List of Miss Porter's School alumnae

The following is a list of notable Ancients (alumnae) from Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Connecticut.

1850s

 * Eliza Talcott – attended in the 1850s; founder of Kobe College

1870s

 * Grace Hoadley Dodge (1873) – established Columbia University Teachers’ College
 * Nellie Grant (1873) – daughter of U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant and First Lady Julia Grant
 * Mary Knight Wood (1875) – American pianist, music educator and composer
 * Julia Lathrop (1876) – the first woman ever to head a government agency in the United States

1880s

 * Helen Gilman Noyes Brown (1881) – philanthropist
 * Edith Hamilton (1886) – Greek mythology scholar; sister of Alice Hamilton
 * Alice Hamilton (1888) – first female faculty member of the Harvard Medical School; founder of the field of industrial medicine
 * Theodate Pope Riddle (1888) – architect and philanthropist; architect and founder of Avon Old Farms School; architect of Westover School

1890s

 * Madeline McDowell Breckinridge (1890) – a leader of the women's suffrage movement, a leading Progressive reformer, and great-granddaughter of Henry Clay
 * Ruth Hanna McCormick (1897) – member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois and the first woman to run for the U.S. Senate
 * Princess Anastasia of Greece and Denmark (née Nonie May Stewart) – American-born wife of Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmark, the son of King George I of Greece

1910s

 * Edith Roelker Curtis (1912) – author, historian, and diarist
 * Dorothy Keeley Aldis (1914) – American children's author and poet
 * Emily Hale (1916) – speech and drama teacher, and muse of T.S. Eliot

1920s

 * Helen Coley Nauts (1925) – founder of the Cancer Research Institute

1930s

 * Barbara Hutton (1930) – American socialite, dubbed "Poor Little Rich Girl"
 * Gloria Vanderbilt – American artist, writer, actress, fashion designer, heiress, and socialite
 * Edith Bouvier Beale (1935) – American socialite; cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis; subject of the documentary film Grey Gardens
 * Anne Cox Chambers (1938) – U.S. Ambassador to Belgium during the Carter administration
 * Gene Tierney (1938) – Academy Award-nominated actress
 * Brenda Frazier (1939) – American socialite

1940s

 * Polly Allen Mellen (1942) – editor of Vogue magazine
 * Dina Merrill (née Nedenia Hutton) (1943) – actress and American socialite
 * Letitia Baldrige Hollensteiner (1943) – author and social secretary to Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy
 * Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis (1947) – former First Lady of the United States
 * Patience Cleveland (1948) – American actress and published author
 * Lilly Pulitzer (née Lillian Lee McKim) (1949) – fashion designer and American socialite

1950s

 * Lee Radziwill (née Bouvier) (1950) – public relations executive for Giorgio Armani, author, and younger sister of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
 * Elizabeth Cushman Titus Putnam (1951) – founding president of the Student Conservation Association (SCA) and recipient of the Presidential Citizens Medal
 * Laura Rockefeller Chasin (1954) – American socialite
 * Elise Ravenel Wood du Pont (1954) – former First Lady of Delaware and 1984 Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives
 * Barbara Babcock (1955) – Emmy Award-winning actress for Hill Street Blues
 * Pema Chödrön (formerly Deirdre Blomfield-Brown) (1955) – Buddhist nun and author; resident director of Gampo Abbey
 * Edith Kunhardt Davis (1955) – children's author and illustrator, daughter of Dorothy Kunhardt
 * Agnes Gund (1956) – President Emerita of the Museum of Modern Art and 1997 recipient of the National Medal of Arts

1960s

 * Mimi Alford (1961) – former White House intern who wrote a book about her affair with John F. Kennedy
 * Sheila Ford Hamp (1969) – owner of the Detroit Lions

1970s

 * Elizabeth May (1972) – the first elected Green Party Member of Parliament in Canada and leader of the Green Party of Canada
 * Dorothy Bush Koch (1977) – philanthropist and member of the Bush political family
 * Sarah Ludlow Blake (1978) – American writer

1980s

 * Susannah Grant (1980) – director and Academy Award-nominated screenwriter for Erin Brockovich
 * Ariane de Vogue (1984) – CNN reporter and commentator
 * R. Erica Doyle (1985) – educator and poet
 * Pippa Tubman Armerding (1986) – director of Africa Research Office, Harvard Business School
 * Gregg Renfrew (1986) – entrepreneur and founder of Beautycounter
 * Lisette Bross (1989) – Chief Strategy Officer, Radar Pictures
 * Mary Anne Amirthi Mohanraj (1989) – American writer and editor

1990s

 * Katherine Collins Pope (1990) – president of television at Chernin Entertainment, formerly president of Universal Media Studios, and executive producer of such television series as New Girl, Touch, and Ben & Kate
 * Kate Bennett (1993) -- CNN White House reporter assigned to Melania Trump
 * Chrishaunda Lee (1994) – niece of Oprah Winfrey and hostess of PBS programming

2000s

 * Mamie Gummer (2001) – actress; daughter of actress Meryl Streep
 * Victoria de Lesseps – French-American artist

Fictional alumnae

 * In the 2003 drama Mona Lisa Smile, Joan Brandwyn's student file reveals that she attended Miss Porter's School, though the film incorrectly locates it in Pennsylvania
 * In the 2000 drama The Skulls, Chloe is stated to have attended Miss Porter's School
 * In the series Gossip Girl, a guest character by the name of Shelby Wright goes to Miss Porter's
 * In the series Mad Men, Sally Draper attended Miss Porter's