Abbotsleigh - Notable Alumnae

Notable Alumnae

Academic

• Ingrid Clare Barnsley – Rhodes Scholar 2002
• Kathleen McCredie – Educator; Former principal of Abbotsleigh
• Merrilee Roberts – Educator, former principal of Newcastle Girls' Grammar School and Ascham School
• Elizabeth Ward; Educator; Former principal of the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Melbourne
• Freda Whitlam AM – Lay Preacher of the Uniting Church; Sister of former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam; Former principal of the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney (also attended Canberra Girls' Grammar School)

Entertainment, media and the arts

• Nicole Alexander – Author
• Edwina Bartholomew – Seven News reporter
• Erica Baxter – Singer and model; wife of James Packer
• Nell Campbell – Actor; played Colombia in The Rocky Horror Picture Show
• Jill Ker Conway – Author
• Georgie Parker – Actress
• Jennifer Oswin Rowe – Children's book author under pen name Emily Rodda
• Helen de Guerry Simpson – Novelist (also attended Kincoppal-Rose Bay)
• Grace Cossington Smith – Artist
• Belinda Luscombe – editor at large at TIME Magazine, and served as TIMEs arts editor 2003-2008, thus directing all of TIME’s cultural coverage. She joined the magazine as a staff writer in 1995 and became a senior editor in 1999.
• Cathy Wilcox – Australian cartoonist and children's book illustrator

Medicine and science

• Agnes Elizabeth Lloyd Bennett – Pioneering medical practitioner and scientist (also attended Cheltenham Ladies' College, Dulwich Girls' High School and Sydney Girls High School)
• Cindy Pan – Doctor, dancer, television personality
• Mary Tindale – Botanist and Australian Botanical Liaison Officer

Politics, public service and the law

• Beatrice Miles – Bohemian rebel and political activist

Sport

• Sue Fear – First Australian woman to climb Mount Everest (also attended Barker College)
• Margaret Elizabeth Maynard Peden – Cricketer; former captain of the Australian women's cricket team (1934)
• Hannah Campbell-Pegg Australian Luge Winter Olympian
• Denise Annetts women's cricketer for New South Wales Breakers and Australia whose international playing career ran from 1985 until 1993. A right-handed batsman, Annetts scored centuries in both Tests and One Day Internationals.