- Diane Sawyer
Lila Diane Sawyer is a television journalist for the U.S. network ABC News and co-anchor of ABC's "Good Morning America," along with Robin Roberts. In 2001 she was named one of the 30 most powerful women in America by "Ladies Home Journal".
- Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton is a junior Democratic Senator from New York. Married to former President Bill Clinton , she was First Lady from 1993 to 2001. She is currently seeking the Democratic nomination for President in 2008 and is considered the front-runner. Mike Huckabee
- Madeleine Korbel Albright
Madeleine Albright (1937 - ) was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia. As the Nazis invaded that country before World War II, Albright and her family fled and eventually settled in the U.S. She graduated from Wellesley College in Massachusetts, and she later received master's and doctorate degrees from Columbia University in New York. By the late 1970s, she was working in the White House for President Jimmy Carter 's national security team.
- Nora Ephron
Nora Ephron (born May 19 1941) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, novelist, and blogger. Ephron was born in Brooklyn, New York. She was born into a Jewish family and her parents, Henry and Phoebe Ephron, were both East Coast-born and raised screenwriters. They based Sandra Dee's character in the James Stewart film "Take Her, She's Mine" on their 22-year-old daughter Nora. Both died from alcoholism.
- Cokie Roberts
Cokie Roberts (born December 27, 1943) is an American journalist and author. She is the "Contributing Senior News Analyst" for "National Public Radio".
- Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Marjory Stoneman Douglas (April 7 1890 - May 14 1998) was an eminent American conservationist and writer. Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, she was a descendant of one of the founders of the Underground Railroad. After the divorce of her parents, she was raised in Taunton, Massachusetts and educated at Wellesley College. She married a newspaper editor, Kenneth Douglas, in 1914. The marriage failed, and she moved to Miami in the Fall of 1915.
- Katharine Lee Bates
Katharine Lee Bates, is remembered as the author of the words to the anthem "America the Beautiful". Bates was born in Falmouth, Massachusetts. The daughter of a Congregational pastor, she graduated from Wellesley College in 1880 and for many years was a professor of English literature at Wellesley.
- Judith Martin
Judith Martin (born Judith Perlman on September 13 1938), better known by the pen name Miss Manners, is an American journalist, author, and etiquette authority. Since 1978 she has written an advice column, which is distributed three times a week by United Features Syndicate and carried in more than 200 newspapers worldwide. In it, she answers etiquette questions contributed by her readers and writes short essays on problems of manners, …
- Diane Ravitch
Diane Ravitch 's June 7 Gadfly article took the New York City Department of Education to task for hyping the most recent reading scores for students in More...
- Judith Krantz
Judith Krantz (born Judith Tarcher on January 9 1928 in New York City), is an American novelist who writes in the romance genre. Her works include "Princess Daisy" and "Till We Meet Again".
- Ali Macgraw
Alice MacGraw (born April 1, 1938 in Pound Ridge, Westchester County, New York) is an Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe award winning American actress.
- Soong May-Ling
Soong May-ling or Soong Mei-ling, also known as the Madame Chiang Kai-shek was one of the three Soong sisters and described as the "one who loved power". As the wife of President Chiang Kai-shek, she played a prominent role in the politics of the Republic of China.
- Annie Jump Cannon
Annie Jump Cannon (December 11, 1863 - April 13, 1941) was an American astronomer whose cataloguing work was instrumental in the development of contemporary stellar classification. With Edward C. Pickering, she is credited with the creation of the Harvard Classification Scheme, which was the first serious attempt to organise and classify stars based on their temperatures.
- Nannerl O. Keohane
Nannerl Overholser Keohane , named for Mozart's musically talented sister and affectionately called "Nan," recently completed 11 years as Duke's eighth (and first female) president. During her tenure, she led the $2.36 billion Campaign for Duke, started the Robertson Scholars program with UNC, built the Duke-Durham Neighborhood Partnership and championed the Women's Initiative.
- Ophelia Dahl
Ophelia Magdalena Dahl (born May 12 1964) is a social justice and health care advocate. Dahl is currently the executive director of Partners In Health (PIH), a Boston, Massachusetts based non-profit health care organization dedicated to providing a "preferential option for the poor." She first encountered Paul Farmer, the future co-founder of PIH, as an eighteen year old volunteer in Haiti, …
- Diane Mott Davidson
Diane Mott Davidson is an American author of mystery novels utilizes the theme of food, with several recipes included in each book and each novel title is a play on a food or drink word. Diane Mott Davidson studied political science at Wellesley College and lived across the hall from Hillary Clinton. In a few of her novels (particularly, "The Cereal Murders"), she references a prestigious eastern women's college that her sleuth, Goldy Schultz, …
- Lynn Sherr
Lynn Sherr (born 4 March 1942) is an American broadcast journalist and author, best known as a correspondent for the ABC news magazine 20/20. Sherr was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and attended Lower Merion High School in Ardmore. She received a B.A. from Wellesley College. She was a freelance host at WNET-TV in New York, then staff. She worked for the Associated Press and WCBS-TV.
- Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz
Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz is the Sydenham Clark Parsons Professor of History at Smith College. She received her B.A. from Wellesley College and her Ph.D. from Harvard University. Her book, "Alma Mater," (1984) is a comprehensive history of the development of the Seven Sister Colleges. Her 2002 book "Rereading Sex" was a finalist for the 2003 Pulitzer Prize in history.
- Michelle Ye
Michelle Ye Xuan (born February 14 1980 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China), also known as "Michelle Yip Suen" is a Hong Kong television actress, after winning the Miss Chinese International competition in 1999.
- Kimberly Dozier
Kimberly Dozier (born July 6, 1966 in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States) is a reporter and correspondent for CBS News, who holds both American and British citizenship. She was stationed in Baghdad as the chief reporter in Iraq for CBS News for nearly three years prior to being critically wounded on May 29, 2006.
- Robin Reisig
Robin Reisig is an American journalist and journalism professor. A graduate of Wellesley College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She is presently a professor at the Columbia School of Journalism. Following her graduation from Columbia, Reisig worked in Alabama as a reporter covering the civil rights movement. She followed this with work for The Village Voice and The Washington Post where she covered activism, the liberal movement, …
- Erna Schneider Hoover
Dr. Erna Schneider Hoover (b. 1926) invented a method for prioritizing processes within stored program control switching systems while working at Bell Laboratories. This method gave priority to processes that were concerned with in the input and output of the switch over processes that were less important such as record keeping and billing. This allowed for more robust service to callers during peak load times.
- Anne W. Patterson
Anne Woods Patterson (born 1949 in Fort Smith, Arkansas), was the acting United States Ambassador to the United Nations in 2005. She took over after former Ambassador Senator John Danforth resigned, effective on January 20 2005, and continued until John Bolton assumed the position on August 1 of the same year. On March 7 2005, President George W. Bush nominated Bolton to become the permanent U.N. Ambassador.
- Pamela Melroy
Colonel Pamela Anne Melroy (born 17 September 1961) is an American astronaut and veteran pilot of two space shuttle missions. Melroy received a bachelor's degree in physics and astronomy from Wellesley College in 1983 while also earning her commission in the United States Air Force through the ROTC program. She then earned a master's degree in earth and planetary sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1984.
- Margaret Clapp
Margaret Antoinette Clapp (April 10 1910 - 1974) was an American scholar and educator. She was born in East Orange, New Jersey and graduated from East Orange High School in 1926 and Wellesley College in 1930. She taught English literature at the Todhunter School for Girls in New York City for twelve years while working on her Masters degree, which she obtained from Columbia University in 1937. During and after World War II, she taught history at City College of New York, …
- Harriet Creighton
Harriet Baldwin Creighton (27 June 1909 - January 9 2004) was an American botanist, geneticist and educator. Born in Delevan, Illinois, Creighton graduated from Wellesley College in 1929, and went on to complete her Ph.D. at Cornell University in 1933. During her time at Cornell she worked in the field of maize cytogenetics with Barbara McClintock, the pair published a very influential paper in 1931 in which they described chromosomal crossover for the first time.
- Abigail Garner
Abigail Garner (born 1975 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American author and advocate for children with same sex parents. Abigail Garner is the creator of FamiliesLikeMine.com, a website for LGBT families. Her writing has appeared in publications throughout the country, including a commentary in "Newsweek" that earned her the Excellence in Journalism Award from the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association.
- Virginia Abernethy
Virginia Deane Abernethy is an American professor (emerita) of psychiatry and anthropology at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. She received a B.A. from Wellesley College, an M.B.A from Vanderbilt University, and Ph.D. from Harvard University. She is an anthropology fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
- Jean Kilbourne
Jean Kilbourne, Ed.D. (born January 4, 1943) is a social theorist known for her video documentaries on the subject of alcohol and tobacco advertising, and the representation of women in advertising. She is a graduate of Wellesley College. Among her lectures are "Killing Us Softly: Advertising's Image of Women", "Still Killing Us Softly", and "Killing Us Softly 3". With Sut Jhally she produced several videos: * Killing Us Softly 3 (1999), …
- Elizabeth Drew
Elizabeth Drew (born November 16, 1935, Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American political journalist and author. A graduate of Wellesley College, she was Washington correspondent for "The Atlantic Monthly" (1967-73) and "The New Yorker" (1973-92). She made several appearances on "Agronsky and Company," and hosted her own interview program for PBS between 1971 and 1973. Drew was a panelist for the first debate in the 1976 U.S. Presidential election, …
- Marjorie Grene
Marjorie Glicksman Grene (born 1910) is an American philosopher. She is known as a writer both on existentialism and the philosophy of science, especially philosophy of biology. As of 2005 (aged 95) she was Professor Emerita of philosophy at Virginia Tech. Her first degree was in zoology, from Wellesley College; she then received a doctorate in philosophy from Harvard University (Radcliffe College). She studied with Martin Heidegger and Karl Jaspers, …
- Judith Goslin Hall
Dr. Judith Goslin Hall, CM (1939-) is a pediatrician, clinical geneticist and dysmorphologist who is a dual citizen of the United States and Canada. She goes formally as Judith G. Hall and informally as Judy Hall. The daughter of a minister, she was born in Boston, Mass. and spent her childhood in New England, the midwestern U.S. and Seattle. She graduated from high school in Seattle and then attended Wellesley College in Wellesley, Mass.
- Nancy Friday
Nancy Friday (born August 27 1933) is an author who has written on the topics of female sexuality and liberation. Her writings argue that women have often been reared under an ideal of womanhood which was outdated and restrictive, and largely unrepresentative of many women's true inner lives, and that openness about women's hidden lives could help free women to truly feel able to enjoy being themselves. She asserts that this is not due to deliberate malice, …
- Harriet Adams
Harriet Adams (born 1893 in Newark, New Jersey as Harriet Stratemeyer, died 1982) was an American juvenile mystery novelist and publisher. She wrote many books in the Nancy Drew series and a few in the Hardy Boys series under the pseudonyms Carolyn Keene and Franklin W. Dixon. She also oversaw other ghostwriters who wrote for these and many other series. She was the daughter of Edward Stratemeyer and, with her sister Edna, …
- Elisabeth Shue
Elisabeth Shue (Elisabeth Judson Shue) was born on Sunday, October 06, 1963 in Delaware, USA and she is a famous actress. She is best known for her actress and producer career, in which she won several trophies and awards. The most important films of her career are: Hamlet 2, Gracle, Underneath, Dream On, Hale the Hero, Twenty Bucks, Palmetto and City of Angels among others.General appearance:-...
- Wendy Liebman
Wendy Liebman (born February 27, 1961 in Manhasset, New York) is an American stand-up comedian known for her distinctive style which includes quick, clever follow-ups after her jokes. She grew up in Roslyn, New York and attended Wellesley College. She began performing stand-up comedy in the Boston area in the 1980s and won the American Comedy Award for Female Stand-up Comedian of the Year in 1997.
- Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
Carolyn Gold Heilbrun (born January 13, 1926 in East Orange, New Jersey; died October 9, 2003) was an American academic and feminist author who also wrote mystery novels under the pen name of Amanda Cross. Heilbrun graduated from Wellesley College in 1947, and attended graduate school in English literature at Columbia University, receiving her M.A. in 1951 and Ph.D in 1959. She taught English at Columbia from 1960 to 1993.
- Patricia J. Williams
Patricia J. Williams (b. 1951) is a prominent law critic and a proponent of critical race theory, an offshoot of 1960s social movements that emphasizes race as a fundamental determinant of the American legal system. Williams received her BA from Wellesley College in 1972, and her JD from Harvard Law School in 1975. She was the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, which she held from June 2000 until June 2005.
- Mary Lefkowitz
Mary R. Lefkowitz (born 1935) and Professor Emerita of Classical Studies at Wellesley College in Massachusetts, USA. She earned her B.A. from Wellesley College in 1957 and received her Ph.D. in Classical Philology from Radcliffe College (Harvard University) in 1961. She has published on subjects including mythology, women in antiquity, Pindar, and fiction in ancient biography.
- Marguerite S. Church
Marguerite Stitt Church (New York, September 27, 1892 - Chicago, May 26, 1990) was a psychologist by profession who was appointed to her husband Ralph E. Church's congressional seat to complete his term, following his death in office. She won election and continued to represented Illinois' 13th congressional district as a Republican from 1951 to 1963. Church was a 1915 graduate of Wellesley College, and earned a Masters from Columbia University in 1917.