Whanganui Girls' College is located in Jones Street Whanganui near the Dublin Street Bridge. The school is one of the oldest single sex educational facilities in New Zealand, founded in 1891.

Principals

* Mary Isabel Fraser

Notable alumnae

Jackie Abraham-Lawrie Jackie Abraham-Lawrie (born 22 June 1974) is a New Zealand rower. She received her secondary education at Wanganui Girls' College (1987–1990). In 2001, she won silver at the World Championships in Lucerne, Switzerland as bow in the four wi ...

(born 1974), rower *

Monica Brewster Monica Romaine Brewster (née Govett; 10 February 1886 – 13 December 1973) was a New Zealand arts patron and women's rights advocate. She is best known as the founding benefactor of the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery. Early life Born on 10 Febru ...

(1886–1973), arts patron and women's rights advocate *

Edith Collier Edith Marion Collier (28 March 1885 – 12 December 1964) was an early modern painter from New Zealand. Brought up and educated in Wanganui, Edith received a thorough although conservative art education studying at the Technical School in Whang ...

(1885–1964), artist * Dorothy Davies (1899–1987), pianist * Ellen France (born 1956), lawyer and judge * Patricia France (1911–1995), artist *

Nola Luxford Nola Luxford (born Adelaide Minola Pratt; 23 December 1895 – 10 October 1994) was a New Zealand-born American film actress, spanning from the silent film era to the 1930s. During the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, she was also a writer ...

(1901–1994), radio pioneer *

Jennie McCormick Jennie Margaret McCormick , FRASNZ (; born 1963) is a New Zealand amateur astronomer and asteroid discoverer who conducts astronomical research from the Farm Cove Observatory in Auckland. She discovered the asteroid officially named New Zealand ...

(born 1963), astronomer *

Christine McElwee Christine Clare McElwee (formerly La Varis, ; 22 July 1946 – 25 June 2022) was a New Zealand local politician, historian, author and teacher. She served as a member of the Taupō District Council from 1995 to 2010, including six years as depu ...

(1946–2022), politician, historian, author and teacher *

Anne Noble Anne Lysbeth Noble (born 1954) is a New Zealand photographer and Distinguished Professor of Fine Art (Photography) at Massey University's College of Creative Arts. Her work includes series of photographs examining Antarctica, her own daughter's ...

(born 1954), photographer *

Victoria Ransom Victoria Ransom is a serial entrepreneur from New Zealand. She has developed three companies including Wildfire Interactive, a social marketing SaaS company, where Ransom was chief executive officer until it was sold to Google in 2012. Ransom c ...

, entrepreneur *

Ruth Ross Ruth Miriam Ross (née Guscott; 1 January 1920 – 30 August 1982) was a New Zealand historian. She was part of the 1970s movement that sought to revise academic understandings of the Treaty of Waitangi and educate the public on its translat ...

(1920–1982), historian * Gillian Weir (born 1941), organist

References

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