List of Bryn Mawr College people
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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.
[edit] Noted alumnae
- Renata Adler, writer
- Anastasia Ashman (1986), writer
- Ellis Avery, (1971), novelist
- Emily Greene Balch (1889), Nobel Peace Prize (1946)
- Margaret Ayer Barnes (1907), writer, Pulitzer Prize for fiction
- Ana Patricia Botin (1981), CEO Banesto
- Kathy Boudin (1965), Weather Underground alumna
- A.S. Byatt, postmodern novelist
- H.D., modernist poet (did not graduate)
- Lee McGeorge Durrell (1971), author, television presenter, zookeeper
- Drew Gilpin Faust (1968), dean, Radcliffe Institute, Twenty-Eighth President of Harvard University
- Hanna Holborn Gray (1950), former president, University of Chicago
- Edith Hamilton (1894), Classical scholar
- Katharine Houghton Hepburn (1899), suffragist and family-planning advocate [1]
- Katharine Hepburn (1928), Academy Award-winning actress
- Barbara Marx Hubbard (1951), writer and public speaker
- Sarah Jones, actor, poet, playwright (did not graduate)
- Lucy Taxis Shoe Meritt (A.B. 1927, M.A. 1928, Ph.D. 1935), classical archaeologist
- Lynne Meadow, theatrical producer and director
- Marianne Moore (1909), poet
- Emily Kimbrough (1921), writer
- Mildred Natwick (1927), Academy Award-nominated actress
- Sherry B. Ortner (1962), anthropologist, professor at UCLA, MacArthur Genius Grant recipient
- Jeannette Piccard, teacher, scientist, balloon pilot, priest
- Dorothy Schiff (1921), newspaper publisher
- Allyson Schwartz (1972), Member of U.S. House
- Caroline Stevermer (1977), fantasy writer
- Ellen Kushner (1977), fantasy writer (did not graduate)
- Rachel Simon (1981), writer
- Cornelia Otis Skinner, actress and author (did not graduate)
- Deborah Spungen (M.S.S. 1989), author
- Nettie Stevens (Ph.D. 1903), geneticist
- Anne Truitt (1943), minimalist sculptor
- Neda Ulaby (1970), NPR reporter
- Elizabeth Gray Vining (1923), Newbery medal winner
- Katherine Sergeant White (1914), editor, The New Yorker
- Rosemarie Said Zahlan (1958), Palestinian-American historian and writer
- Lindsay Northover, Baroness Northover, politician
- Alice Rivlin (1952), economist
[edit] Noted fictional alumnae
- Allison R. Hart-Burnett (B.A.) (1980s), Lady Jaye
- Edna Krabappel (M.A.), Simpsons teacher
- Erica Barry (B.A.), Something's Gotta Give (film) lead character played by Diane Keaton
- Pamela Abbott (B.A.), Inventing the Abbotts (1997), played by Liv Tyler
- Amanda Bonner (B.A.), Adam's Rib (1949), played by Katharine Hepburn
- Bunny Watson (B.A.), Desk Set (1957), played by Katharine Hepburn
[edit] Noted faculty
- Woodrow Wilson, (1885-1888)
- Mabel Lang, Greek (c1940-1991)
- Richmond Lattimore, Greek (1935-1971)
- Emmy Noether, Mathematics (1933-1935)
- Charlotte Scott, Mathematics (1885 - 1917)
- Frederica de Laguna, anthropologist and founder of Bryn Mawr's anthropology department (1906-2004)
- Thomas Hunt Morgan, geneticist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine (1866 - 1946)
- Maria Luisa Crawford, Geology, MacArthur Genius Grant recipient
