List of Vassar College people

unreferenced|date= June 2008This is a list of notable faculty and alumnae/alumni of Vassar College.

Faculty

Music Department

* Gustav Dannreuther
* Karen Holvik
* Ernst Krenek
* Annea Lockwood
* Harold Meltzer
* Quincy Porter
* Richard Wilson

Philosophy Department

* Giovanna Borradori
* David Kelley
* Mitchell Miller
* Uma Narayan
* Margaret Floy Washburn

English Department

* Donald Foster
* Eamon Grennan
* Michael Joyce
* Gabriela Mistral

Other Departments

* Jean Arthur, Theater
* Hallie Flanagan, Theater
* Grace Hopper, Mathematics
* Margaret Mead, Visiting lecturer, Anthropology
* James Merrell, History
* Maria Mitchell, Physics and Astronomy
* Deborah Dash Moore, Religion
* Linda Nochlin, Art History
* Colin Turnbull, Visiting lecturer, Anthropology

Famous alumnae/alumni

Writers

* Jesse Ball, poet and author.
* Thomas Beller
* Elizabeth Bishop, Poet Laureate of the United States from 1949 to 1950.
* Katherine Center
* Elizabeth Williams Champney, author of Three Vassar Girls series
* Meghan Daum
* Geri Doran, award-winning poet
* Aimee Friedman
* Joe Hill, Novelist, Heart-Shaped Box (novel)
* Matthew Kauffman, Hartford Courant journalist
* Lucette Lagnado journalist and novelist
* Eric Marcus
* Mary McCarthy, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, critic
* Edna St. Vincent Millay, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
* Greg Rucka
* Rachel Simmons
* Jane Smiley, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist
* Neil Strauss, journalist and author
* Michael Specter, Award-winning journalist for "The New Yorker" and "The New York Times"
* Curtis Sittenfeld (attended)
* Andrew J. Porter
* Jean Webster, author of "Daddy Long Legs"
* Christina Weir and Nunzio DeFilippis, husband and wife comic book writing team
* Owen King

Activists and Philanthropists

* Urvashi Vaid, political activist
* Jonathan Granoff, President of the Global Security Institute

Adventurers

* Alice Huyler Ramsey, first woman to cross the continent driving a car
* Ethan Zohn, Survivor:Africa winner and philanthropist

Artists and Architects

* Nancy Graves, first woman to solo at the Whitney
* Linda Nochlin, pioneer in the field of feminist art theory

Drama, Film, and Television

* Erika Amato, singer, actress
* Noah Baumbach, writer, director
* Lloyd Braun, Media Executive
* Erin Daniels, actress
* Hope Davis, actress
* Judd Ehrlich, director and producer
* Angela Goethals, actress
* Lecy Goranson, actress
* Kerri Green, actress, director
* Anne Hathaway, actress
* Lisa Kudrow, Emmy Award-winning actress
* Lisa Lassek, film producer and editor
* Stacy London, television host
* Justin Long, actor
* Marguerite Moreau, actress
* Jay Severin, commentator and talk radio host
* Sandy Stern, film producer
* Frances Sternhagen, Tony Award-winning actress
* Meryl Streep, Academy Award-winning actress
* Jon Tenney, actor
* Jonathan Togo, actor
* Lisa Zane, actress
* Ethan Zohn, "" winner and philanthropist
* Andrew Zimmern, chef and TV personality

Music

* Erika Amato, singer (Velvet Chain)
* Sam Endicott, singer (The Bravery) and John Conway, keyboardist in The Bravery
* Genghis Tron
* Mike D, Drummer, Rapper Beastie Boys
* Mark Ronson, DJ
* Chris Schreiber, singer/guitarist (Cousin Chris) [http://www.strangerdance.com/stranger-dance-cousin-chris-party/]

Science and Medicine

* Ruth Benedict, anthropologist
* Mary Calderone, physician
* Damien Easson, physicist
* Grace Hopper, computer scientist
* Vera Rubin, astronomer
* Ellen Swallow Richards, chemist
* Ellen Kovner Silbergeld, engineer
* Christine Ladd-Franklin, psychologist
* Bernadine Healy, cardiologist
* Patricia Goldman Rakic, neuroscientist
* Margaret Floy Washburn, psychologist

Business

* Caterina Fake, Founder of Flickr
* Jon Fisher, entrepreneur
* Geraldine Laybourne, creator of Nickelodeon and Nick at Nite, CEO of Oxygen Media
* Scott Kauffman, notable CEO
* Lurita Doan, founder of New Technology Management, Inc.
* Lee Zalben, founder of Peanut Butter & Co.
* Nina Zagat, co-founder of Zagat Survey
* Gibbs Tolsdorf founder of Incon, CEO of Rainbow Inc and Tolsdorf Inc
* [Mark Ordan, CEO Sunrise Senior Living

Politics and Law

* Anne Armstrong, diplomat, politician
* Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch, suffragette and daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton
* Crystal Eastman, coauthor of the Equal Rights Amendment
* Rick Lazio, Congressman (Long Island), Executive Vice President (JPMorgan Chase)
* Vicki Miles-LaGrange, first African-American female to become a United States Attorney
* Inez Milholland, suffragist
* Benson Whitney, Ambassador to Norway
* Deborah L. Wince-Smith, President of the Council on Competitiveness
* Catherine Bauer Wurster, urban housing reformer
* Linda Fairstein, prosecutor in the infamous "Preppie Murder" trial of Robert Chambers
* Elisa Stephens, president of Academy of Art University

Espionage

* Elizabeth Bentley, America spy for the Soviet Union

Attended, but did not graduate

* Anthony Bourdain ("graduated from Culinary Institute of America"), chef, writer
* Mike D (Michael Diamond), rapper (The Beastie Boys)
* Jane Fonda ("graduated from The Actors Studio"), actress
* Katharine Graham ("graduated from the University of Chicago"), publisher of the Washington Post
* Anne Hathaway ("graduated New York University"), actress
* Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis ("graduated from George Washington University"), First Lady
* Curtis Sittenfeld ("graduated from Stanford University"), author
* Neil Strauss ("graduated from Columbia College"), author and journalist
* Rachael Yamagata ("graduated from Northwestern University"), singer