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- Elizabeth Hazleton Haight (1894), notable feminist and Classics scholar
- Anita Florence Hemmings (1897), their first graduate of African ancestry
- Edith Clarke (1908), the first female Electrical Engineer
- Ruth Starr Rose (1910), artist
- Edna St. Vincent Millay (1917), poet
- Mary Calderone (1925), physician, public health advocate and "mother of sex education"
- Grace Hopper (1928), computer pioneer
- Mary McCarthy (1933), critic and novelist
- Elizabeth Bishop (1934), poet
- Carol F. Jopling (1938), anthropologist, Librarian, and chief librarian of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
- Frances Scott Fitzgerald (1942), writer and journalist
- Beatrix Hamburg (1944), physician
- Virginia Seay (1944), composer and musicologist
- Frances Farenthold (1946), politician and activist
- Vera Rubin (1948), astrophysicist
- Linda Nochlin (1951), Art Historian
- Lois Haibt (1955), member of FORTRAN development team
- Nina Zagat (1963), Zagat Survey co-founder
- Bernadine P. Healy (1965), physician and National Institutes of Health director
- Lucinda Cisler (1965), feminist and abortion rights activist
- Geraldine Laybourne (1969), Nickelodeon President and Oxygen Media founder and CEO
- Linda Fairstein (1969), author and prosecutor
- Rebecca Eaton (1969), Emmy award-winning executive producer of Masterpiece on PBS
- Meryl Streep (1971), three-time Academy Award winner actress
- Jane Smiley (1971), Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction writer
- Michael Wolff (1975), author and journalist
- Richard L. Huganir (1975), Neuroscientist and Director of Johns Hopkins Medicine Brain Science Institute
- Chip Reid (1977), CBS News Chief White House Correspondent
- Jeffrey Goldstein (1977), former World Bank CFO and Undersecretary of the Treasury for Domestic Finance
- Michael Specter (1977), The New Yorker magazine science writer
- Jamshed Bharucha (1978), Cooper Union President
- Phil Griffin (1979), MSNBC President
- John Carlstrom (1981), astrophysicist and MacArthur Award Fellow
- Pamela Mars-Wright, (1982), former board chairman of Mars Inc.
- Philip Jefferson (1983), economist and Federal Reserve Board Governor
- Mark Burstein (1984), President of Lawrence University of Wisconsin
- Ada Ferrer (1984), Pulitzer Prize-winning historian
- Sherrilyn Ifill (1984), Seventh President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Lisa Kudrow (1985), actress
- Hope Davis (1986), actress
- Evan Wright (1988), journalist
- Jonathan Karl (1990), ABC News Chief White House Correspondent
- Jeffrey Brenner (1990), physician and MacArthur Award Fellow
- John Gatins (1990), Oscar-nominated Screenwriter
- Noah Baumbach (1991), writer-director
- Jason Blum (1991), Emmy-winning and Oscar-nominated film and television producer
- Caterina Fake (1991), Flickr founder
- Elisabeth Murdoch (1992), Shine Limited CEO and Chairman
- Jon Fisher (1994), author
- Katherine Center (1994), novelist
- Joe Hill (1995), novelist
- Jessi Klein (1997), Emmy Award-winning comedy writer-producer
- Jesse Ball (2000), writer
- Alexandra Berzon (2001), Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and Wall Street Journal reporter
- Shaka King (2001), film director, screenwriter, and producer
- Victoria Legrand (2003), musician and songwriter
- Greg Russo (2003), screenwriter of Mortal Kombat
- Jonás Cuarón (2005), screenwriter and director
- Sasha Velour (2009), winner of RuPaul's Drag Race Season 9
- Lilli Cooper (2012), Tony Award-nominated actress
- Ethan Slater (2014), Tony Award-nominated actor
- Raph Korine (2017), runner-up of Big Brother 18 (UK)
- Olivia Newman, an American film director and screenwriter
