compound 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 f ...
. In other languages, it may take one of several alternate forms:
* Maria Luiza (Bulgarian, Portuguese)
* Maria Luisa (Italian, Spanish)
* Maria Luise (German)
* Maria Louisa, Mary Louise or Mary Lou (English).
Notable people with the name include:
Literature
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Marie Louise Andrews
Marie Louise Andrews (, Newland; October 31, 1849 – February 7, 1891) was an American author and editor from Indiana. She was a founder of the Western Association of Writers, and served as its secretary from its founding until June 1888, when sh ...
Marie-Louise Dreier
Marie-Louise Dreier (born 3 October 1936) in Brussels is a poet living in Bex in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland.
Dreier spent her childhood in Andenne. On the advice of her parents, she studied to become a secretary and then she took art studies ...
Marie Louise von François
Marie may refer to the following.
People Given name
* Marie (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the name
** List of people named Marie
* Marie (Japanese given name)
Surname
* Jean Gabriel-Marie, French compose ...
(1817– 1893), German writer
* Marie-Louise Gagneur (1832–1902), French feminist writer
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Marie-Louise Gay
Marie-Louise Gay (born June 17, 1952) is a Canadian children's writer and illustrator. She has received numerous awards for her written and illustrated works in both French and English, including the 2005 Vicky Metcalf Award, multiple Governor ...
(born 1952), Canadian children's writer and illustrator
* Marie-Louise Haumont (1919–2012), Belgian writer
* Marie-Louise Jensen (born 1964), English children's author
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Marie Louise Lévêque de Vilmorin
Marie may refer to the following.
People Given name
* Marie (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the name
** List of people named Marie
* Marie (Japanese given name)
Surname
* Jean Gabriel-Marie, French compose ...
(1902–1969), French novelist and poet
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Marie Louise Hamilton Mack
Marie Louise Hamilton Mack (10 October 1870 – 23 November 1935) was an Australian poet, journalist and novelist. She is most known for her writings and her involvement in World War I in 1914 as the first woman war correspondent in Belgium.
Bi ...
(1870–1935), Australian poet
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Marie-Louise Marmette
Marie-Louise Marmette (1870–1928) (baptized as Marie-Louise-Joséphine-Esther-Eliza), known as Louyse de Bienville (Brodeur), was a French-Canadian author and lecturer. She often used the pseudonym Domino Noir.
Youth
Marie-Louise Marmette wa ...
(1870–1928), Canadian author
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Marie Louise Mignot
Marie Louise Mignot (February 12, 1712 – August 10, 1790) was a French literary figure. She was the daughter of Voltaire's sister, Catherine Arouet (1686–1726) and her husband Pierre-François Mignot (d. 1737). After the death of her widowed ...
(1712–1790), French literary figure
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Marie-Louise Mumbu
Marie-Louise Mumbu (born 15 September 1975), also called Bibish, is a Congolese journalist.
Mumbu works for '' Africultures'', '' Le Potentiel'', ''L'Observateur'', and ''The Post''. She lives in Kinshasa and Montreal
Montreal is the Li ...
(born 1975), Congolese journalist
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Marie Louise de la Ramee
Maria Louise Ramé (1 January 1839 – 25 January 1908), going by the name Marie Louise de la Ramée and known by the pseudonym
A pseudonym (; ) or alias () is a fictitious name that a person assumes for a particular purpose, which dif ...
(1839–1908), English novelist
* Marie Louise Shedlock (1854–1935), French storyteller
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Marie Louise Victoire, La Rochejacquelein
Marie Louise Victoire de Donnissan de La Rochejaquelein née ''marquise de Lescure'' (; 25 October 1772 - 15 February 1857), was a French memoirist. She is known for her memoirs, depicting her misfortunes and her part in the Vendée wars.
Life ...
(1772–1857), French memoirist
Music
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Marie-Louise-Taos Amrouche
Marie-Louise-Taos Amrouche (March 1913 – 2 April 1976) was an Algerian writer and singer. In 1947, she became the first Algerian woman to publish a novel.
Biography
She was born in Tunis, Tunisia, into a family of Kabyle Roman Catholic ...
Marie-Louise Damien
Marie-Louise Damien (born Louise Marie Damien; 5 December 1889 – 30 January 1978), better known by the stage name Damia, was a French singer and actress.
Early life
Louise Marie Damien was born on 5 December 1889 to Marie Joséphine Louise (n ...
(1889–1978), French singer and actress
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Marie-Louise Desmatins
Marie-Louise Desmatins (fl. 1682–1708) was a French soprano and creator of many roles in French Baroque opera. She performed in Jean Baptiste Lully's '' Persée'' (1682), '' Armide'' (1686 and 1703 revival), '' Achille et Polyxène'' (1687), ...
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fl.
''Floruit'' ( ; usually abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for 'flourished') denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indic ...
Marie Louise Marcadet
Marie Louise Marcadet née ''Baptiste'' (3 December 1758 – 28 February 1804) was a Sweden, Swedish opera singer and a dramatic stage actress of French origin. She was active in the Royal Swedish Opera as a singer, and in the Royal Dramatic T ...
(1758–1804), Swedish opera singer and a dramatic stage actress
Marie Louise Gonzaga
Marie Louise Gonzaga (Italian: ''Maria Luisa'', , ; 18 August 1611 – 10 May 1667) was Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania by marriage to two kings of Poland and grand dukes of Lithuania, brothers Władysław IV and John II Casi ...
(1611–1667), Princess of Gonzague-Nevers; daughter of Charles I, Duke of Mantua and Catherine of Guise
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Marie Louise d'Aspremont
Marie Louise, Countess of Aspremont-Lynden (1651 or 1652 – Madrid, 23 October 1692), was a Duchess consort of Lorraine.
Early life
She was the daughter of Charles II, Count of Aspremont-Lynden (1590-1671) and his wife, Marie Françoise de ...
(1652/1652–1692), daughter of Charles II, Count d’Aspremont; wife of Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine
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Marie Louise of Hesse-Kassel
Marie Louise of Hesse-Kassel (7 February 1688 – 9 April 1765) was a Dutch regent, Princess of Orange by marriage to John William Friso, Prince of Orange, and regent of the Netherlands during the minority of her son and her grandson. She was a d ...
(1688–1765), daughter of Charles I, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel; wife of John William Friso, Prince of Orange
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Marie Louise Adélaïde d'Orléans
Marie may refer to the following.
People Given name
* Marie (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the name
** List of people named Marie
* Marie (Japanese given name)
Surname
* Jean Gabriel-Marie, French composer ...
(1698–1743), daughter of Philippe II, Duke of Orléans
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Marie Louise de Rohan
Marie Louise de Rohan (Marie Louise Geneviève; 7 January 1720 – 4 March 1803), also known as Madame de Marsan, was the governess of Louis XVI of France and his siblings. She was an influential figure of the French court and a driving forc ...
(1720–1803), daughter of Jules de Rohan, Prince of Soubise; wife of Gaston, Count of Marsan
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Marie Louise de La Tour d'Auvergne
Marie Louise de La Tour d'Auvergne (Marie Louise Henriette Jeanne; 15 August 1725 – 1793) was a French noblewoman and member of the House of La Tour d'Auvergne. She was the Princess of Guéméné by marriage.
Biography
Early life and fami ...
(1725–1793), daughter of Charles Godefroy de La Tour d'Auvergne; wife of Jules, Prince of Guéméné
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Marie Louise Élisabeth of France
Marie may refer to the following.
People Given name
* Marie (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the name
** List of people named Marie
* Marie (Japanese given name)
Surname
* Jean Gabriel-Marie, French composer ...
(1727–1759), daughter of King Louis XV of France; wife of Philip, Duke of Parma
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Marie Louise of France (1728–1733)
Marie Louise of France (28 July 1728 – 19 February 1733) was a French princess, a ''fille de France''. She was the daughter of King Louis XV and Queen Marie Leszczyńska.
Biography
Born at the Palace of Versailles, the third child of Louis ...
, daughter of Louis XV of France
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Countess Maria Louise Albertine of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg
Countess Maria Louise Albertine of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg (16 March 1729 – 11 March 1818); also known as ''Princess George'', was heiress to the barony of Broich and by marriage Princess of Hesse-Darmstadt. She was the grandmother an ...
(1729–1818), daughter of Count Christian Karl Reinhard of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg; wife of Prince George William of Hesse-Darmstadt
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Princess Marie Louise of Savoy
Princess is a title used by a female member of a regnant monarch's family or by a female ruler of a principality. The male equivalent is a prince (from Latin ''princeps'', meaning principal citizen). Most often, the term has been used for t ...
(1749–1792), daughter of Louis Victor, Prince of Carignano; wife of Louis Alexandre, Prince de Lamballe
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Marie Louise of Bourbon-Parma
Princess Maria Luisa of Bourbon-Parma (Marie Louise Pia Theresa Anna Ferdinanda Francisca Antoinette Margaret Josepha Carolina Blanche Lucia Apollonia; 17 January 1870 – 31 January 1899) was the eldest daughter of Robert I, Duke of Parma, Ro ...
(1751–1819), daughter of Philip, Duke of Parma; queen consort of Charles IV of Spain
* Marie-Louise Coidavid (1778–1851), Queen of the Kingdom of Haiti
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Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma
Marie Louise (Maria Ludovica Leopoldina Franziska Theresia Josepha Lucia; 12 December 1791 – 17 December 1847) was Duchess of Parma from 11 April 1814 until her death in 1847. She was Napoleon's second wife and as such Empress of the French a ...
(1791–1847), the second wife of Napoléon Bonaparte and Empress of the French
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Duchess Marie Louise of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Duchess Marie Louise of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (; 31 March 1803 – 26 October 1862) was the List of Saxon royal consorts, Duchess of Saxe-Altenburg. She was the daughter of Frederick Louis, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and Grand ...
(1803–1862), daughter of Frederick Louis of Mecklenburg-Schwerin; wife of Georg, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
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Princess Marie Luise Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel
Princess Marie Luise Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel (9 May 1814 – 28 July 1895) was a member of the Electorate of Hesse, House of Hesse-Kassel by birth. Through her marriage to Prince Frederick Augustus of Anhalt-Dessau, she became a princess of An ...
(1814–1895), daughter of Prince William of Hesse-Kassel; wife of Prince Frederick Augustus of Anhalt-Dessau
* Countess Marie Louise Larisch von Moennich (1858–1940), illegitimate daughter of Ludwig Wilhelm, Duke in Bavaria
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Princess Marie Louise of Bourbon-Parma
Princess Maria Luisa of Bourbon-Parma (Marie Louise Pia Theresa Anna Ferdinanda Francisca Antoinette Margaret Josepha Carolina Blanche Lucia Apollonia; 17 January 1870 – 31 January 1899) was the eldest daughter of Robert I, the last reigning ...
(1870–1899), daughter of Robert I, Duke of Parma; Princess Consort of Ferdinand I of Bulgaria
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Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein
Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein (Franziska Josepha Louise Augusta Marie Christina Helena; 12 August 1872 – 8 December 1956) was a granddaughter of Queen Victoria.
Early life
Princess Marie Louise was born at Cumberland Lodge in Wi ...
(1872–1956), daughter of Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein and Princess Helena of the United Kingdom; wife of Prince Aribert of Anhalt
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Princess Marie Louise of Hanover
Princess Marie Louise of Hanover and Cumberland (11 October 1879 – 31 January 1948) was the eldest child of Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover, and Princess Thyra of Denmark, the youngest daughter of Christian IX of Denmark and Louise ...
(1879–1948), daughter of Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover; wife of Prince Maximilian of Baden
* Princess Marie-Louise of Madagascar (1897–1948), last heir apparent and pretender to the throne of the Kingdom of Madagascar
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Princess Marie Louise of Bulgaria
Princess Marie Louise of Bulgaria (; born 13 January 1933) also known as Marie Louise Borisova Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, is the daughter of Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria, Boris III and Tsaritsa Giovanna of Italy, Ioanna and the older sister of Simeon II ...
(born 1933), daughter of Boris III of Bulgaria, wife of Prince Karl of Leiningen
Politics
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Marie Louise Berneri
Marie Louise Berneri (born Maria Luisa Berneri; 1 March 1918 – 13 April 1949) was an anarchist activist and author. Born in Italy, she spent much of her life in Spain, France, and England. She was involved with the short-lived publication, ' ...
(1918–1949), Italian activist and author
* Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin (1863-1952), Native American rights activist
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Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca
Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca, (born 7 December 1958) is a Maltese politician who served as President of Malta from 2014 to 2019. She has been president of Eurochild since 2019.
Previously, as a member of the Labour Party, Coleiro Preca was a M ...
(born 1958), former President of Malta
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Marie-Louise Correa
Marie-Louise Correa (born 26 November 1943 in Dakar) is a Senegalese politician, a doctor and former minister of the Senegalese government, who was elected in July 2002 as president of the World Scout Committee following the 36th World Scout Con ...
Marie-Louise Loubet
Marie-Louise Loubet (1843–1925) was the wife of the President of France Émile Loubet.
She was reportedly not interested in participating in representation but did so anyway, hosting garden parties and accompanying her spouse to the theatre ...
(1843–1925), wife of the President of France Émile Loubet
* Marie-Louise Mwange (born 1961), Congolese politician
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Marie-Rose Morel
Marie Rose Louise Constant Morel (26 August 1972 – 8 February 2011) was a Flemish-Belgian politician. She became a member of the Flemish Parliament for the far-right party Vlaams Belang in 2004, after leaving the New-Flemish Alliance. She made ...
Marie Louise Habets
Marie Louise Habets (January 1905 – May 1986) was a Belgian nurse and former religious sister whose life was fictionalised as Sister Luke (Gabrielle van der Mal) in ''The Nun's Story'', a bestselling 1956 book by American author Kathryn Hulme ...
Marie Louise Trichet
Marie Louise Trichet, also known as ''Marie-Louise de Jésus'' (1684–1759), was a French Catholic figure who, with Louis de Montfort, founded the Congregation of religious women called Daughters of Wisdom and since the age of seventeen devot ...
(1684–1759), French Catholic saint
* Marie-Louise Valade (1808–1861), Canadian Catholic nun
*Marie-Louise Martin (1860-1940), one of the daughters of
Louis Martin and Marie-Azélie Guérin
Louis Martin (22 August 1823 – 29 July 1894) and Azélie-Marie "Zélie" Guérin Martin (23 December 1831 – 28 August 1877) were a French Catholic couple and the parents of five nuns, including Thérèse of Lisieux, a Carmelite canonized b ...
who became a Carmelite nun
Science and engineering
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Marie-Louise Bauchot
Marie-Louise Bauchot (born 1928) is a French ichthyologist and assistant manager of the National Museum of Natural History, France.
Taxon described by her
*See :Taxa named by Marie-Louise Bauchot
Selected publications
Status of Abudefduf sexfasc ...
Marie Louise Marguerite Belèze
Marie Louise Marguerite Belèze (1851-1913), also credited as Marguerite Belèze, was a French botanist, taxonomist, and explorer. She collected extensive botanical collections, and is known for her work on the cryptogamic flora surrounding Paris ...
(1851-1913), French botanist
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Marie Louise Compernolle
Marie Louise Compernolle (1909–2005) was the first female Flemish chemical engineer.
Early life
Marie Louise Compernolle was born on 17 September 1909 in Assebroek, Flanders in Belgium to Hector Compernolle (1879-1960) and Marguerite De Smet ...
Marie-Louise von Franz
Marie-Louise von Franz (4 January 1915 – 17 February 1998) was a Swiss Jungian psychologist and scholar, known for her psychological interpretations of fairy tales and of alchemical manuscripts. She worked and collaborated with Carl Jung from ...
Marie-Louise Nosch
Marie-Louise Bech Nosch (January 1970 -; née Gregersen) is a Professor in the University of Copenhagen and an expert in the interdisciplinary study of prehistoric textiles. Her main research focus is on the evidence for textile production in Myc ...
Marie Louise Stig Sørensen
Marie Louise Stig Sørensen (born 1954) is a Danish archaeologist and academic. She is Emeritus Professor of European Prehistory and Heritage Studies at the University of Cambridge and Professor of Bronze Age Archaeology at the University of Leid ...
(born 1954), Danish archaeologist
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Marie-Louise Sjoestedt Marie-Louise Sjoestedt-Jonval (20 September 1900 – 26 December 1940) was a French linguist and literary scholar who specialized in Celtic studies, especially Irish mythology. Together with Joseph Loth, she was co-editor of '' Revue Celtique'' and ...
(1900–1940), French linguist and literary scholar
* Marie Louise Uhr (1923–2001), Australian biochemist
Marie-Louise Dräger
Marie-Louise Dräger (born 11 April 1981) is a German national representative rower who has represented over a twenty-year period from 1999 to 2019. She is a five-time world champion lightweight sculler who has won world championships titles in ...
(born 1981), German Olympic rower
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Marie-Louise Eta
Marie-Louise Eta (; born 7 July 1991) is a German former women's association football, footballer who played as a midfielder for Frauen-Bundesliga club SV Werder Bremen (women), Werder Bremen, among others. In 2023, after being appointed assista ...
(born 1991), German footballer
* Marie-Louise Hamrin (born 1957), Swedish long-distance runner
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Marie-Louise Horn
Marie-Luise "Marlies" Horn (15 March 1912 – 26 July 1991) was a German tennis player who was active in the 1930s.
Personal
Horn was born at Wiesbaden on 15 March 1912.Der Tennissport, November 1938
She married businessman Joachim Hinrich (190 ...
Marie-Louise Ledru Marie-Louise Ledru was a French athlete who has been credited as the first woman to race the now-defined marathon distance of 42.195 km. On 29 September 1918 Ledru reportedly completed the Tour de Paris Marathon in a time of 5 hours and 40 min ...
, French long-distance runner
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Marie-Louise Linssen-Vaessen
Marie-Louise Jean Joséphine Linssen-Vaessen (19 March 1928 – 15 February 1993) was a freestyle swimmer from the Netherlands
, Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean N ...
Marie Sirois
Marie Sirois (Septembre 2, 1865 – January 18, 1920), erroneously known as Marie-Louise,Martin, Gabriel, « Marie Sirois (1865-1920), femme la plus forte du monde », Montréal, Histoire Québec, 21 mars 2017, vol. 22, no 4, p. 21-25. was a Fren ...
(1865–1920), erroniously known as Marie Louise Sirois, French-Canadian strongwoman
* Marie Louise Steffensen (born 1996), Danish badminton player
Marie Louise Asseu
Marie Louise Asseu (November 21, 1966 – December 7, 2016) was an Ivorian actress, director and film producer, better known by her nickname Malou. In addition, she was also the founder of the Limale Festival of Cote d' Ivore.
Asseu also released ...
(1966–2016), Ivorian actress, director and film producer
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Marie Louise Anna Beaudet
Marie Louise Anna Beaudet (December 5, 1859 – December 31, 1947) was a Canadian actress, singer and dancer for more than 50 years, starred in stage productions ranging from comic opera to Shakespeare, as well as music-hall and vaudeville, a ...
Marie-Louise Bruyère
Marie-Louise Bruyère (6 October 1883 – ), mostly known as Madame Bruyère, was a French fashion designer of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, operating out of Paris and importing her fashion lines abroad.
Biography
Bruyère was born in France in 188 ...
Marie Louise Kold
Marie Louise Kold is an artist who works with the patination and etching of metals. She is Danish, born in Århus, Denmark in 1974, but lives and works in Sweden.
Her works vary from single squares of bronze, copper or brass, patterned and colo ...
(born 1974), Danish artist
* Marie-Louise Laleyan (1935–2014), American architect
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Marie-Louise von Motesiczky
Marie-Louise von Motesiczky (24 October 1906 – 10 June 1996) was an Austrian-born British painting, painter. She lived in Britain from 1939 onwards, and became a naturalised subject in 1948.
Early life
Marie-Louise von Motesiczky was bo ...
Marie-Louise Dissard
Marie-Louise Dissard, (6 November 1881 – July 1957) (code named "Françoise"), was a member of the French Resistance during the German occupation of France in World War II. She initially worked with the Pat O'Leary Line, a network which help ...
Marie-Louise Marchand-Thébault
Marie-Louise Marchand-Thébault (died 2007) was a French historian and archivist, graduated in 1953 from the École Nationale des Chartes.
Working on the records of French colonies, at Centre des Archives d'Outre-Mer in Aix-en-Provence (CAOM), s ...
Marie-Louise Meilland
Marie-Louise ("Louisette") Paolino Meilland (1920–1987) was a French rose breeder and co-owner of Meilland International in France. She was married to renowned rose breeder, Francis Meilland, who bred the world famous 'Peace' rose in the 1930 ...
(1920–1987), French rose breeder and business owner
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Marie-Louise Meilleur
Marie-Louise Fébronie Meilleur (; Chassé; August 29, 1880 – April 16, 1998) was a Canadian supercentenarian. She is the oldest validated Canadian ever and upon the death of longevity world record holder Jeanne Calment, became the world's ...
(1880–1998), the oldest validated Canadian ever
* Marie Louise Scudder Myrick (1854–1934), American newspaper owner
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Marie-Louise O'Murphy
Marie-Louise O'Murphy (; 21 October 1737 – 11 December 1814) was a French model who was the youngest lesser mistress (''petites maîtresses'') of King Louis XV of France, and the model for François Boucher's painting '' The Blonde Odalisque'' ...
(1737–1814), mistress of King Louis XV of France
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Marie-Louise Theile
Marie-Louise Theile (born 1966) is a former Australian news presenter. She presented '' Ten News at Five'' in Brisbane and Melbourne.
She is currently the Director of New Initiative - a niche branding, marketing and place making creative agency ...
Louise-Marie Louise-Marie or Louise Marie may refer to:
People
* Louise Marie de la Grange d'Arquien (1634-1728), daughter of Henri de la Grange d'Arquien and Françoise de La Châtre
* Louise Marie of the Palatinate (1647-1679), daughter of Edward, Count Pa ...
Joseph-Guillaume Barthe
Joseph-Guillaume Barthe (March 16, 1816 – August 4, 1893) was a lawyer, journalist, poet and political figure in Lower Canada and Canada East, Province of Canada (now Quebec). He served one term in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of ...