Maureen

Maureen is a female name, the female form of the male given name Maurice. 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
 * Dame Maureen Brennan (born 1954), British educator
 * Maureen Connolly (1934–1969), American tennis player
 * 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 Hemphill (born 1937), Canadian politician
 * Maureen Herman (born 1966), American rock musician
 * Maureen Hingert (born 1937), Sri Lankan dancer, model, and actress
 * Maureen Hunter (born 1948), Canadian playwright
 * Maureen Johnson (born 1973), American writer
 * Dame Maureen Lipman (born 1946), British actress
 * Maureen Louys (born 1978), Belgian television presenter
 * Maureen Maher, American television reporter
 * Maureen McCormick (born 1956), American actress
 * Maureen McGovern (born 1949), American singer
 * Maureen Medved, Canadian playwright
 * Maureen O'Boyle (born 1963), American television reporter and news anchor
 * Maureen O'Hara (1920–2015), Irish actress
 * Maureen O'Sullivan (1911–1998), American actress
 * Maureen Phillips, Trinidadian cricketer
 * 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 Tucker (born 1944), American drummer
 * Maureen Thelma Watson (1925–1994), Rhodesian politician
 * Maureen Wroblewitz (born 1998), Filipino-German fashion model
 * Maureen White, Canadian theatre actor, director, and playwright

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 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 Robinson, mother of the Robinson family in Lost in Space