Virginia Carter is a Canadian-born physicist and entertainment executive.
Carter was born in Arvida, Quebec in 1936. She studied math and physics at McGill University and graduated magna cum laude in 1958. She then earned a master's degree from the University of Southern California. She was hired by the Douglas Aircraft Corporation in 1962. She then went to work for The Aerospace Corporation, where she was their sole female physicist. She stayed with Aerospace Corp. for nine years, conducting research on vacuum ultraviolet spectroscopy and high atmospheric conditions.