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Dorothy Eady
Dorothy Eady, known as Omm Sety (1904–1981), was a British-born Egyptologist at Abydos, Egypt, who claimed reincarnation as priestess Bentreshyt, lover of Seti I; valued professionally, claims never independently corroborated.
Dorothy Fay
Dorothy Fay, born Dorothy Fay Southworth, was an American actress who starred in low-budget westerns from 1938 to 1941 and married singing cowboy Tex Ritter.
Dorothy Gale
Dorothy Gale is the Kansas farm girl heroine of L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its sequels; unnamed until Ozma of Oz (1907), silver shoes in the book, ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in the 1939 MGM film, later resident of Ozma's court.
Dorothy Green (actress)
Dorothy Green (born Dorothy Jeannette Hufford, 1920–2008), American stage, film, and television actress; Lucy Chapman in The Big Heat (1953), Lavinia Tate in Tammy; prolific TV guest performer; distinct from the environmentalist Dorothy Green.
Dorothy Hamill
Dorothy Hamill (born 1956, Chicago) is an American figure skater, 1976 Innsbruck Olympic gold medalist and 1976 World champion, nicknamed America's Sweetheart, creator of the Hamill camel spin and famed for her bob haircut.
Dorothy Harmsen
Dorothy Harmsen (1914–2006) was an American businesswoman who co-founded the Jolly Rancher candy company with her husband Bill in Golden, Colorado, in 1949, and later became a major collector of Western American art.
Dorothy Hart
Dorothy Hart (Dorothy J. Hart, 1922-2004) was an American model, film and television actress, and UN activist; 1944 Cinderella Cover Girl winner known for The Naked City (1948) and Tarzan's Savage Fury (1952), retired from acting in 1952.
Dorothy Hodgkin
Dorothy Hodgkin, also known as Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, was a British chemist who determined the atomic structures of penicillin, vitamin B12, and insulin, winning the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Dorothy Hodgkins
Dorothy Hodgkins is a common misspelling of Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin, the British X-ray crystallographer who won the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for determining the structures of penicillin, vitamin B12, and insulin.
Dorothy Howell Rodham
Dorothy Howell Rodham (Dorothy Emma Howell, 1919-2011), American homemaker, mother of Hillary Clinton; abandoned as a child, sent to Alhambra, California, worked as a housekeeper at 14, married Hugh Rodham in 1942.
Dorothy Kamenshek
Dorothy "Kammie" Kamenshek (1925–2010), American left-handed first baseman for the Rockford Peaches of the AAGPBL, 1943–1953; two-time batting champion, league career leader in hits, putouts, and double plays.
Dorothy Kilgallen
Dorothy Kilgallen (1913–1965) was an American Hearst columnist ("The Voice of Broadway"), radio host, and What's My Line? panelist who interviewed Jack Ruby and published his sealed Warren Commission testimony; she died in November 1965 of undetermined barbiturate intoxication.
Dorothy L. Sayers
Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957), English crime writer, poet, playwright, and translator, creator of Lord Peter Wimsey (Whose Body?, 1923), co-founder of the Detection Club, Queens of Crime figure, later religious dramatist and Dante translator.
Dorothy Lambert Chambers
Dorothea Katherine Lambert Chambers (1878-1960), British tennis champion, seven-time Wimbledon ladies' singles winner 1903-1914 and 1908 London Olympics outdoor women's singles gold medalist.
Dorothy Lamour
Dorothy Lamour (Mary Leta Dorothy Slaton, 1914-1996), American actress and singer, Paramount star in sarong films and seven Road to comedies with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope; WWII pin-up who sold $300 million in War Bonds.
Dorothy Lyford
Dorothy Lyford, American athlete of the Boston Swimming Association, set the final official women's standing long jump world record, 2.625 m, in Boston on 10 June 1933, and competed at the 1936 US Olympic Trials.
Dorothy Lyman
Dorothy Lyman (born 1947, Minneapolis) is an American actress, director, and playwright known as Opal Gardner on All My Children, Naomi on Mama's Family, a two-time Daytime Emmy winner, and director of 75 episodes of The Nanny.
Dorothy M. Horstmann
Dorothy M. Horstmann was an American epidemiologist and virologist at Yale whose demonstration that poliovirus travels in blood enabled polio vaccines; she became Yale School of Medicine's first woman professor in 1961.
Dorothy Malone
Dorothy Malone (Dorothy Eloise Maloney, 1924-2018), American actress; Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in Written on the Wind (1956); starred as Constance MacKenzie in ABC's first primetime soap Peyton Place.
Dorothy Martin (spiritualist)
Dorothy Martin, known as Sister Thedra, was an American channeler who led the Chicago Seekers, whose failed 1954 flood prophecy inspired Festinger's When Prophecy Fails.
Dorothy Masuka
Dorothy Masuka, born Dorothy Masuku in 1935, was a Zimbabwean-born South African jazz singer and songwriter whose 1950s township hits and anti-apartheid songs brought censorship and 31 years of exile.
Dorothy McGuire
Dorothy McGuire (1916/1918-2001), American actress from Omaha; Broadway star of Claudia (722 performances), Oscar nominee for Gentleman's Agreement, National Board of Review winner for Friendly Persuasion, and screen mother in Old Yeller and Swiss Family Robinson.
Dorothy Napangardi
Dorothy Napangardi (c. 1950s–2013) was a Warlpiri Australian Aboriginal artist from the Tanami Desert, known for large monochromatic dot paintings of her ancestral Country, Mina Mina.
Dorothy Odam Tyler
Dorothy Odam Tyler (Dorothy Jennifer Beatrice Odam-Tyler), English high jumper (1920-2014); Olympic silver 1936 and 1948, only woman to win athletics Olympic medals either side of WWII; 1939 world record 1.66 m.
Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker (Dorothy Rothschild, 1893–1967), American poet, critic, and screenwriter of the Algonquin Round Table and The New Yorker's founding editorial board; author of Enough Rope (1926) and Oscar-nominated co-writer of A Star Is Born.
Dorothy Poynton-Hill
Dorothy Poynton-Hill (1915-1995), American diver, also Dorothy Poynton; four Olympic diving medals: 1928 springboard silver at 13 (youngest U.S. Olympic medalist), platform gold 1932 and 1936, 1936 springboard bronze.
Dorothy Provine
Dorothy Provine (Michele Dorothy Provine, 1935-2010), American actress, singer, and dancer; starred as Pinky Pinkham in ABC's The Roaring 20s (1960-62) and appeared in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World; not to be confused with Dorothy Provine Alexander or Dory Previn.
Dorothy Reed Mendenhall
Dorothy Reed Mendenhall (1874–1964) was an American physician who proved Hodgkin's disease was not tuberculosis, described the Reed–Sternberg cell, and led child health work in Wisconsin.
Dorothy Roberts
Dorothy Roberts is an American legal scholar and 2024 MacArthur Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania whose work on race, reproductive rights, and child welfare shaped activism and policy.
Dorothy Squires
Dorothy Squires (Edna May Squires, 1915-1998) was a Welsh popular singer of the 1940s-1970s, Billy Reid's partner, Roger Moore's first wife, a UK chart hitmaker with "My Way", and a notorious litigant.