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Martha (מָרְתָא)
Martha, also known as Martha of Bethany, is a New Testament figure of Bethany, sister of Mary and Lazarus, who hosts Jesus and confesses him as the Christ.
Martha A. Vázquez
Martha Alicia Vázquez, born 1953, is a senior United States district judge for the District of New Mexico, appointed by President Clinton in 1993 and chief judge from 2003 to 2010.
Martha and the Vandellas
Martha and the Vandellas: Detroit Motown girl group led by Martha Reeves (Vandellas = Van Dyke street + Della Reese), active 1962-1972; hits "Heat Wave" and "Dancing in the Street"; Rock Hall 1995, second female group inducted.
Martha Argerich
Martha Argerich (born 1941, Buenos Aires) is an Argentine concert pianist, 1965 Chopin Competition winner, known for virtuosic technique, chamber music partnerships, and festivals in Beppu, Buenos Aires, and Lugano.
Martha B. Pitman
Martha B. Pitman, also known as Martha Bishop Pitman, is an American cytopathologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard, principal author of the Papanicolaou Society system for reporting pancreatic cytology.
Martha Bernays
Martha Bernays (1861–1951), Hamburg-born wife of Sigmund Freud; married him 14 September 1886 after a four-year Brautbriefe engagement of over 1,500 letters; mother of six children including Anna Freud; emigrated to London in 1938.
Martha Bulyk
Martha Bulyk is a Harvard Medical School professor of medicine and pathology known for developing universal protein binding microarrays that measure transcription factor DNA binding specificities.
Martha Byrne
Martha Byrne (Mary Martha Byrne, born 1969, Ridgewood, NJ) is an American actress, singer, writer, and producer; Emmy-winning Lily Walsh Snyder and Rose D'Angelo on As the World Turns, later Anacostia producer.
Martha C. Daughtrey
Martha C. Daughtrey, also known as Martha Craig Daughtrey, is an American jurist appointed by President Clinton to the Sixth Circuit in 1993, taking senior status in 2009.
Martha Chase
Martha Chase, also known as Martha Cowles Chase, was an American scientist who, as Alfred Hershey's assistant at Cold Spring Harbor, co-authored the 1952 blender experiment proving DNA carries genetic information.
Martha Chen
Martha (Marty) Chen is an American development scholar of the informal economy who lectures at the Harvard Kennedy School and co-founded the network WIEGO in 1997.
Martha Constantine‐Paton
Martha Constantine-Paton is an American neuroscientist, an emerita professor at MIT and the McGovern Institute, known for showing that NMDA receptors set synapse strengths during brain development.
Martha Farah
Martha J. Farah is an American cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Pennsylvania, known for her research on how socioeconomic status shapes the developing brain and for neuroethics.
Martha Fiennes
Martha Fiennes (born 1965) is a British film director and digital artist, sister of Ralph and Joseph Fiennes. Directed Onegin (1999, Tokyo Best Director) and Chromophobia (2005, Cannes closer), then generative AI artworks Nativity and Yugen.
Martha Fierro
Martha Elena Fierro is an American Republican politician running for the U.S. House in Texas's 29th district, facing Democratic incumbent Sylvia Garcia in November 2026.
Martha Firestone Ford
Martha Firestone Ford, Detroit Lions Owner and Chair 2014-2019 after William Clay Ford's death, now Owner/Chair Emeritus; succeeded June 23, 2020 by daughter Sheila Ford Hamp.
Martha Gellhorn
Martha Gellhorn (Martha Ellis Gellhorn, 1908–1998), American war correspondent and writer; covered the Spanish Civil War, D-Day (as a hospital-ship stowaway), Dachau, Vietnam, and Panama; ex-wife of Ernest Hemingway; namesake of the 1999 Martha Gellhorn Prize.
Martha Graham
Martha Graham (1894–1991) was an American dancer, teacher, and choreographer who founded her company in 1926, created 180 works including Appalachian Spring, and became known as the mother of modern dance.
Martha Hart
Martha Joan Hart is a Canadian philanthropist, author, and pediatrics researcher known as the widow of wrestler Owen Hart, who died in 1999; she founded the Owen Hart Foundation in 2000.
Martha Hickey
Martha Hickey is an Australian clinical psychologist and obstetrician-gynecologist who is Chair of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Melbourne and led The Lancet's 2024 menopause series.
Martha Higareda
Martha Higareda (Martha Elba Higareda Cervantes), Mexican actress, writer, and producer born 1983 in Villahermosa; broke out with Amar te duele, starred in No Manches Frida and Altered Carbon, wrote and produced Fuga de reinas (2023).
Martha Howe-Douglas
Martha Howe-Douglas (born 1980, Birmingham) is an English actress, writer, and producer, RADA-trained, known for Horrible Histories, Yonderland, and co-creating and starring as Lady Fanny Button in the BBC sitcom Ghosts (2019–2023).
Martha Hudson
Martha Hudson (Martha B. Hudson-Pennyman, "Pee Wee"), born 1939 in Eastman, Georgia, is an American sprinter and Tennessee State Tigerbelle who won 1960 Rome Olympic gold in the 4x100m relay running the first leg.
Martha Hunt
Martha Hunt (born 1989, Wilson, North Carolina) is an American model, a former Victoria's Secret Angel signed in 2012, with 96 recorded runway shows, IMG representation, and scoliosis advocacy through Enuval.
Martha Hyer
Martha Hyer (1924-2014), American film and television actress, Oscar-nominated as Best Supporting Actress for Some Came Running (1958); also Sabrina, Houseboat, The Carpetbaggers; second wife of producer Hal B. Wallis.
Martha Jefferson
Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson (1748-1782), wife of Thomas Jefferson and Monticello household manager; twice widowed-adjacent heiress, mother of six Jefferson children, half-sister of Sally Hemings, died at 33 after childbirth.
Martha Jefferson Randolph
Martha Jefferson Randolph (Patsy, 1772-1836), eldest daughter of Thomas Jefferson and Martha Wayles, was educated in Paris, married Thomas Mann Randolph, served as Jefferson's White House hostess in 1802-03 and 1805-06, and ran the Monticello household from 1809 to 1826.
Martha Jones
Martha Jones is a Doctor Who companion played by Freema Agyeman, the first Black full-time regular TARDIS companion, introduced in Smith and Jones (2007) with the Tenth Doctor, famed for her year-long walk to defeat the Master, later appearing in Torchwood and Big Finish audio dramas.
Martha L. Lepow
Martha L. Lepow (1927–2021) was an American pediatric infectious disease physician who helped test the Salk and Sabin polio vaccines and founded pediatrics at UConn.
Martha L. Ludwig
Martha L. Ludwig (1931–2006) was an American biochemist and X-ray crystallographer at the University of Michigan who solved the first flavoprotein structure and the first structure of vitamin B12 bound to a protein.