- Kylie Minogue
Kylie Ann Minogue (born 28 May 1968) is an Australian dance-pop singer-songwriter and occasional actress. Minogue rose to prominence in the mid '80s through her role in the Australian television soap opera "Neighbours", before she commenced her career as a pop artist in the late '80s. According to Warner Music Australia, Minogue has sold over 65 million records worldwide. Signed to a contract by British songwriters and producers Stock, Aitken & Waterman, … - Nancy Reagan
Nancy Davis Reagan (born Anne Frances Robbins on July 6, 1921) is the widow of former United States President Ronald Reagan and was First Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989. Reagan was born in New York in 1921 and moved to California in the 1940s, where she became an actress before meeting her husband, Ronald Reagan. They married in 1952, and had two children. Reagan became First Lady of California in 1967 with her husband's gubernatorial victory, … - Elizabeth Edwards
Mary Elizabeth Anania Edwards (born July 3, 1949, in Jacksonville, Florida) is an attorney and the wife of John Edwards, a former U.S. Senator from North Carolina, the 2004 United States Democratic vice-presidential nominee and a 2008 Democratic Party presidential candidate. - Nancy Brinker
Nancy Brinker is the founder of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, today recognized as the nation's leading catalyst in the fight against breast cancer. Brinker was appointed by President Bush in 2001 to serve as U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Hungary, a position which she held until July 2003. Brinker has been named one of the 100 Most Important Women of the 20th Century (Ladies Home Journal) and one of the 25 Most Powerful Women in America (Biography Magazine). - Sheryl Crow
Sheryl Suzanne Crow (born February 11, 1962) is a nine-time Grammy-winning American blues rock singer, guitarist, bassist, and songwriter. Her music blends country, pop, folk, and blues rock into one mainstream sound. Crow is also a noted political activist who uses her fame to promote causes she supports. - Minnie Pearl
Minnie Pearl was the stage name of Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon (October 25, 1912 - March 4, 1996). She was a country comedian who, along with friend Roy Acuff, was an institution at the Grand Ole Opry, and on the television show "Hee Haw" from 1969 to 1991. She was known for wearing a big hat with a price tag that read "$1.98" hanging off the side. - Olivia Newton-John
Olivia Newton-John AO OBE (born 26 September 1948) is a Grammy Award-winning and Golden Globe-nominated English-born Australian pop singer, songwriter and actress of Welsh and German descent. Her highly acclaimed vocal musical and acting talents made her a globally recognized name. Olivia Newton-John is also a small business entrepreneur and an avid activist in ecological or environmental issues. - Melissa Etheridge
Melissa Lou Etheridge (born May 29, 1961, in Leavenworth, Kansas) is an Academy Award-winning and two-time Grammy Award-winning American rock musician and singer. - Rachel Carson
Rachel Louise Carson (May 27, 1907 - April 14, 1964) was an American marine biologist and nature writer whose landmark book, "Silent Spring", is often credited with having launched the global environmental movement. "Silent Spring" had an immense effect in the United States, where it spurred a reversal in national pesticide policy. She was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. - Betty Ford
Elizabeth Anne Bloomer Warren Ford, known as Betty (born April 8, 1918) is the widow of former United States President Gerald R. Ford and was the First Lady from 1974 to 1977. She is the founder and former chairman of the board of directors of the Betty Ford Center for substance abuse and addiction. Betty Ford is a recipient of the Congressional Gold Medal. - Cynthia Nixon
Cynthia Nixon (born April 9, 1966) is a Tony and Emmy Award-winning American actress who is best known for her portrayal of lawyer Miranda Hobbes in the popular HBO dramedy "Sex and the City" (1998-2004). - Linda McCartney
Linda Louise, Lady McCartney (September 24, 1941 - April 17, 1998) was an American photographer, musician, and animal rights activist. Although at first she was best known for her marriage to Sir Paul McCartney, of The Beatles, she was later the author of several vegetarian cookbooks, a business entrepreneur, and professional photographer whose book "Linda McCartney's Sixties", written in association with poet and author Steve Turner, … - Gerry Rogers
Gerry Rogers is a Canadian documentary filmmaker. She began her career with the National Film Board, and left in 1992 to form her own production company, Augusta Productions. Her best-known film, "My Left Breast", documented her battle with breast cancer and was released in 2000. Openly lesbian, Rogers is the partner of social worker and politician Peg Norman. - Laura Ingraham
After graduating from Dartmouth College, Laura worked as a speechwriter in the final two years of the Reagan Administration at the White House, the Department of Transportation and the Department of Education. She went on to graduate from the University of Virginia School of Law, where she was Notes Editor of the Law Review. She served as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and Ralph K. Winter on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. - Barbara Ehrenreich
Barbara Ehrenreich (born August 26 1941, in Butte, Montana) is a prominent American writer, columnist, feminist, socialist and political activist. - Suzanne Somers
Suzanne Somers (born October 16, 1946) is an American actress, author, and businesswoman. Best known for her roles as the ditzy blonde "Chrissy Snow" on the ABC sitcom "Three's Company" and "Carol Lambert" on the sitcom "Step by Step", she later capitalized on her acting career by also establishing herself as an author of a series of self-help books. She currently brings her own items, that she designed, to HSN. - Jaclyn Smith
Jaclyn Smith (born October 26, 1947) is a Golden Globe-nominated American actress. She is best known for the role of Kelly Garrett in the television series "Charlie's Angels" (1976-1981). Smith was the only original female lead to remain with the series for its complete run. For two decades, Smith has held the unofficial title of "Queen of TV Movies and Mini-series." She has appeared in over two dozen television movies and miniseries. - Sandra Day O'Connor
Born in 1930, O'Connor, grew up on an 198,000-acre cattle ranch in Arizona. By the time she was 8, she could mend fences, drive a truck and ride horses with the cowboys on the ranch. In 1952, she graduated from Stanford Law School in California. But law firms would not hire a woman lawyer, so she turned to public service. "In my lifetime, I have seen attitudes about women change dramatically," she told TFK. "Today, almost all occupations are open to women. - Peggy Fleming
Peggy Gale Fleming (born July 27, 1948 in San Jose, California) is an American figure skater who won an Olympic gold medal in 1968. - Toby Robins
Toby Robins (1930 - 1986) born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada was a noted Canadian actress and journalist. She starred in hundreds of radio and stage productions in Canada from the late 1940s through the 1960s, working with such stars as Jane Mallett, Barry Morse, John Drainie, Ruth Springford, James Doohan, and many others. She appeared in a number of television and film roles beginning in the mid-1950s, and hosted the first-ever CBC Television series, … - Hala Moddelmog
Hala Moddelmog (born January 3, 1956 in Georgia) became president and chief executive officer of Susan G. Komen for the Cure in September of 2006. Moddelmog is a breast cancer survivor who was diagnosed in 2001. She is responsible for all aspects of management for Komen for the Cure, the world’s largest and most progressive grassroots network of breast cancer survivors and activists. - Audre Lorde
Audre Geraldine Lorde (February 18, 1934 in Harlem, New York City - November 17, 1992) was a writer, poet and activist. - Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag was an American essayist, novelist, intellectual, filmmaker, and activist. - Gloria Steinem
Steinem's lifelong career as a writer and journalist began after college. A co-founder of New York magazine in 1968, Steinem was always active in a wide array of political and social causes. She became a major feminist leader in the late 1960s and in 1971 co-founded MS Magazine, where she serves as contributing editor today. - Linda Ellerbee
Linda Ellerbee , New York USA -- 25.0k to 30.0k Linda Ellerbee is an outspoken journalist, award-winning television producer, best-selling author, one of the most sought-after speakers in America, a breast cancer survivor and a mom. Ellerbee began at CBS, then moved to NBC News, where, after covering politics, she cultivated a diverse following in the '80's with the pioneering late-night news program NBC News Overnight, which she wrote and anchored. - Geralyn Lucas
Geralyn Lucas is an American journalist, television producer, and writer. - Jane Tomlinson
Jane Tomlinson, CBE is a British campaigner and fund raiser for cancer charities. She is a graduate of Sheffield Hallam University with a postgraduate certificate in medical imaging practice in 2002, and works as a radiographer at Leeds General Infirmary. As of June 2007 she suffers from advanced metastatic breast cancer; the disease was diagnosed incurable on 31 August 2000. In the last six years she has had four courses of chemotherapy. - Molly Ivins
Mary Tyler "Molly" Ivins (August 30 1944 - January 31 2007) was an American newspaper columnist, political commentator, and best-selling author from Austin, Texas. - Shirley Temple
Shirley Jane Temple (born April 23, 1928) later known as Shirley Temple Black, is an American former child actress. She starred in over 40 films during the 1930s. She was later a diplomat and is now retired - Diahann Carroll
Usually described as stiff, Carroll in 1959, after she begins to liven up her stage presence. ... Carroll stars in Broadway musical written specifically for her in 1960. This production depicted a fantasy story of a top African American model model in an interracial romance with an American writer suffering from writer's block. - Edie Falco
Edith Falco (born July 5, 1963) is an American television, film and stage actress best known for her lead role as Carmela Soprano on HBO's award winning hit series "The Sopranos", as well as Diane Wittlesey on the HBO show "Oz". - Betsey Johnson
Betsey Johnson (born August 10, 1942 in Wethersfield, Connecticut) is a fashion designer best known for her feminine and whimsical designs. She also is known for doing a cartwheel at the end of her fashion shows. She took many dance classes as a child and adolescent which inspired her love of costumes. After high school, Johnson studied at the Pratt Institute and then later graduated from Syracuse University where she was a member of the Alpha Xi Delta sorority. - Janet Napolitano
Janet Napolitano, elected governor that fall, made the newspaper's mission her own. Fixing CPS, she announced, would be one of her top priorities. Children needed to be protected. - Carly Simon
Carly Elisabeth Simon (born June 25, 1945 in New York City) is an Academy Award, Golden Globe and two-time Grammy Award winning American musician who emerged as one of the leading lights of the early 1970s singer-songwriter movement. She was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1994. - Kate Jackson
Catherine Elise Jackson, (born on October 29, 1948 in Birmingham, Alabama), is a Golden Globe-nominated American actress, primarily for her roles in soap operas and television is best known for her roles as Gerald S. O'Loughlin's nurse and Sam Melville's wife, Jill Danko, in the 1970s crime drama, "The Rookies", as Sabrina Duncan, in the 1970s television series "Charlie's Angels", and as Bruce Boxleitner's wife, … - Ann Jillian
Ann Jillian (born Ann Jura Nauseda on January 29, 1950 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) is an American actress born to Roman Catholic Lithuanian immigrant parents. Jillian has been acting since 1961 when she played "Little Bo Peep" in the Disney film, "Babes In Toyland". She appeared in the Rosalind Russell- Natalie Wood 1962 movie version of "Gypsy". She later became a regular on the 1960s sitcom "Hazel", … - Jill Eikenberry
Jill Eikenberry (born January 21, 1947) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Ann Kelsey in L.A. Law (1986-1994), where she co-starred with her husband Michael Tucker (as Stuart Markowitz). She was born in New Haven, Connecticut, and was raised in Madison, Wisconsin and St. Joseph and Kansas City, Missouri. She currently resides in Mill Valley, CA. - Lynn Redgrave
Lynn Rachel Redgrave, OBE (born 8 March, 1943 in London) is two-time Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-winning English actress born into the famous Redgrave acting family. Her parents were Sir Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson, Lady Redgrave, her brother is Corin Redgrave and her sister is Vanessa Redgrave. She is the aunt of Natasha Richardson, Joely Richardson and Jemma Redgrave. - Richard Roundtree
Richard Roundtree (born July 9 1942) is an American actor and former male fashion model famous for portraying John Shaft in the film "Shaft" (1971) and in its two sequels, "Shaft's Big Score" (1972) and "Shaft in Africa" (1973). Roundtree was born in New Rochelle, New York to Kathryn, a nurse and housekeeper, and John Roundtree, a caterer and garbage collector. He attended Southern Illinois University. - Betty Rollin
Betty Rollin (born January 3, 1936 in New York City), is a former NBC News correspondent who wrote about her struggle with cancer in her most famous book, First, You Cry. Betty Rollin was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 1975, and again in 1984, each time losing a breast to the disease. Betty's battle with cancer was followed and reported on for public awareness and to give encouragement to others facing this increasingly common disease.
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