List of people with ovarian cancer

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This is a list of notable people who have or had ovarian cancer, whose illness attracted publicity.

Ovarian cancer is a cancer that forms in or on an ovary.[1][2] It results in abnormal cells that have the ability to invade or spread to other parts of the body.[3] When this process begins, there may be no or only vague symptoms.[4] Symptoms become more noticeable as the cancer progresses.[4][5] These symptoms may include bloating, pelvic pain, abdominal swelling, and loss of appetite, among others.[4] Common areas to which the cancer may spread include the lining of the abdomen, lymph nodes, lungs, and liver.[6]

Acting

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Evelyn Ankers 1918 – 1985 American film actress [7]
Kathy Bates 1948 – Oscar-winning American actress (later treated for breast cancer and lymphedema), surviving [8]
Laurie Beechman 1953 – 1998 American actress/singer [9]
Marcheline Bertrand 1950 – 2007 American film actress; mother of Angelina Jolie and James Haven
Diem Brown 1980 – 2014 American reality TV star (The Real World and Road Rules; died at age 34, nine years after diagnosis) [10]
Márcia Cabrita 1964 – 2017 Brazilian actress [11]
Ann Carter 1936 – 2014 American child actress (The Curse of the Cat People) [12]
Veronica Castang 1938—1988 British film, stage and television actress [13]
Carol Channing 1921 – 2019 American stage and musical comedy actress [14]
Cayle Chernin 1947 – 2011 Canadian actress, writer, and producer [15]
Caitlin Clarke 1952 – 2004 American actress [16]
Sandy Dennis 1937 – 1992 Tony Award and Oscar-winning American theater and film actress [17]
Diana Dors 1931 – 1984 British actress, also known as Diana d'Ors [18]
Susan Fleetwood 1944 – 1995 British film actress [19]
Lovette George 1961 – 2006 American actress and singer [20]
Lynda Gibson 1956 – 2004 Australian comedian and actress [21]
Marjorie Gross 1956 – 1996 Canadian comedian and television writer/producer (Seinfeld) [22]
Dolly Haas 1910 – 1994 German-American actress and singer [23]
Joan Hackett 1934 – 1983 American actress [24]
Cassandra Harris 1948 – 1991 Australian actress; first wife of Pierce Brosnan (died at age 43; Cassandra Harris's mother, Mrs. Roma Waites, and Harris' daughter, Charlotte Brosnan (aged 41), also both died of the disease) [25]
Cecilia Hart 1948 – 2016 American television and stage actress [26]
Dianne Heatherington 1948 – 1966 Canadian film and television actress [27]
Madeline Kahn 1942 – 1999 American actress, singer and comedian [28]
Tomoko Kawakami 1970 – 2011 Japanese voice actress [29]
Grace Keagy 1921 – 2009 American musical theatre, soap opera and television actress [30]
Manisha Koirala 1970 – Bollywood actress and political activist, surviving [31]
Joyce Kulhawik 1952 – American film critic and Boston television personality; former TV co-host of movie critic Leonard Maltin; surviving [32]
Marjie Lawrence 1932 – 2010 British actress [33]
Sinnamon Love 1973 – African American former pornographic film actress and director, surviving [34]
Janet Margolin 1943 – 1993 American film, stage, and television actress [35]
Mariann Mayberry 1965 – 2017 American actress [36]
Marin Mazzie 1960 – 2018 American actress and singer [37]
Heather Menzies 1949 – 2017 Canadian-American actress and model; widow of actor Robert Urich. Menzies-Urich died on December 24, 2017, aged 68, from brain cancer [38]
Mary Millar 1936 – 1998 British actress, most famous as "Rose" from Keeping Up Appearances [39]
Helen Simpson Morosini 1933 – 2005 mother of the late American singer/actress/activist Dana Reeve [40]
Anita Morris 1943 – 1994 American actress, singer and dancer [41][42]
Akemi Negishi 1934 – 2008 Japanese film actress [43]
Kate O'Mara 1939 – 2014 English actress [44][45]
Beverley Owen 1937 – 2019 American actress [46]
Julie Parrish 1940 – 2003 American film, stage and television actress [47]
Alice Pearce 1917 – 1966 American comedic stage, film and television actress [48]
Gilda Radner 1946 – 1989 American actress/comedian (Saturday Night Live) [49][50]
Rachel Rockwell 1969 – 2018 American actress, theater director and choreographer [51]
Candida Royalle 1950 – 2015 American pornographic actress, producer and director [52]
Janet Seidel 1955 – 2017 Australian cabaret singer, jazz vocalist, pianist and music teacher; Bell Awards (2006) winner [53]
Linda Smith 1958 – 2006 British actress/comedian; head of the British Humanists' Association
Cobie Smulders 1982 – Canadian actress and model; surviving [54]
Smita Talwalkar 1954 – 2014 Indian Bollywood actress, director and producer [55][56]
Jessica Tandy 1909 – 1994 Oscar-winning (Driving Miss Daisy) British-born American stage, film and television actress [57]
Bridgette Wilson 1973 – American retired actress, surviving [58]
Tera Wray 1982 – 2016 American pornographic actress, died of an apparent suicide [59]
Celeste Yarnall 1944 – 2018 American actress [60]
Loretta Young 1913 – 2000 Oscar-winning (The Farmer's Daughter, 1947), American film and television actress [61]
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Arts

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Rita Angus 1908 – 1970 New Zealand artist and painter [62]
Nancy Graves 1939 – 1995 American sculptor, painter, printmaker, and filmmaker [63]
Sally Gross 1933 – 2015 American dancer, choreographer and teacher of dance [64]
Barbara Hammer 1939 – 2019 American filmmaker [65]
Denise Jefferson 1944 – 2010 American dancer/director of the Ailey School [66]
Tamara Natalie Madden 1975 – 2017 Jamaican artist [67]
Stephenie McMillan 1942 – 2013 British set decorator [68][69]
Suzanne Mizzi 1967 – 2011 British-Maltese glamour model, singer, interior designer and abstract artist [70]
Miriam Mone 1965 – 2007 County Armagh-born Irish fashion designer [71][72]
Meryl O'Loughlin 1933 – 2007 American casting director and talent executive [73][74]
Mary Oppen 1908 – 1990 American activist, artist, photographer, poet and writer [75]
Melinda Camber Porter 1953 – 2008 British artist, author, poet, journalist and filmmaker [76]
Beau St. Clair c. 1952 – 2016 American film producer [77]
Margi Scharff 1955 – 2007 American artist [78]
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Business

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Dorothy Brunson 1939 – 2011 American businesswoman; first African American woman to own radio and television stations [79]
Patricia C. Dunn 1953 – 2011 American businesswoman and former Hewlett-Packard executive [80]
Evelyn Lauder 1936 – 2011 Vienna-born New York businesswoman, breast cancer awareness activist, and philanthropist [81][82]
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Music

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Marcia Barrett 1948 – Jamaican-born British singer, surviving [83]
Eileen Barton 1924 – 2006 American singer [84]
Alma Cogan 1932 – 1966 English singer/entertainer
Kartina Dahari 1941 – 2014 Malaysian singer [85]
Holly Dunn 1957 – 2016 American country music performer [86]
Lorraine Ellison 1931 – 1983 American soul singer [87][88]
Susan Fernandez (aka Susan Fernandez Magno) 1956 – 2009 Filipino singer, activist and academic [89]
Frances Ginsberg 1955 – 2010 American operatic soprano (died at age 55 from ovarian cancer; had previously been treated for breast cancer) [90][91]
Joyce Hatto 1928 – 2006 British pianist [citation needed]
Olga Jackowska 1951 – 2018 Polish rock singer [92]
Shizuko Kasagi 1914 –1985 Japanese jazz singer and actress [93]
Dixie Lee 1911 – 1952 American singer; first wife of Bing Crosby (died three days before her 41st birthday)
Valisia LeKae 1979 – American singer and musical theatre actress, surviving [94]
Vange Leonel 1963 – 2014 Brazilian singer-songwriter, guitarist, journalist, blogger, novelist, playwright, feminist/LGBT activist [95]
Connie Needham 1959 – American dancer and former actress, surviving [96]
Laura Nyro 1947 – 1997 American singer-songwriter (died at age 49; her mother, Gilda Nigro, also died of ovarian cancer at age 49) [97][98]
Dinah Shore 1916 – 1994 American singer and actress [99]
Hikaru Utada 1983 – Japanese-American singer-songwriter, surviving
Angela Winbush 1955 – American rhythm and blues vocalist; surviving [100]
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Politics

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Professor Dora Nkem Akunyili 1954 – 2014 Nigerian politician and academic [101]
Maryam Babangida 1948 – 2009 Nigerian first lady [102]
Pam Brown 1952 – 2011 American politician (died at age 58) [103]
Tina Brozman 1952 – 2007 American lawyer and judge [104][105]
Anita Connick 1967– American lawyer, judge and Louisiana Supreme Court justice [106]
Rosa DeLauro 1943 – US congresswoman (D-CT), surviving [107][108]
Jeannie Ferris 1941 – 2007 Australian politician [109]
Ella Grasso 1919 – 1981 American politician; first woman ever to be elected a state governor in the United States in her own right [110][111]
Judy Kennedy 1944 – 2018 American politician, Mayor of Newburgh, New York from 2012 to 2018 [112]
Laura Knaperek 1955 – 2016 American politician, public official, and member of the Arizona House of Representatives [113]
Lim Bee Kau Malaysian politician, MP for Padang Serai from 1999 to 2009 [114]
Mary I of England, née Mary Tudor 1516 – 1558 (died from either uterine cancer or ovarian cancer, aged 42) [115]
Nancy McDonald 1934 – 2007 American politician [116]
Helen W. Milliken 1922 – 2012 wife of former Michigan governor William Milliken and one-time Michigan First Lady [117]
Natalie "Nan" Cornell Rehnquist 1924 – 2005 wife of US Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist [118]
Ruth Samuelson 1959 – 2017 American politician, member (2007–15) of the North Carolina General Assembly [119]
Linda Scheid 1942 – 2011 American activist, lawyer and politician (died at age 68, the day before what would have been her 69th birthday) [120]
Joanna Strathdee 1954 – 2015 Scottish politician (died at age 60) [121]
Susan Tolchin 1941 – 2016 American political scientist [122]
Haydee Yorac 1941 — 2005 Filipino public servant, law professor and politician [123]
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Science and medicine

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Dr Barbara Mary Ansell 1923 —2001 British scientist and paediatric rheumatologist [124]
Dr Nadia Chaudhri 1977 – 2021 Pakistani-Canadian neuroscientist [125]
Vicky Clement-Jones 1948 – 1987 Hong Kong-born English physician [126]
Dr. Rosalind Franklin 1920 – 1958 British chemist and crystallographer, linked to discovery of the shape of the double helix of DNA [127][128]
Hasri Ainun Habibie 1937 – 2010 Indonesian physician and wife of President B. J. Habibie; served as First Lady of Indonesia from 1998 to 1999 [129]
Gisela Mosig 1930 – 2003 German-American molecular biologist [130]
Janet Rowley 1925 – 2013 American cancer researcher [131]
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Sports

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Marina Baiul 1977- mother of Ukrainian Olympic figure skater Oksana Baiul [132]
Raelene Boyle 1951 – Australian athlete, surviving [133]
Maureen Connolly 1934 – 2011 tennis great; first woman to win four grand slam titles in one year [134]
Chris Evert 1954 - American former world No. 1 tennis player. 7-time year-end world no. 1 singles player. Evert won 157 singles titles and 32 doubles titles. Stage 1c ovarian cancer; surviving [135]
Myra Nathalie Kraft 1934 – 1969 wife of businessman and owner of the New England Patriots football team, Robert "Bob" Kraft [136][137]
Sarabeth Kusick 1948 – 2006 wife of American baseball player Craig Kusick (died at age 56); her husband died from leukemia (aged 57), nine months following her death [138][139]
Shannon Miller 1977 – American Olympic gold-medalist gymnast; surviving [140][141]
Roberta "Bobbi" Olson 1936 – 2001 wife of retired Hall of Fame basketball coach Lute Olson [142]
Bernardine Portenski 1949 – 2017 New Zealand long-distance runner [143]
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Writing

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Andrea Adams 1946 – 1995 English BBC broadcaster, journalist and anti-bullying activist [144]
Glenda Adams 1939 – 2007 Australian novelist and writer [145]
Judith Appelbaum 1939 – 2018 American editor, consultant and author [146][147]
Carol Bly 1930 – 2007 American essayist and short-story writer [148]
Clare Boylan 1948 – 2006 Irish writer [149]
Zenobia Camprubí Aymar 1887 – 1956 Spanish-born (of Catalan and Puerto Rican descent) writer, poet and translator [150]
Bonnie Christensen 1951 – 2015 American children's book author and illustrator [151]
Claudia Cohen 1950 – 2007 American socialite and journalist [152]
Helen Cresswell 1934 – 2005 British writer and author [153][154]
Sara Douglass 1957 – 2011 Australian fantasy writer [155]
Catherine Gaskin 1929 – 2009 Irish-Australian novelist [156]
Martha Gellhorn 1908 – 1998 American war correspondent, novelist, journalist (committed suicide, aged 89, after ovarian cancer metastasized to her liver) [157]
Debbie Goad 1954 – 2000 American journalist and magazine publisher [158]
Josephine Hart, Lady Saatchi 1942 – 2011 Irish-born British-based novelist [159]
Pagan Kennedy 1963 – American author, surviving [160]
Francess Lantz 1952 – 2004 American librarian, novelist and writer [161][162]
Clarice Lispector 1920 – 1977 Brazilian prose writer [163][164]
Norah McClintock 1952 – 2017 Canadian author [165]
Ursula Nordstrom 1910 – 1988 American book editor [166]
Barbara Park 1947 – 2013 American author of children's books [167][168]
Doris Pilkington Garimara 1937 – 2014 Australian author [169][170]
Mary Raftery 1957 – 2012 Irish investigative journalist, filmmaker and writer [171][172]
Amy Krouse Rosenthal 1965 – 2017 American author, filmmaker, and radio show host [173]
Liz Tilberis 1947 – 1999 British-born American-based fashionista; editor-in-chief of Harper's Bazaar
Joyce Wadler 1948 – New York journalist and New York Times columnist; surviving [174]
Mari Yonehara 1950 – 2006 Japanese translator, essayist, non-fiction writer and novelist [175]
Yvonne Zanos 1950–2010 American television journalist (at KDKA-TV) [176]
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Miscellaneous

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Christiane Amanpour 1958 - Journalist [177]
Maria del Carmen Bousada de Lara 1940 – 2009 World's oldest mother [178]
Jill Chaifetz 1964 – 2006 American lawyer and children's right advocate [179]
Doris Dungey 1961 – 2008 American blogger and analyst on economic and finance issues [180][181]
Ann Dunham Uterine Cancer 1942 – 1995 American anthropologist; mother of U.S. President Barack Obama [182]
Robert Eads 1945 – 1999 American female to male transsexual who was denied medical treatment for the cancer in the US state of Georgia [183]
Johanna Silver Gordon 1942 – 2000 American schoolteacher (died at age 58 in 2000), for whom "Johanna's Law" was named [184][185]
Linda Grover 1934 – 2010 American peace activist, founder of Global Family Day [186]
Sharon Tyler Herbst 1942 – 2007 American chef and cookbook author [187][188]
Margaret Juntwait 1957 – 2015 American radio host, host of Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts from 2004 to 2014 [189]
Amy Kass 1940 – 2015 American academic and educator at the University of Chicago [190]
Coretta Scott King 1927 – 2006 American civil rights activist; widow of Martin Luther King Jr. [191][192]
Fay Honey Knopp 1918 – 1995 Quaker minister, peace and civil rights advocate, and prison abolitionist. [193]
Wangari Muta Maathai 1940 – 2011 Kenyan environmental and political activist [194][195]
Captain Rosemary Bryant Mariner 1953 – 2019 American military aviator; one of the first six women to earn their wings as a United States Naval Aviator in 1974 [196][197]
Monique Leroy Martinot d. 1984 French cause célèbre for cryostasis [198]
Elly Mayday 1988 – 2019 Canadian model, advocate, and writer [199]
Bess Myerson 1924 – 2014 American model (crowned Miss American 1945), television personality and political appointee; survived → died of natural causes at age 90 in 2014 [200][201]
Dawn O'Donnell 1927/1928 – 2007 Australian LGBT rights activist, campaigner, and entrepreneur [202]
Patsy Ramsey 1956 – 2006 Garnered notoriety (with her husband) following the 1996 murder of their daughter, JonBenét [203][204]
Susan, Lady Renouf 1942 – 2016 Australian socialite [205]
Jolie Christine Rickman 1970 – 2005 American feminist, social activist and musician [206]
Judith Merkle Riley 1942 – 2010 American academic, educator and novelist [207]
Lou Halsell Rodenberger 1926 – 2009 American educator, professor, and journalist [208]
Jemera Rone 1944 – 2015 American human rights activist, who served as Human Rights Watch of East Africa Coordinator [209]
Gillian Rose 1947 – 1995 British academic [210]
Urairat Soimee 1968, 1970, or 1971 – 2006 Thai human trafficking victim who sued her traffickers and sought justice for victims [211]
Sheila Varian 1937 – 2016 American horse breeder [212]
Margaret Mary Vojtko 1930 – 2013 American academic and educator (died of a heart attack; had been receiving treatment for ovarian cancer) [213][214]
Nina Wang 1936 – 2007 Chair of Chinachem Group, Asia's richest woman at the time of her death [215][216]
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