Mount Holyoke College alumni

American poet (1830-1886)

Chloé Zhao is a Chinese filmmaker. She is known primarily for her work on independent films. For her film Nomadland (2020), Zhao became the second woman to win the Academy Award for Best Director.

American obstetrical anesthesiologist (1909-1974)

18th United States Secretary of Transportation and 24th United States Secretary of Labor

American abolitionist and suffragist (1818-1893)

Workers-rights advocate and United States Secretary of Labor 1933–1945

astronomer (1905-1993)

American artist and graphic designer (born 1954)

American judge (1937–2023)

American physician (1901-1963)

American politician; 83rd governor of Connecticut (1975-80)

American activist and academic (born 1946)

American ornithologist (1883–1974)

American film producer and author (1944–2002)

American playwright (1950–2006)

Indian politician

Ghanaian-born fiction writer

American novelist, short story writer, poet, children's author (1852-1930)

American chemist (1898–1980)

psychologist (1893–1993)

American actress

American politician (1937–2025)

American scholar, novelist and wine enthusiast

British writer, novelist and columnist (1975- )

American rower

American computer scientist (1928-2017)

American folklorist and ethnographer

South African rapper, singer, songwriter, actress and poet

Albanian politician

American suffragist and Universalist minister (1835–1926)

American academic and civil servant

American artist (born 1936)

Ghanaian digital strategist and content creator

American zoologist (1849-1934)

American writer

American historian, architect, and poet

American mathematician

Indian film director

American actress

American artist (1858-1947)

Indian writer

American novelist (1956–2023)

American astronomer

Executive director for the Bhutan Nuns Foundation, Bhutan

American fantasy writer, historian

American chemist (1904-1997)

Indian/American activist

American archaeologist, anthropologist

Pakistani journalist and photographer, co-founder of Girls at Dhabas

Kimberly Rochelle Hébert Gregory was an American actress. She began her career in theatre, appearing in such plays as Tarell Alvin McCraney's triptych, The Brother/Sister Plays, produced in 2009 at New York's The Public, and many others, before her breakthrough role as Dr. Belinda Brown in the HBO comedy series Vice Principals in 2016. She also voiced Nicole Williams in Craig of the Creek.

American egyptologist and classical archaeologist

American philanthropist

American poet

American mycologist (1877-1954)

British botanist, zoologist and botanical collector (1939–2025)

American judge

American physicist

American actress (1944–2013)

American actress (1952–2004)

American Civil War nurse