Notable Alumnae
Frensham School's Old Girls (alumnae) may elect to join the Frensham Fellowship. The Frensham Fellowship was established in 1918, as a way of linking past and present students. Membership is open to former students and staff, with honorary membership offered to current staff and school prefects. Some notable Old Girls include:
- Media, entertainment and the arts
- Rosemary Dobson – Author and poet with 13 published works; Winner of awards including a 1996 Australia Council Writer's Emeritus Award
- Henrietta Drake-Brockman – Playwright; 1938 winner of a Sesquicentenary Celebration Prize for best full-length play for Men Without Wives; Winner of a Bulletin Short Story Prize
- Nancy Keesing – Author of 26 volumes of poetry and fiction, chaired the Australia Council and the State Library of NSW
- Annette Macarthur-Onslow – Author and illustrator; Winner of the Book of the Year Award of the Children's Book Council for Uhu (1970)
- Penny Meagher – Painter
- Joan Phipson – Author of 25 novels, including The Family Conspiracy; Winner of the Australian Children's Book of the Year (1963), and the New York Herald Tribune Children's Spring Book Festival Award (1964)
- Medicine and science
- Dr Catherine Hamlin AC – Obstetrician and gynaecologist; co-founder of the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital in Ethiopia; pioneer in fistula surgery; 1999 nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize
- Politics, public service and the law
- Rosemary Foot (class of 1953) – Former Deputy Leader of the NSW Liberal Party. First woman to be elected to a leadership position of a major party in a lower house anywhere in Australia
- Lucy Hughes Turnbull, wife of current Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull; a former Lord Mayor of Sydney (2003-2004); Company Director and author (she also attended Kincoppal-Rose Bay, School of the Sacred Heart, Sydney)
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