List of Brearley School alumnae

This list of alumnae of the Brearley School includes graduates and non-graduate former students.


 * Modupe Akinola, psychologist and academic
 * Emma Allen, cartoon editor for The New Yorker
 * Genevieve Angelson, actor
 * Blue Balliett, author of Chasing Vermeer
 * Anne Baxter, actor
 * Mary Ellin Barrett, novelist
 * Mary Catherine Bateson, writer and anthropologist
 * Devika Bhise, actor
 * Jenny Bicks, screenwriter, What a Girl Wants and Sex and the City
 * Margaret McKelvy Bird, archaeologist
 * Susan Berresford, foundation executive
 * Henrietta Buckmaster, author
 * Mary Steichen Calderone, physician and public-health advocate
 * Oona, Lady Chaplin, social leader
 * Eva Chen, director of fashion partnerships at Instagram
 * Lucinda Childs, dancer and choreographer
 * Mabel Choate, Gardener, collector and philanthropist
 * Jill Clayburgh, actor
 * Emily Cross, fencer. Olympic silver medalist.
 * Alexandra Daddario, actress and model
 * Fernanda Eberstadt, novelist, essayist, critic.
 * Anne d'Harnoncourt, museum director
 * Elizabeth Fishel, journalist and writer, Reunion: The Girls We Used to Be, the Women We Became
 * Lacey Fosburgh, journalist and author, Closing Time: The True Story of the Goodbar Murder
 * Virginia Kneeland Frantz, pathologist, pioneer in the study of pancreatic tumors
 * Betty Furness, actress, consumer affairs activist, current affairs commentator
 * Virginia Gildersleeve, dean, Barnard College, statesperson
 * Jane Ginsburg, law professor
 * Jane Gladstone, pioneer in the fintech industry, president of IntraFi Network, investment banker
 * Carolyn Goodman, Mayor of Las Vegas
 * Betsy Gotbaum, Public Advocate for the City of New York
 * Isca Greenfield-Sanders, artist
 * Emily Hoffman, socialite
 * Ruth Sulzberger Holmberg, publisher
 * Winifred Holt, sculptor, welfare worker. Founder of the nonprofit that is now Lighthouse International
 * Nora Johnson, novelist, The World of Henry Orient
 * Judith Jones, editor and food writer
 * Caroline Kennedy, diplomat, author and philanthropist
 * Nancy Krieger, epidemiologist
 * Maude Latour, singer–songwriter
 * Téa Leoni, actress
 * Bethel Leslie, actress
 * Sarah Lewis, Professor at Harvard University, Art Curator, and TED Talk presenter
 * Priscilla Johnson McMillan, journalist, translator, author, historian
 * Caryn Marooney, business executive
 * Ruth Messinger, Manhattan Borough President
 * Sara Moulton, chef, author and television personality
 * Elisabeth Murdoch, media executive
 * Victoria Newhouse, architecture critic
 * Diane Paulus, opera and theater director. Artistic Director, American Repertory Theater
 * Mary Louise Perlman, musician
 * Kathleen Ridder, philanthropist, educator, writer, equality for women activist
 * Mary Rodgers, children's author and composer
 * Anne Roiphe, journalist, novelist
 * Katie Roiphe, writer
 * Niki de Saint Phalle, artist
 * Dorothy Schiff, publisher of the New York Post
 * Rose Schlossberg
 * Tatiana Schlossberg
 * Kyra Sedgwick, actor
 * Maggie Shnayerson, journalist and blogger
 * Helen Farr Sloan, educator, artist, philanthropist
 * Sarah Solovay, singer–songwriter
 * Kim Stolz, fashion model and television personality
 * Marina Vaizey, art critic and author
 * Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Academy Award winner, director and producer of documentary films
 * Emily Vermeule, scholar and archaeologist
 * Erica Wagner, literary editor for The Times
 * Frieda Schiff Warburg, philanthropist
 * Katharine Weymouth, former publisher of The Washington Post
 * Flora Payne Whitney, patron of the arts