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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.

Quakers

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F

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H

J

  • Rufus Jones, Quaker theologian
  • T. Canby Jones, Quaker peace activist, theologian, and professor emeritus at Wilmington College

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O

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People With Quaker Roots

References

  1. Cantor, Norman F. (1993) Inventing the Middle Ages, p. 219, HarperCollins, ISBN 0688123023: "[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..."