I've thought of one - Judith Chisolm.
She was a controller in the seventies before she left to go flying bizjets. Some of the older ones amongst you might remember her round the world flight in a Cessna Centurion in 1980. It broke some record at the time, was featured in some paper or other (The Express?) and she had a TV programme made about her which, if I rememebr rightly, filmed her in the bath.
In ATC terms, however, she was famous, nay, notorious for other reasons. For those of you based in the UK, ask some of the older controllers at your unit for details...
Alas, Judith died of cancer a few years after her round the world trip. If the rumours about her were only half true, she crammed more into her short life than most of us would manage in three or four long ones.