Mary McCarthy or Mary MacCarthy may refer to:
The arts
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Mary Downing
Mary Downing (née McCarthy; ''c.''1815–1881) was an Irish poet and nationalist best known by her pen name "Christabel". Some of her poetry appeared in ''The ballad poetry of Ireland'' (1869), a collection of verse edited by Charles Gavan Duffy ...
(1815–1881), Irish poet born Mary McCarthy
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Mary Stanislaus MacCarthy (1849–1897), Irish poet and nun
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Mary MacCarthy (1882–1953), English writer and member of the Bloomsbury Group
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Mary Eunice McCarthy
Mary Eunice McCarthy (March 4, 1899 – August 7, 1969) was an American screenwriter, playwright, journalist and author, perhaps best known today as the screenwriter of, and driving force behind, the biopic '' Sister Kenny'' (1946).Cohn, Victor ...
(1899–1969), American screenwriter, playwright, and journalist
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Mary McCarthy (author)
Mary Therese McCarthy (June 21, 1912 – October 25, 1989) was an American novelist, critic and political activist, best known for her novel ''The Group'', her marriage to critic Edmund Wilson, and her storied feud with playwright Lillian Hell ...
(1912–1989), American novelist, critic, and memoirist
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Mary McCarthy (screenwriter)
Mary McCarthy (not to be confused with another screenwriter—Mary Eunice McCarthy) was an American screenwriter active in the 1930s and 1940s. , American, screenwriter for movies ''Theodora Goes Wild'' (1936) and ''Sister Kenny'' (1946)
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Mary McCarthy (fiction writer) (1951–2013), Irish novelist, teacher, book reviewer
Other
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Mary McCarthy (activist) (1866–1933), New Zealand temperance advocate and teacher
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Mary McCarthy Gomez Cueto (1900–2009), wealthy Canadian expatriate who lived an impoverished life in Havana
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Mary McCarthy (police officer) (1903–1978), Australian police officer
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Mary McCarthy (CIA) (born 1945), former CIA employee accused of leaking information
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Mary Ann McCarthy (1834–1887), Irish orphan who fatally stabbed her husband
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