Talk:List of Vassar College people

notability
per informal guideline, if a person doesn't have their own article on wikipedia, for purposes of lists of X, that person lacks notability. i'm removing all redlinked names, as well as plaintext names that aren't linked to existing articles. Anastrophe (talk) 05:06, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

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Vassar people to be folded into this list
The following massive run-on sentence populated the section on notable people in the Vassar College proper article, looking terrible and unvetted. I'm dropping the text here for further review, it's a fairly large job to fold these into this article while ensuring duplicates aren't generated, verifying Vassar status, etc. If others would like to pitch in, the more the merrier. Anastrophe (talk) 04:22, 16 February 2020 (UTC) "Notable Vassar alumni include: notable feminist and Classics scholar Elizabeth Hazleton Haight (1894), their first graduate of African ancestry Anita Florence Hemmings (1897), notable education and prison reform advocate Julia Tutwiler, the first female Electrical Engineer Edith Clarke (1908), founder of the United Service Organizations (USO) Mary Ingraham (1908), artist Ruth Starr Rose (1910), poet Edna St. Vincent Millay (1917), computer pioneer Grace Hopper (1928), critic and novelist Mary McCarthy (1933), poet Elizabeth Bishop (1934), writer and journalist Frances Scott Fitzgerald (1942), physician Beatrix Hamburg (1944), astrophysicist Vera Rubin (1948), Art Historian Linda Nochlin (1951), member of FORTRAN development team Lois Haibt (1955), politician and activist Frances Farenthold, Zagat Survey co-founder Nina Zagat (1963), physician and National Institutes of Health director Bernadine P. Healy (1965), feminist and abortion rights activist Lucinda Cisler(1965), Nickelodeon President and Oxygen Media founder and CEO Geraldine Laybourne (1969), author and prosecutor Linda Fairstein (1969), Emmy award-winning executive producer of Masterpiece on PBS Rebecca Eaton (1969), three-time Academy Award winner actress Meryl Streep (1971), Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction writer Jane Smiley (1971), author and journalist Michael Wolff (1975), Neuroscientist and Director of Johns Hopkins Medicine Brain Science Institute Richard L. Huganir (1975), CBS News Chief White House Correspondent Chip Reid (1977), former World Bank CFO and Undersecretary of the Treasury for Domestic Finance Jeffrey Goldstein (1977), The New Yorker magazine science writer Michael Specter (1977), Cooper Union President Jamshed Bharucha (1978), MSNBC President Phil Griffin (1979), astrophysicist and MacArthur Award Fellow John Carlstrom (1981), President of Lawrence University of Wisconsin Mark Burstein (1984), actress Lisa Kudrow (1985), actress Hope Davis (1986), journalist Evan Wright (1988), ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl (1990), physician and MacArthur Award Fellow Jeffrey Brenner (1990), writer-director Noah Baumbach (1991), film and television producer Jason Blum (1991), Flickr founder Caterina Fake (1991), Shine Limited CEO and Chairman Elisabeth Murdoch (1992), author Jon Fisher (1994), novelist Katherine Center (1994), novelist Joe Hill (1995), Emmy Award-winning comedy writer-producer Jessi Klein (1997), writer Jesse Ball (2000), Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and Wall Street Journal reporter Alexandra Berzon (2001), musician and songwriter Victoria Legrand (2003), screenwriter and director Jonás Cuarón (2005), winner of RuPaul's Drag Race Season 9 Sasha Velour (2009), Tony Award-nominated actress Lilli Cooper (2012), Tony Award-nominated actor Ethan Slater (2014), and runner-up of Big Brother 18 (UK) Raph Korine (2017).

Notable attendees who did not graduate from Vassar include professional chef and television personality Anthony Bourdain, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham, president of the Ford Foundation Susan Berresford, actresses Jane Fonda and Anne Hathaway, actor Justin Long, member of the Beastie Boys Mike D, Oscar-winning musician Mark Ronson, musician Rachael Yamagata, and writer Curtis Sittenfeld.

Notable Vassar faculty include pioneering female astronomer Maria Mitchell, computer scientist Grace Hopper, Classicist Grace Macurdy, writer Paul Russell, composer Richard Edward Wilson, philosophers Uma Narayan, Mitchell Miller, and Bryan W. Van Norden, historian James Merrell, political scientist Peter Stillman, writers Hua Hsu, Nancy Willard, Frank Bergon and a pioneer of hypertext fiction Michael Joyce."