Stephen Grellet (1772 – 1855) was a prominent French-American Quaker missionary. Raised in France as a Roman Catholic, he was a personal guard of the king. During the French Revolution he was sentenced to be executed, but escaped and eventually fled to South America, then to New York. He became a convinced Friend while in New York, and undertook extensive missionary work in prisons and hospitals across North America and Europe, and was granted meetings with many rulers and dignitaries, including Pope Pius VII, Tsar Alexander I, and the Kings of Spain and Prussia.
