A Quaker is a term used to describe members of the Religious Society of Friends, a historically Christian denomination.
Quaker may also refer to:
Food and beverages edit
- Quaker Oats Company, a U.S. food company
- Cuáker, an Ecuadorian beverage made from oats (a loanword of "quaker")
- Quaker (coffee), a term used in coffee roasting to denote an unripe or poorly roasted coffee bean, the number of which is often used to judge the quality of a batch of coffee
Animals and plants edit
- Quaker butterfly (Neopithecops zalmora)
- Quaker lady (disambiguation), name given to several flowers
- Quaker parrot, also known as the monk parakeet (Myiopsitta monachus)
- Quaker, one of several names for Dissosteira carolina, also known as the Carolina grasshopper
Brands and enterprises edit
- Quaker State, a former motor oil manufacturer
People with the name edit
- Bernard Barton (1784-1849), sometimes referred to as "The Quaker Poet"
- John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892), nicknamed "The Quaker Poet"
- See List of Quakers
Places edit
- Quaker, Indiana (or Quaker Point), an unincorporated community in Vermillion County, Indiana
- Quaker, Missouri, an unincorporated community
- Pennsylvania, sometimes called "The Quaker State"
- Quakers Hill, New South Wales, a suburb in Sydney, Australia
Sport edit
- Quakers, the nickname of Darlington F.C. in the north of England and many other businesses in Darlington
- Quakers, the nickname for the athletic teams of Earlham College
- Quakers, the nickname for the athletic teams of Guilford College
- Quakers, the nickname for the athletic teams of Orchard Park, New York
- Quakers, the nickname for the athletic teams of Salem, Ohio
- Penn Quakers, the athletic teams of the University of Pennsylvania
- Philadelphia Quakers, a defunct National Hockey League team
Pop culture edit
- Quakers (band), a hip-hop supergroup
- Quaker, a player of the video game Quake
- "Quaker", a song by the American band Bright from the album The Albatross Guest House
See also edit
- Quake (disambiguation)
- Quackers, a puppet who appeared with Ray Alan
- All pages with titles containing Quaker
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