List of Famous people named Mercedes

Maria de las Mercedes of Orléans was Queen of Spain as the first wife of King Alfonso XII. She was born in Madrid, the daughter of Antoine of Orléans, Duke of Montpensier, and of Infanta Luisa Fernanda of Spain.

Mercedes Gloria Scápola Morán is an Argentine actress. She became famous in the 2012 telenovela Graduados, and the 2014 telenovela Guapas. She is the daughter of the actress Mercedes Morán.

María de las Mercedes Menafra Rodríguez is a Uruguayan entrepreneur. She was the First Lady of Uruguay as the wife of Jorge Batlle, President of Uruguay from 2000 to 2005. She is the president of the organization Todos por Uruguay.

Raina A. Mercedes Echerer is an Austrian film and stage actress, host of TV and radio shows, and politician.

Mercedes Alicia McNab is a Canadian retired actress known for her role as Harmony Kendall on Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2001) and its spinoff Angel (2001–2004). She additionally is known for her role as pretentious Amanda Buckman in Addams Family Values (1993) and Misty in the horror films Hatchet (2007) and Hatchet 2 (2010).

Mercedes Erra is a French business woman who was born 23 September 1954 in Sabadell.

Mercedes Cabrera Calvo-Sotelo, GCIH is a Spanish politician, political scientist, historian, and minister. She is also niece of Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo Bustelo, former prime minister and of former foreign minister Fernando Morán Lopez and grandniece of the physicist Blas Cabrera Felipe.

Mercedes Ferrer is a Spanish singer-songwriter, active since 1983.

Mercedes Rodríguez Lambre is an Argentine actress, singer, dancer and model. She is known to international audiences for playing the debut role of Ludmilla in the Disney Channel original series Violetta.

Mercedes Adrienne Ramona Manuela Jellinek was the daughter of Austrian automobile entrepreneur Emil Jellinek and his first wife Rachel Goggmann Cenrobert. She was born in Vienna. She is best known for her father having Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft's line of Mercedes cars named after her, beginning with the Mercedes 35 HP model of 1901. In addition, her father hung a large picture of her at the 1902 Paris Automobile exhibition. He even legally changed his name to Jellinek-Mercedes in 1903 after Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft registered Mercedes as a trademark in 1902. Her name is a Spanish Christian name meaning mercy.