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Mary Anning
Mary Anning (1799–1847) was an English fossil collector and palaeontologist whose finds in the Jurassic cliffs at Lyme Regis, Dorset, included the first complete ichthyosaur and plesiosaur skeletons.
Mary Astor
Mary Astor (Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke, 1906–1987), American actress from the silent era to 1964; Oscar winner for The Great Lie (1942), famed as Brigid O'Shaughnessy in The Maltese Falcon; also author of five novels and two memoirs.
Mary Attenborough
Mary Attenborough, born Mary Clegg (1896-1961), Leicester philanthropist, magistrate, and wife of college principal Frederick Attenborough; helped Basque child refugees and adopted Kindertransport sisters Helga and Irene Bejach; mother of Richard, David, John Attenborough.
Mary B. Briscoe
Mary B. Briscoe is an American jurist, a senior judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit whom President Bill Clinton appointed in 1995.
Mary B. Chan‐Park
Mary B. Chan-Park (Chan Bee Eng, Mary) is a Singapore-based materials chemist at Nanyang Technological University known for antimicrobial polymers, hydrogels, and carbon nanotube composites.
Mary B. Kennedy
Mary B. Kennedy, born 1947, in Pontiac, Michigan, is an American neuroscientist at Caltech who for 40 years studied the biochemistry of synaptic plasticity underlying learning and memory.
Mary Babnik Brown
Mary Babnik Brown (1907–1991) was an American from Pueblo, Colorado, who donated her 34-inch blonde hair during World War II for use in meteorological instruments, refusing payment.
Mary Badham
Mary Badham (born 1952, Birmingham, Alabama) is the American actress who played Scout Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), earning a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination at age 10; later an art restorer and stage Mrs. Dubose.
Mary Baker (mechanical engineer)
Mary Baker (died 2021) was an American mechanical engineer who co-founded ATA Engineering of San Diego and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2019.
Mary Baker Eddy
Mary Baker Eddy (1821–1910) was an American religious leader who founded Christian Science, wrote Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, and organized the Church of Christ, Scientist in 1879.
Mary Baldwin University
Mary Baldwin University, formerly Mary Baldwin College, is a private university in Staunton, Virginia, founded in 1842 as the Augusta Female Seminary to educate women.
Mary Ball Washington
Mary Ball Washington (c. 1708–1789) was a Virginia widow, planter, and slaveholder, mother of George Washington. Orphaned before 13, widowed 1743, never remarried; her reputation swung between saint and shrew across two centuries of historiography.
Mary Barber (bacteriologist)
Mary Barber (1911–1965) was a British clinical bacteriologist at Hammersmith Hospital and St Thomas's who documented penicillin-resistant staphylococci and led a 1957–59 Hammersmith trial reversing hospital resistance.
Mary Barra
Mary Barra, born Mary Makela, is an American business executive who has been chief executive officer of General Motors since 2014, the first woman to lead a major global automaker.
Mary Barton
Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life is Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel, published anonymously in 1848 and set among Manchester's factory workers during the Chartist years.
Mary Beard (classicist)
Mary Beard (born 1955) is a British classicist, Professor of Classics at Cambridge and Fellow of Newnham College, author of SPQR, Pompeii, Women & Power, and Emperor of Rome, Wolfson History Prize winner and 2026 Booker Prize chair.
Mary Bell
Mary Bell, full name Mary Flora Bell, is an English woman convicted in 1968, aged 10 or 11, of the manslaughter of two young boys in Newcastle upon Tyne.
Mary Berg (chef)
Mary Berg, Canadian television host, cookbook author, and cook; winner of MasterChef Canada season 3 (2016). Host of Mary's Kitchen Crush, Mary Makes It Easy, and The Good Stuff with Mary Berg; author of In Mary's Kitchen; season 8 judge.
Mary Berry
Dame Mary Berry (born 1935, Bath) is an English food writer and TV presenter, Le Cordon Bleu-trained, author of 70-plus cookbooks, and Bake Off judge 2010–2016; CBE 2012, Dame 2020.
Mary Beth Barone
Mary Beth Barone (born 1991, Stamford, Connecticut) is an American comedian, writer, and actor known for the specials Thought Provoking and Netflix's Galaxy Brain, the podcasts Obsessed and Ride with Benito Skinner, and co-writing and starring in Overcompensating on Prime Video.
Mary Beth Canty
Mary Beth Canty is an American Democratic politician and attorney representing Illinois's 54th House district, including Arlington Heights and Palatine, elected in 2022 after serving on the Arlington Heights Village Board.
Mary Beth Carozza
Mary Beth Carozza is an American Republican politician, a Maryland State Senator for District 38 since 2019 who earlier served in the Maryland House of Delegates from 2015.
Mary Beth Evans
Mary Beth Evans is an American actress best known for playing Dr. Kayla Brady on the soap opera Days of Our Lives, a role she has held since 1986.
Mary Beth Hurt
Mary Beth Hurt (Mary Beth Supinger, 1946-2026) was an American actress, three-time Tony nominee for Trelawny of the Wells, Crimes of the Heart, and Benefactors, film debut in Interiors (1978), wife of Paul Schrader.
Mary Beth Peil
Mary Beth Peil (born June 25, 1940, Davenport, Iowa) is an American actress and former operatic soprano, known as Grams on Dawson's Creek, Jackie Florrick on The Good Wife, and a two-time Tony-nominated Broadway performer in The King and I and Anastasia.
Mary Beth Stewart
Mary Slewart is an OCR spelling variant of Mary Stewart McIlwaine (born 1945, Vancouver), Canadian swimmer, two-time Olympian, twice world 110-yard butterfly record holder, and 1962 Commonwealth Games champion.
Mary Beth Walsh
Mary Beth Walsh is an American Republican politician and attorney representing New York's 112th Assembly district since 2017, serving as Assembly Minority Leader Pro Tempore from 2025.
Mary Beth Wilhelm
Mary Beth Wilhelm is an American astrobiologist at NASA Ames Research Center who studies how biomarkers survive on Mars and received a 2025 PECASE award.
Mary Bethe Humphrey
Mary Bethe Humphrey, also published as Mary Beth Humphrey, is an American rheumatologist who leads the rheumatology division at the University of Oklahoma and studies osteoporosis.
Mary Bignal Rand
Mary Bignal Rand (1940-2026), English long jumper; first British woman to win Olympic athletics gold, Tokyo 1964, world record 6.76m, plus pentathlon silver and relay bronze.