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Maureen McCormick
Maureen Denise McCormick (born 1956) is an American actress, singer, and author best known as Marcia Brady on ABC's The Brady Bunch (1969-74). Not the McCormick spice family. Later work: Grease on Broadway, Pen Pals Off-Broadway, 2008 memoir Here's the Story.
Maureen McGovern
Maureen McGovern, born 1949 in Youngstown, Ohio, is an American singer and Broadway actress nicknamed the "Stradivarius Voice," known for the Oscar-winning 1972 hit "The Morning After" from The Poseidon Adventure and "We May Never Love Like This Again."
Maureen O'Hara
Maureen O'Hara (born Maureen FitzSimons, 1920–2015), Irish-born Hollywood actress and singer, star of The Quiet Man, Miracle on 34th Street, and How Green Was My Valley; first woman to head a US scheduled airline; honorary Oscar 2014.
Maureen O'Sullivan
Maureen O'Sullivan (1911–1998), Irish-born actress called Ireland's first film star, played Jane opposite Johnny Weissmuller's Tarzan in six MGM films, 1932–1942, and was Mia Farrow's mother; distinct from the WWII agent Paddy O'Sullivan.
Maureen Purcell
Maureen K. Purcell is an American research microbiologist with the United States Geological Survey, known for fish immune responses and pathogens, and a 2013 PECASE recipient.
Maureen R. Hanson
Maureen R. Hanson is an American plant molecular biologist at Cornell University, known for identifying the pcf mitochondrial gene causing cytoplasmic male sterility and for naming stromules.
Maureen Reagan
Maureen Reagan (1941–2001), eldest daughter of Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman, was a Republican activist, RNC co-chair (1987), U.S. delegate to U.N. women's bodies, and 1982 Senate and 1992 House candidate.
Maureen Rowan
Maureen Rowan is an American Democratic politician and trial attorney representing New Jersey's 2nd Legislative District in the General Assembly, the first Democratic woman to hold the seat.
Maureen Stapleton
Maureen Stapleton (1925–2006), born Lois Maureen Stapleton in Troy, New York, was an American stage, film, and television actress and two-time Tony, Emmy, and Oscar winner, winning Best Supporting Actress for Emma Goldman in Reds (1981).
Maureen Starkey Tigrett
Maureen Starkey Tigrett, born Mary Cox and known as Maureen Cox, was a Liverpool hairdresser who married Beatles drummer Ringo Starr in 1965 and had three children.
Maureen Theresa Fahey Reitman
Maureen Theresa Fahey Reitman is an American materials engineer at Exponent, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2024 for work on polymer durability.
Maurel & Prom
Maurel & Prom is a French oil and gas exploration and production company, founded in 1831 as a shipping business and now majority-owned by Indonesia's Pertamina.
Mauremys
Mauremys (stripe-necked turtles) is a genus of nine Eurasian freshwater turtles in Geoemydidae, formed by merging Chinemys, Ocadia, and Annamemys after molecular phylogenies showed paraphyly; includes M. sinensis, M. reevesii, M. leprosa.
Mauremys reevesii
Mauremys reevesii, Reeves' turtle or Chinese three-keeled pond turtle (남생이), an endangered East Asian geoemydid turtle to 300 mm carapace length, threatened by exploitation and hybridizing with Mauremys japonica in Japan.
Maurene Comey
Maurene Comey, SDNY assistant U.S. attorney (2015-2025) in the Epstein, Maxwell, and Combs cases, fired July 16, 2025 with Article II as sole stated reason; her lawsuit against the Justice Department may proceed in federal court.
Mauretania
Mauretania, also known as Maurusia or Maurousia, was the ancient name for northwestern Africa, covering roughly northern Morocco and western Algeria, ruled by Berber kings before Roman annexation.
Mauretania Tingitana (Roman province)
Mauretania Tingitana: Roman province in northwestern Morocco, capital Tingis (Tangier), created under Claudius after AD 40, bounded by the Mulucha river, with Sala, Volubilis, and an auxilia-only frontier system.
Mauri
The Mauri (Greek Maurusii) were a Berber people of ancient Mauretania, the North African region named for them, first recorded in the Jugurthine War under King Bocchus.
Mauri A. Kostiainen
Mauri A. Kostiainen is a Finnish biohybrid materials scientist and full professor at Aalto University, leading a group that combines protein cages and DNA nanostructures into ordered materials.
Maurice "Rocket" Richard Trophy
Maurice "Rocket" Richard Trophy, NHL award since 1998-99 for the regular season's leading goal-scorer; gift of the Montreal Canadiens honoring Rocket Richard; Alex Ovechkin won it nine times.
Maurice (1987 film)
Maurice (1987) is James Ivory and Ismail Merchant's Merchant Ivory adaptation of E.M. Forster's posthumous novel, starring James Wilby, Hugh Grant, and Rupert Graves; it won Venice Silver Lion and Best Actor awards and was restored in 4K in 2017.
Maurice (novel)
Maurice, E. M. Forster's 1913–14 homosexual love story between Maurice Hall, Clive Durham, and Alec Scudder, published posthumously in 1971 and adapted in the 1987 Merchant Ivory film.
Maurice (Μαυρίκιος) (emperor)
Maurice (Μαυρίκιος, Flavius Mauricius Tiberius, r. 582–602) was a Byzantine (East Roman) emperor, born 539 in Arabissus, who restored Kosrow II to the Persian throne in 591 and died in the 602 army mutiny that raised Phocas; the Strategikon is attributed to him.
Maurice (モーリス) (horse)
Maurice (モーリス) is a Japanese Thoroughbred racehorse, foaled in 2011, named Japan's 2015 Horse of the Year after winning the Yasuda Kinen and Hong Kong Mile.
Maurice Allais
Maurice Allais (1911–2010) was a French economist at the École des Mines de Paris who won the 1988 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his theory of markets and efficient use of resources.
Maurice Apstein
Maurice Apstein, born May 5, 1910, in Bridgeport, Connecticut, was an American engineer who led the Guided Missile Fuze Laboratory at the Harry Diamond Laboratories and held fourteen patents in instrumentation, electronics, and ordnance devices.
Maurice Ashley
Maurice Ashley (born 1966, St. Andrew, Jamaica) is an American chess grandmaster, the first African-American GM (1999), a three-time national championship coach, ESPN and World Championship commentator, U.S. Chess Hall of Famer (2016), and founder of Jamaica's GM in 10 program.
Maurice Audin affair
The Maurice Audin affair is the 1957 disappearance of Maurice Audin, a French mathematician at the University of Algiers arrested by French paratroopers during the Battle of Algiers.
Maurice Auslander
Maurice Auslander (1926–1994) was an American mathematician and Brandeis University professor who reshaped commutative algebra and representation theory, co-creating almost split sequences with Idun Reiten and proving classic results on regular local rings with David Buchsbaum.
Maurice B. Burg
Maurice B. Burg, known as Moe Burg, was an American renal physiologist at the National Institutes of Health who developed the isolated perfused kidney tubule technique.