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Mary Birdsong
Mary Birdsong (born 1968) is an American actress, comedian, writer, and singer, best known as Deputy Cherisha Kimball on Reno 911! and for roles in The Descendants, Adventureland, and Broadway's Hairspray.
Mary Black
Mary Black (born 1955, Dublin) is an Irish folk and contemporary singer, ex-General Humbert and De Danann member, whose 1989 album No Frontiers went triple platinum and who featured on A Woman's Heart before retiring from touring in 2026.
Mary Boleyn
Mary Boleyn (c. 1499/1500–1543), sister of Anne Boleyn, was mistress of Henry VIII in the early 1520s and possibly Francis I; married William Carey then William Stafford, bore disputed royal children, and died in obscurity.
Mary Bono
Mary Bono, born Mary Whitaker, is an American Republican politician who represented California in the US House from 1998 to 2013 after winning her late husband Sonny Bono's seat.
Mary Bronstein
Mary Bronstein, formerly credited as Mary Wall, is an American filmmaker and actress who directed Yeast (2008) and If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025).
Mary Bruce (journalist)
Mary Bruce is ABC News' chief White House correspondent in Washington, D.C., seen on GMA, World News Tonight, Nightline, and 20/20. A 2006 desk-assistant hire and WashU AB '05 graduate, she won the 2018 Joan S. Barone Award and drew Trump's 'terrible reporter' attack in 2025.
Mary Brunner
Mary Theresa Brunner (born 1943, Eau Claire, Wisconsin) was the first recruit of the Manson Family, mother of Manson's son Valentine Michael, testified under immunity at Beausoleil and Manson trials, and served prison time for the 1971 Hawthorne robbery before her 1977 parole.
Mary C. Beckerle
Mary C. Beckerle is an American cancer cell biologist at the University of Utah who discovered the protein zyxin and served as CEO of Huntsman Cancer Institute from 2006 to 2025.
Mary C. Boyce
Mary C. Boyce is an American mechanical engineer known for the Arruda–Boyce rubber elasticity model and for serving as provost of Columbia University from 2021 to 2023.
Mary C. Nakamura
Mary C. Nakamura is an American rheumatologist and physician-scientist, Professor in Residence at UCSF, known for research on innate immune receptors in bone biology and fracture healing.
Mary C. Waters
Mary C. Waters is a Harvard sociologist who studies immigrant integration and racial and ethnic identity, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2010.
Mary Carew
Mary Carew (Mary Louise Carew-Armstrong, 1913-2002), American sprinter from Medford, Massachusetts; won 1932 Olympic gold leading off the US 4x100 m relay (world record 47.0) and held four AAU indoor 40-yard titles.
Mary Carey (actress)
Mary Carey (Mary Ellen Cook, born 1980, Cleveland) is an American former adult film actress and Playboy model known for her 2003 California gubernatorial recall candidacy, VH1's Celebrity Rehab, and Playboy TV work.
Mary Carillo
Mary Carillo (born 1957) is an American sportscaster and former WTA player, 1977 French Open mixed doubles champion with John McEnroe, first woman to regularly commentate tennis on TV, and a 17-time NBC/CBS Olympics broadcaster with six Emmys and three Peabodys.
Mary Carolynn Tucker
Mary Carolynn Tucker, American rifle shooter born 2001, Tokyo 2020 Olympic silver medalist in 10m air rifle mixed team with Lucas Kozeniesky, five-time NCAA champion at Kentucky and West Virginia, 2023 world team champion, and 2024 Paris Olympian.
Mary Carrington
Mary Carrington is an American immunologist and human geneticist who studies how HLA and KIR gene variation shapes susceptibility to HIV/AIDS, hepatitis C, and cancer.
Mary Cartwright
Dame Mary Lucy Cartwright was a British mathematician known for work on complex function theory and, with J. E. Littlewood, an early discovery of chaos in the forced van der Pol equation.
Mary Cassatt
Mary Stevenson Cassatt (1844–1926), American Impressionist painter and printmaker based in Paris, the only American to exhibit with the Impressionists (1879–1886), known for mother-and-child scenes, the 1890 Set of Ten color prints, and the 1893 Modern Woman mural.
Mary Catherine Hill
Mary Catherine Hill is an American hydrologist and University of Kansas professor who spent 33 years at the USGS developing MODFLOW, the world's most widely used groundwater model.
Mary Cavanagh
Mary Cavanagh is an American Democratic politician who represents Michigan's 6th Senate district and, in August 2025, joined Senators Stephanie Chang and Jeremy Moss in introducing immigration enforcement bills.
Mary Celeste
Mary Celeste was an American merchant brigantine found adrift and deserted off the Azores in December 1872 with all ten aboard, including Captain Briggs, his wife, and daughter, never accounted for.
Mary Celine Fasenmyer
Mary Celine Fasenmyer was an American mathematician and Sister of Mercy whose 1946 University of Michigan dissertation introduced Sister Celine's method, a mechanical procedure underlying computerized proofs of hypergeometric identities.
Mary Chapin Carpenter
Mary Chapin Carpenter is an American singer and songwriter born in 1958 in Princeton, New Jersey, with five Grammy Awards and over 17 million records sold.
Mary Cheney
Mary Cheney, daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney, is an American political and corporate advisor, Colorado College graduate, Coors and AOL executive, 2000 and 2004 Bush-Cheney campaign aide, memoirist, and managing partner of New Troy Strategies.
Mary Claire Haver
Mary Claire Haver, American board-certified OB-GYN and Menopause Society Certified Practitioner, founder of The 'Pause Life and Mary Claire Wellness Clinic, author of The Galveston Diet and the NYT bestseller The New Menopause, and prominent advocate for menopausal hormone therapy.
Mary Corleone
Mary Corleone is Michael Corleone's daughter in The Godfather Part III (1990), played by Sofia Coppola; she loves her cousin Vincent and dies by a bullet meant for Michael.
Mary Cosby
Mary Cosby (born Mary Martha Harris, 1972) is a Salt Lake City reality star and First Lady of Faith Temple Pentecostal Church, married to her step-grandfather Robert Cosby Sr., an original RHOSLC cast member.
Mary Costa
Mary Costa (born April 5, 1930) is an American soprano, voice of Disney's Princess Aurora in Sleeping Beauty (1959), Met debut 1964 as Violetta, Disney Legend 1999, National Medal of Arts 2020, Knoxville Opera founder.
Mary Crosby
Mary Crosby (Mary-Frances Crosby), American actress born 1959 in Los Angeles, daughter of Bing Crosby and Kathryn Crosby; played Kristin Shepard on Dallas, revealed November 21, 1980 as the answer to Who Shot J.R.?
Mary Cushman
Mary Cushman is an American hematologist and cardiovascular epidemiologist at the University of Vermont, known for Women's Health Initiative findings on hormone therapy and for co-leading the REGARDS stroke study.