The Alumnae Association of Smith College considers all former students to be members, whether they graduated or not, and does not generally differentiate between graduates and non-graduates when identifying Smith alumnae.

• Harriet Boyd-Hawes 1892
• Florence R. Sabin 1893
• Otelia Cromwell 1900
• Margaret Mitchell 1922
• Anne Morrow Lindbergh 1928
• Julia McWilliams Child 1934
• Madeleine L'Engle 1941
• Betty Goldstein Friedan 1942
• Nancy Davis Reagan 1943
• Meg Greenfield 1952
• Sylvia Plath 1955
• Gloria Steinem 1956
• Jane Yolen 1963 (also a professor of the college)
• Jane Harman 1966
• Molly Ivins 1966
• Catharine MacKinnon 1968
• Laura D'Andrea Tyson 1969
• Julie Nixon Eisenhower 1970
• Tammy Baldwin 1984

Barbara Pierce Bush, class of 1947, did not graduate; she left the college in 1945 to marry George H.W. Bush.

Fictional alumnae

• Charlotte York, from the television series Sex and the City
• Ainsley Hayes, from the television series The West Wing