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.
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[42]
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[43]
Kenneth E. Boulding (1910–1993), English economist, educator, poet, and interdisciplinary philosopher[44]
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[157]
Jonathan Pim (1806–1885), Irish philanthropist and politician, secretary of the Quaker Relief Fund during the Irish famine and later Liberal MP for Dublin[228]
Olive Pink, Australian botanical illustrator and campaigner for aboriginal rights[229]
Lawrence and Cassandra Southwick (c. 1600–1660), English-born colonial American Quakers persecuted with their children for their religious beliefs[263]
Jane Sowle (c. 1631–1711), English printer and publisher[264]
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.
Thomas Merton (1915–1968). Though his mother was an American Quaker and he attended some meetings, he was baptized and primarily raised an Anglican.[356]
Maria Mitchell (1818–1889), an Australian, one of the first women in astronomy, who retained ties to the Quakers but became a Unitarian[357]
Russ Nelson (b. 1958), American open-source software developer[358]
Hannah Whitall Smith (1832–1911), American-born evangelical holiness preacher, suffragist and temperance campaigner[366]
Robert Pearsall Smith (1827–1898), American-born leading figure in the UK Higher Life movement;[367] later began to entertain notions of spiritual wifery, was criticized, and eventually claimed to be a Buddhist.[366]
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^John Bartram, Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography (1900).
^John Clement (1877), "William Bates", Sketches of the first emigrant settlers in Newton Township, Old Gloucester County, West New Jersey. Camden: Sinnickson Chew. pp. 47–56.
^Virginia Blain, Patricia Clements and Isobel Grundy, eds: The Feminist Companion to Literature in English (London: Batsford, 1990), p. 302. ISBN9780713458480
^Moske, Jim (September 2000). "Stephen Donaldson Papers, 1965–1996"(PDF). The New York Public Library Humanities and Social Sciences Library Manuscripts and Archives Division: 4–5. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2 October 2008. Retrieved 15 March 2008.
^Ewan, Elizabeth; Pipes, Rosemary J.; Rendall, Jane; Reynolds, Sian (2018). The new biographical dictionary of Scottish women. Ewan, Elizabeth. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN978-1-4744-3629-8. OCLC1057237368.
^Virginia 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.
^Edward H. Milligan, The Biographical Dictionary of British Quakers in Commerce and Industry 1775–1920 (William Sessions Limited, 2007). ISBN978-1-85072-367-7
^John 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.
^Godlee, Sir Rickman: Lord Lister (London: Macmillan & Co., 1917).
^Royston, Michael and Erica (Summer 2005). ""Let Their Lives Speak""(PDF). Switzerland Yearly Meeting (Resource Book). History and Biography Project. Archived from the original(PDF) on 7 July 2011.
^"Introducing QCEA's New Representatives". Around Europe No. 245. QCEA. September 2008. Archived from the original on 26 October 2008. Retrieved 6 November 2008. Liz Scurfield: [...] In 1993 I began attending Quaker Meeting in London and became a member of Hampstead MM in 1995
^Peter Clark and Raymond Gillespie, 2001, Two Capitals: London and Dublin, 1500–1840. Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 234.
^Greaves, Dublin's Merchant-Quaker: Anthony Sharp and the Community of Friends, 1643–1707, p. 25.
^Robert Charles Anderson: The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620–1633. (Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995). ISBN978-0-88082-120-9. OCLC42469253.
^Higgins, Edward F. (18 October 2001), "Quaker Ethos as Science Praxis in Joan Slonczewski's A Door into Ocean", Paper Presented at the International Science Fiction Conference
^Jo Vallentine and Peter D Jones, Quakers in politics: pragmatism or principle (Alderley, Queensland: The Religious Society of Friends, 1990). James Backhouse Lecture 26. ISBN0-909885-31-1
^Rolling Stone, ed. (2001). "Bonnie Raitt". Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll: Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll. Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll. Simon & Schuster. ISBN978-0-7432-0120-9. Archived from the original on 13 January 2008.
^Barratt, Nick (27 January 2007). "Family detective". The Daily Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 31 March 2007. Retrieved 18 April 2021.