The following is a list of individuals associated with Hollins University through attending as a student, or serving as a member of the faculty or staff.
Notable alumni
Activism Ellen Malcolm, Founder of EMILY's List, 1969
Arts Nancy Bryan Faircloth, philanthropist and arts patron, chairwoman of the North Carolina Symphony Guild Haruki Fujimoto, dancer, choreographer, Broadway performer, and teacher at Hollins for 20 years Gaspard Louis, dancer, choreographer Sally Mann, photographer and writer, shortlisted for 2015 National Book Award, 1974, M.A. 1975 Katy Pyle, dancer and choreographer, artistic director of Ballez, B.A. 2002 Jane Stuart Smith, operatic soprano, hymnologist, and author
Authors Source:"Authors Archive" Madison Smartt Bell, author of Ten Indians, M.A. 1981 Jenny Boully, author of five books, professor of creative writing and literature at Bennington College, 1998, M.A. 1999 Margaret Wise Brown, author of Goodnight Moon, 1932 Amanda Cockrell, children's book author, 1969, M.A. 1988 Kiran Desai, author and recipient of the Man Booker Prize in 2006, M.A. 1994 Tony D'Souza, author of Whiteman, M.A. 1998 Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey, author of A Woman of Independent Means, 1960 Cathryn Hankla, poet, 1980, M.A. 1982 Tama Janowitz, author, M.A. 1979, commonly grouped with 1980s literary Brat Pack Beth Macy, author; Factory Man was a New York Times best seller and optioned by Playtone for an HBO miniseries, M.A. 1998 Jill McCorkle, author, 1981 Kevin Prufer, poet, novelist, essayist, editor, M.A. 1994; 2024 Rilke Prize for American poetry Candice F. Ransom, author of children's books Ethel Morgan Smith, author of From Whence Cometh My Help: The African American Community at Hollins College, 1999 Lee Smith, author and winner of many awards including the Southern Book Critics Circle Award and two O. Henry Awards, 1967 Edna Henry Lee Turpin, author of children's books, ALND 1887
Government and public service Jennifer Boysko, member of the Virginia House of Delegates, 1989 Betsy B. Carr, member of the Virginia House of Delegates, 1968 Pamela Jo Howell Slutz, career diplomat and former U.S. ambassador to Burundi and Mongolia, 1970 Hally Ballinger Bryan Perry, co-founder of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas
Higher education Linda Koch Lorimer, president, Randolph-Macon Woman’s College; vice president for global and strategic initiatives, Yale University, 1974
Journalism Ann Compton, ABC News White House correspondent, 1969 Mary Garber, first female sportswriter in the Atlantic Coast Conference, 1938 Ruth Hale, journalist, feminist, and founder of the Lucy Stone League
Law Callie V. Granade, district judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama, 1972
Media and entertainment
Jennifer Berman, sexual health expert, urologist, and female sexual medicine specialist George Butler, documentary filmmaker and writer, M.A. 1968 Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, owner and CEO of the Gotham Group, dubbed one of Hollywood's Most Powerful Women, 1984 Donna Richardson, fitness and aerobics instructor, author and television sports commentator, ALND 1984 Eleanor D. Wilson, actress and Tony Award nominee, 1930
Pulitzer Prize winners Mary Wells Ashworth, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, 1924 Annie Dillard, Pulitzer Prize–winning writer, 1967, M.A. 1968 Henry S. Taylor, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet, M.A. 1966 Natasha Trethewey, poet, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 2007, United States Poet Laureate, M.A. 1991
Science and medicine Jennifer Berman, pioneer in the field of female urology and female sexual medicine, 1986 Mary E. Hatten, Frederick P. Rose Professor and head of Laboratory of Developmental Neurobiology, Rockefeller University, 1971
Sports Charlotte Fox, first woman to have climbed three of the world’s 8,000-meter peaks, 1979 Carol Semple Thompson, amateur golf champion, elected to the World Golf Hall of Fame, 1970
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