- Source: List of Old Girls of Abbotsleigh
This is a List of notable Old Girls of Abbotsleigh, they being notable former students or alumnae of the Anglican Church school, Abbotsleigh in Wahroonga, New South Wales, Australia. The alumnae may elect to join the school's alumni association, the Abbotsleigh Old Girls' Union (AOGU).
Academic
Kathleen McCredie – educator; former headmistress of Abbotsleigh
Merrilee Roberts – educator, former principal of Newcastle Girls' Grammar School and Ascham School
Elizabeth Ward – educator, former principal of the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Melbourne
Freda Whitlam – lay preacher of the Uniting Church; Sister of former prime minister Gough Whitlam; former principal of the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Croydon (also attended Canberra Girls' Grammar School)
Entertainment, media and the arts
Nicole Alexander – author
Edwina Bartholomew – Sunrise presenter
Rebecca Baillie – director, producer and reporter for Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Erica Packer – singer and model; ex-wife of James Packer
Nell Campbell – actor; played Colombia in The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Louise Cox – Australian architect
Belinda Bauer – née Taubman; actor; appeared in 17 US films; played Dr. Juliette Faxx in RoboCop 2
Linda Cropper – actress
Kate Dennis – Emmy-nominated director and producer
Kate Forsyth – author
Sarah Gardner – founder of the International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies (IFACCA)
Phoebe Victoria Clare Hamilton – pioneering horticulturalist
Alexandra Joel – author
Janet Laurence – Australian artist
Belinda Luscombe – journalist, editor at large at TIME Magazine
Belinda Murrell – author
Georgie Parker – actress
Betty Rayner – created the Australian Children's Theatre in 1948
Jennifer Rowe – children's book author under pen name Emily Rodda
Helen de Guerry Simpson – novelist (also attended Kincoppal-Rose Bay)
Grace Cossington Smith – artist
Cathy Wilcox – Australian cartoonist and children's book illustrator
Linden Wilkinson – film, television and theatre actress, and writer
Medicine and science
Agnes Bennett – pioneering medical practitioner and scientist (also attended Sydney Girls High School)
Dorothy Rhodes Taylor – one of the first women employed in the Department of Geography at the University of Sydney. She co-authored The Geographical Laboratory (1925) | https://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE4320b.htm
Dee Uther – Physiotherapist; Co-Founder of Lifestart, not for profit organisation assisting families and children with special needs.
Sally Crossing – consumer health advocate
Kim Taubman – Specialist Doctor, Radiology; Nuclear Medicine
Cindy Pan – doctor, dancer, television personality
Karen Simmer – current professor of Newborn Medicine at the University of Western Australia
Mary Tindale – botanist and Australian Botanical Liaison Officer
Politics, public service and the law
Una Parry Boyce – Nurse and Community worker. She was state secretary of the War Widows' Guild of Australia (New South Wales) from 1961 until 1989, becoming a life member of the War Widows' Guild in 2000.
Meredith Burgmann – politician – Australian Labor Party; former President NSW Legislative Council
Leela Cejnar – academic at the University of Sydney
Pauline Griffin – former Commissioner of the Australian Industrial Relations Commission, chair of the National Committee on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation and former Pro-Chancellor of the Australian National University
Gabrielle Kibble – head of the NSW Planning Authority
Phyllis Mander-Jones MBE – librarian, archivist and historian
Sue Walpole – former federal Sex Discrimination Commissioner
Activism
Sally Begbie – co-founder of Crossroads Foundation
Penelope Figgis – Australian environmentalist, activist, and political scientist
Beatrice Miles – Bohemian rebel and political activist
Katie Wood – lawyer, General Counsel at Amnesty International Australia
Sport
Denise Annetts – women's cricketer for New South Wales Breakers and Australia whose international playing career ran from 1985 until 1993.
Phyllis Arnott – member of the Arnotts biscuit family, first Australian woman to gain a commercial pilot's licence
Carly Boag – basketball player
Hannah Campbell-Pegg – Australian Luge Winter Olympian
Jill Coleburn – Australian biathlete
Kiana Elliott – international weightlifter
Sue Fear – First Australian woman to climb Mount Everest (also attended Barker College)
Dr Louise Holliday – Antarctic explorer, first Australian woman to be appointed to Davis Base
Margaret Peden – Cricketer; former captain of the Australian women's cricket team (1934)
Astrid Radjenovic – Australian Bobsled Winter Olympian
Business
Dr Sally Auld – chief economist at JP Morgan Australia and New Zealand
Tara Commerford – vice president and managing director of GoDaddy Australia
Liz Forsyth – deputy chairman and partner of KPMG
Susan Lloyd-Hurwitz – CEO of Mirvac
Jill Ker Conway – author, academic and businesswoman, former chair of Lendlease, former director of Colgate-Palmolive, Merrill Lynch and Nike
Katie Rigg-Smith – CEO of Mindshare Australia, listed in B&T Magazine's Top Ten Most Influential Women in 2014 and 2015
See also
Association of Heads of Independent Girls' Schools
References
External links
Abbotsleigh website