List of alumni of Girton College, Cambridge

This is a list of alumni of Girton College, Cambridge.

Margrethe II of Denmark

Elizabeth Symons, Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean, British peer

Sandi Toksvig, comedian and author

Hisako, Princess Takamado, member of the Japanese Imperial Family

Dina bint 'Abdu'l-Hamid, Queen consort of Jordan

Name	Birth	Death	Career
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		Author
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)
Margaret Canovan	1939		Professor of political theory
Anthony Carrigan	1980	2016	Scholar in postcolonial literature and cultures
Patricia Clarke	1940		Professor of microbial biochemistry
Isabel Cooper-Oakley	1853	1914	Theosophical writer
Delia Derbyshire	1937	2001	Musician, composer
Athene Donald	1953		Physicist
Tom Fordyce			BBC Sports journalist
Jane Fraser	1967		CEO, Citigroup Latin America
George Freeman MP	1967		British politician
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		American cultural historian
Arianna Huffington	1950		Political author and activist, Founder of The Huffington Post
Wendy Holden	1965		Novelist
Dorothy Jewson	1884	1964	British politician
Julie Kirkbride	1960		Former MP
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			Mathematician
Margrethe II of Denmark	1940		Queen regnant of Denmark
Annie Scott Dill Maunder	1868	1947	Astronomer
Anna Maxted	1969		Novelist
Constance Maynard			British feminist, educator
Rod McAllister	1961		Architect
Margaret Mountford	1951		Former Herbert Smith Partner, now star of BBC's The Apprentice
Sarojini Naidu	1879	1949	Poet, politician
Joseph O'Neill	1964		Novelist, non-fiction writer
Emily James Smith Putnam	1865	1944	Educator, historian
Kathleen Raine	1908	2003	Poet
Gisela Richter	1882	1972	Classical archaeologist, art historian
Joan Robinson	1903	1983	Economist
Diana Ross	1910	2000	Author
Clara Ruth Rouse			Missionary, ecumenical leader
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
Alice Stewart	1906	2002	Epidemiologist
Marilyn Strathern	1941		Social Anthropologist
Eugene Sellars Strong	1860	1943	Art historian
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		Principal, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London
Sarah Woodhead	1873		First ever female Oxbridge graduate-equivalent Senior Optime. Headmistress Bolton Grammar School for Girls
Barbara Adam Wootton	1897	1988	Social scientist, economist
Dorothy Wrinch	1894	1976	Mathematical biologist
Grace Chisholm Young	1868	1944	Mathematician

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