List of Wellesley College people

Academia

Virginia Abernethy, 1955 – academic anthropologist, involved in politics^[1]
Frances Dorothy Acomb – academic and historian
Grace Andrews, 1890 – mathematician and professor^[2]
Myrtilla Avery, 1891 – classical scholar focused on Medieval art, former chair of Department of Art at Wellesley College and director of the Farnsworth Art Museum 1930–1937;^[3] introduced the first art history classes at Wellesley and the earliest museum studies courses
Carole B. Balin, 1986 – professor of Jewish history^[4]
Patricia Bizzell, 1970 – professor of English^[5]
Victoria Budson, 1993 – founder of Women and Public Policy Program at the Harvard Kennedy School, one of CNN's "Ten Visionary Women"
Claudia Lauper Bushman, 1956 – historian^[6]
Margaret Clapp, 1930 – former president of Wellesley College (1949–1960) and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography^[7]
Cecilia Conrad, 1976 – economics professor, dean of Pomona College^[8]
Miriam DeCosta-Willis, 1956 – Romance language scholar, civil rights activist, and first Black professor at Memphis State University^[9]
Frances Daly Fergusson, 1965 – former president of Vassar College^[10]
Juliet Floyd, 1982 – professor of Philosophy^[11]
Margaret Henderson Floyd, 1953 – art historian and professor^[12]
Susan Foh – biblical scholar^[13]
Phyllis Fox, 1944 – mathematician and computer scientist^[14]
Barbara Fraumeni, 1972 – economist^[15]
Grace Frick, 1925 – linguistics scholar^[16]
Marjorie Grene, 1931 – philosopher, one of the first philosophers to raise questions about the synthetic theory of evolution^[17]
Cheryl Harris, 1973 – Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Professor in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at UCLA Law School
Mary Hefferan (1873–1948) – taught bacteriology, University of Chicago
Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, 1947 – professor of English literature at Columbia University, and mystery novelist under the name "Amanda Cross"^[18]
Ayesha Jalal, 1978 – historian, 1998 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship^[19]
Theodora J. Kalikow, 1962 – former president, University of Maine at Farmington and University of Southern Maine^[20]
Amalie Kass, 1949 – historian
Yoshi Kasuya, 1923 – educator, former president of Tsuda University
Amy Kelly, educator, historian, best-selling author
Nannerl O. Keohane, 1961 – political theorist; president, Wellesley College and Duke University
Jennie Ellis Keysor, 1883 – pioneer in adult education^[21]
Jean Kilbourne, 1964 – author, expert on the image of women in advertising
Rosalind E. Krauss, 1962 – art critic, professor, theorist
Helen Hull Law (1890–1966) – professor of Latin and Greek
Anita Calvert Lebourgeoise – attorney, judge, genealogist, biographer and women's suffrage orator^[22]
Mary Lefkowitz, 1957 – classical scholar
Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, 1963 – historian
Phyllis Williams Lehmann, 1934 – archaeologist
Helen Abbot Merrill, 1886 – mathematician
Winifred Edgerton Merrill, 1883 – mathematician, first woman to receive a PhD in mathematics
Michele Moody-Adams, 1978 – dean, Columbia College^[23]
Ellen Fitz Pendleton, 1886 – mathematician, former president of Wellesley College
Karen Remmer, 1966 – political scientist
Eliza Newkirk Rogers, 1900 – art history professor at Wellesley College and Mount Holyoke College; shaped the art history department at Wellesley; donated her art collection to the Davis Museum at Wellesley College; created the Eliza Newkirk Rogers Prize for Architecture at Wellesley
Carol Sanger, 1970 – reproductive rights expert, professor at Columbia Law School
Kay Lehman Schlozman, 1968 – political scientist
Mary Lyndon Shanley, 1966 – legal scholar, professor of political science at Vassar College
Jennifer S. Thaler, 1993 – professor of Entomology at Cornell University
Ellen Umansky, 1972 – professor of Judaic studies
Roxana Vivian, 1894 – mathematics professor at Wellesley College, the first in her department to hold a doctorate, and Hartwick College.
Diana Chapman Walsh, 1966 – former president, Wellesley College
Ernestine Wiedenbach, 1922 – nursing theorist
Patricia J. Williams, 1972 – law professor at Columbia University, recipient of the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship

Art and design

Molly Bang, 1965 – illustrator^[24]
Ann Beha, 1972 – founder and principal, Ann Beha Architects, committed to historic preservation^[25]
Anita Berrizbeitia, 1980 – landscape architect and chair of the Harvard Graduate School of Design's Department of Landscape Architecture^[26]
Anna Campbell Bliss, 1946 – artist and architect^[27]
Emilie Benes Brzezinski, 1953 – sculptor; wife of Zbigniew Brzezinski^[28]
Mildred Codding – medical illustrator
Katherine K. Davis, 1914 – composer, pianist, and author of the famous Christmas tune "The Little Drummer Boy"^[29]
Leila Daw, 1962 – installation artist
Patricia Degener (1924–2008) – ceramic artist^[30]
Victorine du Pont Homsey, 1923 – architect and Fellow of the American Institute of Architects
Anne Fougeron, 1977 – architect, B.A. in architectural history^[31]
Juliette May Fraser, 1909 – artist, muralist
Mary Rockwell Hook, 1900 – architect^[32]
Julia Kunin, 1983 – sculptor, video artist^[33]
Jennifer Maestre, 1981 – sculptor
Lorraine O'Grady, 1955 – conceptual artist and art critic
Eleanor Raymond, 1909 – architect, designed and built the first occupied solar-powered house in the US
Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, 1957 – urban planner, landscape architect

Business

Mary Cunningham Agee, 1973 – president, The Nurturing Network
Robin Chase, 1980 – co-founder of Zipcar
Elisabeth DeMarse, 1976 – former CEO, chairman, and president of TheStreet.Com
Heather Higgins, 1981 – nonprofit executive, political commentator
Lois Juliber, 1971 – vice chairman of Colgate-Palmolive
Elizabeth Parr-Johnston, 1961 – economist
Priya Paul, 1988 – Chairman of Park Hotels, Head of Apeejay Surendra Group, also trustee of Wellesley College
Marion Sandler, 1952 – CEO and founder of Golden West Financial
Anne Toth, 1993 – privacy and policy executive, former Chief Trust Officer of Yahoo
Vicky Tsai, 2000 – CEO and founder of Tatcha^[34]^[35]
Susan Wagner, 1982 – founder and former COO of BlackRock and board member of Apple Inc.
Joan Wallace-Benjamin, 1975 – CEO of the Home for Little Wanderers
Sophie Kim, 2006 – CEO of Kurly

Government and public service

Eleanor D. Acheson, 1969 – former Assistant Attorney General of the United States
Bertha Adkins, 1928 – former Undersecretary of Health, Education, and Welfare
Madeleine Albright, 1959 – former United States Secretary of State
Michelle Au, 1999 – State Senator, Georgia; first Asian American woman appointed to Georgia State Senate
Annette Baker Fox, 1934 – international relations advisor
Carolina Barco Isakson, 1973 – Colombian Foreign Minister 2002–2006, Ambassador to the US, 2006–2010
Jocelyn Benson, 1999 – current Secretary of State, Michigan and former dean, Wayne State University Law School; youngest dean appointed to an accredited law school
Jane Bolin, 1928 – first African-American woman to become a judge
Sophonisba Breckinridge, 1888 – activist
Anita B. Brody, 1955 – judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Emily Sophie Brown, 1904 – one of the first women to serve in the Connecticut House of Representatives
Janath R. Cannon, 1939 – counselor to the Relief Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Wilma Chan, 1971 – California Democrat
Harriette L. Chandler, 1959^[36] – president of the Massachusetts Senate^[37]
Gail Chang Bohr, 1966 – former Minnesota judge
Soong Mei-ling 宋美齡 (Madame Chiang Kai-Shek), 1917 – former First Lady of the Republic of China
Marguerite S. Church, 1915 – U.S. Representative from Illinois
Esther Clenott, 1945 – politician from Maine, former two-term mayor of Portland and state representative
Hillary Clinton, 1969 – former United States Secretary of State, former U.S. Senator (D-New York), former First Lady of the United States
Deborah Cochran, 1960 – Congresswoman from Massachusetts
Elinor G. Constable, 1955 – diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Kenya
Rita Crocker Clements – former First Lady of the U.S. state of Texas
Ophelia Dahl, 1994 – executive director of Partners in Health, daughter of children's author Roald Dahl and actress Patricia Neal
Molly Dewson, 1897 – feminist, political activist
Diana DiZoglio, 2010 – Massachusetts State Representative (D-14th Essex District)
Christine Durham, 1967 – chief justice, Utah Supreme Court
Virginia Durr, 1925 – civil rights activist
Carolyn Dykema, 1989 – former Massachusetts State Representative
Susan Estrich, 1974 – lawyer, professor, author, feminist advocate and commentator for Fox News
Colette Flesch, 1960 – Luxembourg politician and Olympic fencer
Loletta Fyan, 1915 – first librarian in Michigan
Cynthia Glassman, 1967 – commissioner of the SEC
Susan P. Graber, 1969 – circuit judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Wendy Lee Gramm, 1966 – economist, former director of ENRON^[38]
Jean Constance Hamilton, 1968 – judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri
Abigail Harrison, 2019 – founder of The Mars Generation nonprofit
Aurelia Harwood – philanthropist, former president of Sierra Club
Ellen Segal Huvelle, 1970 – judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia
Farahnaz Ispahani, 1985 – member of Pakistan's parliament, spokesperson for the president of Pakistan, journalist
Carol E. Jackson, 1973 – judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri
Katie Johnson, 2003 – personal secretary to President Barack Obama
Amalya Lyle Kearse, 1959 – judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, five time U.S. Champion bridge player
Leslie E. Kobayashi, 1979 – judge of the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii
Nancy K. Kopp, 1965 – Treasurer of Maryland
M. Hannah Lauck, 1986 – judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
Gail Laughlin, 1894 – first woman from Maine to practice law and founder of the National League for Women's Service
Henrietta Wells Livermore, 1887 – suffragette
Sandra L. Lynch, 1968 – chief judge, United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Yukiko Maki, 1924 – Japanese educator, Fulbright officer, worked in international exchange
Nora Margaret Manella, 1972 – presiding justice of the California Second District Court of Appeal, Division Four, former judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California
Chirlane McCray, 1975 – public affairs activist, First Lady of New York City
Ida Craven Merriam, 1925 – statistician for the Social Security Administration
Lindsey Miller-Lerman, 1968 – justice, Nebraska Supreme Court
Mary V. Mochary, 1963 – attorney and Republican politician, formerly mayor of Montclair, New Jersey
Helen Barrett Montgomery, 1884 – women's rights activist, church leader, Bible translator
Alicia Munnell, 1964 – economist
Laura W. Murphy, 1976 – lobbyist and civil rights activist
Helen O'Bannon, 1961 – economist
Anne W. Patterson, 1971 – U.S. Ambassador to Egypt, former Acting U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, former U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan
Alex Poon, 2014 – transgender rights activist^[39]
Ruth Baker Pratt, 1898 – congresswoman 1929–1933, first woman elected to Congress from New York
Reena Raggi, 1973 – judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Leticia Ramos-Shahani, 1951 – former Philippine Senator, diplomat, human rights activist^[40]^[41]^[42]
Diane Ravitch, 1960 – historian, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education
Desiree Rogers, 1981 – public relations executive, White House Social Secretary
Allyne R. Ross, 1967 – judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
Vanessa Ruiz, 1972 – associate judge, District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Janna Ryan, 1991 – attorney and wife of Republican Congressman Paul Ryan
Lindsay N. Sabadosa, 2002 – Massachusetts State Representative (D-1st Hampshire District)
Ruth O. Selig, 1964 - anthropologist, educator & museum administrator at the Smithsonian Institution
Carol Rhodes Sibley, 1923 — Berkeley civic activist and school board president
Michele Sison, 1981 – U.S. Ambassador to Haiti
Sara Soffel, 1908 – judge, Alleghany County Court and Pennsylvania Courts of Common Pleas; first woman to serve as a judge in Pennsylvania^[43]
Zatae Leola Longsdorff Straw, 1883 – physician, New Hampshire state representative
Tejshree Thapa, 1988 – human rights attorney, developed legal argument for prosecuting rape as a crime against humanity before the ICTY
Kavindya Thennankoon, 2019 – Sri Lankan youth activist
Julieta Valls Noyes, 1984 – U.S. Ambassador to Croatia
Doris Pike White – 24th President General of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Member of the White House Conference On Highway Safety Committee, Member of the Maine Judicial Council
Cynthia Wu – 吳欣盈, member of Legislative Yuan and vice presidential candidate, Taiwan
Lilian Wyckoff Johnson – education policy advocate

Journalism

Marian Burros, 1954 – New York Times food columnist and cookbook author
Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, 1991 – reporter for CNBC, winner of an Emmy Award
Callie Crossley, 1973 – American broadcast journalist with Boston NPR affiliate WGBH-TV
Kimberly Dozier, 1987 – correspondent for Associated Press, winner of the Peabody Award (2008)
Elizabeth Drew, 1957 – political journalist
Nikki Finke, 1975 – entertainment/media journalist, Deadline Hollywood
Page Hopkins, 1988 – journalist, co-anchor on Fox News and anchor on NBC/MSNBC
Ellen Levine, 1964 – media executive, former Executive Director of Hearst Magazines
Geneva Overholser, 1970 – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, director of the School of Journalism at the USC Annenberg School for Communication
Robin Reisig, 1966 – print journalist, lecturer at Columbia Graduate School of Journalism
Carla Robbins, 1974 – journalist, member of the NY Times Editorial Board
Cokie Roberts, 1964 – senior news correspondent at National Public Radio, winner of the Emmy Award (1991) and Edward R. Murrow Award (1990), former host at ABC's This Week with Sam Donaldson & Cokie Roberts
Marion K. Sanders, 1925 – journalist, editor of Harper's Magazine
Diane Sawyer, 1967 – journalist, host of ABC's Good Morning America, winner of a 2004 George Polk award for excellence in journalism
Susan Sheehan, 1958 – journalist, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (1983)
Lynn Sherr, 1963 – correspondent for ABC's 20/20, co-winner of the Peabody Award (1994)
Marilyn Silverstone, 1950 – photo-journalist and Buddhist nun
Jennifer Vanasco, 1994 – syndicated columnist and theater critic
Linda Wertheimer, 1965 – journalist, National Public Radio, winner of the DuPont-Columbia Award (1978) for excellence in journalism
Emily Yoffe, 1977 – journalist and regular contributor to Slate

Literature

Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, 1914 – author of Nancy Drew series, pen name Carolyn Keene
Lisa Alther, 1966 – author, novelist
Katharine Lee Bates, 1880 – author of the words to the anthem America the Beautiful
Carol Bly, 1951 – short story author, essayist
Aline Carter, 1914 – poet laureate of Texas
Grace Zia Chu, 1921 – Chinese cookbook author
Sheila Connolly, 1972 – mystery writer
Florence Converse, 1893 – author
Diane Mott Davidson (attended but later transferred to another college) – mystery writer
Marjory Stoneman Douglas, 1912 – conservationist and writer
Norma Farber, 1931 – children's book writer and poet
Rosario Ferré, 1960 – poet
Alex Finlayson, 1973 – playwright
Nancy Friday, 1955 – author of My Secret Garden, an exploration of female sexuality
Abigail Garner, 1997 – author of Families Like Mine
Jasmine Guillory, 1997 – novelist
Shirlee Taylor Haizlip, 1959 – nonfiction writer
Lisa Kleypas, 1986 – romance novelist, former Miss Massachusetts
Judith Krantz, 1948 – novelist
Jane Langton, 1944 – mystery writer, author of children's literature
Kathryn Lilley, 1956 – mystery writer
Judith Martin, 1959 – newspaper columnist (Miss Manners)
Jean Merrill, 1945 – author and editor of children's books
Rana Zoe Mungin, 2011 – writer and teacher
Maude Gillette Phillips, 1881 – author, educator
Santha Rama Rau, 1945 – travel writer
Alyson Richman, 1994 – novelist
Nayantara Pandit Sahgal, 1947, novelist, niece of Jawaharlal Nehru and cousin of Indira Gandhi
Helen Hooven Santmyer, 1918 – writer
Mildred Savage, 1941 – novelist
Gertrude Woodcock Seibert, 1885 – writer
Cathy Song, 1977 – poet
Ira Trivedi, 2006 – novelist
Reetika Vazirani, 1984 – poet
Bing Xin, 1926 – Chinese poet, essayist, short-story writer
Ann Zwinger, 1946 – natural history writer

Media and entertainment

Laura Allen, 1996 – actress, All My Children, Mona Lisa Smile
Onyeka Onwenu, 1984 – Broadcaster and BBC Nigerian Documentary, A Squandering of Riches, Actress and, Nigerian Music Legend One Love
Fazeelat Aslam, 2005 – Academy Award-winning filmmaker
Barbara Babcock, 1960 – actress
Blanche Baker, 1978 – Emmy-winning actress and sculptor – aka Blanche Garfein, aka Blanche Van Dusen
Kay B. Barrett, 1924 – influential Hollywood talent scout and agent, brought Gone with the Wind to the screen
Lizzie Borden – filmmaker
Debra Chasnoff, 1978 – filmmaker
Amy Chu, 1990 – comic book author
Phyllis Curtin, 1943 – opera singer
Suzanne Davis, 1976 – jazz pianist
Jo Duffy, 1976 – editor and writer of comic books
Nora Ephron, 1962 – movie screenplay writer (When Harry Met Sally...), writer and director (Sleepless in Seattle and You've Got Mail)
Nancy Friday, 1955 – author
Daisy Gardner, 1997 – television writer
Angelina Weld Grimké, 1900 – playwright
Barbara Lea, 1951 – actress and singer
Wendy Liebman, 1983 – stand-up comedian
Ali MacGraw, 1960 – actress
Anne Revere, 1926 – film, stage, television actress, whose career was cut short by the 1950s Communist blacklist
Caroline Rose, 2011 – musician^[44]^[45]
Mira Sethi, 2010 – Pakistani author, journalist, and actress
Elisabeth Shue (transferred to Harvard) – actress
Natalie Sleeth, 1952 – composer
Alice Stewart Trillin, 1960 – author, educator, film producer
Michelle Yip, 1998 – Chinese actress, left before graduation to pursue an acting career in Hong Kong after winning Miss Chinese International Pageant
Patricia Zipprodt, 1946 – Tony Award-winning costume designer

Science and medicine

Nancy Adler, 1968 – Professor of Psychology, Director of the Center for Health and Community, U.C. San Francisco; member of National Academy of Medicine and American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Tundi Spring Agardy, 1980 – marine conservationist
Leah B. Allen, M.A. 1912 – astronomer^[46]
Thelma Alper, 1929 – clinical psychologist, first Jewish woman to receive a PhD from Harvard University
JudyAnn Bigby, 1973 – internist, Secretary of Health and Human Services (Massachusetts)^[47]
Annie Jump Cannon, 1884 – studied physics and astronomy at Wellesley, astronomer, developed the well-known Harvard Classification of stars based upon temperature^[48]
Lisa A. Carey – distinguished professor in breast cancer research
Martha Stahr Carpenter, 1941 – astronomer, three-term president of AAVSO, and first woman faculty member in the Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences^[49]
Sally Carrighar – naturalist and writer
Florence Meier Chase, 1924 – botanist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory^[50]
Harriet Creighton, 1929 – botanist, geneticist, Professor of Botany, with Barbara McClintock proved that genetic recombination occurred through chromosomal crossover^[51]
Dorothy Day, 1919 – plant physiologist
Helen Wendler Deane, 1938 – histophysiologist
Louise Dolan, 1971 – mathematical physicist, cosmological and superstring theorist
Persis Drell, 1977 – physicist, director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator, dean of the Stanford University School of Engineering
Katherine Freeman, 1984 – geoscientist, chemist, editor-in-chief of the Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Nina Gage, 1905 – leading teacher of modern nursing in China
Muriel Gardiner, 1922 – psychoanalyst and psychiatrist, likely the basis for the character "Julia" in Lillian Hellman's "Pentimento"
Winifred Goldring, 1909 – pioneering paleontologist
Pauline Hald, 1926 – clinical chemist at Yale
Judith Goslin Hall, 1961 – pediatrician and clinical geneticist
Carol Handwerker – Reinhardt Schuhmann, Jr. Professor of Materials Engineering and Environmental and Ecological Engineering at Purdue University
Harriet Louise Hardy, 1928 – pioneer in occupational health, first woman to become a full professor at Harvard Medical School
Abigail Harrison, 2019 – sciences advocate, Internet personality
Martha Haynes, 1973 – radio astronomer, won the Henry Draper Award for 3D visualization of the universe
Erna Schneider Hoover, 1932 – computer scientist, invented computer switching of telephone traffic at Bell Labs
Dorothea Jameson, 1942 – cognitive psychologist, expert in color and vision
Mary Jeanne Kreek, 1958 – neurobiologist, best known for her work in the development of methadone therapy for heroin addiction, was named a Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences, received an Alumni Gold Medal Award from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons for "lifetime excellence in medicine", and Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Institute on Drug Addiction
Rebecca Lancefield, 1916 – microbiologist, developed serologic classification of beta-hemolytic streptococci
Story Landis, 1967 – neuroscientist, Director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Louise Zung-nyi Loh, 1924 – mathematician, physicist, college professor in China and US
Nergis Mavalvala, 1990 – astrophysicist, 2010 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, Dean of the MIT Institute of Science
Martha McClintock, 1970 – biopsychologist, discoverer of human pheromones
Louise McDowell, 1898 – physicist, one of the first women to work at the National Bureau of Standards
Pamela Melroy, 1983 – astronaut, space shuttle commander
Vivian Pinn, 1963 – pathologist, Director of the Office of Research on Women's Health at the National Institutes of Health
Charlotte Fitch Roberts, 1880 – Professor of Chemistry, 1894–1917; one of the first women to receive a Ph.D. from Yale in 1894;^[52] head of the Wellesley Chemistry Department until her death in 1917
Mabel Seagrave, 1905 – doctor, ran a hospital in France after World War I
Isabelle Stone, 1890 – physicist, founder of the American Physical Society
Chi Che Wang, 1914 – biochemist, professor at Northwestern University and the University of Cincinnati
Isabel Bassett Wasson, 1918 – petroleum geologist and National Park Service ranger
Naomi Weisstein, 1961 – professor of psychology, neuroscientist, author
Mary Allen Wilkes, 1959 – computer pioneer, one of the first people to use a home computer
Brenda Pruden Winnewisser, 1961 – physicist, received a fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, has 122 research publications (as of 2014^[update])
Alexandra Worden, 1992 – microbial ecologist and biologist, fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research

Other

Carol Cadou – art curator and museum director
Julia Collins, 2005 – holds second-longest Jeopardy winning streak, best female champion
Anya Corke, 2013 – chess player, Woman Grandmaster
Isabel Darlington, 1886 – lawyer and first woman to gain admittance to the bar and practice law in Chester County, Pennsylvania
Betty Freeman, 1942 – philanthropist, patron of contemporary classical music including John Cage, Philip Glass, and Pierre Boulez
Asma Gull Hasan, 1997 – Muslim feminist writer, lawyer
Mary Haskell (1873–1964) – educator
Nadine Netter (born 1944) – tennis player
S. Grace Nicholes – social reformer
AJ Odasso, 2005 – editor, educator, novelist, and poet
Georgia Pellegrini, 2003 – author, food blogger, chef and hunter
Elisabeth Severance Prentiss, 1880s – philanthropist; namesake of the student dormitory, Severance Hall
Ruth Rowland Nichols, 1924 – aviation pioneer
Charlotte Anita Whitney, 1889 – women's rights and political activist, suffragist, Communist Party organizer

List of Wellesley College people

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