Esther Rantzen CBE (1958): television presenter & personality
Gillian Tett (1985): US Managing editor & Assistant Editor of The Financial Times & author
Prof Norman Rinsler (1946): Professor Emeritus, King's College, London, & author
Emer Kenny (2008): film & BBC's Eastenders actress and model
Ruth Padel (1964): poet and scholar
Lucy Wray (1999): Wales lacrosse international and World Cup player
Helen Stone OBE (1968): third woman ever to be a Fellow of the Institute of Civil Engineers
Chella Franklin (1982): first female officer to serve on a Royal Navy ship of the line
Barbara Baisley (1965): one of the first women to be ordained in the Church of England
Agnes Arber: first woman botanist to be elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society
Alice Beer: journalist and television presenter, currently presents a programme for BBC London 94.9
Eleanor Bron: actress and writer who began her career in the Cambridge Footlights revue of 1959, where she was one of the first female actors
Sara Burstall: educationalist and the first headmistress of the Manchester School for Girls
Clara Collet: one of the first women to work in the civil service, advising politicians on issues affecting women and their work
Gillian Cross: children's author who won the Carnegie Medal in 1990 and the Whitbread Children's Book award in 1992
Stella Gibbons: English novelist, journalist, poet, and short-story writer, who won the Femina Vie Heureuse Prize in 1933
Eleanor Graham: book editor and children's' book author who received the Eleanor Farjeon Award from the Children's Book Circle after her retirement in 1961
Frances Mary Hamer - chemist
Edith How-Martyn: British suffragette and one of the Founder members of the Women's Freedom League in 1907
Molly Hughes: British educator and author, best known for a series of four lively memoirs
Lilian Lindsay: first woman in Britain to become a dental surgeon
Susie Orbach: psychotherapist, psychoanalyst, writer and social critic
Netta Syrett: English writer of the late Victorian period whose novels, including Portrait of a Rebel which was adapted into the 1936 film A Woman Rebel, featured New Woman protagonists
Grace Toplis - educationalist
Judith Weir: British composer and Professor of Music at Cardiff University
Rachel Weisz: film, television and stage actress whose awards include an Oscar, a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild Award
Anna Wintour: journalist and Editor in Chief of American Vogue magazine
Mary Hay Wood - educationalist