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Judi Dench
English actress (born 1934)
Emily Greene Balch
American economist and writer
William Penn
English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, early Quaker and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania (1644-1718)
Kathleen Lonsdale
Irish crystallographer (1903-1971)
Mary Dyer
Quaker martyr
Nitobe Inazō
Japanese educator, agricultural economist and diplomat (1862–1933)
Anne Conway
English philosopher
Sarah Grimké
American abolitionist (1792–1873)
Bayard Rustin
American civil rights activist (1912–1987)
Christopher Fry
English poet and playwright (1907–2005)
Whittaker Chambers
Defected Communist spy, writer, editor (1901–1961)
Gerrard Winstanley
English reformer and activist (1609-1676)
Angelina Grimké
American abolitionist and feminist
John Hick
English philosopher of religion and theologian (1922-2012)
Edward Hicks
American artist (1780-1849)
Edmond Privat
Francophone Swiss Esperantist, historian, university professor, author, journalist and peace activist (1889-1962)
John Lilburne
English political activist (1614-1657)
Pierre Cérésole
Swiss pacifist, engineer and quaker (1879-1945)
Jan de Hartog
Dutch author (1914–2002)
Jean Toomer
American poet and novelist (1894–1967)
A. J. Muste
Christian pacifist and civil rights activist (1885-1967)
Robert Barclay
Scottish Quaker apologist
Elisabeth Rotten
Swiss academic (1882-1964)
Laurie Baker
English architect (1917–2007)
Albert Báez
American physicist (1912-2007)
Joseph Jackson Lister
British physicist
Kees Boeke
Dutch activist (1884-1966)
Elise M. Boulding
American sociologist
Elias Hicks
American preacher (1748-1830)
Margaret Fell
co-founder of the Religious Society of Friends
Elizabeth Gray Vining
American writer
Gerhart von Schulze-Gävernitz
German politician (1864-1943)
Sigrid Helliesen Lund
Norwegian activist and Righteous Among the Nations
Waldo Williams
Welsh poet (1904–1971)
Peterson Toscano
American comedian
Emil Fuchs
German theologian (1874–1971)
Cyrus Pringle
U.S. botanist, writer, tax resister and quaker (1838-1911)
Terry Waite
English humanitarian
Anthony Benezet
American quaker teacher and abolitionist
Paul Cuffe
American businessman (1759-1817)
George Bradshaw
British cartographer, printer, and publisher (1801–1853)
Stephen Donaldson
LGBT political activist (1946–1996)
Katharine Glasier
British journalist (1867-1950)
Fritz Eichenberg
American/German illustrator and wood engraver (1901–1990)
Pauline Sperry
mathematician (1885-1967)
Daniel Quare
British watchmaker (1649–1724)
Isaac Penington
British theologian
Ada Salter
British socialist & pacifist (1866–1942)
Gerard Hoffnung
German-born British musical humourist (1925-1959)
Paul Oestreicher
British pacifist
Gordon Hirabayashi
American sociologist (1918–2012)
Valerie Taylor
American writer (1913-1997)
Moses Brown
American businessman (1738–1836)
William Sewel
Dutch historian
Sylvia Shaw Judson
American artist (1897–1978)
Elizabeth Heyrick
British philanthropist (1769-1831)
George Keith
Scottish missionary 1638-1716
Thomas Ellwood
English poet and Quaker theologian (1639–1713)
Clara Birnberg
British artist (1894-1989)
James Nayler
English Quaker, mystic, writer, religious dissenter