# List of Wheaton College (Massachusetts) alumni

The following is a categorized list of alumni, as well as honorary degree recipients, of Wheaton College in Massachusetts.

## Alumni
### Academia

* Elizabeth Altmaier (1973), Professor of Counseling Psychology and Community and Behavioral Health, University of Iowa
* Mary Ellen Avery (1948), Thomas Morgan Rotch Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
* Joan Copjec (1968), Professor of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University
* Faye Crosby (1969), Professor of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz
* Lydia Folger Fowler (1842), first female medical professor in the United States at the Rochester Eclectic Medical College
* Caroline Haven Ober (1884), founder of the Department of Romance Languages, University of Washington
* Patricia A. King (1964), Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law, Medicine, Ethics, and Public Policy, Georgetown University
* E. Frances White (1971), Professor of Individualized Study and Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University

### Arts

* Carolyn Brown (1950), choreographer
* Nick Fradiani (2008), winner of the fourteenth season of American Idol
* Nancy Hemenway Barton (1941), artist
* Mary Fickett, actress
* Lauren Henderson (2009), singer
* Catherine Keener (1983), Academy Award-nominated actress
* Molly Luce (1916), painter
* Bruce Marks (1986), director of the Boston Ballet
* Eleanor Norcross (1872), painter and founder of the Fitchburg Art Museum
* Anne-Imelda Radice (1969), art historian
* Ann Ronell (1923), composer
* Jessica Sonneborn, actress
* Callie Thorne (1991), actress
* Clenet Verdi-Rose (2004), film director
* Rose Weaver (1973), actress

### Athletics

* Dan Antoniuk (2003), Major Arena Soccer League player
* Connie Carberg (1971–1972), National Football League scout
* Chris Denorfia (2002), Major League Baseball player
* Jim Manganello (1999), Major League Soccer player

### Business

* Ken Babby (2002), businessman
* Ligia Bonetti (1989), businesswoman
* Evelyn Danzig Haas (1939), philanthropist
* Diane Farrell (1977), board member of the Export–Import Bank of the United States
* Janet Hanson, founder of Ellevate Network
* Denise Jefferson (1965), dancer
* Trish Karter (1977), founder of Dancing Deer Baking Co.
* Sandra Ohrn Moose (1963), advisor to the Boston Consulting Group
* Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (1969), philanthropist
* Catherine Filene Shouse (1918), philanthropist

### Literature

* Lori Baker (1984), novelist
* Lesley Bannatyne (1975), author
* Linda Barlow, author
* Gwenda Blair (1960–1961), author
* Harriet Connor Brown, author
* Kay Chorao (1958), children's writer
* Jean Fritz (1937), children's writer
* Robie Harris (1962), children's writer
* Allen J. Hubin, literary critic
* Peter W. Kunhardt Jr. (2005), author
* Nancy Mairs (1964), essayist
* Susan Meddaugh (1966), children's writer
* Estelle M. H. Merrill (1877), journalist
* Marion Naifeh (1950), author
* Esther Newberg (1963), literary agent
* Margaret Colby Getchell Parsons (1914), author
* Jean Pedrick (1943), author
* Sally Bedell Smith (1970), journalist
* Lesley Stahl (1963), journalist
* Mari Tomasi, novelist
* Amanda Urban (1968), literary agent

### Politics

* Mimi Alford (1965), White House intern, who had an affair with United States President John F. Kennedy
* Gabe Amo (2010), member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Rhode Island
* Anne Canby, Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Transportation
* Giovinella Gonthier (1972), Seychelles Ambassador to the United States
* Shad Al-Sherif Pasha (2001), Sharif of Hijaz
* Ellen Moran (1988), former White House Communications Director under United States President Barack Obama
* Barbara Richardson (1971), First Lady of New Mexico and wife of Bill Richardson
* Gale Rossides, acting director of the Transportation Security Administration
* Margaret Joy Tibbetts (1941), United States Ambassador to Norway
* Candy Waites (1965), member of the South Carolina House of Representatives
* Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck (1999–2001), King of Bhutan
* Christine Todd Whitman (1968), Governor of New Jersey

### Other

* Louise Bates Ames (1926–1928), psychologist
* Mark Baumer (2006), adventurer
* Ron Corning (1993), television news reporter
* Barbara Damrosch (1963), horticulturalist
* Emily Susan Hartwell (1883), missionary
* Dennis Leary, chef
* Mary Johnson Bailey Lincoln (1864), chef
* Fanny E. Minot (1867), president of the Woman's Relief Corps
* Ann Peoples (1979), anthropologist
* Nedi Rivera (1968), Episcopal bishop
* Sybil Ward, attorney

## Honorary

* Hattie Alexander (1967), pediatrician
* Lawrence S. Bacow (2024), former president of Harvard University and Tufts University
* Margaret Clapp (1960), president of Wellesley College
* Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1997), associate justice, US Supreme Court
* Emerson Greenaway (1973), president of the American Library Association
* Vartan Gregorian (1989), president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York
* Matina Horner (1979), president of Radcliffe College
* Alice S. Huang (1982), president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
* Wolf Kahn (2000), painter
* Phyllis McGinley (1956), children's writer
* Agnes Mongan (1953), director of the Harvard Art Museums
* Seiji Ozawa (1984), director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra
* Helenka Pantaleoni (1966), actress
* Richard Stengel (2011), chief executive officer of the National Constitution Center
* Rosemond Tuve (1957), Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania
* Emily Vermeule (1973), Professor of Classical Philology and Archaeology, Harvard University
* Kathryn Wasserman Davis (2009), philanthropist