Maureen

Maureen /mɔːˈriːn/ is a female name, the female form of the male given name Maurice. In Gaelic, it is Máirín, a pet form of Máire (the Irish cognate of Mary), which is derived from the Hebrew Miriam.

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 Fitzgerald Terry, American politician
Maureen Forrester (1930–2010), Canadian opera singer
Maureen Guy (1932–2015), Welsh mezzo-soprano singer
Maureen Hemphill (born 1937), Canadian politician
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, a character in the British sitcom Please Sir!
Maureen Clinton, aka Mo, a character in the British children’s series Sooty & Co.
Maureen Connor, aka Permafrost, a character from Static Shock
Maureen Corley, a character in Full Throttle
Maureen Johnson, a character in the musical and film Rent
Maureen Johnson, a character in novels by Robert Heinlein
Maureen Murphy, a character in the Netflix series F is for Family
Maureen Robinson, mother of the Robinson family in Lost in Space