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Marie-Antoinette Maupertuis
Marie-Antoinette Maupertuis is a French politician of Femu a Corsica serving as President of the Assembly of Corsica; a former economics professor, she sat on Corsica's Executive Council from 2015 to 2021.
Marie-Antoinette Tonnelat
Marie-Antoinette Tonnelat, née Baudot (1912–1980), was a French theoretical physicist and historian of science who linked relativistic gravitation to the graviton and became a full professor at the Sorbonne in 1956.
Marie-Célie Agnant
Marie-Célie Agnant is a Haitian-born Quebec writer, living in Canada since 1970, known for novels like Le Livre d'Emma and for winning the 2017 Prix Alain-Grandbois.
Marie-Chantal, Crown Princess of Greece
Marie-Chantal, Crown Princess of Greece (Marie-Chantal Claire Miller, born 1968), wife of Crown Prince Pavlos of the deposed Greek royal family; married 1995 in London, founder of the Marie-Chantal childrenswear brand and author of Manners Begin at Breakfast.
Marie-Elisabeth Lüders
Marie-Elisabeth Lüders was a German social reformer, women's rights campaigner, and parliamentarian who in 1912 became the first woman in Germany to earn a doctorate in political science.
Marie-France Carlier
Marie-France Carlier is a French biochemist at the CNRS who studies how actin assembly drives cell movement, showing it can be reconstituted in vitro from five purified proteins.
Marie-France van Heel
Marie-France van Heel (Frankie), born 1970, Dutch-born marketing executive, wife of UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham since 2000; met at Cambridge 1989, 1992 Blind Date contestant, Be.EV/Iduna executive, Plan International UK trustee.
Marie-France Vignéras
Marie-France Vignéras, born in 1946 in Bordeaux, is a French mathematician and professor emerita at Université Paris Cité, known for her work on p-adic groups and the Langlands program.
Marie-Helene Ametsreiter
Marie-Helene (Marie-Hélène) Ametsreiter is an Austrian venture capitalist and General Partner at Speedinvest, leading Industrial Tech and Climate Tech investing from Munich after earlier careers at Telekom Austria and OMV.
Marie-Jeanne Lamartinière
Marie-Jeanne Lamartinière was a Haitian woman soldier of the Haitian Revolution, known for fighting in male uniform at the Battle of Crête-à-Pierrot in March 1802.
Marie-José of Belgium
Marie-José of Belgium (Maria José di Savoia, the May Queen), 1906–2001, last Queen of Italy: daughter of Albert I, wife of Umberto II, anti-fascist crown princess, reigned 9 May–13 June 1946, died in exile in Geneva.
Marie-Josée Croze
Marie-Josée Croze is a Canadian-French actress born 1970 in Montreal, known for Maelström, Les Invasions barbares (Cannes Best Actress 2003), Munich, and Le Scaphandre et le papillon.
Marie-Léontine Tsibinda
Marie-Léontine Tsibinda, full name Marie-Léontine Tsibinda Bilombo, is a Congolese poet, short-story writer, and playwright born in 1958, regarded as the first woman writer of Congo-Brazzaville.
Marie-Louis-Antoine-Gaston Boissier
Marie-Louis-Antoine-Gaston Boissier (1823–1908) was a French classical scholar who taught Latin literature at the Collège de France for 45 years and served as secrétaire perpétuel of the Académie française.
Marie-Louise von Franz
Marie-Louise von Franz (1915–1998), Swiss Jungian analyst and classical philologist, closest collaborator of C. G. Jung; known for fairy-tale interpretation, alchemy, Aurora consurgens, puer aeternus, synchronicity, and the Foundation for Jungian Psychology.
Marie-Mai
Marie-Mai, full name Marie-Mai Bouchard, is a Canadian francophone pop singer-songwriter who rose to fame on Star Académie in 2003 and has won ten Félix awards.
Marie-Marguérite d'Youville
Marie-Marguérite d'Youville, born Marie-Marguerite Dufrost de Lajemmerais (1701–1771), was a widow of New France who founded the Sisters of Charity of Montreal, the Grey Nuns, and became the first Canadian-born saint.
Marie-Pierre Kœnig
Marie-Pierre Kœnig (1898-1970), French general and posthumous Marshal of France, commanded the 1st Free French Brigade at Bir Hakeim in 1942, led the FFI in 1944, governed liberated Paris, and later served as defense minister.
Marie-Pierre Vedrenne
Marie-Pierre Vedrenne is a French Mouvement démocrate politician serving as Minister delegate for Citizenship, attached to the Minister of the Interior, after serving in the European Parliament.
Marie-Reine Le Gougne
Marie-Reine Le Gougne (born 1961), French figure skating judge; her 2002 Salt Lake City admission of pressure by Didier Gailhaguet caused the pairs gold scandal and the ISU's adoption of the IJS.
Marie-Rose Tessier
Marie-Rose Tessier (née Bousseau, 1910–2026), French supercentenarian from Vendée, doyenne of France from January 2023 and second-oldest person in the world; died at 115 years, 265 days, the fourth Frenchwoman verified to reach 115.
Marie-Thérèse Humbert
Marie-Thérèse Humbert is a Mauritian novelist writing in French whose work explores race, class, and mixed-race identity, best known for À l'autre bout de moi (1979).
Marie-Thérèse Walter
Marie-Thérèse Walter (1909–1977), French model and Picasso's lover and muse from 1927 to about 1940, mother of Maya Widmaier-Picasso; subject of Le Rêve (1932) and the Boisgeloup plaster busts.
Marie-Thérèse, Duchess of Angoulême
Marie-Thérèse Charlotte de France, Madame Royale, Duchess of Angoulême (1778–1851), eldest daughter of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette, sole surviving child, Temple prisoner exchanged in 1795, Restoration dauphine and legitimist queen in exile.
Marie‐Germaine Bousser
Marie-Germaine Bousser (born 1943) is a French neurologist and stroke researcher, emeritus professor at Université Paris-Diderot, known for identifying the hereditary small-vessel disease CADASIL and winning the 2019 Brain Prize.
Marie‐Louise Newell
Marie-Louise Newell is an infectious disease epidemiologist whose research on HIV in pregnancy and childhood, especially mother-to-child transmission, informed policies credited with reducing vertically acquired HIV infection.
Marie‐Paule Lefranc
Marie-Paule Lefranc is a French immunologist and emeritus professor at the University of Montpellier who founded IMGT, the international ImMunoGeneTics information system, in 1989, the global reference standard in immunogenetics.
Mariechen Wehselau
Mariechen Wehselau (Jackson), "Squeaky", Honolulu swimmer, 1924 Paris Olympics silver in 100 m freestyle and gold, world record 4:58.8, in the 4x100 m freestyle relay; Hawaii's first woman Olympic gold medalist.
Mariehamn
Mariehamn (Maarianhamina), capital and only town of the autonomous, demilitarized, Swedish-speaking Åland Islands, Finland. Founded 1861; about 11,957 residents; ferry port, airport, and home of the museum ship Pommern.
Marieke Guehrer
Marieke Guehrer (D'Cruz), Australian sprint swimmer born 1986 in Adelaide; 2004 Olympic 100m backstroker who reinvented herself in butterfly, won 50m fly gold at Rome 2009 worlds, set short-course world records 24.99 (50 fly) and 26.17 (50 back), and won the 2008 FINA World Cup.