Tenley Albright  (Born in 1935)

Tenley Albright is an American former figure skating champion and surgeon. At the 1952 winter Olympics, she won her first silver medal and an Olympic Gold medal in the 1956 Winter Olympics, becoming the first American woman to win a gold medal in figure skating.

Albright managed all this while being enrolled as a pre-med student at Radcliffe College. She retired after the 1956 Olympics from figure skating and concentrated on her medical career. In 1961 she graduated from Havard medical school and became a surgeon. She currently serves as the director of the ‘MIT Collaborative Initiatives,’ which she founded.