# List of Bryn Mawr College people

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.

## Noted alumni

| Name | Year of graduation | Notability |
| Layla AbdelRahim | A.B. 1993 | Author and anthropologist |
| Sil Lai Abrams | 2021 | Writer and activist |
| Nadia Abu El Haj | 1984 | Anthropologist at Barnard College |
| Renata Adler | 1959 | Writer |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| Genevieve Bell | 1990 | Cultural anthropologist at Intel Labs |
| Cora Agnes Benneson | 1887, fellow | Attorney, lecturer, and writer |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Regna Darnell | 1965 | Anthropologist |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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" |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| Carol D. Leonnig | 1987 | Author, investigative journalist, staff writer at the Washington Post |
| Marie Litzinger | 1920 | Mathematician |
| Helen Taft Manning | 1915 | Historian, professor and dean of Bryn Mawr College, suffragist, daughter of President William Howard Taft |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| Mary Patterson McPherson | Ph.D. | Former President of Bryn Mawr College |
| Ruth McVey | B.A. 1952 | Co-author, Cornell Paper |
| Cornelia Meigs | 1908 | Newbery Medal winner in 1934 |
| Mary Meigs | 1939 | Writer |
| 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 |
| 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– |
| 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 |
| 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 |

## Noted faculty and administrators

* Gerald M. Ackerman, art historian, lecturer in art history (1959–1965)
* Constance Applebee, Director of Athletics (1904–1928). Brought field hockey to the United States from Britain and established women's lacrosse as a collegiate sport.
* Asoka Bandarage
* Florence Bascom, petrologist, founder of Bryn Mawr's Geology Department
* Marland Pratt Billings, Structural Geologist
* Rhys Carpenter, Classical Archaeology (1889–1980)
* Kimberly Wright Cassidy (born c. 1963), Psychology, ninth president of Bryn Mawr College
* Catherine Conybeare, Professor of Classics
* Maria Luisa Crawford, Geology, MacArthur Genius Grant recipient
* Arthur C. Cope, chemist, developer of the Cope rearrangement and the Cope elimination, namesake of the Arthur C. Cope Award of the American Chemical Society (1934–1941)
* Donald Drew Egbert, Lecturer of Ancient Architecture (1930)
* Louis Fieser, chemist, developer of synthetic napalm, researcher of vitamin K (1925–1930)
* Arthur Lindo Patterson, founder of the Patterson function used in X-ray crystallography (1936–1949)
* Michelle Francl, computational chemistry
* Louise Holland, academic, philologist and archaeologist
* Alice M. Hoffman, labor and oral historian
* Howard S. Hoffman, Psychology (1925–2006), Behavioral Neuroscientist, leading scholar of the startle reflex and social attachment
* Amy Kelly, headmistress, historian and best-selling author
* Susan Myra Kingsbury, historical economist and social researcher; director of the Social Economy and Social Research department
* Frederica de Laguna, anthropologist and founder of Bryn Mawr's anthropology department (1906–2004)
* Mabel Lang, Greek (1943–1988); received her Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr in 1943
* Agathe Lasch, Germanic philologist (Associate Professor, 1910–16)
* Richmond Lattimore, Greek (1935–1971)
* Bettina Linn (1905–1962), English professor from 1934 to 1962; novelist
* Helen Taft Manning, History (1917–1957), also served as dean
* Berthe Marti, Latin and French (1930–1963)
* Cornelia Meigs, English (1932–1950)
* Agnes Kirsopp Lake Michels, Latin (1934–1975)
* José Ferrater Mora, Philosophy (1949–1980).
* Thomas Hunt Morgan, geneticist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine (1866–1946)
* Emmy Noether, Mathematics (1933–1935)
* Jane M. Oppenheimer, Embryology and History of Science (1938–1980)
* John Oxtoby, Mathematics (1939–1979)
* Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway, Archeology (1958–1994)
* Charlotte Scott, Mathematics (1885–1917)
* Hilda Worthington Smith, labor educator, social worker, and poet (1888–1984)
* Lily Ross Taylor, Latin (1927–1942), Dean of the Graduate School (1942–52)
* M. Carey Thomas, English, Dean of the College (1884–1908), President (1894–1922)
* Edward Warburg (1908–1992), taught Modern Art.
* Harold Wethey, art historian
* Woodrow Wilson (1885–1888)
* Karl Kirchwey (born 1956), poet, associate professor from 2000 to present

## Noted fictional alumni

* Pamela Abbott (A.B.), Inventing the Abbotts (1997), played by Liv Tyler
* C.C. Babcock, The Nanny (1993), played by Lauren Lane
* Erica Barry (A.B.), Something's Gotta Give lead character, played by Diane Keaton
* Amanda Bonner (A.B.), Adam's Rib (1949), played by Katharine Hepburn
* Betty Draper (A.B. in Anthropology), Mad Men (2007), played by January Jones
* Nancy Drew & Carolyn Keene, Confessions of a Teen Sleuth (book published in 2005)
* Jinx (A.B.) (1980s), a.k.a. Kim Arashikage (a fictional character in the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero toy line)
* Allison R. Hart-Burnett (A.B.) (1980s), Lady Jaye (a fictional character in the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero toy line)
* Edna Krabappel (M.A.), The Simpsons teacher
* Miriam "Midge" Maisel (B.A. in Russian Literature), The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017), played by Rachel Brosnahan
* Vivian Schuyler (B.A.), The Secret Life of Violet Grant by Beatriz Williams.
* Corinthians (A.B.), Song of Solomon (book published 1977)