List of Sarah Lawrence College people

The following is a list of notable individuals associated with Sarah Lawrence College through attendance as a student, or service as a member of the faculty or staff.[1]

Alumni
Select notables
J.J. Abrams, Emmy Award-winning film and television producer, writer, actor, composer, director, and founder of Bad Robot Productions
Brian De Palma, film director best known for his suspense and thriller films, often cited as a leading member of the New Hollywood generation of film directors
Rahm Emanuel, former White House Chief of Staff under President Barack Obama; former member of the United States House of Representatives and chairman of the Democratic Caucus; the fourth-ranking Democrat in the House, behind Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Leader Steny Hoyer and Whip Jim Clyburn
Maria Goeppert-Mayer, physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics for proposing the nuclear shell model of the atomic nucleus; the second female laureate in physics, after Marie Curie
Martha Graham, dancer and choreographer regarded as one of the foremost pioneers of modern dance
Tea Leoni, actress and producer
Alice Walker, author, known for the critically acclaimed novel The Color Purple, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Barbara Walters, journalist, writer, and media personality, a regular fixture on morning television and news magazine and evening news shows, and the first female co-anchor of network evening news
Vera Wang, fashion designer known for her wedding gown collection

Entertainment and media

Music

Politics and public service
  • Brooke Anderson, diplomat; Deputy Ambassador to the UN; former chief-of-staff to the White House National Security Council; VP Communications, The Nuclear Threat Initiative[53]
  • Lisa Anderson, scholar; President of the American University in Cairo, Egypt; former dean of Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs[54]
  • Amanda Burden, director of the New York City Department of City Planning[55]
  • Rahm Emanuel, mayor of Chicago; former White House Chief of Staff to President Barack Obama; former member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Fifth Congressional District of Illinois[4]
  • Sharon Hom, director of Human Rights in China[56]
  • Sue Kelly, U.S. House of Representatives, 19th Congressional District of New York[3]
  • Clifford D. May, President of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies[57]
  • Connie Calloway, Superintendent of Trotwood Schools, Normandy School District, Detroit Public Schools, developed education foundation "Heroes Don't Quit" and Normandy Scholarship Foundation

Writing and poetics

Visual and performing arts

Other notable alumni

Fictional alumni
  • Lloyd, of the HBO dramedy Entourage
  • Eric van der Woodsen, of the CW teen drama Gossip Girl
  • Karen Walker, of the sitcom Will & Grace
  • Kat Stratford, in the movie 10 Things I Hate About You
  • Allison "Allie" Hamilton, in the movie The Notebook
  • Jill Rosen, in the movie Baby It's You
  • Guinevere Turner, co-screenwriter of American Psycho, has a cameo in the film as one of the girls Patrick has in Paul's apartment. He asks if she wants to get it on with the other girl, and she says "I'm not a lesbian! Why would you think that?" Patrick replies "well, for one thing, you DID go to Sarah Lawrence"—the joke being that Turner is a lesbian, and she actually went to Sarah Lawrence.
  • Jenny Whiteman, of the movie Down and Out in Beverly Hills
  • Mia Thermopolis, of Meg Cabot's Princess Diaries series
  • Hero Brown, a character in Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra's Y: The Last Man comic book series
  • Marcia Jeffries from the 1957 film A Face in the Crowd studied music when she went east to Sarah Lawrence
  • Gil Chesterton from sitcom Frasier claims to be married to Deb, a "Sarah Lawrence graduate and the owner of a very successful auto body repair shop" (and an Army Reservist), whom his co-workers had believed to be merely a pet cat.
  • Remy "Thirteen" Hadley of the Fox medical drama House
  • "Sewage Joe" on the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation is revealed to be an alumnus when he sends a lewd photograph to Ann from his alumni e-mail address.
  • In J.D. Salinger's Franny and Zooey, a girl on a train is described as "absolutely... a Sarah Lawrence type... looked like she'd spent the whole train ride in the john, sculpting or painting or something, or as though she had a leotard on under her dress."
  • In The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Charlie's older sister Candace has chosen to attend a “small liberal arts college back East called Sarah Lawrence.”
  • Parker Posey's character in Broken English
  • Charles Boyle, of NBC's police sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine
  • Mary Andrews played by Molly Ringwald on Riverdale attended the show's fictional stand-in for the school, Sarah Florence.

Faculty

Current

Former

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