Notable Alumnae
The first graduates were Mary Emma Woolley and Anne Tillinghast Weeden in 1894. In early graduation programs, the names of the female graduates were listed in a special section below those of men. See also the List of Brown University people.
- Elinor B. Bachrach (A.B. 1965) Senior Fiscal Advisor, United States Agency for International Development (AID)
- Haiganush R. Bedrosian (A.B. 1965) Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Family Court.
- Dana Buchman, fashion designer, activist
- Susan Cheever (A.B. 1965) author and columnist
- Kitty Chen (A.B. 1966) actress Law & Order, author
- Lyn Crost, reporter on Japanese-American role in World War II and internment camps
- Alice Drummond (A.B. 1950) - actress Awakenings (1990), Nobody's Fool (1994), Doubt (2008).
- Katherine G. Farley (A.B. 1971) - Chairwoman, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York City
- Kathryn S. Fuller (A.B. 1967) Chairman of the Board of The Ford Foundation
- Lillian Moller Gilbreth (Ph.D. 1915) - one of the first working female engineers and is arguably the first true industrial/organizational psychologist. Mother of twelve children as described by the book Cheaper by the Dozen.
- Robin Green, Emmy Award winning writer/producer, The Sopranos, Northern Exposure
- Penelope Hartland-Thunberg, economist, member of the United States Tariff Commission
- Constance Hunting, poet, founder of Puckerbrush Press
- Ruth Hussey, Oscar-nominated actor who appeared in The Philadelphia Story
- Judith Jacobson, co-founder of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, professor at the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health
- Helen Johns, swimmer who won a gold medal in the 1932 Olympics
- Lois Lowry, Newbery Medal-winning author, The Giver
- Linda Mason, producer and Vice President, CBS News; winner of 13 Emmy Awards
- Emily Arnold McCully, Caldecott Award winning children's author, Mirette on the High Wire
- Albina Osipowich, swimmer who won two gold medals in the 1928 Olympics
- Maureen Paley, established the first East End gallery in London, represents the work of important contemporary artists, distinguished women and members of minority groups.
- Jane Pincus, author, Our Bodies, Ourselves
- Vicki Robin (A.B. 1967) author, Your Money or Your Life
- Marilynne Robinson (A.B. 1966) Pulitzer Prize-winning author
- Susan Salms-Moss (A.B. 1967) soprano and translator
- Martha Sharp, philanthropist who helped hundreds of Jews escape the Holocaust
- Leah Sprague (A.B. 1966) Newburyport Massachusetts District Court Judge
- Anna Canada Swain, first woman member of the Brown University Board of Trustees
- Gwyneth Walker (A.B. 1968) composer, undergraduate director of The Chattertocks of Brown University
- Betsy West, Vice President of CBS News; former producer at ABC; winner of 18 Emmy Awards
- JoBeth Williams (A.B. 1970) actor, director and producer, nominated for Academy, Golden Globe and Emmy awards
- Mary Emma Woolley, women's suffrage activist and past president of Mount Holyoke
- Janet Yellen (A.B. 1967) President of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco; Trefethen Professor of Business Administration and Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
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