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Mary Hunter Austin
Mary Hunter Austin (1868–1934), American writer of The Land of Little Rain (1903), also known as Mary Austin, a California desert naturalist, feminist, and Native American rights advocate who wrote 33 books and lived her last years in Santa Fe.
Mary I
Mary I (Mary Tudor, 1516–1558), first crowned queen regnant of England, daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon; restored Catholicism, burned about 290–300 Protestants ("Bloody Mary"), married Philip of Spain, lost Calais, succeeded by Elizabeth I.
Mary II
Mary II (1662-1694), eldest daughter of James II and Anne Hyde, reigned 1689-94 as England's only joint sovereign with her husband and cousin William III after the Glorious Revolution; she died of smallpox.
Mary in Islam (مريم بنت عمران)
Mary in Islam, Maryam bint ʿImrān, is the mother of the prophet Jesus and the only woman the Quran names by name; sura 19 bears her name, and Islam affirms her virginal conception of Jesus.
Mary in the Junkyard
Mary in the Junkyard (London experimental rock trio; Clari Freeman-Taylor, Saya Barbaglia, David Addison). South London band born from an invented imaginary name; debut EP this old house (2024), debut album Role Model Hermit (2026), Wet Leg tour, Marina Abramović connection.
Mary Ingalls
Mary Ingalls (Mary Amelia Ingalls, born 1865, Pepin, Wisconsin) was Laura Ingalls Wilder's eldest sister, blinded at 14; the books blamed scarlet fever, but 2013 analysis points to viral meningoencephalitis. She graduated from the Iowa school for the blind and never married, unlike her TV character.
Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School
MICDS (Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School) is a coeducational JK-12 non-sectarian independent day school in St. Louis, Missouri, formed by the 1992 merger of Mary Institute (1859, girls) and St. Louis Country Day School (1917, boys), on a 100-acre campus, about 1,250 students, the Rams.
Mary J. Blige
Mary J. Blige (Mary Jane Blige, born 1971), the "Queen of Hip-Hop Soul," is an American singer-songwriter and actress from New York whose 1992 debut What's the 411? fused hip-hop and soul; nine-time Grammy winner, two-time Oscar nominee, 2024 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee.
Mary J. Blige discography
The Mary J. Blige discography covers the fifteen studio albums of American R&B singer Mary J. Blige, known as the "Queen of Hip-Hop Soul," released between 1992 and 2024.
Mary Jackson (artist)
Mary Jackson (born 1945, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina) is a Gullah sweetgrass basketweaver and MacArthur and NEA Heritage Fellow whose sculptural coiled baskets differ from the British NEAC painter Mary Jackson born 1936.
Mary Jackson (engineer)
Mary Winston Jackson was an American mathematician and aerospace engineer at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, who in 1958 became NASA's first Black female engineer.
Mary Jane (shoe)
Mary Jane, also known as bar shoes, is a low-heeled shoe with a strap across the instep, named after a 1902 Buster Brown comic character.
Mary Jane Ferraro
Mary Jane Ferraro, also known as M. J. Ferraro, was an American clinical microbiologist who directed Massachusetts General Hospital's microbiology laboratory and shaped national antibiotic susceptibility testing standards.
Mary Jane Irwin
Mary Jane Irwin is an American computer scientist, Emerita Evan Pugh University Professor at Penn State, who anticipated power as a central chip design constraint and shaped the EDA industry.
Mary Jane Kelly
Mary Jane Kelly (Marie Jeanette Kelly, Fair Emma, Black Mary), c. 1863 to 9 November 1888, final canonical Jack the Ripper victim, killed indoors at 13 Miller's Court, Spitalfields; youngest at about 25, most mutilated, life story resting on Joseph Barnett's unverified testimony.
Mary Jane Osborn
Mary Jane Osborn (1927–2019) was an American biochemist known for her research on lipopolysaccharide biosynthesis and the bacterial cell envelope of Gram-negative bacteria, and a founding faculty member of the University of Connecticut School of Medicine.
Mary Jane Watson
Mary Jane Watson (MJ) is Marvel Comics' Spider-Man love interest, created by Stan Lee and John Romita Sr., debuting fully in Amazing Spider-Man #42 (1966) with "Face it, tiger... you just hit the jackpot!" Actress, model, Jackpot hero, and briefly Venom.
Mary Jane West-Eberhard
Mary Jane West-Eberhard is an American evolutionary biologist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama, known for tropical wasp social behavior and her 2003 book Developmental Plasticity and Evolution.
Mary Jane's Last Dance
Mary Jane's Last Dance is a 1993 Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers song, also known as Indiana Girl, recorded for Greatest Hits with Rick Rubin. It peaked at No. 14 on the Hot 100, topped Album Rock Tracks, and was Stan Lynch's last recording.
Mary Jeanne Kreek
Mary Jeanne Kreek (1937–2021) was an American physician-scientist at The Rockefeller University who helped establish methadone maintenance as a treatment for heroin addiction and pioneered the genetics of addiction vulnerability.
Mary Jefferson Eppes
Mary Jefferson Eppes, known as Polly as a girl and Maria as an adult, was the daughter of Thomas Jefferson who died at Monticello in 1804, aged 25.
Mary Jo Buttafuoco
Mary Jo Buttafuoco (Mary Jo Connery, born 1955) is the Long Island woman shot in the head in 1992 by Amy Fisher, her husband Joey's teenage mistress; survivor, memoirist, and subject of the 2026 Lifetime film I Am Mary Jo Buttafuoco.
Mary Jo Catlett
Mary Jo Catlett (born September 2, 1938) is an American character actress known as housekeeper Pearl Gallagher on Diff'rent Strokes and as the voice of Mrs. Puff on SpongeBob SquarePants since 1999, with a Broadway career beginning in Hello, Dolly! (1964).
Mary Jo Eustace
Mary Jo Eustace (Mary Josephine Eustace), Canadian TV host and author, co-hosted What's for Dinner? with Ken Kostick from 1995, created He Said, She Said, wrote bestsellers including Divorce Sucks, and won a Taste Canada book award.
Mary Jo Kopechne
Mary Jo Kopechne (1940-1969) was an American political worker, RFK staffer and Boiler Room Girl, who died July 18, 1969, when Ted Kennedy's car went off Dike Bridge on Chappaquiddick Island; Kennedy pleaded guilty to leaving the scene.
Mary Jo Trepka
Mary Jo Trepka is an American infectious disease and health-disparities epidemiologist who chairs epidemiology at Florida International University and received the 2010 Presidential Early Career Award from President Obama.
Mary Joe Fernández
Mary Joe Fernández (Maria José Fernández, born 1971) is an American former tennis player, world No. 4 in singles and doubles, three-time Grand Slam singles finalist, two-time Olympic doubles gold medalist, and later U.S. Fed Cup captain and ESPN analyst.
Mary K. Baylies
Mary K. Baylies, also known as Mary Baylies, is an American developmental biologist who studies skeletal muscle formation and disease, leading a laboratory at the Sloan Kettering Institute since 1996.
Mary K. Dimke
Mary K. Dimke is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Washington since 2021, appointed by President Biden.
Mary K. Estes
Mary K. Estes is an American virologist and Distinguished Service Professor at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston who studies the gastrointestinal viruses rotavirus and human norovirus.