Maureen

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Maureen /mɔːˈriːn/ is a female given name. In Gaelic, it is Máirín, a pet form of Máire (the Irish cognate of Mary), which is derived from the Hebrew Miriam. The name has sometimes been regarded as corresponding to the male given name Maurice.

Some notable bearers of the name are:

People[]

• Maureen Anderman (born 1946), American actress
• Dame Maureen Brennan (born 1954), British educator
• Maureen Connolly (1934–1969), American tennis player
• Maureen Dowd (born 1952), American journalist
• Maureen Drake (born 1971), Canadian tennis player
• Maureen Duffy (born 1933), British writer
• Maureen Forrester (1930–2010), Canadian opera singer
• Maureen Guy (1932–2015), Welsh mezzo-soprano singer
• Maureen Herman (born 1966), American rock musician
• Maureen Hingert (born 1937), Sri Lankan dancer, model, and actress
• Maureen Hunter (born 1948), Canadian playwright
• Maureen Johnson (born 1973), American writer
• Dame Maureen Lipman (born 1946), British actress
• Maureen Louys (born 1978), Belgian television presenter
• Maureen Maher, American television reporter
• Maureen McCormick (born 1956), American actress
• Maureen McGovern (born 1949), American singer
• Maureen Medved, Canadian playwright
• Maureen O'Boyle (born 1963), American television reporter and news anchor
• Maureen O'Hara (1920–2015), Irish actress
• Maureen O'Sullivan (1911–1998), American actress
• Maureen Phillips, Trinidadian cricketer
• Maureen Riscoe (1921-2003), British actress and casting director
• Maureen Stapleton (1925–2006), American actress
• Maureen Starkey Tigrett (1946–1994), first wife of musician Ringo Starr
• Maureen Tucker (born 1944), American drummer
• Maureen Thelma Watson (1925–1994), Rhodesian politician
• Maureen Wroblewitz (born 1998), Filipino-German fashion model
• Maureen White, Canadian theatre actor, director, and playwright

Fictional characters[]

• Maureen Bullock, in the British sitcom Please Sir!
• Maureen Corley, in Full Throttle (1995 video game)
• Maureen Johnson, in the musical and movie Rent
• Maureen Johnson, in novels by Robert Heinlein
• Maureen Robinson, mother of the Robinson family in Lost in Space
• Maureen "Permafrost" Connor, from Static Shock

See also[]

• Maureen (disambiguation)
• Maurine (disambiguation)

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