Miss Porter's School - Notable Alumnae

Notable Alumnae

• Dorothy Keeley Aldis (1914) - American children's author and poet
• Mimi Alford (1961) - former White House intern who wrote a book about her affair with JFK
• Barbara Babcock (1955) - Emmy-award winning actress for Hill Street Blues
• Letitia Baldrige Hollensteiner (1943) - author and social secretary to Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy
• Sarah Ludlow Blake (1978) - American writer
• Mildred Barnes Bliss - American art collector, philanthropist, and cofounder of Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington, D.C.
• Madeline McDowell Breckinridge (1890) - a leader of the women's suffrage movement, a leading Progressive reformer, and granddaughter of Henry Clay

• Dorothy Walker Bush (1919) - mother of the 41st President of the United States, George H. W. Bush and grandmother of the 43rd President of the United States, George W. Bush
• Anne Cox Chambers (1938) - U.S. Ambassador to Belgium during the Carter administration.
• Laura Rockefeller Chasin (1954) - American socialite
• Pema Chodron (formerly Deirdre Blomfield-Brown) (1955) - Buddhist nun and author; resident director of Gampo Abbey
• Patience Cleveland (1948) - American actress and published author
• Edith Roelker Curtis (1912) - author, historian, and diarist
• Brenda Frazier (1939) - American socialite
• Ruth Pine Furniss - short story writer and novelist
• Nellie Grant (1873; never graduated) - daughter of U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant and First Lady Julia Grant
• Susannah Grant (1980) - director and Academy Award-nominated screenwriter for Erin Brockovich
• Mamie Gummer - (2001; never graduated) actress and daughter of actress Meryl Streep
• Agnes Gund (1956) - President Emerita of the Museum of Modern Art and 1997 recipient of the National Medal of Arts from President Bill Clinton, she was nominated by President Barack Obama as a member of the Board of Trustees of the National Council on the Arts in 2011
• Alice Hamilton (1888) - First female faculty member of Harvard Medical School, founder of the field of industrial medicine
• Edith Hamilton (1886) - Greek Mythology scholar and sister of Alice Hamilton
• Barbara Hutton (1930) - American socialite, dubbed "Poor Little Rich Girl"
• Dorothy Bush Koch (1977) - philanthropist and member of the First Family
• Julia Lathrop (1876) - the first woman ever to head a government agency in the United States.
• Chrishaunda Lee (1994) - niece of Oprah Winfrey and hostess of the PBS program Animal Attractions Television
• Elizabeth May (1972) - the first elected Green Party Member of Parliament in Canada and leader of the Green Party of Canada
• Ruth Hanna McCormick (1897) - member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois and the first woman to run for the U.S. Senate.
• Polly Allen Mellen (1942) - Editor with Vogue magazine
• Dina Merrill (née Nedenia Hutton) (1943) - actress and American socialite
• Mary Anne Amirthi Mohanraj (1989) - American writer and editor
• Helen Coley Nauts (1925) - founder of the Cancer Research Institute
• Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis (1947) - former First Lady of the United States
• Hayley Petit (2007), victim of the Cheshire, Connecticut, home invasion murders
• Elise Ravenel Wood du Pont (1954) - former First Lady of Delaware and 1984 Republican candidate for the US House of Representatives
• Katherine Collins Pope (1990) - president of television at Chernin Entertainment, formerly president of Universal Media Studios, and executive producer of such television series as New Girl, Touch, and Ben & Kate
• Lilly Pulitzer (née Lillian Lee McKim) (1949) - fashion designer and American socialite
• Elizabeth Cushman Titus Putnam (1951) - founding president of the Student Conservation Association (SCA) and recipient of the Presidential Citizens Medal
• Lee Radziwill (1950) - public relations executive for Giorgio Armani, author, and younger sister of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
• Theodate Pope Riddle (1888) - architect and founder of Avon Old Farms
• Gene Tierney (1938) - Academy Award-nominated actress
• Gloria Vanderbilt (1941) - fashion designer and American socialite
• Mary Knight Wood (1875) - American pianist, music educator and composer