List of Women With Ovarian Cancer

List of notable women who have or had ovarian cancer, whose illness attracted publicity.

• Manisha Koirala, Nepalese actress and political activist (see Manisha Koirala)
• Fakhriya Abdel Karim, Iraqi actress and political activist (died at age 63; see )
• Glenda Adams, Australian novelist and writer (died at age 68)
• Evelyn Ankers, American film actress (died at age 67)
• Dr. Barbara Mary Ansell, British scientist and paediatric rheumatologist (died at age 78)
• Maryam Babangida, Nigerian first lady (died at age 61; see )
• Marina Baiul, mother of Ukrainian Olympic figure skater Oksana Baiul (died in 1991)
• Eileen Barton, Brooklyn-born American singer (died at age 81)
• Kathy Bates, Oscar-winning American actress, surviving; later treated for breast cancer
• Laurie Beechman, American actress/singer (died at age 44)
• Marcheline Bertrand, American film actress; mother of Angelina Jolie and James Haven (died at age 56)
• Carol Bly, American short-story writer/essayist (died at age 77)
• Raelene Boyle, Australian athlete; surviving
• Clare Boylan, Irish writer (died at age 58)
• Diem Brown, Reality TV star (MTV's The Real World and Road Rules, as well as MTV's documentary of her experience with the disease), surviving
• Dorothy Brunson, American businesswoman; first African American woman to own radio and television stations (died at age 72)
• Pam Brown, American politician (died at age 58)
• Tina Brozman, American lawyer and judge (died at age 54)
• Zenobia Camprubí Aymar, Spanish-born (of Catalan and Puerto Rican descent) writer, poet and translator (died at age 69)
• Veronica Castang, British film, stage and television actress (died at age 50)
• Jill Chaifetz, American lawyer and children's right advocate (died at age 41)
• Carol Channing, American stage and musical comedy actress, surviving
• Cayle Chernin, Canadian actress, writer, and producer (died at age 63; see )
• Caitlin Clarke, American actress (died at age 52)
• Sister Sarah Clarke, County Galway, Ireland-born Roman Catholic nun and London-based political activist during The Troubles (1980s-1990s); survived; died of from natural causes
• Alma Cogan, English singer/entertainer (died at age 34)
• Claudia Cohen, American socialite and journalist (died at age 56)
• Dianna Cooley in whose memory the ovarian cancer advocacy group Dianna's Hope in Allen, Texas was founded
• Anita Connick, American lawyer, judge and Louisiana Supreme Court justice (died at age 55)
• Maureen Connolly, tennis great; first woman to win four grand slam titles in one year (died age 34)
• Helen Cresswell, British writer and author (died at age 71)
• U.S. Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, surviving
• Mildred Dean, mother of American actor James Dean; she died when Dean was 9 years old (see )
• Amanda Dempsey, mother of American actor Patrick Dempsey, surviving
• Sandy Dennis, Oscar-winning American actress (died at age 54)
• Nancy Dolman, Canadian actress and wife of Martin Short (died at age 58)
• Diana Dors, British actress, also known as Diana d'Ors (died at age 52)
• Sara Douglass, Australian fantasy writer (died at age 54)
• Ann Dunham, mother of Barack Obama (died at age 52)
• Doris Dungey, influential American blogger and analyst on economic and finance issues (died at age 47)
• Patricia C. Dunn, American businesswoman and former Hewlett-Packard executive (died at age 58)
• Robert Eads, American female to male transsexual who was denied medical treatment for the cancer in the state of Georgia (died at age 53)
• Lorraine Ellison, American soul singer (died at age 51)
• Susan Fernandez Magno, Filipino singer, activist and academic (died at age 52)
• Jeannie Ferris, Australian politician (died at age 66)
• Patty Franchi Flaherty, founded Ovations for the Cure (died at age 53)
• Susan Fleetwood, British film actress (died at age 51)
• Rosalind Franklin, British physical chemist and crystallographer, linked with the discovery of the shape of the double helix of DNA (died at age 37)
• Catherine Gaskin, Irish-Australian novelist (died at age 80)
• Lynda Gibson, Australian comedian and actress (died at age 47)
• Frances Ginsberg, American operatic soprano (died at age 55 from brain and spinal cancer; had been previously treated for breast and ovarian cancer)
• Debbie Goad, American journalist and magazine publisher (died at age 46)
• Johanna Silver Gordon, American schoolteacher (died at age 58 in 2000), for whom Johanna's Law was named
• Ella Grasso, American politician; first woman ever to be elected a state governor in the United States in her own right (died at age 61)
• Nancy Graves, American sculptor, painter, printmaker, and filmmaker (died at age 55)
• Marjorie Gross, Canadian comedian and television writer/producer (Seinfeld) (died at age 40)
• Linda Grover, American peace activist, founder of Global Family Day (died at age 76)
• Dolly Haas, German-American actress and singer (died at age 84)
• Joan Hackett, American actress (died at age 49)
• Cassandra Harris, Australian actress; wife of Pierce Brosnan (died at age 43)
• Josephine Hart, Irish-born British-based novelist (died at age 69)
• Joyce Hatto, British pianist (died at age 77)
• Dianne Heatherington, Canadian film and television actress (died at age 48)
• Sharon Tyler Herbst, American chef and cook-book author (died at age 64)
• Denise Jefferson, American dancer/director of the Ailey School (died at age 65; see )
• Madeline Kahn, American actress, singer and comedienne (died at age 57)
• Shizuko Kasagi, Japanese jazz singer and actress (died at age 70)
• Tomoko Kawakami, Japanese voice actress (died at age 40)
• Grace Keagy, American musical theatre, soap opera and television actress (died at age 87)
• Coretta Scott King, American civil rights activist; widow of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. (died at age 78)
• Joyce Kulhawik, American film critic and Boston television personality; former TV co-host of movie critic Leonard Maltin; surviving
• Sarabeth Kusick, wife of American baseball player Craig Kusick (died at age 56; her husband died from leukemia nine months following his wife's death)
• Francess Lantz, American librarian, novelist and writer (died at age 52)
• Evelyn Lauder, Vienna-born New York businesswoman, breast cancer awareness activist, and philanthropist (died at age 75)
• Dixie Lee, American singer and the 1st Mrs. Bing Crosby (died three days before her 41st birthday)
• Clarice Lispector, Brazilian prose writer (died at age 56)
• Wangari Muta Maathai, Kenyan environmental and political activist (died at age 71)
• Mary I of England, née Mary Tudor (died either of uterine cancer or ovarian cancer, aged 42)
• Nancy McDonald, American politician (died at age 72)
• Janet Margolin, American film, stage, and television actress (died at age 50)
• Heather Menzies, Canadian-born actress, most famous for portraying Louisa in The Sound of Music; widow of actor Robert Urich; surviving
• Mary Millar, British actress, most famous as "Rose" from Keeping Up Appearances (died at age 62)
• Shannon Miller, American Olympic gold-medalist gymnast; surviving
• Helen W. Milliken, wife of former Michigan Governor William Milliken and one-time Michigan First Lady (died November 16, 2012, aged 89)
• Suzanne Mizzi, British-Maltese glamour model, singer, interior designer and abstract artist (died at age 43)
• Miriam Mone, County Armagh-born Irish fashion designer (died at age 42)
• Helen Simpson Morosini, mother of the late American singer/actress/activist Dana Reeve (died at age 71)
• Bess Myerson, Miss America (1945), surviving
• Connie Needham, American dancer and former actress, surviving
• Akemi Negishi, Japanese film actress (died at age 73)
• Ursula Nordstrom, American book editor (died at age 78; see )
• Laura Nyro, American singer-songwriter (died at age 49; her own mother, Gilda Nigro, also died of ovarian cancer and at the same age as Nyro)
• Dawn O'Donnell, Australian LGBT rights activist, campaigner, and entrepreneur (died at age 79)
• Meryl O'Loughlin, American casting director and talent executive (died at age 73)
• Roberta "Bobbi" Olson, wife of Lute Olson (died at age 65; see )
• Mary Oppen, American activist, artist, photographer, poet and writer (died at age 81)
• Julie Parrish, American film, stage and television actress (died at age 62)
• Alice Pearce, American comedic stage, film and television actress (Bewitched) (died at age 48)
• Gilda Radner, American actress/comedienne (Saturday Night Live) (died at age 42)
• Mary Raftery, Irish investigative journalist, filmmaker and writer (died at age 54)
• Patsy Ramsey, garnered notoriety (with her husband) following the 1996 murder of their daughter, JonBenét (died at age 49)
• Natalie "Nan" Cornell Rehnquist, wife of late United States Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist (died October 17, 1991)
• Judith Merkle Riley, American academic, educator and novelist (died at age 68; see )
• Marsha Rivkin for whom the Marsha Rivkin Center for Ovarian Cancer Research in Seattle, Washington was founded (died in 1993)
• Lou Halsell Rodenberger, American educator, professor, and journalist (died at age 82)
• Gillian Rose, British academic (died at age 48)
• Margi Scharff, American artist (died at age 52)
• Linda Scheid, American lawyer, activist and politician (died the day before her 69th birthday)
• Dinah Shore, American singer and actress (died at age 77)
• Linda Smith, British actress/comedienne; head of the British Humanists' Association (died at age 48)
• Jessica Tandy, Oscar-winning (Driving Miss Daisy) British-born American stage, film and television actress (died at age 85)
• Liz Tilberis, British-born American-based fashionista/Editor-in-chief of Harper's Bazaar (died at age 51)
• Joyce Wadler, New York journalist and New York Times columnist; surviving
• Angela Winbush, American rhythm and blues vocalist; surviving
• Mari Yonehara, Japanese translator, essayist, non-fiction writer and novelist (died at age 56)
• Haydee Yorac, Filipino public servant, law professor and politician (died at age 64)
• Loretta Young, Oscar-winning (The Farmer's Daughter) American film and television actress (died at age 87)
• Yvonne Zanos, American television journalist (at KDKA-TV; died at age 60)