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, nee 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 JonBenet 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)