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Mary D. Naylor
Mary D. Naylor is an American nurse-scientist at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, architect of the Transitional Care Model and winner of the 2022 Gustav O. Lienhard Award.
Mary Daly
Mary Daly (1928–2010), American radical feminist philosopher and theologian, author of The Church and the Second Sex, Beyond God the Father, and Gyn/Ecology; Boston College professor, distinct from economist Mary C. Daly and historian Mary E. Daly.
Mary Dasso
Mary Dasso is an American cell biologist who heads the Section on Cell Cycle Regulation at NIH's NICHD in Bethesda, Maryland, studying the Ran GTPase and SUMOylation in mitosis.
Mary de Sales Chappuis
Mary de Sales Chappuis (Marie-Thérèse Chappuis, 1793–1875) was a Swiss-born Visitation nun at Troyes, France, honored as inspiration of the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales.
Mary Decker
Mary Decker (Mary Decker Slaney, born 1958), American middle-distance runner; 1983 World Championship double gold medalist at 1,500 m and 3,000 m; holder of 36 US records and 17 world records; famous for the 1984 Olympic fall with Zola Budd.
Mary Descenza
Mary Descenza (Mary DeScenza Mohler), born 1984, American butterfly swimmer; set the 200 m butterfly world record, 2:04.14, at the 2009 Rome World Championships; two-time world champion, never an Olympian.
Mary Dyer
Mary Dyer (Marie Barrett, c. 1611–1660), English-born Puritan turned Quaker missionary, hanged on Boston Common June 1, 1660 for defying Massachusetts' ban on Quakers; her martyrdom led the king to ban Quaker executions in 1661.
Mary E. Brunkow
Mary E. Brunkow is an American molecular biologist at the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle, co-recipient of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Mary E. D’Alton
Mary E. D'Alton is an Irish-born maternal-fetal medicine specialist who is Obstetrician and Gynecologist-in-Chief at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2013.
Mary E. Hannah
Mary E. Hannah is a Canadian physician-scientist in maternal-fetal medicine at the University of Toronto whose Term Breech Trial of 2000 changed practice for breech and post-term pregnancies.
Mary E. Hatten
Mary E. Hatten, also published as Mary Beth Hatten, is an American developmental neurobiologist at The Rockefeller University known for proving that neurons migrate along glial fibers.
Mary E. Norton
Mary E. Norton is an American maternal-fetal medicine physician and clinical geneticist at the University of California, San Francisco, an expert in cell-free DNA prenatal testing and former department chair.
Mary E. Phillips
Mary Elizabeth Phillips, born in 1969, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Western District of Missouri since 2012, appointed by President Barack Obama.
Mary E. Power
Mary E. Power is an American river and food-web ecologist, Professor Emerita at UC Berkeley, known for river food-web experiments and long-term research on the South Fork Eel River in California.
Mary E. Tinetti
Mary E. Tinetti, also known as Mary Tinetti, is an American geriatric physician and epidemiologist at Yale whose research established that falls in older adults are preventable.
Mary Earps
Mary Earps, born 1993 in Nottingham, is an English goalkeeper for London City Lionesses; former England keeper with 53 caps, Euro 2022 winner, 2023 World Cup Golden Glove, and two-time The Best FIFA Women's Goalkeeper.
Mary Eastey
Mary Eastey (about 1634–1692), also spelled Esty or Estey, Topsfield sister of Rebecca Nurse and Sarah Cloyce, hanged September 22, 1692 in the Salem witch trials; known for two petitions urging fair trials and testing the afflicted accusers.
Mary Edly-Allen
Mary Edly-Allen is an American Democratic politician serving the 31st district in the Illinois Senate, previously representing the 51st House district and working in education.
Mary Edwards Walker
Mary Edwards Walker (1832–1919), American Civil War surgeon, suffragist, and dress-reform advocate; first female U.S. Army surgeon, Castle Thunder POW, and the only woman ever awarded the Medal of Honor, revoked 1917, restored 1977.
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835–1915) was an English novelist and magazine editor who wrote more than eighty novels, best known for the bestselling 1862 sensation novel Lady Audley's Secret.
Mary Elizabeth Coleman
Mary Elizabeth Coleman is an American politician and Republican member of the Missouri Senate from the 22nd district, where she publishes a periodic constituent newsletter, the "Dome to Home Update."
Mary Elizabeth Ellis
Mary Elizabeth Ellis (born 1979, Laurel, Mississippi) is an American actress and writer, the Waitress on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, wife of Charlie Day, and Emily in Netflix's A Man on the Inside; distinct from the 1897-2003 soprano Mary Ellis.
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio (born 1958, Lombard, Illinois) is an American actress and singer: Oscar-nominated for The Color of Money, star of Scarface, The Abyss, and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, and a Broadway/West End stage veteran.
Mary Elizabeth McDonough
Mary Elizabeth McDonough (Mary Beth McDonough), American actress born 1961 in Van Nuys, California; played Erin Walton on The Waltons 1972–1981, later actress, memoirist, novelist, and breast implant safety activist.
Mary Elizabeth McGlynn
Mary Elizabeth McGlynn (born 1966), also known as Melissa Williamson, is an American voice actress, ADR director, and singer who voiced Motoko Kusanagi in Ghost in the Shell, sang Silent Hill's vocal themes, and directed the Naruto dub.
Mary Elizabeth Winstead
Mary Elizabeth Winstead is an American actress, Ramona Flowers in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, also known for 10 Cloverfield Lane, Smashed, Death Proof, Fargo, and Birds of Prey.
Mary Ellen Avery
Mary Ellen Avery was an American pediatrician who showed in 1959 that respiratory distress syndrome in premature infants is caused by a lack of lung surfactant.
Mary Ellen Conley
Mary Ellen Conley is an American immunologist and physician who defined the genetic basis of X-linked agammaglobulinemia, identifying Bruton's tyrosine kinase mutations that block B cell development.
Mary Ellen Jones (American biochemist)
Mary Ellen Jones (1922–1996) was an American biochemist who codiscovered carbamoyl phosphate, key to DNA and RNA synthesis, and became the first woman to chair a department at the UNC School of Medicine.
Mary Ellen Pleasant
Mary Ellen Pleasant was an American entrepreneur and civil-rights activist who built a San Francisco fortune and fought streetcar segregation in the 1860s.