Notable alumnae

• Professor Alyson Bailes (Belvedere) - Visiting Professor on International Affairs at the University of Iceland
• Professor Dame Marilyn Strathern (Bromley)- Former Professor of Social Anthropology at Cambridge, Former Mistress of Girton College
• Professor Mary Beard (Shrewsbury) - Professor of Classics at Cambridge, and Fellow of Newnham College
• Professor Dame Louise Napier Johnson (Wimbledon) - Professor of Molecular Biophysics at Oxford and awarded DBE for services to biophysical science

• Indhu Rubasingham (Nottingham) - Theatre director – productions include The Ramayana at the National Theatre and Yellowman at Hampstead Theatre)
• Pippa Harris (Oxford) - Film Producer, Neal Street Productions – production credits include Starter for Ten, Jarhead, and Revolutionary Road
• AS Byatt (Sheffield) - Author – winner of the Man Booker Prize
• Fay Weldon (South Hampstead) - Author and Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University
• June Whitfield (Streatham & Clapham) - Actress – most known for roles in Terry and June and Absolutely Fabulous
• Sandy Powell (Sydenham) - Costume designer – won Oscars in 1999 for Shakespeare in Love, 2005 for The Aviator, and in 2010 for The Young Victoria

• Penny Hughes (Birkenhead) - Former Head of Coca Cola UK; Trustee of the British Museum; President of the Advertising Association
• Beverly Hodson (Blackheath) - Former Managing Director of WH Smith; GDST Associate
• Emma Bridgewater (Oxford) - Pottery designer – renowned for polka dot designed pottery ware and accessories
• Baroness Janet Cohen of Pimlico (South Hampstead) - Former Chairman of BPP Holdings; GDST Associate
• Karen Easton (Sutton) - Co-founder of Café Rouge restaurant chain
• Mary Chapman (Sutton) - Director General of the Chartered Management Institute; member of the GDST Council

• Judge Frances Kirkham (Heathfield) - Senior Circuit Judge; founder member of the UK Association of Women Judge
• Cathryn McGahey (Howell's) - Barrister, Junior Counsel for the Bloody Sunday Enquiry
• Sandie Okoro (Putney) - Global General Counsel, Barings Bank

• Bettany Hughes (Notting Hill & Ealing) - Historian and broadcaster – TV work includes well-known series such as Seven Ages of Britain, The Spartans and Helen of Troy
• Mary Berry (Royal High, Bath) - Celebrity chef; writer and journalist
• Miriam Stoppard OBE (Central Newcastle) - Doctor, author of the Children's Medical Handbook, television presenter and agony aunt
• Becky Mantin (Norwich) - ITV weather reporter
• Caroline Raphael (Putney) - Commissioning Editor, Radio 4

Elizabeth Watts (Norwich) - Soprano

Jacqueline du Pre (Croydon) - World renowned classical cellist

Sian Edwards (Oxford) - Conducter, former Music Director of English National Opera

• Dame Mary Marsh (Birkenhead) - Former CEO of NSPCC, independent non-executive Director of HSBC Bank plc
• Claire Hicks MBE (Brighton and Hove) - Director of Impact Foundation, awarded MBE for services to International Development
• Dr Mary Baker MBE (Bromley) - Former CEO of Parkinson’s Disease Society and President of European Federation of Neurological Associations

• Margaret Bryan (Croydon) - British diplomat – first ambassador to Panama and GDST Associate
• Dame Stella Rimington (Nottingham) - Former Director General of MI5, and first female DG of MI5. Author of several spy fiction novels
• Baroness Manningham-Buller (Northampton) - Former Director General of MI5 and life-peer
• Esther McVey (Belvedere) - Conservative MP for Wirral West, former TV presenter; GDST Associate
• Baroness Elspeth Howe (Royal High, Bath) - Former Deputy Chairman of the Equal Opportunities Commission and former Chair of the Broadcasting Standards Commission. Life Peer in the House of Lords

• Karen Pickering MBE (Brighton and Hove) - Swimmer – Olympic Gold medallist; Chair of the British Athletes Commission; GDST Associate
• Sam Eve (Ipswich) - Member of the first all-female team to complete the polar challenge; GDST Associate
• Sam Davies (Portsmouth) - World-class yachtswoman (4th in 2009 Vendée Globe)