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Mary Silva
Mary Silva is an American politician and the Republican nominee for the U.S. House in Washington's 1st Congressional District in 2026, an audiologist from Everett, Washington.
Mary Silvina Burghardt Du Bois
Mary Silvina Burghardt Du Bois (1831-1885), also spelled Sylvina or Silvinia, was a Great Barrington, Massachusetts domestic worker, mother of W.E.B. Du Bois, descendant of Revolutionary veteran Tom Burghardt, buried unmarked in Mahaiwe Cemetery.
Mary Simon
Mary Simon, Inuk leader and Canada's first Indigenous Governor General (2021–2026), appointed by Trudeau; former Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami and Makivik president; succeeded by Louise Arbour in 2026.
Mary Slack
Mary Slack, also known as Mary Oppenheimer, is a South African heiress, daughter of mining magnate Harry Oppenheimer, who inherited half his estate in 2000.
Mary Slessor
Mary Slessor, also known as Mary Mitchell Slessor, was a Scottish missionary who spent nearly four decades in Calabar, Nigeria, rescuing abandoned twins and becoming the first woman magistrate in the British Empire.
Mary Soames
Mary Soames, Baroness Soames (1922–2014), last surviving child of Winston and Clementine Churchill; ATS veteran, aide-de-camp at Potsdam, and author of Clementine Churchill, Speaking for Themselves, and A Daughter's Tale.
Mary Somerville
Mary Somerville was a Scottish science writer and polymath who studied mathematics and astronomy, and in 1835 became one of the first female Honorary Members of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Mary Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough
Alexandra Mary Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (1900–1961) was a British peeress who ran Blenheim Palace, served in the Auxiliary Territorial Service, and became Woodstock's first woman mayor.
Mary Steenburgen
Mary Steenburgen (born 1953), American actress and songwriter; Oscar winner for Best Supporting Actress in Melvin and Howard (1980); also known for Time After Time, Back to the Future Part III, Book Club, and the Oscar-shortlisted song "Glasgow (No Place Like Home)".
Mary Stewart
Mary Stewart (Mary Stewart-Cotton), British middle-distance runner born 1956 in Birmingham; 1976 Olympic 1500 m semi-finalist, 1977 European Indoor and 1978 Commonwealth Games 1500 m champion; sister of Ian Stewart.
Mary Stoiana
Mary Stoiana (born 2003) is an American tennis player from Southbury, Connecticut; Texas A&M NCAA champion, SEC Player of the Year 2023-2024, career-high WTA singles No. 114 in 2026.
Mary Stuart
Mary Stuart (Maria Stuart) is a five-act verse tragedy by Friedrich Schiller, first performed in Weimar in 1800, dramatizing Mary, Queen of Scots and her rival Elizabeth I.
Mary Stuart Masterson
Mary Stuart Masterson (born 1966) is an American actress, director, and producer known for Some Kind of Wonderful, Fried Green Tomatoes, and Benny & Joon, a Tony-nominated Nine Broadway star, and founder of Stockade Works.
Mary Sue
Mary Sue is fandom slang for an unrealistically perfect, usually female fictional character, coined in Paula Smith's 1973 Star Trek parody "A Trekkie's Tale"; male equivalents are Gary Stu or Marty Stu.
Mary Sue Hubbard
Mary Sue Hubbard, née Whipp (1931–2002), was the third wife of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard and led the Guardian's Office, convicted in the Operation Snow White case.
Mary Surratt
Mary Surratt, boardinghouse owner at 541 H Street, Washington, D.C., convicted of conspiring in Lincoln's assassination and hanged July 7, 1865; first woman executed by the U.S. federal government, tried by military tribunal, guilt still disputed.
Mary Swan
Mary Swan was the widow of Wallsend shipbuilder Charles Sheridan Swan and, after his 1879 death, a founding partner of the shipyard that became Swan Hunter.
Mary Sweeney
Mary Sweeney (born 1953, Madison, Wisconsin) is an American film editor, producer, screenwriter, and director, David Lynch's longtime editor from Fire Walk With Me to Mulholland Drive, BAFTA-winning editor and co-writer of The Straight Story.
Mary T. Meagher
Mary T. Meagher, "Madame Butterfly" (born 1964, Louisville), American swimmer; seven butterfly world records, 57.93/2:05.96 set 1981, three 1984 Olympic golds, 1988 bronze.
Mary Tabb
Mary Tabb, competition name of Mary Decker-Slaney (born 1958), American distance runner; in 1982 she set ratified world records at 5000m (15:08.26), 10,000m (31:35.3), and mile (4:18.08) and won the Sullivan Award.
Mary Tamm
Mary Tamm (1950-2012), British actress, first Romana in Doctor Who season 16 (1978-79) opposite Tom Baker; also The Odessa File, Brookside, and Big Finish Romana audios.
Mary the Jewess
Mary the Jewess, also Maria Hebraea or Maria the Prophetess, was an alchemist of Roman Egypt credited with the water bath, the tribikos still, and the kerotakis.
Mary Therese Kalin Arroyo
Mary Therese Kalin Arroyo is a New Zealand-born plant ecologist at the Universidad de Chile, elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 1999.
Mary Todd Lincoln
Mary Todd Lincoln (1818–1882), born Mary Ann Todd, wife of Abraham Lincoln and US first lady 1861–1865; Kentucky Todd family; four sons with only Robert reaching adulthood; 1875 insanity commitment; died July 16, 1882.
Mary Toft
Mary Toft (c. 1703–1763), Englishwoman of Godalming, Surrey, behind the 1726 rabbit-births hoax; fooled eminent doctors via maternal imagination theory, confessed 7 December 1726.
Mary Travers
Mary Travers (Mary Allin Travers, 1936–2009), American folk singer and contralto of Peter, Paul and Mary with Peter Yarrow and Noel Paul Stookey; five Grammys, 1963 March on Washington, died of leukemia in Danbury, Connecticut.
Mary Travis Bassett
Mary Travis Bassett is an American physician and public health researcher who led New York City's health department from 2014 to 2018 and became New York State health commissioner in 2021.
Mary Tsingou
Mary Tsingou, later Mary Tsingou Menzel, was an American mathematician and programmer at Los Alamos National Laboratory who coded and ran the 1955 Fermi–Pasta–Ulam computation, which opened the field of nonlinear science.
Mary Tudor, Queen of France
Mary Tudor (1496-1533), also Queen Mary of France and Duchess of Suffolk, was Henry VIII's youngest sister; queen of France for three months, she secretly married Charles Brandon and was grandmother-line ancestor of Lady Jane Grey.
Mary Tyler Moore
Mary Tyler Moore (1936–2017), American actress and MTM Enterprises co-founder; Laura Petrie on The Dick Van Dyke Show and Mary Richards on The Mary Tyler Moore Show; seven Emmys, Oscar-nominated in Ordinary People, JDRF advocate.