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famous quakers from http://www.nndb.com/lists/284/000069077/

Name Occupation Birth Death Known for Susan B. Anthony Activist 15-Feb-1820 13-Mar-1906 Face of the U.S. Dollar coin Emily Greene Balch Activist 8-Jan-1867 9-Jan-1961 Peace activist, Nobel Prize recipient George Bradshaw Publisher 29-Jul-1801 1853 Bradshaw's Monthly Railway Guide Charles F. Brannan Politician 23-Aug-1903 2-Jul-1992 U.S. Secretary of Agriculture 1948-53 Charles Brockden Brown Novelist 17-Jan-1771 22-Feb-1810 First American novelist, Wieland Smedley Butler Military 30-Jul-1881 21-Jun-1940 Exposed the 1933 coup plot Cassius Marcellus Coolidge Painter 18-Sep-1844 13-Jan-1934 Painted dogs playing poker John Dalton Chemist 6-Sep-1766 27-Jul-1844 Early proponent of Atomic Theory Judi Dench Actor 9-Dec-1934 M in James Bond movies Paul H. Douglas Politician 26-Mar-1892 24-Sep-1976 U.S. Senator from Illinois 1949-67 William Edward Forster Politician 11-Jul-1818 5-Apr-1886 Chief Secretary for Ireland, 1880-82 Nathanael Greene Military 7-Aug-1742 19-Jun-1786 Highly capable Revolutionary War general Marcus Alonzo Hanna Politician 24-Sep-1837 15-Feb-1904 Senator from Ohio, kingmaker Rush Holt Politician 15-Oct-1948 Congressman, New Jersey 12th Herbert Hoover Head of State 10-Aug-1874 20-Oct-1964 31st US President, 1929-33 Benjamin Lundy Activist 4-Jan-1789 22-Aug-1839 The Genius of Universal Emancipation Lucretia Mott Activist 3-Jan-1793 11-Nov-1880 Women's rights and anti-slavery advocate Richard M. Nixon Head of State 9-Jan-1913 22-Apr-1994 37th US President, 1969-74 Philip Noel-Baker Politician 1-Nov-1889 8-Oct-1982 Instrumental creating League of Nations and UN Don Porter Actor 24-Sep-1912 11-Feb-1997 Prof. Lawrence on Gidget Betsy Ross Business 1-Jan-1752 30-Jan-1836 Assembled the first US Flag John W. Seybold Business 8-Mar-1916 14-Mar-2004 Computerized typesetting pioneer Joseph Sturge Activist 2-Aug-1793 14-May-1859 Anti-slavery activist Joseph H. Taylor, Jr. Astronomer 24-Mar-1941 Co-Discovered first pulsar Edward Tylor Anthropologist 2-Oct-1832 2-Jan-1917 Founder of cultural anthropology Benjamin West Painter 10-Oct-1738 11-Mar-1820 British-American portrait, scene painter Walt Whitman Poet 31-May-1819 26-Mar-1892 Leaves of Grass