Notable Alumnae
- Entertainment, media and the arts
- Glenda Adams – Novelist and short story writer, best known as the winner of the 1987 Miles Franklin Award for Dancing on Coral
- Dorothy Alison – Stage, film and television actress
- Patricia Thelma Amphlett OAM (a.k.a. Little Pattie) – National President of the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance; Singer/Performer
- Marjorie Barnard – Author
- Hilary Bell – Playwright
- Lucy Bell – Actor
- Prue Corlette – Writer and Journalist
- Liz Ham – Internationally acclaimed photographer
- Libby Hathorn – Children's author
- Tanya Halesworth – TV presenter
- Sacha Horler – Actor
- Jessica Rowe – Journalist and TV presenter
- Ethel Turner – Children's author
- Julia Zemiro – Actor, comedian and TV presenter
- Medicine and science
- Agnes Elizabeth Lloyd Bennett – Pioneering medical practitioner and scientist (also attended Cheltenham Ladies' College, Dulwich Girls' High School and Abbotsleigh)
- Ruby Payne-Scott – Australia's first radio-physicist
- Politics, public service and the law
- HE Prof. Marie Bashir AC CVO AO DStJ – Medico-/adolescent problems, first and current female Governor of New South Wales; Chancellor of the University of Sydney; psychiatrist
- Eva Cox A.O. - writer, feminist, sociologist, social commentator and activist.
- Dr Emily Crawford - international law specialist
- Ada Emily Evans – First woman in Australia to gain Law degree but not permitted to practise
- Janette Howard – Wife of Former Australian Prime Minister, John Howard
- Lee Rhiannon – MLC NSW Greens (School Vice-Captain 1969)
- Sport
- Jessi Miley-Dyer; junior world champion surfer
- Edith Cochrane – 1956 Melbourne Olympics, Flat water - LK1500 m Kayak Single
- Ann Jones – Olympic diver, 1972 Munich Olympics
- Jane Saville – Olympic Walker 1996, 2000 and 2004
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