List of alumni of Girton College, Cambridge

This is a list of alumni of Girton College, Cambridge.

NameBirthDeathCareer/Notable attainments Margaret Alford18681951Classical scholarAdelaide Anderson18631936Labour activistMargaret Swainson Anderson19021952First woman academic appointed at Girton to teach geographyMary Arden1947Lord Justice of AppealHertha Marks Ayrton18541923Electrical engineerAnne Bayley19342024Surgical oncologist in Zambia and HIV/AIDS researcherJanet Ruth Bacon18911965Principal, Royal Holloway College, University of London 1935-44 Sally Beauman19442016AuthorFlorence Bell19132000Scientist, first X-ray diffraction photograph of DNAMary Berry19172008ConductorDina bint 'Abdu'l-Hamid19292019Queen consort of JordanAnn Bishop18991990ProtozoologistAlistair Brownlee1988Triathlete (left to study at University of Leeds)Agnata Frances Butler née Ramsey18671931Only first in 1887 Classics Tripos, honoured in Punch (magazine) cartoon 'Ladies Only'Margaret Canovan1939Professor of political theoryAnthony Carrigan19802016Scholar in postcolonial literature and culturesJanet Elizabeth Case18631937British classics teacher and journalistWendy R. Childs1943Professor of Later Medieval History at the University of LeedsPatricia Clarke19192010Professor of microbial biochemistrySarah Clarke1965Former president of the Royal College of Physicians of London and cardiologistVicky Clement-Jones19481987PhysicianTina Cooper19181986PaediatricianIsabel Cooper-Oakley18541914Theosophical writerGwendolen Crewdson18721913EgyptologistElizabeth Dawes18651954Classical scholar, educational reformer, first woman to receive a DLitt degree from the University of LondonMary Clara Dawes1862?Classical scholar, first woman to receive an MA degree from the University of London (in 1884)Delia Derbyshire19372001Musician, composerAthene Donald1953PhysicistTom FordyceBBC Sports journalistVeronica Forrest-Thomson19471975PoetJane Fraser1967President of CitigroupOlive Fraser19091977Poet and novelistGeorge Freeman MP1967British politicianZahra Freeth19252015Author on Middle Eastern topics Jane Grenville 1958British archaeologist and academicBrenda Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond1945Justice of the Supreme Court of the United KingdomPhil Hammond1962Comedian and DoctorRosalyn Higgins1937President of the International Court of JusticeGertrude Himmelfarb19222019American cultural historianJudith A. Hill1959HistorianArianna Huffington1950Political author and activist, founder of The Huffington PostWendy Holden1965NovelistPatricia Hollis, Baroness Hollis of Heigham1941Peer and historianDorothy Jewson18841964British politicianDenise Kingsmill, Baroness Kingsmill Labour PeerJulie Kirkbride1960Former MPGabrielle Lambrick19131968Civil servant, historian, teacherBeatrice Lindsay18581917ZoologistJean Lindsay19101996Historian, TeacherRosamond Lehmann19011990NovelistLorna Lloyd19141942Second World War diaristRachel Lomax1945Former Deputy Governor of the Bank of EnglandSheila Scott Macintyre19101960MathematicianAda Isabel Maddison18691950MathematicianMargrethe II of Denmark1940Queen regnant of DenmarkAnnie Scott Dill Maunder18681947AstronomerAnna Maxted1969NovelistConstance Maynard18491935British feminist, educatorRod McAllister1961ArchitectMarion McQuillan19211998MetallurgistMargaret Mountford1951Former Herbert Smith partner, now star of BBC's The ApprenticeJennifer Moyle19212016BiochemistSarojini Naidu18791949Poet, politicianJoseph O'Neill1964Novelist, non-fiction writerPhilippa Pearce19202006OBE FRSL, author of children's books best known for Tom's Midnight GardenKaren Pierce1959Permanent UK representative to the UNSheila Pim19091995Novelist and biographerEileen Power18891940British economic historian and medievalistEmily James Smith Putnam18651944Educator, historianKathleen Raine19082003PoetHelene Reynard18751947Economist and college administratorNancie Clifton Reynolds19031931Domestic advice writer, lecturer, BBC broadcasterGisela Richter18821972Classical archaeologist, art historianEirlys Roberts19112008Classical scholar; consumer campaigner; editor of Which?Joan Robinson19031983EconomistDiana Ross19102000AuthorSao Sanda1928Shan royalty and the last princess of YawnghweEthel Sargant18631918BotanistWendy Savage1935GynaecologistCharlotte Angas Scott18581931MathematicianMatthew Schellhorn1977Concert pianistRosamund Flora Shove1878 1954BotanistGavin Shuker MP1981British politicianSasha Siem1984Singer-Songwriter and ComposerCharlie Siem1986ViolinistCaroline Skeel18721951EducatorSalma Sobhan19372003BarristerE. Millicent Sowerby18831977BibliographerIrene Spry19071998Economic historianChristopher Steele1964SpyAlice Stewart19062002EpidemiologistMarilyn Strathern1941Social AnthropologistSteph Swainston1974WriterBertha Swirles19031999PhysicistElizabeth Symons, Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean1951Peer, former General Secretary of the FDA trade unionPrincess Takamado1953Princess of JapanMary Taylor Slow18981984PhysicistSandi Toksvig1958Author and broadcasterDorothy Wedderburn19252012Principal, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of LondonSarah Woodhead18511912First woman to take, and to pass, the Mathematical Tripos exam, which she did in 1873; headmistress of Bolton High School for GirlsBarbara Adam Wootton18971988Social scientist, economistWilmer Cave Wright18681951Classical philologistDorothy Wrinch18941976Mathematical biologistGrace Chisholm Young18681944Mathematician

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