Famous People (Women AND Men) Who've Battled or Who are Battling Breast Cancer

I thought it would be powerful to see the names of quite a few familiar individuals who've had to battle breast cancer over the years. Many of them are alive and 100% cancer-free and some of them lost their lives to this indiscriminating disease - yet they are all survivors! They, like my sister Heather, didn't allow the cancer to break their spirits or lessen their faith. The true definition of a "survivor!"

Survivors Currently Battling Breast Cancer

Carol Martineau Baldwin, mother of the acting Baldwin brothers and founder of the Carol M. Baldwin Breast Care Center of the University Hospital and Medical Center at Stony Brook.
Allyce Beasley, American TV/comedic actress
Anastacia, African-American singer
Eileen Brennan, American actress
Diahann Carroll, African-American actress, singer
Julia Child, famous TV cook, known as The French Chef (beat breast cancer and died of natural causes at age 91)
Diana Douglas (Darrid), former actress; ex-wife of Kirk Douglas; mother of Michael Douglas
Elizabeth Anania Edwards, lawyer; wife of John Edwards (former Democrat U.S. Senator from North Carolina)
Jill Eikenberry, American actress
Linda Ellerbee, Texas-born journalist
Melissa Etheridge, American singer and prominent lesbian
Edie Falco, American stage and TV actress
Peggy Fleming, American figure skater
Betty Ford, former First Lady
Maria Friedman, British actress
Sheila Hancock, British actress
Julie Harris, legendary American stage actress
Laura Ingraham, right-wing radio host/pundit
Molly Ivins, Texan journalist
Kate Jackson, American actress
Ann Jillian, American actress, entertainer
Jennifer Jones, American Oscar-winning star actress
Sondra Locke, American actress
Rue McClanahan, American TV/stage actress
Kylie Minogue, Australian singer, actress
Alla Nazimova, Russian-born American stage and film actress who survived breast cancer (died at 66 of a coronary thrombosis in 1945)
Phyllis Newman, TV and Broadway actress/singer; widow of Adolph Green
Olivia Newton-John, UK/Australian singer/actress
Jerri Nielsen, American physician who famously treated herself for breast cancer while stuck in the South Pole after discovering a lump on her breast
Cynthia Nixon, American stage and TV actress
Aimee Osbourne, UK-born daughter of Sharon Osbourne; treated surgically in the UK
Nancy Priddy, mother of actress Christina Applegate
Sandra Day O'Connor, first female U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Nancy Reagan, former U.S. First Lady
Lynn Redgrave, British/American actress
Kathleen Reynolds, wife of former Irish taoiseach, Albert Reynolds
Wendy Richard, British actress
Cokie Roberts, American journalist
Margaretta Fitler Murphy Rockefeller, American socialite
Betty Rollin, author, retired TV correspondent
Richard Roundtree, male African-American actor
Soraya, Colombian-born musician/singer
Jean Simmons, British-born U.S. actress
Carly Simon, American singer
Jaclyn Smith, American actress, businesswoman
Brett Somers, Canadian-born U.S. actress, TV personality
Suzanne Somers, American actress
Gloria Steinem, American feminist activist; stepmother of Christian Bale
Gloria Stuart, legendary American actress
Shirley Temple, American former child star/former Republican diplomat
Ann Veneman, former head of the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
Marcia Wallace, American comedic actress

Survivors Lost to Breast Cancer

Ingrid Bergman, Oscar-winning star actress (died on 67th birthday)
Bibi Besch, actress (died at age 56)
Rose Bird, California judge (died at age 63)
Carina Bleeth, mother of actress Yasmine Bleeth (died at age 47)
Vanessa Brown, actress (died at age 71)
Coral Browne, actress (died at age 77)
Judith Campbell Exner, JFK relationship-related celebrity (died at age 65)
Rachel Carson, American environmentalist and author (Silent Spring) (died at age 56)
Norma Crane, American actress (died at age 44)
Linda Creed, songwriter (died at age 37)
Bette Davis, Oscar-winning star actress (died at age 81)
Sandra Feldman, former president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) (died at age 65)
Sophie Germain, French mathematician (died at age 55)
Gloria Grahame, Oscar-winning actress (died at age 57)
Lady Augusta Gregory, Irish nationalist landowner (died at age 80)
Florence Halop, American comedienne/comedic actress (died at age 63)
Judy Holliday, Oscar-winning star actress (died at age 43)
Jeanne Hyde, wife of U.S. Congressman Henry Hyde
Jill Ireland, British actress, wife of Charles Bronson (died at age 54)
Caron Keating, Northern Irish celebrity (died at age 41)
Marie Keating, mother of Ronan Keating
Kathy Keeton, Penthouse publisher and wife of Bob Guccione (died at age 58 of surgical complications)
Virginia Clinton Kelley, mother of President Bill Clinton (died at age 71)
Susan G. Komen, breast cancer activist (died at age 36)
Helen Gorman Kushnick, Hollywood producer (died at age 51)
Joi Lansing, actress (died at age 44)
Frances Lear, ex-wife of Norman Lear
Juliette Gordon Low, Founder of Girls Scouts of the USA (died at age 67)
Lady Linda McCartney, singer, activist, wife of Paul McCartney (died at age 56)
Mary Mohin McCartney, mother of Sir Paul McCartney
Hattie McDaniel, actress (died at age 57)
Roseann Murtha O'Donnell, mother of Rosie O'Donnell
Klara Pölzl, mother of Adolf Hitler (died at age 47)
Minnie Riperton, singer, mother of Maya Rudolph (died at age 31)
Rod Roddy, male radio and television announcer (died at age 66)
Roxie Roker, actress, mother of Lenny Kravitz (died at age 66)
Rosalind Russell, star actress (died at 69)
Wendie Jo Sperber, actress (died at age 47)
Dusty Springfield, songwriter/singer (died at age 60)
Doris Jones Stein, philanthropist (mother of Susan Shiva)
Susan Stein-Shiva, philanthropist (daughter of Doris Stein)
Susan Strasberg, actress (died at age 60)
Jacqueline Susann, writer (died at age 56)
Louise Troy, American actress (died at age 60)
Danitra Vance, actress (died at age 40)
Vivian Vance, actress, singer (died at age 70)
Suzie Wilson, mother of actress Mara Wilson