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Mary K. Firestone
Mary K. Firestone is a soil microbial ecologist at the University of California, Berkeley, known for work on microbial control of nitrogen cycling and the rhizosphere, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2017.
Mary K. Gaillard
Mary K. Gaillard (1939–2025) was an American theoretical particle physicist whose prediction of the charm quark's mass helped establish the Standard Model; she joined UC Berkeley's physics faculty in 1981 as its first woman.
Mary K. Lanthier
Mary K. Lanthier, also known as Mary Kay Lanthier, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the District of Vermont since 2024.
Mary Karr
Mary Karr (born 1955) is an American poet and memoirist from East Texas, author of The Liars' Club, Cherry, Lit, and The Art of Memoir, Peck Professor of Literature at Syracuse University.
Mary Katharine Ham
Mary Katharine Ham, American conservative journalist and commentator; Fox News and CNN contributor, co-moderator of ABC's 2016 GOP debate, co-author of End of Discussion, and host of Getting Hammered.
Mary Kawena Pukui
Mary Kawena Pukui (1895–1986) was a Hawaiian scholar, translator, composer, and hula expert who worked at the Bishop Museum in Honolulu and co-authored the landmark Hawaiian Dictionary.
Mary Kay
Mary Kay is a privately held American direct-selling company founded in Dallas, Texas in 1963 by Mary Kay Ash, selling skin care and cosmetics through independent consultants.
Mary Kay Ash
Mary Kay Ash, born Mary Kathlyn Wagner (1918–2001), was an American businesswoman who founded Mary Kay Cosmetics in Dallas in 1963 with $5,000 and built it into one of the world's largest direct-selling companies.
Mary Kay Bergman
Mary Kay Bergman (1961–1999), also credited as Shannen Cassidy, American voice actress who voiced nearly all female South Park characters, Disney's official Snow White from 1989, Daphne Blake, and Timmy Turner; died November 11, 1999.
Mary Kay Letourneau
Mary Kay Letourneau (born Mary Katherine Schmitz, 1962-2020), American teacher convicted of second-degree child rape of 12-year-old student Vili Fualaau in 1997; later married him in 2005 after prison; died of colon cancer.
Mary Kay Place
Mary Kay Place (born 1947, Tulsa, Oklahoma) is an American actress, singer, director, and screenwriter; Emmy winner as Loretta Haggers on Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, Big Love's Adaleen Grant, and Best Actress for Diane (2018).
Mary Kay Vyskocil
Mary Kay Vyskocil is a United States district judge for the Southern District of New York, confirmed in 2019 after serving as a bankruptcy judge there.
Mary Keitany
Mary Keitany (Mary Jepkosgei Keitany), Kenyan marathoner born 1982 in Baringo; three-time London and four-time New York City Marathon winner; set the women's-only marathon world record 2:17:01 at London 2017; 2009 World Half Marathon champion; retired 2021.
Mary Kills People
Mary Kills People is a Canadian TV drama (Global, 2017–2019, three six-episode seasons) created by Tara Armstrong, starring Caroline Dhavernas as an ER doctor secretly performing assisted deaths, remade as a 2025 Korean series.
Mary King's Close
Mary King's Close is a 17th-century Edinburgh street buried under the City Chambers when the Royal Exchange was built over it in 1753, reopened as The Real Mary King's Close tour attraction in 2003, distinct from the South Bridge vaults.
Mary Kok
Mary Kok, born in Hilversum in 1940, is a Dutch swimmer who held ten world records and was named Dutch Sportswoman of the Year in 1955.
Mary Kom
Mary Kom (Mangte Chungneijang Kom, "Magnificent Mary", born 1983) is an Indian boxer, six-time AIBA women's world champion, London 2012 Olympic bronze medalist, 2014 Asian Games and 2018 Commonwealth Games gold medalist, and former Rajya Sabha member.
Mary Kom (film)
Mary Kom (मैरी कॉम), 2014 Hindi biographical sports drama, Omung Kumar's directorial debut, produced by Sanjay Leela Bhansali, starring Priyanka Chopra as boxer MC Mary Kom; released 5 September 2014, earned ₹8.5 crore on opening day and won a National Award.
Mary L. Cooper
Mary L. Cooper, also known as Mary Little Cooper, is an American jurist and senior judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey since 2011.
Mary L. Efron
Mary L. Efron (1926–1967) was an American physician at Harvard Medical School who described the inherited amino acid disorders hyperprolinemia and hydroxyprolinemia and developed a filter-paper screening test for amino acid metabolism disorders.
Mary L. Good
Mary L. Good (Mary Lowe Good, 1931–2019) was an American inorganic chemist who led industrial research at AlliedSignal and served as Under Secretary of Commerce for Technology.
Mary L. Gray
Mary L. Gray, born in 1969, is an American anthropologist and 2020 MacArthur Fellow at Indiana University and Microsoft Research, known for Out in the Country and Ghost Work.
Mary L. Phillips
Mary L. Phillips is a British-born psychiatrist and neuroimaging researcher, Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh, known for identifying neural biomarkers of bipolar disorder risk.
Mary L. Trump
Mary L. Trump, American clinical psychologist, author, and niece of Donald Trump, daughter of Fred Trump Jr. Wrote the 2020 tell-all Too Much and Never Enough, which sold over 950,000 copies on day one, and has published further family and political books.
Mary Lake
Mary Lake is an Amsterdam-based techno DJ and producer born in Algeria, a Club RAUM resident and Berghain regular known for Boiler Room and Dekmantel Festival sets.
Mary Lamb
Mary Lamb (1764–1847) was an English writer who wrote 14 of the 20 tales in Tales from Shakespeare (1807), credited for years to her brother Charles alone.
Mary Lambert (director)
Mary Lambert is an American film and television director and a pioneer of the music video genre. She is best known for Madonna's 1980s videos and Pet Sematary.
Mary Lambert (singer)
Mary Lambert (born 1989, Seattle) is the American singer-songwriter and poet who wrote and sang the hook of Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' "Same Love," earning two Grammy nominations, and released the albums Heart on My Sleeve (2014) and Grief Creature (2019).
Mary Landrieu
Mary Landrieu, Democratic U.S. senator from Louisiana 1997-2015, former state representative and treasurer, first woman elected to a full Louisiana Senate term, decided ACA vote, defeated by Bill Cassidy in the 2014 runoff.
Mary Leakey
Mary Leakey, née Nicol, was a British paleoanthropologist whose excavations in Tanzania and Kenya produced the Zinjanthropus cranium at Olduvai Gorge and the 3.6-million-year-old Laetoli footprints.