List of Scripps College people
Scripps College is a private liberal arts women's college in Claremont, California. It was founded in 1926 as a member of the Claremont Colleges, and is widely regarded as the most prestigious women's college in the Western United States. Many notable individuals have been affiliated with the college as graduates, non-graduating attendees, faculty, staff, or administrators.
Scripps has graduated classes of students. As of the semester, the college enrolled approximately students.
As of the semester, Scripps employs faculty members. The college has had nine official presidents and several interim presidents, including the current interim president, Amy Marcus-Newhall.
Notable alumnae
| Name | Class year | Notability | |
| 1932 | Zen Buddhist in the Harada-Yasutani lineage | ||
| Exchange student 1932–1934 | Olympic gold medalist fencer who competed for Nazi Germany despite being Jewish | ||
| 1953 | Founder, Friends of the Columbia Gorge | ||
| Attended 1962–1963 | Newspaper columnist | ||
| 1973 | White House Counsel for Bill Clinton | ||
| Attended 1975–1976 | Novelist | ||
| 1978 | Sculptor and installation artist known for work on black identity | ||
| 1983 | Sculpture artist | ||
| 1987 | Academic and president of Thomas Edison State University | ||
| 1993 | Democratic U.S. representative for Arizona's 8th district, gun control advocate | ||
| 2013 | New Hampshire State Representative for Hillsborough District 41 |
Notable faculty
| Name | Active tenure | Notability | |
| 1927–1939 | Philosopher, writer, educator, scholar, poet, and iconographer | ||
| 1932–1955 | Artist and designer | ||
| 1939–1965 | Sculptor | ||
| 1941–1962 | Concert pianist, composer, arranger, opera director | ||
| 1970–1984 | Visual artist and art historian, printmaker and painter called the "godmother of African American art" | ||
| 1983–2000 | Historian, university administrator, Hartley Burr Alexander Chair, President of Wesleyan University | ||
| 1994–present | Concert pianist, composer, playwright, Fulbright Scholar to Hungary, Bessie Bartlett Frankel Chair | ||
| 1995–present | Conceptual artist and historian, a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Fletcher Jones Chair | ||
| 1996-2004 | Poet and professor of English and Humanities | ||
| 2000–present | Art historian | ||
| 2008–present | Haitian-Canadian-American writer, fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Hartley Burr Alexander Chair | ||
| 2012–present | Chicana artivista musician, feminist music theorist | ||
| 2015–present | Political scientist and politician |
Presidents of Scripps College
The following persons served as president of Scripps College:| Image | Name | Term start | Term end | ||
| 1 | Ernest Jaqua | 1926 | 1942 | ||
| interim | Mary Kimberly Shirk | 1942 | 1944 | ||
| 2 | Frederick Hard | 1944 | 1964 | ||
| 3 | Mark Curtis | July 1, 1964 | June 30, 1976 | ||
| 4 | John H. Chandler | July 1, 1976 | June 30, 1989 | ||
| 5 | E. Howard Brooks | July 1, 1989 | June 30, 1990 | ||
| 6 | Nancy Y. Bekavac | July 1, 1990 | June 30, 2007 | ||
| interim | Frederick Weis | July 1, 2007 | April 24, 2009 | ||
| 7 | Frederick Weis | April 24, 2009 | June 30, 2009 | ||
| 8 | Lori Bettison-Varga | July 1, 2009 | October 1, 2015 | ||
| interim | Amy Marcus-Newhall | October 2, 2015 | July 31, 2016 | ||
| 9 | Lara Tiedens | August 1, 2016 | April 14, 2021 | ||
| interim | Amy Marcus-Newhall | April 15, 2021 | June 30, 2022 | ||
| 10 | Susan Keen | July 1, 2022 | March 20, 2023 | ||
| interim | Amy Marcus-Newhall | March 20, 2023 | April 6, 2023 | ||
| 11 | Amy Marcus-Newhall | April 6, 2023 | Present |
| – | Denotes interim president |