- Katharine Hepburn
Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 - June 29, 2003) was an iconic American star of film, television and stage, widely recognized for her sharp wit, New England gentility and fierce independence. A screen legend, Hepburn holds the record for the most Best Actress Oscar wins with four, from twelve nominations (Meryl Streep currently holds the record for most overall acting nominations with fourteen). - Alice Rivlin
Alice Mitchell Rivlin (born March 4, 1931 in Philadelphia) is an economist, a former U.S. Cabinet official, and an expert on the budget. Rivlin is an alumna of The Madeira School, earned a B.A. at Bryn Mawr College in 1952 and earned a Ph.D. from Radcliffe College in 1958. She has been affiliated several times with the Brookings Institution, including stints from 1957-66, 1969-1975, 1983-1993, and 1999-present. - Allyson Schwartz
Allyson Y. Schwartz (born October 3, 1948) is a Democratic U.S. politician from the state of Pennsylvania, currently representing the state's 13th Congressional district (map) in the U.S. House. The district includes parts of Montgomery County, and a portion of Philadelphia. In the 110th Congress she is the only woman from Pennsylvania's delegation. - Emily Greene Balch
Emily Greene Balch (January 8, 1867 - January 9, 1961) was an American academic, writer, and pacifist who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946 (the prize that year was shared with John Mott), notably for her work with the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). Born in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston into an affluent family, she was amongst the first graduates of Bryn Mawr College in 1889. - Marianne Moore
Marianne Moore was a Modernist American poet and writer. - Ellen Kushner
Ellen Kushner is an American writer of fantasy novels, who was born in Washington, DC and grew up in Cleveland, Ohio. Her first novel, "Swordspoint" (1987), and its sequel (with co-author Delia Sherman) "The Fall of the Kings" (2002), are mannerpunk novels set in a nameless imaginary capital city and its raffish district of Riverside, where swordsmen-for-hire ply their trade. She has written another sequel set 15 years after "Swordspoint", … - Nettie Stevens
Nettie Maria Stevens (July 7,1861 - May 4,1912) was an early American geneticist. She and Edmund Beecher Wilson were the first researchers to describe the chromosomal basis of sex. An outstanding student, Nettie Stevens completed in two years the four-year course at Westfield Normal School (now Westfield State College) in Massachusetts. She graduated at the top of her class. At Stanford, she received her B.A. in 1899 and her M.A. in 1900, … - Hanna Holborn Gray
Hanna Holborn Gray (born 1930), is a historian of political thought in the Renaissance and Reformation, and an emerita professor at the University of Chicago. The daughter of Hajo Holborn, a professor of European history who fled to America from Nazi Germany, and of Annemarie Bettmann, a philologist, she graduated from Bryn Mawr College and travelled to Oxford as a Fulbright Scholar. - Renata Adler
Renata Adler (born October 19, 1938 in Milan, Italy) is an American journalist and writer. After attending Bryn Mawr, Harvard, and Yale, she became a staff writer-reporter for The New Yorker. In 1968-69, she was chief film critic for the New York Times. Her film reviews were reprinted in her book "A Year in the Dark." Her reporting and essays for The New Yorker on politics, war, … - Lily Ross Taylor
Lily Ross Taylor (Born in Alabama, 1886-November 18, 1969) developed an interest in Roman studies at the University of Wisconsin, earning an A.B. in 1906. She then went to Bryn Mawr College as a graduate student in 1906, receiving her Ph.D. in Latin in 1912. Her dissertation advisor was Tenney Frank. From 1912 until 1927, she taught at Vassar, and, in 1917, she became the first female Fellow of the American Academy in Rome. - Caroline Stevermer
Caroline Stevermer (born 1955) is a writer of young adult fantasy novels and shorter works. She is best known for two series of alternate history-with-magic novels. - Edith Hamilton
Edith Hamilton (August 12, 1868 - May 31, 1963) was a classicist and educator before she became a writer on mythology. Her most famous books are "The Greek Way" (1930) and "Mythology" (1942). "Mythology" remains in print after six decades and is still used as an introductory text to mythology in high schools and colleges; a mark of its status is that study guides to the book exist. - Kaity Tong
Kaity Tong (born 1949 in Qingdao, China) is a veteran American broadcast journalist who has been a television anchor in New York City since 1981. She graduated with honors from Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania with a BA in English Literature, and earned a Masters Degree at Stanford University in California in Asian Studies. Her goal was to become a professor. She got sidetracked.<;br /> She began her career as a street reporter for KPIX in San Francisco. - A. S. Byatt
Dame Antonia Byatt, DBE (born August 24, 1936, Sheffield, England) has been hailed as one of the great postmodern novelists in Britain. She is usually known as A. S. Byatt. - Bruce Cole
Bruce Cole is the eighth chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities. He was born in Ohio and attended Case Western Reserve University. He earned his master's degree from Oberlin College and his doctorate from Bryn Mawr College. For two years he was the William E. Suida Fellow at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence. He has held fellowships and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, American Council of Learned Societies, Kress Foundation, … - Mildred Natwick
Mildred Natwick (June 19, 1905 - October 25, 1994) was an American stage and film actress. - Jacqueline Mars
Jacqueline Mars is the daughter of Forrest Mars, Sr., and granddaughter of Frank C. Mars, founders of the giant American candy company Mars, Incorporated. With her share of the company, she is worth US$10.5 billion as of 2004 and is the 27th richest person in the world, according to "Forbes". She maintains a residence on Landmark Road between Dover, Virginia, and The Plains, Virginia. - Cornelia Otis Skinner
Cornelia Otis Skinner (b. May 30 1901, Chicago, Illinois; d. July 9 1979, New York, New York) was an American author and actress. She was the daughter of the actor Otis Skinner and his wife Maud (Durbin) Skinner. After attending Bryn Mawr College (1918-1919) and studying theatre at the Sorbonne in Paris, she began her career on the stage in 1921. - Karen Kornbluh
Karen Kornbluh (b. 1963) is an American economist, former United States Treasury Department official, and expert on communications policy, international trade and issues affecting working families. She is currently policy director for U.S. Senator Barack Obama. Obama's decision to hire her in 2002 was seen as a sign of his determination to build an unusually strong staff for a freshman Senator. - Candace Pert
Candace Beebe Pert (b. June 26, 1946) is a neuroscientist who discovered the opiate receptor, the cellular bonding site for endorphins in the brain. In 1974 she earned a Ph.D. in pharmacology from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the laboratory of Solomon Snyder. Previously, she had completed her undergraduate studies, in biology, cum laude, in 1970, from Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Dr. - Paul Rehak
Paul Rehak was an American archaeologist. Rehak's research interests extended from prehistoric and Classical Greece to Imperial Rome. Rehak was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he also attended the University of Michigan. In 1976 he received his B.A. "cum laude" in Classics and Archaeology. In 1980 he obtained his M.A. from Bryn Mawr College, writing on Mycenaean shrines under Machteld Mellink, and Ph.D. in 1985, writing on Roman sculpture under Brunilde Ridgway. - Joan Slonczewski
Joan Lyn Slonczewski is a biologist at Kenyon College, known as a feminist science fiction writer. - Naomi Halas
Naomi Halas is the Stanley C. Moore professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering and professor in Chemistry at Rice University. Her current work focuses on nanoshells which her nanophotonics group is developing at Rice University. In 1987, she was part of a team that developed a "dark pulse" soliton while working for IBM. - Lee McGeorge Durrell
Lee McGeorge Durrell (nee Wilson) (b. September 7 1949) is a naturalist, author, zookeeper and television presenter, best known for her work at the Jersey Zoological Park in the British Channel Island of Jersey with her late husband Gerald Durrell, and for co-authoring books with him. - John D. Caputo
John D. Caputo (born October 26 1940) is the Thomas J. Watson Professor of Humanities at Syracuse University and the founder of weak theology. Much of Caputo's work focuses on hermeneutics, phenomenology, deconstruction, and theology. - Sarah Jones
Sarah Jones (b. November 29, 1973) is a Tony and Obie Award-winning playwright, actress, and poet. Called "a master of the genre" by "The New York Times", Jones has written and performed four multi-character solo shows, including "Bridge & Tunnel", which was produced Off-Broadway in 2004 by Oscar-winner Meryl Streep, and which went on to Broadway in 2006 and received a special Tony Award. - Barbara Marx Hubbard
Barbara Marx Hubbard (born Barbara Marx in 1929) is a prolific futurist, writer and public speaker. - Frederica de Laguna
Frederica ("Freddy") de Laguna was an American anthropologist. Her parents, Theodore Lopez de Leo de Laguna and Grace Mead Andrus, were, respectively, Spanish-American and, in Frederica's own words, "Connecticut Yankee." Both received Doctorates from Cornell and would later teach philosophy at Bryn Mawr College. On her father's side she also had French, German, and Italian ancestry. She is most noted for her work with the Tlingit and Athapaskan peoples, … - Diana Oughton
Diana Oughton (January 26 1942 - March 6 1970) was a member of the 1960s radical group The Weathermen. Oughton was born in 1942 to James Henry Oughton III (1913-1996) and was raised in Dwight, Illinois. She had a sister: Carol Oughton (1944-). Her father was a restaurateur. James Henry Oughton II (1882-1935), her grandfather, was president of the Keeley Institute for alcoholics. He died of bullet wounds inflicted by robbers who entered the Institute in Dwight, … - Helen Dean King
Helen Dean King (1869-1955) was an American biologist. Born at Oswego, N. Y., she graduated from Vassar College in 1892 and in 1899 received her doctorate in philosophy from Bryn Mawr College, where she was fellow and student assistant in biology from 1897 to 1904. She taught physiology at Miss Baldwin's School, Bryn Mawr, from 1899 to 1907, was research fellow at the University of Pennsylvania in 1906-08, … - Emily Vermeule
Emily Dickinson Townsend Vermeule was an American classical scholar and archaeologist. She was an undergraduate at Bryn Mawr (1950), and earned a master's degree from Radcliffe (1954), and a Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr (1956). As a Fulbright Scholar in 1950, she attended the American School of Classical Studies at Athens; as a Catherwood Fellow three years later, she studied at Oxford University. She married the archaeologist Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule III in 1957. - Helen Taft Manning
Helen Herron Taft Manning (August 1, 1891 in Cincinnati, Ohio - February 21,1987), was the daughter of President of the United States William Howard Taft and his wife Helen Herron. Helen was the second child of the Tafts and like all of the children, she was a high achiever. Helen was able to fulfill goals that her own mother intended to pursue but restrictions placed on women at the time prevented her from doing. Taft earned a scholarship to attend Bryn Mawr College. - David Gress
David Gress (born 29 January 1953), is a Danish-American historian, known for his 1998 survey "From Plato to Nato" on Western identity and grand narratives. He was born in Copenhagen. He was an undergraduate at the University of Cambridge, where he read classics. He was awarded a doctorate in medieval history from Bryn Mawr College in 1981. He was a Senior Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution from 1982 to 1992. - Florence Bird
Florence Bayard Bird, C.C. (January 15, 1908 - July 18, 1998) was a Canadian broadcaster, journalist, and Senator. Born Florence Rhein in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She attended Bryn Mawr College and, in 1928, married journalist John Bird. They moved to Montreal in 1931. In 1937, they moved to Winnipeg where her husband worked for the Winnipeg Tribune.She also appeared on CBC Radio and Television as Anne Francis, a political analyst. - Catherine Gilbert Murdock
Catherine Gilbert Murdock is an American author. Her first book was "Dairy Queen" (2006), a critically acclaimed novel for young adults. She grew up on a farm in Connecticut, and attended Bryn Mawr College and the University of Pennsylvania. She now lives in suburban Philadelphia with her husband and two children. The sequal to "Dairy Queen", "The Off Season", will be released sometime in June - Kathy Boudin
Kathy Boudin (born 1943) is an American radical, who was convicted in 1984 for her involvement in a robbery that resulted in the killing of three people. - Mary Patterson McPherson
Mary Patterson McPherson served as the sixth president of Bryn Mawr College from 1978-1997. She received her B.A. and L.L.D. from Smith College, her M.A. from the University of Delaware, and her Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College. She has taught at the University of Delaware and served as professor and dean at Bryn Mawr before being elected president. She is currently Vice President of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and will lead the American Philosophical Society. - Lucy Taxis Shoe Meritt
Lucy Taxis Shoe Meritt (born 1906, died Austin, Texas, April 13, 2003) was a classical archaeologist and a scholar of Greek architectural ornamentation and mouldings. Lucy Shoe Meritt studied at Bryn Mawr College, A.B. 1927, M.A. 1928, Ph.D. 1935. She studied at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens from 1929 to 1934. From 1937 to 1950 Meritt taught at Mount Holyoke College. She was twice a fellow of the American Academy in Rome (1937 and 1950). - Martha A. Geer
Martha A. Geer is an American judge, currently an Associate Justice on the North Carolina Court of Appeals. Born in Grinnell, Iowa, Geer attended Bryn Mawr College and earned a degree in sociology before earning a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1983. Geer worked in the area of corporate law in New York City and North Carolina from 1986 to 2002, before she was elected to the North Carolina Court of Appeals. - Salima Ikram
Dr. Salima Ikram, a well known Egyptologist, is an associate professor of Egyptology at the American University in Cairo, a participant in many Egyptian archaeological projects, the author of several books on Egyptian archaeology, a contributor to various magazines, and a frequent guest on television shows on the topic.
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