Old Girls are known as
Old Roedeanians and include:
Arts •
Vera Stanley Alder, painter •
Pauline Boumphrey, sculptor •
Enid Marx, designer •
Beatrix Ong, fashion accessories designer •
Phyllis Pearsall, artist, writer and publisher •
Clare Pooley, blogger and novelist •
Edith Pretty, philanthropist and magistrate •
Zina Saro-Wiwa, video artist and filmmaker •
Jillian Becker, author •
Dorothy Theomin, philanthropist and art collector
Business •
Marjorie Abbatt, toy-maker and businesswoman
Healthcare and education •
Dame Cicely Saunders, nurse, social worker, physician and writer •
Olive Willis, founder of Downe House School •
Barbara, Lady Stephen, educationalist and biographer
Journalism and literature •
Alison Adburgham, fashion editor of
The Guardian, author and social historian •
Jani Allan, journalist, broadcaster •
Tessa Dahl, novelist and daughter of Roald Dahl •
Adèle Geras, writer •
Zerbanoo Gifford, writer and human rights campaigner •
Naseem Khan (activist), journalist and activist •
Noo Saro-Wiwa, author •
Nancy Spain, journalist, author and broadcaster •
Katharine Whitehorn, journalist, writer, and columnist
Military and sport •
Barbara Calder (1924–2018), yachtswoman •
Elizabeth Devereux-Rochester, member of
SOE F Section •
Tanya Streeter, world champion freediver •
Philippa Tattersall,
Science •
Helen Dick Megaw,
crystallographer Theatre, television, and film •
Marisa Abela, actress •
Jill Balcon, actress •
Hermione Cockburn, broadcaster •
Noel Dyson, actress •
Lucy Griffiths, actress •
Rebecca Hall, actress •
Jessica Hester Hsuan, actress •
Verity Lambert, television producer, known for being the original producer of
Doctor Who. •
Sarah Miles, actress •
Rhona Mitra, actress, model and singer-songwriter •
Honeysuckle Weeks, actress •
Perdita Weeks, actress ==See also==