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.
Noted alumni
Noted faculty and administrators
- Gerald M. Ackerman, art historian, lecturer in art history (1959–1965)
- Constance Applebee, Director of Athletics (1904–1928). 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 (1889–1980)
- Kimberly Wright Cassidy (born c. 1963), 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 (1934–1941)
- Donald Drew Egbert, Lecturer of Ancient Architecture (1930)
- Louis Fieser, chemist, developer of synthetic napalm, researcher of vitamin K (1925–1930)
- Arthur Lindo Patterson, founder of the Patterson function used in X-ray crystallography (1936–1949)
- Michelle Francl, computational chemistry
- Louise Holland, academic, philologist and archaeologist
- Alice M. Hoffman, labor and oral historian
- Howard S. Hoffman, Psychology (1925–2006), 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 (1906–2004)
- Mabel Lang, Greek (1943–1988); received her Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr in 1943
- Agathe Lasch, Germanic philologist (Associate Professor, 1910–16)
- Richmond Lattimore, Greek (1935–1971)
- Bettina Linn (1905–1962), English professor from 1934 to 1962; novelist
- Helen Taft Manning, History (1917–1957), also served as dean
- Berthe Marti, Latin and French (1930–1963)
- Cornelia Meigs, English (1932–1950)
- Agnes Kirsopp Lake Michels, Latin (1934–1975)
- José Ferrater Mora, Philosophy (1949–1980).
- Thomas Hunt Morgan, geneticist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine (1866–1946)
- Emmy Noether, Mathematics (1933–1935)
- Jane M. Oppenheimer, Embryology and History of Science (1938–1980)
- John Oxtoby, Mathematics (1939–1979)
- Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway, Archeology (1958–1994)
- Charlotte Scott, Mathematics (1885–1917)
- Hilda Worthington Smith, labor educator, social worker, and poet (1888–1984)
- Lily Ross Taylor, Latin (1927–1942), Dean of the Graduate School (1942–52)
- M. Carey Thomas, English, Dean of the College (1884–1908), President (1894–1922)
- Edward Warburg (1908–1992), taught Modern Art.
- Harold Wethey, art historian
- Woodrow Wilson (1885–1888)
- Karl Kirchwey (born 1956), poet, associate professor from 2000 to present
Noted fictional alumni
- Pamela Abbott (A.B.), Inventing the Abbotts (1997), played by Liv Tyler
- C.C. Babcock, The Nanny (1993), played by Lauren Lane
- Erica Barry (A.B.), Something's Gotta Give lead character, played by Diane Keaton
- Amanda Bonner (A.B.), Adam's Rib (1949), played by Katharine Hepburn
- Betty Draper (A.B. in Anthropology), Mad Men (2007), played by January Jones
- Nancy Drew & Carolyn Keene, Confessions of a Teen Sleuth (book published in 2005)
- Jinx (A.B.) (1980s), a.k.a. Kim Arashikage (a fictional character in the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero toy line)
- Allison R. Hart-Burnett (A.B.) (1980s), Lady Jaye (a fictional character in the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero toy line)
- Edna Krabappel (M.A.), The Simpsons teacher
- Miriam "Midge" Maisel (B.A.), The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017), played by Rachel Brosnahan
- Vivian Schuyler (B.A.), The Secret Life of Violet Grant by Beatriz Williams.
- Corinthians (A.B.), Song of Solomon (book published 1977)
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