# List of Radcliffe College people

The following is a list of individuals associated with Radcliffe College through attending as a student, or serving as college president or dhjj an.

## List of presidents

* Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, 1894–1900 (honorary president 1900–1903)
* 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

* Frances R. Brown
* Agnes Irwin, 1894–1909

## Notable alumnae
### Architects and landscape architects

* Lois Wilson Langhorst, class of 1966, architect and educator; pioneer of modernist architecture
* Judith Ledeboer, architect
* Ellen Biddle Shipman, landscape architect (left after one year)
* Anne Whiston Spirn, landscape architect

### Art and architecture historians

* Leila Cook Barber, MA degree 1928, art historian and professor emeritus at Vassar College, specializing in the Renaissance art and medieval studies.
* Mary Berenson (1864–1945), Harvard Annex student 1884-1885, art historian
* Katharine Seymour Day, historical preservationist
* Florence M. Montgomery (1914–1998), American art historian and curator at Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library
* Eva Moseley, American curator and archivist
* Phoebe Stanton (1914–2003), MA 1939, architectural historian, professor at Johns Hopkins University, and urban planner for Baltimore.

### Lawyers and judges

* Deborah Batts, judge
* Cora Agnes Benneson, attorney, lecturer, and writer
* Marsha Berzon, judge
* Elaine Denniston, lawyer, supported the Apollo program
* Jennifer Gordon, workers rights activist, lawyer
* Dayna Bowen Matthew, law school dean
* Karen Nelson Moore, judge

### Physicians

* Sara Murray Jordan, gastroenterologist
* Judith Palfrey, pediatrician and author
* Carla J. Shatz, neuroscientist
* Nancy Wexler, geneticist

### Writers, poets, journalists, and editor

* Virginia Hamilton Adair, poet
* Alice Adams, writer
* Fannie Fern Andrews, writer
* Margaret Atwood, 1961, author
* Marita Bonner, writer, playwright
* Elizabeth Brewster, poet
* Barbara Epstein, literary editor
* Anne Fadiman, essayist and reporter
* Norma Farber, children's book writer and poet
* Anne Garrels, journalist
* Katharine Fullerton Gerould, novelist
* Amy Goodman, journalist and political activist
* Ellen Goodman, journalist and writer
* Joyce Ballou Gregorian, 1968, science fiction author
* Melissa Glenn Haber, writer
* Rachel Hadas, poet, teacher, essayist, and translator
* Rona Jaffe, author
* Helen Keller, deaf blind writer, activist
* Maxine Kumin, poet and author
* Jean Kwok, author
* Ursula K. Le Guin, American writer, poet
* Alison Lurie, writer
* Michel McQueen Martin, 1980, journalist
* Anne McCaffrey, 1947, science fiction author
* Priscilla Johnson McMillan, MA 1953, journalist, translator, author, historian
* Daisy Newman, writer
* Andrea Nye a feminist philosopher and writer
* Linda Pastan, poet
* Julia Quinn, New York Times best selling author
* Clara Claiborne Park (1923–2010), author who raised awareness of autism
* Josephine Preston Peabody, poet
* Katha Pollitt, poet, essayist and critic
* Francine Prose writer
* Helen Leah Reed, writer
* Adrienne Rich, poet
* Margot Roosevelt, journalist
* Elsie Singmaster, author
* Gertrude Stein, American writer, poet, playwright and feminist
* Lily Tuck, novelist and short story writer
* Jean Valentine, poet
* Lally Weymouth, journalist
* Hannah Weiner, poet
* Natalie Wexler, novelist
* Ruth Whitman, poet
* Charlotte Wilder, MA, poet and eldest sister of Thornton Wilder

### Others

* Elizabeth Bailey, economist
* Tryphosa Bates-Batcheller, singer
* Gail Lee Bernstein, Japanese historian
* Susan Berresford, 1965, president of the Ford Foundation 1996–2007
* Benazir Bhutto, first woman elected to lead a Muslim state, Prime Minister of Pakistan (1988–1990; 1993–1996)
* Melissa Block, radio journalist, co-host, All Things Considered
* Thérèse Bonney, photographer and publicist
* Jane Britton, 1967, murdered while a graduate student at Harvard University
* Stockard Channing, actress, famous for her roles in Grease and The West Wing
* Nancy Chodorow, sociologist
* Judy Clapp, 1952, computer scientist
* Zoe Cruz, business, co-president of Morgan Stanley (most powerful woman on Wall Street)
* Natalie Zemon Davis, historian of the early modern period
* Frances Gardiner Davenport (1870–1927), historian of he later Middle Ages and the European colonization
* Jane Dempsey Douglass, feminist theologian, ecclesiastical historian, and president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches
* Peggy Dulany, heiress and philanthropist
* Eva Beatrice Dykes, academic
* Debbie Ellison, model
* Rebecca Elson, writer and astronomer
* Abigail Folger, 1964, American coffee heiress, debutante, socialite, volunteer social worker, civil rights devotee
* Mary Parker Follett, social worker, management consultant, and philosopher
* Carol Gilligan, feminist, ethicist, and psychologist
* Susanna Grannis, academic and nonprofit organizer
* Phyllis Granoff, academic of Indic religions
* Linda Greenhouse, legal journalist
* Marjorie Grene, philosopher
* Gisela Kahn Gresser, chess player
* Lani Guinier, legal scholar and civil rights theorist
* Amy Gutmann, current president of the University of Pennsylvania
* Virginia Hall, SOE spy
* Olive Hazlett, mathematician
* Diana Mara Henry, photographer
* Helen Sawyer Hogg, astronomer
* Elizabeth Holtzman, politician
* Elizabeth Hubbard, actress
* Ruth Hubbard, professor, biologist, feminist
* Josephine Hull, stage and film actress
* 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
* Nancy Johnson, politician
* Roberta Karmel (born 1937), Centennial Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, and first female commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
* Caroline Kennedy, author and diplomat
* Sinah Estelle Kelley, chemist
* Susanne Langer, philosopher
* Mary Lasker, health activist and philanthropist
* Henrietta Swan Leavitt, astronomer
* Mary Lefkowitz, scholar of Classics
* Edith Lesley, academic and founder of Lesley University
* Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson, Swedish princess
* Pauline Maier, historian
* Emily Mann (BA English literature 1974), director
* Elizabeth Holloway Marston, MA 1921—involved in the creation of the comic book character Wonder Woman
* Helen Reimensnyder Martin, novelist
* Jessica Mathews
* Jean Trepp McKelvey (1908–1998), American economist
* Laura Meneses, political activist
* Alice Vanderbilt Morris
* Amelia Muir Baldwin, interior designer and women's suffrage activist
* Chris Mulford, AB 1963, breastfeeding advocate
* Laura Nader, professor in controlling processes
* Ursula Oppens, classical pianist
* Deborah Orin, journalist
* Mary White Ovington, activist, NAACP founder
* Masako Owada, 1985, empress of Japan
* Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, astronomer
* Carol Potter, actress
* Bonnie Raitt (attended one year), Grammy Award-winning singer and musician
* Philinda Rand, American English-language teacher in the Philippines
* Lois Rice, 1954, vice president of the College Board and architect of the Pell Grant
* Emeline Hill Richardson, archeologist
* Alice Rivlin, economist
* Helen Jean Rogers, television producer
* Judith Ann Wilson Rogers
* Michelle Rosaldo, anthropologist
* Phyllis Schlafly, political activist, coined term A choice not an echo
* Ellen Schrecker, historian
* Mary Sears, oceanographer
* Edie Sedgwick (attended), iconic American socialite and Warhol superstar
* Judith Shuval, sociologist
* Cynthia Solomon, computer scientist, co-designer of Logo (programming language), and co-developer of LCSI Logo.
* Diane Souvaine, computer scientist
* Diane B. Snelling, politician
* Edith G. Stedman, 1910, head the Appointment Bureau 1930–1954
* Doris Zemurray Stone, 1930 (1909–1994), archaeologist and ethnographer of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures
* Abby A. 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, public administrator and social reformer
* Martha J. B. Thomas, (1926–2006), PhD MBA, chemical engineer
* Caroline Thompson, screenwriter-director
* Barbara W. Tuchman, historian and author
* Abby Howe Turner, zoologist
* Ruth Turner, marine biologist
* Julie Vargas, educator
* Emily Vermeule, archeologist
* Maribel Vinson, figure skater
* Caroline F. Ware, historian
* Ruth Wendell Washburn, educational psychologist
* Marina von Neumann Whitman, economist
* Olive Winchester, professor at the Point Loma, Northwest, and Eastern Nazarene colleges
* Marie Winn, ornithologist
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