List of Wellesley College people
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The following is a list of individuals associated with Wellesley College through attending as a student, or serving as a member of the faculty or staff.
[edit] Notable alumnae
- Virginia Abernethy (1955) (anthropologist)
- Harriet Stratemeyer Adams (1914) (author of Nancy Drew series, pen name Carolyn Keene)
- Madeleine Albright (1959) (former U.S. Secretary of State)
- Katharine Lee Bates (1880) (author of the words to the anthem America the Beautiful)
- Carol Bly (1951) (short story author, essayist)
- Jane Bolin LL.B. (1928) First African-American woman to become a judge)
- Annie Jump Cannon (1884) (astronomer)
- Madame Chiang Kai-shek (1917) (former First Lady of the Republic of China)
- Hillary Rodham Clinton (1969) (U.S. Senator; Former First Lady of the U.S.)
- Ophelia Dahl (1994) (director of Partners In Health)
- Diane Mott Davidson, attended but later transferred to another college. (mystery writer)
- Marjory Stoneman Douglas (1912) (conservationist and writer)
- Kimberly Dozier (1987) (journalist)
- Persis Drell (Physicist)
- Nora Ephron (1962) (movie screenplay writer: When Harry Met Sally...; Writer and Director: Sleepless in Seattle and You've Got Mail)
- Susan Estrich(1974) Is a lawyer, professor, author, political operative, feminist advocate and commentator for Fox News.((author of Sex & Power)
- Abigail Garner(1997) (author of Families Like Mine)
- Carolyn Gold Heilbrun (1947) (professor of English literature at Columbia University, and mystery novelist under the name "Amanda Cross")
- Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz (historian)
- Carol E. Jackson (1973) (Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri)
- Lois Juliber (1971) (Vice Chairman of Colgate-Palmolive)
- Jean Kilbourne (educator)
- Lisa Kleypas (1986) (novelist)
- Ali MacGraw (1960) (actress)
- Judith Martin (1959) (newspaper columnist: Miss Manners)
- Pamela Melroy (1983) (astronaut)
- Anne W. Patterson (1971) (former Acting U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations)
- Ruth Baker Pratt (congresswoman) first woman elected to Congress from New York (1929-33).
- Reena Raggi, U.S. federal judge
- Cokie Roberts (1964) (journalist)
- Nayantara Pandit Sahgal (1947), novelist, niece of Jawaharlal Nehru and cousin of Indira Gandhi
- Diane Sawyer (1967) (journalist, "Good Morning America")
- Lynn Sherr (1963) (journalist)
- Elisabeth Shue, attended but later transferred to Harvard (actress)
- Michele J. Sison, American diplomat
- Linda Wertheimer (1965) (journalist)
- Patricia J. Williams (1972) (law professor at Columbia University, recipient of the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, also known as the "genius award")
- Bing Xin (1926) (Chinese poet, essayist, short-story writer)
[edit] Fictional alumnae
- Gillian Holroyd and Merle Kittridge from the 1958 film Bell Book and Candle
- Sarah McNerney, from Just Married
- Katharine Parker, from the 1988 film Working Girl
- Shirley Schmidt, from Boston Legal
- Allison Sugarbaker, from Designing Women
[edit] Notable faculty
- Edith Abbott - a social worker, educator, and author
- Emily Greene Balch - economist, peace activist, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
- Katherine Lee Bates - Author of America the Beautiful; also Wellesley College alumna.
- Carolyn Shaw Bell - economist
- Frank Bidart - poet
- Harriet Boyd-Hawes - archaeologist
- Annie Jump Cannon - astronomer
- Karl "Chip" Case - economist
- Dan Chiasson - poet
- Francis Judd Cooke - composer
- Marshall Goldman - economist and author
- Mary Lefkowitz - classical scholar
- Tom Lehrer - American singer-songwriter, satirist, pianist, and mathematician
- Julián Marías - philosopher
- Vladimir Nabokov - author
- Richard Rorty - philosopher
- Alan Schechter - political scientist
- Emily Vermeule - art historian
- Alice Walker - author
- Sarah Frances Whiting - astronomer
