List of Wellesley College people
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The following is a list of individuals associated with Wellesley College through attending as a student, or serving as a member of the faculty or staff.
[edit] Notable alumnae
- Virginia Abernethy (1955) (anthropologist)
- Harriet Stratemeyer Adams (1914) (author of Nancy Drew series, pen name Carolyn Keene)
- Madeleine Albright (1959) (former U.S. Secretary of State)
- Barbara Babcock (1960) (actress)
- Blanche Baker (1978) (Emmy-winning actress and sculptress) - aka Blanche Garfein, aka Blanche Van Dusen
- Molly Bang (1965), illustrator
- Katharine Lee Bates (1880) (author of the words to the anthem America the Beautiful)
- Emilie Benes Brzezinski (1953) (sculptor)
- Carol Bly (1951) (short story author, essayist)
- Jane Bolin LL.B. (1928) (First African-American woman to become a judge)
- Adele Buck (1912) (silent film actress) aka Vedah Bertram
- Annie Jump Cannon (1884) (astronomer)
- Michelle Caruso-Cabrera (1991) (journalist)
- Madame Chiang Kai-shek (1917) (former First Lady of the Republic of China)
- Hillary Rodham Clinton (1969) (U.S. Senator; Former First Lady of the U.S.)
- Ophelia Dahl (1994) (director of Partners In Health, daughter of children's author Roald Dahl)
- Diane Mott Davidson, attended but later transferred to another college. (mystery writer)
- Katherine K. Davis (1914), composer, pianist, and author of the famous Christmas tune "The Little Drummer Boy".
- Marjory Stoneman Douglas (1912) (conservationist and writer)
- Daisy Gardner (1997) (television writer)
- Kimberly Dozier (1987) (journalist)
- Persis Drell (1977) (Physicist)
- Nora Ephron (1962) (movie screenplay writer: When Harry Met Sally...; Writer and Director: Sleepless in Seattle and You've Got Mail)
- Susan Estrich (1974) Is a lawyer, professor, author, political operative, feminist advocate and commentator for Fox News.(author of Sex & Power)
- Abigail Garner (1997) (author of Families Like Mine)
- Cynthia Glassman (1967) (commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
- Carolyn Gold Heilbrun (1947) (professor of English literature at Columbia University, and mystery novelist under the name "Amanda Cross")
- Nannerl O. Keohane (1961) (political theorist, university president)
- Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz (1963) (historian)
- Lois Juliber (1971) (Vice Chairman of Colgate-Palmolive)
- Amalya Lyle Kearse (1959) (judge, United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit, 5 time U.S. Champion Bridge player)
- Jean Kilbourne (1964) (educator)
- Lisa Kleypas (1986) (novelist)
- Judith Krantz (1948) (novelist)
- Mary Lefkowitz (1957) (classical scholar)
- Ali MacGraw (1960) (actress)
- Judith Martin (1959) (newspaper columnist: Miss Manners)
- Martha McClintock (1970) (psychologist)
- Pamela Melroy (1983) (astronaut)
- Helen Barrett Montgomery (1884) women's rights activist, church leader, Bible translator
- Suzanne E. Moranian (1974) (historian)
- Anne W. Patterson (1971) (former Acting U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations)
- Ruth Baker Pratt (ex. 1898)(congresswoman) first woman elected to Congress from New York (1929-33).
- Reena Raggi (1973) U.S. federal judge
- Diane Ravitch, (1960), (historian, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education_
- Cokie Roberts (1964) (journalist)
- Vanessa Ruiz (1972) (Associate Judge, District of Columbia Court of Appeals)
- Nayantara Pandit Sahgal (1947), novelist, niece of Jawaharlal Nehru and cousin of Indira Gandhi
- Helen Hooven Santmyer (1918) (writer)
- Mildred Savage (1941) (novelist)
- Diane Sawyer (1967) (journalist, "Good Morning America")
- Susan Sheehan (1958) (journalist)
- Lynn Sherr (1963) (journalist)
- Elisabeth Shue, attended but later transferred to Harvard (actress)
- Michele J. Sison (1981) American diplomat
- Natalie Sleeth (1952) composer
- Linda Wertheimer (1965) (journalist)
- Patricia J. Williams (1972) (law professor at Columbia University, recipient of the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, also known as the "genius award")
- Bing Xin (1926) (Chinese poet, essayist, short-story writer)
- Michelle Yip (1998) (Chinese actress, left before graduation to pursue an acting career in Hong Kong after winning Miss Chinese International Pageant)
- Patricia Zipprodt (1946) (Tony Award-winning costume designer)
[edit] Fictional alumnae
- Dr. Miranda Bailey, from Grey's Anatomy
- Beth Davenport, from The Rockford Files
- Gillian Holroyd and Merle Kittridge from the 1958 film Bell, Book and Candle
- Sarah McNerney, from Just Married
- Katharine Parker, from the 1988 film Working Girl
- Shirley Schmidt, from Boston Legal
- Allison Sugarbaker, from Designing Women
[edit] Notable faculty
- Edith Abbott - a social worker, educator, and author
- Emily Greene Balch - economist, peace activist, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
- Katherine Lee Bates - Author of America the Beautiful; also Wellesley College alumna.
- Carolyn Shaw Bell - economist
- Frank Bidart - poet
- Harriet Boyd-Hawes - archaeologist
- Annie Jump Cannon - astronomer
- Karl "Chip" Case - economist
- Dan Chiasson - poet
- Katharine Coman - economist
- Francis Judd Cooke - composer
- David Ferry - poet and translator
- Alice Freeman Palmer - educator
- Marshall Goldman - economist and author
- Jorge Guillén - poet
- Nannerl O. Keohane - political theorist; president of the college 1981-1993; also Wellesley College alumna
- Mathilde Laigle - historian, author
- Mary Lefkowitz - classical scholar; also Wellesley College alumna
- Tom Lehrer - American singer-songwriter, satirist, pianist, and mathematician
- Julián Marías - philosopher
- Tony Martin- historian
- Vladimir Nabokov - author
- Robert Pinsky - poet
- Richard Rorty - philosopher
- Alan Schechter - political scientist
- Vida Dutton Scudder - writer, educator, welfare activist
- Emily Vermeule - art historian
- Alice Walker - author
- Sarah Frances Whiting - astronomer
