List of Famous people named Marjorie

Similar names: Marjory. Here are some famous Marjories:

Marjorie Oelrichs

First Name Marjorie
Born on June 23, 1908
Died on August 3, 1937 (aged 29)

Marjorie de Loosey Oelrichs Duchin, nicknamed "Bubbles", was an American socialite. The daughter of Marjorie Ramely Oelrichs (1883–1952) and Charles de Loosey Oelrichs (1882–1973), she became the wife of dance bandleader Eddy Duchin after the two met at the Waldorf, and wed on June 5, 1935. A well-known New York and Newport beauty, she was described by Vogue as having "waxen skin and eyebrows like butterflies." An Edward Steichen photograph of Oelrichs was included in an advertisement for Pond's cold cream in a 1926 copy of Ladies' Home Journal. Oelrichs died six days after the 1937 birth of the couple's son, Peter Duchin.

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Marjorie Reynolds

First Name Marjorie
Born on August 12, 1917
Died on February 1, 1997 (aged 79)

Marjorie Reynolds was an American film/television actress and dancer, who appeared in more than 50 films, including the 1942 musical Holiday Inn.

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Marjorie Gestring

First Name Marjorie
Born on November 18, 1922
Died on April 20, 1992 (aged 69)

Marjorie Gestring was a competitive springboard diver from the United States. At the age of 13 years and 268 days, she won the gold medal in 3-meter springboard diving at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, making her the youngest person ever to win an Olympic gold medal. A multi-time national diving champion in the United States, she was given a second Olympic gold medal by the United States Olympic Committee after the 1940 Summer Olympics were called off due to the advent of World War II. Gestring attempted to return to the Olympics at the 1948 Games, but failed to qualify for the US team. She has been inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame and the Stanford Athletic Hall of Fame.

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Marjorie Lawrence

First Name Marjorie
Died on January 10, 1979 (aged 9)
Born in Australia

Marjorie Florence Lawrence CBE was an Australian soprano, particularly noted as an interpreter of Richard Wagner's operas. She was the first Metropolitan Opera soprano to perform the immolation scene in Götterdämmerung by riding her horse into the flames as Wagner had intended. She was afflicted by polio from 1941. Lawrence later served on the faculty of the School of Music at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

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Marjorie Wallace

First Name Marjorie
Born on January 10, 1945 (age 79)

Marjorie Shiona Wallace CBE, FRCPsych is a British writer, broadcaster, investigative journalist, and chief executive of SANE, a mental health charity that she founded in the UK in 1986.

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Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer

Marjorie Eileen Doris Courtenay-Latimer
First Name Marjorie
Born on February 24, 1907
Died on May 17, 2004 (aged 97)

Marjorie Eileen Doris Courtenay-Latimer was a South African museum official, who in 1938, brought to the attention of the world the existence of the coelacanth, a fish thought to have been extinct for sixty-five million years.

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Marjorie G. Horning

Marjorie Janice Groothuis
First Name Marjorie
Born on August 23, 1917
Died on June 11, 2020 (aged 102)

Marjorie Janice Groothuis Horning was an American biochemist and pharmacologist. She was considered to be a pioneer of chromatography for her work in developing new techniques and applying them to the study of drug metabolism. She demonstrated that drugs and their metabolites can be transferred from a pregnant woman to her developing child, and later through breast milk, from a mother to a baby. Horning's work made possible the prevention of birth defects, as doctors began to warn of the dangers of drugs, alcohol, and smoking during pregnancy.

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Marjorie Boulton

First Name Marjorie
Born on May 7, 1924
Died on August 30, 2017 (aged 93)

Marjorie Boulton was a British author and poet writing in both English and Esperanto.

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Marjorie Mayans

First Name Marjorie
Born on November 17, 1990 (age 33)
Height 171 cm | 5'7

Marjorie Mayans is a French rugby union player. She represented France at the 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup. She was a member of the squad that won their fourth Six Nations title in 2014. Mayans was also part of the French sevens team at the 2013 Rugby World Cup Sevens.

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Marjorie, Countess of Carrick

First Name Marjorie,
Born on January 1, 1256
Died on January 1, 1292 (aged 36)

Marjorie of Carrick was Countess of Carrick, Scotland, from 1256 to 1292, and is notable as the mother of Robert the Bruce.

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