List of Miss Porter's School alumnae
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The following is a list of notable Ancients (alumnae) from Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Connecticut.
- Eliza Talcott – attended in the 1850s; founder of Kobe College[1]
1870s
- Grace Hoadley Dodge (1873) – established Columbia University Teachers’ College[2][3]
- Nellie Grant (1873) – daughter of U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant and First Lady Julia Grant[4]
- Mary Knight Wood (1875) – pianist, music educator and composer[5]
- Julia Lathrop (1876) – first woman to head a government agency in the United States
1880s
- Helen Gilman Noyes Brown (1881) – philanthropist[citation needed]
- Edith Hamilton (1886) – Greek mythology scholar; sister of Alice Hamilton[6]
- Alice Hamilton (1888) – first female faculty member of the Harvard Medical School; founder of the field of industrial medicine[6]
- Theodate Pope Riddle (1888) – architect and philanthropist; architect and founder of Avon Old Farms School; architect of Westover School[7]
1890s
- Madeline McDowell Breckinridge (1890) – a leader of the women's suffrage movement, a leading Progressive reformer, and great-granddaughter of Henry Clay[8]
- 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[citation needed]
1910s
- Edith Roelker Curtis (1912) – author, historian, and diarist
- Dorothy Keeley Aldis (1914) – children's author and poet
- Emily Hale (1916) – speech and drama teacher, and muse of T.S. Eliot[9]
1920s
1930s
- Barbara Hutton (1930) – socialite, dubbed "Poor Little Rich Girl"[10]
- Gloria Vanderbilt – artist, writer, actress, fashion designer, heiress, and socialite[10]
- Edith Bouvier Beale (1935) – socialite; cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis; subject of the documentary film Grey Gardens[10]
- Anne Cox Chambers (1938) – U.S. Ambassador to Belgium during the Carter administration[11]
- Gene Tierney (1938) – Academy Award-nominated actress[10][12]
- Brenda Frazier (1939) – socialite[10]
1940s
- Polly Allen Mellen (1942) – editor of Vogue magazine
- Dina Merrill (née Nedenia Hutton) (1943) – actress and American socialite
- Letitia Baldrige Hollensteiner (1943) – author and social secretary to Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy[12][13]
- Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis (1947) – former First Lady of the United States[12][14]
- Patience Cleveland (1948) – actress and published author[citation needed]
- Lilly Pulitzer (née Lillian Lee McKim) (1949) – fashion designer and American socialite[12]
1950s
- Lee Radziwill (née Bouvier) (1950) – public relations executive for Giorgio Armani, author, and younger sister of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis[12]
- 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) – 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[19]
- Agnes Gund (1956) – president emerita of the Museum of Modern Art and 1997 recipient of the National Medal of Arts[20][21]
1960s
- Mimi Alford (1961) – former White House intern who wrote a book about her affair with John F. Kennedy[22][23]
- Sheila Ford Hamp (1969) – owner of the Detroit Lions[24]
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) – writer[25]
1980s
- Susannah Grant (1980) – director and Academy Award-nominated screenwriter for Erin Brockovich[26]
- Gregg Renfrew (1986) – entrepreneur and founder of Beautycounter[citation needed]
- Mary Anne Amirthi Mohanraj (1989) – writer and editor[citation needed]
1990s
- Chrishaunda Lee (1994) – niece of Oprah Winfrey and hostess of PBS programming[27]