List of Quakers

This is a list of notable people associated with the Religious Society of Friends, also known as Quakers, who have a Wikipedia article. The first part consists of individuals known to be or to have been Quakers continually from some point in their lives. 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, or who formally or informally distanced themselves from the Society of Friends, or who were disowned by their Friends Meeting.

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Elisabeth Abegg (1882–1974), German educator who rescued Jews during the Holocaust{{Cite encyclopedia |url= |url-access=|title=Abegg, Elisabeth (1882–1974) |encyclopedia=Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia |year=2002 |first=John |last=Haag }}
Damon Albarn (b. 1968), English musician, singer-songwriter and record producer
Harry Albright (living), Swiss-born Canadian former editor of The Friend, Communications Consultant for FWCC{{Cite web |title=Welcome fwccworld.org - BlueHost.com|url=http://www.fwccworld.org/contact/index.shtml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080324200116/http://fwccworld.org/contact/index.shtml |archive-date=March 24, 2008|access-date=2023-01-01|website=www.fwccworld.org}}{{Cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928101043/http://www.thefriend.org/articledisplay.asp?articleid=937 |archive-date=September 28, 2007 |url=http://www.thefriend.org/articledisplay.asp?articleid=937 |title=Commentary - preview}}
Thomas Aldham (c. 1616–1660), English Quaker instrumental in setting up the first meeting in the Doncaster area{{Cite ODNB |id=299 |title=Aldam, Thomas (1616?–1660) |first=Catie |last=Gill}}
Horace Alexander (1889–1989), English writer on India and friend of Gandhi{{Cite web |last=Chmielewski |first=Wendy |title=Horace Gundry Alexander – Papers, 1916–1983 |publisher=Swarthmore College Peace Collection |url=http://www.swarthmore.edu/library/peace/DG100-150/dg140Alexander.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081027050719/http://www.swarthmore.edu/library/peace/DG100-150/dg140Alexander.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=27 October 2008 |access-date=9 May 2008}}
Darina Allen (b. 1948), cooking writer, educator and television chef{{Cite web|title=Tea with Darina Allen|url=https://www.independent.ie/life/food-drink/food-news/tea-with-darina-allen-30331862.html|access-date=2023-01-01|website=Irish Independent|date=5 June 2014 |language=en}}
Diane Allen (b. 1948), American politician and journalist{{cite web | url=https://www.inquirer.com/philly/news/politics/Politics-have-grown-stranger-but-Diane-Allen-leaving-with-anger-toward-none-.html | title=Politics is 'stranger,' but Diane Allen's leaving with anger toward none | date=25 February 2017 }}
Myrtle Allen (1924–2018), cook, "Matriarch of Irish cuisine"{{Cite web|last=McMenamy|first=Emma|date=2018-06-14|title=Myrtle Allen to be mourned at Quaker funeral service in Cork|url=https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/culinary-world-mourn-late-ballymaloe-12705495|access-date=2023-01-01|website=Irish Mirror|language=en}}
William Allen (1770–1843), English scientist, philanthropist, and abolitionist{{Cite web |url=http://www.stokenewingtonquakers.org.uk/nbhist1.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070701162004/http://www.stokenewingtonquakers.org.uk/nbhist1.html|title=Stoke Newington Quakers|archive-date=1 July 2007}}
Edgar Anderson (1897–1969), American botanist{{Cite web

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Charlotte Anley (1796–1893), English novelist and writer{{Cite web |url-access= subscription|title=Charlotte Anley |work= AustLit: Discover Australian Stories|url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A124943|access-date=2023-01-01|date=2013}}
Elizabeth Ashbridge (1713–1755), English Quaker preacher and memoirist{{Cite journal |title=Strategies for Teaching Elizabeth Ashbridge's Narrative to Reluctant Readers |first=Emily B. |last=Todd |journal=Early American Literature |volume=40 |issue=2 |year=2005 |pages=357–361 |doi=10.1353/eal.2005.0046|s2cid=162275278}}
Alison Ashby (1901–1987), Australian botanical artist and plant collector.{{cite web |url= https://archival.collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/oh/OH870_9.pdf |title= J.D. Somerville Oral Collection. Friends of the Botanic Gardens of Adelaide Oral History Project: An Interview with Enid Lucy Robertson |last= Mann |first= Susan |date= 11 November 2008 |website=State Library of South Australia| publisher= |access-date= 10 March 2024|quote=}}
Edwin Ashby (1861–1941), Australian property developer, malacologist, and ornithologist
Ann Austin (17th century), early English Quaker missionary{{Cite news |date=1894-06-10|title=Quakers, Puritans, and Turks.|language=en-US|work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1894/06/10/archives/quakers-puritans-and-turks.html|access-date=2023-01-01|issn=0362-4331}}
Iwao Ayusawa (鮎沢巌, 1894–1972), Japanese diplomat{{Cite web |url=http://www2.gol.com/users/quakers/QiJ-4.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000524190032/http://www2.gol.com/users/quakers/QiJ-4.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=24 May 2000|title=Tokyo Quaker site}}

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Edmund Backhouse (1824–1906), English banker and MP of Parliament for Darlington{{Cite news |work=The Times |title=obituary, 8 June 1906 |page=3}}
James Backhouse (1794–1869), UK-born Australian botanist and missionary{{Citation |author=Mary Bartram Trott |title=Backhouse, James (1794–1869) |work=Australian Dictionary of Biography |volume=1 |location=Melbourne |publisher=MUP |year=1966 |pages=45–46}}
Edmund Bacon (1910–2005), American architect{{Cite news |last=Pogrebin|first=Robin|date=2005-10-18|title=Edmund Bacon, 95, Urban Planner of Philadelphia, Dies|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/18/arts/design/edmund-bacon-95-urban-planner-of-philadelphia-dies.html|access-date=2023-01-01|issn=0362-4331}}
Ernest Bader (1890–1982), Swiss-born English businessman and philanthropist{{Cite ODNB |id=46578 |first=John G. |last=Corina |title=Bader, Ernest (1890–1982)}}
Joan Baez (b. 1941), American folk singer and peace campaigner{{Cite web |title=Interview with Joan Baez |url=https://www.wnyc.org/story/joan-baez/ |publisher=New York Public Radio}}
Eric Baker (1920–1976), English co-founder of Amnesty International and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament{{Cite web |title=History of Amnesty International – FundingUniverse |url=http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/amnesty-international-history/ |access-date=2023-01-01 |website=www.fundinguniverse.com}}
Emily Greene Balch (1867–1961), American Nobel Peace Prize winner{{cite web |title=Nobel Committee information on 1946 Peace Prize laureates |url=http://www.nobel.se/peace/laureates/1946/ |website=www.nobel.se}}
Caroline Balderston Parry (1945 – Feb 11, 2022), Canadian writer, musician, performer, celebrator, and consultant
Chris Barber (1921–2012), English businessman and chairman of Oxfam{{Cite news |title=Obituary in The Times |date=2012-08-20 |quote=Chris Barber: accountant who in retirement led Oxfam and guided the organisation through a challenging decade}}
Robert Barclay (1648–1690), Scottish theologian{{Cite ODNB |id=67834 |title=Barclay, Robert (1611/12–1682) |first=Brian M. |last=Halloran}}
John Henry Barlow (1855–1924), English Quaker statesman{{Cite web |title=Plaque honours Quaker and great man of peace. – Free Online Library |url=https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Plaque+honours+Quaker+and+great+man+of+peace.-a0371918117 |access-date=2023-01-01 |website=Birmingham Post }}
Geoffrey Barraclough (1908–1984), English historian{{Cite book |last=Boyd|first=Kelly|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JBqWbDmFsfEC&q=%2522Geoffrey%2520Barraclough%2522%2520Oriel&pg=PA77 |title=Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing |date=1999 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-1-884964-33-6 |language=en}}
Florence Mary Barrow (1876–1964), aid worker and housing reform activist{{cite web |title=Florence Mary Barrow |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e–1012670 |website=www.oxforddnb.com |access-date=8 April 2020}}
Bernard Barton (1784–1849), English poet{{Cite ODNB |id=1595 |title=Barton, Bernard (1784–1849) |first1=A. H. |last1=Bullen |first2=James Edgar Jr. |last2=Barcus}}
John Barton (1755–1789), English abolitionist{{Cite web|url=http://www.quaker.org.uk/Templates/Internal.asp?NodeID=92262|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071111231049/http://www.quaker.org.uk/Templates/Internal.asp?NodeID=92262|title="Library Guide 9: Library sources on Quakers and the origins of the abolition movement" Britain Yearly Meeting web site Accessed 26 March 2007.|archive-date=11 November 2007}}
John Bartram (1699–1777), American botanist{{citation |title=John Bartram |work=Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography |year=1900}}
William Bates (d. 1700), a founder of Newton Colony, the third English colony in West Jersey{{citation |author=John Clement |date=1877 |title=William Bates |work=Sketches of the first emigrant settlers in Newton Township, Old Gloucester County, West New Jersey. Camden: Sinnickson Chew.|pages=47–56}}
Elizabeth Bathurst (1655–1685), English theologian and preacher{{Cite web |url=http://orlando.cambridge.org/public/svPeople?person_id=bathel#:~:text=Elizabeth%20Bathurst,%20writing%20late%20in,best-known%20Quaker%20publishing%20house |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130524151647/http://orlando.cambridge.org/public/svPeople?person_id=bathel#:~:text=Elizabeth%20Bathurst,%20writing%20late%20in,best-known%20Quaker%20publishing%20house |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-05-24 |title=Elizabeth%20Bathurst,%20writing%20late%20in,best-known%20Quaker%20publishing%20house |access-date= 19 February 2022}}
Helen Bayes (b. 1944), UK-born Australian child rights activist{{Cite news |url=http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/stories/s72358.htm |title=The World Today Archive: Aust's human rights achievements awarded |date=10 December 1999 |publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation |access-date=3 February 2019}}
Joel Bean (1825–1914), American Quaker minister{{Cite web|url=https://quaker.org/legacy/liberal-history/bean.html|access-date=2023-01-01|website=quaker.org |first=Chuck |last=Fager | date= 1995 | title= Liberal History: Bean}}
Anthony Benezet (1713–1784), American educator, abolitionistEntry in Webster's Biographical Dictionary (Springfield, MA: G. & C. Merriam Co., 1980).
Caleb P. Bennett (1758–1836), American soldier and politician{{Cite web|title=Delaware Governor's – 1801 to 1851|url=http://www.russpickett.com/history/delgov2.htm#bennett|access-date=2023-01-01|website=www.russpickett.com}}
Douglas C. Bennett (b. 1946), American academic, president of Earlham College{{Cite web |url=http://www.earlham.edu/about/president/gallery/bennett |title=bennett |access-date=3 October 2011 |archive-date=3 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110703065034/https://www.earlham.edu/about/president/gallery/bennett }}
Lewis Benson (1906–1986), American printer, expert in Early Quakerism, especially George Fox{{Cite web|title=BENSON, Lewis |first=Claus |last=Bernet|url=https://www.bautz.de/bbkl/b/benson_l.shtml?lang=en|access-date=2023-01-01|website=Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon|language=german}}
Anna McClean Bidder (1903–2001), English marine zoologist and founder of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge{{Cite web|last=Traub|first=Lindsey|date=2001-10-10|title=Obituary: Anna Bidder|url=http://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/oct/10/guardianobituaries.highereducation|access-date=2023-01-01|website=the Guardian|language=en}}
Hester Biddle (c. 1629–1697), English pamphleteer and preacher{{Cite ODNB |id=45809 |title=Biddle, Hester (1629/30–1697) |first1=Elaine |last1=Hobby |first2=Catie |last2=Gill}}
Albert Bigelow (1906–1993), American nuclear weapons protester{{Cite book |title=The Struggle Against the Bomb: Volume Two, Resisting the Bomb: A History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement |page=55 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vJuaAAAAIAAJ&q=voyage+of+the+golden+rule&pg=RA1-PA55 |author=Lawrence S Wittner |publisher=Stanford University Press |access-date=24 July 2009|isbn=978-0-8047-2918-5 |year=1993}}
J. Brent Bill (b. 1951), American recorded minister and writer on religion{{cite web |title=conversation-with-j-brent-bill-a-sturdy-quaker-guide-to |url=http://www.readthespirit.com/explore/2008/5/21/172-conversation-with-j-brent-bill-a-sturdy-quaker-guide-to.html |website=www.readthespirit.com |access-date=3 October 2011}} {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110816061711/http://www.readthespirit.com/explore/2008/5/21/172-conversation-with-j-brent-bill-a-sturdy-quaker-guide-to.html |date=16 August 2011}}{{Additional citations needed|reason=This does not cover all information.|date=March 2021}}
Linda Bilmes (b. 1960), co-author of The Three Trillion Dollar War, professor at Harvard Kennedy School; co-chair Economists for Peace and Security.
George Birkbeck (1776–1841), one of the English founders of London Mechanics Institute, now Birkbeck, University of London{{cite web |title=george birkbeck and the london mechanics institute |url=http://www.infed.org/walking/wa-birb.htm |website=www.infed.org |access-date=3 October 2011}} {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100817042028/http://www.infed.org/walking/wa-birb.htm |date=17 August 2010}}
Sarah Blackborow (fl. 1650s – 1660s), English tractarian prominent in discussion of the role of women in the Society and of social issues
Barbara Blaugdone (c. 1609–1705), English autobiographer and minister
Sir Richard Body (1927–2018), Conservative MP from 1955 to 1959 and from 1966 to 2001, prominent Eurosceptic, and writer on agricultural matters{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/mar/19/sir-richard-body-obituary |title=Sir Richard Body obituary |work=The Guardian |date=19 March 2018 |access-date=17 April 2021 |last=Bates |first=Stephen}}
Taylor A. Borradaile (1885–1977), chemist and one of the four founders and first President of the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity; two of the founding principles of Phi Kappa Tau are also two of the Quaker testimonies: Integrity and Equality
Elise Boulding (1920–2010), Norwegian-born American educator, sociologist, prominent in the 20th-century peace research movement{{Cite news |work=The New York Times |title=Elise Boulding, Peace Scholar, Dies at 89 |first=Bruce |last=Weber |date=1 July 2010 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/02/us/02boulding.html |access-date=3 October 2011}}
Kenneth E. Boulding (1910–1993), English economist, educator, poet, and interdisciplinary philosopher{{cite web |first=Nathan |last=Keyfitz |author-link=Nathan Keyfitz |url=http://www.nap.edu/html/biomems/kboulding.pdf |title=Kenneth Ewart Boulding - January 18, 1910 – March 18, 1993 |access-date=January 2, 2025 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110605073708/http://www.nap.edu/html/biomems/kboulding.pdf |archive-date=5 June 2011 |publisher=National Academies Press |location=Washington, D.C. |year=1996}}
Bathsheba Bowers (1671–1718), American religious author and preacherPetrulionis, Sandra Harbert (1998): "Bathsheba Bowers", Dictionary of Literary Biography: American Women Prose Writers to 1820, pp. 62–66.
Samuel Bownas (1676–1753), English travelling minister and writer{{Cite book |last=Bownas|first=Samuel |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RnIXAAAAYAAJ&dq=Samuel%2520Bownas&pg=PR1|title=An Account of the Life, Travels, and Christian Experiences in the Work of the Ministry of Samuel Bownas|date=1795|publisher=J. Phillips|language=en |page=54 |location=London}}
John Bowne (1627–1695), English-born promoter of religious freedom in colonial America{{Cite web |work=Bowne House Historical Society, Flushing|title=The Bowne Family Biographies|url=http://bownehouse.org/history_bowne_family.htm|access-date=2023-01-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090201213215/http://bownehouse.org/history_bowne_family.htm |archive-date=1 February 2009 }}
Sandra Boynton (b. 1953), American writer, cartoonist and composerCBS Sunday Morning, 11 May 2010.
Bertha Bracey (1893–1989), English teacher and aid worker
George Bradshaw (1801–1853), English cartographer, printer, publisher and originator of the railway guide{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=George Bradshaw |work=steamindex.com |url=https://steamindex.com/people/bradshaw.htm |access-date=5 April 2024 }}
John Bright (1811–1889), English politician{{Citation |author=George Barnett Smith |title=The Life and Speeches of the Right Hon. John Bright, M.P., 2 vols (1881)}}
Charlie Brooker (b. 1971), English satirist and broadcaster
Edmund Wright Brooks (1834–1928), English philanthropist and cement makerMilligan's Biographical Dictionary of British Quakers in Commerce and Industry: Edmund Wright Brooks, p. 70.
Elizabeth Brown (1830–1899), English astronomer and meteorologist{{Cite book|last1=Harvey|first1=Joyce|url={{GBurl|QmfyK0QtsRAC|q=elizabeth%2520brown%2520astronomy|p=189}}|title=The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: Pioneering Lives from Ancient Times to the Mid-Twentieth Century|last2=Ogilvie|first2=Marilyn|date=2000-07-27|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-0-203-80145-1|language=en |page=189}}
Moses Brown (1738–1836), American industrialist and philanthropist{{Cite web|url=https://www.rihs.org/mssinv/Mss313.htm|access-date=2023-01-01

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Jocelyn Bell Burnell (b. 1943), Northern Irish astrophysicistBBC Interview: [https://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/programmes/belief/scripts/jocelyn_bell_burnell.html jocelyn_bell_burnell] accessed 4 October 2011.
Edward Burrough (1634–1663), English member of the Valiant Sixty{{Cite book |last1=Evans|first1=William |url=http://archive.org/details/edwardburroughme00evaniala |title=Edward Burrough: a memoir of a faithful servant of Christ and Minister of the Gospel, who died in Newgate, 14th, 12 Mo., 1662 |last2=Evans|first2=Thomas |date=1851 |publisher=London : Charles Gilpin, Bishopsgate without |others=University of California Libraries}}
Smedley D. Butler (1881–1940), Major General in the United States Marine Corps and author of War is a Racket
Thomas S. Butler (1855–1928), American congressman{{Cite web |title=BUTLER, Thomas Stalker |url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/B001192 |access-date=2023-01-01 |website=bioguide.congress.gov}}
Charles Roden Buxton (1875–1942), British Member of Parliament{{Cite ODNB |id=74568 |title=Buxton, Charles Roden |last=Griffiths |first=C. V. J.}}}}

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George Cadbury (1839–1922), English chocolatier{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/money/George-Cadbury |title=George Cadbury |website=Britannica}}
Henry Cadbury (1883–1974), American writer and chairman of the American Friends Service CommitteeCopy of obituary: [http://www.swarthmore.edu/library/peace/DG051-099/DG081HCadbury.html accessed 5 October 2011.]
John Cadbury (1801–1889), English chocolatier{{cite web |url=https://www.barclaycollege.edu/news/quaker-leaders-who-transformed-the-world-the-cadburys/ |title=The Cadbury Chocolate Family were Quaker Leaders Who Transformed the World |date=October 7, 2022 |website=Barclay College }}
Richard Tapper Cadbury (1768–1860), English draper, abolitionist, philanthropistGail Lewis: Forming Nation, Framing Welfare (London: Routledge, 1998), p. 23.
Ruth Cadbury (b. 1959), British Member of Parliament
David Cadman (b. 1941), English economist and writer
Mary Greig Campbell (1907–1989), New Zealand librarian and China relief worker
Arthur Capper (1865–1951), governor and American senator from Kansas{{Cite web|title=Quaker Politicians |url=https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/quaker.html |access-date=2023-01-01 |website=The Political Graveyard}}
Mary Birkett Card, (1774–1817), abolitionist and feminist poet
Thomas Carpenter (1752–1847), fighting Quaker who served in the Revolutionary War and afterward as a glassmakerAdeline Pepper: The Glass Gaffers of New Jersey and Their Creations from 1739 to the Present, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1971, pp. 32–34.
Pierre Cérésole (1879–1945), Swiss founder of Service Civil InternationalHélène Monastier, Un Quaker d'aujourd'hui: Pierre Cérésole, 1947.
Whittaker Chambers (1901–1961), American ex-communist, ex-Soviet spy who converted to QuakerismSam Tanenhaus, Whittaker Chambers: A Biography (Modern Library, 1998). {{ISBN|0-375-75145-9}}
Sarah Cheevers (1608–1664), evangelist{{Cite journal |first=Catie |last=Gill |title=Evans and Cheevers's A Short Relation in Context: Flesh, Spirit, and Authority in Quaker Prison Writings, 1650–1662 |journal=Huntington Library Quarterly |volume=72 |issue=2 |year=2009 |pages=257–272 |jstor=10.1525/hlq.2009.72.2.257|doi=10.1525/hlq.2009.72.2.257 |url=https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/6929}}
Henry Christy (1810–1865), English banker, philanthropist and anthropologist{{Cite ODNB |id=5375 |title=Christy, Henry (1810–1865) |first1=W. J. |last1=Harrison |first2=A. Bowdoin |last2=Van Riper}}
Cyrus Clark (fl. 1825–1863), English co-founder of C&J Clark, shoe manufacturers in Street, Somerset{{Cite book |last=Sutton |first=George Barry |title=C&J Clark 1833–1903: History of Shoemaking in Street, Somerset |year=1979 |publisher=Sessions |isbn=0-900657-44-8}}
William Coddington (1601–1678), first governor of Rhode Island{{Cite book |last1=Anderson |first1=Robert C. |last2=Sanborn |first2=George F. Jr. |last3=Sanborn |first3=Melinde L. |title=The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England 1634–1635 |volume=I A-B |year=1999 |publisher=New England Historic Genealogical Society |location=Boston |isbn=0-88082-110-8}}
Levi Coffin (1798–1877), American abolitionist{{Cite web |first=Levi |last=Coffin|title=Levi Coffin, 1798-1877. Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, the Reputed President of the Underground Railroad; Being a Brief History of the Labors of a Lifetime in Behalf of the Slave, with the Stories of Numerous Fugitives, Who Gained Their Freedom Through His Instrumentality, and Many Other Incidents.|url=https://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/coffin/coffin.html|access-date=2023-01-01|website=University of North Carolina}}
Elizabeth Coggeshall (1770–1851), American minister who visited meetings throughout the United States, the British Isles, and European continent.{{Cite book |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FgntAilpSIYC&pg=RA3-PA3 |author=Society of Friends New York |title=Memorials Concerning Several Ministers and Others, Deceased: Of the Religious Society of Friends |chapter=Memorial of the Monthly Meeting of New York concerning Elizabeth Coggeshall |date=1852 |publisher=Mahlon Day & Company | location=New York |language=en}}
John S. Collins (1837–1928), American land developer{{Cite web|title=John Collins Biography |website= Miami Beach 411|url=http://miamibeach411.com/History/bio_collins.htm|access-date=2023-01-01}}
Peter Collinson FRS (1694–1768), English botanist{{Cite ODNB |id=5964 |title=Collinson, Peter (1694–1768) |first=Douglas D. C. |last=Chambers}}
John Conard (1773–1857), American politician nicknamed the "Fighting Quaker", buried in an Episcopal Church graveyard
Anne Finch Conway (1631–1679), English philosopherLois Frankel: "Anne Finch, Viscountess Conway". In: A History of Women Philosophers, Vol. 3 (Kluwer, 1991), pp. 41–58.
William Cooper (1754–1809), founder of Cooperstown, New York and father of author James Fenimore Cooper{{cite web |last1=Banner Jr |first1=James M |title=Cooper, William |url=http://www.libarts.ucok.edu/history/faculty/roberson/course/1483/suppl/chpIX/William%20Cooper.htm |website=American National Biography |publisher=Oxford University Press, Inc. |date=2000}} {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040921044604/http://www.libarts.ucok.edu/history/faculty/roberson/course/1483/suppl/chpIX/William%20Cooper.htm |date=21 September 2004}}
James A. Corbett (1933–2001), American human-rights campaigner{{Cite web |title=Seven Obituaries |url=https://www.flatrock.org.nz/topics/money_politics_law/jim_corbett.htm |access-date=2023-01-01 |website=www.flatrock.org.nz}}
Pit Corder (1918–1990), English applied linguist{{Cite ODNB |last=Davies |first=Alan |title=Corder, Stephen Pit (1918–1990) |id=69741}}
Isaac Crewdson (1780–1844), English Quaker minister and founder of the Evangelical Friends or Beaconites
Stephen Crisp (1628–1692), English writer and recorded Quaker minister, also in the Low Countries{{Cite ODNB |id=6707 |title=Crisp, Stephen (1628–1692) |first=Adrian |last=Davies}}
Joseph Crosfield (1792–1844), English industrialist{{BBKL |c/crosfield_j|band=30 |autor=Claus Bernet |artikel=Crosfield, Joseph |spalten=218–220}} In German.
James Cudworth (1817–1899), steam locomotive designerJohn Marshall: A Biographical Dictionary of Railway Engineers (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1978). {{ISBN|0-7153-7489-3}}
Adam Curle (1916–2006), first professor of peace studies at the University of Bradford{{Cite web |url=http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/peace/about/adam_curle.php |title=University of Bradford obituary |access-date=13 September 2008 |archive-date=26 July 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090726163109/http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/peace/about/adam_curle.php }}

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Carla Denyer (b. 1985), Co-Leader of the British Green Party
John Dalton (1766–1844), English chemist{{Cite web |title=John Dalton: Exhibition |url=http://rylibweb.man.ac.uk/dalton/exhib.html |access-date=2023-01-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031022103543/http://rylibweb.man.ac.uk/dalton/exhib.html |archive-date=22 October 2003 |language=en}}
Abraham Darby I (1678–1717), English ironmaster{{Cite web |title=Engineers: The Darbys and other iron masters |url=http://www.cottontimes.co.uk/darbyo.htm |access-date=2023-01-01 |website=Cotton Times |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050924062118/http://www.cottontimes.co.uk/darbyo.htm |archive-date=24 September 2005 |language=en-GB}}
Abraham Darby II (1711–1763), English ironmaster
Abraham Darby III (1750–1791), English ironmaster
James Dean (1931–1955), American actor{{cite web |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/wayoflife/01/28/famous.quakers/ |title=What Richard Nixon and James Dean had in common |last=Hattikudur |first=Mangesh |author-link=Mangesh Hattikudur |date=2008 |website=edition.cnn.com |access-date=23 September 2022}}
Judi Dench (b. 1934), English actress{{Cite web |date=2005-09-12 |title=Judi Dench on why she's not retiring |url=http://www.theguardian.com/film/2005/sep/12/awardsandprizes.oscars2006 |access-date=2023-01-01 |first=Michael |last=Billington |website=the Guardian |language=en}}
Philip Dennis, agriculture missionary to the Miami NationHarvey Lewis Carter, The Life and Times of Little Turtle {{ISBN|0-252-01318-2}}, pp. 100–292.
Caleb Deschanel (b. 1944), American cinematographer{{Cite web |title=Caleb Deschanel talks about The Passion |url=http://www.thewords.com/passion/caleb.htm |access-date=2023-01-01 |website=www.thewords.com}}
William Dewsbury (1671–1688), English Quaker minister{{Cite ODNB |id=7581 |title=Dewsbury, William (c. 1621–1688) |first=Catie |last=Gill}}
Jonathan Dickinson (1663–1722), Jamaican-born colonial American merchant and politician{{Cite web |title=§11. Jonathan Dickinson. I. Travellers and Explorers, 1583–1763. Vol. 15. Colonial and Revolutionary Literature; Early National Literature, Part I. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21 |url=https://www.bartleby.com/225/0111.html |access-date=2023-01-01 |website=www.bartleby.com |date=26 June 2022 }}
Richard Dillingham (1823–1850), American abolitionist
Ambrose Dixon (1619–1687), colonial American{{cite web |title=delmarvasettlers.org - delmarvasettlers Resources and Information. |url=http://www.delmarvasettlers.org/profiles/dixon.html |website=www.delmarvasettlers.org |access-date=1 January 2024}} {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080120235012/http://www.delmarvasettlers.org/profiles/dixon.html |date=20 January 2008}}
Dorcas Dole (fl. later 17th century), English pamphleteer and sectaryVirginia Blain, Patricia Clements and Isobel Grundy, eds: The Feminist Companion to Literature in English (London: Batsford, 1990), p. 302. {{ISBN|9780713458480}}
Stephen Donaldson (1946–1996), English prison and LGBT activist{{Cite journal |title=Stephen Donaldson Papers, 1965–1996 |last=Moske |first=Jim |pages=4–5 |date=September 2000 |journal=The New York Public Library Humanities and Social Sciences Library Manuscripts and Archives Division |url=http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/rbk/faids/donaldson.pdf |access-date=15 March 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081002032650/http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/rbk/faids/donaldson.pdf |archive-date=2 October 2008}}
Edward Doubleday (1811–1849), English entomologist and ornithologist{{Cite ODNB |id=7846 |title=Doubleday, Edward (1810–1849) |first=Robert |last=Mays}}
Henry Doubleday (1808–1875), English entomologist and ornithologist{{Cite web |title=A New View of Darwinism |url=http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?itemID=F1754&viewtype=text&pageseq=1|access-date=2023-01-01|website=Darwin Online}}
Henry Doubleday (1810–1902), English scientist and horticulturalist{{Cite ODNB |id=65575 |title=Doubleday, Henry (1810–1902) |first=John |last=Martin}}
Sue Doughty (b. 1948), English politician{{Cite web|title=Getting to Know Sue Doughty|url=http://www.suedoughty.org.uk/pages/aboutsue.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060822154201/http://www.suedoughty.org.uk/pages/aboutsue.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 August 2006|access-date=2023-01-01|website=www.suedoughty.org.uk}}
Paul Douglas (1892–1976), economist and US senator{{Cite web|url=http://www.bowdoin.edu/economics/prizes/pdf/pdbiobykeohane.pdf|title=pdbiobykeohane |work=Bowdoin.edu}}{{deadlink|date=December 2023}}
Margaret Drabble (b. 1939), English novelist{{Cite web|title=British Council: Margaret Drabble |url=http://literature.britishcouncil.org/margaret-drabble |access-date=5 October 2011}}
Muriel Duckworth (1908–2009), Canadian peace campaigner{{Citation |author=Marion Douglas Kerans |title=Muriel Duckworth: A Very Active Pacifist |location=Halifax, Nova Scotia |publisher=Fernwood Publishing |year=1996 |isbn=1-895686-68-7}}
Cuthbert Dukes (1890–1977), English physician and pathologist{{Cite journal |title=Obituary |date=1985 |pmc=2498096 |last1=Morson |first1=B. C. |journal=Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England |volume=67 |issue=6 |page=354 |pmid=19311055 }}
Robert Dunkin (1761–1831), English businessman and patron of scienceThe West Briton, 19 August 1831, p. 2, Death notices.
Mary Dyer (c. 1611–1660), colonial American religious martyr{{Cite web |url=http://www.mayflowerfamilies.com/enquirer/mary_dyer.htm |title=Mayflower Families |access-date=25 November 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090416221602/http://www.mayflowerfamilies.com/enquirer/mary_dyer.htm |archive-date=16 April 2009 }}

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Solomon Eccles (1618–1683), initially an English composer, later a Quaker preacher{{Cite book |last=Pulver |first=Jeffrey |title=A Biographical Dictionary of Old English Music |year=1927 |publisher=Ayer Publishing |isbn=0-8337-2867-9 |page=162 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=seYkYJ2TaJAC}}; {{Cite book |last=Pepys |first=Samuel |title=The diary of Samuel Pepys, Volume 13 |year=1895 |publisher=Brainard |page=41 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RVkKAQAAMAAJ}}
Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882–1944), UK astrophysicist{{Cite web |url=http://silas.psfc.mit.edu/eddington/ |title=Astrophysics and Mysticism: the life of Arthur Stanley Eddington |author=Ian H. Hutchinson of MIT}} {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080922185046/http://silas.psfc.mit.edu/eddington/ |date=22 September 2008}}
Paul Eddington (1927–1995), English actor{{Cite web |last=BBC|title=BBC – Comedy – People A-Z – Paul Eddington|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/people/paul_eddington_person_page.shtml|access-date=2023-01-01|website=www.bbc.co.uk|language=en-gb}}
George Edmondson (1798–1863), English educator{{Cite ODNB |id=8489 |title=Edmondson, George (1798–1863) |first1=G. J. |last1=Holyoake |first2=M. C. |last2=Curthoys}}
Fritz Eichenberg (1901–1990), German illustrator{{Cite web |url=http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/oralhistories/tranSCRIPTs/eichen79.htm |title=Interview with Fritz Eichenberg |website=www.aaa.si.edu|date=8 January 2016 }}
George Ellis (b. 1939), American Templeton Prize winning cosmologist{{Cite web|url=http://www.friendsjournal.org/contents/2005/0805/feature.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060220073305/http://www.friendsjournal.org/contents/2005/0805/feature.html|title=Friends Journal|archive-date=20 February 2006}}
Rowland Ellis (1650–1731), Welsh Quaker leader{{Cite DWB |id=s-ELLI-ROW-1650 |title=Ellis, Rowland}}
Thomas Ellwood (1639–1713), English religious writer{{Cite EB1911 |wstitle=Ellwood, Thomas |volume=9 |page=295}}
Joshua Evans (1731–1798), minister, journalist, and abolitionist from Haddonfield, New Jersey{{Cite web|title=Collection: Joshua Evans Papers | Archives & Manuscripts|url=https://archives.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/resources/5190joev|access-date=2023-01-01|website=archives.tricolib.brynmawr.edu}}
Katherine Evans (1618–1692), English evangelist

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Chuck Fager (b. 1942), American civil rights campaignerQuaker House: [http://quakerhouse.org/director.php accessed 5 October 2011.] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051217005806/http://quakerhouse.org/director.php |date=17 December 2005}}
Marjorie Farquharson (1953–2016), Scottish political scientist and human rights worker with Amnesty International{{Cite book |title=The new biographical dictionary of Scottish women |others=Ewan, Elizabeth |isbn=978-1-4744-3629-8 |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |oclc=1057237368 |last1=Ewan |first1=Elizabeth |last2=Pipes |first2=Rosemary J. |last3=Rendall |first3=Jane |last4=Reynolds |first4=Sian |year=2018}}
Jane Fearon (1654 or 1656–1737), Northern English pamphleteer who refuted predestination{{Cite web|title=Universal redemption offered in Jesus Christ: in opposition to that pernicious and destructive doctrine of election and reprobation of persons from everlasting. By Jane Fearon | WorldCat.org|url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/606874157|access-date=2023-01-01|website=www.worldcat.org|language=en}}
Margaret Fell (1614–1702), "Mother of Quakerism," one of the Valiant Sixty, owner of Swarthmoor Hall, later married to George Fox{{Cite ODNB |id=9260 |title=Fell [née Askew], Margaret (1614–1702) |first=Bonnelyn Young |last=Kunze}}
John Fenwick (1618–1683), English founder of Fenwick's Colony, the first English settlement in West JerseyThomas Shourds (1876), "John Fenwick", History and genealogy of Fenwick's Colony, New Jersey. Bridgeton, New Jersey. pp. 3–17 {{ISBN|0-8063-0714-5}}
James Finlayson (c. 1772 – c. 1852), Scottish engineer prominent in Finland{{Cite ODNB |id=49393 |title=Finlayson, James (1772?–1852?) |first=Brian D. J. |last=Denoon}}
Mary Fisher (1623–1698), English Quaker preacher{{Cite web|url=http://www.quaker-tapestry.co.uk/panels.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060828040144/http://www.quaker-tapestry.co.uk/panels.htm|title=Panels of the Quaker Tapestry|archive-date=28 August 2006}}
Isabella Ford (1855–1924), English feminist and socialist{{Cite ODNB |id=39084 |title=Ford, Isabella Ormston (1855–1924) |first=June |last=Hannam}}
Mary Forster (c. 1620–1687), English polemicistVirginia Blain, Patricia Clements and Isobel Grundy, eds, The Feminist Companion to Literature in English. Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present (London: Batsford, 1990), p. 388.
Edwin B. Forsythe (1916–1984), representative for New Jersey
Richard J. Foster, American ecumenical leader and reformer, founder of Renovaré{{Cite web |url=https://renovare.org/about/overview |title=overview - See section 'Founder Richard J. Foster' |website=www.renovare.us}}
John Fothergill (1712–1780), English Quaker physician, preacher and philanthropist{{Cite ODNB |id=9979 |title=Fothergill, John (1712–1780) |first=Margaret |last=DeLacy}}
Caroline Fox (1819–1871), English diarist{{Cite ODNB |id=10019 |title=Fox, Caroline (1819–1871) |first=V. E. |last=Chancellor}}
George Fox (1624–1691), founder of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers){{Cite ODNB |id=10031 |title=Fox, George (1624–1691) |first=H. Larry |last=Ingle}}
Robert Were Fox I (1754–1818), English businessman{{Cite ODNB |id=42083 |title=Fox, Robert Were (1754–1818) |first=Philip |last=Payton}}
Robert Were Fox II (1789–1877), English geologist{{Cite ODNB |id=10042 |title=Fox, Robert Were (1789–1877) |first=Denise |last=Crook}}
Samuel Fox (1781–1868), English philanthropist and grocerEdward H. Milligan, The Biographical Dictionary of British Quakers in Commerce and Industry 1775–1920 (William Sessions Limited, 2007). {{ISBN|978-1-85072-367-7}}
Tom Fox (1951–2006), humanitarian worker with Christian Peacemaking teams, held captive and killed in Iraq{{Citation needed|reason=Notes and links on page do not supply basic facts and dates given.|date=March 2021}}
Esther G. Frame (1840–1920), American Quaker minister and evangelist{{cite book |last1=Willard |first1=Frances Elizabeth |author1-link=Frances Willard |last2=Livermore |first2=Mary Ashton Rice |author2-link=Mary Livermore |title=A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life |url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Woman_of_the_Century/Esther_Gordon_Frame |year=1893 |pages=298–99 |publisher=Charles Wells Moulton |chapter=FRAME, Mrs. Esther Gordon}} {{Source-attribution}}
Ursula Franklin (1921–2016), German-born Canadian metallurgist and research physicistLumley, Elizabeth, ed.: Canadian Who's Who 2008 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press), p. 439.
Francis Frith (1822–1898), English photographer{{Cite ODNB |id=37434 |title=Frith, Francis (1822–1898)}}
Christopher Fry (1907–2005), English playwright{{Cite news|last=Nightingale|first=Benedict|date=2005-07-05|title=Christopher Fry, British Playwright in Verse, Dies at 97|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/05/theater/christopher-fry-british-playwright-in-verse-dies-at-97.html|access-date=2023-01-01|issn=0362-4331}}
Elizabeth Fry (1780–1845), English prison reformer{{Cite ODNB |id=10208 |title=Fry [née Gurney], Elizabeth (1780–1845) |first=Francisca |last=de Haan}}
Joan Mary Fry (1862–1955), English relief worker and social reformer{{Cite ODNB |id=38522 |title=Fry, Joan Mary (1862–1955) |first=Sybil |last=Oldfield}}
Joseph Fry (1728-1787), English type-founder and chocolate maker
Joseph Fry (1777–1861), English tea dealer and an unsuccessful banker{{Citation |author=Edward H. Milligan |title=Milligan's Biographical Dictionary of British Quakers in Commerce and Industry |pages=190–191}}
Margery Fry (1874–1958), English penal reformer and college principal{{Cite ODNB |id=33286 |title=Fry, (Sara) Margery (1874–1958) |first1=Thomas L. |last1=Hodgkin |first2=Mark |last2=Pottle}}
Jonathan Fryer (1950–2021), British writer, broadcaster, lecturer and Liberal Democrat politician

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Thomas Garrett (1789–1871), American abolitionist
Charles Gilpin (1815–1874), member of UK Parliament{{Citation |author=Edward H Milligan |title=Biographical dictionary of British Quakers in commerce and industry, 1775–1920 |publisher=Sessions of York |year=2007 |isbn=978-1-85072-367-7}}
Rickman Godlee (1849–1925), English surgeon and biographerObituary, The Times, 21 April 1925, p. 19.
George Graham (1673–1751), English clockmaker, inventor, and member of the Royal Society{{Cite web |title=Graham; George (1673 - 1751) |url=http://www2.royalsociety.org/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqSearch=(Surname=%2527graham%2527)&dsqPos=4 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130113065703/http://www2.royalsociety.org/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqSearch=(Surname=%27graham%27)&dsqPos=4|archive-date=2013-01-13 |access-date=2023-01-01 |website=The Royal Society}}
Hetty Green (1834–1916), businesswoman and financier known as "the richest woman in America" during the Gilded Age, nicknamed the Witch of Wall Street
Marion Greeves (1894–1979), one of the first two female members of the Senate of Northern IrelandCitation required for basic data.
Israel Gregg (1775–1847), first captain of the steamboat Enterprise{{Cite web |url=http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohbutler/cyc/335.htm |title=Captain Israel Gregg |website=www.rootsweb.ancestry.com}}
Stephen Grellet (1773–1855), French-born American missionary{{Cite web|url=http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/haiti/history/earlyhaiti/grellet.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071211094131/http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/haiti/history/earlyhaiti/grellet.htm|title=Webster University|archive-date=11 December 2007}}
Philip Gross (b. 1952), English poet, novelist and playwright{{Cite web |url=http://thefriend.org/article/friendly-poet-takes-leading-prize/ |title=Friendly poet takes leading prize |date=20 January 2010}}
Edward Grubb (1854–1939), English religious writerJames Dudley, Life of Edward Grubb: 1854–1939: A Spiritual Pilgrimage, London: James Clark & Co., 1946.
Isabel Grubb (1881–1972), Irish historian
Paul Grundy (living), founding President of Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative{{Cite web|url=https://www.pcpcc.org/profile/paul-grundy|title=Paul Grundy|website=Primary Care Collaborative}} and IBM's Global Director of Healthcare Transformation
Joseph John Gurney (1788–1847), English banker, evangelical and abolitionist{{Cite book|last=Braithwaite|first=Joseph Bevan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7lWRDEtrrBcC&dq=%2522joseph+john+gurney%2522+quaker&pg=PA529|title=Memoirs of Joseph John Gurney: With Selections from His Journal and Correspondence|date=1854|publisher=Lippincott, Grambo|language=en}}

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Elizabeth Haddon (1680–1762), English-born founder of Haddonfield, New Jersey{{Cite web|url=http://home.comcast.net/~adhopkins/index.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080704052825/http://home.comcast.net/~adhopkins/index.htm|title=A Hopkins Family History.|archive-date=4 July 2008}}
Denis Halliday (1941–), former Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and anti-war activist{{Cite web|title=Denis Halliday To Speak at Wellesley College|url=http://web.wellesley.edu/PublicAffairs/Releases/2009/011509.html|access-date=2023-01-01|website=web.wellesley.edu}}
Sheila Hancock (b. 1933), English comedian/actress{{Cite web|title='My Life at Christmas' - Quaker actress Sheila Hancock|url=https://www.discoveringquakers.org.uk/blog/sheila-hancock-my-life-at-christmas|website=Discovering Quakers}}
Edmund Happold (1930–1996), English engineerObituary: The Structural Engineer, Vol. 74, 6 February 1996, pp. 47–49.
Jan de Hartog (1914–2002), Dutch-born American playwright, novelist, and social criticC.Michale Curtis and J. Brent Bill: Imagination & Spirit: A Contemporary Quaker Reader, p. 152.
David Hartsough (b. 1940), American peace activist
Laura Smith Haviland (1808–1898), American abolitionist and social reformerLaura S. Haviland, A Woman's Life-Work, Labors and Experiences of Laura S. Haviland (Cincinnati: Waldron and Stowe, 1882).
Alice Hayes (1657–1720), English Quaker preacher and autobiographer{{Cite ODNB|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-65560|title=Hayes [other married name Smith], Alice (1657–1720), Quaker preacher and autobiographer {{!}} Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|year=2004|language=en|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/65560|access-date=2019-05-11|last1=Raughter|first1=Rosemary}}
John Russell Hayes (1866–1945), American Quaker poet and librarian at Swarthmore College{{Cite web |date=2001 |title=Collection: John Russell Hayes Papers |url=https://archives.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/resources/5180jrha |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College}}
Wilson A. Head (b. 1914), American/Canadian sociologist and human rights activist{{Citation |author=Wilson A. Head |title=Life on the Edge: Experiences in "Black and White" in North America (Autobiography) |year=1993 |publisher=University of Toronto Press}}
Phoebe Hesketh (1909–2005), British nature poet and author.
John Hickenlooper (b. 1952), American politicianColorado state portal: [http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite/GovHickenlooper/CBON/1249674240451 accessed 10 October 2011.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111013144049/http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite/GovHickenlooper/CBON/1249674240451 |date=13 October 2011 }}
Edward Hicks (1780–1849), American painter and recorded Quaker ministerEdward Hicks: Memoirs of the Life and Religious Labors of Edward Hicks (Applewood Books, 2009), {{ISBN|1-4290-1885-2}}
Elias Hicks (1748–1830), American Quaker minister, originator of the Hicksite Quaker schism of 1827{{Cite book |last=Wilbur |first=Henry W. |title=The life and labors of Elias Hicks |year=1910 |page=192 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=033TAAAAMAAJ}}
Declan Hill (living), Canadian journalistNumerous press reports, see page.
Gordon Hirabayashi (1918–2012), American sociologist who defied World War II internment orders; moved to Canada to teach in 1959 and remained there until his death{{Cite news|title=Gordon Hirabayashi|url=https://www.afsc.org/category/topic/gordon-hirabayashi|access-date=2023-01-01|website=American Friends Service Committee|language=en}}
Charles Elmer Hires (1851–1937), early promoter of commercially prepared root beer{{Cite web |url=http://www.nndb.com/people/805/000162319/ |title=Charles Hires |publisher=nndb.com|date=18 May 2014 |access-date=18 May 2014}}
Samuel Hoare Jr (1751–1825), English banker and abolitionist{{Cite ODNB|title=Hoare, Samuel John Gurney, Viscount Templewood (1880–1959), politician|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-33898|access-date=2023-01-01|year=2004 |language=en|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/33898|last1=Adams |first1=R. J. Q. |isbn=978-0-19-861412-8 }}
Henry Hodgkin (1877–1933), English missionary and pacifist{{cite web |url=http://bdcconline.net/en/stories/henry-t-hodgkin |title=Henry Hodgkin: Quaker, staunch pacifist during WWI, missionary to China |last=Brent |first=Julia |date= |website=bdcconline.net |access-date=23 September 2022}}
John Hodgkin (1766–1845), English grammarian and calligrapher{{Cite ODNB |id=13427 |title=Hodgkin, John (1766–1845) |first1=Thomas |last1=Hodgkin |first2=Helen Caroline |last2=Jones}}
John Hodgkin (1800–1875), English barrister and Quaker preacher{{Cite ODNB |id=13428 |title=Hodgkin, John (1800–1875) |first=Christopher |last=Hilton}}
Thomas Hodgkin (1798–1866), English physician, identifier of Hodgkin's lymphoma{{Cite ODNB |id=13429 |title=Hodgkin, Thomas (1798–1866) |first=Amalie M. |last=Kass}}
Thomas Hodgkin (1831–1913), English historian{{Cite ODNB |id=33915 |title=Hodgkin, Thomas (1831–1913) |first=G. H. |last=Martin}}
Gerard Hoffnung (1925–1959), English cartoonist, musician and humorist{{Cite ODNB |id=37558 |title=Hoffnung, Gerard [formerly Gerhardt] (1925–1959)}}
Christopher Holder (c. 1631 – post–1676), English-born American Quaker evangelist{{Cite web|first=James |last=Savage|title=A Genealogical Dictionary of The First Settlers of New England, Before 1692, Holder to Holsey |volume=2 |url=http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/newengland/savage/bk2/holder-holsey.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604231934/http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/newengland/savage/bk2/holder-holsey.htm |archive-date=4 June 2011|access-date=2023-01-01|website=www.usgennet.org}}
David P. Holloway (1809–1883), American representative from Indiana
Rush D. Holt, Jr. (b. 1948), American congressman{{Cite book|last=Hamm|first=Thomas D.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2mvHwSAP5vYC&q=Rep%2520Holt%2520Quaker&pg=PA160|title=The Quakers in America|date=2006-08-01|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=978-0-231-12363-1|language=en |page=160}}
Elizabeth Hooton (1600–1672), pioneer English preacher{{Cite book |first=David |last=Booy |chapter=Elizabeth Hooton |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Shp53fHkIfUC&pg=PA62 |title=Autobiographical Writings by Early Quaker Women |year=2004 |location=Aldershot, Hants |publisher=Ashgate Publishing |page=62 |isbn=978-0-7546-0753-3}}
Herbert Hoover (1874–1964), 31st American president from 1929-1933{{cite web |title=The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum |url=http://hoover.archives.gov/education/chronology.html |website=hoover.archives.gov |access-date=11 October 2011 |date=}} {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061205012623/http://hoover.archives.gov/education/chronology.html |date=5 December 2006}}
Johns Hopkins (1795–1873), American philanthropist{{Cite web|title=Death of Johns Hopkins His Last illness Life and Character His Career as a Merchant and Banker His Benevolent Enterprises Monuments of Learning and Charity, &c. |url=https://pages.jh.edu/gazette/1999/jan0499/obit.html|access-date=2023-01-01|website=Baltimore Sun on JH.edu |date=December 25, 1873}}
Caroline Hopwood, Leeds based autographer published 1801{{Cite book |last=Smith |first=Joseph |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=znwTAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22caroline+hopwood%22+leeds&pg=PA975 |title=A Descriptive Catalogue of Friends' Books... |date=1867 |publisher=Joseph Smith |language=en}}
Samuel Howell (1723–1807), Philadelphia merchant and supporter of American independence
Francis Howgill, English preacher and writer{{Cite web|title=Francis Howgill|url=https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/quakers/biographies/howgill_biog.html|access-date=2023-01-01|website=www.lancaster.ac.uk}}
Mary Howitt (1799–1888), English poet, children's writer and translator{{Cite ODNB |id=13995 |title=Howitt [née Botham], Mary (1799–1888) |first=Susan |last=Drain}}
William Howitt (1792–1879), English writer and poet{{Cite ODNB |id=13998 |title=Howitt, William (1792–1879) |first=Peter |last=Mandler}}
Charles Humphreys (1714–1786), Continental Congressman
John Hunn (1849–1926), governor of Delaware{{Cite web|url=http://www.nga.org/portal/site/nga/menuitem.29fab9fb4add37305ddcbeeb501010a0/?vgnextoid=937b224971c81010VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD&vgnextchannel=e449a0ca9e3f1010VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930032820/http://www.nga.org/portal/site/nga/menuitem.29fab9fb4add37305ddcbeeb501010a0/?vgnextoid=937b224971c81010VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD&vgnextchannel=e449a0ca9e3f1010VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD|title=National Governors Association|archive-date=30 September 2007}}
Esther Hunt (1751–1820), leader in her Quaker faith on America's frontier{{Cite web|title=HUNT, Esther (1751–1820)|url=http://www.pa-roots.org/data/read.php?351,594723|access-date=2023-01-01|website=www.pa-roots.org}}
John Hunt (1712–1778), English-born minister, one of the "Virginia Exiles"Amelia Mott Gummere (1922), The journal and essays of John Woolman, New York: The Macmillan Company, p. 511.
John Hunt (1740–1824), minister and journalist from Moorestown, New JerseyJudy Hynes: The Descendants of John and Elizabeth (Woolman) Borton(Mount Holly, NJ: John Woolman Memorial Association, 1997).}}

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Frances C. Jenkins (1826–1915), American evangelist, Quaker minister, and social reformer{{cite book |last1=Willard |first1=Frances Elizabeth |author1-link=Frances Willard |last2=Livermore |first2=Mary Ashton Rice |author2-link=Mary Livermore |title=A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life |url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Woman_of_the_Century/Frances_C._Jenkinss |year=1893 |page=419 |publisher=Charles Wells Moulton |chapter=JENKINS, Mrs. Frances C.}}
Rebecca Jones (1739–1818), Quaker minister and educator"Jones, Rebecca, 1739–1817". Friendly Networks.
Rufus Jones (1863–1948), American Quaker theologian{{Cite book|last=Hinshaw|first=David|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HL0pQHIxea0C&q=%2522rufus+jones%2522+quaker|title=Rufus Jones, Master Quaker|date=1970|publisher=Books for Libraries Press|isbn=978-0-8369-5554-5|language=en}}
T. Canby Jones (1921–2014), American Quaker peace campaigner, theologian, and academic{{Cite web|url=http://www.fum.org/QL/issues/0501/Jones-TheLambShallOvercome.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050414220342/http://www.fum.org/QL/issues/0501/Jones-TheLambShallOvercome.htm|title=Friends United Meeting|archive-date=14 April 2005}}

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Thomas R. Kelly (1893–1941), American missionary, educator, and spiritual writer{{cite web |title=Spirituality Today |url=http://www.spiritualitytoday.org/spir2day/904214flora.html |website=www.spiritualitytoday.org |access-date= |date= }} {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050315092917/http://www.spiritualitytoday.org/spir2day/904214flora.html |date=15 March 2005}}
Malachy Kilbride (living), American peace and social justice campaigner{{Citation needed|date=January 2021}}
Garry Kilworth (b. 1941), English novelist and short story writer{{Cite web |url=http://www.actusf.com/spip/Interview-de-Gary-Kilworth.html |title= Interview de Gary Kilworth |year=2007 |website=actusf.com |language=fr}}
Haven Kimmel (b. 1965), American novelist and children's writerFan site: {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20110927105530/http://www.purityofheart.org/bio.html accessed 14 October 2011.]}}
Ben Kingsley (b. 1943), English actor{{Cite news |url=https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/city-s-religious-life-through-a-lens–1–1025281 |title=City's religious life through a lens |work=The Scotsman |date=15 September 2004}} {{dead link |date=August 2020 |bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
Judith Kirton-Darling (b. 1977), British politician{{Cite news |title=Quaker elected confederal secretary of ETUC |url=http://thefriend.org/article/quaker-elected-confederal-secretary-of-etuc/ |access-date=26 May 2014 |newspaper=The Friend |date=26 May 2011}}
Anne Knight (1792–1860), English children's writer{{Cite ODNB |id=61838 |title=Knight, Anne (1792–1860)}}}}

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Joseph Lancaster (1778–1838), public education innovator{{Cite DCB |title=Lancaster, Joseph |first=Heather |last=Lysons-Balcon |volume=7 |url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/lancaster_joseph_7E.html}}
Lydia Lancaster (1683–1761), English born travelling minister{{Cite ODNB |title=The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |date=2004-09-23 |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/68176 |pages=ref:odnb/68176 |editor-last=Matthew |editor-first=H. C. G. |place=Oxford |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/68176 |access-date=2022-12-16 |editor2-last=Harrison |editor2-first=B.}}
Benjamin Lay (1681–1760), Quaker abolitionist{{Cite ODNB |id=16216 |title=Lay, Benjamin (1681–1759) |first=J. R. |last=Oldfield}}
John C. Lettsome (1744–1815), English physician and founder of the Medical Society of London{{Cite ODNB |id=16527 |title=Lettsom, John Coakley (1744–1815) |first1=J. F. |last=Payne |first2=Roy |last2=Porter}}
Raph Levien (living), free software author behind Ghostscript and AdvogatoInadequate citation: [http://www.levien.com/ Raph Levien homepage.]
John Lilburne (1614–1657), Leveller convert to Quakerism
Richard Lippincott (1615–1683), an early settler of Shrewsbury, New JerseyJohn Clement, "The Lipponcotts". Sketches of the first emigrant settlers in Newton Township, Old Gloucester County, West New Jersey, 1977, Camden: Sinnickson Chew. pp. 377–385.
Joseph Jackson Lister (1786–1869), amateur British optician and physicist and father of Joseph ListerGodlee, Sir Rickman: Lord Lister (London: Macmillan & Co., 1917).
Kathleen Lonsdale (1903–1971), Irish scientist{{Cite web|title=Kathleen Yardley Lonsdale 1903-1971 |url=http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Lonsdale,_Kathleen_Yardley@8480138866.html|access-date=2023-01-01|website=CWP at UCLA }}

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John Macmurray (1891–1976), philosopher{{cite web |title=John Macmurray foundation |url=http://johnmacmurray.gn.apc.org/DiscoveringMacmurray.htm |website=johnmacmurray.gn.apc.org}} {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080406121254/http://johnmacmurray.gn.apc.org/DiscoveringMacmurray.htm |date=6 April 2008}}
Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge (b. 1952), South African health minister{{cite web |title=Department of Health profile on Madlala-Routledge |url=http://www.doh.gov.za/ministry/depminister.html |website=www.doh.gov.za}} {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070819210815/http://www.doh.gov.za/ministry/depminister.html |date=19 August 2007}}
Elizabeth Magie (1866–1948), inventor of Monopoly{{Cite web|url=http://www.nyu.edu/projects/ollman/docs/bb_ch01.php|title=BALLBUSTER? True Confessions of a Marxist Businessman.}}
Ellen Marriage (1865–1946), translator of Balzac{{Cite ODNB |id=98379 |title=Marriage [married name Garrett], Ellen (1865–1946) |first=Margaret |last=Lesser}}
Milton Mayer (1908–1986), American journalist and writerQuaker Theology #8 Spring-Summer 2003: [http://www.quaker.org/quest/issue–8-milton-mayer–1.htm accessed 14 October 2011.] {{Dead link |date=August 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}
James Michener (1907–1997), American author{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/10/17/books/james-michener-author-of-novels-that-sweep-through-the-history-of-places-is-dead.html |title=James Michener, Author of Novels That Sweep Through the History of Places, Is Dead |first=Albin |last=Krebs |date=17 October 1997 |work=The New York Times |access-date=14 October 2011}}
Rosalind Mitchell (b. 1954), Anglo/Scottish politician and writer
Samuel Moore (c. 1630–1688), early official in New JerseyNew Jersey Historical Society, Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Administrations, etc. (Newark, NJ, 1901). p. 324.
Ethan Mordden (b. 1949), American writerContemporary Authors, essay on Ethan Mordden, p. 1: "Religion: Member of the Religious Society of Friends"
Ruth Morris (1933–2001), Canadian advocate of the abolition of prisons{{Cite web|title=Ruth Rittenhouse Morris|url=https://www.quakersintheworld.org/quakers-in-action/162|access-date=2023-01-01|website=www.quakersintheworld.org}}
Samuel Morris (soldier) (1734–1812), participated in the American Revolutionary War despite his upbringing.
Lucretia Mott (1793–1880), American abolitionist and suffragist{{Cite web|title=Lucretia Mott by Joseph Kyles|url=https://www.civilwar.si.edu/slavery_mott1.html|access-date=2023-01-01|website=Civil War @ Smithsonian}}
Lindley Murray (1745–1826), author of Murray's English Reader{{Cite ODNB |id=19640 |title=Murray, Lindley (1745–1826) |last=Tieken-Boon van Ostade |first=Ingrid}}
Edward R. Murrow (1908–1965), journalist{{Cite ODNB |id=47830 |title=Murrow, Edward Roscoe [Ed; formerly Egbert Roscoe] (1908–1965) |first=Anne Pimlott |last=Baker}}

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James Nayler (1618–1660), former soldier, then member of the Valiant Sixty{{cite web |title=Harvard's Libraries and the Quaker Jesus |url=http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~fdo/publications/essays/damrosch.htm |website=www.fas.harvard.edu}}
Edmund Hort New (1871–1931), English artist and illustratorDavid Cox, "[http://www.morrissociety.org/JWMS/SP74.3.1.Cox.pdf Edmund New's Diary of a Visit to Kelmscott Manor]" {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100711133519/http://www.morrissociety.org/JWMS/SP74.3.1.Cox.pdf |date=11 July 2010}}, Journal of the William Morris Society 3.1, Spring 1974, pp. 3–7.
Carrie Newcomer (living), American singer-songwriter{{Cite web |title=Newcomer, Carrie |publisher=FolkLib Index |url=http://www.folklib.net/index/indexn.shtml#Newcomer,Cr |access-date=19 March 2008}}
Sir George Newman (1870–1948), British chief medical officer{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TKIzxSZ_-UwC&dq=%2522sir+george+newman%2522+quaker+-wikipedia&pg=PA695|title=Oxford Illustrated Companion to Medicine|date=2001|publisher=Oxford University Press/Books.|isbn=978-0-19-262950-0|language=en |page=695}}
Samuel Nicholas (1744–1790), first commandant of the United States Marine Corps{{Cite web |access-date=3 March 2007 |url=http://www.ussnicholas.org/samuel_nicholas.html |title=Major Samuel Nicolas, Continental Marines c. 1744–1790 |publisher=Destroyer History Foundation |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070210163530/http://www.ussnicholas.org/samuel_nicholas.html |archive-date=10 February 2007}}
Sally Nicholls (b. 1983), English children's authorSally Nicholls, [http://sallynicholls.com/about/interview.php An interview...] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080919092414/http://www.sallynicholls.com/about/interview.php |date=19 September 2008}}. accessed 28 February 2008.
Richard Nixon (1913-1994), 37th American president from 1969-1974
Nitobe Inazō (新渡戸稲造, 1862–1933), Japanese diplomat, educator and author{{Cite web |url=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/catalog/data/978071031/9780710311627.HTM |title=Columbia University on a book he wrote |website=www.columbia.edu}}
John Howard Nodal (1831–1909), English journalist and dialectologist{{Cite ODNB |id=35246 |title=Nodal, John Howard (1831–1909) |first=L. C. |last=Mugglestone}}
Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker (1889–1982), diplomat and Nobel Peace Prize laureate{{Cite web|title=The Nobel Peace Prize 1959|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1959/noel-baker/biographical/|access-date=2023-01-01|website=NobelPrize.org|language=en-US}}

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Paul Oestreicher (b. 1931), Anglican priest, and peace and human rights activist
Amelia Opie (1769–1853), English novelist{{Cite web|url=http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/245.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071111174536/http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/245.html|title=University of Toronto Library|archive-date=11 November 2007}}
Constantine Overton (1626/1627 – c. 1690), Quaker leader in Shrewsbury, Shropshire{{Cite ODNB |id=20970 |title=Overton, Constantine [Constant] (b. 1626/7, d. in or after 1695) |first1=Charlotte |last1=Fell-Smith |first2=Caroline L. |last2=Leachman}}

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Jason Palmer (b. 1971), American venture capitalist and politician{{Cite web |last=Chappell |first=Bill |date=March 6, 2024 |title=Jason Palmer beats Biden in American Samoa, and looks to Northern Mariana Islands |url=https://www.npr.org/2024/03/06/1236244459/long-shot-jason-palmer-deals-president-biden-a-caucus-defeat-in-american-samoa |website=npr}}
Parker Palmer (b. 1939), American writer, teacher, and campaigner{{Cite web|date=February 14, 2005

| title=Parker Palmer is 2005 Commencement Speaker

|publisher=Augsburg College |work= Augsburg College News|url=http://www.augsburg.edu/news/news-archives/2005/palmer.html|access-date=2023-01-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060902142800/http://www.augsburg.edu/news/news-archives/2005/palmer.html |archive-date=2 September 2006 }}

Palmolive (musician) (b. 1954), Spanish punk-rock musician{{Cite web|title=BBC World Service – Outlook, Punk, God, and my search for truth|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct1ky1|access-date=2023-01-01|website=BBC|language=en-GB}}
David Parlett (b. 1939), English writer and games inventor{{cite web |website=The Friend |title=22 and 29 December 2017 |url=http://www.thefriend.org/publications/issue-22-and-29-12-2017}}
James Parnell (c. 1636–1656), preacher and writer known as "The Boy Martyr", credited with converting many to the Quakers, including Stephen Crisp
Evalyn Parry, Canadian performance-maker, theatrical innovator and singer-songwriter
Alice Paul (1885–1977), American suffragist{{Cite web |url=http://www.alicepaul.org/alicepaul.htm |title=Alice Paul Institute. |access-date=24 November 2007 |archive-date=13 November 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071113125344/http://www.alicepaul.org/alicepaul.htm }}
Edward Pease (1767–1858), English railway owner{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928031849/http://www.tomorrows-history.com/Items/OriginalIE/ItemDA0800120001.htm |url=http://www.tomorrows-history.com/Items/OriginalIE/ItemDA0800120001.htm |archive-date=September 28, 2007 |title=Item name: Edward Pease,1767-1858 |website=Tomorrow's History}}
Joseph Pease (1799–1872), first Quaker British member of Parliament{{citation needed |date=January 2025}}
Sir Joseph Whitwell Pease (1824–1903), Liberal politician and businessman{{citation needed |date=January 2025}}
Joseph Albert Pease, 1st Baron Gainford (1860–1943), Liberal politician and businessman{{citation needed |date=January 2025}}
Joseph Pease, 2nd Baron Gainford (1889–1971), businessman{{citation needed |date=January 2025}}
George Pease, 4th Baron Gainford (b. 1926), architect and town planner{{citation needed |date=January 2025}}
Isaac Penington (1616–1679), early English Quaker{{Cite web|url=http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~kuenning/penington/index.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071025023847/http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/%7Ekuenning/penington/index.html|title=U of Penn copy of a Quaker work he wrote.|archive-date=25 October 2007}}
Gulielma Maria Posthuma (Springett) Penn (1644–1694), first wife of William Penn
Hannah Callowhill Penn (1671–1726), second wife of William Penn
William Penn (1644–1718), English-born founder of Pennsylvania{{Cite ODNB |id=21857 |title=Penn, William (1644–1718) |first=Mary K. |last=Geiter}}
Herb Pennock (1894–1948), American baseball player{{Cite web |url=http://sabr.org/bioproj/person/612bb457 |title=Herb Pennock |publisher=Society for American Baseball Research |work=The Baseball Biography Project |first=Frank |last=Vaccaro |access-date=8 September 2012}}
Jonathan Pim (1806–1885), Irish philanthropist and politician, secretary of the Quaker Relief Fund during the Irish famine and later Liberal MP for Dublin{{Cite web |url=https://quakers-in-ireland.ie/history/charity/ |title=Quakers in Ireland: Charity |date=13 April 2009}}
Olive Pink (1884–1975), Australian botanical illustrator and campaigner for aboriginal rights{{Cite web|title=Olive Pink exhibition – University of Tasmania Library|url=https://www.utas.edu.au/library/exhibitions/olive_pink/about.html|access-date=2023-01-01|website=www.utas.edu.au}}
Robert Pleasants (1723–1801), American abolitionist and educator{{Cite web|url=http://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/robert-pleasants|title=Robert Pleasants | Thomas Jefferson's Monticello}}
William Pollard (1828–1893), English Quaker writer and minister{{Cite ODNB |id=22472 |title=Pollard, William (1828–1893) |first1=Charlotte |last1=Fell-Smith |first2=K. D. |last2=Reynolds}}
Jacob Post (1774–1855), English religious writer{{Cite ODNB |id=22593 |title=Post, Jacob (1774–1855) |first1=Charlotte |last1=Fell-Smith |first2=K. D. |last2=Reynolds}}
Oliver Postgate (1925–2008), English animator, creator of Bagpuss{{Cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/3689392/Oliver-Postgate.html|title=Oliver Postgate|date=9 December 2008 |work=The Daily Telegraph|access-date=9 December 2008 |location=London}}
Gerald Priestland, BBC broadcaster{{Cite web|url=http://www.fgcquaker.org/library/fgc-news/mm0304%E2%80%933.pdf|title=Coming Home:an introduction to the Quakers}}
Edmond Privat, Swiss ambassador of Esperanto international language, journalist, historian and university teacher{{Cite web|work=Switzerland Yearly Meeting

|date=Summer 2005|series=History and Biography Project

| title="Let Their Lives Speak"

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| last= Royston | first=Michael and Erica |url=http://www.swiss-quakers.ch/Documents/Let%2520their%2520lives%2520speak.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707004243/http://www.swiss-quakers.ch/Documents/Let%2520their%2520lives%2520speak.pdf |archive-date=7 July 2011 }}

Robert Proud (1728–1813), English educator and historian known for research into the Province of Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania Colony){{Cite book|last=Skotheim|first=Robert Allen|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jap9BgAAQBAJ&q=%2522Robert%2520Proud%2522%2520and%25201728%25E2%2580%25931813&pg=PA11|title=American Intellectual Histories and Historians|pages=11-12|date=2015-03-08|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=978-1-4008-7204-6|language=en}}
Walter Pumphrey (fl. 1678), English-born American farmer and carpenter{{Citation needed|date=September 2018|reason=page on the place does not source the information about Walter Pumphrey.}}
William Pumphrey (1817–1905), pioneer English photographer{{Cite web|title='A witness lasting, faithful, true': the impact of photography on Quaker attitudes to portraiture: 6. Photographic portraiture|url=https://benbeck.co.uk/dissertation/6photographicportraiture.htm|access-date=2023-01-01|website=benbeck.co.uk |first=Ben |last=Beck}}}}

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Daniel Quare (1648/1649–1724), English clockmaker and instrument maker{{Cite ODNB |id=22942 |title=Quare, Daniel (1648/9–1724) |first1=E. L. |last1=Radford |first2=Jeremy Lancelotte |last2=Evans}}

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Arthur Raistrick (1896–1991), English conscientious objector, geologist, and industrial archaeologist{{Cite web|url=http://www.brad.ac.uk/library/special/raistrick.php|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070609084619/http://www.brad.ac.uk/library/special/raistrick.php|title=University of Bradford Library: The Elizabeth and Arthur Raistrick Collection|archive-date=9 June 2007}}
Edith Reeves (fl. early 20th c.), American silent film actress
Richard Reynolds (1735–1816), English ironmaster at Coalbrookdale{{Cite DNB |wstitle=Reynolds, Richard (1735-1816) |display=Reynolds, Richard (1735–1816) |volume=48}}
William Reynolds (1758–1803), English ironmaster and scientist{{Cite ODNB |id=23445 |title=Reynolds, William (1758–1803) |first=Barrie |last=Trinder}}
John Richardson (1667–1753), English Quaker minister and autobiographer{{Cite book|last=Richardson|first=John|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KTQ3AAAAMAAJ|title=An Account of the Life of that Ancient Servant of Jesus Christ, John Richardson: Giving a Relation of Many of His Trials and Exercises in His Youth, and His Services in the Work of the Ministry, in England, Ireland, America, &c|date=1791|publisher=J. Phillips|language=en}}
John Wigham Richardson (1837–1908), English shipbuilder{{Cite book|last=Cantor|first=Geoffrey|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o1-PFfxG7DwC&dq=%2522john+wigham+richardson%2522+quaker&pg=PA78|title=Quakers, Jews, and Science:Religious Responses to Modernity and the Sciences in Britain, 1650–1900: Religious Responses to Modernity and the Sciences in Britain, 1650–1900|date=2005-09-22|publisher=OUP Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-927668-4|language=en}}{{Cite web|url=http://personal.cis.strath.ac.uk/~paulfb/ScotBibl.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080914091401/http://personal.cis.strath.ac.uk/~paulfb/ScotBibl.htm|title=Quakers and Quakerism in Scotland: a bibliography|date=9 May 2007 |archive-date=14 September 2008}}
Lewis Fry Richardson (1881–1953), English mathematician and geophysicist{{Cite web|title=Lewis Fry Richardson – Biography|url=https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Richardson/|access-date=2023-01-01|website=Maths History|language=en}}
Enid Lucy Robertson {{postnominals|country=AUS|AM}} (1925–2016), Australian systematic botanist and conservationist
Tom Robinson (b. 1950), English rock musician and disc jockeySylvie Simmonds, [http://www.tomrobinson.com/pages/biog.htm "A Brief History Of Tom"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131113195737/http://www.tomrobinson.com/pages/biog.htm |date=13 November 2013}}
Fred Rowntree (1860–1927), English architect{{cite book |last=Skidmore |first=Chris |date=15 October 2021 |title=Quakers and their Meeting Houses |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Rm5vEAAAQBAJ&dq=Fred+Rowntree+quaker&pg=PA95 |location=Liverpool |publisher=Liverpool University Press |page=95 |isbn=978-1-80207-080-4}}
Joseph Rowntree (1801–1859), English chocolate maker and educationist{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9xQkYlOuC-MC|title=Quaker Business Man|isbn=978-0-415-38160-4 |last1=Vernon |first1=Anne |date=3 November 2005 |publisher=Routledge }}
Thomas Rudyard (c. 1640–1692), English lawyer and Deputy Governor of East Jersey
Bayard Rustin (1912–1987), American civil rights leader{{Cite web|url=http://www.rustin.org/biography.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071109162451/http://www.rustin.org/biography.html|title=Bayard Rustin Film Project|archive-date=9 November 2007}}
Thomas Rutter (1660–1730), American ironmaster and abolitionist{{Cite web |date=2004-02-02 |title=National Register of Historic Places Registration form: Pine Forge Mansion and Industrial Site |url=https://gis.penndot.gov/CRGISAttachments/SiteResource/H079356_01H.pdf |access-date=2023-06-07}}}}

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Susanna M. Salter (1860–1961), first woman mayor in the United States{{Cite periodical |title=Susanna Madora Salter – First Woman Mayor

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| date= Autumn 1954 | volume=21 | number= 3 |pages= 173–183

|magazine= Kansas Historical Quarterlies

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Clive Sansom (1910–1981), English, then Tasmanian poet, playwright and educatorAust Lit site: [http://www.austlit.edu.au/run?ex=ShowAgent&agentId=A%2346 accessed 22 October 2011.]
William Savery (1750–1804), American Quaker preacher, abolitionist and defender of the rights of Native Americans
Molly Scott Cato (b. 1963), British politician{{cite web |last1=Evans |first1=Albert |title=Laughter as Green Party MEP hits back at Brexit Party colleague |url=https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/green-party-molly-scott-cato-brexit-party-robert-rowland-video-367504 |website=inews.co.uk |access-date=27 October 2022 |language=en |date=26 November 2019}}
Elizabeth Clare Scurfield (b. 1950), English sinologist{{Cite web |date=September 2008 |work=Around Europe No. 245 |title=Introducing QCEA's New Representatives |url=http://www.quaker.org/qcea/aroundeurope/2002/245.htm |publisher=QCEA |access-date=6 November 2008 |quote=Liz Scurfield: [...] In 1993 I began attending Quaker Meeting in London and became a member of Hampstead MM in 1995 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081026230256/http://www.quaker.org/qcea/aroundeurope/2002/245.htm |archive-date=26 October 2008}}
Andrea Seabrook (b. c. 1974), American journalist and broadcaster{{Cite web|title=Andrea Seabrook|url=https://www.npr.org/people/2790202/andrea-seabrook|access-date=2023-01-01|website=NPR.org|language=en}}
Ian Serraillier (1912–1994), English novelist, poet and children's writer, who joined the Society of Friends in 1939{{Cite ODNB |id=47190 |title=Serraillier, Ian Lucien (1912–1994) |first=Mari |last=Prichard}}
Anthony Sharp (1643–1707), Dublin wool merchantPeter Clark and Raymond Gillespie, 2001, Two Capitals: London and Dublin, 1500–1840. Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 234.
Isaac Sharp (1681–1735), early New Jersey settler and landownerGreaves, Dublin's Merchant-Quaker: Anthony Sharp and the Community of Friends, 1643–1707, p. 25.
Philip Sherman (1611–1687), English-born first secretary of state of Rhode IslandRobert Charles Anderson: The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620–1633. (Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995). {{ISBN|978-0-88082-120-9}}. {{OCLC|42469253}}.
H. T. Silcock (1882–1969), English Quaker missionary{{cite web |url=https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/0408b609-451b-38eb-8f19-6de1372f524a |title=China Society London: Silcock, Henry Thomas 1882–1969 |author= |date= |website=archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk |access-date=1 June 2023}}
Jeanmarie Simpson (b. 1959), American theatre artist and peace activist{{cite web |title=Jeanmarie Simpson |url=https://jeanmariesimpson.com/ |website=Jeanmarie Simpson |access-date=30 December 2023 |language=en}}
Joan Slonczewski (b. 1956), American biologist and science fiction writer{{Citation |title=Quaker Ethos as Science Praxis in Joan Slonczewski's A Door into Ocean |first=Edward F. |last=Higgins |periodical=Paper Presented at the International Science Fiction Conference |date=18 October 2001}}
Joseph Southall (1861–1944), English painter and pacifist{{Cite ODNB |id=64535 |title=Southall, Joseph Edward (1861–1944) |first=George |last=Breeze}}
Lawrence and Cassandra Southwick (c. 1600–1660), English-born colonial American Quakers persecuted with their children for their religious beliefsJames Savage, Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Vol. IV, p. 91.
Jane Sowle (c. 1631–1711), English printer and publisher{{Cite ODNB |title=The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |date=2004-09-23 |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/39671 |pages=ref:odnb/39671 |editor-last=Matthew |editor-first=H. C. G. |place=Oxford |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/39671 |access-date=2022-11-26 |editor2-last=Harrison |editor2-first=B.}}
Tace Sowle (1666–1749), English printer and publisher{{Cite web|title=Tace Sowle 1666-1749|url=https://www.cai.cam.ac.uktace/%2520Sowle%25201666-1749|access-date=2023-01-01|website=Gonville & Caius|language=en}}
Helen Steven (1942–2016), Scottish peace activist{{cite web | url=https://www.scotsman.com/news/obituary-helen-steven-peace-activist-1478214 | title=Obituary: Helen Steven, peace activist | date=22 April 2016 }}
Dorothy Stowe (1920–2010), American-born Canadian social activist and environmentalist, co-founder of Greenpeace{{Cite web |url=http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/features/Dorothy-Stowe230710/ |title=Dorothy Stowe 1920–2010: Greenpeace cofounder, social justice advocate |date=24 July 2010 |author=Rex Weyler |publisher=Greenpeace International|author-link=Rex Weyler}}
Emily Stowe (1831–1903), The first female physician to practise in Canada, and an activist for women's rights and suffrage.
Irving Stowe (1915–1974), American-born social activist and environmentalist, co-founder of Greenpeace
John Strettell (1721–1786), English merchant{{Cite book|last1=Brown|first1=Jennifer S. H.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aIfhAAAAMAAJ&q=%2522John+Strettell%2522|title=The Fur Trade Revisited: Selected Papers of the Sixth North American Fur Trade Conference, Mackinac Island, Michigan, 1991|last2=Eccles|first2=William John|last3=Heldman|first3=Donald P.|date=May 1994|publisher=Michigan State University Press|isbn=978-0-87013-348-0|language=en |page=39}}
Robert Strettell (1693–1762), Irish-born American Quaker convert, early mayor of PhiladelphiaPenn University archives: [http://www.archives.upenn.edu/people/1700s/strettell_robt.html accessed 22 October 2011.]
Joseph Sturge (1793–1859), British abolitionist{{Cite ODNB |id=26746 |title=Sturge, Joseph (1793–1859) |first=Alex |last=Tyrrell}}
Thomas Sturge (1787–1866), British businessman, shipowner and philanthropist
Thomas Sturge the elder (1749–1825), British oil merchant and philanthropist
Donald Swann (1923–1994), Welsh-born composer, musician and entertainer{{Cite ODNB |id=55768 |title=Swann, Donald Ibrahim (1923–1994) |first=John |last=Warrack}}
Noah Haynes Swayne (1804–1884), American jurist and politician{{Cite book |last=Johnson |first=Rossiter |author2=John Howard Brown |title=The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans |volume=10 |publisher=The Biographical Society |year=1904 |location=Boston |at=s.v. Swain |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ou4UAAAAYAAJ| oclc=16845677}}

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Jonathan Talbot (b. 1939), American artist, author, and educator{{Cite web |title=Types & Shadows, The Journal of The Fellowship of Quakers in the Arts, Issue 65 – Fall 2015. |url=https://quaker.org/legacy/fqa/pdf/Fall2015TandS.pdf |website=quaker.org |date=2015 |access-date=}}
Heather Tanner (1903–1993), English writer and peace campaigner{{Cite ODNB |id=50282 |title=Tanner, Frederick Arthur [Robin] (1904–1988) |last=Roscoe |first=Barley}}
Robin Tanner (1904–1988), English artist, etcher and printmaker
John Tawell Murderer
Henry S. Taylor, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1986Encyclopedia Virginia site: [https://web.archive.org/web/20110726032016/http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Taylor_Henry_1942- accessed 23 October 2011.]
Joseph Taylor (b. 1941), American winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics{{Cite web |url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1993/taylor-autobio.html |title=Nobel Autobiography. taylor |website=nobelprize.org |date= |access-date=}}
Valerie Taylor (1913–1997), American novelist{{Cite web |title=Cornell Library opens papers of noted lesbian writer Valerie Taylor |url=https://news.cornell.edu/stories/1998/09/cornell-library-opens-valerie-taylor-papers |date=September 16, 1998 |first=Brenda J. |last=Marston |access-date=2025-01-01 |website=Cornell Chronicle}}
Philip E. Thomas (1776–1861), first president of the B&O Railroad (the first railroad in the US){{Cite web |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8JUZTP4azZUC |title=The Monumental City |last1=Howard |first1=George Washington |year=1873 }}
Thomas Tompion (1639–1713), English clockmaker{{Cite ODNB |id=27527 |title=Tompion, Thomas (bap. 1639, d. 1713) |first=Jeremy Lancelotte |last=Evans}}
Peterson Toscano (b. 1965), American actor, playwright and gay activist{{Cite web |url=http://www.homonomo.com/bio.html |title=Bio |access-date=27 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180403173505/http://www.homonomo.com/bio.html |archive-date=3 April 2018 }}
Theophila Townsend (d. 1692), English writer and activist{{Cite ODNB |id=69135 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/69135 |title=Townsend, Theophila (d. 1692) |last=Gill |first=Catie |date=2004-09-23}}
Connor Trinneer (b. 1969), actor{{Cite web|title=TrekToday - Trinneer On Classical Training, Quaker Upbringing and Keating's Backside|date=3 October 2021 |url=https://www.trektoday.com/news/240505_01.shtml|access-date=2023-01-01|language=en-US}}
D. Elton Trueblood (1900–1994), theologian{{Cite news|last=Saxon|first=Wolfgang|date=1994-12-23|title=Elton Trueblood, 94, Scholar Who Wrote Theological Works|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/12/23/obituaries/elton-trueblood-94-scholar-who-wrote-theological-works.html|access-date=2023-01-01|issn=0362-4331}}
Benjamin Franklin Trueblood (1847–1916), American pacifist who served the American Peace Society for 23 years{{Cite web |title=American Peace Society Photograph Collection, Swarthmore College Peace Collection |url=https://www.swarthmore.edu/library/peace/Exhibits/aps.and.trueblood/aps.index.html |access-date=2022-02-16 |website=swarthmore.edu}}
Daniel Hack Tuke (1827–1895), English physician and expert in mental illness{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EW1P9jtUnIYC|title=Victorian Lunatics|isbn=978-0-945636-03-8 |last1=Arieno |first1=Marlene Ann |year=1989 |publisher=Susquehanna University Press }}
Henry Tuke (1755–1814), English co-founder of the York Retreat{{Cite web|url=http://www.usc.edu/libraries/archives/arc/libraries/rarebooks/biblios/quakervol.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071127044940/http://www.usc.edu/libraries/archives/arc/libraries/rarebooks/biblios/quakervol.html|title=Quaker Tracts at USC|archive-date=27 November 2007}}
Henry Scott Tuke, RA RWS (1858–1929), English visual artist, painter and photographer notable for Impressionist style
James Hack Tuke (1819–1896), English businessman and philanthropist in Ireland{{Cite web|url= http://www.swan.ac.uk/history/teaching/teaching%20resources/An%20Gorta%20Mor/faminexperience/tuke.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060506054230/http://www.swan.ac.uk/history/teaching/teaching%20resources/An%20Gorta%20Mor/faminexperience/tuke.htm|title=Profile at Irish famine site|archive-date=6 May 2006}}
Samuel Tuke (1784–1857), English philanthropist and campaigner for the mentally ill{{Cite book|last=Allibone|first=Samuel Austin|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VngaAAAAMAAJ&dq=%2522samuel+tuke%2522+quaker+-wikipedia&pg=PA2470|title=A Critical Dictionary of English Literature, and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased, from the Earliest Accounts to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century: Containing Thirty Thousand Biographies and Literary Notices, with Forty Indexes of Subjects|date=1871|publisher=Childs & Peterson [printed by Deacon & Peterson]|language=en |page=2470}}
William Tuke (1732–1822), English philanthropist and campaigner for the mentally ill{{Cite web|title=BBC – History – Historic Figures: William Tuke (1732–1822)|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/tuke_william.shtml|access-date=2023-01-01|website=www.bbc.co.uk|language=en-GB}}
James Turrell (b. 1943), American artistBelcove, Julie L. [http://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/features/james-turrell-interview-0513 "Incredible Lightness"], Harpers Bazaar, April 19, 2013.
Edward Burnett Tylor (1832–1917), English anthropologist{{Cite web|title=Edward Burnett Tylor biography at the Pitt Rivers Museum History, 1884 – 1945|url=http://history.prm.ox.ac.uk/collector_tylor.html|access-date=2023-01-01|website=history.prm.ox.ac.uk}}}}

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Jo Vallentine (b. 1946), peace activist and senator for Western AustraliaJo Vallentine and Peter D Jones, Quakers in politics: pragmatism or principle (Alderley, Queensland: The Religious Society of Friends, 1990). James Backhouse Lecture 26. {{ISBN|0-909885-31-1}}
William Vickrey (1914–1996), Canadian economist and Nobel Prize winner{{Cite web|title=The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1996|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/1996/vickrey/biographical/|access-date=2023-01-01|website=NobelPrize.org|language=en-US}}
Elfrida Vipont Foulds (1902–1992), English novelist, school principal and Quaker activist

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Terry Waite (b. 1939), English humanitarian and author, Archbishop of Canterbury's special envoy
Priscilla Wakefield (1751–1832), English educational writer and philanthropist{{Cite DNB |wstitle=Wakefield, Priscilla |first =Edward Irving |last=Carlyle |author-link=Edward Irving Carlyle |volume=58}}
Mary Vaux Walcott (1860–1940), American botanical artist{{Cite web |title=Mary Morris Vaux Walcott | American artist and naturalist | Britannica|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mary-Morris-Vaux-Walcott|access-date=2023-01-01|website=www.britannica.com|language=en}}
George Washington Walker (1800–1859), English missionary in Australia{{Cite Australian Dictionary of Biography |url=http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A020511b.htm |title=Walker, George Washington (1800–1859) |access-date=22 September 2007 |author=Mary Bartram Trott |volume=2 |year=1967 |pages=562–63}}
Ann Warder (1758–1829), American diarist
Robert Spence Watson (1837–1911), English solicitor, reformer and writerPercy Corder: The Life of Robert Spence Watson (London: Headley Bros, 1914).
Benjamin West (1738–1820), American painter{{Citation |author=John Galt |title=The Life and Studies of Benjamin West, Esq. |year=1816}}
Catherine West (b. 1966), UK Member of Parliament
Jessamyn West (1902–1984), American novelist{{Cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/640018/Jessamyn-West |title=Jessamyn West (American writer) – Britannica Online Encyclopedia |encyclopedia=Britannica.com |access-date=29 November 2010}}
Joseph Wharton (1826–1909), American merchant, industrialist and philanthropist"Joseph Wharton is Dead. Prominent Ironmaker Expires at Home in Philadelphia.". The New York Times, 12 January 1909.
Daniel Wheeler (1771–1840), English minister and missionary{{Cite ODNB |id=29185 |title=Wheeler, Daniel (1771–1840) |first1=Charlotte |last1=Fell-Smith |first2=H. C. G. |last2=Matthew}}
Barclay White (1821–1906), American Superintendent of Indian AffairsSee The New York Times, 24 November 1906.
Dorothy White (c. 1630–1686), English religious pamphleteerOrlando Project: [http://orlando.cambridge.org/public/svPeople?person_id=whitdo Dorothy White] accessed 20 March 2012
George Whitehead (1636–1723), English Quaker lobbyist, preacher and writer
Joan Whitrowe ({{Circa|1631–1707}}), an English religious writer, visionary and polemicist.{{cite journal|last1=King|first1=Kathryn R.|date=2000|title=Female agency and feminocentric romance|journal=The Eighteenth Century|volume=41|issue=1|page=63|jstor=41467840|issn=0193-5380}}{{cite book |last1=MacDowell |first1=Paula |title=The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678–1730 |date=1998 |publisher=Clarendon Press |isbn=978-0-19-818395-2 |page=187{{endash}}90 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4f2UuwplM28C&pg=PA187}}
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892), American poetWagenknecht, Edward. John Greenleaf Whittier: A Portrait in Paradox (New York: Oxford University Press, 1967).
John Richardson Wigham (1829–1906), Scottish-born Irish inventor and lighthouse engineer{{Cite ODNB |id=36889 |title=Wigham, John Richardson (1829–1906) |first1=S. E. |last1=Fryer |first2=R. C. |last2=Cox}}
John Wilbur (1774–1856), prominent American Quaker minister and thinker{{BBKL |w/wilbur_j|band=31 |autor=Claus Bernet |spalten=1479–1482}} In German.
Jemima Wilkinson (excommunicated 1776), the Publick Universal Friend
Waldo Williams (1904–1971), Welsh-language poet and pacifist{{Cite ODNB |id=58905 |title=Williams, Waldo Goronwy (1904–1971) |first=Meic |last=Stephens}}
Lillian Willoughby (c. 1916–2009), American peace campaigner{{Cite web |first=John F. |last=Morrison|title=Lillian Willoughby, Quaker activist, dies at 93 |work=Philadelphia Inquirer |date=20 January 2009 |url=https://www.inquirer.com/philly/obituaries/20090120_Lillian_Willoughby__Quaker_activist__dies_at_93.html|access-date=2023-01-01|url-access=subscription|language=en}}
Emilie Dorothy Hilliard Willson (c. 1838–1899), American-born wife of John Joseph Willson and artist
Emilie Dorothy Willson (1867–1918), English artist and twin of Margaret Willson
Hannah Willson (c. 1829–1918), English artist
John Joseph Willson (c. 1837–1903), English leather manufacturer and artist
Margaret Willson (1867–1932), English artist and twin sister of Emilie Dorothy Willson
Mary A. Hilliard Willson (1871–1928), English artist
Michael Anthony Hilliard Willson (1863–1943), English artist
Drusilla Wilson (1815–1908), American temperance leader and Quaker pastor
Anna Wing (1914–2013), English actress{{IMDb name |id=0934923 |name=Anna Wing}}
Gerrard Winstanley (1609–1676), English social and religious reformer{{Cite ODNB |id=29755 |title=Winstanley, Gerrard (bap. 1609, d. 1676) |first1=J. C. |last1=Davis |first2=J. D. |last2=Alsop}}
Caspar Wistar (1696–1752), German-born Pennsylvania glassmakerMilton Rubincam: [http://dpubs.libraries.psu.edu/DPubS?service=Repository&version=1.0&verb=Disseminate&handle=psu.ph/1141399804&view=body&content-type=pdf_1 The Wistar-Wister Family: A Pennsylvania Family's Contributions Toward American Cultural Development], Pennsylvania History, Vol. 20, No. 2 (April 1953), pp. 142–164.
Mary Chawner Woody (1846–1928), American Quaker minister; educator; president, North Carolina Woman's Christian Temperance Union
John Woolman (1720–1772), American Quaker preacher and campaigner against slavery{{Cite web|title=John Woolman|url=http://www.qis.net/~daruma/woolman1.html|access-date=2023-01-01|website=www.qis.net}}
Thomas William Worsdell (1838–1916), English steam locomotive engineerHill, Geoffrey: The Worsdells: A Quaker Engineering Dynasty (Transport Publishing Company, 1991). {{ISBN|0-86317-158-3}}
Wilson Worsdell (1850–1920), English steam locomotive engineer

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Stephen Yang (1911–2007), Sichuanese surgeon, medical educator, and peace activist{{cite book |last=Wood |first=Patrick |date=2000 |title=Time Will Make Things Clear: The Story of Stephen Yang, Chinese Quaker |location=Reading, England |publisher=Sowle Press |isbn=0-9527815-5-7}}
William Yardley (1632–1693), early settler of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, for whom Yardley, Pennsylvania is named{{Cite book |title=History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania |last=Davis |first=William Watts Hart |author2=Warren Smedley Ely |author3=John Woolf Jordan |year=1905 |publisher=The Lewis Pub. Co. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=skgVAAAAYAAJ&q=William+Yardley&pg=PA83 |page=83 |isbn=0-8063-0641-6}}
Isabel Yeamans (c. 1637–1704), English Quaker preacher{{Cite book |last=Kunze |first=Bonnelyn Young |title=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2004 |chapter=Yeamans [nee Fell], Isabel}}
Thomas Young (1773–1829), English polymath best known for his physics and Egyptology{{Cite EB1911 |wstitle=Young, Thomas |volume=28}}

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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.

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Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906), American suffragist, abolitionist, and pioneer of feminism and civil rights{{Cite book |last=Harper |first=Ida Husted |author-link=Ida Husted Harper |title=The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony: including public addresses, her own letters and many from her contemporaries during fifty years |publisher=The Bowen-Merrill Company |year=1899 |location=Indianapolis & Kansas City |pages=21–22 (n 62–63 in electronic page field) |volume=1 |url= https://archive.org/details/lifeandworksusa00unkngoog |access-date=22 January 2010}} Full text at Internet Archive.
Herbert W. Armstrong (1892–1986), American founder of the Worldwide Church of God{{Cite web |title=Armstrong's autobiography|url=http://www.thetrumpet.com/index.php?page=book&q=1307.6.0.2 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071211032941/http://www.thetrumpet.com/index.php?page=book&q=1307.6.0.2|archive-date=11 December 2007}}
Kevin Bacon (b. 1958), American actor of Quaker extraction{{Cite web |url=https://www.pbs.org/wnet/finding-your-roots/video/quakers-in-early-america/ |title=Video: Actor Kevin Bacon Learns About His Quaker Ancestors |website=PBS |access-date=3 September 2017 |archive-date=9 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120509013538/http://www.pbs.org/wnet/finding-your-roots/video/quakers-in-early-america/ }}
L. S. Bevington (1845–1895), English anarchist poet, essayist and journalist"Bevington, Louisa Sarah, 1845–1895" [https://libcom.org/history/bevington-louisa-sarah–1845–1895. accessed 28 April 2015.]
Morris Birkbeck (1764–1825), American farmer, writer, and promoter of emigration to Illinois{{Cite ODNB |id=59873 |title=Birkbeck, Morris (1764–1825) |first=Charlotte |last=Erickson}}
Daniel Boone (1735–1820), American frontiersmanBrown, Meredith Mason: Frontiersman (Louisiana State University Press, 2008) {{ISBN|978-0-8071-3356-9}}
Maria Louisa Bustill (1853–1904), American teacher, mother of Paul Robeson{{Cite book |last=Robeson II |first=Paul |title=The Undiscovered Paul Robeson: An Artist's Journey, 1898–1939 |url=http://media.wiley.com/product_data/excerpt/59/04712426/0471242659.pdf}}
Smedley Butler (1881–1940), U.S. Marine and social activist{{Cite web |access-date=13 October 2007 |url=http://www.tecom.usmc.mil/HD/Whos_Who/Butler_SD.htm |title=Major General Smedley D. Butler, USMC |work=Who's Who in Marine Corps History |publisher=History Division, United States Marine Corps.}}
Ilka Chase (1900–1978), American actress and novelist{{IMDb name |0153772 |name=Ilka Chase}}
Benjamin Chew, American chief justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, became Anglican in the 1750s.{{Cite web|url=http://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/features/1700s/people/chew_ben.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517043256/http://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/features/1700s/people/chew_ben.html|title=UPenn.edu|archive-date=17 May 2008}}
Ezra Cornell (1807–1874), American founder of Cornell University, expelled for marrying outside the faith{{Cite web|url=http://cornellsun.com/node/21012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070504041904/http://cornellsun.com/node/21012|title=Cornell Sun|archive-date=4 May 2007}}
Warder Cresson (1798–1860), American campaigner and author who converted to Judaism{{Cite web|title=Warder Cresson|url=http://www.jewish-history.com/Cresson/warderc.html|access-date=2023-01-01|website=www.jewish-history.com}}
Emily Deschanel (b. 1976), American actress and television producer of Quaker extraction
Zooey Deschanel (b. 1980), American actress and singer/songwriter/musician of Quaker extraction
John Dickinson (1732–1808), American lawyer and governor of Delaware and Pennsylvania{{Cite web|title=John Dickinson: A Great Worthy of the Revolution |url=http://history.delaware.gov/museums/jdp/jdppolitics.doc|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120722120756/http://google.com/search?q=cache:gQxIPQVirswJ:history.delaware.gov/museums/jdp/jdppolitics.doc+%22John+Dickinson%22+quaker+-wikipedia&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=8&gl=us|archive-date=2012-07-22|access-date=2023-01-01|website=delaware.gov}}
Nathan Dunn (1782–1844), American businessman and collector, disowned in 1816 but a follower of Quaker ethics in further lifeArthur W. Hummel, "Nathan Dunn", Quaker History 59 (1970), pp. 34–39.
Sarah Stickney Ellis (1799–1872), English writer on women's roles, became a Congregationalist.{{Cite ODNB |id=8711 |title=Ellis [née Stickney], Sarah (1799–1872) |first=H. S. |last=Twycross-Martin}}
Samuel Tertius Galton (1783–1844), English businessman and scientist, convert to Anglicanism{{Cite web|title=Ancestry of Sir Francis Galton FRS|url=https://galton.org/ancestry/index.htm|access-date=2023-01-01|website=galton.org}}
Jesse Gause (1785–1836), early American leader of Latter Day Saint movement{{Cite web |url=http://byustudies.byu.edu/shop/pdfSRC/23.4Quinn.pdf |title=BYU article |access-date=24 November 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080912093507/http://byustudies.byu.edu/shop/pdfSRC/23.4Quinn.pdf |archive-date=12 September 2008 }}
Nathanael Greene (1742–1786), American major-general in the Continental Army, member of the Rhode Island General Assembly, third quartermaster general, disowned by the Quakers in 1773{{Cite web|url=http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h–2556|title=Georgia Encyclopedia.}}
Maria Hack (1777–1844), English educational writer and contributor to the Isaac Crewdson controversy{{Cite ODNB |id=11834 |title=Hack [née Barton], Maria (1777–1844) |first=Rosemary |last=Mitchell}}
Sarah C. Hall (1832–1926), physician{{cite book |last1=Willard |first1=Frances Elizabeth |author1-link=Frances Willard |last2=Livermore |first2=Mary Ashton Rice |author2-link=Mary Livermore |title=A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life |year=1893 |publisher=Charles Wells Moulton |url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Woman_of_the_Century/Sarah_C._Hall |pages=351–52 |chapter=HALL, Mrs. Sarah C |access-date=18 April 2024}} {{Source-attribution}}
Sam Harris (b. 1967), American author of The End of Faith with a possibly lapsed Quaker father{{Cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/25/AR2006102501998_pf.html |title=Atheist Evangelist: In His Bully Pulpit, Sam Harris Devoutly Believes That Religion Is the Root of All Evil |first=David |last=Segal |date=26 October 2006 |newspaper=The Washington Post}}
Jonathan Hazard (1744–1824), American statesman and anti-federalist{{CongBio |id=H000414 |name=HAZARD, Jonathan J. (1744–1824) |inline=yes}}
Louisa Gurney Hoare (1784–1836), writer on education, convert to Anglicanism{{Cite ODNB |id=48515 |title=Hoare, Louisa Gurney (1784–1836) |first=Susan |last=Drain}}
Bulmer Hobson (1883–1969), Irish republican militant and politician, resigned membership when he became involved in paramilitarism{{Cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/bulmer-hobson-1.301500|title=Bulmer Hobson|newspaper=The Irish Times|date=10 August 2000}}
Thomas Hornor (1767–1834), Canadian farmer and politician, expelled for freemasonry and joining a militia{{Cite DCB |title=Hornor, Thomas |first=Daniel J. |last=Brock |volume=6 |url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/hornor_thomas_6E.html}}
John Eliot Howard (1807–1883), English chemist and developer of quinine{{Cite web |url=http://royalsociety.org/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=17&dsqSearch=%28Surname%3D%27howard%27%29 |title=search on 'howard' |work=The Royal Society}}
Luke Howard (1772–1864), English chemist and meteorologist,Royal Society databank. [http://www2.royalsociety.org/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=20&dsqSearch=%28Surname%3D%27howard%27%29 accessed 11 October 2011.] {{dead link |date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}} involved in the Beaconite Controversy and later associated with the Plymouth Brethren{{Cite ODNB |id=13928 |title=Howard, Luke (1772–1864) |first=Jim |last=Burton}}
Andrew John Hozier-Byrne, aka Hozier (1990–), singer-songwriter and musician{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/hozier-getting-his-normal-life-back-breaking-america-and-touring-two-years-a6723826.html|author=Emily Jupp|title=Hozier on getting his 'normal' life back, breaking America and touring for two years|work=Irish Independent|date=6 November 2015}}
Alfred Hunt (1817–1888), American industrialistBethlehem Globe-Times (28 March 1888), "Alfred Hunt, the well known president of the Bethlehem Iron Company dead"
Eric Knight (1897–1943), English-born novelist and children's writer, author of Lassie Come-Home (1940){{Cite ODNB |id=47832 |title=Knight, Eric Mowbray [pseud. Richard Hallas] (1897–1943) |first=F. M. |last=Leventhal}}
Lyndon LaRouche (b. 1922), American disowned in 1941{{Cite web|url=http://www.kouroo.info/RSOF/LyndonLaRouche.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071126235534/http://www.kouroo.info/RSOF/LyndonLaRouche.pdf |title=LyndonLaRouche|archive-date=26 November 2007}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.neym.org/GuideToRecordsRSOF_1997.pdf |title=GuideToRecords-body.ind |access-date=23 November 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060526071256/http://www.neym.org/GuideToRecordsRSOF_1997.pdf |archive-date=26 May 2006 }}
David Lean (1908–1991), British film director{{Cite ODNB |id=49869 |title=Lean, Sir David (1908–1991) |first=Robert |last=Murphy}} Penultimate paragraph implies he was not an active Quaker.
Joseph Lister (1827–1912), English surgeon who promoted the idea of sterile surgery{{Cite ODNB |id=34553 |title=Lister, Joseph, Baron Lister (1827–1912) |first=Christopher |last=Lawrence}}
E. V. Lucas (1868–1938), English writer
Dolley Madison (1768–1849), American first lady{{Cite web |title=The Dolley Madison Project: Exhibit|url=http://www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/madison/exhibit/early/background/index.html|access-date=2023-01-01|website=www2.vcdh.virginia.edu}}
Dave Matthews (b. 1967), South African-born American musician{{Cite web|title=Profiles of U2 and The Dave Matthews Band |url=https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/pitn/date/2005-05-14/segment/01|access-date=2023-01-01|website=transcripts.cnn.com |date=May 14, 2005}}
Thomas Merton (1915–1968). Though his mother was an American Quaker and he attended some meetings, he was baptized and primarily raised an Anglican.{{Citation |title=The Seven Storey Mountain}}
Maria Mitchell (1818–1889), an Australian, one of the first women in astronomy, who retained ties to the Quakers but became a Unitarian{{Cite web|url=http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/UIA%20Online/52mitchell.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071220115509/http://harvardsquarelibrary.org/UIA%20Online/52mitchell.html|title=Harvard Square Library|archive-date=20 December 2007}}
Russ Nelson (b. 1958), American open-source software developer{{Cite web |last1=Nelson |first1=Russ |url=https://www.facebook.com/russnelson/posts/10152052295356965|title=Post |via=Facebook |access-date=26 March 2019}}
Richard Nixon (1913–1994), American President{{Cite web|title=President Nixon |website=Nixon Presidential Library |url=https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/index.php/president-nixon}}
Thomas Paine (1737–1809), Anglo-American political philosopher and revolutionary; father a Quaker, but he a non-religious deist{{Cite web|url=http://www.thomaspainesociety.org/Thomas |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160210120341/http://www.thomaspainesociety.org/thomas|title=Paine Society|archive-date=10 February 2016}}
Hilary Douglas Clark Pepler (1878–1951), English convert to Catholicism, who founded The Guild of St Joseph and St Dominic{{Cite web|title=Hilary Pepler - CatholicAuthors.com |url=http://www.catholicauthors.com/pepler.html|access-date=2023-01-01|website=www.catholicauthors.com}}
Bonnie Raitt (b. 1949), American singer and musician{{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|chapter=Bonnie Raitt|editor=Rolling Stone |chapter-url=http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/bonnieraitt/biography|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080113104733/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/bonnieraitt/biography |archive-date=13 January 2008 | isbn = 978-0-7432-0120-9 | publisher= Simon & Schuster | encyclopedia= Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll |title=Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll: Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll }}
Thomas Rickman (1776–1841), English architect and author, and major figure in the Gothic Revival
Thomas 'Clio' Rickman (1760–1834), English political pamphleteer and friend of Thomas Paine
Ned Rorem (1923–2022), composer of art songs and of a substantial work for organ, "A Quaker Reader"{{Cite web|url=http://www.ascap.com/playback/1998/october/rorem.html|title=Ned Rorem's 1998 statements concerning his piece for organ Quaker Reader.}}
Anna Sewell (1820–1878), English children's writer, converted to Anglicanism about 1838{{Cite ODNB |id=25140 |title=Sewell, Anna (1820–1878) |first=Adrienne E. |last=Gavin}}
Joseph Henry Shorthouse (1834–1903), English novelist, converted to Anglicanism in 1861{{Cite ODNB |id=36077 |title=Shorthouse, Joseph Henry (1834–1903) |first=Barbara |last=Dennis}}
Hannah Whitall Smith (1832–1911), American-born evangelical holiness preacher, suffragist and temperance campaigner{{Cite web|title=Author info: Hannah Whitall Smith – Christian Classics Ethereal Library|url=https://www.ccel.org/ccel/smith_hw|access-date=2023-01-01|website=www.ccel.org}}
Robert Pearsall Smith (1827–1898), American-born leading figure in the UK Higher Life movement;See {{Cite ODNB |id=47062 |title=Smith [née Whitall], Hannah [known as Mrs Pearsall Smith] (1832–1911) |first=Edward H. |last=Milligan}} later began to entertain notions of spiritual wifery, was criticized, and eventually claimed to be a Buddhist.
David Starkey (b. 1945), English historian and broadcaster{{Cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/main.jhtml?xml=/health/2007/01/27/hfamhist27.xml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070331042010/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fhealth%2F2007%2F01%2F27%2Fhfamhist27.xml |archive-date=31 March 2007 |work=The Daily Telegraph|location=London |title=Family detective |first=Nick |last=Barratt |date=27 January 2007 |access-date=18 April 2021}}
Satyananda Stokes (1882–1946), American raised a Quaker as "Samuel Evans Stokes, Jr.", later converting to Hinduism{{Cite web|title=A Quaker who joined freedom struggle |url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/2000/20000220/spectrum/books.htm|access-date=2023-01-01|website=www.tribuneindia.com |first=Randeep |last=Wadehra}}
Justin Sullivan (b. 1956), English singer-songwriter and lead singer for New Model Army
Cheryl Tiegs (b. 1947), American model, current religious status uncertain{{Cite web |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,915972-6,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070516035905/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,915972-6,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=16 May 2007 |title=The Tiegs family |work=Time Magazine |quote=The Tiegs family went to Quaker meetings on Sundays.}}
Alfred Waterhouse (1830–1905), English architect, baptised into the Church of England in 1877{{Cite ODNB |id=36758 |title=Waterhouse, Alfred (1830–1905) |first=Colin |last=Cunningham}}p. 102, Alfred Waterhouse 1830–1905 Biography of a Practice, Colin Cunningham & Prudence Waterhouse, 1992, Oxford University Press
William Weeks (1813–1900), American architect and temporary convert to Mormonism{{Cite journal |url=http://mormonhistoricsites.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/MHS3.1Spring2002Bennion.pdf |title=The Rediscovery of William Weeks' Nauvoo Temple Drawings |first=Marjorie Hopkins |last=Bennion |journal=Mormon Historical Studies |volume=3 |issue=1 |pages=73–90}}
Walt Whitman (1819–1892), eminent American poet, born to Hicksite Quaker parents}}

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