international language, journalist, historian university teacher. - Walter PumphreyPumphrey, MarylandPumphrey is a census-designated place in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States. The population was 5,317 at the 2000 census.-History:According to the 1878 survey of Anne Arundel County prepared by G. M...
, (fl. 1678), English-born American farmer and carpenter. - William PumphreyWilliam PumphreyWilliam Pumphrey was an early photographer based in York.Pumphrey was a Quaker and started out as a science teacher at Bootham School. He bought his licence from Samuel Walker, York's first practising photographer, in July 1849, and ran his business there until 1854...
, (1817–1905), pioneer English photographer.
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- Arthur RaistrickArthur RaistrickArthur Raistrick was born in a working class home in Saltaire, Yorkshire. He was a scholar in many related, and some unrelated, fields. He published some 330 articles, books, pamphlets and scholarly treatises.-Early life and work:...
, (1896–1991), English conscientious objector, geologist, and industrial archaeologist. - Bonnie RaittBonnie RaittBonnie Lynn Raitt is an American blues singer-songwriter and a renowned slide guitar player. During the 1970s, Raitt released a series of acclaimed roots-influenced albums which incorporated elements of blues, rock, folk and country, but she is perhaps best known for her more commercially...
, (b. 1949), US singer and musician. - John RaittJohn RaittJohn Emmett Raitt was an American actor and singer best known for his performances in musical theater.-Early years:...
(1917–2005), US actor. - John RichardsonJohn Richardson (Quaker)John Richardson was an English Quaker minister and autobiographer.-Early life:John Richardson was born in 1667, probably in the village of North Cave, East Riding of Yorkshire, where his father, William Richardson , a shepherd, had been converted to Quakerism by William Dewsberry or Dewsbury in...
, (1667-1753), English Quaker minister and autobiographer. - John Wigham RichardsonJohn Wigham RichardsonJohn Wigham Richardson was one of the great figures of British industrial life, and a leading shipbuilder on Tyneside during the late 19th and early 20th century.-Career:...
, (1837–1908), English shipbuilder. - Lewis Fry RichardsonLewis Fry RichardsonLewis Fry Richardson, FRS was an English mathematician, physicist, meteorologist, psychologist and pacifist who pioneered modern mathematical techniques of weather forecasting, and the application of similar techniques to studying the causes of wars and how to prevent them...
, (1881–1953), English mathematician and geophysicist. - Tom RobinsonTom RobinsonTom Robinson is an English singer-songwriter, bassist and radio presenter, better known for the hits "Glad to Be Gay", "2-4-6-8 Motorway", and "Don't Take No for an Answer", with his Tom Robinson Band...
, (b. 1950), English rock musician and disc-jockey. - Joseph RowntreeJoseph Rowntree (educationist)Joseph Rowntree was an English educationist and shopkeeper.Rowntree was born in Scarborough, Yorkshire, England, the son of the Quakers John Rowntree and his wife, Elizabeth Lotherington . In 1822 he started a grocery shop in York. The business was successful...
, (1801–1859), chocolatier and educationist. - Bayard RustinBayard RustinBayard Rustin was an American leader in social movements for civil rights, socialism, pacifism and non-violence, and gay rights.In the pacifist Fellowship of Reconciliation , Rustin practiced nonviolence...
, (1912–1987), US civil rights leader.
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- Susanna M. SalterSusanna M. SalterSusanna Madora "Dora" Salter was a U.S. politician and activist. She served as mayor of Argonia, Kansas, becoming the first woman elected as mayor and the first woman elected to any political office in the United States....
, (1860–1961), first woman mayor in the United States. - Clive SansomClive Sansom-Life and work:Sansom was born on 21 June 1910 in East Finchley, London and educated at Southgate County School, where he matriculated in 1926. He worked as a clerk until 1934, and then studied speech and drama at the Regent Street Polytechnic and the London Speech Institute under Margaret Gullan...
, (1910–1981), English, then Tasmanian poet, playwright and educator. - Elizabeth Clare ScurfieldElizabeth Clare ScurfieldElizabeth Scurfield a sinologist, is the world’s leading published author for books on learning how to speak, read, and write Chinese...
, (b. 1950), English sinologist. - Andrea SeabrookAndrea SeabrookAndrea Seabrook is an American radio reporter for NPR. She began hosting weekend broadcasts of that organization's signature news magazine All Things Considered on September 29, 2007, after six years of primarily reporting on the United States Congress for the same outlet...
, (born c. 1974), US journalist and broadcaster. - Moses SheppardMoses SheppardMoses Sheppard was a Baltimore businessman, a Friend , a philanthropist, and founder of the now Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital....
, (1771–1857), American businessman, philanthropist, and abolitionist. - Philip ShermanPhilip ShermanPhilip Sherman was a prominent leader and one of the founding settlers of Portsmouth in the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Coming from Dedham, Essex in southeastern England, he and several of his siblings and cousins settled in New England...
, ((1611–1687), English-born first secretary of state of Rhode Island. - John Alexander SintonJohn Alexander SintonBrigadier John Alexander Sinton, VC, OBE, FRS, DL was a British medical doctor, malariologist and soldier, being a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Early...
, (1884–1956), Canadian-born UK physician, scientist, and winner of the Victoria CrossVictoria CrossThe Victoria Cross is the highest military decoration awarded for valour "in the face of the enemy" to members of the armed forces of various Commonwealth countries, and previous British Empire territories....
. - Joan Slonczewski, (b. 1956), US biologist and science fiction writer.
- Joseph SouthallJoseph SouthallJoseph Edward Southall RWS NEAC RBSA was an English painter associated with the Arts and Crafts movement.A leading figure in the nineteenth century revival of painting in tempera, Southall was the leader of the Birmingham Group of Artist-Craftsmen—one of the last outposts of Romanticism in...
, (1861–1944), painter and pacifist. - Lawrence SouthwickLawrence SouthwickLawrence Southwick was an early immigrant to the American colonies and a devout Quaker , who was persecuted for his beliefs....
, (c. 1600–1660), English-born American Quaker. - Cassandra Burnell SouthwickCassandra Burnell SouthwickCassandra Burnell Southwick was an early immigrant to the American colonies and a devout Quaker , who was persecuted for her beliefs....
, (c. 1600–1660), English-born American Quaker. - John StrettellJohn StrettellJohn Strettell of London, England, was one of the most important merchants providing trade goods to the Canadian fur trade in the period between the Conquest of Canada and his death in 1786....
, (1721–1786), English merchant. - Robert StrettellRobert StrettellRobert Strettell was a city councilman and mayor of Philadelphia.He was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1693, the son of Amos Strettell. In 1736 he came with his family to Philadelphia, where he worked as a merchant. He was a member of the Common Council of the City of Philadelphia, a member of the...
, Irish-born US Quaker convert, early mayor of Philadelphia. - Joseph SturgeJoseph SturgeJoseph Sturge , son of a farmer in Gloucestershire, was an English Quaker, abolitionist and activist. He founded the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society . He worked throughout his life in Radical political actions supporting pacifism, working-class rights, and the universal emancipation of...
, (1793–1859), UK abolitionist. - Donald SwannDonald SwannDonald Ibrahím Swann was a British composer, musician and entertainer. He is best known to the general public for his partnership of writing and performing comic songs with Michael Flanders .-Life:...
, (1923–1994), Welsh-born composer, musician and entertainer. - Noah Haynes SwayneNoah Haynes SwayneNoah Haynes Swayne was an American jurist and politician. He was the first Republican appointed as a justice to the United States Supreme Court.-Birth and early life:...
, (1804–1884), US jurist and politician.
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- Heather TannerHeather TannerHeather Tanner , née Heather Muriel Spackman, was a writer and campaigner on issues relating to peace, the environment and social justice...
, (1903–1993), English writer and peace campaigner. - Robin TannerRobin TannerRobin Tanner was an English artist, etcher and printmaker. He followed in the visionary tradition of Samuel Palmer and English neo-romanticism. He lived in London, at Kington Langley, in Wiltshire, and Bath.-Biography:...
, (1904–1988), English artist, etcher and printmaker. - Joseph TaylorJoseph Hooton Taylor, Jr.Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr. is an American astrophysicist and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his discovery with Russell Alan Hulse of a "new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation."...
, (b. 1941), US winner of the Nobel Prize in PhysicsNobel Prize in PhysicsThe Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded once a year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and awarded since 1901; the others are the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and... - Henry S. TaylorHenry S. TaylorHenry S. Taylor is a Pulitzer Prize winning American poet and author of over 15 books of poetry.Taylor was born on 21 June 1942 in rural Loudoun County, Virginia, where he was raised as a Quaker. He went to high school at George School in Newtown, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the University of...
, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1986. - Valerie Taylor, (1913–1997), novelist.
- Philip E. ThomasPhilip E. ThomasPhilip Evan Thomas was the first president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad from 1827-1836. He has been referred to as "The Father of American Railways." The Thomas Viaduct bridge in Relay, Maryland was named after him....
, (1776–1861) first president of the B&O Railroad (the first railroad in the US). - Thomas TompionThomas TompionThomas Tompion was an English clock maker, watchmaker and mechanician who is still regarded to this day as the Father of English Clockmaking. Tompion's work includes some of the most historic and important clocks and watches in the world and can command very high prices whenever outstanding...
, (1639–1713), English clockmakerClockmakerA clockmaker is an artisan who makes and repairs clocks. Since almost all clocks are now factory-made, most modern clockmakers only repair clocks. Modern clockmakers may be employed by jewellers, antique shops, and places devoted strictly to repairing clocks and watches...
. - Peterson ToscanoPeterson ToscanoPeterson Toscano is a playwright, an actor, a blogger, a stand-up comedian, and a gay activist. Before accepting his gay orientation, he spent nearly two decades submitting to ex-gay treatment and conversion therapy designed to alter his gay orientation and gender differences...
, (b. 1965), US actor, playwright and gay activist. - Connor TrinneerConnor TrinneerConnor Trinneer is an American film, stage and television actor. His highest profile role has been the role of Charles "Trip" Tucker III on Star Trek: Enterprise and Michael on Stargate Atlantis.-Biography:...
, (b. 1969), actor. - D. Elton TruebloodD. Elton TruebloodDavid Elton Trueblood , who was usually known as "Elton Trueblood" or "D. Elton Trueblood", was a noted 20th century American Quaker author and theologian, former chaplain both to Harvard and Stanford universities....
, (1900–1994), theologian. - Daniel Hack TukeDaniel Hack TukeDaniel Hack Tuke was an English physician and expert on mental illness.-Family:Tuke came from a long line of Quakers from York who were interested in mental illness and concerned with those afflicted...
, (1827–1895), English physician and expert in mental illness. - James Hack TukeJames Hack TukeJames Hack Tuke was born at York, England, the son of Samuel Tuke.He was educated at the Religious Society of Friends school there, and after working for a time in his father's wholesale tea business, became in 1852 a partner in the banking firm of Sharples and Co., and went to live at Hitchin in...
, (1819–1896), English businessman and philanthropist in Ireland. - Henry TukeHenry TukeHenry Tuke co-operated with his father in the reforms at the Retreat asylum in York, England.He was the author of several moral and theological treatises which have been translated into German and French.-Historic ship:...
, (1755–1814), English co-founder of the York RetreatThe RetreatThe Retreat, commonly known as the York Retreat, is a place in England for the treatment of people with mental health needs. Located in Lamel Hill in York, it operates as a not for profit charitable organisation....
. - Samuel Tuke, (1784–1857), English philanthropist and campaigner for the mentally ill.
- William TukeWilliam TukeWilliam Tuke was an English businessman, philanthropist and Quaker. He was instrumental in the development of more humane methods in the custody and care of people with mental disorders, an approach that came to be known as moral treatment.-Career:Tuke was born in York to a leading Quaker family...
, (1732–1822), English philanthropist and campaigner for the mentally ill. - James TurrellJames TurrellJames Turrell is an American artist primarily concerned with light and space. Turrell was a MacArthur Fellow in 1984. He is represented by The Pace Gallery in New York...
, (b. 1943), US artist.
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- Jo VallentineJo VallentineJosephine Vallentine is a peace activist and a former Australian Senator for Western Australia. Vallentine entered the Senate on 1 July 1985 after she had been elected as a member of the Nuclear Disarmament Party but she sat as an independent and then as a member of the Greens Western Australia...
, (b. 1946), peace activist and senator for Western Australia. - William VickreyWilliam VickreyWilliam Spencer Vickrey was a Canadian professor of economics and Nobel Laureate. Vickrey was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics with James Mirrlees for their research into the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information...
(1914–1996), Canadian economist and Nobel Prize winner.
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- Mary Vaux WalcottMary Vaux WalcottMary Morris Vaux Walcott was an American artist and naturalist known for her watercolor paintings of wildflowers....
, (1860–1940), US botanical artist. - George Washington WalkerGeorge Washington WalkerGeorge Washington Walker was a missionary for the church called Religious Society of Friends, or Quakers.Walker was born to Unitarian parents in London, the twenty-first child of John Walker by his second wife, Elizabeth. He was educated at a school in Barnard Castle...
(1800–1859), English missionary in Australia. - Robert Spence WatsonRobert Spence WatsonRobert Spence Watson was a solicitor, reformer, politician and writer. He became famous for pioneering labour arbitrations.On the 9th June 1863 he married Elizabeth Spence Watson....
, (1837–1911), English solicitor, reformer and writer. - Benjamin WestBenjamin WestBenjamin West, RA was an Anglo-American painter of historical scenes around and after the time of the American War of Independence...
, (1738–1820), US painter. - Jessamyn WestJessamyn West (writer)Mary Jessamyn West was an American Quaker who wrote numerous stories and novels, notably The Friendly Persuasion ....
, (1902–1984), US novelist. - Joseph WhartonJoseph WhartonJoseph Wharton was a prominent Philadelphia merchant, industrialist and philanthropist, who was involved in mining, manufacturing and education...
, (1826–1909), US merchant, industrialist and philanthropist. - Daniel WheelerDaniel Wheeler (missionary)- Biography :Daniel Wheeler, British Quaker, minister, teacher and missionary in Russia and the South Pacific.* 1771 Born November 27, 1771 to William and Sarah Wheeler in London, England* 1777 His father William Wheeler dies.* 1783 Midshipman, Royal Navy...
, (1771–1840), English minister and missionary. - Ann Cooper WhitallAnn Cooper WhitallAnn Cooper Whitall was a prominent Quaker woman in early America.Ann Cooper was born in Woodbury, New Jersey. She married James Whitall. During the American War for Independence, Whitall stayed in her house, even though British warships were firing cannon in that direction during the Battle of...
, (1716–1797), prominent American Quaker. - Barclay WhiteBarclay WhiteBarclay White was Superintendent of Indian Affairs during the administration of American president Ulysses S...
, (1821–1906), US superintendent of Indian Affairs. - John Greenleaf WhittierJohn Greenleaf WhittierJohn Greenleaf Whittier was an influential American Quaker poet and ardent advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States. He is usually listed as one of the Fireside Poets...
, (1807–1892), US poet. - John Richardson WighamJohn Richardson WighamJohn Richardson Wigham was a prominent lighthouse engineer of the 19th century.-Early life:Wigham was born to a Quaker family in Newington, Edinburgh, Scotland. His father, Henry, operated a mill for the manufacture of shawls. When he was 15 years old he was apprenticed to his brother-in-law...
, (1829–1906), Scottish-born Irish inventor and lighthouseLighthouseA lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses or, in older times, from a fire, and used as an aid to navigation for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways....
engineer. - John Wilbur, (1774–1856), prominent US Quaker minister and thinker.
- Waldo WilliamsWaldo WilliamsWaldo Williams was one of the leading Welsh language poets of the twentieth century. He was also a notable pacifist, anti-war campaigner, and Welsh nationalist.-Life:...
, (1904–1971), Welsh-language poet and pacifist. - Lillian WilloughbyLillian WilloughbyLillian Willoughby was a Quaker activist who advocated for world peace, founded Take Back the Night, and conducted nonviolent protests against war and preparations for war for nearly 70 years.-Biography:...
, (c. 1916–2009), US peace campaigner. - Anna WingAnna WingAnna Eva Lydia Catherine Wing, MBE is an English actress. She has had a long career in television and theatre.-Personal life:...
, (b. 1914), English actress. - Gerrard WinstanleyGerrard WinstanleyGerrard Winstanley was an English Protestant religious reformer and political activist during the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell...
, (1609–1676), English social and religious reformer. - Caspar WistarCaspar Wistar (glassmaker)Caspar Wistar was a German-born glassmaker and landowner in Pennsylvania. He was the grandfather of Caspar Wistar, the physician and anatomist after whom the genus Wisteria is named.-Biography:...
, (1696–1752), German-born Pennsylvania glassmaker. - John WoolmanJohn WoolmanJohn Woolman was an American itinerant Quaker preacher who traveled throughout the American colonies and in England, advocating against cruelty to animals, economic injustices and oppression, conscription, military taxation, and particularly slavery and the slave trade.- Origins and early life...
, (1720–1772), American Quaker preacher and campaigner against slavery. - Thomas William WorsdellThomas William WorsdellThomas William Worsdell was a British locomotive engineer. He was born in Liverpool into a Quaker family.-Family:...
, (1838–1916), English steam locomotive engineer. - Wilson WorsdellWilson WorsdellWilson Worsdell was a British locomotive engineer who was locomotive superintendent of the North Eastern Railway from 1890 to 1910. He was the younger brother of T.W. Worsdell.-Family:...
, (1850–1920), English steam locomotive engineer.
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- William YardleyWilliam YardleyWilliam Yardley was an early settler of Bucks County, Pennsylvania and is the namesake of the borough of Yardley, Pennsylvania. As a persecuted Quaker minister, Yardley and his wife, Jane moved from Ransclough, England near Leeke in the County of Stafford to Bucks County when Yardley was 50...
, (1632–1693), early settler of Bucks County, PennsylvaniaBucks County, Pennsylvania- Industry and commerce :The boroughs of Bristol and Morrisville were prominent industrial centers along the Northeast Corridor during World War II. Suburban development accelerated in Lower Bucks in the 1950s with the opening of Levittown, Pennsylvania, the second such "Levittown" designed by...
, after whom Yardley, PennsylvaniaYardley, PennsylvaniaYardley is a borough in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States. The small community of Yardley is bordered by the Delaware River and Ewing, New Jersey on the east, and by Lower Makefield Township on the north, west, and south...
is named. - Thomas YoungThomas Young (scientist)Thomas Young was an English polymath. He is famous for having partly deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphics before Jean-François Champollion eventually expanded on his work...
, (1773–1829), English polymath best known for physics and EgyptologyEgyptologyEgyptology is the study of ancient Egyptian history, language, literature, religion, and art from the 5th millennium BC until the end of its native religious practices in the AD 4th century. A practitioner of the discipline is an “Egyptologist”...
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People with Quaker roots
Individuals whose parents were Quakers or who were Quakers themselves at one time in their lives but then converted to another religion, formally or informally distanced themselves from the Society of Friends, or were disowned by their Friends Meeting.- Herbert W. ArmstrongHerbert W. ArmstrongHerbert W. Armstrong founded the Worldwide Church of God in the late 1930s, as well as Ambassador College in 1946, and was an early pioneer of radio and tele-evangelism, originally taking to the airwaves in the 1930s from Eugene, Oregon...
, (1892–1986), US founder of the Worldwide Church of GodWorldwide Church of GodGrace Communion International , formerly the Worldwide Church of God , is an evangelical Christian denomination based in Glendora, California, United States. Since April 3, 2009, it has used the new name Grace Communion International in the US...
. - Daniel BooneDaniel BooneDaniel Boone was an American pioneer, explorer, and frontiersman whose frontier exploits mad']'e him one of the first folk heroes of the United States. Boone is most famous for his exploration and settlement of what is now the Commonwealth of Kentucky, which was then beyond the western borders of...
, (1735–1820), American frontiersman. - Smedley ButlerSmedley ButlerSmedley Darlington Butler was a Major General in the U.S. Marine Corps, an outspoken critic of U.S. military adventurism, and at the time of his death the most decorated Marine in U.S...
(1881–1940), U.S. Marine and social activist. - Benjamin ChewBenjamin ChewBenjamin Chew was a third-generation American, a Quaker-born legal scholar, a prominent and successful Philadelphia lawyer, head of the Pennsylvania Judiciary System under both Colony and Commonwealth, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Province of Pennsylvania...
, chief justice of the Supreme Court of PennsylvaniaSupreme Court of PennsylvaniaThe Supreme Court of Pennsylvania is the court of last resort for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It meets in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.-History:...
, became an Anglican in the 1750s. - Ezra CornellEzra CornellEzra Cornell was an American businessman and education administrator. He was a founder of Western Union and a co-founder of Cornell University...
, (1807–1874), American founder of Cornell UniversityCornell UniversityCornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
, expelled for marrying outside the faith. - Warder CressonWarder CressonWarder Cresson or as he was known with his Jewish name Michoel Boaz Yisroel ben Avraham was a religious enthusiast, and convert to Judaism...
, (1798–1860), US campaigner, author, and convert to Judaism. - Emily Deschanel, (b. 1976), American actress and television producer of Quaker extraction.
- Zooey DeschanelZooey DeschanelZooey Claire Deschanel is an American actress, musician, and singer-songwriter. In 1999, Deschanel made her film debut in Mumford, followed by her breakout role as young protagonist William Miller's troubled older sister Anita in Cameron Crowe's 2000 semi-autobiographical film Almost Famous...
, (b. 1980), American actress and singer/songwriter/musician of Quaker extraction. - Samuel Tertius GaltonSamuel Tertius GaltonSamuel Tertius Galton was a businessman and scientist.-Life:He was the son of Samuel "John" Galton, a prominent member of the scientific Lunar Society, and the father of Francis Galton the eminent Victorian scientist. He born in the area of Duddeston in Birmingham...
, (1783–1844), businessman and scientist, convert to Anglicanism. - Jesse GauseJesse GauseJesse Gause was an early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and served in the First Presidency as a counselor to Church President Joseph Smith, Jr. For decades Gause was generally unknown to LDS historians, and so could be considered Mormonism's lost counselor of the First Presidency...
, (1785–1836), early American leader of Latter Day Saint movementLatter Day Saint movementThe Latter Day Saint movement is a group of independent churches tracing their origin to a Christian primitivist movement founded by Joseph Smith, Jr. in the late 1820s. Collectively, these churches have over 14 million members...
. - Nathanael GreeneNathanael GreeneNathanael Greene was a major general of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War. When the war began, Greene was a militia private, the lowest rank possible; he emerged from the war with a reputation as George Washington's most gifted and dependable officer. Many places in the United...
, (1742–1786), major general in Continental ArmyContinental ArmyThe Continental Army was formed after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War by the colonies that became the United States of America. Established by a resolution of the Continental Congress on June 14, 1775, it was created to coordinate the military efforts of the Thirteen Colonies in...
in the American Revolutionary WarAmerican Revolutionary WarThe American Revolutionary War , the American War of Independence, or simply the Revolutionary War, began as a war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and thirteen British colonies in North America, and ended in a global war between several European great powers.The war was the result of the...
, expelled from the Quakers in 1773. - Maria HackMaria Hack-Life and family:Maria was born to John Barton and his wife Maria Done in Carlisle on 16 February 1777. Both her parents were Quakers. The family moved to London before Maria's mother died. Her father married again to Elizabeth Horne of Tottenham, with whose family Mary lived after her father's...
, (1777–1844), educational writer and contributor to Isaac CrewdsonIsaac CrewdsonIsaac Crewdson was a minister of the Quaker meeting in Manchester who published a book, A Beacon to the Society of Friends, that triggered a split that affected Quakers throughout England. The book was said to have "set off ... a volcanic explosion".-Life:Isaac Crewdson was born in 1780 in...
controversy. - Sam HarrisSam Harris (author)Sam Harris is an American author, and neuroscientist, as well as the co-founder and current CEO of Project Reason. He received a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from Stanford University, before receiving a Ph.D. in neuroscience from UCLA...
, (b. 1967), author of The End of FaithThe End of FaithThe End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason is a book written by Sam Harris, concerning organized religion, the clash between religious faith and rational thought, and the problems of tolerance towards religious fundamentalism....
with a possibly lapsed Quaker father. - Louisa Gurney HoareLouisa Gurney Hoare-Early life:Louisa Gurney, born on 25 September 1784, was the seventh of the eleven children of John Gurney of Earlham Hall near Norwich, a Quaker, and of Catherine Bell . Her father inherited ownership of Gurney's Bank in Norwich...
, (1784–1836), writer on education, convert to Anglicanism. - Thomas HornorThomas HornorThomas Hornor was a farmer and political figure in Upper Canada.He was born in Mansfield Township, Burlington County, New Jersey in 1767 and studied at the College of New Jersey. In 1794, he led a group of settlers to Watsons Township, later Blenheim Township, and built a sawmill there the...
, (1767–1834), Canadian farmer and politician, expelled for freemasonry and joining a militia. - Lyndon LaRoucheLyndon LaRoucheLyndon Hermyle LaRouche, Jr. is an American political activist and founder of a network of political committees, parties, and publications known collectively as the LaRouche movement...
, (b. 1922), disowned in 1941. - David LeanDavid LeanSir David Lean CBE was an English film director, producer, screenwriter, and editor best remembered for big-screen epics such as The Bridge on the River Kwai , Lawrence of Arabia ,...
, (1908–1991), British film director. - Joseph ListerJoseph Lister, 1st Baron ListerJoseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister OM, FRS, PC , known as Sir Joseph Lister, Bt., between 1883 and 1897, was a British surgeon and a pioneer of antiseptic surgery, who promoted the idea of sterile surgery while working at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary...
, (1827–1912), English surgeon who promoted the idea of sterile surgery. - E. V. LucasE. V. LucasEdward Verrall Lucas was a versatile and popular English writer. His nearly 100 books demonstrate great facility with style, and are generally acknowledged as humorous by contemporary readers and critics. Some of his essays about the sport cricket are still considered among the best instructional...
, (1868–1938) English writer. - Thomas MertonThomas MertonThomas Merton, O.C.S.O. was a 20th century Anglo-American Catholic writer and mystic. A Trappist monk of the Abbey of Gethsemani, Kentucky, he was a poet, social activist, and student of comparative religion...
, (1915–1968). His mother was an American Quaker and he attended a couple meetings, but he was baptized and primarily raised as an Anglican. - Maria MitchellMaria MitchellMaria Mitchell was an American astronomer, who in 1847, by using a telescope, discovered a comet which as a result became known as the "Miss Mitchell's Comet". She won a gold medal prize for her discovery which was presented to her by King Frederick VII of Denmark. The medal said “Not in vain do...
, (1818–1889), one of the first women in astronomy. She retained ties to the Quakers, but became a Unitarian. - Thomas PaineThomas PaineThomas "Tom" Paine was an English author, pamphleteer, radical, inventor, intellectual, revolutionary, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States...
(1737–1809). His father was a Quaker, but he was a non-religious deist. - Hilary Douglas Clark PeplerHilary Douglas Clark PeplerHarry Douglas Clark Pepler , known as Hilary Pepler, was an English printer, writer and poet. He was an associate of both Eric Gill and G. K. Chesterton, working on publications in which they had an interest...
, (1878–1951), converted to Catholicism and founded The Guild of St Joseph and St DominicThe Guild of St Joseph and St DominicThe Guild of St Joseph and St Dominic was an art colony and experiment in communal life in early 20th century England. The story of the Guild began when Eric Gill the sculptor and letter cutter came to Ditchling, Sussex in 1907 with his apprentice Joseph Cribb and was soon followed by fellow...
. - Thomas RickmanThomas RickmanThomas Rickman , was an English architect who was a major figure in the Gothic Revival.He was born at Maidenhead, Berkshire, into a large Quaker family, and avoided the medical career envisaged for him by his father, a grocer and druggist; he went into business for himself and married his first...
, (1776–1841), an English architect and author, and a major figure in the Gothic Revival. - Thomas 'Clio' RickmanThomas 'Clio' RickmanThomas 'Clio' Rickman , was born to a Quaker family, the youngest son of John Rickman , a brewer , and Elizabeth Rickman . Rickman published political pamphlets and broadsides, contributing to the poetry columns of the Black Dwarf and other periodicals...
, (1760–1834), political pampleteer, and friend of Thomas Paine. - Ned RoremNed RoremNed Rorem is a Pulitzer prize-winning American composer and diarist. He is best known and most praised for his song settings.-Life:...
, (b. 1923), composer. - Anna SewellAnna SewellAnna Sewell was an English novelist, best known as the author of the classic novel Black Beauty.-Biography:Anna Mary Sewell was born in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England into a devoutly Quaker family...
(1820–1878), English children's writer, convert to Anglicanism in about 1838. - Hannah Whitall SmithHannah Whitall SmithHannah Tatum Whitall Smith was a lay speaker and author in the Holiness movement in the United States and the Higher Life movement in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland...
, (1832–1911), US-born evangelical preacher, suffragist and temperance campaigner. - Robert Pearsall SmithRobert Pearsall SmithRobert Pearsall Smith was a lay leader in the Holiness movement in the United States and the Higher Life movement in Great Britain. His book Holiness Through Faith is one of the foundational works of the Holiness movement...
, (1827-1898), US-born leading figure in the UK Higher Life movementHigher Life movementThe Higher Life movement was a movement devoted to Christian holiness in England. Its name comes from a book by William Boardman, entitled The Higher Christian Life, which was published in 1858...
. - Satyananda StokesSatyananda StokesSatyananda Stokes was an American who moved to India and adopted it as his own country. Stokes' given name was Samuel Evans Stokes, Jr., and belonging to a prominent family and was the son of a successful businessman who pioneered elevators in America he came to India in 1904 to work at a leper...
, (1882–1946), raised a Quaker as "Samuel Evans Stokes, Jr.", but later converted to HinduismHinduismHinduism is the predominant and indigenous religious tradition of the Indian Subcontinent. Hinduism is known to its followers as , amongst many other expressions...
. - Cheryl TiegsCheryl TiegsCheryl Rae Tiegs is an American model and actress.- Early years :Tiegs was born in Breckenridge, Minnesota but raised in Alhambra, California, and she graduated from Alhambra High School in 1965. She also attended the California State University, Los Angeles and became a little sister to the Sigma...
, (b. 1947), American model, current religious status uncertain. - William WeeksWilliam WeeksWilliam Weeks , was the first church architect of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and is best known as the architect of the Nauvoo Temple....
, (1813–1900), architect and temporary convert to MormonismMormonismMormonism is the religion practiced by Mormons, and is the predominant religious tradition of the Latter Day Saint movement. This movement was founded by Joseph Smith, Jr. beginning in the 1820s as a form of Christian primitivism. During the 1830s and 1840s, Mormonism gradually distinguished itself...
. - Walt WhitmanWalt WhitmanWalter "Walt" Whitman was an American poet, essayist and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse...
, (1819–1892), eminent American poet, born to Hicksite Quaker parents.