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Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, formerly the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), is a NASA infrared observatory launched in 2026 to study dark energy, dark matter, and exoplanets.
Nancy Graves
Nancy Graves (1939 or 1940 – 1995) was an American sculptor, painter, printmaker, and filmmaker known for life-size camel sculptures that made her famous at the Whitney Museum in 1969.
Nancy Green
Nancy Green (1834-1923), born enslaved in Kentucky, was the first portrayer of Aunt Jemima, debuting at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair for R.T. Davis Milling Company; the brand was retired as a racial stereotype in 2020-2021.
Nancy Greene Raine
Nancy Greene Raine (born 1943, Ottawa) is a Canadian alpine skier, "Tiger", who won the 1967 and 1968 overall World Cup titles and giant slalom gold and slalom silver at Grenoble 1968; later a senator and Sun Peaks ambassador.
Nancy Gutierrez
Nancy Gutierrez is an American Democratic politician representing District 18 in the Arizona House of Representatives, where she serves as Assistant Minority Leader and ran for re-election in 2026.
Nancy Heche
Nancy Heche (Nancy Abigail Baker Heche, born March 10, 1937) is an American Christian author and speaker on same-sex attraction, mother of Anne Heche; author of The Truth Comes Out (2006) and a 2009 guide with Joe Dallas.
Nancy Hogg
Nancy Hogg is an immunologist who led the Leukocyte Adhesion Laboratory in London and is known for LFA-1 integrin research and identifying KINDLIN3 mutations as the cause of leukocyte adhesion deficiency-III.
Nancy Hogshead
Nancy Hogshead (Hogshead-Makar), American swimmer born 1962, won three golds and a silver at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, including a tie for the 100 freestyle, then became a Title IX and athlete-protection attorney.
Nancy Hollister
Nancy Putnam Hollister (born 1949) is an Ohio Republican, first woman lieutenant governor of Ohio (1995-1999) and first woman governor of Ohio, serving 11 days from December 31, 1998 to January 11, 1999 after George Voinovich resigned; former Marietta mayor and state representative.
Nancy Hopkins (molecular biologist)
Nancy Hopkins is an American molecular biologist, Amgen Professor Emerita at MIT, known for zebrafish genetics and leading MIT's 1999 report on women faculty in science.
Nancy J. Brown
Nancy J. Brown is an American physician-scientist in clinical pharmacology who studies blood pressure and clotting, and has been dean of Yale School of Medicine, the first woman in the post, since 2020.
Nancy J. King
Nancy J. King is an American Democratic politician who has represented District 39 in the Maryland Senate since 2007 and served as the Senate's Majority Leader since 2020.
Nancy J. Sullivan
Nancy J. Sullivan is an American virologist and viral immunologist who developed the first Ebola vaccine shown to protect primates and discovered mAb114, FDA-approved as Ebanga in 2020.
Nancy Jo Rosenstengel
Nancy Jo Rosenstengel is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Southern District of Illinois since 2014, nominated by President Barack Obama.
Nancy K. Mello
Nancy K. Mello (1935–2013) was a psychologist and substance-abuse researcher who cofounded the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research Center at McLean Hospital and published more than 400 works.
Nancy Kanwisher
Nancy Kanwisher is an American cognitive neuroscientist at MIT known for identifying functionally specialized regions of visual cortex, beginning with the fusiform face area in 1997, and for winning the 2024 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience.
Nancy Kass
Nancy Kass is an American bioethicist and public health ethics scholar at Johns Hopkins University, known for publishing the first ethics framework for public health in 2001.
Nancy Kerrigan
Nancy Kerrigan (born 1969, Stoneham, Massachusetts) is an American figure skater, 1992 Olympic bronze and 1994 Olympic silver medalist, attacked before the 1994 U.S. Championships in a plot by Tonya Harding's ex-husband.
Nancy King Reame
Nancy King Reame is an American nurse-scientist and Columbia University nursing professor emerita elected to the Institute of Medicine in 1997, known for tampon safety research.
Nancy Kleckner
Nancy Kleckner is a molecular biologist and Herchel Smith Professor at Harvard known for work on E. coli chromosome dynamics and meiotic recombination, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1993.
Nancy Knowlton
Nancy Knowlton is an American marine biologist and coral reef ecologist who holds the Sant Chair in Marine Science Emerita at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.
Nancy Kopell
Nancy Kopell, born in 1942, is an American mathematician and neuroscientist at Boston University known for her mathematical research on brain rhythms and their roles in cognition and disease.
Nancy Kovack
Nancy Diane Kovack (born March 11, 1935, Flint, Michigan) is an American retired actress of 1960s film and television, Medea in Jason and the Argonauts, Emmy-nominated for Mannix, and wife since 1969 of conductor Zubin Mehta.
Nancy Kulp
Nancy Jane Kulp (1921–1991), American character actress, played Miss Jane Hathaway on The Beverly Hillbillies (1962–71, Emmy-nominated 1967) and Pamela Livingstone on The Bob Cummings Show; former journalist, WAVES veteran, and 1984 Democratic congressional candidate in Pennsylvania.
Nancy Kwan (关家蒨)
Nancy Kwan (关家蒨, born May 19, 1939) is a Hong Kong-born Chinese-American actress who starred in The World of Suzie Wong (1960) and Flower Drum Song (1961), won a 1961 Golden Globe, and published the memoir The World of Nancy Kwan in 2025.
Nancy Kyes
Nancy Kyes, also known professionally as Nancy Loomis (born 1949), is a retired American actress who played Annie Brackett in Halloween (1978) and appeared in Carpenter's Assault on Precinct 13, The Fog, and Halloween III; now a Los Angeles sculptor.
Nancy L. Craig
Nancy L. Craig is an American molecular biologist, long a Howard Hughes investigator and professor at Johns Hopkins, known for showing how transposable elements move within genomes.
Nancy L. Harris
Nancy Lee Harris is an American hematopathologist, emerita professor of pathology at Harvard Medical School, who led the REAL lymphoma classification that became the WHO standard.
Nancy L. Keating
Nancy L. Keating, also known as Nancy Lynn Keating, is a Harvard Medical School professor and practicing internist who studies how cancer care is organized, delivered, and priced.
Nancy L. Maldonado
Nancy L. Maldonado, born 1975, is an American jurist serving on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit since 2024, appointed by President Biden.