<p>Wellesley notable alumnae:
<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wellesley_College_people[/url]”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wellesley_College_people</a></p>
<p>Virginia Abernethy (1955) (anthropologist)
Harriet Stratemeyer Adams (1914) (author of Nancy Drew series, pen name Carolyn Keene)
Madeleine Albright (1959) (former U.S. Secretary of State)
Katharine Lee Bates (1880) (author of the words to the anthem America the Beautiful)
Carol Bly (1951) (short story author, essayist)
Jane Bolin LL.B. (1928) First African-American woman to become a judge)
Annie Jump Cannon (1884) (astronomer)
Madame Chiang Kai-shek (1917) (former First Lady of the Republic of China)
Hillary Rodham Clinton (1969) (U.S. Senator; Former First Lady of the U.S.)
Ophelia Dahl (1994) (director of Partners In Health, daughter of children’s author Roald Dahl)
Diane Mott Davidson, attended but later transferred to another college. (mystery writer)
Marjory Stoneman Douglas (1912) (conservationist and writer)
Kimberly Dozier (1987) (journalist)
Persis Drell (Physicist)
Nora Ephron (1962) (movie screenplay writer: When Harry Met Sally…; Writer and Director: Sleepless in Seattle and You’ve Got Mail)
Susan Estrich(1974) Is a lawyer, professor, author, political operative, feminist advocate and commentator for Fox News.((author of Sex & Power)
Abigail Garner(1997) (author of Families Like Mine)
Carolyn Gold Heilbrun (1947) (professor of English literature at Columbia University, and mystery novelist under the name “Amanda Cross”)
Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz (historian)
Carol E. Jackson (1973) (Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri)
Lois Juliber (1971) (Vice Chairman of Colgate-Palmolive)
Jean Kilbourne (educator)
Lisa Kleypas (1986) (novelist)
Judith Krantz (1948) (novelist)
Ali MacGraw (1960) (actress)
Judith Martin (1959) (newspaper columnist: Miss Manners)
Pamela Melroy (1983) (astronaut)
Anne W. Patterson (1971) (former Acting U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations)
Ruth Baker Pratt (congresswoman) first woman elected to Congress from New York (1929-33).
Reena Raggi, U.S. federal judge
Cokie Roberts (1964) (journalist)
Nayantara Pandit Sahgal (1947), novelist, niece of Jawaharlal Nehru and cousin of Indira Gandhi
Diane Sawyer (1967) (journalist, “Good Morning America”)
Lynn Sherr (1963) (journalist)
Elisabeth Shue, attended but later transferred to Harvard (actress)
Michele J. Sison, American diplomat
Linda Wertheimer (1965) (journalist)
Patricia J. Williams (1972) (law professor at Columbia University, recipient of the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, also known as the “genius award”)
Bing Xin (1926) (Chinese poet, essayist, short-story writer) </p>
<p>Penn notable alumnae:
<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_University_of_Pennsylvania_people[/url]”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_University_of_Pennsylvania_people</a></p>
<p>Hilary Putnam: Walter Beverly Pearson Professor of Modern Mathematics and Mathematical Logic at Harvard University
Judith Rodin: First woman president of an Ivy League university (University of Pennsylvania)
Elizabeth Banks - Actress, best known as kinky sex freak in The 40-Year-Old Virgin
Andrea Brody: Co-host of U.S. television’s George Michael Sports Machine
Candice Bergen: Actress, best known as TV’s Murphy Brown. (Attended, never graduated).
Pamela Day: Businesswoman and contestant of NBC reality show The Apprentice 2
Andrea Kremer: ESPN sports correspondent
Sari Locker: Television personality and author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Amazing Sex
Andrea Mitchell: NBC Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent
Becki Newton: Actress, Amanda on Ugly Betty
Gina Phillips: actress (attended, never graduated)
Melissa Rivers (Birth name: Melissa Rosenberg): Actress and daughter of comedian Joan Rivers
Jennifer Su: (Birth name: Jennifer Tsou), Television anchor and radio presenter, Hong Kong and Thailand
Ivanka Trump: Supermodel, businesswoman, judge of NBC reality show The Apprentice 6, daughter of real estate mogul Donald Trump
Catherine Austin Fitts: CEO and Founder of Solari, Inc.
Geralyn Breig: former President, Godiva International
Sadie Tanner Alexander: First African-American woman to receive a Ph.D in the United States; first African-American woman to graduate from Penn Law; first black woman to be admitted to Pennsylvania Bar; Civil Rights activist; appointed to the Civil Rights Commission by President Harry S. Truman.
Shirley Franklin: Mayor of Atlanta
Ann Dore McLaughlin: former U.S. Secretary of Labor</p>
<p>I did not make this up.</p>