List of Quakers
This is a list of notable people associated with the Religious Society of Friends, also known as Quakers.
- Susan B. Anthony, suffragette
- Robert Barclay, theologian
- Edward Backhouse
- Bernard Barton, poet
- Jocelyn Bell Burnell, astrophysicist
- Anthony Benezet, educator, abolitionist
- George Birkbeck
- John Bright
- George Cadbury, chocolatier
- John Cadbury, chocolatier
- Levi Coffin, abolitionist
- John Dalton, chemist
- James Dean, actor
- Judi Dench, actor
- Ambrose Dixon
- Mary Dyer, religious martyr
- Arthur Stanley Eddington, astrophysicist
- Paul Eddington, actor
- Margaret Fell, one of the earliest Quakers, married to George Fox
- George Fox, founder of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
- Elizabeth Fry, prison reformer
- Samuel Tertius Galton
- Thomas Garret
- Henry D. Gilpin
- Stephen Grellet
- Seok-heon Ham
- Sheila Hancock, comedian
- Edward Hicks, painter
- Elias Hicks, Quaker theologian
- Thomas Hodgkin, physician who documented Hodgkin's lymphoma
- Gerard Hoffnung
- Herbert Hoover, U.S. President
- Rufus Jones, Quaker theologian
- Thomas R. Kelly
- Ben Kingsley, actor
- Joseph Lancaster
- Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister
- Dave Matthews, musician
- Maria Mitchell
- Lucretia Mott
- James Nayler
- Richard Nixon, U.S. President
- Edward Pease, first Quaker Member of Parliament in Great Britain
- William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania
- Lewis Fry Richardson
- Joseph Rowntree, chocolatier
- Bayard Rustin, civil rights leader
- Alys Pearsall Smith
- Noah Haynes Swayne
- William Tuke
- John Greenleaf Whittier, poet
- Priscilla Anne Wilkinson, married to David Ricardo
- Victoria Wood, comedian
- John Woolman, abolitionist
