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
- Anne Baxter, actor
- Mary Ellin Barrett, novelist
- Mary Catherine Bateson, writer and anthropologist
- Devika Bhise, actor
- Jenny Bicks, screenwriter, What a Girl Wants and Sex and the City
- Margaret McKelvy Bird, archaeologist
- Susan Berresford, foundation executive
- 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
- Fernanda Eberstadt, novelist, essayist, critic.
- Anne d'Harnoncourt, museum director
- 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
- 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, equality for women activist
- 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
- 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
References
- "Retiring and Incoming Members of the Board of Trustees". The Brearley School – via issuu.
- Zinoman, Jason (2 July 2017). "At The New Yorker, the Cartoonists Draw, but the Vision Is Hers". New York Times.
- "Genevieve Makes Her Debut". Lincoln Center Theater.
- "Chasing Art, Sixth Graders and a Dream". archive.nytimes.com.