List of Barnard College people
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The following is a list of individuals associated with Barnard College through attending as a student, or serving as a member of the faculty or staff.
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[edit] Notable alumnae
[edit] Academics and scientists
- Elsie Clews Parsons (1896), first woman elected President of the American Anthropological Association
- Virginia Gildersleeve (1899), Dean of Barnard College and delegate to the charter conference of the United Nations in 1945
- Beatrice Becker Warde (1920s), calligrapher, librarian, researcher on type matters and benign influence upon 20th century typography
- Margaret Mead (1923), anthropologist
- Anna Schwartz (1933), economist
- Helen M. Ranney (1941), first woman to lead a university department of medicine in the U.S., to be president of the Association of American Physicians, or to serve as a Distinguished Physician of the Veterans Administration
- Vivian Sobchack (1961), cultural critic
- Karla Jay (1968), pioneer of lesbian and gay studies
- Ellen V. Futter (1971), President of Barnard College and the American Museum of Natural History
- Rebecca Goldstein (1972), philosopher, biographer, and novelist
- Jacqueline Barton (1974), CalTech chemist and MacArthur Fellows Program "genius grant" winner
- Janna Levin (1988), cosmologist
[edit] Actresses and performers
- Jane Wyatt (1930), actress
- Peggy McCay (1951), actress
- Joan Rivers (1954), star comedian, TV host
- Lee Remick, actress
- Twyla Tharp (1963), choreographer, dancer
- Jill Eikenberry (1968), actress
- Lauren Graham (1988), actress, plays Lorelai Gilmore on TV show Gilmore Girls
- Cynthia Nixon (1988), actress, played Miranda Hobbes on TV show Sex and the City
- Sprague Grayden, actress, played Judith Montgomery on Joan of Arcadia
- Sarah Thompson, television actress
- Christy Carlson Romano (2006), actress
- Jaime Gleicher, actress (currently attending)
- Clara Bryant, actress (currently attending)
[edit] Artists
- Sarah Charlesworth (1969), photographer and conceptual artist
[edit] Athletes
- Robin Wagner (1980), figure-skating coach
- Stacey Borgman (1993), member of crew team for the United States at the 2004 Olympics
- Erinn Smart (2001), fencer for the United States at the 2004 Olympics
[edit] Businesswomen
- Iphigene Ochs Sulzberger (1913), wife of New York Times publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger
- Martha Stewart (1963), business magnate, entrepreneur, homemaking advocate
- Alexis Stewart (1987), daughter of Martha Stewart
[edit] Journalists
- Freda Kirchwey (1915), journalist, editor and publisher of The Nation
- Ellen Willis (1960s), essayist and pop music critic
- Judith Miller (1969), ex-correspondent for New York Times who reported on the story of Iraq's alleged WMD program; Aspen Strategy Group member
- Anna Quindlen (1974), author and columnist for Newsweek who won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1992
- Suzanne Bilello (1977), author who with Rose Marie Arce (Barnard class of 1986) was a member of a Newsday team in 1992 that shared the Pulitzer Prize for spot news reporting
- Natalie Angier (1978), author and science writer for the New York Times who won the Pulitzer Prize for beat reporting in 1991
- Jami Bernard (1978), film critic
- Lis Wiehl (1983), legal analyst for Fox News
- Maria Hinojosa (1984), correspondent for CNN, NOW (TV series) on PBS, and host of NPR's Latino USA
- Atoosa Rubenstein (1993), founder of CosmoGirl and editor-in-chief of Seventeen (magazine); youngest ever editor of a teen magazine
- Jeannette Walls, gossip columnist for MSNBC and author of The Glass Castle
- Mona Charen, nationally syndicated columnist, political analyst, and author.
[edit] Musicians, singers, and composers
- Laurie Anderson (1969), musician, NASA's first artist-in-residence
- Suzanne Vega (1981), singer-songwriter famous for Luka, Tom's Diner, etc.
- Jeanine Tesori (1983), Broadway composer
[edit] Political and judicial figures
- Jessie Wallace Hughan (1898, Phi Beta Kappa). United States Senate candidate, author, teacher, founder of Alpha Omicron Pi fraternity
- Jeane Kirkpatrick (1948), first woman to serve as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
- Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum (1952), United States District Court judge
- Anna Diggs Taylor (1954), United States District Court judge
- Judith Kaye (1958), first woman in highest position in state judiciary, Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals
- Bettye B. Binder (1960), on the governing council of the New York Committee for Democratic Voters that successfully removed Tammany Hall and its leader, Carmine DeSapio, from power in 1961
[edit] Spies
- Judith Coplon (1943), Soviet spy in U.S. Justice Department whose convictions were overturned on technicalities
- Marion Davis Berdecio, accused Soviet spy in U.S. State Department, comrade of Coplon and Wovschin
- Flora Wovschin, Soviet spy in U.S. State Department, stepdaughter of Columbia professor/Soviet spy Enos Wicher
[edit] Writers
- Stella George Stern Perry (1898), author, founder of Alpha Omicron Pi fraternity
- Alice Duer Miller (1899), writer and advisory editor of The New Yorker
- Helen Hoyt (1900s), poet
- Mary Antin (1902), author of the immigrant experience
- Faith McNulty (1920s, attended one year), writer
- Léonie Adams (1923), poet
- Charlotte Armstrong (1925), writer
- Zora Neale Hurston (1928), Harlem Renaissance writer
- Hortense Calisher, writer
- Elizabeth Janeway (1935), author and critic
- Patricia Highsmith (1940), author of The Talented Mr. Ripley
- Francine du Plessix Gray (1952), writer
- Elise Cowen, poet of the Beat Generation
- Joyce Johnson (1955), writer
- June Jordan (1955) writer and activist
- Sidra Stone, (1957), author and co-creator of Voice Dialogue
- Erica Jong (1963), writer
- Joan Abelove, writer
- Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal, screenwriter
- Alice Notley, poet
- Ntozake Shange (1970), playwright
- Mary Gordon (1971), writer
- Tory Dent (1981), poet and HIV/AIDS activist
- Jhumpa Lahiri (1989), Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Namesake and Interpreter of Maladies
- Ann Brashares (1989), author of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
- Edwidge Danticat (1990), writer
- Marisha Pessl (2000), author of Special Topics in Calamity Physics
- Kait Kerrigan (2003), playwright
[edit] Miscellaneous
- Grace Lee Boggs (1935), author and political activist
- Joan Vollmer (1940s), member of the Beat Generation; killed by her husband, William S. Burroughs
- Sharon Blynn (1993), creator of "Bald Is Beautiful" campaign, cancer awareness advocate
[edit] Notable faculty
- Robert Antoni, Commonwealth Writers Prize winning author
- Randall Balmer, author
- Dave Bayer, mathematician; actor and math consultant for the film A Beautiful Mind; one of few holders of an Erdős-Bacon number
- Ruth Benedict, anthropologist
- Frank Brady, leading figure in international chess
- John Cheever (1956-1957), Pulitzer Prize winning novelist and short story writer
- Mary Cochran, former principal dancer with the Paul Taylor Dance Company and chair of the dance department[1]
- Dennis Dalton, political scientist
- Mortimer Lamson Earle, classicist
- Lynn Garafola, renowned dance critic, historian, and curator[2]
- Virginia Gildersleeve
- Katie Glasner, former Twyla Tharp dancer[3]
- Ken Hechler, U.S. Congressman from West Virginia
- Perry Mehrling, economic historian
- Gabriela Mistral, Nobel Prize for Literature winning poet
- Samuel Alfred Mitchell, astronomer
- Raymond Moley (1923-1933), proponent and later critic of the New Deal
- Frederick Neuhouser, philosopher
- Elaine Pagels (1970-1982), scholar of early and gnostic Christianity
- Caryl Phillips, British novelist
- Sanya Popovic (1986), fiancée of Pan Am Flight 103 victim Bernt Carlsson
- Claudia Rankine, poet
- Alan F Segal, ancient Judaism and origins of Christianity, author of Life after Death, and Paul the Convert
- Edmund Ware Sinnott, botanist
- Dolph Sweet, actor
- Elie Wiesel (1997-1999), Nobel Peace Prize winning writer and activist
- Mary Gordon, writer
