Maureen
Maureen is a female name. In Gaelic, it is Máirín, a pet form of Máire, which is derived from the Hebrew Miriam.
Some notable bearers of the name are:
People
- Maureen Anderman, American actress
- Maureen Arthur, American actress
- Maureen Beattie, Scottish actress
- Dame Maureen Brennan, British educator
- Maureen Chadwick, British screenwriter, dramatist and television producer
- Maureen Charuni, Sri Lankan actress
- Maureen Child, American writer
- Maureen Colquhoun, British politician
- Maureen Connolly, American tennis player
- Maureen Connor, American artist
- Maureen Corrigan, American author, scholar, and literary critic
- Maureen Cummins, American artist
- Maureen Daly, Irish American author and journalist
- Maureen Dowd, American journalist
- Maureen Drake, Canadian tennis player
- Maureen Duffy, British writer
- Maureen Fitzgerald Terry, American politician
- Maureen Forrester, Canadian opera singer
- Maureen Guy, Welsh mezzo-soprano singer
- Maureen Hanson, American molecular biologist and professor
- Maureen Hemphill, Canadian politician
- Maureen Herman, American rock musician
- Maureen Hingert, Sri Lankan dancer, model, and actress
- Maureen Howard, American writer and editor
- Maureen Hunter, Canadian playwright
- Maureen Irwin, Canadian activist
- Maureen Johnson, American writer
- Maureen Kearney, Irish syndicalist and whistleblower
- Maureen Larrazabal, Filipina actress, singer and commercial model
- Maureen Lehane, English mezzo-soprano singer
- Dame Maureen Lipman, British actress
- Maureen Louys, Belgian television presenter
- Maureen Magarity, American basketball coach
- Maureen Maher, American television reporter
- Maureen McCormick, American actress
- Maureen McGovern, American singer
- Maureen McQuillan, American contemporary artist
- Maureen Medved, Canadian playwright
- Maureen Molloy, Australian pioneer of clinical neuropsychology, cognitive rehabilitation therapy and forensic neuropsychology
- Maureen Molloy, Canadian–New Zealand anthropologist
- Maureen Morris, New Zealand nurse
- Maureen Murphy, American ice hockey player
- Maureen O'Boyle, American television reporter and news anchor
- Maureen O'Brien, English actress
- Maureen O'Hara, Irish actress
- Maureen Orth, American journalist
- Maureen O'Sullivan, American actress
- Maureen Paley, American owner of an art gallery
- Maureen Phillips, Trinidadian cricketer
- Maureen Pugh, New Zealand politician
- Maureen Raymo, American paleoclimatologist and marine geologist
- Maureen Reagan, American political activist and child of Ronald Reagan
- Maureen Riscoe, British actress and casting director
- Maureen Stapleton, American actress
- Maureen Starkey Tigrett, first wife of musician Ringo Starr
- Maureen Swanson, British actress
- Maureen Tucker, American drummer
- Maureen Watson, Aboriginal Australian rights activist
- Maureen Thelma Watson, Rhodesian politician
- Maureen Wroblewitz, Filipino-German fashion model
- Maureen White, Canadian theatre actor, director, and playwright
Maurene
- Maurene Comey, American lawyer
- Maurene Goo, American author
- Maurene Horder, Australian politician
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 Holdsworth, a character in Coronation Street
- 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 Prescott, Sidney Prescott’s mother in the Scream saga
- Maureen Robinson, mother of the Robinson family in ''Lost in Space''