- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis (July 28, 1929 - May 19, 1994) was the wife of John F. Kennedy from 1953 to 1963 and was known as Jacqueline Kennedy or Jackie Kennedy. She served as First Lady of the United States from 1961 until her husband's assassination in 1963. From 1968 until his death in 1975, she was married to Aristotle Onassis and was known as Jacqueline Onassis, Jackie Onassis, …
- Jane Fonda
Jane Fonda (born December 21, 1937) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress, writer, political activist, former fashion model, and fitness guru. Since the 1960s Fonda has appeared in several movies. She has won two Academy Awards and received several other awards and nominations. She initially announced her retirement from acting in 1991, and said for many years that she would never act again, but she returned to film in 2005 with "Monster in Law", …
- Meryl Streep
Born on June 22, 1949 in Summit, New Jersey Meryl Streep is said to be the greatest living actress in Hollywood today by the film fraternity and the viewers. Her birth name was Mary Louise Streep . Her father Harry Streep was an executive at a pharmaceutical company and mother Mary was a commercial artist. Her parents were unique while his father loved playing piano her mother was good at singing and she loved singing.
- Elizabeth Bishop
Elizabeth Bishop (February 8, 1911 - October 6, 1979), was an American poet and writer. She enjoyed critical acclaim in her lifetime, and her poetry continues to be widely read and studied. She is considered one of the finest 20th century poets to have written in English.
- Mary McCarthy
Mary Therese McCarthy was an American author and critic. She was politically active for many years.
- Rick Lazio
Enrico Anthony "Rick" Lazio (born March 13, 1958) is a former U.S. Representative from the state of New York. A Republican, he is most known for having run unsuccessfully against Hillary Rodham Clinton for the U.S. Senate in New York's 2000 Senate election. Lazio was born in Amityville, New York in Suffolk County. He graduated from West Islip High School in 1976.
- Grace Hopper
Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper was an American computer scientist and United States Navy officer. A pioneer in the field, she was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I calculator, and she developed the first compiler for a computer programming language. Because of the breadth of her accomplishments and her naval rank, she is sometimes referred to as "Amazing Grace".
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
Edna St. Vincent Millay (February 22, 1892 - October 19, 1950) was an American lyrical poet and playwright and the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. She was also known for her unconventional, bohemian lifestyle and her many love affairs. She used the pseudonym Nancy Boyd for her prose work.
- Lisa Kudrow
Lisa Marie Diane Kudrow (born July 30, 1963) is an Emmy Award- and SAG-winning American actress best known for her role as Phoebe Buffay in the sitcom "Friends".
- Christina Weir
Christina Weir is a writer of comic books and television. She writes with her husband, Nunzio DeFilippis, whom she met while they were both students at Vassar College. The two have written for two seasons on HBO's "Arli$$", and have sold story ideas to the Disney Channel's "Kim Possible". In comics, they have written several graphic novels and miniseries for independent publisher Oni Press, including "Skinwalker, Three Strikes, Maria's Wedding, The Tomb, …
- Vera Rubin
Vera (Cooper) Rubin (born 23 July 1928) is an astronomer who has done pioneering work on galaxy rotation rates. Her discovery of what is known as "flat rotation curves" is the most direct and robust evidence of dark matter. After she earned an A.B. from Vassar College (1948) she tried to enroll at Princeton but never received their graduate catalog as women there were not allowed in the graduate astronomy program until 1975.
- Nunzio Defilippis
Nunzio DeFilippis is an American writer of comic books and television. He writes with his wife, Christina Weir, whom he met while they were both students at Vassar College. The two have written for two seasons on HBO's "Arli$$", and have sold story ideas to the Disney Channel's "Kim Possible". In comics, they have written several graphic novels and miniseries for independent publisher Oni Press, including "Skinwalker, Three Strikes, Maria's Wedding, …
- Joe Hill
Joe Hill (born 1972 as Joseph Hillstrom King) is an American writer of Speculative fiction. Hill is the second child of the authors Stephen and Tabitha King. His younger brother Owen King is also a writer. Hill chose to use an abbreviated form of his given name (a reference to executed labor leader Joe Hill, for whom he was named) in 1997, out of a desire to succeed based solely on his own merits instead of as the son of Stephen King.
- Ruth Benedict
Ruth Benedict was an American anthropologist. She was born in New York City, and attended Vassar College, graduating in 1909. She entered graduate studies at Columbia University in 1919, studying under Franz Boas, receiving her PhD and joining the faculty in 1923. Margaret Mead, with whom she may have shared a romantic relationship, and Marvin Opler were among her students and colleagues.
- Greg Rucka
Gregory Rucka (born November 29, 1969) is an American writer of novels and comic books. He is married to fellow comic writer Jen Van Meter. His writing career began with his Atticus Kodiak series. Kodiak is a bodyguard whose jobs are rarely as uncomplicated as they at first appear. The series to date consists of: "Keeper", "Finder", "Smoker", "Shooting at Midnight", and "Critical Space".
- Jane Smiley
Jane Smiley (born September 26, 1949) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist. Born in Los Angeles, California, Smiley grew up in Webster Groves, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, and graduated from John Burroughs School. She obtained a A.B. at Vassar College, then earned a M.F.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. While working towards her doctorate, she also spent a year studying in Iceland as a Fulbright Scholar.
- Anne Armstrong
Anne L. Armstrong (b. December 27, 1927) is a United States diplomat, politician, and the first female Counselor to the President; she served in that capacity under both the Ford and Nixon administrations. She was also the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, and graduated from Vassar College in 1949. In 1950, she married Tobin Armstrong and moved to Kennedy County, Texas.
- Inez Milholland
Inez Milholland Boissevain (born August 6, 1886 in Brooklyn, New York - November 25, 1916 in Los Angeles) was a suffragist, labor lawyer, World War I correspondent, and public speaker who greatly influenced the women's movement in America. Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, she grew up in a wealthy family. She attended Vassar College, where she was once suspended for organizing a women's rights meeting. The president of Vassar had forbidden suffrage meetings, …
- Lucy Burns
Lucy Burns (July 28, 1879-December 22, 1966) was an American suffragist and women's rights advocate. She was a close friend of Alice Paul. Together, they formed the National Woman's Party. Burns was born in Brooklyn, New York to an Irish Catholic family. She was a gifted student and attended university at Vassar College and Yale University before becoming an English teacher. In 1906 at age twenty-seven she moved to Germany to resume her studies in language.
- Noah Baumbach
Noah Baumbach (born September 3, 1969, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American independent film writer and director. He attended Midwood High School (1987) and Vassar College. He is the son of novelist/film critic Jonathan Baumbach and "Village Voice" critic Georgia Brown. He made his writing and directing debut at the age of 24 with "Kicking and Screaming" (1995), a comedy about four young men who graduate from college and refuse to move on with their lives, …
- Frances Sternhagen
Frances Sternhagen (born January 13, 1930) is an American actress. She was raised in Washington, D.C. Sternhagen has appeared on and off Broadway, in movies and on TV ever since the 1950s, and today is among the leading ladies of the New York stage with major roles continuing well into her 70s (see). In summer 2006, she finished her 24th Broadway role, then she guest starred on TV's "The Closer", playing Brenda (Kyra Sedgwick)'s disapproving Southern mother.
- Jon Tenney
Jonathan F. W. Tenney (born December 16, 1961 in Princeton, New Jersey) is an American actor. Tenney received his B.A. degree from Vassar College, where he majored in drama and philosophy. He then studied at Juilliard, after which he made his professional debut starring in a touring production of "The Real Thing" directed by Mike Nichols. This led to his working steadily on and off-Broadway, as well as in regional theater.
- Hope Davis
Hope Davis (born March 23, 1964) is an American actress. She has starred in more than 20 feature films including "About Schmidt", "Flatliners", "Mumford", "American Splendor" and "Next Stop Wonderland". She played Slim Keith in the 2006 film Infamous. Davis was born in Englewood, New Jersey.
- Jonathan Togo
Jonathan Frederick Togo (born on August 25, 1977) is an American actor.
- Mildred H. McAfee
Mildred Helen McAfee Horton (May 12, 1900 - September 2, 1994) was an American academic who served during World War II as first director of the WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) in the United States Navy. McAfee was born in Parkville, Missouri, the daughter of the Rev. Cleland Boyd McAfee and Harriet Brown. She graduated from Vassar College and received her Master's degree from the University of Chicago.
- Benson Whitney
Benson K. Whitney is the current United States Ambassador to Norway. He was managing general partner of the Gideon Hixon Fund and former President of the Minnesota Venture Capital Association. He was also chief executive officer of Whitney Management Company. Whitney was the Minnesota Executive Director and Minnesota Finance Chair for the Bush-Cheney 2004 presidential campaign.
- Judith Regan
Judith Regan (born 17 August 1953 in Massachusetts) is an American editor and book publisher.
- Vicki Miles-Lagrange
Vicki Miles-LaGrange is a U.S. District Judge in the Western district of Oklahoma. She was the first African American woman to be sworn in as U.S. attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma. She was also the first African American female elected to the Oklahoma Senate. Judge Miles-LaGrange, a native of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma graduated cum laude from Vassar College in 1974. She received a certificate from the University of Ghana in Accra, Ghana, West Africa.
- Sam Endicott
Sam Endicott (b. 1974) is the lead singer for the New York-based band The Bravery. Endicott grew up in the Washington, DC, suburb of Bethesda, Maryland. Before moving to NYC and founding The Bravery, he received a degree in psychology from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, where he was classmates with Bravery keyboardist John Conway. He wrote all of the songs on The Bravery's debut album, which was reportedly recorded in "various bedrooms" in New York.
- Justin Long
Justin Jake Long (born June 2 1978) is an American actor, best known for his performances in the films "Jeepers Creepers", "Waiting...", "Accepted", "Dodgeball", "Live Free or Die Hard", the TV series "Ed" and his personification of a Macintosh computer in Apple's 2006/2007 "Get a Mac" advertisement campaign.
- Catherine Bauer Wurster
Catherine Bauer (May 11, 1905 in Elizabeth, New Jersey - 1964) was a leading member of a small group of idealists who called themselves "housers" because of their commitment to improving housing for low-income families. In her lifetime, she dramatically changed the concept of social housing in the United States and inspired a generation of urban activists to integrate public housing into the emerging welfare state of the mid-20th century.
- Katharine Graham
Katharine Meyer Graham (June 16, 1917 - July 17, 2001) was an American publisher. She led her family's newspaper, "The Washington Post", for more than two decades, overseeing its most famous period, the Watergate coverage that eventually led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon.
- Eleanor Clark
Eleanor Clark was an American writer. She attended Vassar College in the 1930s and was involved with the literary magazine "Con Spirito" there, along with Elizabeth Bishop, Mary McCarthy, and her sister Eunice Clark. She married Robert Penn Warren in 1952 and lived in Fairfield, Connecticut with him and their two children, Rosanna and Gabriel. Her book "The Oysters of Locmariaquer" received the National Book Award, for Arts and Letters, in 1965.
- Edith Clarke
Edith Clarke (10 February 1883 - 29 October 1959) was an electrical engineer and a professor at the University of Texas at Austin. She was the first woman employed as an electrical engineer in the United States, as well as the country's first female professor of electrical engineering. Clarke studied mathematics and astronomy at Vassar College, receiving an A.B. in 1908. She briefly taught mathematics and physics at a private school in San Francisco and at Marshall College.
- Ethan Zohn
Ethan Zohn (born on November 12, 1973 in Lexington, Massachusetts) won $1,000,000 on Survivor: Africa, the third season of "Survivor". Zohn also appeared on the All-Stars edition of the show.
- Carole Maso
Carole Maso is a contemporary American novelist and essayist, known for her experimental, poetic and fragmentary narratives often labeled as postmodern. She received a bachelor’s degree in English from Vassar College in 1977. Her first published novel was "Ghost Dance", which appeared in 1986. Her best known novel is probably "Defiance", which was published in 1998. Currently (2006) she is a professor of English at Brown University.
- Bernadine Healy
Dr. Bernadine Patricia Healy (b. August 4, 1944) is a cardiologist and a former head of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the American Red Cross. She is a senior writer for US News & World Report. Healy is a life-long Republican.
- Elizabeth Bentley
Elizabeth Terrill Bentley (January 1, 1908-November 18, 1963) was an American spy for the Soviet Union from 1938 until 1945. In 1945 she defected from the Communist Party and Soviet intelligence and became an informer for the U.S. She exposed two networks of spies, ultimately naming over 80 Americans who had engaged in espionage for the Soviets.
- Lurita Doan
Lurita Alexis Doan (born January 4, 1958), became the Administrator of the U.S. General Services Administration on May 31, 2006, the first woman to hold that position.
- Kerri Green
Kerri Green (born January 14, 1967) is an American actress. Green was born in Fort Lee, New Jersey. She performed as a young teen in several movies including "Summer Rental" (1985) with co-star John Candy. Her big break came in the 1985 film "The Goonies". She garnered critical acclaim for her performance in "Lucas" (1986). However, her next film "Three for the Road" (1987) alongside Charlie Sheen and Alan Ruck did not fare as well.