List of Miss Porter's School alumnae 1870s

 Grace Hoadley Dodge (1873) - established Columbia University Teachers’ College[1][2]  Nellie Grant (1873) – daughter of U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant and First Lady Julia Grant[3]  Mary Knight Wood (1875) – American pianist, music educator and composer[4]  Julia Lathrop (1876) – the first woman ever to head a government agency in the United States 1880s

 Edith Hamilton (1886) – Greek Mythology scholar and sister of [5]  Alice Hamilton (1888) – first female faculty member of Harvard Medical School, founder of the field of industrial medicine[5]  Theodate Pope Riddle (1888) – architect and founder of and Westover School 1890s

 Madeline McDowell Breckinridge (1890) – a leader of the women's suffrage movement, a leading Progressive reformer, and granddaughter of Henry Clay[6]  Ruth Hanna McCormick (1897) – member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois and the first woman to run for the U.S. Senate  Princess Anastasia of Greece and Denmark-(née Nonie May Stewart) American born-wife of Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmark,the son of King George I of Greece [7] 1910s

 Edith Roelker Curtis (1912) – author, historian, and diarist  Dorothy Keeley Aldis (1914) – American children's author and poet 1920s

 Helen Coley Nauts (1925) – founder of the Cancer Research Institute[8][9]  Isabel Morrell Beadleston (1928) – American socialite and wife of politician Alfred N. Beadleston 1930s

 Barbara Hutton (1930) – American socialite, dubbed "Poor Little Rich Girl"  Gloria Vanderbilt American artist, author, actress, fashion designer, heiress, and socialite.  Edith (1935) – American socialite, cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and subject of the documentary film  Anne Cox Chambers (1938) – U.S. Ambassador to Belgium during the Carter administration[10]  Gene Tierney (1938) – Academy Award-nominated actress 1

 Brenda Frazier (1939) – American socialite 1940s

 Polly Allen Mellen (1942) – editor of Vogue magazine  Dina Merrill (née Nedenia Hutton) (1943) – actress and American socialite  Hollensteiner (1943) – author and social secretary to Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy  Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis (1947) – former First Lady of the United States]  Patience Cleveland (1948) – American actress and published author  Lilly Pulitzer (née Lillian Lee McKim) (1949) – fashion designer and American socialite] 1950s

(née Bouvier) (1950) – public relations executive for Giorgio Armani, author, and younger sister of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis  Elizabeth Cushman Titus Putnam (1951) – founding president of the Student Conservation Association (SCA) and recipient of the Presidential Citizens Medal[15][16][17]  Laura Rockefeller Chasin (1954) – American socialite  Elise Ravenel Wood du Pont (1954) – former First Lady of Delaware and 1984 Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives[18]  Barbara Babcock (1955) – Emmy-award-winning actress for Hill Street Blues  Pema Chödrön (formerly Deirdre Blomfield-Brown) (1955) – Buddhist nun and author; resident director of Gampo Abbey  Edith Kunhardt Davis (1955) – children's author and illustrator, daughter of Dorothy Kunhardt  Agnes Gund (1956) – President Emerita of the Museum of Modern Art and 1997 recipient of the National Medal of Arts from President Bill Clinton, she was nominated by President Barack Obama as a member of the Board of Trustees of the National Council on the Arts in 2011 1960s

 Mimi Alford (1961) – former White House intern who wrote a book about her affair with John F. Kennedy 1970s

 Elizabeth May (1972) – the first elected Green Party Member of Parliament in Canada and leader of the Green Party of Canada  Dorothy Bush Koch (1977) – philanthropist and member of the Bush political family  Sarah Ludlow Blake (1978) – American writer[26]

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1980s

 Susannah Grant (1980) – director and Academy Award-nominated screenwriter for Erin Brockovich[27]  Ariane de Vogue (1984) -- CNN reporter and commentator[28]  R. Erica Doyle (1985) -- educator and noted poet[29]  Pippa Tubman Armerding (1986) -- Director of Africa Research Office, Harvard Business School[30]  Gregg Renfrew (1986) -- entrepreneur and founder of Beautycounter  Lisette Bross (1989) -- Chief Strategic Officer at Radar Pictures[31]  Mary Anne Amirthi Mohanraj (1989) – American writer and editor 1990s

 Katherine Collins Pope (1990) – president of television at Chernin Entertainment, formerly president of Universal Media Studios, and executive producer of such television series as New Girl, Touch, and Ben & Kate[32][33]  Kate Bennett (1993) -- CNN White House reporter assigned to Melania Trump[34]  Chrishaunda Lee (1994) – niece of Oprah Winfrey and hostess of the PBS program Animal Attractions Television 2000s

 Mamie Gummer (2001) – actress and daughter of actress Meryl Streep  Hayley Petit (2007) – victim of the Cheshire, , home invasion murders[ Fictional Alumnae

 In the 2003 drama Mona Lisa Smile, Joan Brandwyn's (played by Julia Stiles) student file reveals that she attended Miss Porter's School, though the film incorrectly locates it in Pennsylvania. References

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