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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
- Jane Addams (1860-1935), sociologist
- William Allen (1770 – 1843), Scientist, philanthropist, and abolitionist.[1]
- Edgar Anderson (1897 - 1969), American botanist.[2]
- Susan B. Anthony (1820 – 1906), American suffragist, abolitionist, and pioneer of feminism and civil rights
- Jan Arnow (1947-), author, peace proponent[3]
- Elizabeth Ashbridge (1713–1755), Quaker preacher and memoirist.[4]
- Ann Austin (17th century), early Quaker missionary[5]
- Iwao Ayusawa (1894 - 1972) , Japanese diplomat.[6]
B
- Edmund Backhouse, M.P. for Darlington, banker and member of Parliament
- James Backhouse (1794-1869), botanist and missionary
- Ernest Bader (1890 - 1982), businessman and philanthropist
- Eric Baker (activist), co-founder of Amnesty International
- Emily Greene Balch, Nobel Peace Prize winner
- Mark Ballard, member of the Parliament of Scotland
- Robert Barclay, theologian
- Bernard Barton, poet
- John Barton (quaker), abolitionist
- John Bartram, botanist
- Joel Bean
- Anthony Benezet, educator, abolitionist
- Caleb P. Bennett
- Douglas C. Bennett, president Earlham College
- Lewis Benson, printer, researcher and writer about Early Quakerism, especially George Fox
- Albert Bigelow, nuclear weapons protester
- J. Brent Bill, author of fiction and non-fiction, notably "Holy Silence: The Gift of Quaker Spirituality"
- George Birkbeck, a founder of London Mechanics Institute, now Birkbeck, University of London
- Kenneth E. Boulding, an economist, educator, poet, religious mystic, systems scientist, and interdisciplinary philosopher
- Samuel Bownas (1676–1753), travelling minister, and writer
- John Bowne (1627-1695), promoter of religious freedom in colonial America
- Sandra Boynton writer, cartoonist, composer
- George Bradshaw English cartographer, printer, publisher, originator of the railway timetable
- John Bright, politician
- Moses Brown, industrialist and philanthropist
- Jocelyn Bell Burnell, astrophysicist
- Edward Burrough, 1660s activist
- Maria Louisa Bustill, (1853-1904) mother of Paul Robeson
- Smedley Butler, (1881-1940) a U.S. Marine
- Thomas S. Butler, U. S. Congressman
- Charles Roden Buxton, British parliamentarian
C
- George Cadbury, chocolatier[7]
- Henry Cadbury, chairman of the American Friends Service Committee
- John Cadbury, chocolatier[8]
- Arthur Capper, governor and U. S. senator from Kansas.[9]
- Pierre Ceresole (1879-1945), Founded the Service Civil International.[10]
- Ilka Chase, actress and author
- Cyrus Clark co-founder of C&J Clark, shoe manufacturers in Street, Somerset
- James Clark co-founder of C&J Clark, shoe manufacturers in Street, Somerset
- Whittaker Chambers, convinced Quaker at the time of his editorship at Time and testimony against Alger Hiss (Cantor, 1993)[11]
- William Coddington (1601 – 1678), first governor of Rhode Island
- Levi Coffin (1798 – 1877), abolitionist[12]
- John S. Collins, land developer
- Peter Collinson FRS (1694–1768), botanist
- John Conard (1773-1857), US politician nicknamed the "Fighting Quaker". (buried in an Episcopal Church)[13]
- Anne Finch Conway, philosopher
- William Cooper (1754-1809), founder of Cooperstown, New York and father of author James Fenimore Cooper
- James A. Corbett, activist.
- Stephen Crisp (1628–1692) Activist and writer, of Colchester active in the Netherlands
- Joseph Crosfield (1792-1844) a businessman who established a soap and chemical manufacturing business which became the firm of Joseph Crosfield & Sons Ltd.
D
- John Dalton (1766 – 1844), chemist[14]
- Abraham Darby I (1678 – 1717), ironmaster[15]
- Abraham Darby II (1711 – 1763), ironmaster[16]
- Abraham Darby III (1750 – 1791), ironmaster[17]
- James Dean (1931-1955), actor [18]
- Dame Judi Dench (born December 9, 1934: living), actor[19]
- John Dickinson (1732 – 1808), American lawyer and Governor of Delaware and Pennsylvania.[20]
- Jonathan Dickinson, (1663-1722), merchant and politician.[21]
- Richard Dillingham, (1823 - 1850), abolitionist[22]
- Ambrose Dixon (c. 1619 - 1687), Colonial American who came to Maryland to escape persecution.[23]
- Henry Doubleday (1808-1875), entomologist and ornithologist.[24]
- Henry Doubleday (1810-1902), scientist and horticulturist.[25]
- Sue Doughty (1948-), politician[26]
- Paul Douglas (1892 – 1976) , economist and United States Senator.[27]
- Mary Dyer, (c.1611? – 1660) religious martyr[28]
E
- Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882 – 1944), astrophysicist[29]
- Paul Eddington (1927 – 1995), actor. [30]
- Fritz Eichenberg (1901 – 1990) , illustrator[31]
- George Ellis (born August 11, 1939: living), Templeton Prize winning cosmologist[32]
- Rowland Ellis (1650 – 1731), Welsh Quaker leader.[33]
- Thomas Ellwood (1639-1713) , religious writer[34]
- Joshua Evans (1731-1798), minister from Haddonfield, New Jersey[35]
F
- Chuck Fager, 20th Century Quaker writer and activist
- Margaret Fell, (1614 - 1702) one of the earliest Quakers, married to George Fox
- James Finlayson (1771–1852), Scottish engineer who industrialised the city of Tampere in Finland
- Mary Fisher, (ca. 1623 - 1698) early Quaker missionary
- Edwin B. Forsythe, (1916-1984) Representative for New Jersey.[36]
- Richard J. Foster, ecumenical leader & reformer, founder of Renovare
- John Fothergill,(1712 – 1780), English Quaker physician and philanthropist
- Barclay Fox (1817 - 1855), Diarist
- Caroline Fox (1819 - 1871), Diarist
- George Fox, founder of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
- Robert Were Fox I, businessman
- Robert Were Fox II, geologist
- Tom Fox, held captive and killed in Iraq
- Ursula Franklin, metallurgist and research physicist
- Francis Frith, photographer
- Christopher Fry, playwright
- Elizabeth Fry, prison reformer
- Joan Mary Fry (1862–1955), relief worker and social reformer
- Margery Fry (1874–1958), penal reformer and Principal of Somerville College
G
- Thomas Garrett, (1789 – 1871) abolitionist.[37]
- Rickman Godlee, (1849 - 1925), English surgeon and biogaphist of Joseph Lister
- Stephen Grellet (1773 – 1855) , missionary[38]
- Joseph John Gurney (1788 - 1847), reformer[39]
H
- Elizabeth Haddon (1680-1762) founder of Haddonfield, New Jersey
- Seok-heon Ham
- Cornelia Hancock, nurse
- Sheila Hancock, comedian
- Edmund Happold (1930 - 1996), engineer
- Jan de Hartog, author
- Jonathan Hazard, Continental congressman
- Edward Hicks, painter
- Elias Hicks, Quaker theologian
- Thomas Hodgkin, physician who documented Hodgkin's lymphoma
- Marshall Hodgson, historian
- Gerard Hoffnung, artist and humorist
- Christopher Holder, preacher
- David P. Holloway, (1809-1883) Representative from Indiana.[40]
- Rush D. Holt, Jr., U.S. Congressman
- Elizabeth Hooton, preacher, possibly the first Quaker after George Fox
- Herbert Hoover, U.S. President
- Johns Hopkins, philanthropist
- Luke Howard, meteorologist
- Francis Howgill, preacher and writer
- Geoffrey Hubbard, director of the National Council for Educational Technology
- Charles Humphreys(1714 – 1786), Continental Congressman[41]
- 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
- Rufus Jones, Quaker theologian[46]
- T. Canby Jones, Quaker peace activist, theologian, and professor emeritus at Wilmington College.[47]
K
- Thomas R. Kelly, Missionary, educator, and spiritual writer.[48]
- Sir Ben Kingsley, actor[49]
L
- Joseph Lancaster (1778 – 1838), Public education innovator.[50]
- John Lilburne (died August 29, 1657), Leveller who converted to the faith.[51]
- Joseph Jackson Lister (1786 - 1869), Amateur British opticist and physicist and the father of Joseph Lister.
- Joseph Lister (1827 - 1912), English Surgeon who promoted the idea of sterile surgery.
- James Logan (1674 - 1751) , William Penn's secretary who had been an Anglican clergyman.[52]
- Kathleen Lonsdale (1903 - 1971) , scientist[53]
- Raph Levien (living), Free software author behind Ghostscript and Advogato.[54]
M
- Svetlana Sotiroff MacDonald[55]
- John Macmurray, Philosopher.[56]
- Dolley Madison, First Lady[57]
- Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge, Former South African Health Minister.[58]
- Elizabeth Magie, inventor of Monopoly[59]
- Dave Matthews, musician.[60]
- James Michener, author
- Edward R. Murrow, journalist.[61]
- Ethan Mordden, author
- Lucretia Mott, Abolitionist and suffragist.[62]
N
- James Nayler, Former soldier and member of the Valiant Sixty.[63]
- Sir George Newman, British Chief Medical Officer[64]
- Inazo Nitobe, Japanese diplomat, educator, author.[65]
- Richard Nixon, U.S. President.[66]
- Russ Nelson, open source software developer.[67]
- Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker, Diplomat and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.[68]
O
- Amelia Opie, writer[69]
- Constantine Overton (1626/7-?1690), Quaker leader in Shrewsbury, Shropshire.[70]
P
- Parker Palmer, writer, teacher, activist[71]
- Alice Paul, suffragist from Mount Laurel, New Jersey.[72]
- Edward Pease, early railway owner in England.[73]
- Joseph Pease, first Quaker member of Parliament.[74]
- Isaac Penington - Early Quaker.[75]
- William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania
- Olive Pink, botanical illustrator, gardener, anthropologist, and activist for aboriginal rights.[76]
- Gerald Priestland, BBC broadcaster[77]
- Edmond Privat, swiss ambassador of esperanto international language, journalist, historian university teacher.[78]
R
- Arthur Raistrick, Conscientious Objector, geologist, industrial archealogist, and socialist.[79]
- Bonnie Raitt, musician[80]
- John Raitt, actor
- Lewis Fry Richardson, mathematician and geophysicist.[81]
- John Wigham Richardson, shipbuilder[82][83]
- Joseph Rowntree, chocolatier and educationist.[84]
- Bayard Rustin, civil rights leader.[85]
S
- Susanna M. Salter, first woman mayor in the United States
- Anna Sewell, author
- Moses Sheppard, philanthropist and abolitionist
- Philip Sherman, first Secretary of State of Rhode Island
- Scott Simon, journalist and broadcaster
- John Alexander Sinton, winner of the Victoria Cross
- Joan Slonczewski, biologist and award-winning science fiction writer
- Alys Pearsall Smith
- Hannah Whitall Smith
- Robert Pearsall Smith
- Lawrence Southwick
- Cassandra Burnell Southwick
- Robert Strettell, early mayor of Philadelphia
- Joseph Sturge
- Donald Swann, composer, musician and entertainer
- Noah Haynes Swayne
T
- Joseph Taylor, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics[86]
- Henry S. Taylor, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1986[87]
- Valerie Taylor, prominent lesbian novelist of the 1950s-1980s.[88]
- Philip E. Thomas, first president of the B&O Railroad (the first railroad in the US)[89]
- Peterson Toscano, actor, playwright and gay activist.[90]
- Connor Trinneer, actor[91]
- D. Elton Trueblood, theologian[92]
- Daniel Hack Tuke, physician and expert in mental illness[93]
- James Hack Tuke[94]
- Henry Tuke, co-founder of the York Retreat[95]
- Samuel Tuke, wrote about treatment of mental illness.[96]
- William Tuke, co-founder of the York Retreat[97][98]
- James Turrell, artist[99]
W
- Mary Vaux Walcott, artist
- George Washington Walker, missionary
- Benjamin West, painter
- Jessamyn West, novelist
- Joseph Wharton (1826-1909), merchant, industrialist and philanthropist
- Ann Cooper Whitall
- John Greenleaf Whittier, poet
- John Richardson Wigham, inventor and lighthouse engineer
- John Wilbur
- Dallas Willard
- Waldo Williams, poet
- Anna Wing, actress
- Gerrard Winstanley (1609-1676), English religious reformer and political activist
- Caspar Wistar, glassmaker
- Victoria Wood, comedian
- John Woolman (1720-1772), minister and journalist from Mount Holly, New Jersey
Y
- Thomas Young, polymath who's probably best known for physics and Egyptology.[100]
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.
- Herbert W. Armstrong (1892 – January 16, 1986), Born of "Quaker stock" and later founded the Worldwide Church of God.[101]
- Daniel Boone, (1735 - 1820), American frontiersman and trailblazer of Kentucky. Mother was a Quaker, and father was disowned for allowing some of his children to marry outside.
- Benjamin Chew, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania from 1775-1777 who became an Anglican in the 1750s.[102]
- Ezra Cornell, (1807 – 1874) Founder of Cornell University who was expelled for marrying outside the faith.[103]
- Warder Cresson (1798 - 1860), Activist, author, and convert to Judaism.[104]
- Samuel Tertius Galton (1783 - 1844), businessman and scientist who converted to Anglicanism.[105]
- Jesse Gause (1785 – c. 1836), early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement.[106]
- Nathanael Greene (1742 – 1786), major general of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War, expelled from the Quakers in 1773.[107]
- Sam Harris (born 1967; living), Author of The End of Faith with a, possibly lapsed, Quaker father.[108]
- Thomas Hornor (1767 – 1834), Canadian farmer and politician who was expelled for freemasonry and joining a militia.[109]
- Lyndon LaRouche, (disowned in 1941)[110][111]
- E V Lucas (1868-1938) English writer of nearly 100 books.
- Thomas Merton (1915 – 1968), His mother was an American Quaker, and he attended a couple meetings, but he was baptized and primarily raised as an Anglican.[112]
- Maria Mitchell (1818 – 1889), One of the first women in astronomy. She retained ties to the Quakers, but became a Unitarian.[113]
- Thomas Paine (1737 – 1809), His father was a Quaker, but he was a non-religious deist.[114]
- Hilary Douglas Clark Pepler (1878–1951), Converted to Catholicism and founded The Guild of St Joseph and St Dominic.[115]
- Thomas Rickman (1776-1841) an English architect and author, and a major figure in the Gothic Revival.
- Ned Rorem (b. 1923), composer[116]
- Thomas 'Clio' Rickman (1760-1834) political pampleteer, and friend of Tom Paine
- Satyananda Stokes (1882 - 1946), Raised Quaker as "Samuel Evans Stokes, Jr" he later converted to Hinduism.[117]
- Cheryl Tiegs (born 1947; living) American model, current religious status uncertain[118]
- William Weeks (1813 - 1900), Converted to Mormonism and served as an architect for them before ultimately abandoning that faith.[119]
Web sources
- ^ Stoke Newington Quakers
- ^ Edgar Anderson: A Biographical Memoir
- ^ Kentucky Community and Technical College System
- ^ University of North Carolina Press
- ^ New York Times: June 10, 1894
- ^ Tokyo Quaker site
- ^ Birmingham UK
- ^ Birmingham UK
- ^ Political Graveyard
- ^ [Monastier, Hélène [1947]. Un Quaker d'aujourd'hui: Pierre Ceresole, 43 p.]
- ^ 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..."
- ^ University of North Carolina
- ^ Political Graveyard
- ^ John Rylands University Library
- ^ The Darby Dynasty
- ^ The Darby Dynasty page 2
- ^ Ibid
- ^ James Dean's religious affiliation
- ^ The Guardian
- ^ Delaware.gov profile
- ^ The Cambridge History of English and American Literature
- ^ Find-A-Grave
- ^ Delmarva Settlers site
- ^ Darwin Online
- ^ Cogges Hall Museum
- ^ Sue Dough.org
- ^ Bowdoin.edu
- ^ Mayflower Families
- ^ "Astrophysics and Mysticism: the life of Arthur Stanley Eddington" by Ian H Hutchinson of MIT
- ^ BBC Profile
- ^ Interview with Fritz Eichenberg
- ^ Friends Journal
- ^ Welsh Biography Online
- ^ 1911 Encyclopedia
- ^ Joshua Evans Papers at Swarthmore
- ^ Political Graveyard
- ^ Spartacus Schoolnet
- ^ Webster University
- ^ Memoirs of Joseph John Gurney
- ^ Political Graveyard
- ^ Political Graveyard
- ^ National Governors Association
- ^ Bethlehem Globe-Times (March 28, 1888), "Alfred Hunt, the well known president of the Bethlehem Iron Company dead."
- ^ Gummere, Amelia Mott (1922), The journal and essays of John Woolman, New York: The Macmillan Company, p. 511
- ^ Hynes, Judy (1997), The descendants of John and Elizabeth (Woolman) Borton, Mount Holly, New Jersey: John Woolman Memorial Association
- ^ Rufus Jones, Master Quaker By David Hinshaw
- ^ Friends United Meeting
- ^ Spirituality Today
- ^ The Scotsman's "Living" section
- ^ Dictionary of Canadian biography
- ^ Spartacus schoolnet
- ^ Penn State bio
- ^ 20th c. women in Physics site at UCLA
- ^ Raph Levien homepage.
- ^ Canadians for equal marriage
- ^ John Macmurray foundation
- ^ The Dolley Madison Project
- ^ Department of Health profile on Madlala-Routledge
- ^ BALLBUSTER? True Confessions of a Marxist Businessman
- ^ CNN
- ^ Medal of Freedom Profile
- ^ Smithsonian
- ^ Harvard's Libraries and the Quaker Jesus
- ^ The Oxford Illustrated Companion to Medicine
- ^ Columbia University on a book he wrote
- ^ Nixon Library Foundation
- ^ Quakers.org
- ^ Nobel Biography
- ^ University of Toronto Libray
- ^ Biography Index Number 101020970
- ^ Augsburg College
- ^ Alice Paul Institute
- ^ Darlington, Quaker Photograph Albums
- ^ Spartacus Schoolnet
- ^ U of Penn copy of a Quaker work he wrote
- ^ University of Tasmania Profile
- ^ Coming Home:an introduction to the Quakers
- ^ Swiss Quakers site
- ^ University of Bradford Library: The Elizabeth and Arthur Raistrick Collection
- ^ Rolling Stone bio
- ^ McTutor
- ^ Quakers, Jews, and Science
- ^ Quakers and Quakerism in Scotland: a bibliography
- ^ A Quaker Business Man: The Life of Joseph Rowntree 1836-1925 By Anne Vernon
- ^ Bayard Rustin Film Project
- ^ Nobel Autobiography
- ^ H.S. Taylor: The WP article gives no indication of his parents' religious persuasion.
- ^ Cornell News
- ^ Howard, George Washington (1873)."The Monumental City, Its Past History and Present Resources". J.D. Ehlers
- ^ Bio
- ^ 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.
- ^ New York Times obituary
- ^ Victorian Lunatics by Marlene Ann Arieno
- ^ Profile at Irish famine site
- ^ Quaker Tracts at USC
- ^ A Critical Dictionary of English Literature, and British and American By Samuel Austin Allibone (pg 2470)
- ^ BBC biography
- ^ University of York
- ^ PBS
- ^ 1911 Encyclopedia
- ^ Armstrong's autobiography
- ^ UPenn.edu
- ^ Cornell Sun
- ^ Jewish history.com
- ^ Galton.org
- ^ BYU article
- ^ Georgia Encyclopedia
- ^ Washington Post
- ^ Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
- ^ http://www.kouroo.info/RSOF/LyndonLaRouche.pdf
- ^ http://www.neym.org/GuideToRecordsRSOF_1997.pdf
- ^ The Seven Storey Mountain
- ^ Harvard Square Library
- ^ Thomas Paine Society
- ^ Catholic Authors
- ^ Ned Rorem's 1998 statements concerning his piece for organ "Quaker Reader".
- ^ Tribune India
- ^ Time Magazine: The Tiegs family went to Quaker meetings on Sundays.
- ^ Mormon Historical Studies 3 (1): 73-90.
See also
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