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Alpha Chi Omega is an American collegiate women's fraternity founded at DePauw University in 1885. Following is a list of Alpha Chi Omega members.

Academia

• Llerena Friend: librarian, teacher, author, and founding director of the Barker Center for Texas History
• Condoleezza Rice (Gamma Delta): former U.S. Secretary of State and director of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University

Art

• Bonnibel Butler (Theta): illustrator of children's books and magazines, including St. Nicholas
• Carol Haerer (Xi): artist known for abstract painting

Business

• Sherron Watkins (Alpha Phi): Enron whistleblower, former vice president of Corporate Development of Enron Corporation, USA Today and Time Person of the Year 2002
• Barbara W. Winder (Beta Nu): president of the Relief Society

Entertainment

• Jayne Atkinson (Gamma): actress known for her Tony Award–nominated roles in The Rainmaker and Enchanted April
• Laura Berman (Alpha Iota): relationship therapist and television host of In the Bedroom with Dr. Laura Berman
• Rita Braver (Kappa): CBS news correspondent
• Hannah Brown (Alpha Upsilon): 2018 Miss Alabama USA winner and star of The Bachelorette
• Linda Cavanaugh (Psi): news anchor
• Eleanor Coppola (Alpha Psi): Emmy award-winning documentarian
• Jen Corey (Beta Rho): 2009 Miss District of Columbia winner, top 10 Miss America 2010 contestant
• Melissa d'Arabian (Alpha Iota): The Next Food Network Star winner and host of Ten Dollar Dinners
• Deidre Downs (Zeta Lambda): 2005 Miss America winner
• Carol Duvall (Beta Epsilon): host of The Carol Duvall Show
• Simone Esters (Alpha Nu): 2019 Miss Missouri; 2nd runner up Miss America
• Ruth Brooks Flippen (Gamma): screenwriter and television writer
• Elle Fowler (Beta Tau): co-creator of beauty and style-related tutorials on YouTube as AllThatGlitters21
• Georgia Frazier (Psi): Miss Oklahoma's Outstanding Teen 2009 and Miss Oklahoma 2015
• Kathi Goertzen (Omega): television news anchor
• Alyson Hannigan (Theta Xi): actress known for Buffy the Vampire Slayer and How I Met Your Mother
• Jenilee Harrison (Epsilon): actress known for Dallas and Three's Company
• Nancy Hoyt (Delta Kappa): participant in The Amazing Race
• Janet Hsieh (Theta Omicron): television host, Golden Bell Award winner, model, and violinist
• Laura Innes (Gamma): actress (ER)
• Natalie Jacobson (Alpha Tau): television news anchor
• Jane Anne Jayroe (Gamma Tau): 1967 Miss America
• Sarah Jones (Epsilon Kappa): contestant on Survivor
• Taylor Kessler (Delta Kappa): Miss Texas USA 2020
• Tami Lane (Zeta Eta): make-up artist and Academy Award winner
• Audra Levi (Alpha Psi): a star of Kid's Beat and co-founder of the SoCal VoCals
• Jean Martirez (Alpha Nu): news anchor
• Beth Mitchell (Zeta Xi): dancer and 1998 National Shag Dancing Champion
• Meredith Monroe (Upsilon): actress known for Dawson's Creek
• Agnes Nixon (Gamma): four-time Daytime Emmy–winning TV writer and producer
• Aubrey O'Day (Epsilon Psi): former member of Danity Kane and cast member of MTV's Making The Band 3
• Martha Quinn: MTV VJ, radio host and actress
• Melissa Rycroft (Psi): former Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader and contestant on The Bachelor and Dancing with the Stars
• Sarah Shahi (Iota Sigma): actress known for The L Word
• Trista Sutter (Alpha Mu): former star of The Bachelorette
• Dawn Wells (Rho): actress known for Gilligan's Island

Law

• Robin S. Rosenbaum (Zeta Phi): judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
• Victoria Toensing (Alpha Mu): Republican Party operative and deputy assistant attorney general in the U.S. Justice Department

Literature and journalism

• Kristen Soltis Anderson (Gamma Iota): Republican pollster, blogger, and author
• Ronda Carman (Delta Kappa) author
• Margaret Cousins (Alpha Phi): editor, journalist, and writer
• Shannon Fisher (Beta Delta): journalist
• Georgie Anne Geyer (Gamma): journalist and author
• Mary Emma Griffith Marshall (Lambda): editor and librarian
• Atoosa Rubenstein (Theta Psi): magazine editor
• Gail Sheehy (Alpha Iota): author

Music

• Amy Beach: composer and pianist
• Edith Bideau: soprano singer
• Winifred Byrd: concert pianist
• Helen Hopekirk: pianist and classical composer
• Margaret Ruthven Lang: composer who was affiliated with the Second New England School
• Marian MacDowell: pianist and co-founder of the MacDowell Colony
• Adele aus der Ohe: concert pianist and composer
• Maud Powell (Alpha): violinist
• Julie Rivé-King: concert pianist, composer, and teacher
• Antoinette Szumowska: pianist
• Margaret Hoberg Turrell: composer and organist
• Ellen Beach Yaw: coloratura soprano
• Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler (Alpha): pianist

Politics

• Jari Askins (Psi): Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma
• Megan Barry (Omicron): mayor of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County
• Stephanie Bice (Gamma Epsilon): U.S. Representative for Oklahoma's 5th congressional district
• Nan Campbell (Rho): first woman to be elected mayor in the city of Bellevue, Washington
• Kathryn F. Clarenbach (Kappa): first chairperson of the National Organization for Women
• Stephanie Hilferty (Zeta Psi): Louisiana House of Representatives
• Kymberly Pine (Pi): Hawaii House of Representatives
• Condoleezza Rice (Gamma Delta): former U.S. Secretary of State and director of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University
• Emma Ridgway: member of the Washington House of Representatives for five terms
• Victoria Toensing (Alpha Mu): Republican Party operative and deputy assistant attorney general in the U.S. Justice Department

Science and engineering

• Wally Funk (Gamma Epsilon): first female Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board inspector, one of the Mercury 13, and oldest woman in space as of July 2021
• Anna Menon (Iota Lambda): mission director at SpaceX and NASA biomedical flight controller for the International Space Station

Sports

• Maddy Curley (Epsilon Chi): collegiate gymnast
• Julia Marino (Nu): freestyle skier and the first Winter Olympian to represent the South American country

See also

• List of Alpha Chi Omega chapters

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