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Nancy L. Moritz
Nancy L. Moritz, born Nancy Louise Moritz in 1960, is an American jurist serving as a Tenth Circuit federal appeals judge since 2014, appointed by President Barack Obama.
Nancy Lacore
Nancy Lacore is an American politician and retired Navy vice admiral who is the Democratic nominee for South Carolina's 1st congressional district in the 2026 election.
Nancy Landry
Nancy Landry is an American Republican politician serving as Secretary of State of Louisiana, after serving as First Assistant Secretary of State and in the Louisiana House.
Nancy Langat
Nancy Jebet Langat, Kenyan runner born 1981 in Eldoret; 2008 Olympic 1500 m gold medalist (4:00.23), 2010 Delhi Commonwealth 800 m and 1500 m champion, and 2010 Diamond League 1500 m winner. Not the jumper Winnie Langat.
Nancy Lee Grahn
Nancy Lee Grahn (born 1956, Skokie, Illinois), American soap opera actress, also known for her Santa Barbara role as Julia Wainwright. Alexis Davis on General Hospital since 1996, winning three Daytime Emmys (1989, 2012, 2025).
Nancy Lieberman
Nancy Lieberman, "Lady Magic" (born 1958, Brooklyn, NY), Hall of Fame point guard: Old Dominion AIAW titles 1979-80, 1976 Olympic silver at 18, first woman in a men's pro league (USBL 1986), first female head coach of a men's pro team (Texas Legends 2009).
Nancy Lincoln
Nancy Hanks Lincoln (1784-1818), mother of President Abraham Lincoln, Kentucky pioneer wife of Thomas Lincoln, died of milk sickness in Spencer County, Indiana, and is buried at Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial.
Nancy Lopez
Nancy Lopez (born 1957) is an American LPGA golfer whose 1978 rookie season brought nine wins, five straight, and Rookie and Player of the Year honors; 48 career wins, three majors, World Golf Hall of Fame.
Nancy Lynch
Nancy Lynch is an American computer scientist and NEC Professor at MIT who heads the Theory of Distributed Systems group, best known for the FLP impossibility result and 1988 partial-synchrony work.
Nancy Mace
Nancy Mace, Republican U.S. representative for South Carolina's 1st district from 2021 and first woman to graduate The Citadel (1999); voted to oust Speaker McCarthy in 2023, faced a House Ethics investigation over reimbursements, and finished fifth in the 2026 GOP governor primary.
Nancy Maizels
Nancy Maizels is a molecular biologist and Professor Emerita of Immunology and Biochemistry at the University of Washington, known for work on antibody gene diversification by AID and G4 DNA.
Nancy Mannion
Nancy Mannion is a registered nurse, former emergency nurse, and Democratic nominee for the U.S. House in Pennsylvania's 11th District, challenging incumbent Lloyd Smucker in 2026.
Nancy Marchand
Nancy Marchand (June 19, 1928 – June 18, 2000), American actress; four Emmys as Margaret Pynchon on Lou Grant, Golden Globe and Emmy nominations as Livia Soprano on The Sopranos; Tony-nominated stage veteran who died of lung cancer.
Nancy Martín
Nancy C. Martin is a molecular biologist known for her work on transfer RNA genes and tRNA-processing enzymes in yeast mitochondria, published from the 1970s through 2014.
Nancy McKeon
Nancy McKeon (Nancy Justine McKeon), born 1966 in Westbury, New York, is an American actress best known as Jo Polniaczek on NBC's The Facts of Life (1980-1988) and as Inspector Jinny Exstead on Lifetime's The Division (2001-2004), sister of actor Philip McKeon.
Nancy McWilliams
Nancy McWilliams (born 1945) is an American psychologist and psychoanalyst, Rutgers professor emerita, author of Psychoanalytic Diagnosis and the Guilford clinical trilogy, and associate editor of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (PDM-1, PDM-2, PDM-3), a psychodynamic alternative to DSM diagnosis.
Nancy Meyers
Nancy Meyers (born 1949), American screenwriter-director of Private Benjamin, Something's Gotta Give, The Holiday, It's Complicated, and The Intern; ex-wife of Charles Shyer; returns with an untitled Warner Bros. rom-com for Christmas 2027.
Nancy Mitford
Nancy Mitford (1904–1973), English novelist and biographer, eldest of the six Mitford sisters; author of The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate, popularizer of U and non-U, and writer of Madame de Pompadour and The Sun King.
Nancy Morejón
Nancy Morejón (Nancy Morejón Hernández) is a Cuban poet born in Havana in 1944, known for her poetry on Afro-Cuban identity and for winning Cuba's National Prize for Literature in 2001.
Nancy N. Baxter
Nancy N. Baxter, also published as Nancy Baxter, is a Canadian clinical epidemiologist and colorectal surgeon known for her 2014 study of surgical safety checklists in Ontario.
Nancy N. Rabalais
Nancy N. Rabalais is an American oceanographer who has mapped the Gulf of Mexico's seasonal low-oxygen dead zone every year since 1985, and is a MacArthur Fellow.
Nancy Napolski Johnson
Nancy Napolski Johnson (Nancy Lynn Napolski-Johnson), born 1974, American rifle shooter; won women's 10m air rifle gold at Sydney 2000, the first gold of those Games, after competing at Atlanta 1996.
Nancy Nielsen
Nancy Nielsen is an American physician and health policy expert at the University at Buffalo who served as president of the American Medical Association from 2008 to 2009.
Nancy O'Dell
Nancy O'Dell, born Nancy Humphries in 1966, is an Emmy-winning American entertainment journalist who co-anchored Access Hollywood and Entertainment Tonight, and has hosted Crime Exposé since 2024.
Nancy Olson
Nancy Olson (born July 14, 1928, Milwaukee) is an American retired actress, Oscar-nominated as Betty Schaefer in Sunset Boulevard (1950), later in Disney films, Broadway, and Airport 1975; last surviving principal cast member of that film.
Nancy Padian
Nancy Padian is an American epidemiologist known for research on heterosexual HIV transmission and female-controlled prevention methods, including the MIRA trial of the diaphragm in southern Africa.
Nancy Pearlman
Nancy Pearlman is an American environmental broadcaster and educator, host of Environmental Directions radio since 1977 and ECONEWS television since 1984, who also served sixteen years as an elected Los Angeles Community College District trustee.
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi, born Nancy D'Alesandro, is an American politician and California Democrat who in 2007 became the first woman to serve as Speaker of the US House of Representatives.
Nancy Pfund
Nancy Pfund is an American venture capitalist who founded DBL Partners, an impact investing firm, and is best known for early investments in Tesla, SolarCity, and Pandora.
Nancy Priddy
Nancy Priddy (Nancy Jeanne Priddy, born 1941, South Bend, Indiana) is an American actress and singer-songwriter, mother of Christina Applegate, known for the 1968 psychedelic folk album You've Come This Way Before and TV roles in Bewitched, The Waltons, and Matlock.