| Name
|
Birth
|
Death
|
Career/Notable attainments
|
| Margaret Alford
|
1868
|
1951
|
Classical scholar
|
| 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
|
2016
|
Author
|
| Florence Bell
|
1913
|
2000
|
Scientist, first X-ray diffraction photograph of DNA
|
| 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)
|
| Agnata Frances Butler née Ramsey
|
1867
|
1931
|
Only first in 1887 Classics Tripos, honoured in Punch (magazine) cartoon 'Ladies Only'
|
| Margaret Canovan
|
1939
|
|
Professor of political theory
|
| Anthony Carrigan
|
1980
|
2016
|
Scholar in postcolonial literature and cultures
|
| Janet Elizabeth Case
|
1863
|
1937
|
British classics teacher and journalist
|
| Wendy R. Childs
|
1943
|
|
Professor of Later Medieval History at the University of Leeds
|
| Patricia Clarke
|
1919
|
2010
|
Professor of microbial biochemistry
|
| Vicky Clement-Jones
|
1948
|
1987
|
Physician
|
| Tina Cooper
|
1918
|
1986
|
Paediatrician
|
| Isabel Cooper-Oakley
|
1854
|
1914
|
Theosophical writer
|
| Gwendolen Crewdson
|
1872
|
1913
|
Egyptologist
|
| Elizabeth Dawes
|
1865
|
1954
|
Classical scholar, educational reformer, first woman to receive a DLitt degree from the University of London
|
| Mary Clara Dawes
|
1862
|
?
|
Classical scholar, first woman to receive an MA degree from the University of London (in 1884)
|
| Delia Derbyshire
|
1937
|
2001
|
Musician, composer
|
| Athene Donald
|
1953
|
|
Physicist
|
| Tom Fordyce
|
|
|
BBC Sports journalist
|
| Veronica Forrest-Thomson
|
1947
|
1975
|
Poet
|
| Jane Fraser
|
1967
|
|
President of Citigroup
|
| Olive Fraser
|
1909
|
1977
|
Poet and novelist
|
| George Freeman MP
|
1967
|
|
British politician
|
| Zahra Freeth
|
1925
|
2015
|
Author on Middle Eastern topics [1]
|
| Jane Grenville
|
1958
|
|
British archaeologist and academic
|
| 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
|
2019
|
American cultural historian
|
| Judith A. Hill
|
1959
|
|
Historian
|
| Arianna Huffington
|
1950
|
|
Political author and activist, founder of The Huffington Post
|
| Wendy Holden
|
1965
|
|
Novelist
|
| Patricia Hollis, Baroness Hollis of Heigham
|
1941
|
|
Peer and historian
|
| Dorothy Jewson
|
1884
|
1964
|
British politician
|
| Denise Kingsmill, Baroness Kingsmill
|
|
|
Labour Peer
|
| Julie Kirkbride
|
1960
|
|
Former MP
|
| Gabrielle Lambrick
|
1913
|
1968
|
Civil servant, historian, teacher
|
| Jean Lindsay
|
1910
|
1996
|
Historian, Teacher
|
| 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
|
1869
|
1950
|
Mathematician
|
| Margrethe II of Denmark
|
1940
|
|
Queen regnant of Denmark
|
| Annie Scott Dill Maunder
|
1868
|
1947
|
Astronomer
|
| Anna Maxted
|
1969
|
|
Novelist
|
| Constance Maynard
|
1849
|
1935
|
British feminist, educator
|
| Rod McAllister
|
1961
|
|
Architect
|
| Marion McQuillan
|
1921
|
1998
|
Metallurgist
|
| Margaret Mountford
|
1951
|
|
Former Herbert Smith partner, now star of BBC's The Apprentice
|
| Jennifer Moyle
|
1921
|
2016
|
Biochemist
|
| Sarojini Naidu
|
1879
|
1949
|
Poet, politician
|
| Joseph O'Neill
|
1964
|
|
Novelist, non-fiction writer
|
| Karen Pierce
|
1959
|
|
Permanent UK representative to the UN
|
| Eileen Power
|
1889
|
1940
|
British economic historian and medievalist
|
| Emily James Smith Putnam
|
1865
|
1944
|
Educator, historian
|
| Kathleen Raine
|
1908
|
2003
|
Poet
|
| Helene Reynard
|
1875
|
1947
|
Economist and college administrator
|
| Gisela Richter
|
1882
|
1972
|
Classical archaeologist, art historian
|
| Eirlys Roberts
|
1911
|
2008
|
Classical scholar; consumer campaigner; editor of Which?[2]
|
| Joan Robinson
|
1903
|
1983
|
Economist
|
| Diana Ross
|
1910
|
2000
|
Author
|
| 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
|
| Christopher Steele
|
1964
|
|
Spy
|
| Alice Stewart
|
1906
|
2002
|
Epidemiologist
|
| Marilyn Strathern
|
1941
|
|
Social Anthropologist
|
| 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
|
2012
|
Principal, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London
|
| Sarah Woodhead
|
1851
|
1912
|
First woman to take, and to pass, the Mathematical Tripos exam, which she did in 1873; headmistress of Bolton High School for Girls
|
| Barbara Adam Wootton
|
1897
|
1988
|
Social scientist, economist
|
| Wilmer Cave Wright
|
1868
|
1951
|
Classical philologist
|
| Dorothy Wrinch
|
1894
|
1976
|
Mathematical biologist
|
| Grace Chisholm Young
|
1868
|
1944
|
Mathematician
|
| Sheila Pim
|
1909
|
1995
|
Novelist and biographer
|
| Sao Sanda
|
1928
|
|
Shan royalty and the last princess of Yawnghwe
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