List of Bryn Mawr College people

The following is a list of individuals associated with Bryn Mawr College through attending as a student, or serving as a member of the faculty or staff.

Presidents

The following persons served as president of Bryn Mawr College:

Notable alumni

Notable faculty and administrators

• Gerald M. Ackerman, art historian, lecturer in art history (1959–1965)
• Constance Applebee, director of athletics (1904–1928); brought field hockey to the United States from Britain and established women's lacrosse as a collegiate sport
• Asoka Bandarage
• Florence Bascom, petrologist, founder of Bryn Mawr's Geology Department
• Marland Pratt Billings, structural geologist
• Rhys Carpenter, Classical Archaeology (1889–1980)
• Kimberly Wright Cassidy (born c. 1963), Psychology, ninth president of Bryn Mawr College
• Catherine Conybeare, professor of Classics
• Arthur C. Cope, chemist, developer of the Cope rearrangement and the Cope elimination, namesake of the Arthur C. Cope Award of the American Chemical Society (1934–1941)
• Maria Luisa Crawford, Geology, MacArthur Genius Grant recipient
• Donald Drew Egbert, Lecturer of Ancient Architecture (1930)
• Louis Fieser, chemist, developer of synthetic napalm, researcher of vitamin K (1925–1930)
• Michelle Francl, computational chemistry
• Alice M. Hoffman, labor and oral historian
• Howard S. Hoffman, Psychology (1925–2006), behavioral neuroscientist, leading scholar of the startle reflex and social attachment
• Louise Holland, academic, philologist and archaeologist
• Amy Kelly, headmistress, historian and best-selling author
• Susan Myra Kingsbury, historical economist and social researcher; director of the Social Economy and Social Research department
• Karl Kirchwey (born 1956), poet, associate professor from 2000 to present
• Frederica de Laguna, anthropologist and founder of Bryn Mawr's anthropology department (1906–2004)
• Mabel Lang, Greek (1943–1988); received her Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr in 1943
• Agathe Lasch, Germanic philologist (associate professor, 1910–16)
• Richmond Lattimore, Greek (1935–1971)
• Bettina Linn (1905–1962), English professor from 1934 to 1962; novelist
• Helen Taft Manning, History (1917–1957), also served as dean
• Berthe Marti, Latin and French (1930–1963)
• Cornelia Meigs, English (1932–1950)
• Agnes Kirsopp Lake Michels, Latin (1934–1975)
• José Ferrater Mora, Philosophy (1949–1980)
• Thomas Hunt Morgan, geneticist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine (1866–1946)
• Emmy Noether, Mathematics (1933–1935)
• Jane M. Oppenheimer, Embryology and History of Science (1938–1980)
• John Oxtoby, Mathematics (1939–1979)
• Arthur Lindo Patterson, founder of the Patterson function used in X-ray crystallography (1936–1949)
• Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway, Archeology (1958–1994)
• Charlotte Scott, Mathematics (1885–1917)
• Hilda Worthington Smith, labor educator, social worker, and poet (1888–1984)
• Lily Ross Taylor, Latin (1927–1942), dean of the Graduate School (1942–52)
• M. Carey Thomas, English, dean of the college (1884–1908), president (1894–1922)
• Edward Warburg (1908–1992), taught Modern Art
• Harold Wethey, art historian
• Woodrow Wilson (1885–1888)

Fictional alumni

• Pamela Abbott (A.B.), Inventing the Abbotts (1997), played by Liv Tyler
• C.C. Babcock, The Nanny (1993), played by Lauren Lane
• Erica Barry (A.B.), Something's Gotta Give lead character, played by Diane Keaton
• Amanda Bonner (A.B.), Adam's Rib (1949), played by Katharine Hepburn
• Betty Draper (A.B. in Anthropology), Mad Men (2007), played by January Jones
• Nancy Drew & Carolyn Keene, Confessions of a Teen Sleuth (book published in 2005)
• Jinx (A.B.) (1980s), a.k.a. Kim Arashikage (fictional character in the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero toy line)
• Allison R. Hart-Burnett (A.B.) (1980s), Lady Jaye (fictional character in the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero toy line)
• Edna Krabappel (M.A.), The Simpsons teacher
• Miriam "Midge" Maisel (B.A. in Russian Literature), The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017), played by Rachel Brosnahan
• Vivian Schuyler (B.A.), The Secret Life of Violet Grant by Beatriz Williams
• Corinthians (A.B.), Song of Solomon (book published 1977)

References