# List of alumni of Girton College, Cambridge

This is a list of alumni of Girton College, Cambridge.
| Name | Birth | Death | Career/Notable attainments |
| Margaret Alford | 1868 | 1951 | Classical scholar |
| Adelaide Anderson | 1863 | 1936 | Labour activist |
| Mary Arden | 1947 | | Lord Justice of Appeal |
| Hertha Marks Ayrton | 1854 | 1923 | Electrical engineer |
| Janet Ruth Bacon | 1891 | 1965 | Principal, Royal Holloway College, University of London 1935-44 |
| Sally Beauman | 1944 | 2016 | Author |
| Florence Bell | 1913 | 2000 | Scientist, first X-ray diffraction photograph of DNA |
| Mary Berry | 1917 | 2008 | Conductor |
| Dina bint 'Abdu'l-Hamid | 1929 | | Queen consort of Jordan |
| Ann Bishop | 1899 | 1990 | Protozoologist |
| Alistair Brownlee | 1988 | | Triathlete (left to study at University of Leeds) |
| Agnata Frances Butler née Ramsey | 1867 | 1931 | Only first in 1887 Classics Tripos, honoured in Punch (magazine) cartoon 'Ladies Only' |
| Margaret Canovan | 1939 | | Professor of political theory |
| Anthony Carrigan | 1980 | 2016 | Scholar in postcolonial literature and cultures |
| Janet Elizabeth Case | 1863 | 1937 | British classics teacher and journalist |
| Wendy R. Childs | 1943 | | Professor of Later Medieval History at the University of Leeds |
| Patricia Clarke | 1919 | 2010 | Professor of microbial biochemistry |
| Vicky Clement-Jones | 1948 | 1987 | Physician |
| Tina Cooper | 1918 | 1986 | Paediatrician |
| Isabel Cooper-Oakley | 1854 | 1914 | Theosophical writer |
| Gwendolen Crewdson | 1872 | 1913 | Egyptologist |
| Elizabeth Dawes | 1865 | 1954 | Classical scholar, educational reformer, first woman to receive a DLitt degree from the University of London |
| Mary Clara Dawes | 1862 | ? | Classical scholar, first woman to receive an MA degree from the University of London (in 1884) |
| Delia Derbyshire | 1937 | 2001 | Musician, composer |
| Athene Donald | 1953 | | Physicist |
| Tom Fordyce | | | BBC Sports journalist |
| Veronica Forrest-Thomson | 1947 | 1975 | Poet |
| Jane Fraser | 1967 | | President of Citigroup |
| Olive Fraser | 1909 | 1977 | Poet and novelist |
| George Freeman MP | 1967 | | British politician |
| Zahra Freeth | 1925 | 2015 | Author on Middle Eastern topics |
| Jane Grenville | 1958 | | British archaeologist and academic |
| Brenda Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond | 1945 | | Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom |
| Phil Hammond | 1962 | | Comedian and Doctor |
| Rosalyn Higgins | 1937 | | President of the International Court of Justice |
| Gertrude Himmelfarb | 1922 | 2019 | American cultural historian |
| Judith A. Hill | 1959 | | Historian |
| Arianna Huffington | 1950 | | Political author and activist, founder of The Huffington Post |
| Wendy Holden | 1965 | | Novelist |
| Patricia Hollis, Baroness Hollis of Heigham | 1941 | | Peer and historian |
| Dorothy Jewson | 1884 | 1964 | British politician |
| Denise Kingsmill, Baroness Kingsmill | | | Labour Peer |
| Julie Kirkbride | 1960 | | Former MP |
| Gabrielle Lambrick | 1913 | 1968 | Civil servant, historian, teacher |
| Jean Lindsay | 1910 | 1996 | Historian, Teacher |
| Rosamond Lehmann | 1901 | 1990 | Novelist |
| Rachel Lomax | 1945 | | Former Deputy Governor of the Bank of England |
| Sheila Scott Macintyre | 1910 | 1960 | Mathematician |
| Ada Isabel Maddison | 1869 | 1950 | Mathematician |
| Margrethe II of Denmark | 1940 | | Queen regnant of Denmark |
| Annie Scott Dill Maunder | 1868 | 1947 | Astronomer |
| Anna Maxted | 1969 | | Novelist |
| Constance Maynard | 1849 | 1935 | British feminist, educator |
| Rod McAllister | 1961 | | Architect |
| Marion McQuillan | 1921 | 1998 | Metallurgist |
| Margaret Mountford | 1951 | | Former Herbert Smith partner, now star of BBC's The Apprentice |
| Jennifer Moyle | 1921 | 2016 | Biochemist |
| Sarojini Naidu | 1879 | 1949 | Poet, politician |
| Joseph O'Neill | 1964 | | Novelist, non-fiction writer |
| Karen Pierce | 1959 | | Permanent UK representative to the UN |
| Eileen Power | 1889 | 1940 | British economic historian and medievalist |
| Emily James Smith Putnam | 1865 | 1944 | Educator, historian |
| Kathleen Raine | 1908 | 2003 | Poet |
| Helene Reynard | 1875 | 1947 | Economist and college administrator |
| Gisela Richter | 1882 | 1972 | Classical archaeologist, art historian |
| Eirlys Roberts | 1911 | 2008 | Classical scholar; consumer campaigner; editor of Which? |
| Joan Robinson | 1903 | 1983 | Economist |
| Diana Ross | 1910 | 2000 | Author |
| Ethel Sargant | 1863 | 1918 | Botanist |
| Wendy Savage | 1935 | | Gynaecologist |
| Charlotte Angas Scott | 1858 | 1931 | Mathematician |
| Matthew Schellhorn | 1977 | | Concert pianist |
| Gavin Shuker MP | 1981 | | British politician |
| Charlie Siem | 1986 | | Violinist |
| Caroline Skeel | 1872 | 1951 | Educator |
| Salma Sobhan | 1937 | 2003 | Barrister |
| E. Millicent Sowerby | 1883 | 1977 | Bibliographer |
| Irene Spry | 1907 | 1998 | Economic historian |
| Christopher Steele | 1964 | | Spy |
| Alice Stewart | 1906 | 2002 | Epidemiologist |
| Marilyn Strathern | 1941 | | Social Anthropologist |
| Steph Swainston | 1974 | | Writer |
| Bertha Swirles | 1903 | 1999 | Physicist |
| Elizabeth Symons, Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean | 1951 | | Peer, former General Secretary of the FDA trade union |
| Princess Takamado | 1953 | | Princess of Japan |
| Mary Taylor Slow | 1898 | 1984 | Physicist |
| Sandi Toksvig | 1958 | | Author and broadcaster |
| Dorothy Wedderburn | 1925 | 2012 | Principal, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London |
| Sarah Woodhead | 1851 | 1912 | First woman to take, and to pass, the Mathematical Tripos exam, which she did in 1873; headmistress of Bolton High School for Girls |
| Barbara Adam Wootton | 1897 | 1988 | Social scientist, economist |
| Wilmer Cave Wright | 1868 | 1951 | Classical philologist |
| Dorothy Wrinch | 1894 | 1976 | Mathematical biologist |
| Grace Chisholm Young | 1868 | 1944 | Mathematician |
| Sheila Pim | 1909 | 1995 | Novelist and biographer |
| Sao Sanda | 1928 | | Shan royalty and the last princess of Yawnghwe |