Famous girl geeks?

Who can think of any famous girl geeks or geeky female celebrities? Currently I can only think of Gillian Anderson for some reason. Do you think that female celebrities who starred in geeky movies are actually geeky or not?

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Permalink Reply by GadgetNut on September 22, 2008 at 12:49am: Lisa Kudrow has a degree in Psychobiology. That's pretty geeky.

Danica McKellar: (Excerpt from IMDB): Best known as America's alluring dream girl from her days as Winnie Cooper on "The Wonder Years" (1988), Danica McKellar made her breakthrough at the early age of 12. After that show ended, she went on to graduate Summa cum Laude from UCLA with a degree in Mathematics, and even proved a new math theorem, the Chayes-McKellar-Winn Theorem.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Fyre Vortex on September 22, 2008 at 1:55am: Is Ponzi a famous girl geek?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by GadgetNut on September 22, 2008 at 2:03am: In her own words, from her profile here:
"What kind of geek are you? - I'm a Seeker (More of a lover of geeks than a true geek)"; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Ian Walker on September 22, 2008 at 6:07pm: I remember Winnie from The Wonder Years :) I guess she is a geek after all :) I cannot believe I forgot about Ponzi.

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Permalink Reply by erillanos on September 22, 2008 at 6:11pm: How could you forget about Ponzi
shes a geek in her own ways.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Whitney Morris on September 22, 2008 at 6:53pm: Felicia Day. She's producer of "The Guild" and an actress (Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and more.); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Joey V on September 23, 2008 at 2:32am: Morgan Webb

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Permalink Reply by GadgetNut on September 24, 2008 at 8:46am: Felicia Day...

http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/09/23/geek-profile-felicia-day/

Plus, she's a redhead...; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Greg on September 24, 2008 at 9:49pm: These are a few of my favorites from CNET's Top 10 Girl Geeks. I look forward to seeing many more influential girl geeks posted in the near future!

Charles Babbage may have invented the programmable computer, but it was Ada Byron (later Ada Lovelace) who is widely credited with writing the first real program for it. She translated Luigi Menabrea's notes on Babbage's machine from Italian, and added her own ideas on how to calculate Bernoulli numbers using the contraption. These notes came to represent the first piece of computer software ever written.

Byron also saw potential in Babbage's machine that even the inventor himself never fully imagined. She suggested that the device might "compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity and extent". Bands who've used ProTools probably agree with her.

An expert in radioactivity (though not its long-term consequences), Marie Curie used to walk around with her pockets stuffed full of test tubes containing radioactive isotopes. She worked in her shed with some of the most dangerous substances known to humanity, and is the only person to have won a Nobel Prize in two different scientific disciplines. She discovered the elements radium and polonium, but so that others could share in her discovery, she did not patent the process she used to isolate the radium element. She died in 1934 due to massive radiation exposure.

Grace Hopper was the quintessential geek. Not content with inventing the Mark I Calculator, she wrote the first compiler (broadly, a piece of software that converts text written in a programming language into more efficient machine code). Her invention was called COBOL. Hopper's contribution to the world of computers cannot be underestimated: she pioneered the idea of using programming languages that bear some relation to the English language, and then using a compiler to convert these into a form that a computer can rapidly digest. While this idea seems obvious to any modern programmer, in Hopper's day it was a completely original philosophy. She also famously discovered a moth causing a computer to malfunction -- the first recorded case of a real computer bug.

A huge movie buff in her youth, Daryl Hannah showed all the early signs of a hardcore geek. Said to have been extremely shy, and diagnosed as 'borderline autistic' according to the All Movie Guide, Hannah is a fiercely intelligent actress. She's starred in some of the most important geek movies of all time including Blade Runner and Attack of the 50 Foot Woman. In Blade Runner, Hannah played a replicant named Pris, a "basic pleasure model", who Harrison Ford's character, Deckard, hunts down and kills. Hannah has also designed two board games -- 'Love It or Hate It' and 'Liebrary'. You don't get a whole lot more geeky than that.

Lisa Simpson is possibly the world's most famous geek. Admittedly she's fictional, but doesn't that just make her all the more incredibly nerdy? Although Simpson is only 8, she has an IQ of 159, and has been observed to be fluent in Italian, Chinese, Spanish and Swedish. She is an outcast at school on account of her prodigious talents, and often finds it difficult to relate to kids of her age. Simpson's greatest invention is the perpetual motion machine and she is also an expert piano, accordion, bass guitar and baritone saxophone player.

Oh yeah.......and Ponzi Pirillo !; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Ian Walker on September 25, 2008 at 5:22pm: I cannot believe I forgot Lisa Simpson! :)

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Permalink Reply by Chris Christman on October 27, 2008 at 12:54am: Natalie Portman. She speaks Hebrew and English, has studied a few other languages, graduated from Harvard, hell she skipped on the premier of Star Wars Episode 1 to study for her finals in college. If that's not a geek I don't know what is.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by JT on November 12, 2008 at 7:16pm: Katy Morgan the Porn Star. She was interviewed (in the nude) on HBO last week. Her IQ is 176; ▶ Reply to This