List of alumni of Girton College, Cambridge
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This is a list of alumni of Girton College, Cambridge.
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Margrethe II of Denmark
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Elizabeth Symons, Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean, British peer
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Sandi Toksvig, comedian and author
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Hisako, Princess Takamado, member of the Japanese Imperial Family
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Name | Birth | Death | Career |
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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[]
- ^ "The Year 2016".
- ^ Obituary: Eirlys Roberts. Daily Telegraph. 21 March 2008. Retrieved 2 November 2017.
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