Marjory is a female given name, a variant spelling of
Margery or
Marjorie
Marjorie is a female given name derived from Margaret (name), Margaret, which means pearl. It can also be spelled as Margery (name), Margery, Marjory or Margaery. Marjorie is a medieval variant of Margery, influenced by the name of the herb marjor ...
. It is sometimes shortened to
Marj
Marj (, , "The Meadows"), El Merj in Benghazi and Egyptian Arabic, is a city in northeastern Libya and the administrative seat of the Marj District. It lies in an upland valley separated from the Mediterranean Sea by a range of hills, part of th ...
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Notable people with the name include:
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Marjory Allen, Baroness Allen of Hurtwood (1897–1976), English landscape architect and promoter of child welfare
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Marjery Bryce (1891–1973), British suffragette and actor
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Marjory Cobbe, English midwife granted a pension in 1469 for attending the wife of King Edward IV
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Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Marjory Stoneman Douglas (April 7, 1890 – May 14, 1998) was an American journalist, author, women's suffrage advocate, and conservationist known for her staunch defense of the Everglades against efforts to drain it and reclaim land for d ...
(1890–1998), American journalist, writer, feminist and environmentalist
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Marjory Gengler (born 1951), American tennis player
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Marjory Gordon Marjory Gordon (Cleveland, November 10, 1931 – Massachusetts, April 29, 2015) was a nursing theorist and professor who created a nursing assessment theory known as Gordon's functional health patterns. Gordon served in 1973 as the first presid ...
(1931–2015), emeritus professor of nursing at Boston College
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Marjory Kennedy-Fraser
Marjory Kennedy-Fraser (1 October 1857 – 22 November 1930) was a Scottish singer, composer and music teacher and supporter of women's suffrage and pacifism. According to Ray Perman, Kennedy-Fraser "made a career of collecting Scottish Gaelic ...
(1857–1930), Scottish singer, composer and arranger
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Marjory LeBreton (born 1940), leader of the Government in the Canadian Senate
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Marjory Mecklenburg (born 1935), American government administrator and activist opposed to legal abortion
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Marjory Mills (1896–1987), New Zealand embroiderer and businesswoman
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Marjory Newbold
Marjory Newbold (25 May 1883 – 15 November 1926) was a leading Scottish socialist and communist, prominent in the Independent Labour Party and in the 'Red Clydeside' movement demanding reforms for the working class. Newbold organised pacifist a ...
(1883–1926), Scottish socialist and communist
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Marjory Saunders (1913–2010), Canadian archer
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Marjory Shedd (1926–2008), Canadian badminton player
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Marjory Stephenson
Marjory Stephenson (24 January 1885 – 12 December 1948) was a British biochemist. In 1945, she was one of the first two women elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, the other being Kathleen Lonsdale.
She wrote ''Bacterial Metabolism'' (1930 ...
(1885–1948), British biochemist
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Marjory Wardrop
Marjory Scott Wardrop (11 November 1869 – 7 December 1909) was an English scholar and translator of Georgia (country), Georgian literature. She was a sister of the United Kingdom, British diplomat and scholar of Georgia, Oliver Wardrop, Sir Ol ...
(1869–1909), English scholar and translator of Georgian literature
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