- Abiola Abrams, feminist filmmaker, author, and television personality.
- Blue Balliett, author of Chasing Vermeer
- Anne Baxter, actor
- Mary Ellin Barrett, novelist
- Mary Catherine Bateson, writer and anthropologist
- Jenny Bicks, screenwriter, most famous for What a Girl Wants and Sex and the City
- Mary Steichen Calderone, physician and public-health advocate
- Oona, Lady Chaplin (née O'Neill), actor
- Lucinda Childs, dancer and choreographer
- Jill Clayburgh, actor
- Emily Cross, athlete, silver medalist in fencing at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Alexandra Daddario, actor, best known for Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief.
- Anne d'Harnoncourt, museum director
- Elizabeth Fishel, journalist and writer, in 2000 published a book profiling 10 of her Brearley classmates from the class of 1968, Reunion: The Girls We Used to Be, the Women We Became
- Lacey Fosburgh, journalist and author, best known for Closing Time: The True Story of the Goodbar Murder
- Virginia Kneeland Frantz, pathologist, pioneer in the study of pancreatic tumors
- Virginia Gildersleeve, academic and statesperson
- Jane Ginsburg. law professor and daughter of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- Betsy Gotbaum, Public Advocate for the City of New York
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- Isca Greenfield-Sanders, artist and daughter of Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
- Nora Johnson, novelist, best known for The World of Henry Orient
- Caroline Kennedy, author and philanthropist
- Téa Leoni, actor
- Ruth Messinger, New York City mayoral candidate and Manhattan Borough President
- Sara Moulton, chef, author and television personality
- Leigh Nisonson, artist
- Diane Paulus, Artistic Director of the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University
- Mary Rodgers, children's author and composer, daughter of composer Richard Rodgers
- Anne Roiphe, journalist, novelist and early feminist
- Katie Roiphe, author and feminist
- Niki de Saint Phalle, artist
- Mary Louise Perlman, musician (née Platt)
- Dorothy Schiff, publisher of the New York Post
- Kyra Sedgwick, actor
- Maggie Shnayerson, journalist and blogger
- Kim Stolz, fashion model and television personality, contestant on America's Next Top Model
- Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, film director and producer
- Erica Wagner, literary editor for The Times
- Katharine Weymouth, publisher of The Washington Post
- Flora Payne Whitney, patron of the arts
- Hope Williams, actor
- Alexandra Wilkis Wilson, co-founder of Gilt Groupe and author of "By Invitation Only"
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