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.
Presidents
The following persons served as president of Bryn Mawr College:| No. | Image | Name | Term start | Term end | |
| 1 | James Rhoads | 1885 | 1894 | ||
| 2 | M. Carey Thomas | 1894 | 1922 | ||
| 3 | Marion Edwards Park | 1922 | 1942 | ||
| 4 | Katharine Elizabeth McBride | 1942 | 1970 | ||
| 5 | Harris Wofford | 1970 | 1978 | ||
| 6 | Mary Patterson McPherson | 1978 | 1997 | ||
| 7 | Nancy J. Vickers | July 1, 1997 | June 30, 2008 | ||
| 8 | Jane Dammen McAuliffe | July 1, 2008 | June 30, 2013 | ||
| interim | Kimberly Wright Cassidy | July 1, 2013 | February 12, 2014 | ||
| 9 | Kimberly Wright Cassidy | February 12, 2014 | June 30, 2024 | ||
| 10 | Wendy Cadge | July 1, 2024 | present |
Notable faculty and administrators
- Gerald M. Ackerman, art historian, lecturer in art history
- Constance Applebee, Director of Athletics. Brought field hockey to the United States from Britain and established women's lacrosse as a collegiate sport.
- Asoka Bandarage
- Florence Bascom, petrologist, founder of Bryn Mawr's Geology Department
- Marland Pratt Billings, Structural Geologist
- Rhys Carpenter, Classical Archaeology
- Kimberly Wright Cassidy, Psychology, ninth president of Bryn Mawr College
- Catherine Conybeare, Professor of Classics
- Maria Luisa Crawford, Geology, MacArthur Genius Grant recipient
- Arthur C. Cope, chemist, developer of the Cope rearrangement and the Cope elimination, namesake of the Arthur C. Cope Award of the American Chemical Society
- Donald Drew Egbert, Lecturer of Ancient Architecture
- Louis Fieser, chemist, developer of synthetic napalm, researcher of vitamin K
- Arthur Lindo Patterson, founder of the Patterson function used in X-ray crystallography
- Michelle Francl, computational chemistry
- Louise Holland, academic, philologist and archaeologist
- Alice M. Hoffman, labor and oral historian
- Howard S. Hoffman, Psychology, Behavioral Neuroscientist, leading scholar of the startle reflex and social attachment
- Amy Kelly, headmistress, historian and best-selling author
- Susan Myra Kingsbury, historical economist and social researcher; director of the Social Economy and Social Research department
- Frederica de Laguna, anthropologist and founder of Bryn Mawr's anthropology department
- Mabel Lang, Greek ; received her Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr in 1943
- Agathe Lasch, Germanic philologist
- Richmond Lattimore, Greek
- Bettina Linn, English professor from 1934 to 1962; novelist
- Helen Taft Manning, History, also served as dean
- Berthe Marti, Latin and French
- Cornelia Meigs, English
- Agnes Kirsopp Lake Michels, Latin
- José Ferrater Mora, Philosophy.
- Thomas Hunt Morgan, geneticist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine
- Emmy Noether, Mathematics
- Jane M. Oppenheimer, Embryology and History of Science
- John Oxtoby, Mathematics
- Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway, Archeology
- Charlotte Scott, Mathematics
- Hilda Worthington Smith, labor educator, social worker, and poet
- Lily Ross Taylor, Latin, Dean of the Graduate School
- M. Carey Thomas, English, Dean of the College, President
- Edward Warburg, taught Modern Art.
- Harold Wethey, art historian
- Woodrow Wilson
- Karl Kirchwey, poet, associate professor from 2000 to present
Fictional alumni
- Pamela Abbott, Inventing the Abbotts, played by Liv Tyler
- C.C. Babcock, The Nanny, played by Lauren Lane
- Erica Barry, Something's Gotta Give lead character, played by Diane Keaton
- Amanda Bonner, Adam's Rib, played by Katharine Hepburn
- Betty Draper, Mad Men, played by January Jones
- Nancy Drew & Carolyn Keene, Confessions of a Teen Sleuth
- Jinx, a.k.a. Kim Arashikage
- Allison R. Hart-Burnett, Lady Jaye
- Edna Krabappel, The Simpsons teacher
- Miriam "Midge" Maisel, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, played by Rachel Brosnahan
- Vivian Schuyler, The Secret Life of Violet Grant by Beatriz Williams.
- Corinthians, ''Song of Solomon''