List of Mills College people

The following is a partial list of notable Mills College Alumnae. It includes alumnae, professors, and others associated with Mills College.

Alumnae and alumni

 * Janus Adams - journalist and talk show host
 * Laurie Anderson - performance artist and musician
 * John Bischoff - musician
 * Kevin Blechdom - musician
 * Renel Brooks-Moon - voice of the San Francisco Giants, first black baseball announcer
 * Trisha Brown - choreographer
 * Dave Brubeck - musician and composer
 * Teresa Blankmeyer Burke - philosopher and bioethicist
 * Alice Sudduth Byerly (1855–1904) - temperance activist
 * Peggie Castle - actress
 * Sharon Cheslow - musician and artist
 * King Lan Chew - dancer
 * Maya Chinchilla - poet
 * Katherine Choy - ceramicist
 * Marika Cifor - professor at University of Washington Information School.
 * Martha Fuller Clark - New Hampshire State Senator
 * Sofia Coppola - director
 * Elizabeth Crow (1968, B.A.) - editor and journalist
 * Eunice Prieto Damron - ceramic artist
 * Olivia de Havilland - actress
 * Vaughn De Leath
 * Paul DeMarinis - artist, musician, composer
 * Rosanna Castrillo Diaz - artist
 * March Fong Eu - politician
 * Claire Falkenstein - sculptor, painter, print-maker and jewelry designer known for her large-scale abstract metal and glass sculptures
 * Molissa Fenley - modern dancer
 * Jim Ferguson - guitarist and composer
 * Guillermo Galindo composer/ sound artist
 * Noah Georgeson - musician and producer
 * Leah Gerber - Professor of Conservation Science at Arizona State University
 * Helen Gilbert - artist
 * April Catherine Glaspie - diplomat, United States Ambassador to Iraq during the Gulf War
 * Ben Goldberg - composer and clarinetist
 * Michelle Cruz Gonzalez - musician, author
 * Beate Sirota Gordon - contributing author, as staff to Douglas MacArthur, of Japanese Constitution
 * Peter Gordon - composer
 * Ariel Gore - author
 * Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson - composer
 * Holly Herndon - composer, musician, and sound artist
 * Barbara Higbie - musician and composer
 * Claire Giannini Hoffman - first woman to serve on the boards of Bank of America and Sears, Roebuck & Company
 * Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner - Marshallese poet and climate change activist
 * Snatam Kaur - musician and activist
 * Bevin Kelley - musician
 * Nia King - art activist, multimedia journalist, podcaster, public speaker, and zine maker
 * Ron Kuivila - musician and sound artist
 * Michael Land - head of LucasArts sound department
 * Dorianne Laux - award-winning poet
 * Barbara Lee - U.S. Representative from California's 12th congressional district
 * May Lee - CNN correspondent
 * Phil Lesh - Grateful Dead bassist
 * Cheena Marie Lo - poet
 * Charmian London - second wife and biographer of Jack London
 * Jeffrey Luck Lucas - musician and composer
 * Megan March - musician, visual artist
 * Micheline Aharonian Marcom - novelist
 * Jerry Martin - composer
 * Miya Masaoka - musician and composer
 * Billie June McCaskill - botanist
 * Siobhon McManus - teacher and activist
 * Constance Money - actress
 * Elizabeth Murray - painter and MacArthur Fellow
 * Dasha Nekrasova - actress
 * Amy X. Neuburg - musician and composer
 * Joanna Newsom - musician
 * Emma Kaili Metcalf Beckley Nakuina - writer
 * Margaret Saunders Ott - pianist and music educator
 * Diana L. Paxson - author
 * Maggi Payne - composer and musician
 * Daniella Pineda
 * Dan Plonsey - saxophonist
 * Johanna Poethig – visual, public and performance artist
 * Dixy Lee Ray - Governor of Washington and chair of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
 * Dana Reason - composer and musician
 * Gino Robair - composer and percussionist
 * Steve Reich - composer
 * Wendy Reid - composer and violinist
 * Marc Anthony Richardson - novelist
 * Manuel Rocha Iturbide - composer and sound artist
 * Ana Roxanne - musician and singer
 * Ananya Roy - professor of urban studies at UC Berkeley
 * Ann Sandifur, composer
 * Mia Satya (aka Mia Tu Mutch), community organizer and activist
 * Beate Sirota - helped write the Japanese constitution
 * Irma Tam Soong - historian
 * Morton Subotnick - composer
 * Michèle Taylor - U.S. Ambassador to the UN Human Rights Council
 * Grace Vamos - composer and cellist
 * Dana Vespoli - pornographic actress
 * Candace Vogler - philosopher
 * Katharine Mulky Warne - composer
 * Gordon Watson - pianist
 * William Winant - percussionist
 * Betty Ann Wong - composer
 * Hsiung-Zee Wong - composer and musician
 * Jade Snow Wong - author and artist
 * Connie Young Yu - author, historian, and lecturer

Faculty

 * Robert Ashley
 * Fred Uhl Ball
 * Arthur Berger
 * Luciano Berio
 * John Bischoff
 * Chana Bloch
 * Lenore Blum
 * Anthony Braxton
 * Domenico Brescia
 * Anna Cox Brinton
 * Chris Brown
 * Dave Brubeck
 * John Cage
 * Alvin Curran
 * Delaine Eastin
 * Hettie Belle Ege
 * Fred Frith
 * Lou Harrison / Bill Colvig
 * Joan Jeanrenaud
 * Congresswoman Barbara Lee
 * George E. Lewis
 * Yiyun Li
 * Hung Liu
 * Ajuan Mance
 * R. Wood Massi
 * Helene Mayer (1910–1953) - German and American Olympic champion fencer
 * Darius Milhaud
 * Roscoe Mitchell
 * Diana O'Hehir
 * Pauline Oliveros
 * Kathleen Parlow
 * Roi Partridge
 * Maggi Payne
 * Elizabeth Marie Pope
 * Stephen Ratcliffe
 * Wendy Reid
 * Terry Riley
 * David Rosenboom
 * Moira Roth
 * Dean Rusk
 * Diana E.H. Russell
 * Pierre Salinger
 * Kirsten Saxton
 * Robert Sheff
 * Laetitia Sonami
 * Glenn Spearman
 * Ellen Spertus
 * Homer Sprague
 * Zvezdelina Stankova
 * Susan Stryker
 * Morton Subotnick
 * Grace Vamos
 * Catherine Wagner
 * William Winant
 * Laura Weinbach

Trustees

 * Albert M. Bender
 * Ethel Moore (1872-1920), trustee, elected in 1915
 * Milton H. Myrick - founding trustee, 1875