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Mary Lincoln Beckwith
Mary Lincoln "Peggy" Beckwith (1898–1975), great-granddaughter of Abraham Lincoln, was a Vermont dairy farmer, licensed pilot (1931), and painter at Hildene; she never married, and her death left her brother Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith the last direct descendant.
Mary Lines
Mary Lines (1893–1978) was a British sprinter, long jumper, and founder member of the Women's Amateur Athletic Association who set 33 world records from 1921 to 1924.
Mary Livingstone
Mary Livingstone (Sadya Marcowitz, later Sadie Marks, 1905-1983) was an American radio comedienne, wife and radio partner of Jack Benny on The Jack Benny Program from 1932, retired 1958, died Holmby Hills 1983.
Mary Lou McDonald
Mary Lou McDonald, Irish politician, Leader of Sinn Féin since February 2018 (succeeding Gerry Adams) and TD for Dublin Central; former MEP 2004-2009, first woman to lead the party, campaigns for Irish unity and affordable housing.
Mary Lou Pardue
Mary Lou Pardue (1933–2024) was an American molecular biologist at MIT who codeveloped in situ hybridization for locating genes on chromosomes and showed fruit flies maintain telomeres with retrotransposons, not telomerase.
Mary Lou Retton
Mary Lou Retton (born 1968, Fairmont, West Virginia) is an American gymnast who won the 1984 Olympic all-around gold, the first for a U.S. woman, plus four more medals; later hospitalized with pneumonia in 2023.
Mary Lou Zoback
Mary Lou Zoback is an American geophysicist and seismologist known for the World Stress Map, a 28-year USGS career, and election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1995.
Mary Lynn Rajskub
Mary Lynn Rajskub (born 1971, Detroit) is an American actress, comedian, and writer, best known as Chloe O'Brian on 24 and Gail the Snail on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, also a stand-up comedian and author of FAME-ISH.
Mary M. Lisi
Mary M. Lisi, born 1950 in Providence, Rhode Island, is an American jurist who served as a US district judge in Rhode Island from 1994 to 2015.
Mary M. Rowland
Mary Margaret Rowland, born 1961, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge in the Northern District of Illinois since 2019, appointed by President Trump.
Mary M. Roybal
Mary M. Roybal is a retired American aerospace engineer who spent her career at Raytheon in Tucson, Arizona, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2025.
Mary M. Schroeder
Mary M. Schroeder, born Mary Murphy Schroeder in 1940, is an American judge on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, appointed by Jimmy Carter in 1979.
Mary MacArthur (actress)
Mary MacArthur (1930–1949) was an American stage actress, daughter of playwright Charles MacArthur and actress Helen Hayes; she debuted in Alice Sit-By-the-Fire (1946) and died of bulbar polio at 19.
Mary Mack
Miss Mary Mack is a children's rhyme and two-player hand-clapping game first printed in 1888 as a Pennsylvania counting-out rhyme, later popularized in Black American playground tradition with tripled end-words and elephant verses.
Mary MacKillop
Mary MacKillop, in religion Mary of the Cross, was an Australian religious sister who co-founded the Sisters of St Joseph and became Australia's first saint in 2010.
Mary Magdalene
Mary Magdalene, also known as Saint Mary Magdalene or Mary of Magdala, is a disciple of Jesus healed of seven demons who was the first witness to his resurrection.
Mary Magdalene (2018 film)
Mary Magdalene is a 2018 biblical drama directed by Garth Davis, in which Rooney Mara plays Mary Magdalene as a disciple alongside Joaquin Phoenix's Jesus.
Mary Mallon
Mary Mallon (1869-1938), "Typhoid Mary", Irish-born New York cook and first identified asymptomatic carrier of Salmonella typhi in the US; infected at least 122 people and spent about 26 years quarantined on North Brother Island.
Mary Mapes
Mary Mapes (born 1956) is an American TV news producer, formerly of CBS News and 60 Minutes, who broke Abu Ghraib and produced the discredited 2004 Bush National Guard memos report, was fired, wrote Truth and Duty, later filmed as Truth.
Mary Mara
Mary Mara (1960–2022), American TV and film actress from Syracuse, New York; played Loretta Sweet on ER and Inspector Bryn Carson on Nash Bridges; over 80 screen credits; died June 26, 2022, by accidental drowning in the St. Lawrence River near Cape Vincent.
Mary Margaret O'Hara
Mary Margaret O'Hara (born 1950, Toronto) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and actress, sister of Catherine O'Hara, whose sole studio album Miss America (1988, Virgin) became a cult classic.
Mary Martin
Mary Martin (Mary Virginia Martin, 1913–1990), American Broadway star and singer; originated Nellie Forbush in South Pacific, Peter Pan, and Maria in The Sound of Music; won three Best Actress Tonys plus a Special Tony; mother of Larry Hagman.
Mary Marvel
Mary Marvel (Mary Batson/Bromfield), Fawcett-created 1942 superheroine by Otto Binder and Marc Swayze, twin/foster sister of Shazam; first appeared Captain Marvel Adventures #18, had her own 1945-1948 series, later DC's Lady Shazam.
Mary Mary
Mary Mary is an American urban contemporary gospel duo formed in 1998 in Inglewood, California, by sisters Erica and Tina Atkins-Campbell, known for "Shackles (Praise You)" and the Grammy-winning debut Thankful.
Mary Mary Mary (マリマリマリー)
Mary Mary Mary (マリマリマリー) is a Japanese YouTube and TikTok anime-skit channel launched August 2020 by writers Fukami Shinji and Sakamoto Ryosuke, illustrator Morisaki Shiine, and editor Yanagi Masahiro under K Contents, known for retro city pop art with surreal Reiwa-era comedy and about 1.77 million subscribers.
Mary Matalin
Mary Joe Matalin, born 1953, is an American political consultant and commentator who served Republican presidents Reagan and both Bushes and married Democrat James Carville.
Mary Maxwell Gates
Mary Maxwell Gates, known as Mary Gates, was an American civic leader and bank director, a University of Washington regent, and the mother of Bill Gates.
Mary McAleese
Mary McAleese (Máire Mhic Chiolla Íosa), Belfast-born barrister, law professor and RTÉ broadcaster, was the eighth President of Ireland, 1997 to 2011, the first from Northern Ireland, re-elected unopposed in 2004.
Mary McCarthy
Mary McCarthy (1912–1989) was an American novelist, critic, and political commentator associated with Partisan Review, best known for Memories of a Catholic Girlhood and The Group.
Mary McCartney
Mary McCartney (born 1969, London), British photographer, filmmaker, and food advocate, daughter of Paul and Linda McCartney; shot the 2015 Queen Elizabeth II longest-reigning portrait and directed the Abbey Road documentary If These Walls Could Sing.