The following is a list of individuals associated with Radcliffe College through attending as a student, or serving as college president or dean.
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
- Agnes Irwin, 1894–1909
Notable alumnae
- Virginia Hamilton Adair
- Alice Adams, writer
- Fannie Fern Andrews
- Margaret Atwood, 1961, author
- Elizabeth Bailey
- Tryphosa Bates-Batcheller
- Deborah Batts
- Eva Beatrice Dykes
- Gail Lee Bernstein, Japanese historian
- Susan Berresford, 1965, president of the Ford Foundation 1996-2007
- Marsha S. Berzon
- Benazir Bhutto, first woman elected to lead a Muslim state, having twice been Prime Minister of Pakistan (1988–1990; 1993–1996).
- Melissa Block, radio journalist, Co-host, All Things Considered
- Marita Bonner
- Thérèse Bonney
- Elizabeth Brewster
- Jane Britton, 1967, murdered while a graduate student at Harvard
- Stockard Channing, actress, famous for her roles in Grease and The West Wing
- Nancy Chodorow
- Judy Clapp, 1952, computer scientist
- Zoe Cruz, Co-President of Morgan Stanley (Most Powerful woman on Wall Street)
- Natalie Zemon Davis
- Frances Gardiner Davenport (1870–1927), historian[1]
- Katharine Seymour Day, historical preservationist
- Peggy Dulany
- Eva Beatrice Dykes
- Debbie Ellison
- Rebecca Elson
- Barbara Epstein
- Anne Fadiman
- Norma Farber
- Abigail Folger, 1964, American coffee heiress, debutante, socialite, volunteer social worker, civil rights devotee.
- Mary Parker Follett
- Anne Garrels
- Katharine Fullerton Gerould
- Carol Gilligan
- Amy Goodman, political activist
- Ellen Goodman
- Jennifer Gordon
- Phyllis Granoff
- Linda Greenhouse
- Joyce Ballou Gregorian, 1968, Science fiction author
- Marjorie Grene
- Gisela Kahn Gresser
- Lani Guinier
- Amy Gutmann, current president of the University of Pennsylvania
- Melissa Glenn Haber
- Rachel Hadas
- Virginia Hall
- Olive Hazlett
- Diana Mara Henry, photographer
- Helen Sawyer Hogg
- Elizabeth Holtzman
- Elizabeth Hubbard
- Ruth Hubbard, professor, biologist, feminist
- Josephine Hull
- 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
- Rona Jaffe, author
- Nancy Johnson
- Sara Murray Jordan, gastroenterologist
- 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
- Helen Keller, deaf blind writer, activist
- Maxine Kumin
- Jean Kwok
- Susanne Langer
- Mary Lasker, health activist and philanthropist
- Ursula K. Le Guin, American writer, poet
- Henrietta Swan Leavitt
- Judith Ledeboer, architect
- Mary Lefkowitz
- Edith Lesley
- Alison Lurie, writer
- Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson
- Pauline Maier
- Emily Mann (B.A. English literature 1974), director
- Elizabeth Holloway Marston, M.A. 1921—involved in the creation of the comic book character Wonder Woman
- Helen Reimensnyder Martin
- Michel McQueen Martin, 1980, journalist
- Jessica Mathews
- Anne McCaffrey, 1947, science fiction author
- Priscilla Johnson McMillan, M.A. 1953, journalist, translator, author, historian
- Laura Meneses, political activist
- Karen Nelson Moore
- Alice Vanderbilt Morris
- Amelia Muir Baldwin, interior designer and women's suffrage activist
- Chris Mulford, A.B. 1963, breastfeeding advocate[2]
- Laura Nader, Professor in Controlling Processes
- Daisy Newman
- Andrea Nye a feminist philosopher and writer.
- Ursula Oppens, classical pianist
- Deborah Orin
- Mary White Ovington
- Masako Owada, 1985, Empress of Japan
- Judith Palfrey:
- Clara Claiborne Park (1923-2010), author who raised awareness of autism.[3]
- Linda Pastan
- Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, astronomer
- Josephine Preston Peabody
- Katha Pollitt
- Carol Potter, actress
- Francine Prose
- Julia Quinn, New York Times Best Selling author
- Bonnie Raitt (attended one year), Grammy Award-winning singer and musician
- Philinda Rand
- Adrienne Rich, poet
- Emeline Hill Richardson
- Alice Rivlin
- Helen Jean Rogers
- Judith Ann Wilson Rogers
- Margot Roosevelt, journalist
- Michelle Rosaldo
- Phyllis Schlafly, political activist, coined term A choice not an echo
- Ellen Schrecker
- Mary Sears
- Edie Sedgwick (attended), iconic American socialite and Warhol Superstar
- Carla J. Shatz
- Ellen Biddle Shipman, landscape architect (left after 1 year)
- Judith Shuval, sociologist
- Elsie Singmaster, author
- Diane Souvaine
- Diane B. Snelling
- Anne Whiston Spirn, landscape architect
- Edith G. Stedman, graduated from Radcliffe in 1910 and was appointed head the Appointment Bureau in 1930 till 1954
- Gertrude Stein, American writer, poet, playwright and feminist
- Doris Zemurray Stone (1909–1994), archaeologist and ethnographer of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures; graduated 1930[4]
- Abby 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
- Martha J. B. Thomas, PhD MBA, (1926-2006), chemical engineer
- Caroline Thompson, screenwriter-director
- Barbara Tuchman
- Lily Tuck
- Abby Howe Turner
- Ruth Turner
- Betty Miller Unterberger, first woman president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations[5]
- Jean Valentine
- Julie Vargas
- Emily Vermeule
- Maribel Vinson
- Caroline F. Ware
- Ruth Wendell Washburn, educational psychologist
- Hannah Weiner
- Natalie Wexler
- Nancy Wexler
- Lally Weymouth
- Marina von Neumann Whitman
- Charlotte Wilder, M.A., poet and eldest sister of Thornton Wilder
- Olive Winchester, professor at the Point Loma, Northwest, and Eastern Nazarene Colleges
- Marie Winn
Notes
- ^ Introduction to European Treaties Bearing on the History of the United States and its Dependencies, vol. 2 (Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 2010 edition)
- ^ [1]
- ^ Hevesi, Dennis. "Clara Claiborne Park, 86, Dies; Wrote About Autistic Child", The New York Times, July 12, 2010. Accessed July 13, 2010.
- ^ Union College Office of Communications (January 1995). "Doris Zemurray Stone dies" (online reproduction). Union College Magazine. Schenectady, NY: Union College. OCLC 6850493. Retrieved 2008-08-10.
- ^ "Lee W. Formwalt, "From Scotland to India: A Conversation with American Historian Betty Unterberger." August 2005". oah.org. Archived from the original on March 6, 2012. Retrieved October 23, 2010.