North Sydney Girls High School - Notable Alumnae

Notable Alumnae

Academic

• Dame Valerie Beral AC FRS, Professor of Epidemiology at Oxford collage, leader of the survey of 1.3 million women that established hormone replacement therapy (HRT) as a major cause of increased breast cancer rates in western nations
• Yvonne Cossart - Professor of Infectious Diseases at Sydney
• Jessica Milner Davis, Deputy Chancellor of the University of New South Wales.
• Anna Katherine Donald - Rhodes Scholar (1989)
• Dr Daphne Keats, Professor of Psychology at Newcastle University;
• Daphne Anne Kok, Deputy Chancellor of Sydney University
• Nicole Kuepper - Winner of two Australian Museum Eureka Prizes in 2008 and among Sydney Morning Herald's list of 100 top young Australians
• Phyllis Mary Nicol - Lecturer and demonstrator in physics
• Dame Janet Ritterman - former director of the Royal College of Music in London, from 1993 to 2005.
• Josephine Rees - Japanese Astronaut
• Judith Ryan nee O'Neil - Professor of German at Harvard
• Jeni Whalan - Rhodes Scholar (2005)

Entertainment, media and the arts

• Jill Hellyer - Poet and Author. Recipient of Order of Australia Medal 2006 for services to Australian poetry
• Joan Bazell, actress with stage name Joan Macdonald who played many leading roles in the 1950s; her Desdemona and Ophelia are well remembered, also became one of Australia's leading fashion models, and started the Joan Macdonald modelling school in Melbourne;
• Cassandra Pybus - academic and writer; Winner of Colin Roderick Award for Best Australian Book for "Gross Moral Turpitude: The Orr Case Reconsidered", 1994.
• Benita Collings - Play School presenter
• Amelia Lester, in 2009, at age 26 and following Harvard graduation, appointed Managing Editor of The New Yorker.
• Ruth Cracknell - Actress
• Thea Gumbert - Actress
• Nathalie Kelley - Actress
• Nicole Kidman - Actress
• Elizabeth Nielsen (nee Dickens) - Chair Pinchgut Opera
• Katia Tiutiunnik - Composer
• Thea Hush - author
• Naomi Watts - Actress
• Lucy Maunder - Theatre performer
• Catherine Martin - Production designer (wife of film director, Baz Luhrmann, notable for Romeo and Juliet and others)
• Eve Pownall - Author; Namesake of the Eve Pownall Award for Information Books
• Margaret Throsby - ABC Classic FM presenter
• Samantha Lang - Film and theatre director
• Ceridwen Dovey - Author

Politics, public service and the law

• Verity Firth - Chief Executive Officer of the Public Education Foundation in Australia, a former NSW Minister for Education and Training, the former member for NSW Legislative Assembly seat of Balmain
• Margaret Hole AM, President of Law Society of New South Wales 1999-2001;
• Justice Lucy McCallum, Judge of the Supreme Court of NSW;
• Nancy Grace Augusta Wake - Resistance fighter; known to the Germans as 'the White Mouse'; the most decorated woman of World War Two
• Shelley Hancock - Teacher and Parliamentarian; elected as a member of the NSW Legislative Assembly for South Coast (Liberal Party)
• Marjorie Gertrude Eleanor Propsting - Former Mayor of Lane Cove, member of the New South Wales executive of the Liberal Party, and librarian
• Nicola Wakefield Evans - Managing Partner International, Mallesons Stephen Jaques

Business

• Sylvia Tulloch - Director of Dyesol, ASX 200 company and the world's leading Dye Sensitized Solar Company

Sport

• Elise Simone Ashton (née Norwood) - Olympic water polo player
• Renée Kirby - World Championship winning rower