List of Bryn Mawr College people

The following is a list of individuals associated with Bryn Mawr College through attending as a student, or serving as a member of the faculty or staff.

Noted faculty and administrators

 * Gerald M. Ackerman, art historian, lecturer in art history (1959–1965)
 * Constance Applebee, Director of Athletics (1904–1928). Brought field hockey to the United States from Britain and established women's lacrosse as a collegiate sport.
 * Asoka Bandarage
 * Florence Bascom, petrologist, founder of Bryn Mawr's Geology Department
 * Marland Pratt Billings, Structural Geologist
 * Rhys Carpenter, Classical Archaeology (1889–1980)
 * Kimberly Wright Cassidy (born c. 1963), Psychology, ninth president of Bryn Mawr College
 * Catherine Conybeare, Professor of Classics
 * Maria Luisa Crawford, Geology, MacArthur Genius Grant recipient
 * Arthur C. Cope, chemist, developer of the Cope rearrangement and the Cope elimination, namesake of the Arthur C. Cope Award of the American Chemical Society (1934–1941)
 * Donald Drew Egbert, Lecturer of Ancient Architecture (1930)
 * Louis Fieser, chemist, developer of synthetic napalm, researcher of vitamin K (1925–1930)
 * Arthur Lindo Patterson, founder of the Patterson function used in X-ray crystallography (1936–1949)
 * Michelle Francl, computational chemistry
 * Louise Holland, academic, philologist and archaeologist
 * Alice M. Hoffman, labor and oral historian
 * Howard S. Hoffman, Psychology (1925–2006), Behavioral Neuroscientist, leading scholar of the startle reflex and social attachment
 * Amy Kelly, headmistress, historian and best-selling author
 * Susan Myra Kingsbury, historical economist and social researcher; director of the Social Economy and Social Research department
 * Frederica de Laguna, anthropologist and founder of Bryn Mawr's anthropology department (1906–2004)
 * Mabel Lang, Greek (1943–1988); received her Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr in 1943
 * Agathe Lasch, Germanic philologist (Associate Professor, 1910–16)
 * Richmond Lattimore, Greek (1935–1971)
 * Bettina Linn (1905–1962), English professor from 1934 to 1962; novelist
 * Helen Taft Manning, History (1917–1957), also served as dean
 * Berthe Marti, Latin and French (1930–1963)
 * Cornelia Meigs, English (1932–1950)
 * Agnes Kirsopp Lake Michels, Latin (1934–1975)
 * José Ferrater Mora, Philosophy (1949–1980).
 * Thomas Hunt Morgan, geneticist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine (1866–1946)
 * Emmy Noether, Mathematics (1933–1935)
 * Jane M. Oppenheimer, Embryology and History of Science (1938–1980)
 * John Oxtoby, Mathematics (1939–1979)
 * Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway, Archeology (1958–1994)
 * Charlotte Scott, Mathematics (1885–1917)
 * Hilda Worthington Smith, labor educator, social worker, and poet (1888–1984)
 * Lily Ross Taylor, Latin (1927–1942), Dean of the Graduate School (1942–52)
 * M. Carey Thomas, English, Dean of the College (1884–1908), President (1894–1922)
 * Edward Warburg (1908–1992), taught Modern Art.
 * Harold Wethey, art historian
 * Woodrow Wilson (1885–1888)
 * Karl Kirchwey (born 1956), poet, associate professor from 2000 to present

Noted fictional alumni

 * Pamela Abbott (A.B.), Inventing the Abbotts (1997), played by Liv Tyler
 * C.C. Babcock, The Nanny (1993), played by Lauren Lane
 * Erica Barry (A.B.), Something's Gotta Give lead character, played by Diane Keaton
 * Amanda Bonner (A.B.), Adam's Rib (1949), played by Katharine Hepburn
 * Betty Draper (A.B. in Anthropology), Mad Men (2007), played by January Jones
 * Nancy Drew & Carolyn Keene, Confessions of a Teen Sleuth (book published in 2005)
 * Jinx (A.B.) (1980s), a.k.a. Kim Arashikage (a fictional character in the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero toy line)
 * Allison R. Hart-Burnett (A.B.) (1980s), Lady Jaye (a fictional character in the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero toy line)
 * Edna Krabappel (M.A.), The Simpsons teacher
 * Miriam "Midge" Maisel (B.A.), The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017), played by Rachel Brosnahan
 * Vivian Schuyler (B.A.), The Secret Life of Violet Grant by Beatriz Williams.
 * Corinthians (A.B.), Song of Solomon (book published 1977)