List of Radcliffe College people

The following is a list of individuals associated with Radcliffe College through attending as a student, or serving as college president or dhjj an.

List of presidents

 * Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, 1894–1900 (honorary president 1900–1903)
 * LeBaron Russell Briggs, 1903–1923
 * Ada Louise Comstock, 1923–1943
 * Wilbur Kitchener Jordan, 1943–1960
 * Mary Bunting, 1960–1972
 * Matina Horner, 1972–1989
 * Linda Wilson, 1989–1999

Deans

 * Frances R. Brown
 * Agnes Irwin, 1894–1909

Architects and landscape architects

 * Lois Wilson Langhorst, class of 1966, architect and educator; pioneer of modernist architecture
 * Judith Ledeboer, architect
 * Ellen Biddle Shipman, landscape architect (left after one year)
 * Anne Whiston Spirn, landscape architect

Art and architecture historians

 * Leila Cook Barber, MA degree 1928, art historian and professor emeritus at Vassar College, specializing in the Renaissance art and medieval studies.
 * Mary Berenson (1864–1945), Harvard Annex student 1884-1885, art historian
 * Katharine Seymour Day, historical preservationist
 * Florence M. Montgomery (1914–1998), American art historian and curator at Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library
 * Eva Moseley, American curator and archivist
 * Phoebe Stanton (1914–2003), MA 1939, architectural historian, professor at Johns Hopkins University, and urban planner for Baltimore.

Lawyers and judges

 * Deborah Batts, judge
 * Cora Agnes Benneson, attorney, lecturer, and writer
 * Marsha Berzon, judge
 * Elaine Denniston, lawyer, supported the Apollo program
 * Jennifer Gordon, workers rights activist, lawyer
 * Karen Nelson Moore, judge

Physicians

 * Sara Murray Jordan, gastroenterologist
 * Judith Palfrey, pediatrician and author
 * Carla J. Shatz, neuroscientist
 * Nancy Wexler, geneticist

Writers, poets, journalists, and editor

 * Virginia Hamilton Adair, poet
 * Alice Adams, writer
 * Fannie Fern Andrews, writer
 * Margaret Atwood, 1961, author
 * Marita Bonner, writer, playwright
 * Elizabeth Brewster, poet
 * Barbara Epstein, literary editor
 * Anne Fadiman, essayist and reporter
 * Norma Farber, children's book writer and poet
 * Anne Garrels, journalist
 * Katharine Fullerton Gerould, novelist
 * Amy Goodman, journalist and political activist
 * Ellen Goodman, journalist and writer
 * Joyce Ballou Gregorian, 1968, science fiction author
 * Melissa Glenn Haber, writer
 * Rachel Hadas, poet, teacher, essayist, and translator
 * Rona Jaffe, author
 * Helen Keller, deaf blind writer, activist
 * Maxine Kumin, poet and author
 * Jean Kwok, author
 * Ursula K. Le Guin, American writer, poet
 * Alison Lurie, writer
 * Michel McQueen Martin, 1980, journalist
 * Anne McCaffrey, 1947, science fiction author
 * Priscilla Johnson McMillan, MA 1953, journalist, translator, author, historian
 * Daisy Newman, writer
 * Andrea Nye a feminist philosopher and writer
 * Linda Pastan, poet
 * Julia Quinn, New York Times best selling author
 * Clara Claiborne Park (1923–2010), author who raised awareness of autism
 * Josephine Preston Peabody, poet
 * Katha Pollitt, poet, essayist and critic
 * Francine Prose writer
 * Adrienne Rich, poet
 * Margot Roosevelt, journalist
 * Elsie Singmaster, author
 * Gertrude Stein, American writer, poet, playwright and feminist
 * Lily Tuck, novelist and short story writer
 * Jean Valentine, poet
 * Lally Weymouth, journalist
 * Hannah Weiner, poet
 * Natalie Wexler, novelist
 * Ruth Whitman, poet
 * Charlotte Wilder, MA, poet and eldest sister of Thornton Wilder

Others

 * Elizabeth Bailey, economist
 * Tryphosa Bates-Batcheller, singer
 * Gail Lee Bernstein, Japanese historian
 * Susan Berresford, 1965, president of the Ford Foundation 1996–2007
 * Benazir Bhutto, first woman elected to lead a Muslim state, Prime Minister of Pakistan (1988–1990; 1993–1996)
 * Melissa Block, radio journalist, co-host, All Things Considered
 * Thérèse Bonney, photographer and publicist
 * Jane Britton, 1967, murdered while a graduate student at Harvard University
 * Stockard Channing, actress, famous for her roles in Grease and The West Wing
 * Nancy Chodorow, sociologist
 * Judy Clapp, 1952, computer scientist
 * Zoe Cruz, business, co-president of Morgan Stanley (most powerful woman on Wall Street)
 * Natalie Zemon Davis, historian of the early modern period
 * Frances Gardiner Davenport (1870–1927), historian of he later Middle Ages and the European colonization
 * Jane Dempsey Douglass, feminist theologian, ecclesiastical historian, and president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches
 * Peggy Dulany, heiress and philanthropist
 * Eva Beatrice Dykes, academic
 * Debbie Ellison, model
 * Rebecca Elson, writer and astronomer
 * Abigail Folger, 1964, American coffee heiress, debutante, socialite, volunteer social worker, civil rights devotee
 * Mary Parker Follett, social worker, management consultant, and philosopher
 * Carol Gilligan, feminist, ethicist, and psychologist
 * Susanna Grannis, academic and nonprofit organizer
 * Phyllis Granoff, academic of Indic religions
 * Linda Greenhouse, legal journalist
 * Marjorie Grene, philosopher
 * Gisela Kahn Gresser, chess player
 * Lani Guinier, legal scholar and civil rights theorist
 * Amy Gutmann, current president of the University of Pennsylvania
 * Virginia Hall, SOE spy
 * Olive Hazlett, mathematician
 * Diana Mara Henry, photographer
 * Helen Sawyer Hogg, astronomer
 * Elizabeth Holtzman, politician
 * Elizabeth Hubbard, actress
 * Ruth Hubbard, professor, biologist, feminist
 * Josephine Hull, stage and film actress
 * Leslie P. Hume, historian and philanthropist
 * Catharine Sargent Huntington, actress, producer, director, founder of multiple theater companies, activist
 * Lydia P. Jackson, former Louisiana state legislator
 * Nancy Johnson, politician
 * Roberta Karmel (born 1937), Centennial Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, and first female commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
 * Caroline Kennedy, author and diplomat
 * Sinah Estelle Kelley, chemist
 * Susanne Langer, philosopher
 * Mary Lasker, health activist and philanthropist
 * Henrietta Swan Leavitt, astronomer
 * Mary Lefkowitz, scholar of Classics
 * Edith Lesley, academic and founder of Lesley University
 * Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson, Swedish princess
 * Pauline Maier, historian
 * Emily Mann (BA English literature 1974), director
 * Elizabeth Holloway Marston, MA 1921—involved in the creation of the comic book character Wonder Woman
 * Helen Reimensnyder Martin, novelist
 * Jessica Mathews
 * Jean Trepp McKelvey (1908–1998), American economist
 * Laura Meneses, political activist
 * Alice Vanderbilt Morris
 * Amelia Muir Baldwin, interior designer and women's suffrage activist
 * Chris Mulford, AB 1963, breastfeeding advocate
 * Laura Nader, professor in controlling processes
 * Ursula Oppens, classical pianist
 * Deborah Orin, journalist
 * Mary White Ovington, activist, NAACP founder
 * Masako Owada, 1985, empress of Japan
 * Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, astronomer
 * Carol Potter, actress
 * Bonnie Raitt (attended one year), Grammy Award-winning singer and musician
 * Philinda Rand, American English-language teacher in the Philippines
 * Lois Rice, 1954, vice president of the College Board and architect of the Pell Grant
 * Emeline Hill Richardson, archeologist
 * Alice Rivlin, economist
 * Helen Jean Rogers, television producer
 * Judith Ann Wilson Rogers
 * Michelle Rosaldo, anthropologist
 * Phyllis Schlafly, political activist, coined term A choice not an echo
 * Ellen Schrecker, historian
 * Mary Sears, oceanographer
 * Edie Sedgwick (attended), iconic American socialite and Warhol superstar
 * Judith Shuval, sociologist
 * Cynthia Solomon, computer scientist, co-designer of Logo (programming language), and co-developer of LCSI Logo.
 * Diane Souvaine, computer scientist
 * Diane B. Snelling, politician
 * Edith G. Stedman, 1910, head the Appointment Bureau 1930–1954
 * Doris Zemurray Stone, 1930 (1909–1994), archaeologist and ethnographer of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures
 * Abby A. Sutherland, cum laude graduate, head mistress, president, and owner of The Ogontz School for Girls. Sutherland deeded the school to Penn State in 1950.
 * Mary E. Switzer, public administrator and social reformer
 * Martha J. B. Thomas, (1926–2006), PhD MBA, chemical engineer
 * Caroline Thompson, screenwriter-director
 * Barbara W. Tuchman, historian and author
 * Abby Howe Turner, zoologist
 * Ruth Turner, marine biologist
 * Julie Vargas, educator
 * Emily Vermeule, archeologist
 * Maribel Vinson, figure skater
 * Caroline F. Ware, historian
 * Ruth Wendell Washburn, educational psychologist
 * Marina von Neumann Whitman, economist
 * Olive Winchester, professor at the Point Loma, Northwest, and Eastern Nazarene colleges
 * Marie Winn, ornithologist