Distinguished Alumnae
Notable Alumnae: From St George's to Successful Careers
St George's has many remarkable alumnae who have distinguished themselves in major fields ranging from education and law to medicine and the arts. Below are listed a few prominent former students.
- Alice Thompson - novelist
- Amanda Mitchison - writer
- Annie “Spitfire” Penrose - Annie, who was at St George's as a boarder from 1924, with her younger sister. She died on 2nd October, 2011. Her obituary in 'The Telegraph' described how Britain's most famous fighter 'plane, the Spitfire, was named after her. Her father was Sir Robert McLean, chairman of Vickers in the 1930s. He worked with the engineer R J Mitchell who was responsible for the aircraft's design. When the time came to name it, McLean suggested 'Spitfire', his affectionate name for his daughter, Annie.
- Brenda Mark - artist
- Brigit Forsyth – actress
- Candia McWilliam - author and Booker prize judge
- Carol Brown Janeway - editor and literary translator into English. She was best known for her translations of Bernhard Schlink's The Reader
- Catherine Philp - reporter, 'The Times'
- Cordelia Fine - academic psychologist
- Emily Dudgeon – athlete
- Felicity Hammond - opera singer
- Margaret Houldsworth - British campaigner for women's education and a philanthropist
- Jennifer Wallace - Director of Studies in English at Peterhouse College Cambridge
- Ione Fim - Professor of Psychology, University of Washington
- Katie Targett Adams - singer/songwriter, Clarsach player
- Kathleen Scott - sculptor, pupil of Rodin; married to Captain Scott, mother of Sir Peter Scott.
- Kay Adams - Scottish television presenter and actress in Loose Women
- Lady Ogilvie (Mary) - first Head of St Anne's College, Oxford
- Lindsay Paterson - Edinburgh City Council, stood against Gordon Brown in the 2010 election
- Lois Weatherup - model, former Miss Scotland
- Marie Stopes - British author, palaeobotanist, academic, eugenicist, campaigner for women's rights, and pioneer in the field of birth control.
- Penny Macmillan - journalist, broadcaster
- Phyllis Bone - 20th-century Scottish sculptor
- Sarah Davidson - model, fashion buyer
- Sarah McVittie - entrepreneur
- Sheila Burnford - author of 'The Incredible Journey' (also a Disney film)
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