15 Notable alumni of Saint Mary’s College

Updated: June 14, 2026 EliteDegrees

Saint Mary’s College is 3380st in the world, 1st in North America, and 879st in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 15 notable alumni from Saint Mary’s College sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with Saint Mary’s College won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.

Belle Johnson

1. Belle Johnson

1864-1945 (aged 81)
photographer
Belle Johnson was an American photographer, active primarily in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Described as "eccentric, independent and unorthodox," Johnson was a charter member of the Federation of Women Photographers, and has been inducted into the Missouri Photojournalism Hall of Fame. Her work, which included character studies, photographs of animals (especially cats), and still lifes, won numerous...
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Patricia Anne Gaughan

2. Patricia Anne Gaughan

1953-. (aged 73)
lawyer judge
Patricia Anne Gaughan is a Senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.
Nora Barry Fischer

3. Nora Barry Fischer

1951-. (aged 75)
lawyer judge
Nora Barry Fischer is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.
Martha Black

4. Martha Black

1866-1957 (aged 91)
botanical collector politician writer autobiographer homemaker
Martha Louise Munger Black OBE was a Canadian politician. Black was the second woman elected to the House of Commons of Canada.
Jennifer Lackey

5. Jennifer Lackey

1969-. (aged 57)
philosopher
Jennifer Lackey is an American academic; she is the Wayne and Elizabeth Jones Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University. Lackey is known for her research in epistemology, especially on testimony, disagreement, memory, the norms of assertion, and virtue epistemology. She is the author of Learning from Words: Testimony as a Source of Knowledge and of numerous articles and book chapters....
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Donna Christian-Christensen

6. Donna Christian-Christensen

1945-. (aged 81)
politician
Donna Marie Christian-Christensen, formerly Donna Christian-Green, is an American physician and politician. She served as the 4th elected non-voting Delegate from the United States Virgin Islands's at-large district to the United States House of Representatives from 1997 until 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, Christensen is the first woman to win the party’s nomination for governor in Virgin Islands...
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Peggy Cooper Cafritz

7. Peggy Cooper Cafritz

1947-2018 (aged 71)
art collector philanthropist civil rights advocate teacher
Peggy Cooper Cafritz was an American art collector, educator, civil rights activist, philanthropist, and socialite.
Anne Northup

8. Anne Northup

1948-. (aged 78)
politician
Anne Meagher Northup is an American Republican politician and educator from the Commonwealth of Kentucky. From 1997 to 2007, she represented the Louisville-centered 3rd congressional district of Kentucky in the United States House of Representatives, where she served on the powerful House Appropriations Committee. She narrowly lost reelection to Democrat John Yarmuth in the 2006 election. She then ran for...
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London Lamar

9. London Lamar

1990-. (aged 36)
politician
London Lamar is an American politician. A Democratic Party member, she serves in the Tennessee Senate representing district 33 since 2022. She was previously a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives from 2018 to 2022, representing District 91. During her time there, she was the youngest Tennessee State Representative in office. She was appointed to the Tennessee Senate in...
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Adriana Trigiani

10. Adriana Trigiani

1969-. (aged 57)
writer film director television producer screenwriter
Adriana Trigiani is an American best-selling author of eighteen books, playwright, television writer/producer, film director/screenwriter/producer, and entrepreneur based in New York City. Trigiani has published a novel a year since 2000.
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Barbara Doherty

11. Barbara Doherty

1931-2020 (aged 89)
nun
Barbara Doherty was an educator and theologian. A Roman Catholic religious sister, she was a member of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. She was president of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College in Indiana from 1984 to 1998. Other posts have been as director of the Institute of Religious Formation at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, president of the Indiana Conference...
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Madeleine Bordallo

12. Madeleine Bordallo

1933-. (aged 93)
politician
Madeleine Mary Zeien Bordallo is an American-Guamanian politician who served as the delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives for Guam's at-large congressional district from January 3, 2003, to January 3, 2019.
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Catherine Hicks

13. Catherine Hicks

1951-. (aged 75)
film actor television actor stage actor
Catherine Mary Hicks is an American retired actress. She played the character Annie Camden on the long-running television series 7th Heaven. Other roles included Dr. Faith Coleridge on the soap opera Ryan's Hope (1976–1978), her Emmy Award-nominated performance as Marilyn Monroe in Marilyn: The Untold Story (1980), Dr. Gillian Taylor in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986), Carol Heath...
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Susan B. Anthony II

14. Susan B. Anthony II

1916-1991 (aged 75)
journalist substance abuse counselor non-fiction writer Catholic theologian person with substance use disorder
Susan Brownell Anthony II was an American journalist and writer, activist and substance abuse counselor. She grew up in Easton, Pennsylvania, and attended the University of Rochester, graduating in 1938. During her schooling, she became an activist in progressive causes, but she also struggled with alcoholism. She supported pacifism, the anti-fascist movement, housing desegregation, and women's rights, including advocacy to...
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Eddie Bernice Johnson

15. Eddie Bernice Johnson

1934-2023 (aged 89)
business executive psychotherapist nurse politician
Eddie Bernice Johnson was an American politician who represented Texas's 30th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1993 to 2023. Johnson was a member of the Democratic Party.
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