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Mary Ure
Mary Ure (Eileen Mary Ure, 1933-1975), Scottish-born actress, Glasgow-born original Alison Porter in John Osborne's Look Back in Anger (stage 1956, Tony-nominated 1958), Oscar-nominated for Sons and Lovers, wife of Osborne then Robert Shaw, died in London at 42.
Mary V. Relling
Mary V. Relling is a clinical pharmacologist and pharmacogenomics researcher at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital who co-founded CPIC and helped move pharmacogenetic testing into routine care.
Mary Villiers, Countess of Buckingham
Mary Villiers, Countess of Buckingham (born Mary Beaumont, c. 1570), Leicestershire-born mother of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham; created countess 1618, famously converted to Catholicism in 1622 through the Jesuit John Percy, alias Fisher.
Mary Vincent (artist)
Mary Vincent, later Mary McGriff (born circa 1962–1963), American artist and victims' advocate who created about 4,000 artworks with prosthetic hooks after a 1978 attack; distinct from painter Mary Vincent Bertrand.
Mary Wakefield
Mary Wakefield is an American nurse and health policy scholar who served as Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration from 2009 to 2015 and as Acting Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Mary Wakefield (journalist)
Mary Elizabeth Lalage Wakefield (born 1975) is a British journalist and commissioning editor of The Spectator who won its 2000 Shiva Naipaul Memorial Prize; wife of Dominic Cummings, distinct from researcher Mary K. Wakefield.
Mary Ward
Mary Ward (1585–1645) was an English Catholic recusant who founded the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a Jesuit-modeled institute for women suppressed by Pope Urban VIII in 1631.
Mary Washington (Maryland politician)
Mary L. Washington is an American Democratic politician, a Maryland State Senator for District 43 since 2019 who previously served in the House of Delegates from 2011 to 2019.
Mary Wayte
Mary Wayte (Mary Alice Wayte Bradburne), American swimmer born 1965 in Mercer Island, Washington; two-time Olympian who won 1984 gold in the 200 m freestyle and 4x100 m freestyle relay, plus 1988 silver and bronze, later a broadcaster and ISHOF inductee.
Mary Weiss
Mary Weiss (1948–2024), American singer, lead vocalist of the 1960s girl group the Shangri-Las of "Leader of the Pack" fame; returned in 2007 with the solo album Dangerous Game on Norton Records.
Mary Wells
Mary Wells (Mary Esther Wells) was a Detroit singer who became the first major star for the Motown label, recognized for her signature 1964 hit "My Guy."
Mary Welsh Hemingway
Mary Welsh Hemingway (1908-1986), American journalist for the Chicago Daily News, Daily Express, Time, and Life, and fourth wife of Ernest Hemingway; his literary executor, editor of A Moveable Feast, and donor of his papers to the JFK Library.
Mary Wheeler
Mary Wheeler is an American applied mathematician who developed numerical methods for flow in porous media at UT Austin and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
Mary Whipple
Mary Whipple (Mary Rebecca Whipple, born 1980, Sacramento) is an American rowing coxswain who steered the US women's eight to Olympic gold in 2008 and 2012, silver in 2004, and five world titles.
Mary Whitehouse
Mary Whitehouse (1910–2001), British schoolteacher, founded the 1964 Clean Up TV campaign and the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association; her morality campaigns shaped UK censorship law and drew lasting satire and reappraisal.
Mary Wickes
Mary Wickes, born Mary Isabella Wickenhauser, was an American character actress whose stage, film, and television career ran nearly six decades, including Sister Act and White Christmas.
Mary Williams (activist)
Mary Luana Williams (born 1967), American social activist and author, daughter of Black Panther parents, raised by Jane Fonda; founded the Lost Boys Foundation and wrote The Lost Daughter: A Memoir.
Mary Wilson (singer)
Mary Wilson (1944–2021), American R&B singer born in Greenville, Mississippi; founding and longest-serving member of Motown's the Supremes (12 number-one hits), later solo artist, author of Dreamgirl, and U.S. cultural ambassador.
Mary Wineberg
Mary Wineberg (nee Danner, born 1980, Brooklyn, New York) is an American 400m sprinter; she won 2008 Olympic gold leading off the US 4x400m relay (3:18.54), plus 2007 world outdoor relay gold and 2003/2006 world indoor medals, and later became a Cincinnati teacher and author.
Mary Winkler
Mary Carol Winkler, Tennessee woman who killed her minister husband Matthew Winkler in Selmer on March 22, 2006; convicted of voluntary manslaughter in April 2007 on an abuse defense, serving about two months.
Mary Wiseman (actress)
Mary Wiseman (born 1985, Milford, Pennsylvania) is an American actress, a Juilliard Drama Division graduate, best known as Cadet Sylvia Tilly in Star Trek: Discovery (2017-2024), with Broadway debut Thérèse Raquin and roles in The Residence.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), English moral and political philosopher, author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792); wife of William Godwin, mother of Mary Shelley, damaged posthumously by Godwin's 1798 Memoirs.
Mary Woronov
Mary Woronov, born 1943 in Palm Beach, Florida, is an American actress, writer, and painter known for Andy Warhol's The Chelsea Girls and cult films like Eating Raoul.
Mary Worth
Mary Worth is an American newspaper comic strip debuting 1938 as Mary Worth's Family, a soap-opera strip about a widowed adviser in Santa Royale; disputed continuation of Martha Orr's 1934 Apple Mary; written by Karen Moy, drawn by June Brigman.
Mary Wroth
Lady Mary Wroth (c. 1587–1651/3) was an English poet of the Sidney family, the first Englishwoman to publish a sonnet sequence and a prose romance.
Mary Yu
Mary Yu, American jurist, served on the Washington Supreme Court from May 2014 to December 31, 2025, its first Asian American, Latina, and openly LGBTQ justice, after 14 years on the King County Superior Court.
Mary Ziegler
Mary Ziegler is an American legal historian and law professor at the University of California, Davis, described as the leading expert on abortion law in the United States.
Mary-Dell Chilton
Mary-Dell Chilton (1939–2026) was an American plant biotechnologist who led the research producing the first transgenic plants, using a disarmed Agrobacterium Ti plasmid as a gene vector, and later directed Syngenta Biotechnology in North Carolina.
Mary-Dulany James
Mary-Dulany James is an American attorney and Democratic politician who represents Maryland's 34th district in the State Senate since 2023, after serving in the House of Delegates from 1999 to 2015.
Mary-Elizabeth Patti
Mary-Elizabeth Patti is an American physician-scientist and endocrinologist at Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston who studies how obesity causes insulin resistance and how early nutrition programs diabetes risk across generations.