Mary Lou (name)
Mary Lou, Mary-Lou, Marylou or Marilou is a feminine given name. It is a combination of the names Mary and Lou.
Notable people and fictional characters with this name include:
People
Arts and entertainment
- Marilou , French-Canadian pop singer and cookbook author
- Marilou Awiakta, American poet
- Mary Lou Belli, American television director and author
- Marilou Berry, French actress, film director and screenwriter
- Marylou Dawes, Canadian concert pianist
- Marilou Diaz-Abaya, Filipino film director
- Mary Lou Fallis, Canadian opera singer
- Mary Lou Farrell, Canadian singer, actress and beauty queen
- Mary Lou Kolbenschlag, American actress - see Mary Lou
- Mary Lou Lord, American indie folk musician and busker
- Mary Lou Metzger, American singer and dancer
- Mary Lou Turner, American country music singer
- Mary Lou Williams, American jazz pianist, arranger and composer
Journalism
- Mary Lou Finlay, Canadian radio and television journalist
- Mary Lou Forbes, American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and commentator
- Mary Lou Foy, American photojournalist
Politics
- Mary Lou Baker, American member of the Florida House of Representatives, and women's rights activist
- Mary Lou Dickerson, American politician, Democratic member of the Washington House of Representatives
- Mary Lou Freeman, American politician, Republican member of the Iowa House of Representatives
- Mary Lou Goertzen, American artist, peace activist and Mennonite
- Mary Lou Makepeace, American politician, Mayor of Colorado Springs
- Mary Lou McDonald, Irish politician, leader of Sinn Féin
- Mary Lou Rath, American politician, Republican member of New York State Senate
Science and medicine
- Mary Lou Clements-Mann, American biologist
- Mary L. McMaster, American oncologist and clinical trialist
- Mary Lou Soffa, American computer scientist
- Mary Lou Zoback, American geophysicist
Sport
- Mary Lou Beschorner, American player in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
- Mary Lou Crocker, American golfer
- Mary-Lou Daniels, American retired tennis player
- Marilou Dozois-Prévost, Canadian weightlifter
- Mary Lou Graham, American player in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
- Mary Lou Petty, American swimmer
- Mary Lou Retton, American retired gymnast, 1984 Olympic all-around champion
- Mary Lou Studnicka, American pitcher in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
Other fields
- Mary Lou Jepsen, American entrepreneur, business executive and inventor
- Mary Lou Robinson, American federal judge
- Mary Lou Spiess, American disability advocate, teacher, and designer of disabled fashion
- Mary Louise Marylou Whitney, American philanthropist and socialite
Fictional characters
- Mary Lou Collins, in The Larry Sanders Show
- Marylou, a character in the novel On the Road by American writer Jack Kerouac
- Marylou Ahearn, a character in the novel The Revenge of the Radioactive Lady by Elizabeth Stuckey-French
- Marylou, a character in the movie The Howling played by Elizabeth Shé