Notable Alumnae
A number of Radcliffe alumnae have gone on to become notable in their respective fields, such as:
- Alice Adams, novelist
- Margaret Atwood, author
- Susan Berresford, Ford Foundation president
- Benazir Bhutto, former Prime Minister of Pakistan
- Stockard Channing, actress
- Eva Beatrice Dykes, Ph.D., the first black American woman to fulfill the requirements for a doctoral degree
- Elizabeth Eisenstein, historian
- Amy Goodman, journalist
- Amy Gutmann, University Of Pennsylvania president
- Helen Keller, deafblind author and activist
- Henrietta Swan Leavitt, early Harvard College Observatory astronomer
- Eleanor J. Macdonald, epidemiologist
- Crown Princess Masako of Japan
- Ursula Oppens, classical pianist
- Bonnie Raitt, American blues musician
- Edie Sedgwick, Andy Warhol's superstar of 1965
- Anna Deavere Smith, performance artist
- Gertrude Stein, author
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