List of women who have battled ovarian cancer
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- 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[citation needed]
- 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 [1])
- 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 [2])
- 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
- 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 [3])
- 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)
