Top Celebrity Names Starting With Mary

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   Mary J. Blige

   Age 41 Female
   

   Singer-songwriter, Rapper, Record Producer, Actress

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   Mary Jane Blige is an American singer, songwriter, record producer and occasional rapper and actress. She is a recipient of nine Grammy Awards and four American Music Awards, and has recorded eight multi-platinum albums. She is the only artist with Grammy Award wins in Pop, Rap, Gospel, and R&B. Blige started her musical career in 1992, releasing her debut album, What's the 411? on MCA Records and Uptown. With her tenth album, My Life II...… read more

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   Mary Tyler Moore

   Age 75 Female
   

   Actress, Television Producer

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   Mary Tyler Moore is an American actress, primarily known for her roles in television sitcoms. Moore is best known for The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970–77), in which she starred as Mary Richards, a 30-something single woman who worked as a local news producer in Minneapolis, and for her earlier role as Laura Petrie on The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961–66).… read more

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   Mary Elizabeth Winstead

   Age 27 Female
   

   Actor

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   Mary Elizabeth Winstead is an American actress. She came into prominence for her scream queen roles in the horror films Final Destination 3, Black Christmas, Death Proof and The Thing. Winstead's earliest acting career was in television including her work on the soap opera Passions, for which she was nominated for a Young Artist Award. She is perhaps best known for her roles as Lucy McClane in Live Free or Die Hard and Ramona Flowers in the film Scott Pilgrim vs.… read more

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   Mary Robinson

   Age 68 Female
   

   Seventh President of Ireland

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   Mary Therese Winifred Robinson served as the seventh, and first female, President of Ireland from 1990 to 1997, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, from 1997 to 2002. She first rose to prominence as an academic, barrister, campaigner and member of the Irish Senate.… read more

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   Mary Wilson

   Age 68 Female
   

   Singer

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   Mary Wilson is an American singer. A founding member of the Motown female singing group The Supremes, she was the only artist to be a consistent member of the group in its eighteen-year tenure (1959-1977). During its lifespan the group scored 33 top 40 hits, including 12 national #1s on the Billboard pop music charts.… read more

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   Mary Astor

   1906 - 1987 Female
   

   Actress, Author

   
   

   Mary Astor was an American actress. Most remembered for her role as Brigid O'Shaughnessy in The Maltese Falcon (1941) with Humphrey Bogart, Astor began her long motion picture career as a teenager in the silent movies of the early 1920s. She eventually made a successful transition to talkies, but almost saw her career destroyed due to public scandal in the mid-1930s.… read more

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   Mary McAleese

   Age 60 Female
   

   Politician, Reporter, Barrister

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   Mary Patricia McAleese served as the eighth President of Ireland from 1997 to 2011. She was the second female president and was first elected in 1997 succeeding Mary Robinson, making McAleese the world's first woman to succeed another as president. She was re-elected unopposed for a second term in office in 2004. McAleese is the first President of Ireland to have come from either Northern Ireland or Ulster. McAleese graduated in Law from Queen's University Belfast.… read more

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   Mary Shelley

   1797 - 1851 Female
   

   Romantic/gothic Novelist

   
   

   Mary Shelley was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin, and her mother was the philosopher and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft.… read more

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   Mary

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   Saint

   
   

   Mary, variously called Saint Mary, Mother Mary, the Virgin Mary, the Theotokos, the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mary, Mother of God, and, in Islam, as Maryam, mother of 'Isa, was a Jewish woman of Nazareth in Galilee who lived in the late 1st century BC and early 1st century AD, and is considered by Christians to be the first proselyte of Christianity.… read more

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    Mary Jo Kilroy

    Age 63 Female
    

    United States Congressman

    
    

    Mary Jo Kilroy is the former U.S. Representative for, serving from 2009 until 2011. She is a member of the Democratic Party from Ohio. In her first term she introduced a bill to lend $20 million per year to small businesses (HR5322) and an amendment to assign liability to credit reporting agencies. She also contributed to legislation on executive pay. She was defeated in her November 2, 2010 re-election bid.… read more

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    Mary Coughlan

    Age 47 Female
    

    Politician

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    Mary Coughlan is a former Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Donegal South–West constituency from 1987–2011.

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    Mary Surratt

    1823 - 1865 Female
    

    Owner

    
    

    Mary Elizabeth Jenkins Surratt was an American boarding house owner who was convicted of taking part in the conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln. Sentenced to death, she was hanged, becoming the first woman executed by the United States federal government. She was the mother of John H. Surratt, Jr. , who was later tried but was not convicted in the assassination.… read more

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    Mary Jane Watson

    Female
    

    Comedian, Ally, Writer

    
    

    Mary Jane Watson, often shortened to MJ, is a fictional supporting character appearing, originally, in Marvel comic books and, later, in multiple spin-offs and dramatizations of the Spider-Man titles as the best friend, love interest, and one-time wife of Peter Parker, the alter ego of Spider-Man. Created by writer Stan Lee and artist John Romita, Sr. , after a few partial appearances and references, her first full appearance was in The Amazing Spider-Man #42.… read more

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    Mary Wells

    1943 - 1992 Female
    

    Singer Songwriter

    
    

    Mary Esther Wells was an American singer who helped to define the emerging sound of Motown in the early 1960s. Along with The Miracles, The Temptations, The Supremes, and the Four Tops, Wells was said to have been part of the charge in black music onto radio stations and record shelves of mainstream America, "bridging the color lines in music at the time.… read more

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    Mary Landrieu

    Age 56 Female
    

    Politician

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    Mary Loretta Landrieu is the senior United States Senator from the State of Louisiana and a member of the Democratic Party. Born in Arlington, Virginia, Landrieu was raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. She is the daughter of former New Orleans mayor and Secretary of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, Moon Landrieu, and the sister of the current Mayor of New Orleans and former Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana Mitch Landrieu.… read more

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    Mary Chapin Carpenter

    Age 54 Female
    

    Singer, Songwriter, Musician

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    Mary Chapin CarpenterBorn Template:Safesubst:February 21, 1958 (age 53)Template:Safesubst:Died Template:Safesubst:Template:Safesubst:Occupations Singer-songwriterYears active 1987–present Mary Chapin Carpenter (born February 21, 1958) is an American folk and country music artist. Carpenter spent several years singing in Washington, D.C. clubs before signing in the late 1980s with Columbia Records, who marketed her as a country singer.… read more

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    Mary Harney

    Age 59 Female
    

    Politician, Minister

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    Mary Harney is a former Irish politician. She served as Tánaiste from 1997–2006, Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment from 1997–2004, and as Minister for Health and Children from 2004–11. She also served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin Mid West and Dublin South West constituencies from 1981 to 2011. She was leader of the Progressive Democrats party between 1993–2006 and again from 2007–08.… read more

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    Mary Magdalene

    4712 BC Female
    

    Saint

    
    

    Mary Magdalene, or Mary of Magdala, was one of Jesus' most celebrated disciples, and the most important woman disciple in the movement of Jesus. Jesus cleansed her of "seven demons", conventionally interpreted as referring to complex illnesses. She is considered the "baby" of her family with her brother Lazarus of Bethany being the eldest and her sister Martha the middle child.… read more

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    Mary Fahl

    Age 53 Female
    

    Songwriter, Singer, Actress

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    Mary Fahl is an American singer, songwriter and actress known for her work with October Project in the mid-1990s. More recently she is known for her solo singing and acting career. She released an EP Lenses of Contact in 2001, and a full album The Other Side of Time in 2003 on Sony Classical. A new album, From the Dark Side of the Moon, was released on May 10, 2011. Her music has been featured in the film Gods and Generals, as well as the film version of the play The Guys.… read more

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    Mary Ann Acevedo

    Age 24 Female
    

    Puerto Rican Singer

    
    

    Mary Ann Acevedo Rivera;, better known as "Mary Ann", is a Puerto Rican singer and songwriter. Many years ago, Acevedo, was presented in a special role in the TV Show "A Toda Maquina", on air by WIPR-TV. She was a contestant of -the first reality show, clearly, Puerto Rican and then internationalized, especially focused on the singing ability of young Latinos- Objetivo Fama in the third edition.… read more

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    Mary Fallin

    Age 57 Female
    

    Lieutenant Governor, Congressman, Politician

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    Mary Fallin is the 27th and current Governor of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. She was a U.S. Representative for from 2007 until 2011. She is the second woman elected to the United States Congress from Oklahoma and the first since 1921 when Alice Mary Robertson was elected to Congress and served for one term from 1921 to 1923. She was the first Republican and first woman to serve as Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma. She served in that post from 1995 to 2007.… read more

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    Mary I of England

    1516 - 1558 Female
    

    Queen of England, Tudor Dynasty

    
    

    Mary I was the Queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 until her death. Her Protestant political opponents gave her the sobriquet of "Bloody Mary". She was the only surviving child born of the ill-fated marriage of Henry VIII and his first wife Catherine of Aragon. Her younger half-brother, Edward VI, succeeded Henry in 1547.… read more

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    Mary Ford

    1924 - 1977 Female
    

    Singer, Musician, Guitarist

    
    

    Mary Ford, born Iris Colleen Summers, was an American vocalist and guitarist, comprising half of the husband-and-wife musical team Les Paul and Mary Ford. Between 1950 and 1954, the couple had 16 top-ten hits, including "How High the Moon" and Vaya con Dios", which were number one hits on the Billboard charts. In 1951 alone they sold six million records. With Paul, Ford became one of the early practitioners of multi-tracking.… read more

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    Mary Seacole

    1805 - 1881 Female
    

    Writer, Nurse

    
    
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    Mary Anning

    1799 - 1847 Female
    

    Geologist, Palaeontologist

    
    

    Mary Anning was a British fossil collector, dealer and palaeontologist who became known around the world for a number of important finds she made in the Jurassic age marine fossil beds at Lyme Regis where she lived. Her work contributed to the fundamental changes in scientific thinking about prehistoric life and the history of the earth that occurred in the early 19th century.… read more