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Mary Ellen Trainor
Mary Ellen Trainor (July 8, 1952 – May 20, 2015) was an American character actress, ex-wife of director Robert Zemeckis, known as Mrs. Walsh in The Goonies and Dr. Stephanie Woods in all four Lethal Weapon films, and Gail Wallens in Die Hard.
Mary Ellen Wilson
Mary Ellen Wilson, also Mary Ellen McCormack (1864-1956), an American abused child whose 1874 New York rescue and testimony led to the first child protection society, the NYSPCC.
Mary Engelbreit
Mary Engelbreit is an American illustrator from St. Louis, Missouri, who founded a greeting-card company in 1983 and built an art-licensing business with over $1 billion in retail sales.
Mary Ethel Florey
Mary Ethel Florey, Lady Florey (née Reed, 1900–1966), was an Australian-born physician who supervised the Oxford penicillin clinical trials and wrote a four-volume work on antibiotic therapy.
Mary F. Lyon
Mary F. Lyon (1925–2014) was a British mouse geneticist who spent her career at MRC Harwell and proposed X-chromosome inactivation, known as Lyonization, in a 1961 Nature paper.
Mary Fallin
Mary Fallin (born 1954) is an American Republican politician, Oklahoma's first female governor (2011-2019), earlier its first woman and first Republican lieutenant governor and a two-term U.S. representative.
Mary Felzkowski
Mary Felzkowski is an American Republican politician serving as President of the Wisconsin State Senate, first elected to the Assembly in 2012 and to the Senate in 2020.
Mary Fields
Mary Fields, nicknamed Stagecoach Mary and Black Mary, was an enslaved-born Tennessean who in 1895 became the first African American woman to win a US Star Route mail contract.
Mary Ford
Mary Ford (Iris Colleen Summers, 1924-1977), American guitarist and vocalist; with husband Les Paul formed a 1950s duo behind "How High the Moon" and the Gibson Mary Ford Les Paul signature model.
Mary Fowler (soccer)
Mary Boio Fowler (born 2003, Cairns) is an Australian forward for Manchester City and the Matildas; Tokyo Olympics and 2023 World Cup semifinalist, Montpellier 2020-2022, WSL champion 2026.
Mary Frann
Mary Frann (Mary Frances Luecke, 1943–1998), American actress; won America's Junior Miss, played Amanda Peters on Days of Our Lives, and Bob Newhart's wife Joanna Loudon on CBS's Newhart (1982–1990).
Mary Frizzell
Mary Frizzell (Mary Frizzell-Thomasson, 1913-1972), Canadian sprinter and long jumper from Nanaimo, BC; 1932 Olympic silver medallist in the 4x100 m relay (47.0, world record) and 1933 national 60 m and 100 m champion.
Mary G. Lewis
Mary Geiger Lewis, born 1958 in Columbia, South Carolina, is a United States district judge for the District of South Carolina, nominated by Barack Obama and confirmed in 2012.
Mary Gay Scanlon
Mary Gay Scanlon, born in 1959, is an American Democratic politician who has represented Pennsylvania's 5th congressional district in the U.S. House since 2019, after first winning a 2018 special election for the state's 7th district.
Mary Gill (Illinois politician)
Mary Gill is an American Democratic politician representing the 35th district in the Illinois House of Representatives since 2023, with priorities including affordability, public safety, healthcare, and education.
Mary González
Mary E. González is an American Democratic politician in the Texas House of Representatives, representing District 75 in eastern El Paso County since her election in 2012.
Mary Gordon Watson
Mary Gordon Watson (Mary Diana Gordon-Watson, later Mary Low), British eventer born 1948 in Blandford; 1972 Olympic team gold, 1969 European and 1970 World individual champion, all on Cornishman V.
Mary Grace Canfield
Mary Grace Canfield (1924-2014), American character actress; played handywoman Ralph Monroe on Green Acres (1965-1971), Harriet Kravitz on Bewitched, Angelica in Pollyanna, and Miss Foley in Something Wicked This Way Comes.
Mary Grey, Countess Grey
Mary Grey, Countess Grey (Mary Elizabeth Ponsonby), wife of Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, the prime minister; married 1794 at 18, lived at Howick, died 26 November 1861 in Eaton Square, London. Distinct from Mary Caroline Grey, Countess of Minto, and Lady Mary Grey of Tudor times.
Mary Gross
Mary Gross (Mary Margaret Gross, born 1953, Chicago) is an American actress and comedian, a Second City alumna and Saturday Night Live cast member 1981-1985, later a character and voice actress; sister of actor Michael Gross.
Mary H. Murguia
Mary Helen Murguia, born 1960, is an American judge on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, appointed by Barack Obama, and its chief judge since 2021.
Mary Haas
Mary Haas (1910–1996) was an American linguist who worked on Native American languages and Thai, founded Berkeley's linguistics department, and showed Yurok and Wiyot relate to Algonquian.
Mary Had a Little Lamb
Mary Had a Little Lamb is an American nursery rhyme published by Sarah Josepha Hale in 1830 as "Mary's Lamb," inspired by Mary Sawyer of Sterling, Massachusetts, set to music by Lowell Mason in 1831, and recited by Edison in 1877.
Mary Harrington
Mary Harrington, British writer and UnHerd contributing editor, author of Feminism Against Progress (2023) and originator of "reactionary feminism," critiquing technological progress and liberal feminism.
Mary Harron
Mary Harron, Canadian director and screenwriter of I Shot Andy Warhol, American Psycho, The Notorious Bettie Page, Alias Grace, and Dalíland; former punk journalist who interviewed the Sex Pistols first for an American publication.
Mary Hart
Mary Hart (Mary Johanna Harum, born 1950) is an American TV personality who hosted Entertainment Tonight from 1982 to 2011, a record 29-year run; Miss South Dakota 1970, Walk of Fame 1989, famous for million-dollar insured legs.
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
: "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman is an American satirical soap opera by Norman Lear, starring Louise Lasser as an Ohio housewife who faced bizarre and violent events between 1976 and 1977."
Mary Hayley Bell
Mary Hayley Bell, also Lady Mills (1911–2005), English playwright, novelist, and actress born in Shanghai; wife of Sir John Mills and mother of Hayley and Juliet Mills; author of Whistle Down the Wind and the plays Men in Shadow and Duet for Two Hands.
Mary Higgins Clark
Mary Higgins Clark (1927–2020), the American "Queen of Suspense," wrote bestsellers from 1975's Where Are the Children? onward, over 100 million US copies in print, Grand Master Edgar 2000.
Mary Hopkin
Mary Hopkin, Welsh singer born 1950 in Ystradgynlais, rose to fame with "Those Were the Days" (1968), produced by Paul McCartney on Apple Records; UK number 1, US number 2, 8 million sold. Later recorded with Tony Visconti and runs Mary Hopkin Music with her daughter.