George Fox, English religious leader, founded the Religious Society of Friends (born 1624)

George Fox was an English Dissenter, who was a founder of the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers or Friends. The son of a Leicestershire weaver, he lived in times of social upheaval and war. He rebelled against the religious and political authorities by proposing an unusual, uncompromising approach to the Christian faith. He travelled throughout Britain as a dissenting preacher, performed hundreds of healings, and was often persecuted by the disapproving authorities.

Quakers are people who belong to the Religious Society of Friends, a historically Protestant Christian set of denominations. Members call each other Friends, after John 15:14. Originally, others called them Quakers because the movement's founder, George Fox, told a judge to "quake before the authority of God".