List of alumni of Girton College, Cambridge

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This is a list of alumni of Girton College, Cambridge.

Margrethe II of Denmark
Elizabeth Symons, Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean, British peer
Sandi Toksvig, comedian and author
Hisako, Princess Takamado, member of the Japanese Imperial Family
Dina bint 'Abdu'l-Hamid, Queen consort of Jordan
Name Birth Death Career
Margaret Alford 1868 1951 Classical scholar
Adelaide Anderson 1863 1936 Labour activist
Mary Arden 1947 Lord Justice of Appeal
Hertha Marks Ayrton 1854 1923 Electrical engineer
Janet Ruth Bacon 1891 1965 Principal, Royal Holloway College, University of London 1935-44
Sally Beauman 1944 2016 Author
Florence Bell 1913 2000 Scientist, first X-ray diffraction photograph of DNA
Mary Berry 1917 2008 Conductor
Dina bint 'Abdu'l-Hamid 1929 Queen consort of Jordan
Ann Bishop 1899 1990 Protozoologist
Alistair Brownlee 1988 Triathlete (left to study at University of Leeds)
Agnata Frances Butler née Ramsey 1867 1931 Only first in 1887 Classics Tripos, honoured in Punch (magazine) cartoon 'Ladies Only'
Margaret Canovan 1939 Professor of political theory
Anthony Carrigan 1980 2016 Scholar in postcolonial literature and cultures
Janet Elizabeth Case 1863 1937 British classics teacher and journalist
Wendy R. Childs 1943 Professor of Later Medieval History at the University of Leeds
Patricia Clarke 1919 2010 Professor of microbial biochemistry
Vicky Clement-Jones 1948 1987 Physician
Tina Cooper 1918 1986 Paediatrician
Isabel Cooper-Oakley 1854 1914 Theosophical writer
Elizabeth Dawes 1865 1954 Classical scholar, educational reformer, first woman to receive a DLitt degree from the University of London
Mary Clara Dawes 1862 ? Classical scholar, first woman to receive an MA degree from the University of London (in 1884)
Delia Derbyshire 1937 2001 Musician, composer
Athene Donald 1953 Physicist
Tom Fordyce BBC Sports journalist
Jane Fraser 1967 President of Citigroup
George Freeman MP 1967 British politician
Zahra Freeth 1925 2015 Author on Middle Eastern topics [1]
Jane Grenville 1958 British archaeologist and academic
Brenda Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond 1945 Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
Phil Hammond 1962 Comedian and Doctor
Rosalyn Higgins 1937 President of the International Court of Justice
Gertrude Himmelfarb 1922 2019 American cultural historian
Arianna Huffington 1950 Political author and activist, founder of The Huffington Post
Wendy Holden 1965 Novelist
Patricia Hollis, Baroness Hollis of Heigham 1941 Peer and historian
Dorothy Jewson 1884 1964 British politician
Denise Kingsmill, Baroness Kingsmill Labour Peer
Julie Kirkbride 1960 Former MP
Gabrielle Lambrick 1913 1968 Civil servant, historian, teacher
Jean Lindsay 1910 1996 Historian, Teacher
Rosamond Lehmann 1901 1990 Novelist
Rachel Lomax 1945 Former Deputy Governor of the Bank of England
Sheila Scott Macintyre 1910 1960 Mathematician
Ada Isabel Maddison 1869 1950 Mathematician
Margrethe II of Denmark 1940 Queen regnant of Denmark
Annie Scott Dill Maunder 1868 1947 Astronomer
Anna Maxted 1969 Novelist
Constance Maynard 1849 1935 British feminist, educator
Rod McAllister 1961 Architect
Marion McQuillan 1921 1998 Metallurgist
Margaret Mountford 1951 Former Herbert Smith partner, now star of BBC's The Apprentice
Jennifer Moyle 1921 2016 Biochemist
Sarojini Naidu 1879 1949 Poet, politician
Joseph O'Neill 1964 Novelist, non-fiction writer
Karen Pierce 1959 Permanent UK representative to the UN
Eileen Power 1889 1940 British economic historian and medievalist
Emily James Smith Putnam 1865 1944 Educator, historian
Kathleen Raine 1908 2003 Poet
Helene Reynard 1875 1947 Economist and college administrator
Gisela Richter 1882 1972 Classical archaeologist, art historian
Eirlys Roberts 1911 2008 Classical scholar; consumer campaigner; editor of Which?[2]
Joan Robinson 1903 1983 Economist
Diana Ross 1910 2000 Author
Ethel Sargant 1863 1918 Botanist
Wendy Savage 1935 Gynaecologist
Charlotte Angas Scott 1858 1931 Mathematician
Matthew Schellhorn 1977 Concert pianist
Gavin Shuker MP 1981 British politician
Charlie Siem 1986 Violinist
Caroline Skeel 1872 1951 Educator
Salma Sobhan 1937 2003 Barrister
E. Millicent Sowerby 1883 1977 Bibliographer
Irene Spry 1907 1998 Economic historian
Christopher Steele 1964 Spy
Alice Stewart 1906 2002 Epidemiologist
Marilyn Strathern 1941 Social Anthropologist
Steph Swainston 1974 Writer
Bertha Swirles 1903 1999 Physicist
Elizabeth Symons, Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean 1951 Peer, former General Secretary of the FDA trade union
Princess Takamado 1953 Princess of Japan
Mary Taylor Slow 1898 1984 Physicist
Sandi Toksvig 1958 Author and broadcaster
Dorothy Wedderburn 1925 2012 Principal, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London
Sarah Woodhead 1851 1908 First female Oxbridge graduate-equivalent Senior Optime; headmistress of Bolton High School for Girls
Barbara Adam Wootton 1897 1988 Social scientist, economist
Wilmer Cave Wright 1868 1951 Classical philologist
Dorothy Wrinch 1894 1976 Mathematical biologist
Grace Chisholm Young 1868 1944 Mathematician
Sheila Pim 1909 1995 Novelist and biographer

References[]

  1. ^ "The Year 2016".
  2. ^ Obituary: Eirlys Roberts. Daily Telegraph. 21 March 2008. Retrieved 2 November 2017.


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