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

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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• F. Murray Abraham (Actor)
• William Allen
• Edgar Anderson
• Jan Arnow, author, peace proponent
• Ann Austin, early Quaker missionary
• Piers Anthony, science fiction author

• Edmund Backhouse, M.P. for Darlington banker and member of Parliament
• James Backhouse (1794-1869), botanist and missionary
• James Backhouse (1825-1890), botanist, archaeologist, and geologist
• Eric Baker (activist), co-founder of Amnesty International
• Emily Greene Balch, Nobel Peace Prize winner
• Mark Ballard, member of the Parliament of Scotland
• Robert Barclay, theologian
• Bernard Barton, poet
• John Barton, abolitionist
• John Bartram, botanist
• Joel Bean
• Anthony Benezet, educator, abolitionist
• Caleb P. Bennett
• Lewis Benson, printer, researcher and writer about Early Quakerism, especially George Fox
• Arthur Berk theologian and Wilberite educator
• Albert Bigelow, nuclear weapons protester
• J. Brent Bill, author of fiction and non-fiction, notably "Holy Silence: The Gift of Quaker Spirituality"
• George Birkbeck, a founder of London Mechanics Institute, now Birkbeck, University of London
• Kenneth E. Boulding, an economist, educator, poet, religious mystic, systems scientist, and interdisciplinary philosopher
• Samuel Bownas, travelling minister, and writer
• John Bowne, promoter of religious freedom in colonial America
• Sandra Boynton writer, cartoonist, composer
• John Bright, politician
• Moses Brown, industrialist and philanthropist
• Jocelyn Bell Burnell, astrophysicist
• Edward Burrough, 1660s activist
• Maria Louisa Bustill, (1853-1904) mother of Paul Robeson
• Smedley Butler, (1881-1940) a U.S. Marine
• Thomas S. Butler, U. S. Congressman
• Charles Roden Buxton, British parliamentarian
• Dorothy Buxton, British humanitarian, co-founder of Save the Children

• George Cadbury, chocolatier
• Henry Cadbury, chairman of the American Friends Service Committee
• John Cadbury, chocolatier
• Mary S. Calderone, one of the founders of SIECUS[1]
• Arthur Capper, governor and U. S. senator from Kansas
• Cyrus Clark co-founder of C&J Clark, shoe manufacturers in Street, Somerset
• James Clark co-founder of C&J Clark, shoe manufacturers in Street, Somerset
• Whittaker Chambers, convinced Quaker at the time of his editorship at Time and testimony against Alger Hiss (Cantor, 1993)
• William Coddington, first governor of Rhode Island
• Levi Coffin, abolitionist
• John S. Collins, land developer
• Peter Collinson FRS, botanist
• Anne Finch Conway, philosopher
• James A. "Jim" Corbett
• Stephen Crisp (1628–1692) Activist and writer, of Colchester active in the Netherlands

• John Dalton, chemist
• Abraham Darby I, ironmaster
• Abraham Darby II, ironmaster
• Abraham Darby III, ironmaster
• Dame Judi Dench, actor
• John Dickinson, American lawyer and Governor of Delaware and Pennsylvania
• Jonathan Dickinson, merchant
• Richard Dillingham, abolitionist
• Ambrose Dixon
• Henry Doubleday (1808-1875), entomologist and ornithologist.
• Henry Doubleday (1810-1902), scientist and horticulturist.
• Sue Doughty politician
• Paul Douglas, economist and United States Senator
• Gabrielle Downey, politician
• Mary Dyer, religious martyr

• Arthur Stanley Eddington, astrophysicist
• Paul Eddington, actor
• Fritz Eichenberg, illustrator
• George Ellis, cosmologist
• Thomas Ellwood, religious writer.

• Chuck Fager, 20th Century Quaker writer and activist
• Margaret Fell, one of the earliest Quakers, married to George Fox
• Mary Fisher, early Quaker missionary
• Richard J. Foster, ecumenical leader & reformer, founder of Renovare
• John Fothergill, 18th century English Quaker physician and philanthropist
• Barclay Fox Diarist
• Caroline Fox Diarist
• George Fox, founder of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
• Robert Were Fox I, businessman
• Robert Were Fox II, geologist
• Tom Fox, held captive and killed in Iraq
• Ursula Franklin, metallurgist and research physicist
• Francis Frith, photographer
• Christopher Fry, playwright
• Elizabeth Fry, prison reformer
• Joan Mary Fry (1862–1955), relief worker and social reformer
• Margery Fry (1874–1958), penal reformer and Principal of Somerville College
• Benjamin Furly (1636-1714), merchant and religious writer

• Samuel Tertius Galton, businessman and scientist
• Thomas Garret, abolitionist
• Henry D. Gilpin, Attorney General of the United States
• Stephen Grellet, missonary
• Nathanael Greene, major general of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War
• Joseph John Gurney reformer

• Elizabeth Haddon (1680-1762) founder of Haddonfield, New Jersey
• Seok-heon Ham
• Cornelia Hancock, nurse
• Sheila Hancock, comedian
• Jan de Hartog, author
• Jonathan Hazard, Continental congressman
• Edward Hicks, painter
• Elias Hicks, Quaker theologian
• Thomas Hodgkin, physician who documented Hodgkin's lymphoma
• Marshall Hodgson, historian
• Gerard Hoffnung, artist and humorist
• Christopher Holder, preacher
• Rush D. Holt, Jr., U.S. Congressman
• Elizabeth Hooton, preacher, possibly the first Quaker after George Fox
• Herbert Hoover, U.S. President
• Johns Hopkins, philanthropist
• Luke Howard, meteorologist
• Francis Howgill, preacher and writer
• Geoffrey Hubbard, director of the National Council for Educational Technology
• Charles Humphreys, Continental Congressman
• Joshua Humphreys, ship builder, 1751-1838

• Rufus Jones, Quaker theologian
• T. Canby Jones, Quaker peace activist, theologian, and professor emeritus at Wilmington College

• Martin Kelley, online Quaker Journalist, creator of the Quaker Ranter blog and the QuakerQuaker blog index.
• Thomas R. Kelly
• Sir Ben Kingsley, actor
• Patti Kent, concert violinist, musicianary

• Joseph Lancaster
• John Lilburne, Leveller
• Kathleen Lonsdale, scientist

• Svetlana Sotiroff MacDonald
• John Macmurray, Philosopher
• Dolley Madison, First Lady
• Elizabeth Magie, inventor of Monopoly
• William R Martin, Active Quaker Naturist
• Dave Matthews, musician
• John L.P. Maynard Quaker Bagpiper and humorist and early silent spokesperson for Quaker Minimalism.
• Edward R. Murrow, journalist
• Lucretia Mott

• James Nayler
• Sir George Newman, British Chief Medical Officer
• Richard Nixon, U.S. President
• Russ Nelson, open source software developer
• Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker

• Amelia Opie, writer
• Lorcan Otway, Folksinger
• Constantine Overton (1626/7-?1690), Quaker leader in Shrewsbury, Shropshire

• Parker Palmer, writer, teacher, activist
• Alice Paul, suffragist
• Edward Pease, early railway owner in England
• Joseph Pease, first Quaker member of Parliament
• Isaac Penington
• William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania
• Gerald Priestland, BBC broadcaster

• Bonnie Raitt, musician
• Lewis Fry Richardson
• John Wigham Richardson, shipbuilder
• Joseph Rowntree, chocolatier and educationist
• Bayard Rustin, civil rights leader

• Anna Sewell, author
• Moses Sheppard, philanthropist and abolitionist
• Philip Sherman, first Secretary of State of Rhode Island
• Scott Simon, journalist and broadcaster
• John Alexander Sinton, winner of the Victoria Cross
• Joan Slonczewski, biologist and award-winning science fiction writer
• Alys Pearsall Smith
• Hannah Whitall Smith
• Robert Pearsall Smith
• Lawrence Southwick
• Cassandra Burnell Southwick
• Joseph Sturge
• Donald Swann, composer, musician and entertainer
• Noah Haynes Swayne

• Joseph Taylor, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics
• Valerie Taylor, prominent lesbian novelist of the 1950s-1980s
• Lillian Thrasher
• Peterson Toscano, actor, playwright and gay activist
• Connor Trinneer, actor
• Daniel Hack Tuke, physician and expert in mental illness
• James Hack Tuke
• Henry Tuke, co-founder of the York Retreat
• Samuel Tuke
• William Tuke, co-founder of the York Retreat
• James Turrell, artist

• Mary Vaux Walcott, artist
• George Washington Walker, missionary
• Benjamin West, painter
• Jessamyn West, novelist
• Ann Cooper Whitall
• John Greenleaf Whittier, poet
• John Richardson Wigham, inventor and lighthouse engineer
• John Wilbur
• Priscilla Anne Wilkinson, married to David Ricardo
• Dallas Willard
• Waldo Williams, poet
• Anna Wing, actress
• Gerrard Winstanley, Leveller
• Caspar Wistar (glassmaker)
• Victoria Wood, comedian
• John Woolman, abolitionist

• Thomas Young, physicist

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• Susan B. Anthony, suffragist
• Joan Baez, singer and activist
• Sir Edmund Backhouse, 2nd Baronet, professor and diarist
• Robert Bage, novelist
• Daniel Boone
• David Byrne (musician), singer, composer
• A. S. Byatt, novelist
• John Cadwalader, American general in the Revolutionary War
• Ezra Cornell, founder of Cornell University
• Blythe Danner, actress
• James Dean, actor
• Thomas Fowell Buxton, abolitionist
• Margaret Drabble, novelist
• Roger Fry Art critic and Inventor of "Postimpressionism".
• Samuel Tertius Galton
• Abigail Hopper Gibbons, abolitionist, activist, and a nurse during the American Civil War
• Kersey Graves
• Elisha Gray, an independent inventor of the telephone
• Angelina Weld Grimke, campaigner against slavery and for women's rights
• Sarah Grimke, campaigner against slavery and for women's rights
• Lyndon LaRouche, (disowned in 1941)
• Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister
• Dave Matthews, musician
• Maria Mitchell, astronomer
• James A. Michener, novelist
• Annie Oakley, wild-west entertainer, sharpshooter
• Edward R. Pease, co-founder of the Fabian Society
• Ned Rorem, composer and diarist
• Betsy Ross, reputed creator of the first American flag

1. Cantor, Norman F. (1993) Inventing the Middle Ages, p. 219, HarperCollins, ISBN 0-688-12302-3: "[1949] was also a moment in Time's history when a senior editor was Whittaker Chambers, the former Soviet spy and eventual nemesis of Alger Hiss. Now a devout Quaker, Chambers was keen on importing British conservative Christianity to American shores..."

• Adherents.com's Famous Quakers Page
• Jenny's Famous Quakers Page
• Quaker Women Online