Maureen
Maureen /mɔːˈriːn/ is a female given name. It is an anglicized form of Máirín, a pet form of Máire (the Irish cognate of Mary), which is in turn derived from the Hebrew Miriam. The name Maureen is associated with the colour purple and the month of March. It 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
- 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
- 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 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
Fiction
- Maureen Bullock, fictional character in the British sitcom Please Sir!
- Maureen Corley, fictional character in Full Throttle (1995 video game)
- Maureen Johnson, fictional character in the musical and movie Rent
- Maureen Johnson, fictional character in novels by Robert Heinlein
- Maureen Robinson, fictional character and mother of the Robinson family in Lost in Space
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