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Notable Women in Media

Oprah Winfrey Biographies ofNotable Women Actresses Adventurers Artists Athletes Businesswomen Comediennes Congresswomen Educators and Scholars Fashion Designers and Models…

Raye, Martha

(Margie Yvonne Reed) comedienne, actressBirthplace: Butte, Mont.Born: 1916Died: 1994

Scott, Martha

actressBirthplace: Jamesport, Mo.Born: 1914Died: 2003

Martha Coakley

Democrat Martha Coakley earned a share of political infamy in 2010, when she lost a special election for the U.S. Senate seat held for years by liberal lion Edward M. Kennedy. In what the Boston…

Martha Washington

Name at birth: Martha DandridgeMartha Dandridge Custis married George Washington on 6 January 1759. Martha Custis was a young and wealthy widow with two children when she married Washington, who…

Martha Moxley

After a night of pre-Halloween revelry in October 1975, 15-year-old Martha Moxley was bludgeoned to death with a 6-iron in the exclusive Belle Haven section of Greenwich, Connecticut. Her neighbor…

Martha Graham

Martha Graham was a pioneer of modern dance and one of the most influential choreographers of the 20th century. Martha Graham's love of expression through sharply precise movements of the body, and…

Brewer's: Martha

(St.), patron saint of good housewives, is represented in Christian art as clad in homely costume, bearing at her girdle a bunch of keys, and holding a ladle or pot of water in her hand.…

Martha Stewart

Once an expert on "gracious living," Martha Stewart was convicted of conspiracy and obstruction of justice in a notorious insider stock trading case in 2004. Beginning with the 1982 publication of…