Notable Alumnae

Nicola Grinstead
Deputy Chief Executive of Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital
Bolton School Girls’ Division
Malala Yousafzai
Women’s education activist; Nobel Peace Prize laureate
Edgbaston High School
Christabel Pankhurst
British suffragette, co-founder of the Women’s Social and Political Union
Manchester High School for Girls
Habiba Balogan (nee Atta)
Social justice activist, working in Nigeria to free the Chibok Girls
Kent College
Dr Brenda Milner
Professor – Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University, Montreal
Withington Girls’ School
Jenny Griffiths MBE
Founder and CEO of Snap Fashion
Notre Dame
Amanda Mackenzie
Chief Executive of Business in the Community
Wakefield Girls’ High School
Sahana Gero MBE
Founder & Artistic Director, World Heart Beat Music Academy
St James Senior Girls’ School
Dame Mary Douglas, DBE
Social Anthropologist
Woldingham School
Dame June Whitfield DBE
Actress
Streatham & Clapham High School
Zerbanoo Gifford
Writer/Human Rights Campaigner
Roedean
Commander Maryla Ingham
Commander in the Royal Navy
Sutton High School GDST
Sonia Passi
Lawyer and Founder NFP FreeFrom, USA
Withington Girls’ School
Claire Williams OBE
Deputy Team Principal, Williams F1
St Mary’s School Ascot
Dame Helen Anne Alexander DBE
CEO of Economist and first female president of Confederation of British Industry
St Paul’s Girls’ School
Elsie Owusu OBE
Architect
Streatham & Clapham High School
Maureen Jones
Bishop of Nairobi
Stamford High School
Suzanne Ornsby QC
Barrister
Notre Dame School
Baroness Usha Prashar
Cross Bench Member of the House of Lords
Wakefield Girls’ High School
Professor Cordelia
Fine Academic psychologist and writer
St George’s School for Girls, Edinburgh
Delphine Gray-Fisk
Pilot
Wycombe Abbey
The Hon Mrs Olga Polizzi CBE
Hotelier and Interior Designer
St Mary’s School Ascot
Emma Barnett
Presenter, BBC Radio 5Live and BBC Woman’s Hour, Columnist for The Sunday Times
Manchester High School for Girls
Indira Ghandi
Prime Minister of India (1966-1974 & 1980-1984)
Badminton School
Ana Botín
Executive Chairman of Banco Santander
St Mary’s School Ascot
Dame Kathleen Mary Kenyon DBE
Archaeologist
St Paul’s Girls’ School
Annie Nightingale MBE
Broadcaster and DJ
Lady Eleanor Holles School
Elizabeth Ward OBE
Founder of British Kidney Patient Association (now Kidney Care UK)
St George’s Ascot
Dr Vanessa Lawrence CB HonFREng, FRGS, FRICS, FCInstCES, FRSGS, CCMI, CGeog
Founding Co-Chair of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management
St Helen’s School, London

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