Here’s another one for the series “First Names First”! We present a chronological list of persons with their first name here, and your task is to pick one. Then follow the Wikipedia link to read about that person, and to see what if anything he or she could contribute your life with. Inspiration, passion, enlightenment, encouragement, empathy, etc. Give a couple of minutes of your life to this. Lives lived have all something worthwhile to tell us - let them!
This time it is all about Mary! Mary Tudor* Queen of France – Sheen Palace, London, Kingdom of England (1496) Mary, Queen of Scots* – Linlithgow Palace, Scotland (1542) Mary Carleton* (b Moders) con artist - Canterbury, England (1642) Mary Moser* painter – London, England (1744) Mary Kies* inventor of a new technique of making hats – Killingly, CT (1752) Mary Wollstonecraft* feminist author – Spitalfields, London, England (1759) Mary Young Pickersgill* flagmaker/philanthropist – Philadelphia, PA USA (1776) Mary Somerville* science writer/polymath - Jedburgh, Scotland (1780) Mary Shelley* author – Somers Town, London, England (1797) Mary Elizabeth Lee* writer – Charleston, SC USA (1813) Mary Todd Lincoln* wife of Abraham Lincoln - Lexington, KY USA (1818) Mary Livermore* journalist/women’s rights activist - Boston, MA USA (1820) Mary Baker Eddy* founder of Christian Science – Bow, NH USA (1821) Mary Watson Whitney* astronomer- Waltham, MA USA (1847) Mary Ingalls* sister of Laura Ingalls Wilder - Pepin, WI USA (1865) Mary Brewster Hazelton* portrait painter – Milton, MA USA (1868) Mary Haskell* American missionary – Philippopolis, Bulgaria (1869) Mary McLeod Bethune* educator/ activist – Mayesville, SC USA (1875) Mary Jobe Akeley* mountaineer/photographer - Harrison County, OH USA (1878) Mary MacLane* American writer/feminist – Winnipeg, MB Canada (1881) Mary Pickford* actress/producer – Toronto, ON Canada (1892) Mary Dilys Glynne* plant pathologist/mountaineer - Bangor, Wales (1895) Mary Cartwright* mathematician/chaos theorist – Aynho, England (1900) Mary Astor* actress/author – Quincy, IL USA (1906) Mary Carlisle* actress/singer/dancer – Boston, MA USA (1914) Mary Meader* aerial photographer/ philanthropist – Kalamazoo, MI USA (1916) Mary Ellis* ferry pilot/WW2 – Leafield, Oxforshire, England (1917) Mary Sue Hubbard* leading figure in Scientology – Rockdale, TX USA (1931) Mary Quant* fashion designer - Blackheath, London, England (1934) Mary Oliver* poet – Maple Heights, OH USA (1935) Mary Tyler Moore* actress – Brooklyn, NY USA (1936) Mary Robinson* (b Bourke) politician/P - Ballina, County Mayo, Ireland (1944) Mary McAleese* politician/P (of Ireland) – Belfast, Northern Ireland (1951) Mary McDonnell* actress - Wilkes-Barre, PA USA (1952) Mary Steenburgen* actress – Newport, AR USA (1953) pic Mary Decker* middle distance runner/WC – Bunnvale, NJ USA (1958) Mary Elisabeth Mastrantonio* actress – Lombard, IL USA (1958) Mary Crosby* actress – Los Angeles, CA USA (1959) Mary-Louise Parker* actress – Fort Jackson, SC USA (1964) Mary Pierce* tennis player – Montreal, QC Canada (1975) Updated 16.10.2021