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Mary is a common female first name, the English form of Miriam

Miriam

Miriam was the sister of Moses and Aaron, and the daughter of Amram and Jochebed. She appears first in the book of Exodus in the Hebrew Bible....
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Mary is a common female first name, the English form of Miriam

Miriam

Miriam was the sister of Moses and Aaron, and the daughter of Amram and Jochebed. She appears first in the book of Exodus in the Hebrew Bible....
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Mary may refer to the following people:

New Testament

Mary (mother of Jesus)
Mary (mother of Jesus)

Mary , usually referred to by Christians as Saint Mary, the Virgin Mary, Holy Mary or the Madonna, was a Jewish woman of Nazareth in Galilee, identified in the New Testament as the mother of Jesus of Nazareth....
Mary Magdalene
Mary Magdalene

Saint Mary Magdalene or Mary Magdalene is described, both in the canonical New Testament and in the New Testament apocrypha, as a devoted Disciple of Jesus....
, devoted disciple of Jesus
Mary (mother of James and John)
Mary (mother of James and John)

Mary was the wife of Zebedee and mother of James the Great in the New Testament. She is commemorated with Saint Joanna and Salome in the Calendar of Saints of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod on August 3....
Mary of Clopas, follower of Jesus
Mary, sister of Lazarus
Mary, sister of Lazarus

In the Gospel of John, Mary of Bethany , the sister of Lazarus appears in connection with the visits of Jesus to Bethany and the death and rising from the dead of her brother Lazarus ....
, follower of Jesus
Mary, mother of John Mark
Mary, mother of John Mark

Mary is a character in the Bible.She is the mother of John, surnamed Mark and was one of the earliest of Jesus' disciples. She was the aunt of Barnabas , and joined with him in disposing of their land and giving the proceeds of the sale into the treasury of the early Christianity Church ....
, one of Jesus' disciples
Mary (Romans 16:6), a New Testament woman

Royalty

Mary I of England
Mary I of England

Mary I , was Queen of England and Monarchy of Ireland from 19 July 1553 until her death. The fourth crowned monarch of the Tudor dynasty, she is remembered for restoring England to Roman Catholicism after succeeding her short-lived half brother, Edward VI of England, to the English throne....
, aka "Bloody Mary", Queen of England and Ireland
Mary II of England
Mary II of England

Mary II reigned as List of English monarchs, List of Scottish monarchs, and King of Ireland from 1689 until her death. Mary, a Protestantism, came to the thrones following the Glorious Revolution, which resulted in the deposition of her Roman Catholic father, James II of England....
, Queen of England and Ireland
Mary of Modena
Mary of Modena

Mary of Modena was queen consort to James II of England....
, Queen Consort of King James II of England and VII of Scotland
Mary of Teck
Mary of Teck

Mary of Teck was the queen consort of George V of the United Kingdom, Emperor of India. Before her husband's accession, she was successively Duchess of York, Duchess of Cornwall and Princess of Wales....
, Queen Consort of George V of the United Kingdom
Mary I of Scotland
Mary I of Scotland

Mary I was Queen of Scots from 14 December 1542 to 24 July 1567.She was the only surviving legitimate child of James V of Scotland. She was only six days old when her father died and left her Queen of Scots....
, Queen of Scots
Mary of Guise
Mary of Guise

Mary of Guise was the Queen Consort of James V of Scotland and the mother of Mary I of Scotland. She was Regent, or Governor, of Scotland 1554–1560....
, Queen Consort of James V of Scotland and mother of Mary, Queen of Scots
Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark
Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark

Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark is the wife of Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark, who is the heir apparent to the Danish Danish throne....
, wife of Crown Prince Frederik
Mary I of Portugal, daughter of King Joseph I of Portugal
Mary II of Portugal, daughter of the future King Pedro IV
Mary of Guelders
Mary of Guelders

Mary of Guelders was Royal Consorts of Scotland to James II of Scotland....
, daughter of Arnold, Duke of Guelders
Mary of Hungary
Mary of Hungary

Mary of Hungary was queen regnant of Kingdom of Hungary from 1382 until her death in 1395....
, eldest surviving daughter of Louis I the Great of Hungary and his second wife Elizabeta Kotromanic of Bosnia
Mary of Burgundy
Mary of Burgundy

Mary, called Mary the Rich , was suo jure Duke of Burgundy from 1477 – 1482. As the only child of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, and his wife Isabella of Bourbon, she was the heiress to the vast Burgundian domains in France and the Low Countries upon her father's death in the Battle of Nancy on 5 January 1477....
, daughter of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy

In arts and entertainment

Mary J. Blige
Mary J. Blige

Mary Jane Blige is a nine-time Grammy Award-winning and Golden Globe-nominated American R&B music singer-songwriter, rapper, record producer, and actor who has sold more than forty eight million albums worldwide....
, American R&B/soul/hip-hop soul singer, songwriter, and producer
Mary Cassatt
Mary Cassatt

Mary Stevenson Cassatt was an United States painter and printmaker. She lived much of her adult life in France, where she first befriended Edgar Degas and later exhibited among the Impressionists....
, American painter
Mary Hopkin
Mary Hopkin

Mary Hopkin is a Wales folk music singer. She is best known as one of the first artists to sign to the Beatles' Apple Records label....
, Welsh singer-songwriter
Mary Tyler Moore
Mary Tyler Moore

Mary Tyler Moore is an United States Actor and comedian, primarily known for her roles in sitcoms and television.Moore is arguably best known for The Mary Tyler Moore Show , in which she starred as Mary Richards, a 30-something single woman who worked as a news producer at WJM-TV in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and for her earlier role as L...
, American actress and comedian
Mary-Kate Olsen
Mary-Kate Olsen

Mary-Kate Olsen is a Daytime Emmy Award-nominated American actress, television producer, fashion model and fashion designer. She has had a successful acting career beginning at a very young age, in roles with her twin sister Ashley Olsen....
, American actress
Mary Elizabeth Winstead
Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Mary Elizabeth Winstead is an American actress. She has been called a scream queen, ? la Jamie Lee Curtis, because of her roles in the horror films Final Destination 3, Black Christmas and Death Proof, but she has also branched out into other genres, including comedy film , drama film and action film ....
, American actress
Mary Spender
Mary Spender

Mary Spender is an 18-year-old singer/songwriter from Salisbury, Wiltshire. Influenced by a diverse range of music, Mary?s style of song writing and her singing voice have been compared to the likes of KT Tunstall, Debbie Harry and Kate Bush....
, English singer/songwriter
Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley was a British novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel literature, best known for her Gothic fiction Frankenstein ....
, English author

Others

Mary Quant
Mary Quant

Mary Quant Order of the British Empire Chartered Society of Designers is a British fashion designer, one of the many designers who took credit for inventing the miniskirt and hot pants....
, English fashion designer
Mary Whitehouse
Mary Whitehouse

Mary Whitehouse Order of the British Empire was a United Kingdom activist for what she perceived to be values of morality and decency derived from her Christianity faith....
, English morality campaigner
Mary Kingsley
Mary Kingsley

Mary Henrietta Kingsley was an England writer and exploration who greatly influenced European ideas about Africa and African people.Kingsley was born in Islington....
, 19th century British explorer in Africa
Mary Louise Hancock
Mary Louise Hancock

Mary Louise Hancock is a retired New Hampshire state senator, former New Hampshire State Planning Director and has been called the 'Grand Dame' and the 'Queen Bee' of New Hampshire politics....
, American politician and activist
Mary Bryant
Mary Bryant

Mary Bryant was a Cornwall convict sent to Australia. She became one of the first successful escapees from the fledging Australian penal colony....
, Australian penal colony escapee
Mary Knisely
Mary Knisely

Mary Knisely is a retired female middle distance runner from the United States. She set her personal best in the women's 3000 metres on 1987-07-13 at a meet in Nice....
, American middle distance runner
Mary O'Connor
Mary O'Connor

Mary Theresa O'Connor is a retired female long-distance runner from New Zealand. She competed for her native country at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California....
, New Zealand long-distance runner
Mary Mallon
Mary Mallon

Mary Mallon , also known as Typhoid Mary, was the first person in the United States to be identified as a Asymptomatic carrier of typhoid fever....
, aka "Typhoid Mary", a notorious carrier of typhoid in the United States

Fictional characters

Dr. Mary Albright
Dr. Mary Albright

Mary Margaret Albright, Ph.D is a fictional character who was played by Jane Curtin in the United States situation comedy 3rd Rock from the Sun....
a character from the sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun
Mary Poppins
Mary Poppins

Mary Poppins is a series of children's literature written by P.L. Travers and originally illustrated by Mary Shepard. The books centre on a mysterious, vain and acerbic magic England nanny, Mary Poppins ....
, a character in the Mary Poppins books, film, and musical
Mary Katherine Gallagher
Mary Katherine Gallagher

Mary Katherine Gallagher is a fictional character invented and portrayed by Saturday Night Live cast member Molly Shannon from 1995 to 2001....
, a Saturday Night Live character created by Molly Shannon
Mary Alice Brandon Cullen, a character from the Twilight series

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