Maureen

Maureen is a female name. In Gaelic, it is Máirín, a pet form of Máire (the Irish cognate of Mary), which is derived from the Hebrew Miriam.

Some notable bearers of the name are:

People

• Maureen Anderman (born 1946), American actress
• Maureen Arthur (1934–2022), American actress
• Maureen Beattie (born 1953), Scottish actress
• Dame Maureen Brennan (born 1954), British educator
• Maureen Chadwick, British screenwriter, dramatist and television producer
• Maureen Charuni (born 1963), Sri Lankan actress
• Maureen Child (born 1951), American writer
• Maureen Colquhoun (1928–2021), British politician
• Maureen Connolly (1934–1969), American tennis player
• Maureen Connor (born 1947), American artist
• Maureen Corrigan (born 1955), American author, scholar, and literary critic
• Maureen Cummins (born 1963), American artist
• Maureen Daly (1921–2006), Irish American author and journalist
• Maureen Dowd (born 1952), American journalist
• Maureen Drake (born 1971), Canadian tennis player
• Maureen Duffy (born 1933), British writer
• Maureen Fitzgerald Terry, American politician
• Maureen Forrester (1930–2010), Canadian opera singer
• Maureen Guy (1932–2015), Welsh mezzo-soprano singer
• Maureen Hanson, American molecular biologist and professor
• Maureen Hemphill (born 1937), Canadian politician
• Maureen Herman (born 1966), American rock musician
• Maureen Hingert (1937–2025), Sri Lankan dancer, model, and actress
• Maureen Howard (1930–2022), American writer and editor
• Maureen Hunter (born 1948), Canadian playwright
• Maureen Irwin (1934–2002), Canadian activist
• Maureen Johnson (born 1973), American writer
• Maureen Kearney (born 1956), Irish syndicalist and whistleblower
• Maureen Larrazabal (born 1979), Filipina actress, singer and commercial model
• Maureen Lehane (1932–2010), English mezzo-soprano singer
• Dame Maureen Lipman (born 1946), British actress
• Maureen Louys (born 1978), Belgian television presenter
• Maureen Magarity (born 1981), American basketball coach
• Maureen Maher (born 1967), American television reporter
• Maureen McCormick (born 1956), American actress
• Maureen McGovern (born 1949), American singer
• Maureen McQuillan, American contemporary artist
• Maureen Medved, Canadian playwright
• Maureen Molloy (1925–2011), Australian pioneer of clinical neuropsychology, cognitive rehabilitation therapy and forensic neuropsychology
• Maureen Molloy (anthropologist), Canadian–New Zealand anthropologist
• Maureen Morris, New Zealand nurse
• Maureen Murphy (born 1999), American ice hockey player
• Maureen O'Boyle (born 1963), American television reporter and news anchor
• Maureen O'Brien (born 1943), English actress
• Maureen O'Hara (1920–2015), Irish actress
• Maureen Orth (born 1943), American journalist
• Maureen O'Sullivan (1911–1998), American actress
• Maureen Paley (born 1953), American owner of an art gallery
• Maureen Phillips, Trinidadian cricketer
• Maureen Pugh (born 1958), New Zealand politician
• Maureen Raymo (born 1959), American paleoclimatologist and marine geologist
• Maureen Reagan (1941–2001), American political activist and child of Ronald Reagan
• Maureen Riscoe (1921–2003), British actress and casting director
• Maureen Stapleton (1925–2006), American actress
• Maureen Starkey Tigrett (1946–1994), first wife of musician Ringo Starr
• Maureen Swanson (1932–2011), British actress
• Maureen Tucker (born 1944), American drummer
• Maureen Watson (1931–2009), Aboriginal Australian rights activist
• Maureen Thelma Watson (1925–1994), Rhodesian politician
• Maureen Wroblewitz (born 1998), Filipino-German fashion model
• Maureen White, Canadian theatre actor, director, and playwright

Maurene

• Maurene Comey (born 1988), American lawyer
• Maurene Goo, American author
• Maurene Horder (born 1950), Australian politician

Fictional characters

• Maureen Bullock, a character in the British sitcom Please Sir!
• Maureen Clinton, aka Mo, a character in the British children’s series Sooty & Co.
• Maureen Connor, aka Permafrost, a character from Static Shock
• Maureen Corley, a character in Full Throttle
• Maureen Holdsworth, a character in Coronation Street
• Maureen Johnson, a character in the musical and film Rent
• Maureen Johnson, a character in novels by Robert Heinlein
• Maureen Murphy, a character in the Netflix series F is for Family
• Maureen Prescott, Sidney Prescott’s mother in the Scream saga
• Maureen Robinson, mother of the Robinson family in Lost in Space

See also

• Maureen (disambiguation)
• Maurine (disambiguation)