Marie-Claire is a

given name A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a ...

. It is a combination of the names

Marie Marie may refer to: People Name * Marie (given name) * Marie (Japanese given name) * Marie (murder victim), girl who was killed in Florida after being pushed in front of a moving vehicle in 1973 * Marie (died 1759), an enslaved Cree person in Tr ...

and

Claire Clair or Claire may refer to: *Claire (given name), a list of people with the name Claire * Clair (surname) Places Canada * Clair, New Brunswick, a former village, now part of Haut-Madawaska * Clair Parish, New Brunswick * Pointe-Claire, Q ...

, which are both of French origin. It may refer to: *

Marie-Claire Alain Marie-Claire Geneviève Alain-Gommier (10 August 1926 – 26 February 2013) was a French organist, scholar and teacher best known for her prolific recording career, with 260 recordings, making her the most-recorded classical organist in the world ...

(1926–2013), organist and organ teacher * Marie-Claire Baldenweg (born 1954), contemporary artist * Marie-Claire Blais (1939–2021), author and playwright *Marie-Claire Cremers, better known as

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(born 1970), Dutch-German singer-songwriter * Marie-Claire D'Ubaldo, singer * Marie-Claire Foblets, Belgian lawyer and anthropologist * Marie-Claire Houart, civil servant * Marie-Claire Heureuse Félicité (1758–1858), Empress of Haiti *

Marie-Claire Kirkland Marie-Claire Kirkland-Casgrain, (September 8, 1924 – March 24, 2016) was a Quebec lawyer, judge and politician. She was the first woman elected to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec, the first woman appointed a Cabinet minister in Quebec, ...

(1924–2016), judge and politician *

Marie-Claire Restoux Marie-Claire Restoux (born 9 April 1968 in La Rochefoucauld, Charente) is a French judoka, world champion and Olympic champion. She won a gold medal in the ''half lightweight division'' at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.

(born 1968), judoka *

Marie-Claire Schanne-Klein Marie-Claire Schanne-Klein is a French physicist who is a professor at the French National Centre for Scientific Research. She is based in the Laboratory for Optics and Biosciences, where she studies the nonlinear optics of chiral molecules. E ...

, French physicist *the ''nom de guerre'' of

Mary Lindell Gertrude Mary Lindell (11 September 1895 – 8 January 1987), Comtesse de Milleville, code named Marie-Claire and Comtesse de Moncy, was an English woman, a front-line nurse in World War I and a member of the French Resistance in World War II. S ...

, Comtesse de Milleville, a prominent resistance agent in Nazi-occupied France

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