| Name |
Year |
Notable |
| Renata Adler |
1959 |
Writer [1] |
| Katharine Sergeant Angell White |
1914 |
Editor of The New Yorker |
| Maya Ajmera |
1989 |
founder of The Global Fund for Children |
| Donna Amenta |
M.A. 1971, Ph.D 1974 |
Professor of Chemistry and Department Head at James Madison University |
| Anastasia Ashman |
1986 |
Writer |
| Ellis Avery |
1971 |
Novelist |
| Emily Greene Balch |
1889 |
Nobel Peace Prize winner, 1946 |
| Margaret Ayer Barnes |
1907 |
Writer, Pulitzer Prize for the Novel winner, 1931 |
| Florence Bird |
|
Canadian journalist and politician |
| Sarmila Bose |
|
Journalist |
| Ana Patricia Botin |
1981 |
CEO of Banesto |
| Kathy Boudin |
1965 |
Weathermen member convicted of murder and bank robbery |
| Annie Leigh Hobson Broughton |
A.B. 1930, M.A. 1936 |
Advocate for women's education |
| A. S. Byatt |
graduate work 1957-1958, did not graduate |
Postmodern novelist [2] |
| Jane Calvin |
1959 |
Artist |
| John D. Caputo |
Ph.D. 1968 |
Philosophy professor at Syracuse University |
| Biruté Ciplijauskaité |
Ph.D. 1964 |
Vilas Professor of Spanish University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Bruce Cole |
Ph.D. |
Chairman of National Endowment for the Humanities |
| Mary Little Cooper |
1968 |
Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey |
| H.D. |
did not graduate |
Modernist poet |
| Regna Darnell |
1965 |
Anthropologist [3] |
| Eleanor Lansing Dulles |
1917 |
Economist |
| Helen Flanders Dunbar |
1923 |
Important early figure in U.S. psychosomatic medicine |
| Lee McGeorge Durrell |
1971 |
Author, television presenter, zookeeper |
| Drew Gilpin Faust |
1968 |
Dean of Radcliffe Institute, Twenty-Eighth President of Harvard University |
| Elizabeth Fox-Genovese |
1963 |
Historian and conservative feminist |
| Shaun Gallagher |
Ph.D. |
Philosophy professor at University of Central Florida |
| Martha A. Geer |
1980 |
Associate Justice of the North Carolina Court of Appeals [4] |
| Dorothy Goodman |
|
Teacher, charter school advocate, founder of International Baccalaureate Organization |
| Hanna Holborn Gray |
1950 |
Former president of University of Chicago |
| Cheryl Holland |
1980 |
Principal and CEO, Abacus Planning Group |
| David Gress |
Ph.D 1981 |
Historian |
| Edith Hamilton |
M.A. 1894 |
Classical scholar |
| Naomi Halas |
M.A. 1984, Ph.D. 1986 |
Professor of Chemistry and Computer Engineering at Rice University |
| Elaine Hammerstein |
1917 |
Actress |
| Carmelita Hinton |
1912 |
Progressive educator |
| Katharine Houghton Hepburn |
1899 |
Suffragist and family planning advocate |
| Katharine Hepburn |
1928 |
Academy Award-winning actress |
| Sari Horwitz |
1979 |
Journalist and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner |
| Barbara Marx Hubbard |
1951 |
Writer and public speaker |
| Salima Ikram |
1986 |
Egyptologist and professor at American University in Cairo |
| Sarah Jones |
did not graduate |
Actress, poet, playwright |
| Victoria S. Kaufman |
1986 |
Bankruptcy judge in the Central Discrict of California [5] |
| Emily Kimbrough |
1921 |
Writer |
| Helen Dean King |
Ph.D. 1899 |
Biologist |
| Karen Kornbluh |
1985 |
Economist |
| Gertrude Prokosch Kurath |
1928 |
Dancer and dance researcher |
| Leslie Kurke |
1981 |
Professor of classics at University of California-Berkeley and MacArthur "genius grant" recipient in 1999 |
| Ellen Kushner |
did not graduate |
Fantasy writer |
| Frederica de Laguna |
1927 |
Anthropologist |
| Ruth Langer |
1981 |
Professor of Religion |
| Helen Taft Manning |
1915 |
Historian, professor and dean of Bryn Mawr College, suffragist, daughter of President William Howard Taft [6] |
| Gerald Mara |
Ph.D. |
Dean and Professor of Government at Georgetown University |
| Jacqueline Mars |
1961 |
Heiress to Mars candy fortune |
| Berthe Marti |
M.A. 1926, Ph.D. 1934 |
Professor of Latin at Bryn Mawr College |
| Mary A. McLaughlin |
M.A. 1969 |
Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania |
| Mary Patterson McPherson |
Ph.D. |
Former President of Bryn Mawr College |
| Cornelia Meigs |
1908 |
Newbery Medal winner in 1934 [7] |
| Mary Meigs |
1939 |
Writer [8] |
| Lucy Taxis Shoe Meritt |
A.B. 1927, M.A. 1928, Ph.D. 1935 |
Classical archaeologist |
| Lynne Meadow |
1968 |
Theatrical producer and director |
| Agnes Kirsopp Lake Michels |
A.B., M.A., Ph.D. |
Classical scholar and former professor at Bryn Mawr College |
| Victoria S. Middleton |
1971 |
Diplomat |
| Marianne Moore |
1909 |
Poet |
| Margaret M. Morrow |
1971 |
Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California |
| Catherine Gilbert Murdock |
|
Writer |
| Diana Oughton |
1963 |
Weathermen member, terrorist |
| Mildred Natwick |
1927 |
Academy Award-nominated actress |
| Emily Cheney Neville |
1940 |
Newbery Medal winner in 1964 |
| Lindsay Northover, Baroness Northover |
|
Member of the U.K. House of Lords |
| Sherry Ortner |
1962 |
Anthropologist, professor at UCLA, MacArthur Genius Grant recipient |
| Candace Pert |
1970 |
Neuroscientist |
| Jeannette Piccard |
1918 |
Teacher, scientist, balloon pilot, priest |
| Bertha Putnam |
1893 |
Historian |
| Virginia Ragsdale |
A.B., Ph.D. |
Mathematician |
| Paul Rehak |
M.A. 1980, Ph.D. 1985 |
Archaeologist |
| Alice Rivlin |
1952 |
Economist, first director of Congressional Budget Office |
| Phyllis Ross |
|
Economist, former chancellor of University of British Columbia |
| Ilana Kara Diamond Rovner |
1960 |
Judge on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals |
| Edith Finch Russell |
|
Author, biographer of Bryn Mawr College President M. Carey Thomas |
| Rosemarie Said Zahlan |
1958 |
Palestinian-American historian and writer |
| Bernadette Sargeant |
1983 |
Attorney and former adviser to the U.S. House Ethics Committee |
| Teresita Currie Schaffer |
1966 |
Diplomat and former director of the Foreign Service Institute |
| Dorothy Schiff |
1921 |
Newspaper publisher |
| Allyson Schwartz |
M.A. 1972 |
U.S. Representative |
| Elaine Showalter |
1962 |
Feminist literary critic and former president of the Modern Language Association |
| Rachel Simon |
1981 |
Writer |
| Cornelia Otis Skinner |
did not graduate |
Actress and author |
| Joan Slonczewski |
1977 |
Biology professor at Kenyon College, science fiction writer |
| Deborah Spungen |
M.S.W. 1989 |
Author |
| Nettie Stevens |
Ph.D. 1903 |
Geneticist |
| Caroline Stevermer |
1977 |
Fantasy writer |
| Lily Ross Taylor |
Ph.D. 1912 |
Former professor and dean of Bryn Mawr College |
| Dorothy Burr Thompson |
1923 |
Archaeologist and art historian |
| Kaity Tong |
|
Broadcast journalist |
| Anne Truitt |
1943 |
Minimalist sculptor |
| Neda Ulaby |
1993 |
NPR reporter |
| Emily Vermeule |
A.B. 1950, Ph.D. 1956 |
Classical scholar, archaeologist, poet |
| Elizabeth Gray Vining |
1923 |
Newbery Medal winner |
| Betty Peh T'i Wei |
1953 |
Historian |
| Mai Yamani |
1979 |
Anthropologist and Saudi Arabian activist |
