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*[[Richard Nixon]], U.S. President.<ref>[http://www.nixonlibraryfoundation.org/index.php?src=gendocs&refno=53&category=Home&search=%22quaker Nixon Library Foundation]</ref>
*[[Richard Nixon]], U.S. President.<ref>[http://www.nixonlibraryfoundation.org/index.php?src=gendocs&refno=53&category=Home&search=%22quaker Nixon Library Foundation]</ref>
*[[Russ Nelson]], open source software developer.<ref>[http://quaker.org/#11 Quakers.org]</ref>
*[[Russ Nelson]], open source software developer.<ref>[http://quaker.org/#11 Quakers.org]</ref>
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*[[Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker]], Diplomat and [[Nobel Peace Prize]] Laureate.<ref>[http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1959/noel-baker-bio.html Nobel Biography]</ref>
*[[Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker]], Diplomat and [[Nobel Peace Prize]] Laureate.<ref>[http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1959/noel-baker-bio.html Nobel Biography]</ref>


Revision as of 22:22, 28 February 2008

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

The first part consists of individuals who are known to be or to have been Quakers continually from some point in their lives onward.

The second part consists of individuals whose parents were Quakers or who were Quakers themselves at one time in their lives but then converted to another religion, formally or informally distanced themselves from the Society of Friends, or were disowned by their Friends Meeting.

Contents

Quakers

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

  • John Hunn, (1849-1926) A Governor of Delaware.[42]
  • Alfred Hunt (1817-1888), American industrialist [43]
  • John Hunt (1712-1778), minister from London, England; one of the "Virginia Exiles" [44]
  • John Hunt (1740-1824), minister and journalist from Moorestown, New Jersey [45]

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

R

S

T

W

Y

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.

Web sources

  1. ^ Stoke Newington Quakers
  2. ^ Edgar Anderson: A Biographical Memoir
  3. ^ Kentucky Community and Technical College System
  4. ^ University of North Carolina Press
  5. ^ New York Times: June 10, 1894
  6. ^ Tokyo Quaker site
  7. ^ Birmingham UK
  8. ^ Birmingham UK
  9. ^ Political Graveyard
  10. ^ [Monastier, Hélène [1947]. Un Quaker d'aujourd'hui: Pierre Ceresole, 43 p.]
  11. ^ Cantor, Norman F. (1993) "Inventing the Middle Ages", p. 219, HarperCollins, ISBN 0-688-12302-3: "[1949] was also a moment in "Time"'s history when a senior editor was Whittaker Chambers, the former Soviet spy and eventual nemesis of Alger Hiss. Now a devout Quaker, Chambers was keen on importing British conservative Christianity to American shores..."
  12. ^ University of North Carolina
  13. ^ Political Graveyard
  14. ^ John Rylands University Library
  15. ^ The Darby Dynasty
  16. ^ The Darby Dynasty page 2
  17. ^ Ibid
  18. ^ James Dean's religious affiliation
  19. ^ The Guardian
  20. ^ Delaware.gov profile
  21. ^ The Cambridge History of English and American Literature
  22. ^ Find-A-Grave
  23. ^ Delmarva Settlers site
  24. ^ Darwin Online
  25. ^ Cogges Hall Museum
  26. ^ Sue Dough.org
  27. ^ Bowdoin.edu
  28. ^ Mayflower Families
  29. ^ "Astrophysics and Mysticism: the life of Arthur Stanley Eddington" by Ian H Hutchinson of MIT
  30. ^ BBC Profile
  31. ^ Interview with Fritz Eichenberg
  32. ^ Friends Journal
  33. ^ Welsh Biography Online
  34. ^ 1911 Encyclopedia
  35. ^ Joshua Evans Papers at Swarthmore
  36. ^ Political Graveyard
  37. ^ Spartacus Schoolnet
  38. ^ Webster University
  39. ^ Memoirs of Joseph John Gurney
  40. ^ Political Graveyard
  41. ^ Political Graveyard
  42. ^ National Governors Association
  43. ^ Bethlehem Globe-Times (March 28, 1888), "Alfred Hunt, the well known president of the Bethlehem Iron Company dead."
  44. ^ Gummere, Amelia Mott (1922), The journal and essays of John Woolman, New York: The Macmillan Company, p. 511
  45. ^ Hynes, Judy (1997), The descendants of John and Elizabeth (Woolman) Borton, Mount Holly, New Jersey: John Woolman Memorial Association
  46. ^ Rufus Jones, Master Quaker By David Hinshaw
  47. ^ Friends United Meeting
  48. ^ Spirituality Today
  49. ^ The Scotsman's "Living" section
  50. ^ Dictionary of Canadian biography
  51. ^ Spartacus schoolnet
  52. ^ Penn State bio
  53. ^ 20th c. women in Physics site at UCLA
  54. ^ Raph Levien homepage.
  55. ^ Canadians for equal marriage
  56. ^ John Macmurray foundation
  57. ^ The Dolley Madison Project
  58. ^ Department of Health profile on Madlala-Routledge
  59. ^ BALLBUSTER? True Confessions of a Marxist Businessman
  60. ^ CNN
  61. ^ Medal of Freedom Profile
  62. ^ Smithsonian
  63. ^ Harvard's Libraries and the Quaker Jesus
  64. ^ The Oxford Illustrated Companion to Medicine
  65. ^ Columbia University on a book he wrote
  66. ^ Nixon Library Foundation
  67. ^ Quakers.org
  68. ^ Nobel Biography
  69. ^ University of Toronto Libray
  70. ^ Biography Index Number 101020970
  71. ^ Augsburg College
  72. ^ Alice Paul Institute
  73. ^ Darlington, Quaker Photograph Albums
  74. ^ Spartacus Schoolnet
  75. ^ U of Penn copy of a Quaker work he wrote
  76. ^ University of Tasmania Profile
  77. ^ Coming Home:an introduction to the Quakers
  78. ^ Swiss Quakers site
  79. ^ University of Bradford Library: The Elizabeth and Arthur Raistrick Collection
  80. ^ Rolling Stone bio
  81. ^ McTutor
  82. ^ Quakers, Jews, and Science
  83. ^ Quakers and Quakerism in Scotland: a bibliography
  84. ^ A Quaker Business Man: The Life of Joseph Rowntree 1836-1925 By Anne Vernon
  85. ^ Bayard Rustin Film Project
  86. ^ Nobel Autobiography
  87. ^ H.S. Taylor: The WP article gives no indication of his parents' religious persuasion.
  88. ^ Cornell News
  89. ^ Howard, George Washington (1873)."The Monumental City, Its Past History and Present Resources". J.D. Ehlers
  90. ^ Bio
  91. ^ Trek Today: "It's a whole conversation itself to describe what that is and what that means to me. I describe growing up Quaker, and people are like, 'Dude, why can't I be a Quaker?'" He [Trineer] said that he finds the religion very liberating in that there is no minister or senior authority at a meeting.
  92. ^ New York Times obituary
  93. ^ Victorian Lunatics by Marlene Ann Arieno
  94. ^ Profile at Irish famine site
  95. ^ Quaker Tracts at USC
  96. ^ A Critical Dictionary of English Literature, and British and American By Samuel Austin Allibone (pg 2470)
  97. ^ BBC biography
  98. ^ University of York
  99. ^ PBS
  100. ^ 1911 Encyclopedia
  101. ^ Armstrong's autobiography
  102. ^ UPenn.edu
  103. ^ Cornell Sun
  104. ^ Jewish history.com
  105. ^ Galton.org
  106. ^ BYU article
  107. ^ Georgia Encyclopedia
  108. ^ Washington Post
  109. ^ Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
  110. ^ http://www.kouroo.info/RSOF/LyndonLaRouche.pdf
  111. ^ http://www.neym.org/GuideToRecordsRSOF_1997.pdf
  112. ^ The Seven Storey Mountain
  113. ^ Harvard Square Library
  114. ^ Thomas Paine Society
  115. ^ Catholic Authors
  116. ^ Ned Rorem's 1998 statements concerning his piece for organ "Quaker Reader".
  117. ^ Tribune India
  118. ^ Time Magazine: The Tiegs family went to Quaker meetings on Sundays.
  119. ^ Mormon Historical Studies 3 (1): 73-90.


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