The following is a list of notable individuals associated with

Barnard College Barnard College is a Private college, private Women's colleges in the United States, women's Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college affiliated with Columbia University in New York City. It was founded in 1889 by a grou ...

through attendance as a student, service as a member of the faculty or staff, or award of the Barnard Medal of Distinction.

Notable alumnae

Academics and scientists

* Anne Anastasi (1928), American psychologist known for her pioneering development of

psychometrics Psychometrics is a field of study within psychology concerned with the theory and technique of measurement. Psychometrics generally covers specialized fields within psychology and education devoted to testing, measurement, assessment, and rela ...

, former president of the

American Psychological Association The American Psychological Association (APA) is the main professional organization of psychologists in the United States, and the largest psychological association in the world. It has over 170,000 members, including scientists, educators, clin ...

, recipient of the

National Medal of Science The National Medal of Science is an honor bestowed by the President of the United States to individuals in science and engineering who have made important contributions to the advancement of knowledge in the fields of behavioral science, behavior ...

Naomi André Naomi André is an American scholar of music. She is the David G. Frey Distinguished Professor in Music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is also the first scholar-in-residence of the Seattle Opera and the Des Moines Metro Ope ...

(1989), professor of music at the

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC, UNC–Chapel Hill, or simply Carolina) is a public university, public research university in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States. Chartered in 1789, the university first began enrolli ...

Natalie Angier Natalie Angier /ænˈdʒɪər/ (born February 16, 1958 in the Bronx, New York City) is an American nonfiction writer and a science journalist for ''The New York Times''. Her awards include the Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting in 1991 and the A ...

(1978), author, science journalist for ''

The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of ...

'', winner of the

Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting The Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting was presented from 1991 to 2006 for a distinguished example of beat reporting characterized by sustained and knowledgeable coverage of a particular subject or activity. From 1985 to 1990 it was known as the P ...

Nina Ansary Nina Ansary () (born 1966, Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian–American historian and author best known for her work on women's equity in Iran. Ansary's research has notably countered conventional assumptions of the progress of women in Iran while co ...

(1989), historian, author, one of the six UN Women Champions for Innovation, daughter of Iranian diplomat and philanthropist

Hushang Ansary Hushang Ansary (, born 1927) is an Iranian-American former diplomat, businessman, and philanthropist. He served for eighteen years in the Iranian government prior to the Iranian Revolution including as Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance ...

* Cicely Applebaum Ryshpan (1904–2004), economist who worked with labor unions, the US federal government, various United Nations agencies, and the

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* Jacqueline Barton (1974), Caltech chemist and

MacArthur Fellows Program The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and colloquially called the "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the MacArthur Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to typically between 20 and ...

"genius grant" winner *

Jean Baum Jean Baum is an American chemist. She is the distinguished professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Rutgers University, where she is also vice dean for research and graduate education in the school of arts and sciences, and also vice chair o ...

(1980), Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at

Rutgers University Rutgers University ( ), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a Public university, public land-grant research university consisting of three campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's C ...

* Annette Kar Baxter (1947), professor of history and American Studies at Barnard College (1952-1983), and pioneer in the study and teaching of Women's Studies *

Sally Benson Sally Benson (''née'' Sara Smith; September 3, 1897 – July 19, 1972) was an American writer of short stories, screenplays, and theatre. She is best known for her humorous tales of modern youth collected in '' Junior Miss'' and her semi-autobio ...

(1977), professor of energy engineering at

Stanford University Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth ...

Helen M. Berman Helen Miriam Berman is a Board of Governors Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Rutgers University and a former director of the RCSB Protein Data Bank (one of the member organizations of the Worldwide Protein Data Bank). A structural b ...

(1964), Board of Governors Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at

Martha Biondi Martha Biondi is an American historian. She is the Lorraine H. Morton Professor of African American Studies and Professor of History at Northwestern University. Biography Biondi was raised in Connecticut. She received her B.A. from Barnard Colle ...

(1985), professor of African American studies at

Northwestern University Northwestern University (NU) is a Private university, private research university in Evanston, Illinois, United States. Established in 1851 to serve the historic Northwest Territory, it is the oldest University charter, chartered university in ...

Joan Birman Joan Sylvia Lyttle Birman (born May 30, 1927, in New York CityLarry Riddle., ''Biographies of Women Mathematicians'', at Agnes Scott College) is an American mathematician, specializing in low-dimensional topology. She has made contributions to th ...

(1948), mathematician and winner of the

Chauvenet Prize The Chauvenet Prize is an annual award given by the Mathematical Association of America in recognition of an outstanding expository article on a mathematical topic. It consists of a prize of $1,000 and a certificate. The Chauvenet Prize was the ...

Hazel Bishop Hazel Gladys Bishop (August 17, 1906 – December 5, 1998) was an American chemist, inventor, and entrepreneur, and the founder of the cosmetics company Hazel Bishop, Inc. She was the inventor of the first long-lasting lipstick. Early life Bish ...

(1929),

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and inventor of innovative cosmetics *

Edyta Bojanowska Edyta M. Bojanowska is an American literary scholar and slavicist. She is a professor of Slavic languages and literature at Yale University and is currently the chair of Yale's Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. Biography Bojanowska ...

(1993), professor of Slavic languages and literature at

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...

* Hendrika B. Cantwell (1944), clinical professor of pediatrics,

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for abused and neglected children *

Margaret I. Carman Margaret Isabel Carman (July 12, 1890 – January 30, 1976) was an American teacher and historian, best known for her contributions to the preservation and dissemination of the history of Flushing, Queens, Flushing, New York. Born into a promine ...

(1890–1976), teacher at

Flushing High School Flushing High School is a four-year public high school in Flushing, in the New York City borough of Queens. The school is operated by the New York City Department of Education. As of the 2020–21 school year, the school had an enrollment of ...

* Marian Chertow (1977), academic specializing in

environmental resource management Environmental resource management or environmental management is the management of the interaction and impact of human societies on the environment. It is not, as the phrase might suggest, the management of the environment itself. Environment ...

* Susan Cole (1962), first female president of

Montclair State University Montclair State University (MSU) is a public research university in Montclair, New Jersey, with parts of the campus extending into Clifton and into Little Falls. As of fall 2018, Montclair State was, by enrollment, the second largest public un ...

Frances Gardiner Davenport Frances Gardiner Davenport (1870 – November 11, 1927) was an American historian who specialized in the later Middle Ages and the European colonization of the New World. Early life Born in 1870, Davenport was educated at Barnard College and Rad ...

(1890–1), historian *

Stacey D'Erasmo Stacey D'Erasmo (born 1961) is an American author and literary critic. Biography D'Erasmo was born in 1961 in New York City. She received a B.A. from Barnard College and an M.A. from New York University in English and American literature. From 1 ...

(1983), American author and critic, professor at Fordham University * Jerrilynn Dodds (1973), art historian, former dean of

Sarah Lawrence College Sarah Lawrence College (SLC) is a Private university, private liberal arts college in Yonkers, New York, United States. Founded as a Women's colleges in the United States, women's college in 1926, Sarah Lawrence College has been coeducational ...

* Ingrith Johnson Deyrup-Olsen (1940), American zoologist, daughter of

The New School The New School is a Private university, private research university in New York City. It was founded in 1919 as The New School for Social Research with an original mission dedicated to academic freedom and intellectual inquiry and a home for p ...

founder and first president

Alvin Saunders Johnson Alvin Saunders Johnson (December 18, 1874 – June 7, 1971) was an American economist and a co-founder and first director of The New School. Biography Alvin Johnson was born near Homer, Nebraska. He was educated at the University of Nebraska an ...

Mabel Smith Douglass Mabel Smith Douglass (February 11, 1874 – September 21, 1933) was the first dean, in 1918, of the New Jersey College for Women in New Brunswick, New Jersey. In 1955, the college was renamed Douglass College in her honor. Douglass College is now ...

(1899), educator and namesake of Douglass Residential College of Rutgers University *

Carol Dweck Carol Susan Dweck (born October 17, 1946) is an American psychologist. She holds the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professorship of Psychology at Stanford University. Dweck is known for her work on motivation and mindset. She was on the faculty at ...

(1967), professor of psychology at

* Pam Eddinger (1982), president of

Bunker Hill Community College Bunker Hill Community College (BHCC) is a public community college with multiple campuses in the Greater Boston area. Founded in 1973 in the Charlestown neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States, BHCC provides higher education and j ...

Jessica Einhorn Jessica P. Einhorn served as Dean of Washington's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of the Johns Hopkins University from 2001 until 2012. Einhorn succeeded Paul Wolfowitz, who resigned in 2001 to become the U.S. De ...

(1967), former dean of the

Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies The School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) is a graduate school of Johns Hopkins University based in Washington, D.C. The school also maintains campuses in Bologna, Italy and Nanjing, China. The school is devoted to the study of int ...

Hope Tisdale Eldridge Dorothy Hope Tisdale Eldridge (June 18, 1904 – October 5, 1991) was an American physical educator, demographer, and statistician. Early life and education Hope Tisdale was born in Mobile, Alabama, the daughter of Marion Eugene Tisdale and He ...

(1925), physical educator, demographer and statistician at the

United Nations The United Nations (UN) is the Earth, global intergovernmental organization established by the signing of the Charter of the United Nations, UN Charter on 26 June 1945 with the stated purpose of maintaining international peace and internationa ...

Firth Haring Fabend Firth Haring Fabend (born August 12, 1937) is an American novelist and historian. She was born in Tappan, New York, on August 12, 1937, the daughter of James Firth Haring and Elizabeth Adler. She graduated from Nyack High School in Nyack, New York ...

(1959), novelist and historian * Nancy Farriss (1959), historian, professor at the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (Penn or UPenn) is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. One of nine colonial colleges, it was chartered in 1755 through the efforts of f ...

Jessica Garretson Finch Jessica Garretson Finch (August 19, 1871 – October 31, 1949) was an American educator, author, women's rights activist, founder of the Lennox School for girls, and founding president of Finch College. Early life Finch was born on August ...

(1893), author, suffragette, founding President of

Finch College Finch College was an undergraduate women's college in Manhattan, New York City. The Finch School opened as a private secondary school for girls in 1900 and became a liberal arts college in 1952. It closed in 1976. Founding Finch was founded in ...

* Katherine Elizabeth Fleming (1987), provost of

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private university, private research university in New York City, New York, United States. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded in 1832 by Albert Gallatin as a Nondenominational ...

Katherine Franke Katherine M. Franke is an American legal scholar who specializes in gender and sexuality law. She began her legal career as a civil right litigator, then worked at the New York City Commission on Human Rights as a supervising attorney before ...

(1981), professor at

Columbia Law School Columbia Law School (CLS) is the Law school in the United States, law school of Columbia University, a Private university, private Ivy League university in New York City. The school was founded in 1858 as the Columbia College Law School. The un ...

Ellen V. Futter Ellen Victoria Futter (born September 21, 1949) is the former president of the American Museum of Natural History (1993–2023). She previously served as president of Barnard College for 13 years. Biography Futter was born in New York City and a ...

(1971), President of

and the

American Museum of Natural History The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) is a natural history museum on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. Located in Theodore Roosevelt Park, across the street from Central Park, the museum complex comprises 21 interconn ...

Susan Gal Susan Gal (born 1949) is the Mae & Sidney G. Metzl Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology, of Linguistics, and of Social Sciences at the University of Chicago. She is the author or co-author of several books and numerous articles on lingu ...

(1970), anthropologist, professor at the

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, or UChi) is a Private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Its main campus is in the Hyde Park, Chicago, Hyde Park neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, Chic ...

Lynn Garafola Lynn Theresa Garafola (born December 12, 1946) is an American dance historian, linguist, critic, curator, lecturer, and educator. A prominent researcher and writer with broad interests in the field of dance history, she is acknowledged as the lea ...

(1968), dance historian *

Virginia Gildersleeve Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve (October 3, 1877 – July 7, 1965) was an American academic, the long-time dean of Barnard College, co-founder of the International Federation of University Women, and the only woman delegated by United States ...

(1899), Dean of

and delegate to the charter conference of the

in 1945 * Karen Goldberg (1983), Vagelos Professor of Energy Research at the

* Nieca Goldberg (1979), doctor at the

NYU Langone Medical Center NYU Langone Health is an integrated Health system, academic health system located in New York City, New York, United States. The health system consists of the New York University Grossman School of Medicine, NYU Grossman School of Medicine and NY ...

Rebecca Goldstein Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (born February 23, 1950) is an American philosopher, novelist, and public intellectual. She has written ten books, both fiction and non-fiction. She holds a Ph.D. in philosophy of science from Princeton University, and ...

(1972), philosopher, biographer, and novelist *

Ruth Gottesman Ruth Levy Gottesman (née Levy, born 1930) is an American educator. Gottesman is the chair of the board of trustees of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (AECOM) in the Bronx, New York, and a long-time professor there. In February 2024, she ...

(1952), professor of pediatrics at

Albert Einstein College of Medicine The Albert Einstein College of Medicine is a Private university, private medical school in New York City. Founded in 1953, Einstein is an independent degree-granting institution within the Montefiore Einstein Health System. Einstein hosts Doc ...

, philanthropist, wife of

David Gottesman David Sanford "Sandy" Gottesman (April 26, 1926 – September 28, 2022) was an American businessman, billionaire, and philanthropist. He founded First Manhattan Co. (FMC), and was noted for his friendship with Warren Buffett. Early life and ed ...

Monica Green Monica Green (born 1959) is a Swedish Social Democratic politician who was a member of the Riksdag from 1994 to 2018. A controversial thought that she has expressed is that incest between adults should be legalised.Green, Monica -politiker: G� ...

(1978), medieval historian and Professor of History at

Arizona State University Arizona State University (Arizona State or ASU) is a public university, public research university in Tempe, Arizona, United States. Founded in 1885 as Territorial Normal School by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature, the university is o ...

Maxine Greene Sarah Maxine Greene (née Meyer; December 23, 1917 – May 29, 2014) was an American educational philosopher, author, social activist, and teacher. Described upon her death as "perhaps the most iconic and influential living figure associated wit ...

(1938), educator, philosopher, activist; past president of the

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* Patricia Greenspan (1966), professor of philosophy at the

University of Maryland, College Park The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland, United States. Founded in 1856, UMD i ...

Miriam Griffin Miriam Tamara Griffin (née Dressler; 6 June 1935 – 16 May 2018) was an American classical scholar and tutor of ancient history at Somerville College at the University of Oxford from 1967 to 2002. She was a scholar of Roman history and ancien ...

(1956), classical scholar at

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Ellen R. Gritz Ellen R. Gritz (born April 9, 1944) is an American psychologist and cancer researcher. She is Professor and Chair Emerita of the Department of Behavioral Science and Olla S. Stribling Distinguished Chair for Cancer Research at The University of ...

(1964), cancer researcher at the

University of Texas The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas, United States. Founded in 1883, it is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. With 53,082 students as of fall 2 ...

MD Anderson Cancer Center The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (colloquially MD Anderson Cancer Center) is a comprehensive cancer center and autonomous university of the University of Texas System in Houston, Texas. It is the largest cancer center in the wo ...

Ruth T. Gross Ruth Taubenhaus "Toby" Gross (June 24, 1920 – October 16, 2007) was an American pediatrician. She was the first woman to receive an endowed professorship at Stanford University when she was named the Katharine Dexter and Stanley McCormick Memori ...

(1941), pediatrician, first woman to hold an endowed chair at

Evelyn Byrd Harrison Evelyn Byrd Harrison (June 5, 1920 – November 3, 2012) was an American classical scholar and archaeologist. She was Edith Kitzmiller Professor of the History of Fine Arts at the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University and was for more than ...

(1941), classical scholar, archaeologist, Fellow of the

American Academy of Arts and Sciences The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (The Academy) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States. It was founded in 1780 during the American Revolution by John Adams, John Hancock, James Bowdoin, Andrew Oliver, and other ...

Martha Himmelfarb Martha Himmelfarb (born 1952) is an American scholar of religion. Her areas of focus include the Second Temple period in Jewish history, Jewish and Christian apocalyptic literature, Hekhalot literature, early Christianity, early rabbinic Judaism ...

(1974), scholar of religion, professor at

Harvard University Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...

Louise Holland Louise Adams Holland (3 July 1893–21 June 1990) was a philologist, university teacher, academic and archaeologist. Early life and education Born in Brooklyn in New York State (it would not become part of New York City until five years late ...

(1893–1990), academic, philologist and archaeologist *

Lise Morjé Howard Lise Morjé Howard is a political scientist from the United States (U.S.), an expert on United Nations peacekeeping, war termination, civil wars, and American foreign policy. She is currently a Professor of Government and Foreign Service at Georg ...

(1991), political scientist, professor at

Georgetown University Georgetown University is a private university, private Jesuit research university in Washington, D.C., United States. Founded by Bishop John Carroll (archbishop of Baltimore), John Carroll in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic higher education, Ca ...

Judith Herzfeld Judith Herzfeld (born 1948) is Professor Emerita at Brandeis University. Known for her work in statistical thermodynamics, solid state NMR and chemical education, she is a fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Association for t ...

(1967), Professor of Biophysical Chemistry at

Brandeis University Brandeis University () is a Private university, private research university in Waltham, Massachusetts, United States. It is located within the Greater Boston area. Founded in 1948 as a nonsectarian, non-sectarian, coeducational university, Bra ...

Evelyn Hu Evelyn L. Hu () is the Tarr-Coyne Professor of Applied Physics and of Electrical Engineering at Harvard University. Hu has made major contributions to nanotechnology by designing and creating complex nanostructures. Her work has focused on nanos ...

(1969), Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering at

Jean Blackwell Hutson Jean Blackwell Hutson (born Jean Blackwell; September 7, 1914 – February 4, 1998) was an American librarian, archivist, writer, curator, educator, and later chief of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.Gunn, A. (1994). "Hutson, J ...

(1969), librarian, archivist, chief of the

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is a research library of the New York Public Library (NYPL) and an archive repository for information on people of African descent worldwide. Located at 515 Malcolm X Boulevard (Lenox Avenue) be ...

Karla Jay Karla Jay (born February 22, 1947) is an American retired academic. She is a professor emerita at Pace University, where she taught English and directed the women's and gender studies program between 1974 and 2009. A pioneer in the field of l ...

(1968), pioneer of lesbian and gay studies *

Madlyn M. Kahr Madlyn Millner Kahr (née Madlyn Millner; 1913–2004) was an American art historian and educator. She specialized in the study of 16th–17th century painting of Dutch, Spanish, and Venetian origins, and feminist art history. Kahr was professor e ...

(1913–2004; B.A. 1933), American art historian and educator; professor at the

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Frances Kamm Frances Myrna Kamm () is an American philosopher specializing in normative and applied ethics. Kamm is currently the Henry Rutgers University Professor of Philosophy and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University in New Brunswick ...

(1960), philosopher, professor at

Darcy Kelley Darcy Brisbane Kelley (born November 29, 1948), is an American neurobiologist and currently a Weintraub and HHMI Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Columbia University. She is also Co-Director of Columbia’s Graduate Program ...

(1970), American

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, professor at

Columbia University Columbia University in the City of New York, commonly referred to as Columbia University, is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Churc ...

* Linda K. Kerber (1960), feminist intellectual historian, professor at the

University of Iowa The University of Iowa (U of I, UIowa, or Iowa) is a public university, public research university in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. Founded in 1847, it is the oldest and largest university in the state. The University of Iowa is organized int ...

* Mirra Komarovsky (1926), sociologist; pioneer in the

sociology of gender Sociology of gender is a subfield of sociology. As one of the most important social structures is status (position that an individual possesses which effects how they are treated by society). One of the most important statuses an individual cla ...

Mabel Lang Mabel Louise Lang (November 12, 1917 – July 21, 2010) was an American archaeologist and scholar of Classical Greek and Mycenaean culture. Biography Lang took her first degree at Cornell University in 1939 and was awarded her PhD at Bryn Mawr ...

(1939), archeologist and professor at

Bryn Mawr College Bryn Mawr College ( ; Welsh language, Welsh: ) is a Private college, private Women's colleges in the United States, women's Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded as a ...

Linda Laubenstein Linda Jane Laubenstein (May 21, 1947 – August 15, 1992) was an American physician and early HIV/AIDS researcher. She was among the first doctors in the United States to recognize the AIDS epidemic of the early 1980s; she co-authored the first ...

, MD (1969), HIV/AIDS researcher *

Sylvia Lavin Sylvia Lavin is a professor of history and theory of architecture at Princeton University, School of Architecture. She was previously the head of the Ph.D. in Architecture program from 2007-2017 and professor of architectural history and theory at ...

(1982), professor at the

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Janna Levin Janna J. Levin (born 1967) is an American theoretical cosmologist and a professor of physics and astronomy at Barnard College. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in astronomy and physics with a concentration in philosophy at Barnard College in 1988 an ...

(1988), cosmologist and Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy at

Helen Longino Helen Elizabeth Longino (born July 13, 1944) is an American philosopher of science who has argued for the significance of values and social interactions to scientific inquiry. She has written about the role of women in science and is a central ...

(1960), philosopher of science, professor at

Susan Lowey Susan Lowey (born 22 January 1933 in Vienna) is an American biophysicist researching the structure and function of contractile proteins. She currently teaches in the Department of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics at the University of Vermont and ...

(1950), biophysicist and professor of the

University of Vermont The University of Vermont and State Agricultural College, commonly referred to as the University of Vermont (UVM), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Burlington, Vermont, United States. Foun ...

Susan Mailer Susan Mailer (born August 28, 1949) is an American psychoanalyst, writer, and academic who has lived in Chile since the 1980s. Mailer is the firstborn child of American writer Norman Mailer and his first wife, Beatrice Silverman. She is the auth ...

(1971), psychoanalyst, writer, and academic, daughter of novelist

Norman Mailer Nachem Malech Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007), known by his pen name Norman Kingsley Mailer, was an American writer, journalist and filmmaker. In a career spanning more than six decades, Mailer had 11 best-selling books, at least ...

* Joyce Lee Malcolm (1963), professor at

Antonin Scalia Law School The Antonin Scalia Law School is the law school of George Mason University, Virginia's largest public research university. It is located in Arlington, Virginia, roughly west of Washington, D.C., and east-northeast of George Mason University's ...

Rita Gunther McGrath Rita Gunther McGrath (born July 28, 1959 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American strategic management scholar and professor of management at the Columbia Business School. She is known for her work on strategy, innovation, and entrepreneurship, i ...

(1981), business book author; Professor at the

Columbia Business School Columbia Business School (CBS) is the business school of Columbia University, a Private university, private research university in New York City. Established in 1916, Columbia Business School is one of six Ivy League business schools and one of ...

Elizabeth M. McNally Elizabeth M. McNally is an American human geneticist and cardiologist. She is the Elizabeth J. Ward Chair and director of the Center for Genetic Medicine at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine. In 2021, McNally was elected a me ...

(1983), geneticist, professor at Northwestern University * Eileen McNamara (1974), professor of journalism at Brandeis University; formerly Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist of ''The Boston Globe'' *

Margaret Mead Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901 – November 15, 1978) was an American cultural anthropologist, author and speaker, who appeared frequently in the mass media during the 1960s and the 1970s. She earned her bachelor's degree at Barnard Col ...

(1923), anthropologist famous for ''Coming of Age in Samoa'' *

Barbara Stoler Miller Barbara Stoler Miller (August 8, 1940 – April 19, 1993) was a scholar of Sanskrit literature. Her translation of the '' Bhagavad Gita'' was extremely successful and she helped popularize Indian literature in the U.S. She was the president of the ...

(1962), scholar of Sanskrit literature known for a translation of the ''

Bhagavad Gita The Bhagavad Gita (; ), often referred to as the Gita (), is a Hindu texts, Hindu scripture, dated to the second or first century BCE, which forms part of the Hindu epic, epic poem Mahabharata. The Gita is a synthesis of various strands of Ind ...

'' * Nancy K. Miller (1961), American literary scholar, feminist theorist and memoirist, professor at

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* Dorothy Miner (1926), American art historian, curator at

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Gertrude Moakley Gertrude Charlotte Moakley (February 18, 1905 – March 28, 1998) was an American librarian and a Tarot scholar. Moakley is notable for having written the earliest and most significant account of the iconography of Tarot, a card game which origi ...

(1926) American

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and noted Tarot scholar. * Cathryn Nagler (1979), immunologist, professor at the University of Chicago *

Eva Neer Eva Julia Neer (1937–2000) was an American physician (Columbia University P&S), biochemist, and cell-biology scientist who gained U.S. national research awards (FASEB, 1987; American Heart Association, 1996) for her discoveries on G-protein s ...

(1959), American chemist, professor at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons * Gertrude Neumark (1948), American physicist and former professor of Columbia University * Elissa L. Newport (1969), American psycholinguist, professor at Georgetown University *

Barbara Novak Barbara J. Novak (born 1929) is an American art historian. She was the Helen Goodhart Altschul Professor of Art History at Barnard College from 1958 to 1998. Biography Novak was born in New York City in 1929. She grew up in Far Rockaway, Queens ...

(1950), art historian at Barnard College, 1982

National Book Award for Nonfiction The National Book Award for Nonfiction is one of five US annual National Book Awards, which are given by the National Book Foundation to recognize outstanding literary work by US citizens. They are awards "by writers to writers". The panelists a ...

finalist *

Aihwa Ong Aihwa Ong (; born February 1, 1950) is a professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, a member of the Science Council of the International Panel on Social Progress, and a former recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship for the ...

(1974), American anthropologist and professor at University of California, Berkeley and 2001 MacArthur Fellow * Anne Paolucci (1947), Italian American writer, dramatist, professor at St. John's University in New York *

Elsie Clews Parsons Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons (November 27, 1875 – December 19, 1941) was an American anthropologist, sociologist, folklorist, and feminist who studied Native American tribes—such as the Tewa and Hopi—in Arizona, New Mexico, and Mexico. ...

(1896), first woman elected President of the

American Anthropological Association The American Anthropological Association (AAA) is an American organization of scholars and practitioners in the field of anthropology. With 10,000 members, the association, based in Arlington, Virginia, includes archaeologists, cultural anthropo ...

Esther Pasztory Esther Pasztory (June 21, 1943 – June 25, 2024) was a professor of Pre-Columbian art history at Columbia University. From 1997 to her retirement in 2013, she held the Lisa and Bernard Selz Chair in Art History and Archaeology. Among her many pu ...

(1965), scholar of

Pre-Columbian In the history of the Americas, the pre-Columbian era, also known as the pre-contact era, or as the pre-Cabraline era specifically in Brazil, spans from the initial peopling of the Americas in the Upper Paleolithic to the onset of European col ...

Art at Columbia University *

Marjorie Perloff Marjorie Perloff (born Gabriele Mintz; September 28, 1931 – March 24, 2024) was an Austrian-born American poetry scholar and critic, known for her study of avant-garde poetry. Perloff was a professor at Catholic University, the University of ...

(1953), professor of English at Stanford University *

Helen Perlstein Pollard Helen Perlstein Pollard (born September 4, 1946) is an American academic ethnohistorian and archaeologist, known for her publications and research on pre-Columbian cultures in the west-central Mexico region. Biography As an undergraduate Pollard s ...

(1967), archaeologist, ethnologist,

Mesoamerican Mesoamerica is a historical region and cultural area that begins in the southern part of North America and extends to the Pacific coast of Central America, thus comprising the lands of central and southern Mexico, all of Belize, Guatemala, El S ...

ist scholar, professor of anthropology at MSU *

Helen Ranney Helen Margaret Ranney (April 12, 1920 – April 5, 2010) was an American doctor and hematologist who made significant contributions to research on sickle-cell anemia. Early life Ranney was born in Summer Hill, New York, where her parents ra ...

(1941), first woman to lead a university department of medicine in the U.S., be president of the

Association of American Physicians The Association of American Physicians (AAP) is an honorary medical society founded in 1885 by the Canadian physician Sir William Osler and six other distinguished physicians of his era for "the advancement of scientific and practical medicine ...

, or serve as a Distinguished Physician of the

Veterans Administration The United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is a Cabinet-level executive branch department of the federal government charged with providing lifelong healthcare services to eligible military veterans at the 170 VA medical centers an ...

Amy Richards Amelia Richards (born February 9, 1970) is an American activist, organizer, writer, television producer, feminist, and art historian, currently residing in New York. She produced the Emmy-nominated series ''Woman'', which airs on Viceland. She is ...

(1992), American historian and feminist activist *

Ida Rolf Ida Pauline Rolf (May 19, 1896 – March 19, 1979) was a biochemist and the creator of the pseudoscientific practice of Structural Integration, later termed Rolfing, a type of manual therapy that claims to aligning the human body's so-called " ...

(1916), biochemist, founder of Rolfing Structural Integration *

Barbara Rose Barbara Ellen Rose (June 11, 1936December 25, 2020) was an American art historian, art critic, curator, and college professor. Rose's criticism focused on 20th-century American art, particularly minimalism and abstract expressionism, as well as ...

(1957), art historian and founding director of the

Katzen Arts Center The Cyrus and Myrtle Katzen Arts Center is home to all of the visual and performing arts programs at American University and the American University Museum. It is located at Ward Circle, the intersection of Nebraska Avenue and Massachusetts Aven ...

at American University; first wife of artist

Frank Stella Frank Philip Stella (May 12, 1936 – May 4, 2024) was an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker, noted for his work in the areas of minimalism and post-painterly abstraction. He lived and worked in New York City for much of his career befor ...

Ora Mendelsohn Rosen Ora Mendelsohn Rosen (October 26, 1935 – May 30, 1990) was an American medical researcher who investigated the influence of hormones, particularly insulin, on the control of cell growth. She was a professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medi ...

(1956),

cell biology Cell biology (also cellular biology or cytology) is a branch of biology that studies the structure, function, and behavior of cells. All living organisms are made of cells. A cell is the basic unit of life that is responsible for the living an ...

researcher *

Louise Rosenblatt Louise Michelle Rosenblatt (23 August 1904 in Atlantic City, New Jersey – 8 February 2005 in Arlington, Virginia) was an American university professor. She is best known as a researcher into the teaching of literature. Biography Rosenblatt was ...

(1920s), influential literary theorist and educator *

Joan Ruderman Joan V. Ruderman (born 1947/48) is an American molecular and cell biologist. She is a Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and Visiting Senior Biologist at Princeton University. She has researched cell division and embryo development, and more ...

(1969), professor at Harvard University *

Mavis Sanders Mavis G. Sanders is a senior principal researcher at thLearning Policy Institute where she focuses on education policy, equity, and reform. Education Sanders received a Bachelor's in Urban Affairs with a concentration in political science from ...

(1987), research scholar *

Myriam Sarachik Myriam Paula Sarachik (August 8, 1933October 7, 2021) was a Belgian-born American experimental physicist who specialized in low-temperature solid state physics. From 1996, she was a Professors in the United States, distinguished professor of ph ...

(1954), American physicist, professor at the

City College of New York The City College of the City University of New York (also known as the City College of New York, or simply City College or CCNY) is a Public university, public research university within the City University of New York (CUNY) system in New York ...

and recipient of the

Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize The Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize is an annual award given by the American Physical Society "to recognize and encourage outstanding theoretical or experimental contributions to condensed matter physics." It was endowed by AT&T Bell Labor ...

in 2005 * Kim Lane Scheppele (1975), political scientist, professor at

Princeton School of Public and International Affairs The Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (''abbrev.'' SPIA; formerly the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs) is a professional public policy school at Princeton University. The school provides an array of co ...

Anna Schwartz Anna Jacobson Schwartz (pronounced ; November 11, 1915 – June 21, 2012) was an American economist who worked at the National Bureau of Economic Research in New York City and a writer for ''The New York Times''. Paul Krugman has said that Sch ...

(1933), economist * Megumi Yamaguchi Shinoda (1908), first

Asian American Asian Americans are Americans with ancestry from the continent of Asia (including naturalized Americans who are immigrants from specific regions in Asia and descendants of those immigrants). Although this term had historically been used fo ...

woman to graduate from

Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons The Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons (officially known as Columbia University Roy and Diana Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons) is the medical school of Columbia University, located at the Columbia University Irvin ...

and one of the first women of Japanese ancestry in the United States to receive a Doctor of Medicine degree *

Shuly Rubin Schwartz Shuly Rubin Schwartz is the Chancellor and Irving Lehrman Research Professor of American Jewish History and Sala and Walter Schlesinger Dean of the Gershon Kekst Graduate School at The Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTS). Schwartz is the ...

(1988), first female chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * Anne A. Scitovsky (1937), health economist, former member of the

President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research The President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research was a bioethics organization in the United States. Purposes This Congressionally mandated group was formed in November 1978, by Public ...

Susan C. Scrimshaw Susan Crosby Scrimshaw is an American scholar of medical anthropology and university administrator. She served as president of Simmons University, The Sage Colleges, and dean of the School of Public Health at the University of Illinois Chicago. ...

(1967), medical anthropologist, former president of Simmons University and The Sage Colleges *

Samah Selim Samah Selim is an Egyptian scholar and translator of Arabic literature. She studied English literature at Barnard College, and obtained her PhD from Columbia University in 1997. At present she is an associate professor at the Department of African ...

(1986), professor of Arabic literature at Rutgers University *

Louise Slade Louise Slade was a food scientist known for her work on food polymer science. She was an elected fellow of the Institute of Food Technologists and of the American Association of Cereal Chemists. Education and career Slade was born in South Car ...

(1968), food scientist *

Vivian Sobchack Vivian Carol Sobchack is an American cinema and media theorist and cultural critic. Sobchack's work on science fiction films and phenomenology of film is perhaps her most recognized. She is a prolific writer and has authored numerous books and ...

(1961), cultural critic *

Maya Soetoro-Ng Maya Kasandra Soetoro-Ng (; ; born August 15, 1970) is an Indonesian-born American academic, who is a faculty specialist at the Spark M. Matsunaga Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution, based in the College of Social Sciences at the Univer ...

(1993), educator; half-sister of President

Barack Obama Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who was the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first African American president in American history. O ...

Judith E. Stein Judith E. Stein (born 1943) is a Philadelphia-based art historian and curator, whose academic career has focused on the postwar New York art world. She has written a biography of the art dealer Richard Bellamy, as well as feature articles rega ...

(1965), art historian and curator * Barbara J. Stoll (1971), former dean of the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston * Barbara Lerner Spectre (1964), academic and scholar on

Jewish studies Jewish studies (or Judaic studies; ) is an academic discipline centered on the study of Jews and Judaism. Jewish studies is interdisciplinary and combines aspects of history (especially Jewish history), Middle Eastern studies, Asian studies, ...

Amy Sueyoshi Amy Sueyoshi is the provost of San Francisco State University. Sueyoshi is a trained historian specializing in sexuality, gender, and race. Her publications and lectures focus on issues regarding race and sexuality such as cross-dressing, porno ...

(1993), historian and academic *

Susan Rubin Suleiman Susan Rubin Suleiman is a Hungarian-born American literary scholar. She is the C. Douglas Dillon Professor Emerita of the Civilization of France and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. Biography Suleiman was born in Buda ...

(1960), professor of French literature at Harvard University *

Hessy Levinsons Taft Hessy Levinsons Taft (born Hessy Levinsons; 17 May 1934) is a Jewish German who was featured as an infant in Nazi propaganda after her photo won a contest to find "the most beautiful Aryan baby" in 1935. Taft's image was subsequently distributed ...

(1955), chemistry professor at St. John's University in New York *

Abigail Thernstrom Abigail Thernstrom (September 14, 1936 – April 10, 2020) was an American political scientist and a leading conservative scholar on race relations, voting rights and education. She was an adjunct scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, ...

(1958), American political scientist and conservative scholar on race relations, voting rights and education who served on the

United States Commission on Civil Rights The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (CCR) is a bipartisan, independent commission of the United States federal government, created by the Civil Rights Act of 1957 during the Eisenhower administration, that is charged with the responsibility f ...

Erin L. Thompson Erin L. Thompson is an American art historian and lawyer. She is a professor in the Department of Art and Music at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice (City University of New York). She studies art crime, including antiquities looting, the de ...

(2002), professor of art at John Jay College of Criminal Justice *

Judith Jarvis Thomson Judith Jarvis Thomson (October 4, 1929November 20, 2020) was an American philosopher who studied and worked on ethics and metaphysics. Her work ranges across a variety of fields, but she is most known for her work regarding the thought experimen ...

(1950), philosopher and professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology *

Merryl Tisch Merryl H. Tisch is currently the Chairman of the SUNY Board of Trustees, and the former Chancellor of the New York State Board of Regents. She is the wife of James S. Tisch, an heir to the Loews Corporation. In November 2015, she stepped down f ...

(1977), educator, chancellor,

New York State Board of Regents The Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York is responsible for the general supervision of all educational activities within New York State, presiding over the University of the State of New York and the New York State Educatio ...

; wife of James S. Tisch, heir to the Loews Corporation * Nim Tottenham (1996), professor of psychology at Columbia University *

Jessie Ann Owens Jessie Ann Owens is an American author and educator. She is a professor of music at University of California, Davis and a former dean of the Division of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies. Owens is a recognized musicologist of Renaissance musi ...

(1971), professor of music at University of California, Davis *

Diane E. Pataki Diane E. Pataki is a Foundation Professor and Director of the School of Sustainability at Arizona State University. She is an elected Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, the Ecological Society of America, and the American Association for ...

(1993), professor at the University of Utah and recipient of the

James B. Macelwane Medal The James B. Macelwane Medal is awarded annually by the American Geophysical Union to three to five early career scientists (no more than 10 years beyond having received their Ph.D.). It is named after James B. Macelwane, a Jesuit priest and one of ...

in 2008 *

Lila Wallis Lila Amdurska Wallis (June 1, 1921 – January 3, 2022) was a Polish-born American physician who was board-certified in internal medicine, hematology, and endocrinology/metabolism; the only doctor in the United States to be board-certified in all ...

(1947), physician, former president of the

American Medical Women's Association The American Medical Women's Association (AMWA) is a professional advocacy and educational organization of women physicians and medical students. History The '' Woman's Medical Journal'' began publication in the 1893. As World War I broke out ...

and pioneer in women's health *

Beatrice Warde Beatrice Lamberton Warde (September 20, 1900 – September 16, 1969, née Beatrice Becker) was a twentieth-century writer and scholar of typography. As a marketing manager for the British Monotype Corporation, she was influential in the deve ...

(1920s), calligrapher, librarian, researcher on typography *

Katherine Brehme Warren Katherine "Kitty" Brehme Warren (1909–1991) was an American geneticist and scientific editor known for her work at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Early life and education Warren was born Katherine Suydam Brehme in New York City in 1909, to pare ...

(1930), geneticist and scientific editor * Susan Weber (1977), professor of Bard Graduate Center and wife of

George Soros George Soros (born György Schwartz; August 12, 1930) is an American investor and philanthropist. , he has a net worth of US$7.2 billion, Note that this site is updated daily. having donated more than $32 billion to the Open Society Foundat ...

Helen L. Webster Helen L. Webster (August 1, 1853 – January 4, 1928) was an American Philology, philologist and educator. She taught at Vassar College, 1889–90, at same time giving a course of lectures on Comparative linguistics, comparative philology at Barnar ...

(1853-1928), philologist and educator * Judith Weisenfeld (1986), scholar of

Afro-American religion African diaspora religions, also described as Afro-American religions, are a number of related beliefs that developed in the Americas in various areas of the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Southern United States. They derive from traditional ...

, professor at Princeton University *

Karen Wilkin Karen Wilkin (born 1940) is a New York–based independent curator and art critic specializing in 20th-century modernism. Biography Educated at Barnard College (1962) and Columbia University, she was awarded a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship and a Fulbri ...

(1962), art critic and curator *

Irene J. Winter Irene J. Winter (born 1940 in New York City) is an American art historian who is an influential and pioneering scholar of ancient Near Eastern art. Life BA Barnard College, Anthropology, 1960; MA University of Chicago, Near Eastern Studies, 1967 ...

(1960), American art historian, professor at Harvard University

Actresses and performers

Sissy Biggers Martha "Sissy" Cargill Biggers (born Martha Lyons Cargill on July 3, 1957) is an American television personality and lifestyle expert. She has hosted the Food Network's '' Ready.. Set... Cook!'' and Lifetime's ''Biggers & Summers'' and ''Live f ...

(1979), host of '' Ready.. Set... Cook!'' 1996–2000 *

Franziska Boas Franziska Marie Boas (January 8, 1902 – December 22, 1988) was an American dancer. She is best known for her works with percussion, pioneering dance therapy, and using dance as social activism. Biography Boas was born in New York City. She was ...

(1923), dancer, percussionist and dance therapist *

Clara Bryant Clara Bryant (February 7, 1985) is an American lawyer and former actress. She is best known for her roles as Amy in '' Under Wraps'' and Tru Walker in '' Tru Confessions''. She is an alumna of University of Georgia School of Law. ''Bone Eater'' ...

(2007), actress *

Catherine de Castelbajac Katherine (), also spelled Catherine and other variations, is a feminine given name. The name and its variants are popular in countries where large Christian populations exist, because of its associations with one of the earliest Christian sa ...

(1975), model and fashion journalist *

Michelle Collins Michelle Danielle Collins (born 28 May 1962) is a British actress. She is known for her role as Cindy Beale in the BBC soap opera A soap opera (also called a daytime drama or soap) is a genre of a long-running radio or television Serial (r ...

(2002), American comedian and talk show host, former presenter of ''

The View ''The View'' is an American talk show created by broadcast journalist Barbara Walters. , in its 28th season, the show has aired on American Broadcasting Company, ABC as part of the network's ABC Daytime, daytime programming block since August ...

'' *

Jill Eikenberry Jill Susan Eikenberry (born January 21, 1947) is an American film, stage, and television actress. She is known for her role as lawyer Ann Kelsey on the NBC drama ''L.A. Law'' (1986–94), for which she is a five-time Emmy Award and four-time Go ...

(1968), actress * Denise Faye (1996), director, choreographer, actress *

Greta Gerwig Greta Celeste Gerwig ( ; born August 4, 1983) is an American actress, screenwriter, and film director. Initially known for working on various mumblecore films, she has since expanded from acting in and co-writing independent films to directing ...

(2006), actress, screenwriter, filmmaker who won the

Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy The Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy is a Golden Globe Award that has been awarded annually since 1952 by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA). Eligibility Eligible films must be at least 70 minutes in ...

in 2018 and was nominated for two

Academy Awards The Academy Awards, commonly known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit in film. They are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) in the United States in recognition of excellence in ...

* Jaime Gleicher (2010), reality star, producer, psychotherapist *

Lauren Graham Lauren Helen Graham (born March 16, 1967) is an American Actor, actress and author. She is best known for portraying Lorelai Gilmore on The WB series ''Gilmore Girls'', for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – ...

(1988), actress, played

Lorelai Gilmore Lorelai Victoria Gilmore is a fictional character in The WB series ''Gilmore Girls''. Created by Amy Sherman-Palladino and portrayed by actress Lauren Graham, she appeared in every episode of the show from 2000 to 2007. Lorelai is introduced as a ...

on TV show ''

Gilmore Girls ''Gilmore Girls'' is an American comedy drama television series created by Amy Sherman-Palladino, starring Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel. The show debuted October 5, 2000, on The WB and became a flagship series for the network. The show ran fo ...

'' *

Sprague Grayden Sprague Grayden (born July 21, 1980) is an American actress. She played schoolteacher Heather Lisinski in the television drama ''Jericho'', Karen Kawalski in '' John Doe'', first daughter Olivia Taylor in the television thriller '' 24'', and K ...

(2000s), actress, played Judith Montgomery on ''

Joan of Arcadia ''Joan of Arcadia'' is an American fantasy family drama television series telling the story of teenager Joan Girardi ( Amber Tamblyn), who sees and speaks with God and performs tasks she is given. The series originally aired on Fridays on CBS f ...

'' *

Alexandra Guarnaschelli {{Infobox chef , name = Alex Guarnaschelli , image = , caption = , birth_date = {{birth date and age, 1969, 6, 20 , birth_place = St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. , birth_name = Alexandra Maria Guarnaschelli ...

(1991), celebrity chef at Butter Restaurant in New York City, television personality * Anshula Kapoor (2012), daughter of Indian film producer

Boney Kapoor Achal Surinder "Boney" Kapoor (born 11 November 1955) is an Indian film producer primarily associated with Hindi cinema, in addition to Tamil and Telugu cinema. Early life Kapoor was born as Achal Surinder Kapoor in 1955, the son of Surinder ...

and member of the

Kapoor family The Kapoor family is a prominent Indian show business family with at least four generations of the family over years being active in the Hindi film industry. Numerous members of the family, both (biological) and those who have married into th ...

in Hindi cinema *

Shari Lewis Shari Lewis (born Phyllis Naomi Hurwitz; January 17, 1933 – August 2, 1998) was a Peabody awards, Peabody-winning American Ventriloquism, ventriloquist, puppeteer, children's entertainer, television show host, dancer, singer, actress, author, a ...

(dropped out – 1950s),

ventriloquist Ventriloquism or ventriloquy is an act of stagecraft in which a person (a ventriloquist) speaks in such a way that it seems like their voice is coming from a different location, usually through a puppet known as a "dummy". The act of ventrilo ...

puppeteer A puppeteer is a person who manipulates an inanimate object called a puppet to create the illusion that the puppet is alive. The puppet is often shaped like a human, animal, or legendary creature. The puppeteer may be visible to or hidden from the ...

, television show host *

Mozhan Marnò Mozhan Navabi (born May 3, 1980) is an American film and television actress. She is known for her roles in ''The Blacklist'' and ''House of Cards'' and played Soraya Manutchehri in '' The Stoning of Soraya M.''. She was previously known as Mozha ...

(2001), actress, ''

House of Cards A house of cards (also known as a card tower or card castle) is a structure created by stacking playing cards on top of each other, often in the shape of a pyramid. "House of cards" is also an expression that dates back to 1645 meaning a struc ...

'' *

Peggy McCay Margaret Ann "Peggy" McCay (November 3, 1927 – October 7, 2018) was an American actress whose career began in 1949, and includes theatre, television, soap operas, and feature films. McCay may be best known for originating the roles of Vanessa ...

(1949), actress *

Kelly McCreary Kelly J. McCreary (born September 29, 1981) is an American actress, best known for her role on the ABC drama series ''Grey's Anatomy'' as Dr. Maggie Pierce, the half-sister of series protagonist Meredith Grey. She joined the series as a guest at ...

(2003), actress, ''

Grey's Anatomy ''Grey's Anatomy'' is an American medical drama television series focusing on the personal and professional lives of surgical internship (medicine), interns, residency (medicine), residents, and attending physician, attendings at the fictional ...

'' * Julie Mond (2000s), actress *

Cynthia Nixon Cynthia Ellen Nixon (born April 9, 1966) is an American actress, activist, and theater director. For her portrayal of Miranda Hobbes in the HBO series ''Sex and the City'' (1998–2004), she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supportin ...

(1988), actress, played

Miranda Hobbes Miranda Hobbes is a fictional character from the HBO television series ''Sex and the City'', its film adaptations, and the sequel series '' And Just Like That...''. The character is portrayed by Cynthia Nixon, whose performance earned her a Pri ...

on TV show ''

Sex and the City ''Sex and the City'' is an American romantic comedy, romantic comedy-drama television series created by Darren Star for HBO, based on Sex and the City (newspaper column), the newspaper column and 1996 book by Candace Bushnell. It premiered in th ...

'' *

Chelsea Peretti Chelsea Peretti (born February 20, 1978) is an American comedian, actress, and writer. She portrayed Gina Linetti in the comedy series ''Brooklyn Nine-Nine'' and has written for various TV series, including '' Parks and Recreation'', ''Saturday ...

(2000), actress, writer for TV show '' Parks and Recreation'' *

Lee Remick Lee Ann Remick (; December 14, 1935 – July 2, 1991) was an American actress and singer. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for the film ''Days of Wine and Roses (film), Days of Wine and Roses'' (1962) and was nominated fo ...

(dropped out – 1953), actress *

Ariane Rinehart Ariane Rinehart (born April 13, 1994) is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her performance in ''The Sound of Music Live!'' as the eldest Georg von Trapp, von Trapp daughter, Liesl, which was described by critics as the stand ...

(2015), actress, played Liesl on ''

The Sound of Music Live! ''The Sound of Music Live!'' is an American television special that was originally broadcast by NBC on December 5, 2013. Directed by Rob Ashford and Beth McCarthy-Miller, produced by Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, and written by Austin Winsberg, t ...

'' *

Joan Rivers Joan Alexandra Molinsky (June 8, 1933 – September 4, 2014), known professionally as Joan Rivers, was an American comedienne, actress, producer, writer and television host. She was noted for her blunt, often controversial comedic persona that w ...

(1954), star comedian, TV host *

Christy Carlson Romano Christy Carlson Romano (born March 20, 1984) is an American actress, podcaster, and singer. On the Disney Channel, she played Ren Stevens on ''Even Stevens'' and voiced the titular character from ''Kim Possible''. Early life Romano was born o ...

(2009), actress, voice of

Kim Possible ''Kim Possible'' is an American animated Action comedy TV series, action comedy television series created by Bob Schooley and Mark McCorkle for Disney Channel. The Kim Possible (character), title character is a teenage girl tasked with saving ...

Frankie Shaw Rachel Frances Shaw (born ) is an American actress, writer and director. She is best known for playing Bridgette Bird on the Showtime (TV network), Showtime series ''SMILF,'' based on the 2015 short film of the same title, which she wrote, dire ...

(2007), actress on ''

Mr. Robot ''Mr. Robot'' is an American drama thriller television series created by Sam Esmail for USA Network. It stars Rami Malek as Elliot Alderson, a cybersecurity engineer and hacker with social anxiety disorder, clinical depression, and dissoci ...

'' *

Vinessa Shaw Vinessa Elizabeth Shaw (born July 19, 1976) is an American film actress and model. She began her career as a child actress, making her feature film debut in the slasher film ''Home Sweet Home (1981 film), Home Sweet Home'' (1981). She had her b ...

(dropped out – 1990s), actress, ''

40 Days and 40 Nights ''40 Days and 40 Nights'' is a 2002 romantic comedy film directed by Michael Lehmann, written by Rob Perez, and starring Josh Hartnett, Shannyn Sossamon, and Paulo Costanzo. The film depicts Matt Sullivan, a San Francisco web designer who has ...

'' *

Leslie Stefanson Leslie Stefanson is an American actress and sculptor. She is most known for playing the title role as Capt. Elisabeth Campbell in the film '' The General's Daughter'', and Joan Bennett Kennedy in the television miniseries '' Jackie, Ethel, Joa ...

(1993), actress, ''The General's Daughter'' *

Zuzanna Szadkowski Zuzanna Szadkowski (; born October 22, 1978) is a Polish-American actress known for her role as Dorota Kishlovsky on CW teen drama series ''Gossip Girl''. Szadkowski also appeared on ''The Knick'', ''Girls'', '' Search Party'', ''The Good Wife'' ...

(2001), actress, played Dorota on TV show ''

Gossip Girl ''Gossip Girl'' is an American teen drama television series created and developed by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage and based on the series of novels of the same name by Cecily von Ziegesar. It follows a group of students on Manhattan's ...

'' *

Sophia Takal Sophia Takal is an American actress, writer and director, perhaps best known for her work in independent features such as '' All the Light in the Sky'', ''Supporting Characters'' and '' Gabi on the Roof in July''. ''Filmmaker'' magazine named Taka ...

(2007), actress and director *

Twyla Tharp Twyla Tharp (; born July 1, 1941) is an American dancer, choreographer, and author who lives and works in New York City. In 1965 she formed the company Twyla Tharp Dance, which merged with American Ballet Theatre in 1988. She regrouped the compa ...

(1963), choreographer, dancer * Sarah Thompson (1990s), television actress *

Donna Vivino Donna Vivino is an American theatre, television, and film actress and singer. She is known for playing Elphaba in the Broadway production of ''Wicked'' and as the original Young Cosette in ''Les Misérables'' on Broadway. In January 2023, she gu ...

(2000), actress and singer *

Jane Wyatt Jane Waddington Wyatt ( ; August 12, 1910 – October 20, 2006) was an American actress. She starred in a number of Hollywood films, such as Frank Capra's '' Lost Horizon'', but is likely best known for her role as homemaker and mother Margaret ...

(1932),

Emmy Award The Emmy Awards, or Emmys, are an extensive range of awards for artistic and technical merit for the television industry. A number of annual Emmy Award ceremonies are held throughout the year, each with their own set of rules and award categor ...

-winning actress, ''

Father Knows Best ''Father Knows Best'' is an American sitcom starring Robert Young (actor), Robert Young, Jane Wyatt, Elinor Donahue, Billy Gray (actor), Billy Gray and Lauren Chapin. The series, which began on radio in 1949, aired as a television show for six ...

Architects

Norma Merrick Sklarek Norma Merrick Sklarek (April 15, 1926 – February 6, 2012) was an American architect. Sklarek was the first African American woman to become a licensed architect in the states of New York (1954) and California (1962), as well as the first Black ...

(1950), first black woman to be licensed as an architect in the United States * Carole Rifkind (1956), American architectural critic, historian, and author, wife of cancer researcher Richard Rifkind

Artists

* Afruz Amighi (1997), Iranian-born American sculptor, installation artist * March Avery (1954), American painter, daughter of artist

Milton Avery Milton Clark Avery (; March 7, 1885 – January 3, 1965Haskell, B. (2003). "Avery, Milton". Grove Art Online.) was an American Modern art, modern painter. Born in Altmar, New York, he moved to Connecticut in 1898 and later to New York City. He wa ...

Sana Amanat Sana Amanat is an American comic book editor and an executive of production and development at Marvel Studios, having formerly been the Director of Content and Character Development at Marvel Comics.

(2005), comic book creator and director at

Marvel Comics Marvel Comics is a New York City–based comic book publishing, publisher, a property of the Walt Disney Company since December 31, 2009, and a subsidiary of Disney Publishing Worldwide since March 2023. Marvel was founded in 1939 by Martin G ...

, creator of Marvel's first Muslim female superhero, '' Ms. Marvel'' * Polly Barton (1978), textile artist * Susan Bee (1973), American painter *

Sarah Charlesworth Sarah Edwards Charlesworth (March 29, 1947 – June 25, 2013) was an American conceptual artist and photographer. She is considered part of The Pictures Generation, a loose-knit group of artists working in New York in the late 1970s and early ...

(1969), photographer and conceptual artist and professor at

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial ...

* Madeline Hollander (2008), American artist and choreographer *

Amy Hwang Amy Hwang is a cartoonist for ''The New Yorker'' and is probably the first Asian woman to have drawn cartoons openly for the magazine. Hwang was born in Arlington, Texas. She graduated from Barnard College in 2000 with a degree in architecture. ...

(2000), Asian American cartoonist for ''

The New Yorker ''The New Yorker'' is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. It was founded on February 21, 1925, by Harold Ross and his wife Jane Grant, a reporter for ''The New York T ...

'' *

Clermont Huger Lee Clermont Huger Lee (March 4, 1914 – June 14, 2006) was a landscape architect from Savannah, Georgia, most known for her work designing gardens and parks for historical landmarks in the state. Specifically, Lee is known for her designs such as th ...

(1936), landscape architect, Savannah Women of Vision * Michelle Lopez (1992), American sculptor and installation artist and 2019

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are Grant (money), grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, endowed by the late Simon Guggenheim, Simon and Olga Hirsh Guggenheim. These awards are bestowed upon indiv ...

recipient *

Jesse Mockrin Jesse Mockrin (born 1981, Silver Spring, Maryland) is an American artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. Her work primarily consists of figurative paintings. Education In 2003, Mockrin received her Bachelor's of Arts at Barnard College. She ...

(2003), American artist * Maud Morgan (1926), modern artist * Josephine Paddock (1949), painter *

Jane Teller Jane Teller (July 5, 1911 — December 23, 1990) was an American printmaker and sculptor. Early life and education Jane Simon was born in 1911, in Rochester, New York. Simon attended Rochester Institute of Technology and Skidmore College, and ear ...

(1933), sculptor and recipient of the 1988

Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award The Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award was established under the presidency of Lee Ann Miller (1978–80). Joan Mondale, artist and wife of vice-president Walter Mondale, helped to secure approval for a national award honoring women ...

Mierle Laderman Ukeles Mierle Laderman Ukeles (born 1939) is a New York City-based artist known for her feminist and service-oriented artworks, which relate the idea of process in conceptual art to domestic and civic "maintenance". Since 1977, she has been the Artist in ...

(1961), performance artist, winner of the 2001

Anonymous Was A Woman Award The Anonymous Was A Woman Award is a grant program for women artists who are over 40 years of age, in part to counter sexism in the art world. It began in 1996 in direct response to the National Endowment for the Arts' decision to stop funding i ...

* Donna Zakowska (1975),

-winning American costume designer for her work on ''

John Adams John Adams (October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826) was a Founding Fathers of the United States, Founding Father and the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801. Before Presidency of John Adams, his presidency, he was a leader of ...

Athletes

* Stacey Borgman (1993), member of

crew A crew is a body or a group of people who work at a common activity, generally in a structured or hierarchy, hierarchical organization. A location in which a crew works is called a crewyard or a workyard. The word has nautical resonances: the ta ...

team for the United States at the

2004 Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad (), and officially branded as Athens 2004 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 13 to 29 August 2004 in Athens, Greece. The Games saw 10,625 athletes ...

Gloria Callen Gloria Marie Callen (December 21, 1923 – September 2, 2016) was an American backstroke swimmer. She was the 1942 Associated Press Athlete of the Year.Associated Press Athlete of the Year The first Athlete of the Year award in the United States was initiated by the Associated Press (AP) in 1931. At a time when women's sports, women in sports were not given the same recognition as men, the AP offered a male and a female athlete of th ...

of 1942 *

Abby Marshall Abby Marshall (born June 11, 1991) is a chess player from Columbus, Ohio, United States, who has resided in Virginia, United States since late 2005. She is a Woman FIDE Master and in 2009 won the Denker Tournament of High School Champions, mak ...

(2014), chess player; won 2009 Denker Tournament of High School Champions *

Alexis Sablone Alexis Sablone (born August 12, 1986) is a goofy-footed American professional skateboarder, who ranked 12th in the world as of July 2021. She has competed in every X Games competition since 2009, the World Skateboarding Championship, and skated ...

(2008), American skateboarder and architect *

Erinn Smart Erinn Smart (born January 12, 1980Erinn Smart
, USA Fencing. Accessed July 27, 2012.) is an American fo ...

(2001), fencer for the United States at the

silver medalist in team foil fencing at the Beijing 2008 Olympics * Robin Wagner (1980), figure-skating coach

Businesswomen

* Flora Miller Biddle (attended), former president of the

Whitney Museum of American Art The Whitney Museum of American Art, known informally as "The Whitney", is a Modern art, modern and Contemporary art, contemporary American art museum located in the Meatpacking District, Manhattan, Meatpacking District and West Village neighbor ...

, granddaughter of

Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (January 9, 1875 – April 18, 1942) was an American sculptor, art patron and collector, and founder in 1931 of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. She was a prominent social figure and hostess, ...

Joan Breibart Joan Breibart (born 1941) is an American Pilates instructor, inventor, and writer. She is known for establishing the PhysicalMind Institute, formerly known as the Institute for Pilates Method. Early life and education Breibart was born in 1941. ...

(1963), Pilates instructor, inventor, writer, and entrepreneur *

Eileen Ford Eileen Cecile Ford (née Otte; March 25, 1922 – July 9, 2014) was an American modeling agency executive. Along with her husband Gerard W. Ford, Gerard "Jerry" Ford, she co-founded Ford Models in 1946, which emerged as one of the earliest and m ...

(1943), co-founder of

Ford Models Ford Models, originally the Ford Modeling Agency, is an American international modeling agency based in New York City. It was established in 1946 by Eileen Ford and her husband Gerard W. Ford. History 20th century Eileen and Jerry began the bu ...

, one of the world's oldest and most influential

modeling agencies A modeling agency is a company that represents fashion models, to work for the fashion industry. These agencies earn their income via commission, usually from the deal they make with the model and/or the head agency. The top agencies work with b ...

Phyllis E. Grann Phyllis E. Grann (born September 2, 1937) is a former book editor and publishing executive. She was the first female CEO of a major publishing firm, Penguin Putnam, and one of the most commercially successful publishers in recent history. She was a ...

(1958), first female CEO of

Penguin Putnam G. P. Putnam's Sons is an American book publisher based in New York City, New York. Since 1996, it has been an imprint of the Penguin Group. History The company began as Wiley & Putnam with the 1838 partnership between George Palmer Putnam an ...

and editor of

Knopf Doubleday Random House is an imprint and publishing group of Penguin Random House. Founded in 1927 by businessmen Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer as an imprint of Modern Library, it quickly overtook Modern Library as the parent imprint. Over the follow ...

Elinor Guggenheimer Elinor Sophia Coleman "Ellie" Guggenheimer (11 April 1912 – 29 September 2008) was an American civic leader, author, and philanthropist in New York City.Nemy, Enid (December 19, 1973)''The New York Times'' Biography Born in Manhattan, she attend ...

(1933), civic leader, philanthropist * Alexandra Creel Goelet (1974), heiress, niece of

Robert David Lion Gardiner Robert David Lion Gardiner (February 25, 1911 – August 23, 2004), was the last heir to Gardiner's Island to have the surname "Gardiner". (His niece Alexandra Creel Goelet, was co-owner, until his death, and is now sole owner.) He was the 16t ...

, wife of

Robert Guestier Goelet Robert Guestier Goelet (guh-LET; September 28, 1923 – October 9, 2019) was a prominent American philanthropist and former executive at Chemical Bank, founded by the Goelet family in 1824. Early life Goelet was born on September 28, 1923, at a ...

and owner of

Gardiners Island Gardiner's Island is a small island in the Town of East Hampton (town), New York, East Hampton, New York (state), New York, in Eastern Suffolk County, New York, Suffolk County. It is located in Gardiners Bay, Gardiner's Bay between the two penins ...

* Nina Griscom (1977), model, television host, socialite, businesswoman, stepdaughter of

Felix Rohatyn Felix George Rohatyn ( ; May 29, 1928 – December 14, 2019) was an American investment banker and diplomat. He spent most of his career with Lazard, where he brokered numerous large corporate mergers and acquisitions from the 1960s through ...

Mary Harriman Rumsey Mary Harriman Rumsey (November 17, 1881 – December 18, 1934) was an American social activist and government official. She was the founder of The Junior League for the Promotion of Settlement Movements, later known as the Junior League of the Ci ...

(1905), founder of nonprofit organization

Junior League The Association of Junior Leagues International, Inc. (Junior League or JL) is a private, nonprofit educational women's volunteer organization aimed at improving communities and the social, cultural, and political fabric of civil society. With ...

, daughter of railroad magnate

E. H. Harriman Edward Henry Harriman (February 20, 1848 – September 9, 1909) was an American financier and railroad executive. Early life Harriman was born on February 20, 1848, in Hempstead, New York, the son of Orlando Harriman Sr., an Episcopal clergy ...

and sister to New York Governor W. Averell Harriman *Anjli Jain (2003), executive director of CampusEAI Consortium *Madeline Kripke (1943–2020), book collector *Harriet Burton Laidlaw (1902), suffragist and first female corporate director of Standard & Poor's *Adele Lewisohn Lehman (1903), philanthropist and member of the Lehman family, daughter-in-law of Mayer Lehman *Liz Neumark (1977), founder and CEO of New York catering company Great Performances *Sheila Nevins (1960), president of HBO documentary films; winner of 27 Primetime Emmy Awards and 3 Peabody Awards *Joan Whitney Payson (1925), co-founder and majority of owner of the New York Mets, granddaughter of United States Secretary of State John Hay and member of the Whitney family *Azita Raji (1983), investment banker, United States Ambassador to Sweden *Helen Rogers Reid (1903), newspaper publisher, president of the ''New York Herald Tribune'' *Phyllis Robinson (1942), executive at Doyle Dane Bernbach *Cindy Rose (1985), president of Microsoft Western Europe *Devorah Rose (2002), socialite, entrepreneur and editor of Social Life magazine *Alexis Stewart (1987), daughter of Martha Stewart '64; TV host and radio personality *Martha Stewart (1964), business magnate, entrepreneur, homemaking advocate *Iphigene Ochs Sulzberger (1914), heiress, and owner of ''

'', daughter of ''

'' publisher Adolph Ochs *Elizabeth Wiatt (1967), businesswoman in the fashion industry *Virginia Wright (art collector), Virginia Wright (1951), art collector, philanthropist who supported Seattle Art Museum

Journalists

(1978), science writer for ''

''; won the Pulitzer Prize for beat reporting in 1991 *Jami Bernard (1978), film critic for ''The New York Post'' and ''The New York Daily News'', founder of Barncat Publishing Inc.; writer whose books include a memoir of surviving breast cancer *Katherine Boo (1988), recipient of Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2000 and the

"genius grant" *Mona Charen (1979), nationally syndicated columnist, political analyst, and author *Liz Clarke (1983), journalist for ''The Washington Post'', co-host of ''The Tony Kornheiser Show'' *Herawati Diah (1941), journalist *Deborah Feyerick (1987), journalist and CNN correspondent *Laura Flanders (1984), correspondent for Air America (radio network), Air America and host of ''GritTV'' *Sylvana Foa (1967), first female news director of an American television network; first spokeswoman for Secretary General of the United Nations *Rana Foroohar (1992), columnist for the ''Financial Times'' *Alexis Gelber (1974), former president of the Overseas Press Club *Julianna Goldman (2003), CBS News correspondent *Piri Halasz, correspondent for ''Time (magazine), Time'' magazine and art critic *Maria Hinojosa (1984), correspondent for CNN; ''NOW on PBS, NOW'' on Public Broadcasting Service, PBS; host of NPR's ''Latino USA'' *Cathy Horyn, fashion journalist, ''New York Times'' fashion critic *Freda Kirchwey (1915), journalist, editor and publisher of ''The Nation (U.S. periodical), The Nation'' *Alex Kuczynski (1990), style reporter for ''

'', daughter of Peruvian president Pedro Pablo Kuczynski *Minna Lewinson (1918), journalist for ''

'', first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize *Juliet Macur (1992), sports journalist for ''

'' *Courtney E. Martin (2002), feminist writer and editor of the feminist blog ''Feministing'' *Agnes E. Meyer (1907), journalist, philanthropist, Civil and political rights, civil rights activist, and art patron, mother of ''The Washington Post'' publisher Katharine Graham *Judith Miller (journalist), Judith Miller (1969), former correspondent for ''The New York Times'' who reported on the story of Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction program; Aspen Strategy Group member *Nonnie Moore (c. 1946), fashion editor at ''Mademoiselle (magazine), Mademoiselle'', ''Harper's Bazaar'' and ''GQ'' *Mary Ellis Peltz, music critic, poet, and first chief editor of ''Opera News'' *Anna Quindlen (1974), columnist for ''Newsweek'' who won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1992 *Paola Ramos (journalist), Paola Ramos (2009), journalist, daughter of TV anchor Jorge Ramos (news anchor), Jorge Ramos *Atoosa Rubenstein (1993), founder of CosmoGirl and editor-in-chief of ''Seventeen (American magazine), Seventeen''; youngest-ever editor of a teen magazine *Susan Stamberg (1959), special correspondent, NPR's ''Morning Edition'', former host of ''All Things Considered'' and the first woman in the United States to anchor a national nightly news program *Mary V. R. Thayer (1926), socialite and journalist *Jeannette Walls (1984), gossip columnist for MSNBC; author of ''The Glass Castle'' *Sharon Waxman (born c.1963), journalist *Beverly Weintraub (1982), Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial writer for the ''New York Daily News'' *Lis Wiehl (1983), legal analyst for Fox News *Ellen Willis (1960s), essayist and pop music critic *Julie Zeilinger (2015), feminist writer and editor

Musicians

*Laurie Anderson (1969), musician, NASA's first artist-in-residence and pioneer in electronic music, famous for her single "O Superman" *Sadie Dupuis (2011), vocalist for Speedy Ortiz *Dorothy Papadakos (1982), concert organist, playwright, and author *Louise Post, lead singer and guitarist of alternative rock band Veruca Salt (band), Veruca Salt *Roxanne Seeman (1975), songwriter *Faye-Ellen Silverman (1968), composer *Jeanine Tesori (1983), Broadway theatre, Broadway composer *Suzanne Vega (1981), singer-songwriter, "Luka (song), Luka", "Tom's Diner"

Playwrights, screenwriters, and directors

*Jamie Babbit (1993), director of ''But I'm a Cheerleader'' and ''Itty Bitty Titty Committee'', and television shows including ''

'', ''Alias (TV series), Alias'', and ''Ugly Betty'' *June Bingham Birge (1940), author, playwright, great-granddaughter of Mayer Lehman *Debra Black (1976), Tony Awards, Tony Award-winning producer, wife of Apollo Global Management co-founder Leon Black *Petra Costa (2006), Academy Award-nominated director, ''The Edge of Democracy'', heiress to the Andrade Gutierrez fortune *Helen Deutsch (1927), screenwriter, ''Lili (1953 film), Lili'', ''National Velvet (film), National Velvet'', ''King Solomon's Mines (1950 film), King Solomon's Mines'' *Delia Ephron (1966), author, screenwriter, playwright, ''The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (film), The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants'', ''You've Got Mail'' *

(2006), actor, screenwriter, and Academy Award-nominated director, ''Lady Bird (film), Lady Bird'', ''Little Women (2019 film), Little Women'' *Stephanie Gillis (1990), writer, and Peabody Award-winning writer, (2020), “The Simpsons”; WGA Award-winning writer (2019); “The Simpsons”,

-nominated writer, “The Simpsons” (2010, 2015) *Maria Semple (1986), screenwriter, ''Arrested Development, Mad About You'' *Bettina Gilois (1985), screenwriter, Bessie (film), ''Bessie'', ''McFarland, USA'' *Gina Gionfriddo (1991), Pulitzer Prize-nominated playwright *Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal (1966), Golden Globe Awards, Golden Globe Award-winning screenwriter; mother of Maggie Gyllenhaal, Maggie and Jake Gyllenhaal *Kait Kerrigan (2003), playwright *Bonnie Sherr Klein (1961), filmmaker and activist *Annie Leonard (1986), activist and director, ''The Story of Stuff'' *Ntozake Shange (1970), Obie Award-winning playwright, ''For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf'' *Veena Sud (1989), director of ''Seven Seconds (TV series), Seven Seconds'' *Amy Talkington (1993), Emmy Awards, Emmy Award-nominated screenwriter, producer, writer *Linda Yellen (1969),

-winning director, ''Northern Lights (1997 film), Northern Lights'' ; producer, ''Playing for Time (film), Playing for Time'' *Juli Weiner (2010), Emmy Awards, Emmy Award-winning writer, ''Last Week Tonight with John Oliver''

Political, social and judicial figures

* Sheila Abdus-Salaam (1974), judge of the New York Court of Appeals * Ann Aldrich (1948), judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio * Elizabeth Moore Aubin (1987), nominee to serve as the United States Ambassador to Algeria * Caroline Lexow Babcock (1904), co-founder of the Women's Peace Union and former secretary of the National Woman's Party * Grace Lee Boggs (1935), author and political activist * Margot Botsford (1969), associate justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court * Janet Lee Bouvier (1929), socialite and mother of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis * Claire C. Cecchi (1986), judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey * Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum (1952), U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, United States District Court judge * Hagar Chemali, Political Satirist, Writer, Producer, Television Personality, and Political Commentator * Nora Hsiung Chu (1926), Chinese educator who served on the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women * Ellie Cohanim (1995), broadcast journalist and Deputy Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism * Sharon L. Cromer (1980), nominee to serve as United States Ambassador to the Gambia * Mindy Domb (1981), representative of the Massachusetts House of Representatives' 3rd Hampshire district * Ronnie Eldridge (1952), activist, businesswoman, politician, and television host * Debra Evenson (1964), legal expert, lawyer, and educator * Chai Feldblum (1979), commissioner of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission * Lila Fenwick (1953), first black woman to graduate from Harvard Law School and former United Nations official * Muriel Fox (1948), public relations executive who in 1966 co-founded the National Organization for Women and led the communications effort that introduced the modern women's movement to the media of the world * Paula Franzese (1980), professor of real property law at Seton Hall Law School * Helen Gahagan (1924), United States House of Representatives Congresswoman from California * E. Susan Garsh (1969), associate justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court * Helene D. Gayle, M.D., M.P.H. (1970), president and CEO of CARE (relief agency), CARE USA and chair of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS * Nancy Gertner (1967), Judge on United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts * Ellen F. Golden (1968), director, Women's Business Center, Coastal Enterprises, Inc., Wiscasset, Maine * Diane Gujarati (1990), lawyer, judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York * Betty Hall (politician), Betty Hall (1943), New Hampshire state representative * Cheryl Halpern (1975), chair of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting * Patricia McMahon Hawkins (attended), United States Ambassador to Togo from 2008 to 2011 * Allegra "Happy" Haynes (1975), Denver politician who served on the Denver City Council * Susan Herman (1968), President of the American Civil Liberties Union; Professor at Brooklyn Law School * Marian Blank Horn (1965), judge on the United States Court of Federal Claims * Jessie Wallace Hughan (1898, Phi Beta Kappa), United States Senate candidate, author, teacher, founder of Alpha Omicron Pi fraternity * Mila Jasey (1972), member of the New Jersey General Assembly representing the 27th Legislative District (New Jersey), 27th Legislative District * Helene L. Kaplan (1953), lawyer with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, former chairman of the Carnegie Corporation of New York * Judith Kaye (1958), first woman in highest position in state judiciary, Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals * Katherine Kazarian (2012), member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives * Claire R. Kelly (1987), judge on the United States Court of International Trade * Christina Kishimoto (1992), superintendent of the Hawai'i Department of Education * Jeane Kirkpatrick (1948), first woman to serve as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations * Phyllis Lamphere (1943), former president of the Seattle City Council and the National League of Cities * Linda Lee (politician), Linda Lee (2001), Member of the New York City Council from the New York City's 23rd City Council district, 23rd district * Mabel Ping-Hua Lee (1916), Chinese advocate for women's suffrage in the United States and the first woman to receive a PhD from

* Wilma B. Liebman (1971), List of Chairs of the National Labor Relations Board, Chair, National Labor Relations Board * Catherine McCabe (1973), acting Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency in 2017 and commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection * Loretta J. Mester (1980), 11th president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland * Shirah Neiman (1965), deputy U.S. attorney and chief counsel U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York * Herminia Palacio (1983), former Deputy Mayor of New York City and CEO of Guttmacher Institute * Hope Portocarrero (1950), first lady of Nicaragua, the wife of Anastasio Somoza Debayle * Stephanie Garcia Richard (1996), New Mexico Commissioner of Public Lands; former member of the New Mexico House of Representatives * Paula Reimers (1969), rabbi, political activist for Palestinian rights, gender equity, and religious freedom * Rosalyn Richter (1976), associate justice of the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court, First Judicial Department * Ramona Romero (1985), former general counsel of the United States Department of Agriculture, general counsel of

*Rhea Suh (1992), Assistant Secretary of the United States Department of the Interior and former president of the Natural Resources Defense Council *Marguerite Engler Schwarzman (1914), educator, activist for affordable housing, senior citizens * Nina Shaw (1976), talent attorney whose clients include Jamie Foxx and Nick Cannon * Shirley Adelson Siegel (1937), housing activist and advocate * Madeline Singas (1988), district attorney for Nassau County, New York * Jessica Stern (1985), policy consultant on terrorism who served on the United States National Security Council under Bill Clinton * Audrey Strauss (1968), acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York replacing Geoffrey Berman * Anna Diggs Taylor (1954), United States District Court judge * Kang Tongbi (1907), daughter of Kang Youwei and political activist, member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference * Gloria Tristani (1974), former commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission, granddaughter of Senator Dennis Chávez * Polly Trottenberg (1986), United States Deputy Secretary of Transportation and former Commissioner of the New York City Department of Transportation * Anne Warburton (1946), first female British Ambassador, List of Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Denmark, British Ambassador to Denmark from 1976 to 1983, and List of Permanent Representatives of the United Kingdom to the United Nations in Geneva, British Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva from 1983 to 1985; president of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge University from 1985 to 1994 *Barbara M. Watson (1943), first woman to serve as an Assistant Secretary of State, United States Ambassador to Malaysia *Helene White (1975), judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit * Constance H. Williams (1966), Pennsylvania State Senate, Pennsylvania state senator from 2001 to 2009; daughter of Leon Hess, founder of the Hess Corporation * Emma Wolfe (2001), Deputy Mayor of New York City and chief of staff to Bill de Blasio * Alice Wolfson, activist and attorney who specializes in women's health * Mae Yih (1951), member of the Oregon House of Representatives and Oregon State Senate, first Chinese American to serve in a state senate in the United States

Religious figures

* Sara Hurwitz (1999), first woman to serve as a Rabba in the Modern Orthodox Judaism, Orthodox Jewish clergy *Sharon Kleinbaum (1981), rabbi and leader of Congregation Beit Simchat Torah *Joy Levitt (1989), first female leader of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association

Spies

*Marion Davis Berdecio (1943), accused Soviet spy in U.S. State Department, comrade of Coplon and Wovschin *Judith Coplon (1943), Soviet spy in U.S. Justice Department whose convictions were overturned on technicalities *Virginia Hall (1927), American spy with the Special Operations Executive during WWII. *Juliet Stuart Poyntz (1907), involved in intelligence activities for the Soviet OGPU; founding member of the Communist Party USA *Patricia Warner (1949), American spy and Congressional Gold Medal recipient *Flora Wovschin (1943), Soviet spy in U.S. State Department, stepdaughter of Columbia University, Columbia professor/:Soviet spies, Soviet spy Enos Wicher

Writers

*Léonie Adams (1923), poet *Joan Abelove (1966), writer *Susan Mary Alsop (attended), Washingtonian socialite and writer *Mary Antin (1902), author of the immigrant experience *Charlotte Armstrong (1925), writer *Lura Beam (1908), writer and educator *Maria Semple (1986), writer, ''Where'd You Go, Bernadette'' *Elizabeth Benedict (1976), novelist, journalist, and editor *Jami Bernard (1978), writer and film critic *Fatima Bhutto (2004), poet and writer; granddaughter of Pakistani president Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and member of the Bhutto family *Ann Brashares (1989), author of ''The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants'' *Rachel M. Brownstein, literary critic, author, and academic *Sasha Cagen (1996), writer *Hortense Calisher (1932), writer *Diana Chang (1949), pioneering Asian-American novelist *Melissa Clark (1990), American cookbook writer and 2018 James Beard Foundation Award recipient *Cassandra Clare (1995), author of The Mortal Instruments *Rachel Cohn (1989), author of ''Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist'' and ''Gingerbread'' *Nadine Jolie Courtney (2002), Bravo (U.S. TV network), Bravo TV personality ''Newlyweds: The First Year'' and author of ''Beauty Confidential'' and ''Confessions of a Beauty Addict'' *Elise Cowen (1956), poet of the Beat Generation *Galaxy Craze (1993), novelist *Susan Daitch (1977), short story writer *Edwidge Danticat (1990), writer *Lydia Davis (1970), short story writer, essayist, winner of the International Booker Prize *Thulani Davis (1970), novelist who won the Grammy Award in 1992 *Tory Dent (1981), poet and HIV/AIDS activist *Babette Deutsch (1917), poet, translator and critic *Marjorie Housepian Dobkin (1944), author; Barnard College professor and dean *Avni Doshi (2005), writer who was shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize *Francine du Plessix Gray (1952), Pulitzer Prize-nominated writer *Hallie Ephron (1969), novelist *Cristina García (journalist), Cristina García (1983), author of ''Dreaming in Cuban'' *Karina Yan Glaser, children's author *Mary Gordon (writer), Mary Gordon (1971), writer and professor of English at

*Alexis Pauline Gumbs (2004), American writer, poet, activist *Indrani Aikath Gyaltsen (1970s), writer *Monique Raphel High (1969), novelist *Patricia Highsmith (1940), author of ''The Talented Mr. Ripley'' and ''The Price of Salt'' *Anne Hollander (1952), historian of fashion *Nansook Hong (1991), writer, daughter-in-law of Unification church founder Sun Myung Moon *Helen Hoyt (1900s), poet *Zora Neale Hurston (1928), Harlem Renaissance writer *Elizabeth Janeway (1935), critic *Joyce Johnson (author), Joyce Johnson (1955), writer, ''Minor Characters'' *June Jordan (1957), writer and activist *Erica Jong (1963), writer *Molly Jong-Fast (1997, according to her although it appears she only attended a summer program for high school students), writer *Alexa Junge (1984), writer for ''The West Wing'' and ''Friends'' *Loolwa Khazzoom (1991), journalist and activist *Jolie Kerr (1998), writer and podcast host on Heritage Radio Network *Suki Kim (1992), Guggenheim Fellowship, Guggenheim fellow; author of the award-winning novel ''The Interpreter (novel), The Interpreter'' and ''The New York Times'' bestselling literary nonfiction book, ''Without You, There Is No Us: Undercover Among the Sons of North Korea's Elite'' *Joan Kahn (late 1930s), mystery fiction, mystery book editor, editor and anthologist; also novelist and children's writer *Mary Beth Keane (1999), writer and 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship, Guggenheim fellow *Lily Koppel (2003), author of ''The Red Leather Diary'' and ''The Astronaut Wives Club (book), The Astronaut Wives Club''; writer for the ''New York Times'' *Jhumpa Lahiri (1989), Pulitzer Prize–winning author of ''The Namesake (novel), The Namesake'' and ''Interpreter of Maladies'' *Jane Leavy (1974), sports biographer *Kyle Lukoff (2006), transgender children's book writer; ''Storytelling of Ravens'' and ''When Aidan Became a Brother'' *Florence Ripley Mastin (born 1886), poet. *Faith McNulty (1920s, attended one year), writer *Daphne Merkin (1975), literary critic, essayist, and novelist, daughter of philanthropist Hermann Merkin *Alice Duer Miller (1899), writer and advisory editor of ''

'' *Ottessa Moshfegh (2002), 2016 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award winner for ''Eileen'' *Diana Muir (1975), writer and historian *Alana Newhouse (1997), writer and editor of ''Tablet Magazine'' *Alice Notley (1967), poet *Sigrid Nunez (1972), novelist, Whiting Awards and the 2018 National Book Award for Fiction recipient *Iris Owens (1929–2008), novelist *Edie Parker (1940s), writer; first wife of Jack Kerouac *Helena Percas, Helena Percas de Ponseti (1940), essayist, scholar, and professor *

(2000), writer and comedian *Marisha Pessl (2000), author of ''Special Topics in Calamity Physics'' *Julia Phillips (author), Julia Phillips (2010), author, ''Disappearing Earth'' and finalist for the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction *Claudia Roth Pierpont (1979), staff writer of ''

'' *Belva Plain (1939), writer *Jenelle Porter (1994), art curator and author *Ariana Reines (2002), poet *Kristen Roupenian (2003), writer, ''Cat Person'', ''You Know You Want This'' *Cathleen Schine (1975), novelist *Lynne Sharon Schwartz (1959), writer *Courtney Sheinmel (1999), writer of children's books *Lionel Shriver (1978), novelist and 2005 Orange Prize winner *Rachel Slade (1991), journalist, author of ''Into the Raging Sea'', Mountbatten Maritime Prize winner 2019 *Dean Spade (1997), writer, activist, lawyer, assistant professor of law at the Seattle University School of Law *Eileen Tabios (1982), poet *Lauren Tarshis (1985), writer, and director at Scholastic Corporation *Camilla Trinchieri (1963), writer *Joan Vollmer (1943), Beat poet, partner of William S. Burroughs *Charmaine Wilkerson (1982), journalist *Anne Elizabeth Wilson (1923), poet, editor; pet cemetery owner *Cecily Wong (2010), writer *Julie Zeilinger (2015), blogger and feminist writer

Miscellaneous

*Grace Banker (1915), telephone operator who served in the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I and led the Hello Girls, for which she received the Distinguished Service Medal (U.S. Army), Distinguished Service Medal *Maria Foscarinis (1977), activist, founder of the National Homelessness Law Center *Madeline Kripke (1965), book collector who held one of the world's largest collections of dictionaries, daughter of Jewish philanthropist and rabbi Myer S. Kripke *Susan Rosenberg, member of May 19th Communist Organization and charged with a role in the 1983 United States Senate bombing *Elana Maryles Sztokman (1991), American sociologist, writer, and Jewish feminism, Jewish feminist activist *Fumiko Yamaguchi (1925), Japanese physician and birth control advocate *Isabel Lenore Davis, early ufologist, co-founder of Civilian Saucer Intelligence-NYC, with Broadway actor, Ted Bloecher, and organic chemist, Alexander D. "Lex" Mebane, NICAP member, author & case investigator

Fictional alumnae

*In the 1988 Woody Allen film ''Another Woman (1988 film), Another Woman'', Gena Rowlands, Gena Rowland's character is a philosophy professor at Barnard. * In the 1992 Woody Allen film ''Husbands and Wives'', Juliette Lewis' character, Rain, is a Barnard student. * In the 2005 Sigrid Nunez novel ''The Last of Her Kind'', heroines Georgette George and Ann Drayton meet in 1968 as freshman roommates at Barnard. *In the 2007 Noah Baumbach film ''Margot at the Wedding'', Nicole Kidman's character, a novelist, is a Barnard graduate. * In the television series ''Mad Men'', the character List of Mad Men characters#Rachel Menken, Rachel Menken is a Barnard graduate. * In the 2015 film ''Mistress America'', the lead character Tracy Fishko is a freshman at Barnard. * In season 4 of the television series ''BoJack Horseman'', it is mentioned that the title character's mother, Beatrice Horseman, attended Barnard. *In the 2018 Mira T. Lee novel ''Everything Here is Beautiful'', the narrator talks about going to Barnard and reuniting there with one of her childhood friends from Tennessee. *In the 2018 Paul Feig film A Simple Favor (film), ''A Simple Favor'', Anna Kendrick's character, Stephanie Smothers, was an English major at Barnard and did her thesis on ''The Canterbury Tales''.

Notable faculty

*Nadia Abu El Haj, anthropologist *Robert Antoni, Commonwealth Writers Prize–winning author *Randall Balmer, author and historian of American religion *Dave Bayer, mathematician; actor and math consultant for the film ''A Beautiful Mind (film), A Beautiful Mind''; one of few holders of an Erdős-Bacon number * Annette Kar Baxter, Adolph S. and Effie Ochs Professor of History *Ruth Benedict, anthropologist *Jenny Boylan, writer *Frank Brady (writer), Frank Brady, leading figure in international chess *Harriet Brooks, physicist *Tina Campt, Africana and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies *Demetrios James Caraley, Editor of the ''Political Science Quarterly''; President of the Academy of Political Science *Elizabeth Castelli, Professor of Religion *John Cheever (1956–1957), Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist and short story writer *Yvette Christiansë, Yvette Christianse, poet, librettist *Alexander Cooley, political scientist, former director of the Harriman Institute *Dennis Dalton (1969–2008), political scientist; renowned nonviolence proponent; scholar of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi *Pauline Hamilton Dederer (1878–1960), biologist; zoology instructor at Barnard before 1917 *Celia Deutsch, professor, religious sister, academic, educator, writer, and Old Testament scholar *Rosalyn Deutsche, art historian, author, and art critic *Marjorie Housepian Dobkin, author *Patricia Louise Dudley (1929–2004), Zoology, zoologist *Mortimer Lamson Earle, classicist * Saskia Hamilton (1967-2023), poet and editor *Theodor Gaster, author; religion scholar; translator *Harry Gideonse (1901–1985), president of Brooklyn College, and chancellor of the New School for Social Research *

*Mary Gordon (writer), Mary Gordon, writer *Elizabeth Hardwick (writer), Elizabeth Hardwick, writer; co-founder of ''The New York Review of Books''; wife of Robert Lowell *Ken Hechler, U.S. Congressman from West Virginia *Anne Higonnet, art historian, Guggenheim Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellow *Janet Jakobsen, religion and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies *Rebecca Jordan-Young, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, author of ''Brain Storm: The Flaws in the Science of Sex Differences'' *Charles Knapp (scholar), Charles Knapp, PhD, Philology, philologist and classical scholar *Dorothy Y. Ko, historian of early China, Guggenheim Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellow * Elizabeth Kujawinski, American oceanographer, Woods Hole Senior Scientist *

, physicist *David Macklovitch, musician *Perry Mehrling, economic historian *Gabriela Mistral, first Latin American Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize winner for Literature *Samuel Alfred Mitchell, astronomer *Raymond Moley (1923–1933), proponent and later critic of the New Deal *Frederick Neuhouser, philosopher *Sigrid Nunez, novelist *

, art historian *Elaine Pagels (1970–1982), scholar of early and gnostic Christianity *Ben Philippe, Haitian-Canadian author and screenwriter *Alan F. Segal, ancient Judaism and origins of Christianity; author of ''Life after Death'', and ''Paul the Convert'' *William C. Sharpe, cultural historian, Guggenheim Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellow *Edmund Ware Sinnott, botanist *Paige West, anthropologist, Guggenheim Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellow *Dolph Sweet, actor *Ashley Tuttle, former principal dancer at ABT; Tony-nominated actress *Elie Wiesel (1997–1999), Nobel Peace Prize–winning writer and activist

Recipients of the Medal of Distinction

The Barnard Medal of Distinction is the College's highest honor. 1977 *Joan Mondale 1978 *Samuel R. Milbank *Richard Rodgers *Iphigene Ochs Sulzberger '14 1979 *Adelyn Dohme Breeskin *Helen Gahagan Douglas '24 *Eleanor Thomas Elliott '48 *William Am Marstellar *Toni Morrison *Francis T. P. Plimpton 1980 *Dorothy Height *Julius S. Held * Mary Dublin Keyserling '30 *Margaret Mahler * Alan Pifer *Henrietta Hill Swope, Henriette H. Swope '25 1981 *Robert L. Hoguet *Elizabeth Janeway '35 *Beverly Sills 1982 *Carol Bellamy *Council of Economic Advisers, Raymond J. Saulnier *

'63 1983 *Mario Cuomo *Vernon Jordan, Jr. *List of American Sociological Association presidents, Mirra Komarovsky '26 1984 *Arthur Altschul * Annette Kar Baxter '47 (posthumous) *Joseph G. Brennan *Anna Hill Johnstone '34 1985 *Marian Wright Edelman *Sidney Dillon Ripley *Elizabeth Man Sarcka '17 1986 *A. Bartlett Giamatti * Frances Lehman Loeb *Helen Ranney, Helen M. Ranney '41 1987 *Judith Kaye '58 *Sally Falk Moore '43 *Rev. James Parks Morton *Ellen Stewart 1988 *Bank Street College of Education, Augusta Souza Kappner '66 *Ntozake Shange '70 *Maxine Singer 1989 *Joan Kaplan Davidson *Eugene Lang * Bernice Segal (posthumous) *Lottie L. Taylor-Jones 1990 * Jacqueline Barton '74 *Robert L. Bernstein *

'35 *Julie V. Marsteller '69 1991 *Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum '50 * Tisa Chang '63 * Mamphela Ramphele, delivered the 2002 Commencement address 1992 * Ingrith Johnson Deyrup-Olsen '40 *Fred W. Friendly *Millicent Carey McIntosh *

1993 *Arthur Ashe (posthumous) *Elizabeth B. Davis '41 *Helene L. Kaplan, Helene Lois Kaplan '53 *Bette Bao Lord *Cyrus Vance 1994 *Walter Cronkite *

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'62 (posthumous) *Arthur Mitchell (dancer), Arthur Mitchell *Sheila E. Widnall 1995 *Madeleine Albright *Rosemary Park Anastos *Derek Bok *Sissela Bok 1996 *Rita R. Colwell *Kitty Carlisle Hart *Maya Lin *Anne Warburton, Dame Anne Warburton 1997 *Sarah Brady *Merce Cunningham *Charlayne Hunter-Gault *Ruth Prawer Jhabvala 1998 *Mary L. Good *Joan Ganz Cooney *David Aaron Kessler 1999 *Zoe Caldwell *Abby Joseph Cohen *Esther Dyson *William T. Golden 2000 *Doris Kearns Goodwin, delivered the 2000 Commencement address *Hanna Holborn Gray *Annie Leibovitz *Kathie L. Olson 2001 *Morris Dees *Susan Hendrickson *

'38 *Bernice Johnson Reagon, delivered the 2001 Commencement address *

'50 *Alice Rivlin *Harold E. Varmus 2003 *Susan Band Horwitz *Judith Miller (journalist), Judith Miller '69, delivered the Commencement address *Martha Nussbaum 2004 *Sylvia Earle *Louise Glück 2005 *Carla D. Hayden *Amartya Sen 2006 *Linda Greenhouse *Audra McDonald *Francine du Plessix Gray '52 2007 *Joan Didion *Nicholas D. Kristof *Mary Patterson McPherson *Muriel Petioni *Anna Deavere Smith 2008 *Thelma C. Davidson Adair *Michael Bloomberg, delivered the 2008 Commencement address *Billie Jean King *David Remnick *Judith Shapiro 2009 *Hillary Clinton, delivered the 2009 Commencement address *Kay Murray *Indra Nooyi *

'60 2010 *Thelma Golden *Olympia Snowe *Meryl Streep, delivered the 2010 Commencement address *Shirley M. Tilghman 2011 *Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, delivered the 2011 Commencement address *Sylvia Rhone *Roberta Guaspari *Jenny Holzer 2012 *

, President of the United States, delivered the 2012 Commencement address *Sally Chapman, Barnard Professor of Chemistry *Helene D. Gayle '76, President and CEO of CARE, USA *Evan Wolfson, founder and President of Freedom to Marry 2013 * Leymah Gbowee, recipient of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, delivered the 2013 Commencement address * Elizabeth Diller, architect and designer of the High Line * Lena Dunham, creator, director, writer and star of the HBO series ''Girls (TV series), Girls'' 2014 * Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation * Mahzarin Banaji, social psychologist and professor of social ethics at Harvard University * Ursula Burns, chair and chief executive officer of Xerox * Patti Smith, musician, poet, and artist 2015 * Samantha Power, academic and journalist * Simi Linton, expert on disability and the arts * Nadia Lopez, principal of Mott Hall Bridges Academy * Diana Nyad, long-distance swimmer and author 2016 * Anne-Marie Slaughter * Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie * Simone Campbell * Shafi Goldwasser 2017 * Joanne Liu * Johnnetta Cole * Diane von Furstenberg * Zainab Salbi 2018 * Abby Wambach * Katherine Johnson * Anna Quindlen ’74 * Rhea Suh ’92 2019 * Viola Davis *

’04 * Cherríe Moraga * Shirley Adelson Siegel ’37 (Celebration) 2020-2021 * Paola Ramos (journalist) '09 *

'88 2021 * Christiane Amanpour * Rebecca Nagle * Okwui Okpokwasili *

'54 2022 * Margot Lee Shetterly * Allyson Felix * Stacey Gabriel * Sarah Ruhl * Jaune Quick-to-See Smith 2023 * Lena Waithe * Lynsey Addario * María Magdalena Campos Pons * Loretta Ross

References

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