Mercedes (name)
Mercedes is a Spanish female name, popularized in the form of María de las Mercedes, which is one of the Roman Catholic titles of the Virgin Mary. The word "Mercedes" is of Latin origin meaning "mercies" from the Latin word merced-, merces, meaning "wages, reward", which in Vulgar Latin acquired the meaning "favor, pity". Hypocoristic forms of the name are Merceditas, Mechi, Mer, Meche and Merche.
Given name
- Mercedes, Princess of Asturias, Spanish royal
- Mercedes de Acosta, American poet and socialite
- Mercedes Bass, American philanthropist
- Mercédes Benegbi, Canadian disabilities activist
- Mercedes Bengoechea, Spanish feminist sociolinguist, professor
- Mercedes Bresso, Italian politician
- Mercedes Cabral, Filipina actress
- Mercedes Calderón, Cuban volleyball player
- Mercedes Grabowski, Canadian pornographic actress
- Mercedes Helnwein, Austrian artist, writer and filmmaker
- Mercedes Indacochea, Peruvian educator
- Mercédès Jellinek, the namesake for Mercedes-Benz automobiles
- Mercedes Lackey, fantasy author
- Mercedes Lambre, Argentine actress
- Mercedes Lander, drummer for Canadian alt-metal band Kittie
- Mercedes Lasala, Argentinian patriot
- Mercédès Legrand Spanish-born Belgian painter, poet
- Mercedes Leigh, American actress
- Mercedes McCambridge, actress
- Mercedes Mason, Swedish-American actress
- Mercedes McNab, Canadian-born actress
- Maria Mercedes Morgan called Mercedes, later known as Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt Socialite.
- Mercedes of Orléans, queen consort of Spain
- Mercedes Pérez, Colombian weightlifter
- Mercedes Pérez Merino, Spanish trade unionist and politician
- Mercedes Peris, Spanish backstroke swimmer
- Mercedes Rose, American actress
- Mercedes Ruehl, American actress
- Mercedes Sahores, Argentine ski mountaineer and mountain climber
- Mercedes Santamarina, Argentine art collector
- Mercedes Sosa, Argentine singer
- Mercédesz Stieber, Hungarian water polo player
- Mercedes González Tola, Ecuadorian poet and playwright
- Mercedes Valdés Consuegra, Cuban independence fighter
- Mercedes Varnado, American professional wrestler known under the ring name Mercedes Moné
- Mercedes Vostell, Spanish writer
- Mercedes Yvette Scelba-Shorte, fashion model and actress
- Mercedes (singer), stage name of R&B and hip-hop singer Raequel Miller
Surname
- Eleoncio Mercedes, boxer
- Denise Mercedes, American fashion model
- Yermín Mercedes, Dominican baseball player
Fictional characters
- Mercédès, in the Alexandre Dumas novel The Count of Monte Cristo
- Mercedes, in Jack London's novel The Call of the Wild
- Mercédès, in the opera Carmen by Georges Bizet
- Mercedes, a princess in the video game "Dragon Blaze"
- Mercedes, a character in the film Pan's Labyrinth
- Mercedes, one of the five main characters of the video game Odin Sphere
- Mercedes "Meche" Colomar, from the video game Grim Fandango
- Mercedes Cortez, from the video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
- Mercedes, the Queen of elves and one of the six Heroes in the MMORPG MapleStory
- Mercedes Jones, from the TV series Glee
- Mercedes Lane, Heather Graham's character in the 1988 film License to Drive
- Mercedes von Martritz from the video games Fire Emblem: Three Houses and Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes
- Mercedes McQueen, in the British soap opera Hollyoaks
- Mercedes "Mercy" Thompson, protagonist of a novel series by Patricia Briggs