List of women who have battled ovarian cancer

Overview

 * Glenda Adams, Australian novelist and writer (died at age 68)
 * Evelyn Ankers, American film actress (died at age 67)
 * Eileen Barton, Brooklyn-born American singer (died at age 81, according to her family)
 * Raelene Boyle, Australian athlete; surviving
 * Laurie Beechman, actress/singer (died at age 43)
 * Marcheline Bertrand, actress and mother of Angelina Jolie (died at age 56)
 * 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)
 * 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, actress/entertainer; surviving
 * 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 )
 * Helen Cresswell, British writer and author (died at age 71)
 * U.S. Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, surviving (see )
 * Mildred Dean, mother of American actor James Dean; she died when Dean was 9 years old (see ).
 * Sandy Dennis, Oscar-winning actress (died at age 54)
 * Diana Dors, actress, also known as Diana d'Ors (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 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)
 * Ella Grasso, former Connecticut governor, and the first woman ever to be elected governor in her own right (died at age 61)
 * Marjorie Gross, comedian and television writer/producer (died at age 40)
 * Cassandra Harris, Australian actress/wife of Pierce Brosnan (died at age 43)
 * Dolly Haas, actress/singer; wife of Al Hirschfeld (died at age 84)
 * Joan Hackett, actress (died at age 49)
 * Joyce Hatto, English pianist (died at age 77)
 * Madeline Kahn, actress, singer and comedienne (died at age 57)
 * Coretta Scott King, civil rights activist; widow of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. (died at age 78)
 * Joyce Kulhawik, film critic and Boston television personality; former TV co-host of movie critic Leonard Maltin; surviving.
 * Sarabeth Kusick, wife of baseball player Craig Kusick (who died from leukemia nine months following his wife's death)
 * Dixie Lee, singer and the 1st Mrs. Bing Crosby (died three days before her 41st birthday)
 * Shari Lewis, puppeteer and children's television show host (died at age 65)
 * Mary I of England, née Mary Tudor; British Queen Mary I (died either of uterine cancer or ovarian cancer at the age of 42)
 * Janet Margolin, American film, stage, and television actress (died at age 50)
 * Nancy McDonald, former Texas politician (died at age 72)
 * 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 singer/actress/activist Dana Reeve (died at age 71)
 * Bess Myerson, former Miss America, surviving
 * Laura Nyro, singer (died at age 49; her own mother, Gilda Nigro, also died of ovarian cancer and at the same age as Nyro)
 * Alice Pearce, actress (died at age 48)
 * Gilda Radner, actress/comedienne/Saturday Night Live alumna (died at age 42)
 * Patsy Ramsey, mother of the late JonBenét Ramsey (died at age 49)
 * Marsha Rivkin for whom the Marsha Rivkin Center for Ovarian Cancer Research in Seattle was founded (died in 1993; see )
 * Dinah Shore, actress/singer (died at age 77)
 * Linda Smith, comedienne, actress; head of the British Humanists' Association (died at age 48)
 * Jessica Tandy, actress (died at age 85)
 * Liz Tilberis, Harper's Bazaar Editor-in-Chief (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 actress (died at age 87)