Chao Pai, American geneticist and professor emerita at Montclair State University
Anne Poulet, art historian
Fleming Rutledge, Episcopal priest, author, and Tolkien scholar
Mary Lee Settle, author, winner of the National Book Award in 1978; founder of the PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction
Ann Taylor, newscaster
Elkanah East Taylor (1888–1945), poet; poetry magazine founder
Teresa Tomlinson, former mayor of Columbus, Georgia and candidate in the 2020 Democratic Primary to contest the Senate seat of David Perdue
Patsy Ticer, politician, former mayor of Alexandria, former member of Virginia senate
Marshalyn Yeargin-Allsopp, first African-American student admitted to Sweet Briar College, director of the Developmental Disabilities Branch of the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities (NCBDDD) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Carolyn L. Rose, archaeological conservator for the Smithsonian Institution, one of the first ethnographic conservators in the United States
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