Notable Alumnae
The Alumnae Association of Smith College considers all former students to be members, whether they graduated or not, and does not generally differentiate between graduates and non-graduates when identifying Smith alumnae.
- Barbara Adams, General Counsel of Pennsylvania
- Blanche Ames Ames, 1899, President of the Class of 1899, portraitist, women's rights activist, and inventor
- Natalie Babbitt, 1954, Newbery Honor Book award-winner
- Tammy Baldwin, 1984, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
- Joanna Barnes, 1956, actress and author
- Mildred Grosberg Bellin, 1928, cookbook author
- Deborah Bergamini, 1993, politician
- Leanna Brown, 1956, politician
- Barbara Pierce Bush (class of 1947, did not graduate; she left the college in 1945 to marry George H. W. Bush)
- Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, 1929, author of Cheaper by the Dozen
- Erin Casler, 1999, Miss Deaf America (2004–06)
- Julia McWilliams Child, 1934, chef, author, and television personality
- Jennifer Chrisler, 1992, Executive Director of Family Equality Council
- Patience Cleveland, 1952, American film and television actress
- Ada Comstock, 1897, an American women's education pioneer and first full-time president of Radcliffe College
- Emily Couric, 1969, late Virginia state senator and sister of Katie Couric
- LaWanda Cox, 1934, M.A., noted historian of slavery and reconstruction at Hunter College
- Otelia Cromwell, 1900, educator and first African-American woman to receive a Yale degree
- Stephanie Cutter Chief Spokesperson for the Obama-Biden Transition Project and was a senior advisor for the presidential campaign
- Ann Downer, 1982, writer
- Margaret Edson, 1983, American playwright
- Leecia Eve, 1986, attorney and Senior Policy adviser to U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton during her 2008 primary campaign for President
- Julie Nixon Eisenhower, 1970, second daughter of Richard Nixon
- Margaret Petherbridge Farrar, 1919, an American journalist and the first crossword puzzle editor for the New York Times
- Shirley Fleming, American music critic and editor
- Betty Goldstein Friedan, 1942, an American writer of The Feminine Mystique, activist and feminist
- Anne Froelick, blacklisted screenwriter
- Merrill Garbus, 2001, founder, lead singer and instrumentalist for tUnE-yArDs
- Meg Greenfield, 1952, Washington Post and Newsweek editorial writer
- Shelley Hack, 1969, actress and model
- Mira Hinsdale Hall, 1883, founder of Miss Hall's School
- Sarah P. Harkness, 1937, American architect
- Jean Harris, 1945, headmistress and defendant in a high-profile murder case
- Jane Lakes Harman, 1966, U.S. House of Representatives from California's 36th district
- Harriet Boyd-Hawes, 1892, pioneering American archaeologist, nurse and relief worker
- Doan Hoang, 1994, award-winning Vietnamese-American film producer, screenwriter, and director
- Elisabeth Irwin, 1903, founder of the Little Red School House
- Molly Ivins, 1966, a populist American newspaper columnist, political commentator, humorist and bestselling author
- Svava Jakobsdóttir, Icelandic author, politician and women's rights activist
- Sally Katzen, 1964 law scholar and civil servant
- Shelly Lazarus, 1968, chairman and CEO of Ogilvy & Mather
- Madeleine L'Engle, 1941, Newbery Medal-winning author
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1928, a pioneering American aviator, author, and the spouse of fellow aviator Charles Lindbergh.
- Susan Lindauer, 1985, an American journalist and antiwar activist
- Maria Lopez, 1975, a Cuban-American former judge and a former television jurist
- Charlise Lyles, 1981, author
- Joan Lynch, psychiatrist
- Enid Mark, 1954, founded the ELM Press
- Catharine MacKinnon, 1968, an American feminist, scholar, lawyer, teacher and activist
- Sarah MacLean, 2000, bestselling author of young adult and romance novels
- Ann Matthews Martin, 1977, children's author
- Helen Milliken, 1945, longest-serving First Lady of Michigan
- Tori Murden, 1985, an explorer and adventurer who was the first woman to make a solo crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by rowboat
- Mary Patterson McPherson, 1957, sixth president of Bryn Mawr College, former Vice President of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and currently leads the American Philosophical Society
- Olive Beaupre Miller (née Olive Kennon Beaupré), 1904, an American author, publisher and editor of children's literature
- Margaret Mitchell, class of 1922, left the college shortly after her mother's death in the 1918-1919 school year: Pulitzer Prize winning author in 1937 for her novel Gone with the Wind
- Nina Munk, 1988, an American journalist, author, and Contributing Editor at Vanity Fair
- Maureen Ogden, 1950, seven term member of the New Jersey General Assembly
- Jacquelyn A. Ottman, author of Green Marketing: Opportunity for Innovation
- Ruth Ozeki, 1980, Japanese American novelist and filmmaker
- Sylvia Plath, 1955, poet, novelist, children's author, and short story author. Known primarily for the "The Bell Jar".
- Halina Poświatowska, 1961, Polish poet and writer: one of the most important figures in modern Polish literature
- Sally Quinn, 1963, author and journalist who writes about religion for The Washington Post
- Nancy Davis Reagan, 1943, former First Lady of the United States
- Sherry Rehman, Pakistan's current ambassador to the United States
- Florence R. Sabin, 1893, pioneer for women in science. She was the first woman to hold a full professorship at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, be elected to National Academy of Sciences, and to head a department at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.
- Lara M. Schwartz, 1992, music video producer
- Sandy Skoglund, 1968, artist
- Julianna Smoot, 1989, leading professional fundraiser for the Democratic Party
- Martha Southgate, 1982, award-winning author
- Denise Spellberg, 1980, scholar of Islamic history
- Jane Stafford, 1920, chemist
- Gloria Steinem, 1956, feminist, journalist, and social and political activist
- Juliet Taylor, 1967, director
- Sarah Thomas, 1970, librarian
- Niki Tsongas, 1968, U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts's 5th district
- Laura D'Andrea Tyson, 1969, American economist and former Chair of the US President's Council of Economic Advisers, former Director of the National Economic Council and professor at UCBerkeley, as well as an economic adviser to President Barack Obama
- Yoshiko Uchida, 1944, Japanese American writer
- Cynthia Irving Voigt, 1963, Newbury Medal-winning author
- Cynthia Wade, documentary film maker
- J.R. Ward, bestselling author of romance novels
- Gertrude Weil, 1901, activist of women's suffrage, labor reform and civil rights
- Patricia Wettig, 2001, American actress and playwright
- Jane Yolen, 1963, author and editor of almost 300 books
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