List of Famous people named Mary

Mary Ann, Lady Parkinson is a British journalist and television presenter, and the wife of Sir Michael Parkinson.

Mary Chapin Carpenter is an American singer-songwriter. 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. Carpenter's first album, 1987's Hometown Girl, did not produce any singles, although 1989's State of the Heart and 1990's Shooting Straight in the Dark each produced four Top 20 hits on the Billboard country singles charts.

Mary Portas is an English retail consultant and broadcaster, known for her retail- and business-related television shows, founding her creative agency Portas and her appointment by David Cameron, the British Prime Minister, to lead a review into the future of Britain's high streets.

Mary Karr is an American poet, essayist and memoirist from East Texas. She is widely noted for her 1995 bestselling memoir The Liars' Club. She is the Jesse Truesdell Peck Professor of English Literature at Syracuse University.

Mary Norwood is an American businesswoman and politician who is a former member of the Atlanta City Council. A political independent, she was a candidate for mayor of Atlanta in 2009 and 2017. In both campaigns she advanced to the runoff, but respectively lost to Kasim Reed and Keisha Lance Bottoms by narrow margins. In addition to her mayoral runs, she represented city-wide posts on the Atlanta City Council from 2002 to 2010 and again from 2014 to 2018. She resides in the Tuxedo Park neighborhood of Atlanta's Buckhead community.

Mary Jean Reimer, also known as Yung Jing-Jing, is a Hong Kong solicitor, insurance agent and actress.

Mary Ann Vecchio is one of two subjects in the Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph by photojournalism student John Filo during the immediate aftermath of the Kent State shootings on May 4, 1970.

Mary Ellen Cook, known professionally as Mary Carey, is an American former adult film actress, Playboy model, radio host, film director and politician known for her appearance on the VH1 reality TV series Celebrity Rehab and Sober House.

Mary Kay Adams is an American actress known for her roles in television. She played India von Halkein on the soap opera Guiding Light and Na'Toth in the second season of the science fiction television series Babylon 5.

Dame Mary Doreen Archer, is a British scientist specialising in solar power conversion.