List of Quakers

This is a list of notable people associated with the Religious Society of Friends, also known as Quakers.

Contents

1 A 2 B 3 C 4 D 5 E 6 F 7 G 8 H 9 J 10 K 11 L 12 M 13 N 14 P 15 R 16 S 17 T 18 W 19 Y

A

• William Allen
• Susan B. Anthony, suffragist

B

• Robert Barclay, theologian
• Edward Backhouse
• Bernard Barton, poet
• Jocelyn Bell Burnell, astrophysicist
• Anthony Benezet, educator, abolitionist
• George Birkbeck
• John Bright
• Edward Burrough, 1660s activist

C

• George Cadbury, chocolatier
• John Cadbury, chocolatier
• Levi Coffin, abolitionist

D

• John Dalton, chemist
• Abraham Darby, ironmaster
• James Dean, actor
• Dame Judi Dench, actor
• Richard Dillingham, abolitionist
• Ambrose Dixon
• Mary Dyer, religious martyr

E

• Arthur Stanley Eddington, astrophysicist
• Paul Eddington, actor

F

• Chuck Fager, 20th Century Quaker writer and activist
• Margaret Fell, one of the earliest Quakers, married to George Fox
• Richard Foster
• George Fox, founder of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
• Elizabeth Fry, prison reformer

G

• Samuel Tertius Galton
• Thomas Garret
• Henry D. Gilpin
• Stephen Grellet
• Joseph Gurney reformer

H

• Elizabeth Haddon (1680-1762) founder of Haddonfield, New Jersey
• Seok-heon Ham
• Sheila Hancock, comedian
• Edward Hicks, painter
• Elias Hicks, Quaker theologian
• Thomas Hodgkin, physician who documented Hodgkin's lymphoma
• Gerard Hoffnung
• Herbert Hoover, U.S. President
• Joshua Humphreys, ship builder, 1751-1838

J

• Rufus Jones, Quaker theologian

K

• Thomas R. Kelly
• Ben Kingsley, actor

L

• Joseph Lancaster
• Lyndon LaRouche, (disowned in 1941)
• Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister
• Kathleen Lonsdale, scientist

M

• Dave Matthews, musician
• Maria Mitchell
• Lucretia Mott

N

• James Nayler
• Richard Nixon, U.S. President

P

• Edward Pease, early railway owner in England
• Edward R. Pease, co-founder of the Fabian Society
• Joseph Pease, first Quaker member of Parliament
• William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania

R

• Lewis Fry Richardson
• Joseph Rowntree, chocolatier
• Bayard Rustin, civil rights leader

S

• Philip Sherman, first Secretary of State of Rhode Island
• Alys Pearsall Smith
• Hannah Whitall Smith
• Robert Pearsall Smith
• Lawrence Southwick
• Cassandra Burnell Southwick
• Noah Haynes Swayne

T

• William Tuke

W

• John Greenleaf Whittier, poet
• Priscilla Anne Wilkinson , married to David Ricardo
• Dallas Willard
• Victoria Wood, comedian
• John Woolman, abolitionist

Y

• Thomas Young, physicist