Quaker (disambiguation)
Quaker is a reference to the Religious Society of Friends, a faith-based community.
Quaker could also refer to:
- People
- The Quaker Poet, a nickname for John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892), and sometimes also for Bernard Barton (1784-1849)
- see List of Quakers
- Places
- The Quaker State, a nickname for Pennsylvania
- Quaker, Indiana (or Quaker Point), a small town in Vermillion County, Indiana
- Quakers Hill, New South Wales, a suburb in Sydney, Australia
- Companies
- Quaker Oats Company, a U.S. food company
- Quaker State Corporation, a former motor oil manufacturer
- Plants & animals
- Quaker butterfly, Neopithecops zalmora
- Quaker parrot, also known as the monk parakeet (Myiopsitta monachus)
- Quaker lady (disambiguation), name given to several flowers
- Sport
- Philadelphia Quakers (NHL)
- Quakers, the nickname for the athletic teams of the University of Pennsylvania
- 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 Salem, Ohio
- Quakers, the nickname for the athletic teams of Orchard Park, NY
- Quakers, the nickname of Darlington F.C. in the north of England and many other businesses in Darlington
- Others
- An unripe or poorly roasted coffee bean, the number of which is often used to judge the quality of a batch of coffee, see coffee roasting
- An Ecuadorian beverage, made from oats (hence the name, a reference to the Quaker Oats Company), fruit juice (typically naranjilla, pineapple, or orange), sugar and spices
- A player of the video game Quake.
See also
- Quake (disambiguation)
- Quackers, a puppet who appeared with Ray Alan
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