Noted Alumni
| Name | Year | Notable |
|---|---|---|
| Renata Adler | 1959 | Writer |
| 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 | 1993 | 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 | |
| Grace Lee Boggs | Ph.D. 1940 | Activist and author |
| Katharine Burr Blodgett | 1917 | Chemist and engineer |
| 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 |
| Jane Calvin | 1959 | Artist |
| John D. Caputo | Ph.D. 1968 | Philosophy professor at Syracuse University |
| Birutė Ciplijauskaitė | 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 |
| 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 | Twenty-Eighth President of Harvard University, former Dean of Radcliffe Institute |
| Elizabeth Fox-Genovese | 1963 | Historian and conservative feminist |
| Shaun Gallagher | Ph.D. | University of Central Florida philosophy professor |
| Julia Anna Gardner | A.B. 1905, M.A. 1907 | Geologist, paleontologist |
| Martha A. Geer | 1980 | Associate Justice of the North Carolina Court of Appeals |
| Carolyn Goodman | 1961 | Mayor of Las Vegas, founder of the Meadows School |
| Dorothy Goodman | Teacher, charter school advocate, founder of International Baccalaureate Organization | |
| Hanna Holborn Gray | 1950 | Former president of University of Chicago |
| 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. There is no evidence in the College Archives that Hammerstein attended the school. |
| Carmelita Hinton | 1912 | Progressive educator |
| Katharine Martha Houghton Hepburn | 1899 | Suffragist and family planning advocate |
| Katharine Hepburn | 1928 | Academy Award-winning actress |
| Sari Horwitz | 1979 | Journalist and three-time Pulitzer Prize winner |
| Beryl Howell | 1978 | Federal Court Judge, United States District Court for the District of Columbia |
| 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 |
| Rosabeth Moss Kanter | 1964 | Professor in business at Harvard Business School, former editor of the Harvard Business Review |
| Victoria S. Kaufman | 1986 | Bankruptcy judge in the Central Discrict of California |
| Michi Kawai | 1904 | Founder of Keisen University |
| Emily Kimbrough | 1921 | Writer |
| Helen Dean King | Ph.D. 1899 | Biologist |
| Karl Kirchwey | Associate professor 2000–present | Poet |
| Karen Kornbluh | 1985 | Ambassador and U.S. Permanent Representative to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development |
| 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 |
| Mimi Lee | 1943 | Chemist and First Lady of Maryland from 1977 to 1979 |
| Helen Taft Manning | 1915 | Historian, professor and dean of Bryn Mawr College, suffragist, daughter of President William Howard Taft |
| 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 |
| A. Thomas McLellan | M.S., Ph.D. | Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, nominee for Deputy Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy |
| Mary Patterson McPherson | Ph.D. | Former President of Bryn Mawr College |
| Cornelia Meigs | 1908 | Newbery Medal winner in 1934 |
| Mary Meigs | 1939 | Writer |
| 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 |
| Elizabeth Bissell Miller | 1998 | Writer, educator, Youth Ambassador to Russia |
| Elizabeth Mosier | 1984 | Writer, Author of My Life as a Girl |
| Marianne Moore | 1909 | Poet |
| Tony D. Morinelli | Ph.D. 1990 | Educator, playwright, painter |
| Margaret M. Morrow | 1971 | Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California |
| Catherine Gilbert Murdock | Writer | |
| 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 |
| Diana Oughton | 1963 | Militant Weathermen member |
| Judith Peabody | Socialite and philanthropist | |
| 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 | |
| Maggie Siff | 1996 | Actress, Mad Men |
| Gabrielle M. Spiegel | 1964 | Chair of the History Department at Johns Hopkins University, President of the American Historical Association, 2008–2009 |
| Rosemarie Said Zahlan | 1958 | Palestinian-American historian and writer |
| Lavanya Sankaran | 1990 | Writer |
| Bernadette Sargeant | 1983 | Attorney and former adviser to the U.S. House Ethics Committee |
| Jenny Sawyer | 2002 | literary critic, internet entrepreneur ( http://www.60secondrecap.com ) |
| 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 |
| Fatima Siad | 2007 | contestant on America's Next Top Model, Cycle 10 and fashion model |
| Maggie Siff | 1996 | Actress |
| 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 |
| Umeko Tsuda | 1889–1892 | First Japanese student. Founder of Tsuda College & first president of YWCA in Japan |
| 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 |
| Genevieve Vaughan | 1961 | Philanthropist and feminist activist |
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