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

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, American educator and college president Agnes Irwin (1894–1909), American educator

Notable alumnae

Architects and landscape architects 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 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), art historian and curator at Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library Eva Moseley, 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 Dayna Bowen Matthew, law school dean 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 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, 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, feminist philosopher and writer Clara Claiborne Park (1923–2010), author who raised awareness of autismHevesi, Dennis. "Clara Claiborne Park, 86, Dies; Wrote About Autistic Child", The New York Times, July 12, 2010. Accessed July 13, 2010. Linda Pastan, poet Josephine Preston Peabody, poet Katha Pollitt, poet, essayist and critic Francine Prose, writer Julia Quinn, New York Times best-selling author Helen Leah Reed, writer Adrienne Rich, poet Margot Roosevelt, journalist Elsie Singmaster, author Gertrude Stein, writer, poet, playwright and feminist Lily Tuck, novelist and short story writer Jean Valentine, poet Hannah Weiner, poet Natalie Wexler, novelist Lally Weymouth, journalist Ruth Whitman, poet Charlotte Wilder, MA, poet; eldest sister of Thornton Wilder

Others Elizabeth Bailey, economist Amelia Muir Baldwin, interior designer and women's suffrage activist 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) Frances Gardiner Davenport (1870–1927), historian of the later Middle Ages and the European colonizationIntroduction to European Treaties Bearing on the History of the United States and its Dependencies, vol. 2 (Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 2010 edition) Natalie Zemon Davis, historian of the early modern period Elisabeth Deichmann (1896–1975), Danish-born American marine biologist 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 Ann Kindrick Fischer, social anthropologist Abigail Folger, 1964, 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 Ellis Hoyt, economist 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 Sinah Estelle Kelley, chemist Caroline Kennedy, author and diplomat 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 Ann Lewis, political advisor 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), economist Laura Meneses, political activist Alice Vanderbilt Morris Chris Mulford, AB 1963, breastfeeding advocate Laura Nader, professor in controlling processes Gertrude Neumark, physicist Ursula Oppens, classical pianist Deborah Orin, journalist Mary White Ovington, activist, NAACP founder Masako Owada, 1985, empress of Japan Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, astronomer Ann Hunter Popkin, women's rights activist Carol Potter, actress Sue Pritzker, socialite, philanthropist, and activist, member of the Pritzker family Bonnie Raitt (attended one year), Grammy Award-winning singer and musician Philinda Rand, 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 H. Catherine W. Skinner, geologist and mineralogist Diane B. Snelling, politician Cynthia Solomon, computer scientist, co-designer of Logo (programming language), and co-developer of LCSI Logo Diane Souvaine, computer scientist Edith G. Stedman, 1910, head of the Appointment Bureau 1930–1954 Doris Zemurray Stone, 1930 (1909–1994), archaeologist and ethnographer of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures Mary E. Switzer, public administrator and social reformer Martha J. B. Thomas, (1926–2006), PhD MBA, chemical engineer Caroline Thompson, screenwriter-director Orlando E. Toledo, author and essayist 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 Liz Williamson, dancer and choreographer Olive Winchester, professor at the Point Loma, Northwest, and Eastern Nazarene colleges Marie Winn, ornithologist Charlotte Todes, labor organizer

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