| Rose Whelan Sedgewick | |
| Birth Name: | Rose Alice Whelan |
| Birth Place: | Brockton, MA, USA |
| Death Place: | Dunedin, FL, USA |
| Nationality: | American |
| Fields: | Mathematics |
| Workplaces: | University of Rochester University of Connecticut Hillyer College University of Maryland |
| Alma Mater: | Brown University |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Jacob David Tamarkin |
Rose Whelan Sedgewick (– 2000) was an American mathematician. She was the first person to earn a PhD in mathematics from Brown University, in 1929.[1] Her subsequent career in mathematics included assistant professorships at the University of Rochester, the University of Connecticut, Hillyer College, and the University of Maryland.[2]
Sedgewick is the namesake of the Rose Whelan Society at Brown, an organization for women and gender minorities who are graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and faculty in pure and applied in mathematics.[3] She was married to fellow mathematician Charles H.W. Sedgewick and had four children.[4] She died on June 7, 2000, at the age of 96.