List of Wheaton College (Massachusetts) alumni

The following is a categorized list of alumni, as well as honorary degree recipients, of Wheaton College in Massachusetts.

Academia

 * Elizabeth Altmaier (1973), Professor of Counseling Psychology and Community and Behavioral Health, University of Iowa
 * Mary Ellen Avery (1948), Thomas Morgan Rotch Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
 * Joan Copjec (1968), Professor of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University
 * Faye Crosby (1969), Professor of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz
 * Lydia Folger Fowler (1842), first female medical professor in the United States at the Rochester Eclectic Medical College
 * Caroline Haven Ober (1884), founder of the Department of Romance Languages, University of Washington
 * Patricia A. King (1964), Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law, Medicine, Ethics, and Public Policy, Georgetown University
 * E. Frances White (1971), Professor of Individualized Study and Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University

Arts

 * Carolyn Brown (1950), choreographer
 * Nick Fradiani (2008), winner of the fourteenth season of American Idol
 * Nancy Hemenway Barton (1941), artist
 * Mary Fickett, actress
 * Lauren Henderson (2009), singer
 * Catherine Keener (1983), Academy Award-nominated actress
 * Molly Luce (1916), painter
 * Bruce Marks (1986), director of the Boston Ballet
 * Eleanor Norcross (1872), painter and founder of the Fitchburg Art Museum
 * Anne-Imelda Radice (1969), art historian
 * Ann Ronell (1923), composer
 * Jessica Sonneborn, actress
 * Callie Thorne (1991), actress
 * Clenet Verdi-Rose (2004), film director
 * Rose Weaver (1973), actress

Athletics

 * Dan Antoniuk (2003), Major Arena Soccer League player
 * Connie Carberg (1971–1972), National Football League scout
 * Chris Denorfia (2002), Major League Baseball player
 * Jim Manganello (1999), Major League Soccer player

Business

 * Ken Babby (2002), businessman
 * Ligia Bonetti (1989), businesswoman
 * Evelyn Danzig Haas (1939), philanthropist
 * Diane Farrell (1977), board member of the Export–Import Bank of the United States
 * Janet Hanson, founder of Ellevate Network
 * Denise Jefferson (1965), dancer
 * Trish Karter (1977), founder of Dancing Deer Baking Co.
 * Sandra Ohrn Moose (1963), advisor to the Boston Consulting Group
 * Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (1969), philanthropist
 * Catherine Filene Shouse (1918), philanthropist

Literature

 * Lori Baker (1984), novelist
 * Lesley Bannatyne (1975), author
 * Linda Barlow, author
 * Gwenda Blair (1960–1961), author
 * Harriet Connor Brown, author
 * Kay Chorao (1958), children's writer
 * Jean Fritz (1937), children's writer
 * Robie Harris (1962), children's writer
 * Allen J. Hubin, literary critic
 * Peter W. Kunhardt Jr. (2005), author
 * Nancy Mairs (1964), essayist
 * Susan Meddaugh (1966), children's writer
 * Estelle M. H. Merrill (1877), journalist
 * Marion Naifeh (1950), author
 * Esther Newberg (1963), literary agent
 * Margaret Colby Getchell Parsons (1914), author
 * Jean Pedrick (1943), author
 * Sally Bedell Smith (1970), journalist
 * Lesley Stahl (1963), journalist
 * Mari Tomasi, novelist
 * Amanda Urban (1968), literary agent

Politics

 * Mimi Alford (1965), White House intern, who had an affair with United States President John F. Kennedy
 * Gabe Amo (2010), member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Rhode Island
 * Anne Canby, Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Transportation
 * Giovinella Gonthier (1972), Seychelles Ambassador to the United States
 * Shad Al-Sherif Pasha (2001), Sharif of Hijaz
 * Ellen Moran (1988), former White House Communications Director under United States President Barack Obama
 * Barbara Richardson (1971), First Lady of New Mexico and wife of Bill Richardson
 * Gale Rossides, acting director of the Transportation Security Administration
 * Margaret Joy Tibbetts (1941), United States Ambassador to Norway
 * Candy Waites (1965), member of the South Carolina House of Representatives
 * Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck (1999–2001), King of Bhutan
 * Christine Todd Whitman (1968), Governor of New Jersey

Other

 * Louise Bates Ames (1926–1928), psychologist
 * Mark Baumer (2006), adventurer
 * Ron Corning (1993), television news reporter
 * Barbara Damrosch (1963), horticulturalist
 * Emily Susan Hartwell (1883), missionary
 * Dennis Leary, chef
 * Mary Johnson Bailey Lincoln (1864), chef
 * Fanny E. Minot (1867), president of the Woman's Relief Corps
 * Ann Peoples (1979), anthropologist
 * Nedi Rivera (1968), Episcopal bishop
 * Sybil Ward, attorney

Honorary

 * Hattie Alexander (1967), pediatrician
 * Margaret Clapp (1960), president of Wellesley College
 * Emerson Greenaway (1973), president of the American Library Association
 * Vartan Gregorian (1989), president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York
 * Matina Horner (1979), president of Radcliffe College
 * Alice S. Huang (1982), president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
 * Wolf Kahn (2000), painter
 * Phyllis McGinley (1956), children's writer
 * Agnes Mongan (1953), director of the Harvard Art Museums
 * Seiji Ozawa (1984), director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra
 * Helenka Pantaleoni (1966), actress
 * Richard Stengel (2011), chief executive officer of the National Constitution Center
 * Rosemond Tuve (1957), Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania
 * Emily Vermeule (1973), Professor of Classical Philology and Archaeology, Harvard University
 * Kathryn Wasserman Davis (2009), philanthropist