List of Radcliffe College people

List of presidents

• Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, 1894-1900
• LeBaron Russell Briggs, 1903-1923
• Ada Louise Comstock, 1923-1943
• Wilbur Kitchener Jordan, 1943-1960
• Mary Bunting, 1960-1972
• Matina Horner, 1972-1989
• Linda Wilson, 1989-1999

  Deans

• Agnes Irwin, 1894–1909

  Notable alumnae

• Virginia Hamilton Adair
• Alice Adams, writer
• Fannie Fern Andrews
• Margaret Atwood, 1961, author
• Elizabeth Bailey
• Tryphosa Bates-Batcheller
• Deborah Batts
• Eva Beatrice Dykes
• Gail Lee Bernstein, Japanese historian
• Susan Berresford, 1965, president of the Ford Foundation 1996-2007
• Marsha S. Berzon
• Benazir Bhutto, first woman elected to lead a Muslim state, having twice been Prime Minister of Pakistan.
• Melissa Block, radio journalist, Co-host, All Things Considered
• Marita Bonner
• Thérèse Bonney
• Elizabeth Brewster
• Jane Britton, 1967, murdered while a graduate student at Harvard
• Stockard Channing, actress, famous for her roles in Grease and The West Wing
• Nancy Chodorow
• Judy Clapp, 1952, computer scientist
• Zoe Cruz, Co-President of Morgan Stanley
• Natalie Zemon Davis
• Frances Gardiner Davenport, historian
• Katharine Seymour Day, historical preservationist
• Peggy Dulany
• Eva Beatrice Dykes
• Debbie Ellison
• Rebecca Elson
• Barbara Epstein
• Anne Fadiman
• Norma Farber
• Abigail Folger, 1964, American coffee heiress, debutante, socialite, volunteer social worker, civil rights devotee.
• Mary Parker Follett
• Anne Garrels
• Katharine Fullerton Gerould
• Carol Gilligan
• Amy Goodman, political activist
• Ellen Goodman
• Jennifer Gordon
• Phyllis Granoff
• Linda Greenhouse
• Joyce Ballou Gregorian, 1968, Science fiction author
• Marjorie Grene
• Gisela Kahn Gresser
• Lani Guinier
• Amy Gutmann, current president of the University of Pennsylvania
• Melissa Glenn Haber
• Rachel Hadas
• Virginia Hall
• Olive Hazlett
• Diana Mara Henry, photographer
• Helen Sawyer Hogg
• Elizabeth Holtzman
• Elizabeth Hubbard
• Ruth Hubbard, professor, biologist, feminist
• Josephine Hull
• Leslie P. Hume, historian and philanthropist
• Catharine Sargent Huntington, actress, producer, director, founder of multiple theater companies, activist
• Lydia P. Jackson, former Louisiana state legislator
• Rona Jaffe, author
• Nancy Johnson
• Sara Murray Jordan, gastroenterologist
• Roberta Karmel, Centennial Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, and first female Commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
• Caroline Kennedy
• Helen Keller, deaf blind writer, activist
• Maxine Kumin
• Jean Kwok
• Susanne Langer
• Mary Lasker, health activist and philanthropist
• Ursula K. Le Guin, American writer, poet
• Henrietta Swan Leavitt
• Judith Ledeboer, architect
• Mary Lefkowitz
• Edith Lesley
• Alison Lurie, writer
• Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson
• Pauline Maier
• Emily Mann, director
• Elizabeth Holloway Marston, M.A. 1921—involved in the creation of the comic book character Wonder Woman
• Helen Reimensnyder Martin
• Michel McQueen Martin, 1980, journalist
• Jessica Mathews
• Anne McCaffrey, 1947, science fiction author
• Priscilla Johnson McMillan, M.A. 1953, journalist, translator, author, historian
• Karen Nelson Moore
• Alice Vanderbilt Morris
• Chris Mulford, A.B. 1963, breastfeeding advocate
• Laura Nader, Professor in Controlling Processes
• Daisy Newman
• Andrea Nye a feminist philosopher and writer.
• Ursula Oppens, classical pianist
• Deborah Orin
• Mary White Ovington
• Masako Owada, 1985, Crown Princess of Japan
• Judith Palfrey:
• Clara Claiborne Park, author who raised awareness of autism.
• Linda Pastan
• Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, astronomer
• Josephine Preston Peabody
• Katha Pollitt
• Carol Potter, actress
• Francine Prose
• Julia Quinn, New York Times Best Selling author
• Bonnie Raitt, Grammy Award-winning singer and musician
• Philinda Rand
• Adrienne Rich, poet
• Emeline Hill Richardson
• Alice Rivlin
• Helen Jean Rogers
• Judith Ann Wilson Rogers
• Margot Roosevelt, journalist
• Michelle Rosaldo
• Phyllis Schlafly, political activist, coined term A choice not an echo
• Ellen Schrecker
• Mary Sears
• Edie Sedgwick, iconic American socialite and Warhol Superstar
• Carla J. Shatz
• Ellen Biddle Shipman, landscape architect
• Judith Shuval, sociologist
• Elsie Singmaster, author
• Diane Souvaine
• Diane B. Snelling
• Anne Whiston Spirn, landscape architect
• Edith G. Stedman, graduated from Radcliffe in 1910 and was appointed head the Appointment Bureau in 1930 till 1954
• Gertrude Stein, American writer, poet, playwright and feminist
• Doris Zemurray Stone, archaeologist and ethnographer of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures; graduated 1930
• Abby Sutherland, cum laude graduate, head mistress, president, and owner of The Ogontz School for Girls. Sutherland deeded the school to Penn State in 1950.
• Mary E. Switzer
• Martha J. B. Thomas, PhD MBA,, chemical engineer
• Caroline Thompson, screenwriter-director
• Barbara Tuchman
• Lily Tuck
• Abby Howe Turner
• Ruth Turner
• Betty Miller Unterberger, first woman president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
• Jean Valentine
• Julie Vargas
• Emily Vermeule
• Maribel Vinson
• Caroline F. Ware
• Ruth Wendell Washburn, educational psychologist
• Hannah Weiner
• Natalie Wexler
• Nancy Wexler
• Lally Weymouth
• Marina von Neumann Whitman
• Charlotte Wilder, M.A., poet and eldest sister of Thornton Wilder
• Olive Winchester, professor at the Point Loma, Northwest, and Eastern Nazarene Colleges
• Marie Winn