Queen's College was founded to provide women with the qualifications they needed to enter the professions. It is not surprising then that during the course of its history the College has produced a large number of successful, professional women. Former pupils are known as Old Queen's. These are a few of the best known, with their dates at the College:
- Imogen Lloyd Webber (1988-95) writer, broadcaster and theatre producer
- Vanessa Walters (1988-95) novelist, film critic and writer in residence for the Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
- Caroline Lee-Johnson (1980-82) actress
- Claudia Rosencrantz (1975-79) journalist, Director of Television for Virgin Media
- Emma Freud (1973-80) broadcaster
- Catherine Goodman (1972-79) painter, Artistic Director of The Prince's Drawing School
- Tamara Ingram (1972-79) CEO Grey Group UK, former CEO Saatchi & Saatchi
- Daisy Goodwin (1972-77) BBC television producer and presenter
- Emma Soames (1965-6) journalist, editor-at-large Saga magazine
- Professor Griselda Pollock (1964-66) art historian, Director of the Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory and History, University of Leeds
- Harriet Cass (1962-70) broadcaster
- Professor Hermione Lee (1963-65) biographer, academic and President of Wolfson College, University of Oxford
- Deborah Moggach (1959-62) novelist and script-writer
- Jacqueline du Pré (1959) cellist
- Barbara Thompson MBE (1955-62) jazz saxophonist and composer
- Dame Rosalinde Hurley DBE (1948-50) microbiologist, barrister and Chairman of the Medicines Commission
- Professor Albinia de la Mare OBE (1947-56) palaeographer and librarian
- Joyce Rose CBE (1946-50) former Chairman, Magistrates' Association
- Gillian Sheen (1945-47) Britain's first Olympic gold medallist in fencing
- Professor Jane Somerville (1944-50) consultant cardiologist, Chairman of Queen's College Council (2000-06)
- Lady Soames LG DBE (1940) daughter of Sir Winston Churchill, writer, former Chairman of the Royal National Theatre Board, mother of Emma Soames (above)
- Dame Simone Prendergast DBE (1939-40) lawyer and public servant
- Dame Elizabeth Chesterton DBE (1932) architect
- Dame Alison Munro DBE (1924-25) High Mistress, St Paul's Girls' School
- Katherine Mansfield (1903-06) author
- Gertrude Bell (1884-86) diplomat, archaeologist and writer
- Frances Dove (1860-62) founder of Wycombe Abbey School
- Sophia Jex-Blake (1858-61) co-founder of the London School of Medicine
- Dorothea Beale (1848-55) founder of Cheltenham Ladies' College and St Hilda's College, Oxford
- Frances Mary Buss (1848) founder of North London Collegiate School
