It takes a spe­cial woman to grab the atten­tion of a geek. Girls that geeks like have to be more than just hot or sexy or on the cover of mag­a­zines. They have to be a part of geek cul­ture. They must be ensconced in geek-land and cher­ish the things geeks love.

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10. Jenna Fischer

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Jenna Fischer’s char­ac­ter on The Office is the type of girl every geek wants to find and take home to meet their mother. Pam is shy, sweet, and sexy. Like Pam, Jenna worked as a recep­tion­ist and admin­is­tra­tive assis­tant before she hit the big time and found tele­vi­sion fame. It is reported that she can type 85 words per minute with 90 per­cent accuracy.

Jenna Fis­cher has an unde­ni­able authen­tic, gen­uine qual­ity to her. She is a true Mid­west­ern, girl-next-door type. She was raised in St. Louis by strict par­ents who wouldn’t even let her visit the mall on her own.  Dur­ing High School she has said she had one boyfriend and the cra­zi­est thing they got up to was eat­ing McDon­ald’s french fries.

In 2007, Jenna sent geeks into a frenzy when she appeared naked on the cover of tech mag­a­zine Wired. Nice work Jenna!

9. Tri­cia Helfer

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This year’s series finale of Bat­tlestar Galat­ica was one of the most antic­i­pated tele­vi­sion events in the geek realm. The main object of affec­tion in that series is Tri­cia Helfer, who plays sexy cylon Num­ber Six. The blonde Cana­dian babe plays numer­ous ver­sions of her char­ac­ter and gets to kick ass. She’s one cool, calm, and col­lected other worldly being.

Tri­cia her­self is a fan of science-fiction. Her father was a sci-fi geek and this rubbed off on young Tri­cia. She says she grew up watch­ing and lov­ing the worlds of Star Trek and Star Wars. Grow­ing up in rural Canada left her rel­a­tively iso­lated from pop cul­ture and she was not exposed to many films as a young­ster. She says, “I can change my oil and fix a flat tire, but I can’t really get into a pop cul­ture dis­cus­sion.” That hasn’t stopped the for­mer model from explor­ing the geeky world of video games and comic books.

Tri­cia has stated that she is not an avid gamer, but that didn’t stop her from appear­ing in the Elec­tronic Arts video game Com­mand & Con­quer, where she played Gen­eral Kil­ian Qatar. She says, “Even though I’ve never been involved in [gam­ing] in the past and I’ve never been a big gamer myself, I see it as a grow­ing and advanc­ing indus­try. I felt it was some­thing I should open myself up to.” Sim­i­larly she voiced the char­ac­ter Bood­ikka in the recently-released ani­mated Green Lantern: First Flight, even though she was unfa­mil­iar with the comic books.

A hot girl delv­ing into Geek Nation wins Tri­cia many brownie points.

8. Sum­mer Glau

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Sum­mer Glau’s role as the sexy, intel­li­gent River Tam in Fire­fly and Seren­ity gained her instant geek-cred and a legion of fans, chief among them the Brown­coats. She fol­lowed up that role by play­ing a ter­mi­na­tor in Ter­mi­na­tor: The Sarah Con­nor Chron­i­cles. Her ter­mi­na­tor is by far the hottest, most beau­ti­ful cyborg in the Ter­mi­na­tor world. She kicks ass, plays tough, yet also gets to shows off her bal­let skills.

What draws geeks to Sum­mer is the type of char­ac­ters she plays. Her roles in Fire­fly and Ter­mi­na­tor are sim­i­lar. She says they are both “for­eign­ers in their sur­round­ings.” The char­ac­ters both have dif­fi­culty relat­ing to peo­ple around them and exist in an ‘other world’ and at the same time they are per­fectly com­fort­able with who they are.

Sum­mer cemented her placed in the hearts of geeks by appear­ing in a cameo of geek-sitcom The Big Bang Theory. In the sea­son two episode Sum­mer is stuck on a train with the show’s geeky leads. The hope­lessly socially inept crew fawns over her and try to pluck up the courage to talk to her. This is a sit­u­a­tion many of her fans wish they could find them­selves in.

7. Mor­gan Webb

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Mor­gan Webb is hot and knows videos games bet­ter than you do. She is not one of those posers who’s trot­ted out just to look pretty. Her authen­tic­ity and gen­uine pas­sion for video games has cemented her place in the hearts of geeks world­wide. Some credit her with help­ing a lot of girls to get into gam­ing, or at least accept it. And for that, we thank her.

Mor­gan has been a pio­neer in bring­ing tech and video game news to a wider audi­ence and in doing so has assem­bled a legion of fans. She started her career with TechTV in 2001 after grad­u­at­ing from UC Berke­ley. Her self-taught knowl­edge of all things com­put­ers and tech­nol­ogy, cou­pled with her fine looks, saw her quickly becom­ing on-air talent.

She first appeared on The Screen Savers, the ini­tial incar­na­tion of Attack of the Show. In 2003 she began to co-host X-Play, a show ded­i­cated to all things video games. She also wrote a pop­u­lar col­umn called “Tips From the Gam­ing God­dess” for FHM mag­a­zine. This year she branched out with another show, G4 Under­ground, a sort of 60 Min­utes for the inter­net generation.

In 2004 Mor­gan topped a “Sex­i­est Techie” poll con­ducted by Play­boy. Her prize was an offer to do a pic­to­r­ial. Mor­gan politely declined, say­ing she was “very flat­tered” by the offer. Geeks world­wide may have not liked her deci­sion, but there’s some­thing to be said for a girl that keeps it classy.

6. Tina Fey

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Tina Fey truly is the think­ing man’s sex sym­bol and has been labeled a “sex kit­ten for geeks.” She is funny, sar­cas­tic, intel­li­gent, strong-willed, and tal­ented. She has pro­gressed from a self-described nerdy, frumpy writer on Sat­ur­day Night Live to an award-winning sit­com cre­ator and star.

In 2007 she made the cover of Geek Monthly, a great honor for any geek. She said in an inter­view, “I am a nerd in real life; I think Liz Lemon may be a big­ger nerd. Thank god there is Geek mag­a­zine, or what would I be on the cover of?” While appear­ing on Late Night with Conan O’Brien, Fey talked about her love of Star Wars and how she col­lected Star Wars fig­ures as a kid. She says while other kids were out on dates, she was at home baby sit­ting her action figures. Oh Tina, you are so relatable!

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