The following is a list of individuals associated with Bryn Mawr College through attending as a student, or serving as a member of the faculty or staff.
Name | Year of graduation | Notability | Reference(s) |
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Layla AbdelRahim | A.B. 1993 | Author and anthropologist | [1] |
Sil Lai Abrams | 2021 | Writer and activist | |
Nadia Abu El Haj | 1984 | Anthropologist at Barnard College | |
Renata Adler | 1959 | Writer | [2] |
Maya Ajmera | 1989 | Founder of The Global Fund for Children | |
Srabonti Narmeen Ali | 2001 | Writer and singer | |
Katharine Sergeant Angell White | 1914 | Editor of The New Yorker | |
Dorothy Harriet Camille Arnold | 1905 | Vanished socialite | |
Anastasia Ashman | 1986 | Writer | |
Ellis Avery | 1993 | Novelist | [3] |
Emily Greene Balch | 1889 | Nobel Peace Prize Winner, 1946 | |
Margaret Ayer Barnes | 1907 | Writer, Pulitzer Prize for the Novel winner, 1931 | |
Leila Cook Barber | A.B. 1925 | Art historian and Professor Emeritus at Vassar College, specializing in the Renaissance art and Medieval studies. | [4] |
Genevieve Bell | 1990 | Cultural anthropologist at Intel Labs | |
Cora Agnes Benneson | 1887, fellow | Attorney, lecturer, and writer | [5] |
Marie Bernard | 1972 | Deputy Director of the National Institute on Aging at the National Institutes of Health | |
Florence Bird | 1928 | Canadian journalist and politician | |
Margaret McKelvy Bird | 1931 | American socialite and archaeologist | [6] |
Mary G. F. Bitterman | President, Osher Foundation | ||
Eleanor Albert Bliss | 1921 | Bacteriologist | |
Katharine Burr Blodgett | 1917 | Chemist and engineer | |
Grace Lee Boggs | Ph.D. 1940 | Activist and author | |
Sarmila Bose | 1981 | Journalist | |
Ana Patricia Botin | 1981 | CEO of Banco Santander, CEO of Santander UK, CEO of Banesto | |
Kathy Boudin | 1965 | Weathermen member convicted of murder and bank robbery | |
Margaret Buchanan | Ph.D. 1922 | Mathematician, professor emeritus, West Virginia University | |
Carol Burns | 1977 | Architect, co-founder of Taylor & Burns Architects | |
Barbara Ann Burtness | AB, 1982 | American internist and oncologist | |
A. S. Byatt | graduate work 1957–1958, did not graduate | Postmodern novelist | [7] |
Jane Calvin | 1959 | Artist | |
John D. Caputo | Ph.D. 1968 | Philosophy professor at Syracuse University | |
Marjorie Constance Caserio | MA in chemistry in 1951, PhD in 1956 | Chemist | |
Birutė Ciplijauskaitė | Ph.D. 1964 | Vilas Professor of Spanish University of Wisconsin–Madison | |
Susy Clemens | did not graduate | daughter of American author Mark Twain | |
Bruce Cole | Ph.D. 1969 | Chairman of National Endowment for the Humanities | |
Soraya M. Coley | M.S.S. 1974, Ph.D. 1981 | Sixth University President of Cal Poly Pomona | [8] |
Joyce Mitchell Cook | 1955 | First African American woman to receive a PhD in philosophy and the first woman to be appointed to an assistant teacher position at Yale | |
Mary Little Cooper | 1968 | Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey | |
Katayoun Copeland | assistant U.S. Attorney and district attorney of Delaware County, Pennsylvania | [9] | |
Regna Darnell | 1965 | Anthropologist | [10] |
Hilda Doolittle | did not graduate | Modernist poet | |
Eleanor Lansing Dulles | 1917 | Economist | |
Helen Flanders Dunbar | 1923 | Important early figure in U.S. psychosomatic medicine | |
Mary Maples Dunn | M.A. 1956, Ph.D. 1959 | Former president of Smith College | |
Lee McGeorge Durrell | 1971 | Author, television presenter, zookeeper | |
Madeline Early | M.A. 1933, Ph.D. 1936 | Mathematician, professor | |
Roselyn J. Eisenberg | 1960 | Virologist | |
Drew Gilpin Faust | 1968 | Twenty-Eighth President of Harvard University, former Dean of Radcliffe Institute | |
Mary Peters Fieser | 1930 | Chemist and writer | |
Mary Stuart Fisher | Radiologist | ||
Catherine Clarke Fenselau | 1961 | Chemist, pioneer in mass spectrometry | |
Frances H. Flaherty | 1905 | Film writer and director | [11] |
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese | 1963 | Historian and conservative feminist | |
Shaun Gallagher | Ph.D. | University of Central Florida philosophy professor | |
Julia Anna Gardner | 1905 A.B., 1907 M.A. | Geologist, paleontologist | |
Ashley Gavin | 2010 | podcaster, comedian | |
Martha A. Geer | 1980 | Associate Justice of the North Carolina Court of Appeals | [12] |
Carolyn Goodman | 1961 | Mayor of Las Vegas, founder of the Meadows School | |
Dorothy Goodman | Teacher, charter school advocate, founder of International Baccalaureate Organization | ||
Hanna Holborn Gray | 1950 | Former president of University of Chicago | |
David Gress | Ph.D 1981 | Historian | |
Eunice Groark | B.A. 1960 | Politician | |
Naomi Halas | M.A. 1984, Ph.D. 1986 | Professor of Chemistry and Computer Engineering at Rice University | |
Edith Hamilton | M.A. 1894 | Classical scholar | |
Jessica Todd Harper | B.A. 1997 | Photographer | [13] |
Katharine Martha Houghton Hepburn | 1899 | Suffragist and family planning advocate | |
Katharine Hepburn | 1928 | Academy Award-winning actress | |
Hope Hibbard | Ph.D. c. 1921 | Biologist, cytologist, zoologist, and zoology professor | |
Carmelita Hinton | 1912 | Progressive educator | |
Betsy Hodges | 1991 | Former Mayor of Minneapolis | |
Louise Holland | 1920 | Academic, philologist and archaeologist | |
Jean Holzworth | A.B. 1936, Ph.D. 1940 | Latin philologist, later veterinarian and expert on feline medicine | [14] |
Edith Houghton Hooker | 1901 | Suffragist | |
Margaret Hoover | 2001 | Political contributor for CNN, media personality, and author. She is a great-granddaughter of former U.S. President Herbert Hoover. | |
Matina Horner | 1961 | Former president of Radcliffe College and psychologist who pioneered the concept of "fear of success" | [15] |
Sari Horwitz | 1979 | Journalist and three-time Pulitzer Prize winner. | |
Beryl Howell | 1978 | Federal Court Judge, United States District Court for the District of Columbia | |
Barbara Marx Hubbard | 1951 | Writer and public speaker | |
Salima Ikram | 1986 | Egyptologist and professor at American University in Cairo | |
Nina Jankowicz | 2011 | Disinformation expert at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars | |
Sarah Jones | did not graduate | Actress, poet, playwright | |
Deborah Kamen | 1998 | Chair and Professor of Classics at the University of Washington | |
Angela Kane | c. 1970 | German UN Diplomat | |
Rosabeth Moss Kanter | 1964 | Professor in business at Harvard Business School, former editor of the Harvard Business Review | |
Michi Kawai | 1904 | Founder of Keisen University | |
Emily Kimbrough | 1921 | Writer | [16] |
Helen Dean King | Ph.D. 1899 | Biologist | |
Anna Kisselgoff | 1958 | Cultural news reporter and former Chief Dance Critic for the New York Times | |
Karen Kornbluh | 1985 | Ambassador and U.S. Permanent Representative to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development | |
Dorothy Meserve Kunhardt | 1923 | Children's author, best known for Pat the Bunny. Both her daughters are also Bryn Mawr alumnae. | [17] |
Gertrude Prokosch Kurath | 1928 | Dancer and dance researcher | |
Leslie Kurke | 1981 | Professor of classics at University of California-Berkeley and MacArthur "genius grant" recipient in 1999 | |
Ellen Kushner | did not graduate | Fantasy writer | |
Frederica de Laguna | 1927 | Anthropologist | |
Ruth Langer | 1981 | Professor of Religion | |
Anna B. Lawther | 1897 | Leader in the women's suffrage movement | |
Mimi Lee | 1943 | Chemist and First Lady of Maryland from 1977 to 1979 | [18] |
Carol D. Leonnig | 1987 | Author, investigative journalist, staff writer at the Washington Post | |
Marie Litzinger | 1920 | Mathematician | [19][20] |
Helen Taft Manning | 1915 | Historian, professor and dean of Bryn Mawr College, suffragist, daughter of President William Howard Taft | [21] |
Jacqueline Mars | 1961 | Heiress to Mars candy fortune | |
Leslie Marshall | Journalist and novelist | ||
Berthe Marti | M.A. 1926, Ph.D. 1934 | Professor of Latin at Bryn Mawr College | |
Katharine McBride | A.B. 1925 M.A. 1927 Ph.D. 1932 | Former president of Bryn Mawr College | |
Millicent Carey McIntosh | 1920 | Head of the Brearley School and the first president of Barnard College. She was the first married woman to head one of the Seven Sisters, she was "considered a national role model for generations of young women who wanted to combine career and family," advocating for working mothers and for child care as a dignified profession. | [22] |
Sarah McIntyre | 1999 | Children's book writer and illustrator | |
Mary A. McLaughlin | M.A. 1969 | Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania | |
A. Thomas McLellan | M.S., Ph.D. | Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, nominee for Deputy Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy | |
Priscilla Johnson McMillan | M.A. 1950 | Journalist, translator, author, historian | |
Georgia L. McMurray | M.A. 1962 | Activist and New York City administrator | [23] |
Mary Patterson McPherson | Ph.D. | Former President of Bryn Mawr College | |
Ruth McVey | B.A. 1952 | Co-author, Cornell Paper | [24] |
Cornelia Meigs | 1908 | Newbery Medal winner in 1934 | [25] |
Mary Meigs | 1939 | Writer | [26] |
Lucy Taxis Shoe Meritt | A.B. 1927, M.A. 1928, Ph.D. 1935 | Classical archaeologist | |
Lynne Meadow | 1968 | Theatrical producer and director | |
Agnes Kirsopp Lake Michels | A.B., M.A., Ph.D. | Classical scholar and former professor at Bryn Mawr College | |
Elizabeth Mosier | 1984 | Writer, Author of My Life as a Girl | |
Marianne Moore | 1909 | Poet | |
Margaret M. Morrow | 1971 | Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California | |
Catherine Gilbert Murdock | Writer | ||
Emily Cheney Neville | 1940 | Newbery Medal winner in 1964 | |
Lindsay Northover, Baroness Northover | Member of the U.K. House of Lords | ||
Sherry Ortner | 1962 | Anthropologist, professor at UCLA, MacArthur Genius Grant recipient | |
Diana Oughton | 1963 | Militant Weathermen member | |
Ada Palmer | 2001 | Historian and author, professor at The University of Chicago | |
Marion Edwards Park | A.B. 1898 M.A. 1899 Ph.D. 1918 | Former president of Bryn Mawr College | |
Judith Peabody | Socialite and philanthropist | [27] | |
Candace Pert | 1970 | Neuroscientist | |
Jeannette Piccard | 1918 | Teacher, scientist, balloon pilot, priest | |
Bertha Putnam | 1893 | Historian | |
Virginia Ragsdale | A.B., Ph.D. | Mathematician | |
Paul Rehak | M.A. 1980, Ph.D. 1985 | Archaeologist | |
Alice Rivlin | 1952 | Economist, first director of Congressional Budget Office | |
Phyllis Ross | Economist, former chancellor of University of British Columbia | ||
Ilana Kara Diamond Rovner | 1960 | Judge on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. Rovner was the first woman appointed to the Seventh Circuit | |
Edith Finch Russell | Author, biographer of Bryn Mawr College President M. Carey Thomas | ||
Teresita Currie Schaffer | 1966 | Diplomat and former director of the Foreign Service Institute | |
Dorothy Schiff | 1921 | Newspaper publisher | |
Frances Schreuder | non-degreed | Convicted in 1983 of the 1978 Franklin Bradshaw murder that she forced her son, Marc, to perform. | |
Allyson Schwartz | M.A. 1972 | U.S. Representative | |
Elaine Showalter | 1962 | Feminist literary critic and former president of the Modern Language Association | |
Fatima Siad | 2007 | Contestant on America's Next Top Model, Cycle 10 and fashion model | |
Maggie Siff | 1996 | Actress, Mad Men, Sons of Anarchy, Billions | |
Rachel Simon | 1981 | Writer | |
Cornelia Otis Skinner | did not graduate | Actress and author | |
Joan Slonczewski | 1977 | Biology professor at Kenyon College, science fiction writer | |
Gabrielle M. Spiegel | 1964 | Chair of the History Department at Johns Hopkins University, President of the American Historical Association, 2008–2009 | |
Deborah Spungen | M.S.W. 1989 | Author | |
Valerie Stanfill | 1985 | Chief Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, 2021– | [28] |
Nettie Stevens | Ph.D. 1903 | Geneticist | |
Caroline Stevermer | 1977 | Fantasy writer | |
Marcia Storch | 1971 | Physician | |
Nina Straight | 1959 | American author, journalist, and socialite | |
Margaret Suckley | 1912–14 (did not graduate) | First archivist of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum | |
Mary Hamilton Swindler | Ph.D. 1912 | Former professor of archaeology of Bryn Mawr College | |
Olga Taussky-Todd | Fellow | Mathematician | |
Lily Ross Taylor | Ph.D. 1912 | Former professor and dean of Bryn Mawr College | |
Mary Elizabeth Taylor | 2011 | White House Deputy Director of Legislative Affairs of Nominations for President Donald Trump. Forbes 30 under 30 2018 | |
Martha Gibbons Thomas | 1889 | First woman elected to represent Chester County in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives | |
Dorothy Burr Thompson | 1923 | Archaeologist and art historian | |
Tony Thurmond | MSS 1995, MSLP 1996 | American politician and member of the California State Assembly | |
Adrian Tinsley | 1958 | Former president of Bridgewater State University | |
Kaity Tong | 1969 | Broadcast journalist | |
Anne Truitt | 1943 | Minimalist sculptor | |
Umeko Tsuda | 1889–1892 | First Japanese student. Founder of Tsuda College and first president of YWCA in Japan | |
Neda Ulaby | 1993 | NPR Reporter | |
Genevieve Vaughan | 1961 | Philanthropist and feminist activist | |
Emily Vermeule | A.B. 1950, Ph.D. 1956 | Classical scholar, archaeologist, poet | |
Elizabeth Gray Vining | 1923 | Newbery Medal winner | |
P. Gregory Warden | M.A. 1976, Ph.D. 1978 | President of Franklin University Switzerland | |
Betty Peh T'i Wei | 1953 | Historian | |
Carola Woerishoffer | A. B. 1907 | Labor activist, endowed Bryn Mawr social work program | |
Rebecca Wood Watkin | A.B. 1933 | Architect, housing activist, and community leader in the San Francisco Bay Area | [29][30] |
Mai Yamani | 1979 | Anthropologist and Saudi Arabian activist | |
Rosemarie Said Zahlan | 1958 | Palestinian-American historian and writer | |
Michelle Zauner | 2011 | Musician, known for her band Japanese Breakfast and author of Crying in H Mart | [31] |
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