List of Brearley School alumnae

This list of alumnae of the Brearley School includes graduates and non-graduate former students.

• Virginia Ogilvy, Countess of Airlie, lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth II
• Modupe Akinola, psychologist and academic
• Emma Allen, cartoon editor for The New Yorker
• Genevieve Angelson, actor
• Blue Balliett, author of Chasing Vermeer
• Mary Ellin Barrett, novelist
• Mary Catherine Bateson, writer and anthropologist
• Anne Baxter, actor
• Susan Berresford, foundation executive
• Devika Bhise, actor
• Jenny Bicks, television producer and screenwriter, What a Girl Wants and Sex and the City
• Margaret McKelvy Bird, archaeologist
• Henrietta Buckmaster, author
• Mary Steichen Calderone, physician and public-health advocate
• Oona, Lady Chaplin, social leader
• Eva Chen, director of fashion partnerships at Instagram
• Lucinda Childs, dancer and choreographer
• Mabel Choate, Gardener, collector and philanthropist
• Jill Clayburgh, actor
• Emily Cross, fencer, Olympic silver medalist
• Alexandra Daddario, actress and model
• Anne d'Harnoncourt, museum director
• Annie Dorsen, theater artist, MacArthur Fellowship awardee
• Fernanda Eberstadt, novelist, essayist, critic
• Katharine Evarts, politician
• Elizabeth Fishel, journalist and writer, Reunion: The Girls We Used to Be, the Women We Became
• Lacey Fosburgh, journalist and author, Closing Time: The True Story of the Goodbar Murder
• Virginia Kneeland Frantz, pathologist, pioneer in the study of pancreatic tumors
• Betty Furness, actress, consumer affairs activist, current affairs commentator
• Virginia Gildersleeve, dean, Barnard College, statesperson
• Jane Ginsburg, law professor
• Jane Gladstone, pioneer in the fintech industry, president of IntraFi Network, investment banker
• Carolyn Goodman, mayor of Las Vegas
• Phyllis Goodhart Gordan, scholar of the Renaissance
• Betsy Gotbaum, public advocate for the City of New York
• Isca Greenfield-Sanders, artist
• Emily Hoffman, socialite
• Ruth Sulzberger Holmberg, publisher
• Winifred Holt, sculptor, welfare worker; founder of the nonprofit that is now Lighthouse International
• Nora Johnson, novelist, The World of Henry Orient
• Judith Jones, editor and food writer
• Caroline Kennedy, diplomat, author and philanthropist
• Nancy Krieger, epidemiologist
• Maude Latour, singer–songwriter
• Téa Leoni, actress
• Bethel Leslie, actress
• Sarah Lewis, professor at Harvard University, art curator, and TED Talk presenter
• Priscilla Johnson McMillan, journalist, translator, author, historian
• Caryn Marooney, business executive
• Ruth Messinger, Manhattan borough president
• Sara Moulton, chef, author and television personality
• Elisabeth Murdoch, media executive
• Victoria Newhouse, architecture critic
• Diane Paulus, opera and theater director; artistic director, American Repertory Theater
• Mary Louise Perlman, musician
• Kathleen Ridder, philanthropist, educator, writer, activist for women's equality
• Mary Rodgers, children's author and composer
• Anne Roiphe, journalist, novelist
• Katie Roiphe, writer
• Niki de Saint Phalle, artist
• Dorothy Schiff, publisher of the New York Post
• Rose Schlossberg
• Tatiana Schlossberg
• Kyra Sedgwick, actor
• Maggie Shnayerson, journalist and blogger
• Helen Farr Sloan, educator, artist, philanthropist
• Sarah Solovay, singer–songwriter
• Kim Stolz, fashion model and television personality
• Orlando E. Toledo, author and essayist
• Marina Vaizey, art critic and author
• Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Academy Award winner, director and producer of documentary films
• Emily Vermeule, scholar and archaeologist
• Erica Wagner, literary editor for The Times
• Frieda Schiff Warburg, philanthropist
• Katharine Weymouth, former publisher of The Washington Post
• Flora Payne Whitney, patron of the arts