Famous alumnae/alumni

Academics

• Winifred Asprey
  Winifred Asprey
  Winifred "Tim" Alice Asprey was an American mathematician and computer scientist. She was one of only around 200 women to earn PhDs in mathematics from American universities during the 1940s, a period of women's underrepresentation in mathematics at this level.She was involved in developing the...
  
  , class of 1905 - pioneering mathematician and computer scientist
• Jamshed Bharucha
  Jamshed Bharucha
  Jamshed Bharucha is President of Cooper Union. Prior to this, he was Provost and Senior Vice President of Tufts University and Professor in the Departments of Psychology, Music and in the Medical School's Department of Neuroscience...
  
  , class of 1978 - President of Cooper Union
  Cooper Union
  The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, commonly referred to simply as Cooper Union, is a privately funded college in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, United States, located at Cooper Square and Astor Place...
  
  , cognitive neuroscientist, former dean of Tufts University
  Tufts University
  Tufts University is a private research university located in Medford/Somerville, near Boston, Massachusetts. It is organized into ten schools, including two undergraduate programs and eight graduate divisions, on four campuses in Massachusetts and on the eastern border of France...
  
   and Dartmouth College
  Dartmouth College
  Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences...
  
  
• Edith Clarke
  Edith Clarke
  Edith Clarke 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...
  
  , class of 1908 - America's first female professor of electrical engineering
• Susan W. Coates
  Susan Coates
  Susan W. Coates is an American psychologist known for her work on gender identity disorder in children and trauma in early childhood.-Career:...
  
  , psychologist, Columbia University
  Columbia University
  Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
  
  
• Jennifer Summit
  Jennifer Summit
  Jennifer Summit is an American scholar of Medieval and Renaissance English Literature and Professor of English at Stanford University...
  
  , class of 1987 - professor of English and department chair, Stanford University
  Stanford University
  The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
  
  
• David B. Allison
  David B. Allison
  Dr. David Bradley Allison is currently Distinguished Professor, Head of the Section on Statistical Genetics, and Director of the NIH funded Nutrition Obesity Research Center...
  
  , class of 1985 - Distinguished Professor, Head of the Section on Statistical Genetics, UAB

Activists and Philanthropists

• Jonathan Granoff
  Jonathan Granoff
  Jonathan Granoff is an American lawyer. He is currently President of the Global Security Institute, and a Senior Advisor of the American Bar Association's Committee on Arms Control and National Security...
  
  , class of 1970 - President of the Global Security Institute
• Urvashi Vaid
  Urvashi Vaid
  Urvashi Vaid is an American activist who has worked for over 25 years promoting civil rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender persons.- Political activism :...
  
  , class of 1979 - political activist
• Eleanor Fitchen
  Eleanor Fitchen
  Eleanor Beach Fitchen was a conservationist, preservationist and philanthropist. From her earliest years until her death in April 2009, Eleanor led a rewarding and memorable life and left a legacy that included the founding of several not-for-profit organizations, the conservation of hundreds...
  
  , class of 1934 - Landmarks and environment in New York State
• Mary Boyce Temple
  Mary Boyce Temple
  Mary Boyce Temple was an American philanthropist and socialite, active primarily in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She was the first president of the Ossoli Circle, the oldest federated women's club in the South, and published a biography of the club's namesake,...
  
  , class of 1877 - preservationist and philanthropist

Adventurers

• Alice Huyler Ramsey
  Alice Huyler Ramsey
  Alice Huyler Ramsey was the first woman to drive across the United States from coast to coast.-Biography:...
  
  , class of 1907 - first woman to cross the continent driving a car
• Ethan Zohn
  Ethan Zohn
  Ethan Zohn is an American reality television series contestant who won $1,000,000 on Survivor: Africa, the third season of the reality TV series Survivor. He also appeared on the All-Stars edition of the show. After winning Survivor he co-founded Grassroot Soccer, which uses soccer to raise money...
  
  , class of 1996 - Survivor: Africa winner and philanthropist

Artists and Architects

• Linda Nochlin
  Linda Nochlin
  Linda Nochlin is an American art historian, university professor and writer. She is considered to be a leader in feminist art history studies. She is best known as a proponent of the question "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?"...
  
  , class of 1951 - pioneer in the field of feminist art theory
• Nancy Graves
  Nancy Graves
  Nancy Graves was an American sculptor, painter, printmaker, and sometime-filmmaker known for her focus on natural phenomena like camels or maps of the moon...
  
  , class of 1961 - first woman to solo at the Whitney

Business

• Nina Zagat, class of 1963 - co-founder of Zagat Survey
  Zagat Survey
  Zagat Survey was established by Tim and Nina Zagat in 1979 as a way to collect and correlate the ratings of restaurants by diners. For their first guide, covering New York City, the Zagats surveyed their friends. As of 2005, the Zagat Survey included 70 cities, with reviews based on the input of...
  
  
• Geraldine Laybourne
  Geraldine Laybourne
  Geraldine Laybourne founded Oxygen Media and served as its chairman and chief executive officer until it was sold in 2007 to NBC Universal. Oxygen was launched in 2000 to fill a void in the television landscape—creating a television network targeted to younger women...
  
  , class of 1969 - creator of Nickelodeon and Nick at Nite, CEO of Oxygen Media
• Phil Griffin
  Phil Griffin
  Phil Griffin is President of United States cable news MSNBC. He was named President in July, 2008.-References:...
  
  , class of 1979 - President of MSNBC
  MSNBC
  MSNBC is a cable news channel based in the United States available in the US, Germany , South Africa, the Middle East and Canada...
  
  
• Lurita Doan
  Lurita Doan
  Lurita Alexis Doan , is an African American, conservative commentator on Federal News Radio 1500AM in Washington, DC, and the host of the weekly opinion editorial, Leadership Matters. Doan was formerly the Administrator of the United States General Services Administration from May 31, 2006, to...
  
  , class of 1979 - founder of New Technology Management, Inc.
• Ken Levine, class of 1988 - founder of Irrational Games
  Irrational Games
  Irrational Games is a video game developer founded in 1997 by three former employees of Looking Glass Studios: Ken Levine, Jonathan Chey, and Robert Fermier as Irrational Games...
  
   and creator of Bioshock
  Bioshock
  BioShock is a first-person shooter video game developed by 2K Boston and designed by Ken Levine. It was released for Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360 on August 21, 2007 in North America, and three days later in Europe and Australia. It became available on Steam on August 21, 2007...
  
  
• Caterina Fake
  Caterina Fake
  Caterina Fake is an American businesswoman and internet entrepreneur.Fake was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, graduated from Choate Rosemary Hall, attended Smith College, and graduated from Vassar College in 1991....
  
  , class of 1991 - founder of Flickr
  Flickr
  Flickr is an image hosting and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community that was created by Ludicorp in 2004 and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. In addition to being a popular website for users to share and embed personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers to...
  
  
• Jon Fisher
  Jon Fisher
  Jon Fisher is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, author, and economic analyst. Fisher co-founded and was Chief Executive Officer of Bharosa, an Oracle Corporation company, which produced the Oracle Adaptive Access Manager. Fisher is known for making accurate predictions about the U.S. economy,...
  
  , class of 1994 - entrepreneur
• Scott Kauffman
  Scott Kauffman
  Scott L. Kauffman is an American business manager.He was born in Princeton, New Jersey to Ellwood and Shirley Kauffman, and grew up with his sister Jane and brothers Geoffrey and Matthew. In 1973 he appeared briefly in Steven E...
  
  , notable CEO
• Elisabeth Murdoch
  Elisabeth Murdoch
  Elisabeth Murdoch may refer to:*Elisabeth Murdoch , mother of media tycoon Rupert Murdoch*Elisabeth Murdoch , daughter of Rupert and granddaughter of Dame Elisabeth...
  
  , class of 1992 - CEO of Shine Limited, daughter of Rupert Murdoch
  Rupert Murdoch
  Keith Rupert Murdoch, AC, KSG is an Australian-American business magnate. He is the founder and Chairman and CEO of , the world's second-largest media conglomerate....
  
  
• Carolina Herrera
  Carolina Herrera
  Carolina Herrera is the name of:*Carolina Herrera , Venezuelan fashion designer*Carolina Herrera , Colombian Singer/Guitarist*Astrid Carolina Herrera , Venezuelan winner of the Miss World pageant in 1984...
  
  , class of 1991 - Perfume creator and collaborator with mother, Carolina Herrera, Fashion icon
• Katia Beauchamp, class of 2005 - Co-founder of Birchbox

Drama, Film, and Television

• Frances Sternhagen
  Frances Sternhagen
  Frances Hussey Sternhagen is an American actress. Sternhagen has appeared on and off Broadway, in movies, and on TV since the 1950s.-Personal life:...
  
  , class of 1951 - Tony Award-winning actress
• Meryl Streep
  Meryl Streep
  Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep is an American actress who has worked in theatre, television and film.Streep made her professional stage debut in 1971's The Playboy of Seville, before her screen debut in the television movie The Deadliest Season in 1977. In that same year, she made her film debut with...
  
  , class of 1971 - Academy Award-winning actress
• Eben Fiske Ostby
  Eben Fiske Ostby
  Eben Fiske Ostby is a famous animator and technical director who worked with John Lasseter on early breakthrough Pixar animation shorts such as Luxo Jr....
  
  , class of 1977 - animator, Vice President of Software at Pixar
  Pixar
  Pixar Animation Studios, pronounced , is an American computer animation film studio based in Emeryville, California. The studio has earned 26 Academy Awards, seven Golden Globes, and three Grammy Awards, among many other awards and acknowledgments. Its films have made over $6.3 billion worldwide...
  
  
• Phil Griffin
  Phil Griffin
  Phil Griffin is President of United States cable news MSNBC. He was named President in July, 2008.-References:...
  
  , class of 1979 - president of MSNBC
  MSNBC
  MSNBC is a cable news channel based in the United States available in the US, Germany , South Africa, the Middle East and Canada...
  
  
• Lloyd Braun
  Lloyd Braun (media executive)
  Lloyd Braun is a television and Internet media executive who currently runs the entertainment firm BermanBraun.-Early life and career:Braun earned his B.A. from Vassar College in 1980, and his law degree from Hastings College of the Law in 1983...
  
  , class of 1980 - Media Executive
• Jon Tenney, class of 1984 - actor
• Andrew Zimmern
  Andrew Zimmern
  Andrew Zimmern is a James Beard Award-winning TV personality, chef, food writer, and teacher. As the co-creator, host, and consulting producer of Travel Channel's series Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern and Andrew Zimmern's Bizarre World, he travels the world exploring food in its own native...
  
  , class of 1984 - chef and TV personality
• Lisa Kudrow
  Lisa Kudrow
  Lisa Valerie Kudrow is an American actress, best known for her role as Phoebe Buffay in the television sitcom Friends, for which she received many accolades including an Emmy Award and two Screen Actors Guild Awards...
  
  , class of 1985 - Emmy Award-winning actress
• Hope Davis
  Hope Davis
  Hope Davis is an American actress. She has starred in more than 20 feature films, including About Schmidt, Arlington Road, Flatliners, Mumford, American Splendor, The Lodger and Next Stop Wonderland....
  
  , class of 1986 - actress
• Erika Amato
  Erika Amato
  Erika Amato is an American singer and actress, and a founding member of the band Velvet Chain.-Biography:Amato was born in the town of Plainfield, New Jersey and grew up in the town of Summit. She started playing and performing music at the age of three...
  
  , class of 1991 - singer, actress
• Noah Baumbach
  Noah Baumbach
  Noah Baumbach is an American writer, director and independent filmmaker.-Background and education:Baumbach was born in Brooklyn, New York City, the son of novelist/film critic Jonathan Baumbach and Village Voice critic Georgia Brown. He graduated from Brooklyn's Midwood High School in 1987 and ...
  
  , class of 1991 - writer, director
• Benjamin Busch
  Benjamin Busch
  Benjamin B. Busch is an American actor, writer, film maker, photographer, and former United States Marine Corps officer. He is best known for his portrayal of Anthony Colicchio on the HBO original series The Wire.-Biography:...
  
  , class of 1991 - actor
• Stacy London
  Stacy London
  Stacy London is an American fashion consultant and media personality known primarily for her role as co-host on What Not to Wear, a reality program that features makeovers. After graduating from Vassar College, London started her career as a fashion editor at Vogue and transitioned into being a...
  
  , class of 1991 - television host
• Judd Ehrlich
  Judd Ehrlich
  Judd Ehrlich is the American director and producer of the Emmy-nominated 2006 public television documentary Mayor of the West Side and the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival premiere and public television documentary Run for Your Life....
  
  , class of 1993 - director and producer
• Erin Daniels
  Erin Daniels
  Erin Daniels is an American actress. She is known for her role as Dana Fairbanks on The L Word .-Early life:...
  
  , class of 1995 - actress
• Ethan Zohn
  Ethan Zohn
  Ethan Zohn is an American reality television series contestant who won $1,000,000 on Survivor: Africa, the third season of the reality TV series Survivor. He also appeared on the All-Stars edition of the show. After winning Survivor he co-founded Grassroot Soccer, which uses soccer to raise money...
  
  , class of 1996 - Survivor: Africa
  Survivor: Africa
  Survivor: Africa is the third season of the United States reality show Survivor. It was filmed during 2001 and aired from October 11, 2001 - January 10, 2002 on CBS. It was set in Kenya's Shaba National Reserve on the African continent....
  
   winner and philanthropist
• Angela Goethals
  Angela Goethals
  Angela Bethany Goethals is an American actress. She is known for her recurring guest appearance on 24 and her roles in the TV sitcom Phenom and the movie Home Alone.- Early life and career :...
  
  , class of 1999 - actress
• Marguerite Moreau
  Marguerite Moreau
  Marguerite Moreau is an American actress. She is perhaps best known for her roles on the television series Blossom, her role as Katie in the comedy cult film Wet Hot American Summer, and her role in The Mighty Ducks series of films...
  
  , class of 1999 - actress
• Jonathan Togo
  Jonathan Togo
  Jonathan Togo is an American actor best known for his role in CSI: Miami as Ryan Wolfe.-Childhood:Jonathan Frederick Togo was born in Rockland, Massachusetts, the son of Sheila, unemployed and Michael Togo, a graphic designer...
  
  , class of 1999 - actor
• Justin Long
  Justin Long
  Justin Jacob Long is an American film and television actor. He is best known for his roles in the Hollywood films Galaxy Quest, Jeepers Creepers, Dodgeball, Live Free or Die Hard, He's Just Not That into You, Drag Me to Hell, and Youth in Revolt, and his personification of a Mac in Apple's "Get a...
  
  , class of 2000 - actor, Apple Computer spokesperson
• Jeff Davis
  Jeff Davis (writer)
  Jeff Davis is a writer and producer.-Early life:Davis graduated from Vassar College with a degree in film and he then went on to receive a master's degree in screenwriting from the University of Southern California....
  
  , writer and creator of police procedural drama Criminal Minds
  Criminal Minds
  Criminal Minds is an American police procedural drama that premiered September 22, 2005, on CBS. The series follows a team of profilers from the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit based in Quantico, Virginia. The BAU is part of the FBI National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime...
  
  
• Lecy Goranson, actress
• Kerri Green
  Kerri Green
  Kerri Lee Green is an American actress.Green was born in Fort Lee, New Jersey. She grew up in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey and attended Pascack Hills High School in Montvale, New Jersey....
  
  , actress, director
• Carrie Kei Heim
  Carrie Kei Heim
  Carrie Kei Heim is an attorney and former child actress currently working in Boston.-Acting filmography:-Education:...
  
  , actress
• Hung Huang
  Hung Huang
  Hung Huang is of Chinese descent, and is a television host, author, actress, blogger, media figure, and the publisher of the fashion magazine iLook. A CNN article stated that she had been referred to as "China's answer to Oprah Winfrey and Anna Wintour."...
  
  , fashion figure, publisher
• Lisa Lassek
  Lisa Lassek
  Lisa Lassek is a film producer and editor whose credits include her role as Associate Producer for the television series Firefly. She has edited episodes for the sixth season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, served as an assistant editor for Angel, and has edited various episodes of Firefly...
  
  , film producer and editor
• Jay Severin
  Jay Severin
  Jay Severin, , is an American political talk radio personality. Severin has signed a multi-year contract with Boston's WXKS-AM Talk 1200 as an on-air personality...
  
  , commentator and talk radio host
• Sandy Stern
  Sandy Stern
  Sandy Stern is an American film producer, best known for his work on the films Pump Up the Volume , Being John Malkovich and Saved! .-Career:...
  
  , film producer
• Lisa Zane
  Lisa Zane
  Elizabeth Frances "Lisa" Zane is an American actress and singer who has starred on stage, in film and television.-Personal life:...
  
  , actress
• Jessi Klein
  Jessi Klein
  Jessi Klein is an American comedy writer and stand-up comic based out of New York City. She has regularly appeared on shows such as The Showbiz Show with David Spade and VH1's Best Week Ever, and has performed stand-up on Comedy Central's Premium Blend. She provided commentary for CNN in the...
  
  , class of 1997 - comedian
• Dan Bucatinsky
  Dan Bucatinsky
  Dan Bucatinsky is an American actor, writer and film producer living in Los Angeles, California. He was born in New York City to Argentine parents, Julio and Myriam...
  
  , class of 1987 - actor/writer/producer
• Thomas Bridegroom
  Thomas Bridegroom
  Thomas Bridegroom was an American film and commercial actor, television host and photographer, who hosted MTV's The X Effect in 2006-2007. On 7 May 2011, he apparently fell to his death while photographing a model, falling four stories after accidentally stepping off a balcony of a building in...
  
  , class of 1994 - model/MTV host/photographer

Music

• Erika Amato
  Erika Amato
  Erika Amato is an American singer and actress, and a founding member of the band Velvet Chain.-Biography:Amato was born in the town of Plainfield, New Jersey and grew up in the town of Summit. She started playing and performing music at the age of three...
  
  , class of 1991 - singer (Velvet Chain)
• Rachael Yamagata
  Rachael Yamagata
  Rachael Yamagata is an American singer-songwriter and pianist from Arlington, Virginia. She began her musical career with the band Bumpus before becoming a solo artist and releasing four EP's and three studio albums...
  
  , class of 1996 - singer-songwriter
• Sam Endicott
  Sam Endicott
  Sam Endicott is the lead singer of the The Bravery.- History :Endicott grew up in Brookmont a Washington, DC, suburb of Bethesda, Maryland...
  
  , class of 1999 - singer (The Bravery
  The Bravery
  The Bravery is an American rock band from New York City that consists of Sam Endicott , Michael Zakarin , John Conway , Mike Hindert , and Anthony Burulcich...
  
  ) and John Conway, keyboardist in The Bravery
  The Bravery
  The Bravery is an American rock band from New York City that consists of Sam Endicott , Michael Zakarin , John Conway , Mike Hindert , and Anthony Burulcich...
  
  
• Genghis Tron
  Genghis Tron
  Genghis Tron is a three-piece experimental metal band formed in Poughkeepsie, New York, USA, and currently based in Brooklyn, New York and San Francisco, California. Genghis Tron signed to Relapse Records after releasing two recordings on Crucial Blast. The band is noted for its creative...
  
  , classes of 2005 and 2006 - band composed of Vassar graduates
• Mark Ronson
  Mark Ronson
  Mark Daniel Ronson is an English DJ, guitarist, music producer, artist and co-founder of Allido Records. He currently works with his band under the music alias of Mark Ronson & The Business Intl....
  
  , DJ
• Victoria Legrand
  Victoria Legrand
  Victoria Legrand is a singer-songwriter and keyboardist for the indie-pop band Beach House and a niece of famous French composer Michel Legrand...
  
  , singer (Beach House)

Politics and Law

• Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch
  Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch
  Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch was an American writer and suffragist and the daughter of pioneering women's rights activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton.-Biography:...
  
  , class of 1878 - suffragette
  Suffragette
  "Suffragette" is a term coined by the Daily Mail newspaper as a derogatory label for members of the late 19th and early 20th century movement for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom, in particular members of the Women's Social and Political Union...
  
   and daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an American social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early woman's movement...
  
  
• Crystal Eastman
  Crystal Eastman
  Crystal Catherine Eastman was a lawyer, antimilitarist, feminist, socialist, and journalist. She is best remembered as a leader in the fight for women's right to vote, as a co-editor of the radical arts and politics magazine The Liberator, and as a co-founder of the Women's International League...
  
  , class of 1903 - coauthor of the Equal Rights Amendment
• Inez Milholland
  Inez Milholland
  Inez Milholland Boissevain was a suffragist, labor lawyer, World War I correspondent, and public speaker who greatly influenced the women's movement in America.-Biography:...
  
  , class of 1909 - suffragist, known as the martyr of the Women's Suffrage movement
• Catherine Bauer Wurster
  Catherine Bauer Wurster
  Catherine Krause Bauer Wurster 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...
  
  , class of 1926 - urban housing reformer
• Patricia M. Byrne
  Patricia M. Byrne
  Patricia Mary Byrne of Ohio served as United States Ambassador to Burma from November 1979 to September 1983.-External links:**...
  
  , class of 1946 - US Ambassador to Burma
• Pauline Newman
  Pauline Newman
  Pauline Newman is a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.-Biography:Born in New York, New York, Newman received a B.A. from Vassar College in 1947, an M.A. from Columbia University in 1948, a Ph.D. in chemistry from Yale University in 1952 and an LL.B. from New York...
  
  , class of 1947 - Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
  United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
  -Vacancies and pending nominations:-List of former judges:-Chief judges:Notwithstanding the foregoing, when the court was initially created, Congress had to resolve which chief judge of the predecessor courts would become the first chief judge...
  
  
• Anne Armstrong
  Anne Armstrong
  Anne Legendre Armstrong was a United States diplomat and 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.- Biography :She was born in New Orleans,...
  
  , class of 1949 - diplomat, politician
• Pamela Ann Rymer
  Pamela Ann Rymer
  Pamela Ann Rymer was a United States federal judge.Born in Knoxville, Tennessee, Rymer earned an A.B. from Vassar College in 1961 and an LL.B. from Stanford Law School in 1964. She was Director of Political Research and Analysis for the Goldwater for President Committee in 1964...
  
  , class of 1961 - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
  United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
  The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is a U.S. federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following districts:* District of Alaska* District of Arizona...
  
  
• Diana Gribbon Motz
  Diana Gribbon Motz
  Diana Jane Gribbon Motz is a federal judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.- Early life and education :...
  
  , class of 1965 - Associate Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
• Margaret Milner Richardson, class of 1965 - IRS commissioner (1993–97)
• Linda Fairstein
  Linda Fairstein
  Linda Fairstein is an American feminist author and former prosecutor focusing on crimes of violence against women and children. She served as head of the sex crimes unit of the Manhattan District Attorney's office from 1976 until 2002 and is the author of a series of novels featuring Manhattan...
  
  , class of 1969 - prosecutor in the infamous "Preppie Murder" trial of Robert Chambers
  Robert Chambers (killer)
  Robert Emmet Chambers, Jr. , nicknamed the "Preppie Killer", is an American who pled guilty to manslaughter in the death of 18-year-old Jennifer Levin...
  
  
• Margarita Penón Góngora
  Margarita Penón Góngora
  Margarita Penón Góngora is a Costa Rican politician.- External links :*...
  
  , class of 1970- First Lady of Costa Rica, 1986-1990. Advocate and promoter of the principal Gender Equality Law approved by Congress in 1989.
• Robert H. Edmunds, Jr.
  Robert H. Edmunds, Jr.
  Robert Holt Edmunds, Jr. is an American judge, currently an Associate Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court.Born in Danville, Virginia, Edmunds moved to Greensboro, North Carolina at the age of 8. He attended Woodberry Forest School and Williams College before graduating with honors from...
  
  , Associate Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court
  North Carolina Supreme Court
  The Supreme Court of North Carolina is the state's highest appellate court. Until the creation of the North Carolina Court of Appeals in the 1960s, it was the state's only appellate court. The Supreme Court consists of six associate justices and one chief justice, although the number of justices...
  
  
• Vicki Miles-LaGrange
  Vicki Miles-LaGrange
  Vicki Miles-LaGrange is the Chief U.S. District Judge for 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...
  
  , class of 1974 - first African-American female to become a United States Attorney
• Richard W. Roberts
  Richard W. Roberts
  -Educational career:-Legal career:Roberts played a number of different roles in the US justice system prior to his appointment as a judge.-Covington & Burling:Roberts was an associate at the large, international law firm Covington & Burling.-Prosecutor:...
  
  , class of 1974 - Judge, United States District Court for the District of Columbia
  United States District Court for the District of Columbia
  The United States District Court for the District of Columbia is a federal district court. Appeals from the District are taken to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit The United States District Court for the District of Columbia (in case citations, D.D.C.) is a...
  
  
• Nancy Killefer
  Nancy Killefer
  Nancy Killefer is an American government consultant and political figure. She was nominated for the Chief Performance Officer presidential cabinet position in the Obama administration in 2009. In 2005 the District of Columbia government had filed a more than $900 tax lien on her home for failure...
  
  , class of 1975 - government consultant
• Rick Lazio
  Rick Lazio
  Enrico Anthony "Rick" Lazio is a former U.S. Representative from the state of New York. Lazio became well known nationally when he ran against Hillary Rodham Clinton for the U.S. Senate in New York's 2000 Senate election...
  
  , class of 1980 - Congressman (Long Island
  Long Island
  Long Island is an island located in the southeast part of the U.S. state of New York, just east of Manhattan. Stretching northeast into the Atlantic Ocean, Long Island contains four counties, two of which are boroughs of New York City , and two of which are mainly suburban...
  
  ), Executive Vice President (JPMorgan Chase)
• Benson Whitney
  Benson Whitney
  Benson Kelley Whitney was the United States Ambassador to Norway from 2006 to 2009. 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...
  
  , class of 1982 - US Ambassador to Norway
• Marc Thiessen
  Marc Thiessen
  Marc A. Thiessen is an American author, columnist and political commentator, who served as a speechwriter for United States President George W. Bush and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld...
  
  , class of 1989 - White House speechwriter (2004–09)
• Deborah L. Wince-Smith
  Deborah L. Wince-Smith
  Deborah L. Wince-Smith is the President of the United States Council on Competitiveness.-Early life:Wince-Smith grew up in Akron, Ohio. Wince-Smith earned a degree in classical archaeology and graduated Magna cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Vassar College. She earned her master’s degree from...
  
  , President of the Council on Competitiveness
  Council on Competitiveness
  The Council on Competitiveness is an American non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C. The Council’s goal is to increase the United States' economic competitiveness in the global marketplace...
  
  

Science and Medicine

• Christine Ladd-Franklin
  Christine Ladd-Franklin
  Christine Ladd-Franklin was the first American woman psychologist, logician, and mathematician.-Early Life and Early Education:...
  
  , class of 1869 - psychologist
• Ellen Swallow Richards
  Ellen Swallow Richards
  Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards was the foremost female industrial and environmental chemist in the United States in the 19th century, pioneering the field of home economics. Richards graduated from Westford Academy...
  
  , class of 1870 - chemist
• Ellen Churchill Semple
  Ellen Churchill Semple
  Ellen Churchill Semple was an American geographer. Ellen was born in Louisville, Kentucky, the youngest of five children by Alexander Bonner Semple and Emerine Price. She is most closely associated with work in anthropogeography and environmentalism...
  
  , class of 1882 - geographer
• Margaret Floy Washburn
  Margaret Floy Washburn
  'Margaret Floy Washburn , leading American psychologist in the early 20th century, was best known for her experimental work in animal behavior and motor theory development...
  
  , class of 1891 - psychologist
• Ruth Benedict
  Ruth Benedict
  Ruth Benedict was an American anthropologist, cultural relativist, and folklorist....
  
  , class of 1909 - anthropologist
• Mary Calderone
  Mary Calderone
  Mary Steichen Calderone was a physician and a public health advocate for sexual education. She served as president and co-founder of the Sex Information and Education Council of the United States from 1954 to 1982. She was also the medical director for Planned Parenthood...
  
  , class of 1925 - physician
• Grace Hopper
  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 computer, and developed the first compiler for a computer programming language...
  
  , class of 1928 - computer scientist
• Vera Rubin
  Vera Rubin
  Vera Rubin is an American astronomer who pioneered work on galaxy rotation rates. She is famous for uncovering the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion, by studying galactic rotation curves...
  
  , class of 1948 - astronomer
• Beatrix Ann (McCleary) Hamburg
  Beatrix Hamburg
  Beatrix Hamburg is an American psychiatrist whose long career in academic medicine advanced the field of child and adolescent psychiatry. Hamburg was the first African-American to attend Vassar College, and was also the first African-American woman to attend Yale Medical School. Hamburg held...
  
   (first African American admitted to Vassar), class of 1944 - psychiatrist, medical researcher.
• Olga F. Linares
  Olga F. Linares
  Olga Francesca Linares is a Panamanian–American academic anthropologist and archaeologist, and senior staff scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama, who have supported much of her research throughout her career...
  
  , class of 1958, anthropologist and senior researcher at STRI
• Patricia Goldman Rakic, class of 1959 - neuroscientist
• Bernadine P. Healy, class of 1965 - cardiologist; Director, National Institutes of Health (NIH) (1991-1993), Dean, Ohio State University Medical School, President of the American Red Cross (1999–2001)
• M. R. C. Greenwood
  M. R. C. Greenwood
  Mary Rita Cooke Greenwood is the President of the University of Hawaii. She also holds an appointment as a Distinguished Professor Emerita of Nutrition and Internal Medicine at the University of California, Davis and was formerly an Adjunct Professor of Public Health and Nutrition at the...
  
  , class of 1968 - health scientist
• Anne B. Young
  Anne B. Young
  Anne B Young is an American physician and neuroscientist who works on neurodegenerative diseases. She is the only person to have been president of both the international Society for Neuroscience and the American Neurological Association.-Education:...
  
  , class of 1969 - neuroscientist
• Maria Fadiman
  Maria Fadiman
  Maria Grace Fadiman is an ethnobotanist and professor of Geosciences at Florida Atlantic University.-Biography:Fadiman was raised in Palo Alto by documentary filmmaker, Dorothy Fadiman, and psychologist and published author, James Fadiman. She received her BA from Vassar College, her MA from...
  
  , ethnobotanist
• Ellen Kovner Silbergeld, engineer
• Diana M. Zuckerman
  Diana Zuckerman
  Diana M. Zuckerman is an expert on national health policy, particularly in women's health. She is the President of the National Research Center for Women & Families as well as the Cancer Prevention and Treatment Fund.-Life and work:...
  
   - expert on women's health

Writers

• Elizabeth Williams Champney
  Elizabeth Williams Champney
  Elizabeth "Lizzie" Williams Champney was an American author of numerous articles and novels, most of which focused on foreign locations...
  
  , class of 1869 - author of Three Vassar Girls series
• Eva March Tappan
  Eva March Tappan
  Eva March Tappan was a teacher and American author born in Blackstone, Massachusetts, the only child of Reverend Edmund March Tappan and Lucretia Logée. Eva graduated from Vassar College in 1875. She was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and an editor of the Vassar Miscellany...
  
  , class of 1875 - author
• Edna St. Vincent Millay
  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  Edna St. Vincent Millay was an American lyrical poet, playwright and feminist. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and was known for her activism and her many love affairs. She used the pseudonym Nancy Boyd for her prose work...
  
  , class of 1917 - Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
• Nora Benjamin Kubie
  Nora Benjamin Kubie
  Nora Benjamin Kubie was an American writer, artist and amateur archaeologist.Born Eleanor Gottheil, she was the daughter of Muriel H. and Paul Gotteil, an executive with the Cunard Line in New York. She graduated from the Calhoun School in New York, delivering the valedictory speech in 1916...
  
  , class of 1920 - children's writer
• Mary McCarthy
  Mary McCarthy (author)
  Mary Therese McCarthy was an American author, critic and political activist.- Early life :Born in Seattle, Washington, to Roy Winfield McCarthy and his wife, the former Therese Preston, McCarthy was orphaned at the age of six when both her parents died in the great flu epidemic of 1918...
  
  , class of 1933 - novelist, critic
• Elizabeth Bishop
  Elizabeth Bishop
  Elizabeth Bishop was an American poet and short-story writer. She was the Poet Laureate of the United States from 1949 to 1950, a Pulitzer Prize winner in 1956 and a National Book Award Winner for Poetry in 1970. Elizabeth Bishop House is an artists' retreat in Great Village, Nova Scotia...
  
  , class of 1934 - Poet Laureate of the United States
  Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress
  The Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress—commonly referred to as the United States Poet Laureate—serves as the nation's official poet. During his or her term, the Poet Laureate seeks to raise the national consciousness to a greater appreciation of the reading and writing of...
  
   from 1949 to 1950
• Barbara McMartin
  Barbara McMartin
  Barbara McMartin was an American mathematician who became an environmentalist and author of books on the Adirondack Mountains.-Life:...
  
  , class of 1964 - Adirondack
  Adirondack Mountains
  The Adirondack Mountains are a mountain range located in the northeastern part of New York, that runs through Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer, Lewis, Saint Lawrence, Saratoga, Warren, and Washington counties....
  
   author
• Jane Smiley
  Jane Smiley
  Jane Smiley is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist.-Biography: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 an A.B. at Vassar College, then earned an M.F.A. and Ph.D. from the...
  
  , class of 1971 - Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist
• Judith Regan
  Judith Regan
  Judith Regan is an American editor, producer, book publisher and television and radio talk show host. She is the mother of a son and a daughter and lives in New York City and Los Angeles.-Early life:...
  
  , class of 1975 - controversial publisher
• Lucette Lagnado
  Lucette Lagnado
  Lucette Lagnado is an American journalist and memoirist. She is a reporter for the Wall Street Journal.Lagnado attended P.S. 205 in Bensonhurst, New York City, and is a graduate of Vassar College...
  
  , class of 1977 - journalist and novelist
• Michael Specter
  Michael Specter
  Michael Specter is an American journalist who has been a staff writer, focusing on science and technology, and global public health at The New Yorker since September 1998...
  
  , class of 1977 - Award-winning journalist for The New Yorker
  The New Yorker
  The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast...
  
   and The New York Times
  The New York Times
  The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
  
  
• Nunzio DeFilippis
  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...
  
  , class of 1991, and Christina Weir
  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....
  
  , class of 1992 - husband and wife comic book writing team
• Joe Hill
  Joe Hill (writer)
  Joseph Hillstrom King , better known by the pen name Joe Hill, is an American author and comic book writer. He has published two novels—Heart Shaped Box and Horns—and a collection of short stories entitled 20th Century Ghosts. He is also the author of the graphic novel series Locke & Key...
  
  , class of 1995 - novelist, Heart-Shaped Box (novel)
  Heart-Shaped Box (novel)
  Heart-Shaped Box is the debut horror novel of author Joe Hill.-Synopsis:Aging rock star Judas Coyne spends his retirement collecting morbid memorabillia such as a witch's confession, a real snuff film and, after being sent an e-mail directly about the item online, a dead man's suit. He is told, by...
  
  
• Jesse Ball
  Jesse Ball
  Jesse Ball is an American poet and novelist. He has published novels, volumes of poetry, short prose, and drawings.-Education and Early Interests:...
  
  , class of 2000 - poet and author
• Jean Webster
  Jean Webster
  Jean Webster was an American writer and author of many books including Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy...
  
  , class of 1901 - author of Daddy Long Legs
• Charlotte Curtis
  Charlotte Curtis
  Charlotte Murray Curtis was the first female journalist to head the New York Times. She was born in 1928 in Columbus, Ohio, attended Vassar College, and died of cancer in 1987. She was married to William E...
  
  , class of 1950 - New York Times editor
• Neil Strauss
  Neil Strauss
  Neil Darrow Strauss , also known by the pen names Style and Chris Powles, is an American and Kittitian author, journalist and ghostwriter...
  
  
• M.J. Alexander
  M.J. Alexander
  M.J. Alexander is a writer and photographer who documents people and places of the American West, with an emphasis on the very young, the very old, and American Indian culture....
  
  
• Thomas Beller
  Thomas Beller
  Thomas Beller is an American author and editor.- Life :Born and raised in New York, Beller has remained a resident of his native city, which often features in his stories. He is the son of documentary filmmaker Hava Kohav Beller...
  
  
• Tina Campt
  Tina Campt
  Tina Campt is Associate Professor Women's Studies at Barnard University.Campt was educated at Vassar College, gaining a BA in 1986. She then attended Cornell University in 1990 gaining her MA in 1990 and her PhD in 1996....
  
  
• Katherine Center
  Katherine Center
  Katherine Sherar Pannill Center is a contemporary American fiction author.-Early life and education:Center graduated from St. John's School in Houston, Texas, and from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY. She won the Vassar College Fiction Prize while a student. She received her M.A. in fiction...
  
  
• Megan Crane
• Meghan Daum
  Meghan Daum
  Meghan Daum is an American author, essayist, and journalist. Although she was born in California, Daum grew up primarily in Ridgewood, New Jersey. She received her bachelor's degree from Vassar College and her Master of Fine Arts degree from Columbia University.Daum spent much of her twenties in...
  
  
• Geri Doran
  Geri Doran
  Geri Doran was born in Kalispell, Montana in 1966. Doran has attended Vassar College, the University of Cambridge, the University of Florida , and Stanford University, where she held a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Poetry...
  
  , award-winning poet
• Aimee Friedman
  Aimee Friedman
  Aimee Friedman is the author of several young adult novels published by Scholastic Inc., and S&S. Her novels South Beach , French Kiss , and Hollywood Hills and also The Year My Sister Got Lucky focus on the scandalous adventures of on-again, off-again best friends Holly Jacobson and Alexa St....
  
  
• Matthew Kauffman
  Matthew Kauffman
  Matthew Kauffman is an American investigative journalist and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist.From a very young age, Kauffman was fascinated with journalism, earning him a job at his local newspaper. In 1979, Matthew attended Vassar College, where he reported for the College Newspaper...
  
  , Hartford Courant journalist
• Eric Marcus
  Eric Marcus
  Eric Marcus is an American non-fiction writer. His works are primarily of LGBT interest, including Breaking the Surface, the autobiography of gay Olympic diving champion Greg Louganis, which became a #1 New York Times Bestseller and Making History: The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights,...
  
  
• Andrew J. Porter
  Andrew J. Porter
  Andrew J. Porter is an American short story writer.-Life:Andrew Porter graduated from Vassar College, and the Iowa Writers' Workshop....
  
  
• Greg Rucka
  Greg Rucka
  Gregory "Greg" Rucka is an American comic book writer and novelist, known for his work on such comics as Action Comics, Batwoman: Detective Comics, and the miniseries Superman: World of New Krypton for DC Comics, and for novels such as his Queen & Country series.-Career:Rucka's writing career...
  
  
• Rachel Simmons
  Rachel Simmons
  Rachel Simmons, born August 10, 1974, is an American author of the book Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls published in 2002. -Background:...
  
  
• Leonard Steinhorn
  Leonard Steinhorn
  Leonard Steinhorn is an American author, specialist in American politics and culture, and professor of communication at American University....
  
  
• Owen King
  Owen King
  Owen Philip King is an American author and the youngest son of authors Stephen and Tabitha King. He has two older siblings, Naomi King and Joseph Hillstrom King, and grew up in Bangor, Maine...
  
  
• Jane Kramer
  Jane Kramer
  Jane Kramer is an American journalist who is the European correspondent for The New Yorker; she has written a regular "Letter from Europe" for twenty years. Kramer has also written nine books, the latest of which, Lone Patriot , is about a militia in the American West...
  
  

Attended, but did not graduate

• Anthony Bourdain
  Anthony Bourdain
  Anthony Michael "Tony" Bourdain is an American chef, author and television personality. He is well known for his 2000 book Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, and is the host of Travel Channel's culinary and cultural adventure program Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations.A...
  
   (graduated from The Culinary Institute of America), chef, writer
• Janet Cooke
  Janet Cooke
  Janet Leslie Cooke is an American former journalist who became infamous when it was discovered that a Pulitzer Prize–winning story that she had written for The Washington Post had been fabricated.-Early career:...
  
  , journalist (claimed to have had a degree but did not)
• Mike D (Michael Diamond), rapper (Beastie Boys
  Beastie Boys
  Beastie Boys are an American hip hop trio from New York City. The group consists of Mike D who plays the drums, MCA who plays the bass, and Ad-Rock who plays the guitar....
  
  )
• Jane Fonda
  Jane Fonda
  Jane Fonda is an American actress, writer, political activist, former fashion model, and fitness guru. She rose to fame in the 1960s with films such as Barbarella and Cat Ballou. She has won two Academy Awards and received several other movie awards and nominations during more than 50 years as an...
  
   (graduated from The Actors Studio
  Actors Studio
  The Actors Studio is a membership organization for professional actors, theatre directors and playwrights at 432 West 44th Street in the Clinton neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded October 5, 1947, by Elia Kazan, Cheryl Crawford, Robert Lewis and Anna Sokolow who provided...
  
  ), actress
• Katharine Graham
  Katharine Graham
  Katharine Meyer Graham 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...
  
   (graduated from the University of Chicago
  University of Chicago
  The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...
  
  ), publisher of The Washington Post
  The Washington Post
  The Washington Post is Washington, D.C.'s largest newspaper and its oldest still-existing paper, founded in 1877. Located in the capital of the United States, The Post has a particular emphasis on national politics. D.C., Maryland, and Virginia editions are printed for daily circulation...
  
  
• Anne Hathaway
  Anne Hathaway (actress)
  Anne Jacqueline Hathaway is an American actress. After several stage roles, she appeared in the 1999 television series Get Real. She played Mia Thermopolis in The Princess Diaries...
  
   (graduated New York University
  New York University
  New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
  
  ), actress
• Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
  Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
  Jacqueline Lee Bouvier "Jackie" Kennedy Onassis was the wife of the 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, and served as First Lady of the United States during his presidency from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. Five years later she married Greek shipping magnate Aristotle...
  
   (graduated from George Washington University
  George Washington University
  The George Washington University is a private, coeducational comprehensive university located in Washington, D.C. in the United States...
  
  ), First Lady
  First Lady
  First Lady or First Gentlemanis the unofficial title used in some countries for the spouse of an elected head of state.It is not normally used to refer to the spouse or partner of a prime minister; the husband or wife of the British Prime Minister is usually informally referred to as prime...
  
  
• Curtis Sittenfeld
  Curtis Sittenfeld
  Elizabeth Curtis Sittenfeld is an American writer. She is author of three novels: Prep, the tale of a Massachusetts prep school, The Man of My Dreams, a coming-of-age novel and an examination of romantic love, and American Wife, a fictional story loosely based on the life of First Lady Laura...
  
   (graduated from Stanford University
  Stanford University
  The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
  
  ), author
• Neil Strauss
  Neil Strauss
  Neil Darrow Strauss , also known by the pen names Style and Chris Powles, is an American and Kittitian author, journalist and ghostwriter...
  
   (graduated from Columbia College), author and journalist
• Rachael Yamagata
  Rachael Yamagata
  Rachael Yamagata is an American singer-songwriter and pianist from Arlington, Virginia. She began her musical career with the band Bumpus before becoming a solo artist and releasing four EP's and three studio albums...
  
   (graduated from Northwestern University
  Northwestern University
  Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....
  
  ), singer

Fictional

• Cricket Feldstein: ACLU attorney in Hamlet II played by Amy Poehler
  Amy Poehler
  Amy Meredith Poehler is an American comedian, actress and voice actress. She was a cast member on the NBC television entertainment show Saturday Night Live from 2001 to 2008. In 2004, she starred in the film Mean Girls with Tina Fey, with whom she worked again in Baby Mama in 2008. She is...
  
   (French degree)
• Daphne, fictional cross-dressed character played by Jack Lemon in "Some Like It Hot
  Some Like It Hot
  Some Like It Hot is an American comedy film, made in 1958 and released in 1959, which was directed by Billy Wilder and starred Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon and George Raft. The supporting cast includes Joe E. Brown, Pat O'Brien and Nehemiah Persoff. The film is a remake by Wilder and I....
  
  "
• Betty Ann Fitzgerald: Auditor in Woodie Allen's The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
  The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
  The Curse of the Jade Scorpion is a 2001 American film written, directed by, and starring Woody Allen. The cast also features Dan Aykroyd, Elizabeth Berkley, Helen Hunt, John Schuck, Wallace Shawn, David Ogden Stiers, and Charlize Theron. The plot concerns an insurance investigator and an...
  
   played by Helen Hunt
  Helen Hunt
  Helen Elizabeth Hunt is an American actress, film director, and screenwriter. She starred in the sitcom Mad About You for seven years, before being cast in the romantic comedy As Good as It Gets...
  
   (Alumna)
• Martin Geldhart: Vassar professor of landscape architecture in The Substance of Fire
  The Substance of Fire
  The Substance of Fire is a play by Jon Robin Baitz.At its core is Isaac Geldhart, a childhood survivor of the Holocaust, who arrived in New York City an orphan, reinvented himself as a bon vivant, married well, and found fame and fortune as a champion of authors who are passionate about their work...
  
  
• Holly Goodhead
  Holly Goodhead
  Dr. Holly Goodhead is a fictional character from the James Bond franchise, portrayed by Lois Chiles. She does not appear in any of the novels, solely appearing in the film version of Moonraker. However, her character is somewhat similar to Gala Brand, who is the female lead character in the...
  
  , fictional character from Moonraker
  Moonraker
  Moonraker is the third novel by British author Ian Fleming featuring the fictional British Secret Service agent Commander James Bond. The book was first published by Jonathan Cape on 5 April 1955, bearing a cover based on Fleming's own concept...
  
  
• Miss Jane Hathaway, fictional character in "The Beverly Hillbillies
  The Beverly Hillbillies
  The Beverly Hillbillies is an American situation comedy originally broadcast for nine seasons on CBS from 1962 to 1971, starring Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, and Max Baer, Jr....
  
  "
• Three Vassar Girls Abroad: Book series by Elizabeth Williams Champney
  Elizabeth Williams Champney
  Elizabeth "Lizzie" Williams Champney was an American author of numerous articles and novels, most of which focused on foreign locations...
  
   about Maud Van Vechten, Barbara Atchison and Cecilia Boylston (Current students).
• Georgina Tuskin: Character in Susanna Kaysen's memoir Girl, Interrupted
  Girl, Interrupted
  Girl, Interrupted is a best-selling 1993 memoir by American author Susanna Kaysen, relating her experiences as a young woman in a psychiatric hospital in the 1960s after being diagnosed with borderline personality disorder...
  
  .

Music Department

• Gustav Dannreuther
  Gustav Dannreuther
  Gustav Dannreuther was a violinist and conductor from Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1871, at the age of 18, he was sent to the Berlin University of the Arts, where he studied violin under Heinrich De Ahna, famed violinist Joseph Joachim , and Heitel .He left the school in 1874, spent six months in Paris,...
  
  
• Karen Holvik
  Karen Holvik
  Karen Holvik is a classical soprano. She is the daughter of Karl Holvik , clarinetist and conductor, who was Professor of Music at the University of Northern Iowa between 1947 and 1984, and Martha Holvik , violinist, violist, pianist and soprano, who also taught at UNI and founded the UNI Suzuki...
  
  
• Ernst Krenek
  Ernst Krenek
  Ernst Krenek was an Austrian of Czech origin and, from 1945, American composer. He explored atonality and other modern styles and wrote a number of books, including Music Here and Now , a study of Johannes Ockeghem , and Horizons Circled: Reflections on my Music...
  
  
• Annea Lockwood
  Annea Lockwood
  Annea Lockwood is a New Zealand born American composer. She taught electronic music at Vassar College. Her work often involves recordings of natural found sounds...
  
  
• Harold Meltzer
  Harold Meltzer
  -Life:He grew up in Long Island.After graduating from Amherst College, summa cum laude, he studied law at Columbia University and worked for the firm of Patterson Belknap in New York City. He later earned degrees in music at King's College, Cambridge and the Yale School of Music.In 2009 his...
  
  
• Quincy Porter
  Quincy Porter
  Quincy Porter was an American composer and teacher of classical music.Born in New Haven, Connecticut, he went to Yale University where his teachers included Horatio Parker and David Stanley Smith. Porter received two awards while studying music at Yale: the Osborne Prize for Fugue, and the...
  
  
• Richard Wilson
  Richard Edward Wilson
  Richard Edward Wilson is an American composer of orchestral, operatic, instrumental, and chamber music. Wilson was born in Cleveland, Ohio, where he was at a young age drawn to the concerts of George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra...
  
  

Philosophy Department

• Giovanna Borradori
  Giovanna Borradori
  Giovanna Borradori is Professor of Philosophy at Vassar College. She has lived in the United States since 1989. Borradori is a specialist of Continental philosophy, Aesthetics, and the philosophy of terrorism...
  
  
• David Kelley
  David Kelley
  David Kelley is an American philosopher, author, and advocate of Objectivism. He is founder and senior fellow of The Atlas Society. He lives in Washington, D.C..-Education and career:...
  
  
• Mitchell Miller
  Mitchell Miller
  Mitchell H. Miller, Jr. is a professor of Philosophy at Vassar College. The majority of his work concerns the late dialogues of Plato, but he has also written on Hesiod, Parmenides, and Hegel.-Career:...
  
  
• Uma Narayan
  Uma Narayan
  Uma Narayan is a feminist scholar, and Chair of Philosophy at Vassar College. She is the author of Dislocating Cultures: Identities, Traditions and Third World Feminism in which Narayan disputes feminism as a solely Western notion, while challenging assumptions that East Indian feminism is based...
  
  
• Margaret Floy Washburn
  Margaret Floy Washburn
  'Margaret Floy Washburn , leading American psychologist in the early 20th century, was best known for her experimental work in animal behavior and motor theory development...
  
  

English Department

• Donald Foster
• Eamon Grennan
  Eamon Grennan
  Eamon Grennan is an Irish poet born in Dublin. He has lived in the United States, except for brief periods, since 1964. He was the Dexter M. Ferry, Jr. Professor of English at Vassar College until his retirement in 2004....
  
  
• Michael Joyce
• Gabriela Mistral
  Gabriela Mistral
  Gabriela Mistral was the pseudonym of Lucila de María del Perpetuo Socorro Godoy Alcayaga, a Chilean poet, educator, diplomat, and feminist who was the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1945...
  
  

Other Departments

• Jean Arthur
  Jean Arthur
  Jean Arthur was an American actress and a major film star of the 1930s and 1940s. She remains arguably the epitome of the female screwball comedy actress. As James Harvey wrote in his recounting of the era, "No one was more closely identified with the screwball comedy than Jean Arthur...
  
  , Theater
• Liza Donnelly
  Liza Donnelly
  Liza Donnelly is an American cartoonist, best known for her work in The New Yorker.She sold her first cartoon to The New Yorker in 1979, and they began to appear regularly in that magazine in 1982, at which time she was the youngest, and one of only three women cartoonists at the magazine...
  
  , New Yorker
  The New Yorker
  The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast...
  
   staff cartoonist; American Culture and Women's Studies
• Hallie Flanagan
  Hallie Flanagan
  Hallie Flanagan was an American theatrical producer and director, playwright, and author, best known as director of the Federal Theatre Project, a part of the Works Progress Administration .-Background:...
  
  , Theater
• Grace Hopper
  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 computer, and developed the first compiler for a computer programming language...
  
  , Mathematics
• Abby Leach
  Abby Leach
  Abby Leach was a Professor of Greek and Latin at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York from 1883 until her death.She was one of the first female students at Harvard University, enrolling in a "Plan for Private Collegiate Instruction of Women" upon its establishment in 1879 at her behest. The...
  
  , Greek
• Margaret Mead
  Margaret Mead
  Margaret Mead was an American cultural anthropologist, who was frequently a featured writer and speaker in the mass media throughout the 1960s and 1970s....
  
  , Visiting lecturer, Anthropology
• Maria Mitchell
  Maria Mitchell
  Maria Mitchell was an American astronomer, who in 1847, by using a telescope, discovered a comet which as a result became known as the "Miss Mitchell's Comet". She won a gold medal prize for her discovery which was presented to her by King Frederick VII of Denmark. The medal said “Not in vain do...
  
  , Physics and Astronomy
• Linda Nochlin
  Linda Nochlin
  Linda Nochlin is an American art historian, university professor and writer. She is considered to be a leader in feminist art history studies. She is best known as a proponent of the question "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?"...
  
  , Art History
• Colin Turnbull
  Colin Turnbull
  Colin Macmillan Turnbull was a British-American anthropologist who came to public attention with the popular books The Forest People and The Mountain People , and one of the first anthropologists to work in the field of ethnomusicology.-Early life:Turnbull was born in London and...
  
  , Visiting lecturer, Anthropology