Whanganui Girls' College is located in Jones Street

Whanganui Whanganui (; ), also spelled Wanganui, is a city in the Manawatū-Whanganui region of New Zealand. The city is located on the west coast of the North Island at the mouth of the Whanganui River, New Zealand's longest navigable waterway. Whangan ...

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 (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 Dame Ellen Dolour France (née Larkin; born 1956) is a New Zealand jurist. She is currently a justice of the Supreme Court, and was previously the president of the Court of Appeal. Biography Ellen Dolour Larkin was born to parents who were b ...

(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 (born 1963), astronomer * Christine McElwee (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, 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 Dame Gillian Constance Weir (born 17 January 1941) is a New Zealand-British organist. Biography Weir was born in Martinborough, New Zealand, on 17 January 1941. Her parents were Clarice Mildred Foy ( Bignell) and Cecil Alexander Weir. She re ...

(born 1941), organist

References

{{Authority control Schools in Whanganui Secondary schools in Manawatū-Whanganui Girls' schools in New Zealand 1891 establishments in New Zealand Educational institutions established in 1891