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Mary Pickford
Mary Pickford (1892-1979), born Gladys Louise Smith, was a Canadian-born silent film star called America's Sweetheart, co-founder of United Artists in 1919, Best Actress Oscar winner for Coquette, and a film preservation pioneer.
Mary Pierce
Mary Pierce, French tennis player born in Montreal, 1995 Australian Open and 2000 Roland Garros champion, world No. 3, 18 WTA titles, International Tennis Hall of Fame 2019.
Mary Pinchot Meyer
Mary Pinchot Meyer (1920-1964), also Mary Meyer, American abstract painter of the Washington Color School, ex-wife of CIA official Cord Meyer and partner of JFK; known for stained-color tondos like Half Light (SAAM) and her unsolved 1964 murder on the C&O towpath.
Mary Poppins (book series)
Mary Poppins book series, by P. L. Travers (Pamela Lyndon Travers), eight children's books published 1934–1988 about a stern, vain magical nanny at 17 Cherry Tree Lane; the 1964 Disney film, which Travers disliked, made the character a worldwide icon.
Mary Poppins (character)
Mary Poppins is the magical English nanny created by P. L. Travers in the 1934 book and seven sequels through 1988, later played by Julie Andrews in Disney's 1964 film and Emily Blunt in the 2018 sequel.
Mary Poppins (film)
Mary Poppins (1964) is Walt Disney's live-action/animated musical directed by Robert Stevenson, starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke; 13 Oscar nominations, 5 wins, based on P.L. Travers's books, set in 1910 London.
Mary Poppins (musical)
Mary Poppins is a Disney–Cameron Mackintosh stage musical based on P.L. Travers's books and the 1964 film, premiering in London in 2004 and on Broadway 2006–2013, with Sherman Brothers songs plus new Stiles & Drewe numbers.
Mary Poppins Returns
Mary Poppins Returns is Disney's 2018 musical sequel to the 1964 classic, directed by Rob Marshall, starring Emily Blunt and Lin-Manuel Miranda, set in 1930s London, with four Oscar nominations and an all-new Shaiman-Wittman score.
Mary power station
Mary State Power Station is a natural-gas-fired thermal power station in Mary, Turkmenistan, whose total capacity reached 2,985.7 MW after a combined-cycle plant opened in 2018.
Mary Prince (nanny)
Mary Prince, known before 1979 as Mary Fitzpatrick, is an American woman wrongly convicted of murder in Georgia in 1970 who became Amy Carter's White House nanny.
Mary Quant
Mary Quant (Barbara Mary Quant, 1930–2023) was a British fashion designer and retail pioneer of Swinging London; she popularized the miniskirt, colored tights, hot pants, and PVC wet-look clothing from her 1955 King's Road boutique Bazaar, built a mass-market brand with the daisy logo, and received an OBE (1966) and a Damehood (2015).
Mary Queen of Scots (2018 film)
Mary Queen of Scots (2018) is Josie Rourke's directorial debut, a historical drama starring Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie, adapted from John Guy's biography, with an invented queens' meeting and two Oscar nominations.
Mary Ramsay
Mary Ramsay, full name Mary Elizabeth Booth Ramsay, is a British epidemiologist who heads immunization programs at the UK Health Security Agency and received a CBE in 2022.
Mary Read
Mary Read (c. 1690 to April 1721) was an English pirate who sailed with 'Calico Jack' Rackham and Anne Bonny, was tried in Jamaica in 1720, reprieved for pregnancy, and died of fever in prison.
Mary Reilly (1996 film)
Mary Reilly (1996), also simply Mary Reilly, is a Stephen Frears gothic horror drama, Christopher Hampton's adaptation of Valerie Martin's 1990 novel retelling Jekyll and Hyde from a maid's view, starring Julia Roberts and John Malkovich; a $47 million TriStar production that grossed about $12.4 million and holds 26% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Mary Richardson Kennedy
Mary Richardson Kennedy (1959–2012), American architectural designer, green-design advocate, and second wife of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.; raised $35 million for the Food Allergy Initiative; died by suicide in Bedford, New York, May 16, 2012.
Mary Robinson
Mary Robinson (Máire Mhic Róibín, born 1944, Ballina, Mayo), Irish lawyer, senator and first woman President of Ireland 1990–97, later UN High Commissioner for Human Rights 1997–2002, climate-justice advocate and 2024 Tang Prize laureate.
Mary Roos
Mary Roos is a German Schlager singer whose biggest hit was "Arizona Man" (1970); she placed third for Germany at Eurovision 1972 and retired in 2024.
Mary Rose
The Mary Rose was a warship built for Henry VIII between 1510 and 1511 that sank in the Solent in 1545 and was raised in 1982.
Mary S. McElroy
Mary S. McElroy, born Mary Susan McElroy in 1965, is a United States district judge for the District of Rhode Island, nominated by President Trump and confirmed in 2019.
Mary S. Scriven
Mary S. Scriven, also known as Mary Stenson Scriven, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Middle District of Florida since 2008.
Mary Scheer
Mary Louise Scheer, born 1963 in Detroit, is an American actress and comedian, an original MADtv cast member (1995-1998), the voice of Alice the Zookeeper and Suzie Kokoshka, and Marissa Benson on iCarly and its 2021 Paramount+ revival.
Mary Seacole
Mary Seacole (1805–1881), Jamaican-born doctress and businesswoman, Mother Seacole of the Crimean War; rejected as an army nurse, she funded her own passage, ran the British Hotel near Balaklava, and wrote the first autobiography by a black woman in Britain (1857).
Mary Seymour
Mary Seymour, born in August 1548, was the only child of Katherine Parr and Thomas Seymour, orphaned within months and last recorded in early 1550.
Mary Shapard
Mary Shapard was a Texan nominated for the 1919 Nobel Peace Prize by US Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas, her only recorded Nobel nomination; her life is otherwise poorly documented.
Mary Sheffield
Mary Sheffield is an American politician and 76th mayor of Detroit, elected in 2025 and the first woman to hold the office in the city's history.
Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley (1797–1851), British author of Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin; also wrote The Last Man and edited Percy Shelley's poems.
Mary Shelley (film)
Mary Shelley (2017) is Haifaa Al-Mansour's English-language debut biopic, starring Elle Fanning as the Frankenstein author. Premiered at TIFF 2017, released by IFC Films May 25, 2018; 40% on Rotten Tomatoes, Metascore 49.
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (film)
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is a 1994 horror drama film directed by Kenneth Branagh, who stars as Victor Frankenstein, adapted from Mary Shelley's 1818 novel, with Robert De Niro as the Creature.
Mary Sibande
Mary Sibande, born 1982 in Barberton, South Africa, is a Johannesburg-based sculptor and installation artist known for Sophie, her life-size alter ego modeled on her own image.