List of women who have battled ovarian cancer

*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 77 or 78)
*Marina Baiul, mother of Olympic figure skater Oksana Baiul (died in 1991)
*Eileen Barton, Brooklyn-born American singer (died at age 81, according to her family)
*Laurie Beechman, actress/singer (died at age 43)
*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 Real World and Road Rules, as well as MTV's documentary of her experience with the disease) (surviving)
*Tina Brozman, American lawyer and judge (died at age 54)
*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 Fact|date=April 2008
*Caitlin Clarke, 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 natural causes
*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 (see [http://www.ovariancancer.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Page.viewPage&PageID=477&CFID=6282940&CFTOKEN=bff1bfe710314dc8-0504AD0F-15C5-E1E2-3EC5DC86088C66E4] )
*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 [http://people.smu.edu/shhill/] )
*Amanda Dempsey, mother of actor Patrick Dempsey, surviving
*Sandy Dennis, Oscar-winning actress (died at age 54)
*Diana Dors, actress, also known as Diana d'Ors (died at age 52)
*Ann Dunham, mother of Barack Obama (died at age 52)
*Patricia C. Dunn, embattled former chair of Hewlett-Packard, currently battling ovarian cancer.
*Robert Eads, American female to male transsexual who was denied medical treatment for the cancer in the state of Georgia (died at age 53)
*Jeannie Ferris, Senator for South Australia (died at age 66)
*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)
*Lynda Gibson, Australian comedian and actress (died at age 47)
*Debbie Goad, American journalist and magazine publisher (died at age 46)
*Ella Grasso, former Connecticut governor, and the first woman ever to be elected governor in her own right (died at age 61)
*Marjorie Gross, Canadian comedian and television writer/producer ("Seinfeld") (died at age 40)
*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)
*Joyce Hatto, English 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 or 65)
*Madeline Kahn, American actress, singer and comedienne (died at age 57)
*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 (who died from leukemia nine months following his wife's death)
*Dixie Lee, American singer and the 1st Mrs. Bing Crosby (died three days before her 41st birthday)
*Mary I of England, née Mary Tudor; British Queen Mary I (died either of uterine cancer or ovarian cancer at the age of 42)
*Nancy McDonald, former Texas 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 and widow of Robert Urich; surviving
*Mary Millar, British actress, most famous as "Rose" from "Keeping Up Appearances" (died at age 62)
*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
*Ursula Nordstrom, renowned book editor (died age 78) [ [http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/03/22/reviews/980322.22sinklet.html The New York Times, March 22, 1998] ]
*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)
*Meryl Abeles O'Loughlin, American casting director and talent executive; former wife of actor Gerald S. O'Loughlin (died around the age of 71 in 2007)
*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)
*Patsy Ramsey, Best-known for the publicity she and her husband garnered following the infamous 1996 murder of their daughter (JonBenét Ramsey) (died at age 49)
*Natalie "Nan" Cornell Rehnquist, wife of late United States Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist (died October 17 1991)
*Marsha Rivkin for whom the Marsha Rivkin Center for Ovarian Cancer Research in Seattle was founded (died in 1993; see [http://www.ovariancancer.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Page.viewPage&PageID=477&CFID=6282940&CFTOKEN=bff1bfe710314dc8-0504AD0F-15C5-E1E2-3EC5DC86088C66E4] )
*Dinah Shore, American actress/singer (died at age 77)
*Linda Smith, UK actress/comedienne; head of the British Humanists' Association (died at age 48)
*Jessica Tandy, Oscar-winning ("Driving Miss Daisy") British-born American stage and film 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
*Loretta Young, Oscar-winning ("The Farmer's Daughter") American film and television actress (died at age 87)

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