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Nancy R. Cook
Nancy R. Cook, also known as Nancy Romanowicz Cook, is an American biostatistician at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital known for cardiovascular risk prediction research.
Nancy R. Sottos
Nancy R. Sottos is an American materials scientist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, known for self-healing polymers that repair cracks and reveal damage by changing color.
Nancy R. Zhang
Nancy R. Zhang, also known as Nancy Ruonan Zhang, is a statistician at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, known for SAVER and single-cell RNA sequencing methods.
Nancy Raab‐Traub
Nancy Raab-Traub is an American virologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill known for her research on the Epstein–Barr virus and the cancers it causes.
Nancy Ramey
Nancy Jane Ramey (Lethcoe), American swimmer, 1956 Olympic silver medalist in the 100 m butterfly and world record holder in the 100 m and 200 m butterfly, 1940–2022.
Nancy Rani
Nancy Rani (നാൻസി റാണി) is a 2025 Malayalam drama, the debut film of director Joseph Manu James, who died in 2023; completed by his widow Naina, it stars Ahaana Krishna as an aspiring actress and reached YouTube and Prime Video rental amid a promotion dispute.
Nancy Ratner
Nancy Ratner is an American Schwann-cell biologist and cancer researcher at Cincinnati Children's Hospital, known for identifying EGFR and MEK as drug targets in neurofibromatosis type 1.
Nancy Reagan
Nancy Reagan, born Anne Frances Robbins, was an American film and television actress and First Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989, wife of President Ronald Reagan.
Nancy Reid
Nancy Reid is a Canadian statistician and University Professor at the University of Toronto, known for likelihood-based inference and higher-order asymptotics and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2016.
Nancy Rothwell
Nancy Rothwell is a British physiologist and neuroscientist known for research on brain injury and stroke, and president of the University of Manchester from 2010 to 2024.
Nancy Salzman
Nancy Salzman is an American former nurse who co-founded the self-help organization NXIVM with Keith Raniere in 1998, served as its president, and was sentenced to prison in 2021.
Nancy Segal
Nancy Segal is an American psychologist who studies twins, was assistant director of the Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart, and teaches at California State University, Fullerton.
Nancy Silverton
Nancy Silverton (born 1954) is a Los Angeles chef, baker, and restaurateur who founded La Brea Bakery and Campanile and co-owns the Mozza Restaurant Group.
Nancy Sinatra
Nancy Sinatra (born June 8, 1940), American singer and actress, elder daughter of Frank Sinatra; known for "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'", the Bond theme "You Only Live Twice", and duets with Lee Hazlewood.
Nancy Spero
Nancy Spero (1926–2009) was an American feminist artist who worked on paper, combining printed female figures with text to confront war, torture, and women's exclusion from art.
Nancy Spielberg
Nancy Spielberg (born 1956), youngest sister of Steven Spielberg, is an American film producer heading Playmount Productions, the family company founded in 1962, specializing in Jewish and Israeli documentaries such as Above and Beyond, Who Will Write Our History, and A Letter to David, and co-founding Jewish Story Partners.
Nancy Spungen
Nancy Spungen (1958-1978), Philadelphia-born punk scene figure and girlfriend of Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious, was stabbed to death in room 100 of New York's Chelsea Hotel on 12 October 1978; Vicious was charged but the case remains unsolved.
Nancy Stafford
Nancy Stafford, born 1954 in Wilton Manors, Florida, is an American actress, author, and speaker known for Michelle Thomas on Matlock, Joan Halloran on St. Elsewhere, hosting Main Floor, and books Beauty by the Book and The Wonder of His Love.
Nancy Stokey
Nancy Stokey is an American economist at the University of Chicago known for recursive methods in economic dynamics, the Milgrom–Stokey no-trade theorem, and work on growth and fiscal policy.
Nancy Sununu
Nancy Hayes Sununu (1939–2024), First Lady of New Hampshire 1983–1989, chaired the New Hampshire Republican Party in 1980, wife of Governor John H. Sununu, mother of eight including Senator John E. and Governor Chris Sununu.
Nancy Thompson (A Nightmare on Elm Street)
Nancy Thompson is the fictional Final Girl protagonist of Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), played by Heather Langenkamp; she reappears in Dream Warriors (1987), where Freddy Krueger kills her, and is merged with her actress in New Nightmare (1994).
Nancy Torresen
Nancy Torresen, born 1959, is an American jurist serving as a senior federal judge for the District of Maine, the first woman to hold that role.
Nancy Travis
Nancy Travis, American actress born 1961 in New York City, known for Three Men and a Baby, So I Married an Axe Murderer, and nine seasons as Vanessa Baxter on Last Man Standing; also The Kominsky Method, Mr. Mercedes, and Hallmark's Ride.
Nancy Wake
Nancy Wake (1912–2011), 'the White Mouse', New Zealand-born Australian Resistance courier and SOE agent in the Auvergne Maquis, 1944; among the most decorated women of the Second World War.
Nancy Walker
Nancy Walker (Anna Myrtle Swoyer, 1922–1992), American Broadway comedienne and Emmy-nominated TV actress; Ida Morgenstern on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Rhoda, Rosie in Bounty commercials.
Nancy Walton Laurie
Nancy Walton Laurie, also known as Nancy Laurie, is an American billionaire heiress and philanthropist who inherited a Walmart stake from her father, Walmart co-founder Bud Walton.
Nancy Wexler
Nancy Sabin Wexler is an American neuropsychologist who led the 23-year Venezuela study that produced the 1983 DNA marker and the 1993 identification of the Huntington's disease gene.
Nancy Whang
Nancy Whang, Korean-American vocalist, keyboardist, and DJ of LCD Soundsystem and The Juan MacLean; Portland native who joined the band in 2002 after 'Losing My Edge', later a guest vocalist across dance-punk.
Nancy Wheeler
Nancy Wheeler is a fictional character in Netflix's Stranger Things, portrayed by Natalia Dyer across all five seasons; sister of Mike and Holly Wheeler, she evolves from teenager to investigative journalist and monster hunter, ex-girlfriend of Steve Harrington and Jonathan Byers.
Nancy Wilson (jazz singer)
Nancy Wilson (1937–2018) was an American singer who recorded more than 70 albums across jazz, pop, and R&B, won three Grammy Awards, and was named a 2004 NEA Jazz Master.