List of Bryn Mawr College people

List of Bryn Mawr College people

The following is a list of individuals associated with Bryn Mawr College through attending as a student, or serving as a member of the faculty or staff.

Noted alumnae

Noted faculty and administrators

* Rhys Carpenter, Art history (1914?-1955)
* Maria Luisa Crawford, Geology, MacArthur Genius Grant recipient
* Marland Pratt Billings, Structural Geologist
* Frederica de Laguna, anthropologist and founder of Bryn Mawr's anthropology department (1906-2004)
* Mabel Lang, Greek (c1940-1991)
* Richmond Lattimore, Greek (1935-1971)
* Helen Taft Manning, History (1917-1957), also served as dean [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE0DD1E30F930A15751C0A961948260 Helen Taft Manning, Ex-Dean of Bryn Mawr - New York Times ] ]
* Berthe Marti, Latin and French (1930-1963)
* Cornelia Meigs, English (1932-1950) [ [http://www.pabook.libraries.psu.edu/LitMap/bios/Meigs__Cornelia.html Meigs, Cornelia ] ]
* Agnes Kirsopp Lake Michels, Latin (1934-1975)
* Thomas Hunt Morgan, geneticist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine (1866 - 1946)
* Emmy Noether, Mathematics (1933-1935)
* Charlotte Scott, Mathematics (1885-1917)
* Lily Ross Taylor, Latin (1927-1942), Dean of the Graduate School (1942-52)
* M. Carey Thomas, English, Dean of the College (1884-1908), President (1894-1922)
* Woodrow Wilson, (1885-1888)

Noted fictional alumnae

*Allison R. Hart-Burnett (B.A.) (1980s), Lady Jaye
*Edna Krabappel (M.A.), Simpsons teacher
* Erica Barry (B.A.), Something's Gotta Give (film) lead character played by Diane Keaton
* Pamela Abbott (B.A.), Inventing the Abbotts (1997), played by Liv Tyler
* Amanda Bonner (B.A.), Adam's Rib (1949), played by Katharine Hepburn
* Bunny Watson (B.A.), Desk Set (1957), played by Katharine Hepburn
* Nancy Drew & Carolyn Keene, Confessions of a Teen Sleuth (book published in 2005)
* Betty Draper (B.A), Mad Men (2007), played by January Jones

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