The following is a list of individuals associated with women's colleges in the United States through attending as a student or graduating.
Activists
Marian Wright Edelman, graduate of Spelman College; activist for the rights of children; president and founder of the Children's Defense Fund Betty Friedan, 1942 graduate of Smith College; author and noted feminist Sally Miller Gearhart, 1952 graduate of Sweet Briar College; feminist, science fiction author and activist Gloria Johnson-Powell, graduate of Mount Holyoke College; important figure in the American Civil Rights Movement; one of the first African American woman to attain tenure at Harvard Medical School Gloria Steinem, 1956 graduate of Smith College Silda Wall Spitzer, 1980 graduate of Meredith College; founder and chair of the board of community/volunteering group Children for Children