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
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Maureen Anderman (born 1946), American actress
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Maureen Arthur (1934–2022), American actress
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Maureen Beattie (born 1953), Scottish actress
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Dame Maureen Brennan (born 1954), British educator
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Maureen Chadwick, British screenwriter, dramatist and television producer
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Maureen Charuni (born 1963), Sri Lankan actress
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Maureen Child (born 1951), American writer
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Maureen Colquhoun (1928–2021), British politician
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Maureen Connolly (1934–1969), American tennis player
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Maureen Connor (born 1947), American artist
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Maureen Corrigan (born 1955), American author, scholar, and literary critic
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Maureen Cummins (born 1963), American artist
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Maureen Daly (1921–2006), Irish American author and journalist
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Maureen Dowd (born 1952), American journalist
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Maureen Drake (born 1971), Canadian tennis player
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Maureen Duffy (born 1933), British writer
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Maureen Fitzgerald Terry, American politician
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Maureen Forrester (1930–2010), Canadian opera singer
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Maureen Guy (1932–2015), Welsh mezzo-soprano singer
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Maureen Hanson, American molecular biologist and professor
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Maureen Hemphill (born 1937), Canadian politician
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Maureen Herman (born 1966), American rock musician
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Maureen Hingert (1937–2025), Sri Lankan dancer, model, and actress
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Maureen Howard (1930–2022), American writer and editor
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Maureen Hunter (born 1948), Canadian playwright
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Maureen Irwin (1934–2002), Canadian activist
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Maureen Johnson (born 1973), American writer
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Maureen Kearney (born 1956), Irish Syndicalism and whistleblower
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Maureen Larrazabal (born 1979), Filipina actress, singer and commercial model
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Maureen Lehane (1932–2010), English mezzo-soprano singer
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Dame Maureen Lipman (born 1946), British actress
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Maureen Louys (born 1978), Belgian television presenter
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Maureen Magarity (born 1981), American basketball coach
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Maureen Maher (born 1967), American television reporter
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Maureen McCormick (born 1956), American actress
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Maureen McGovern (born 1949), American singer
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Maureen McQuillan, American contemporary artist
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Maureen Medved, Canadian playwright
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Maureen Molloy (1925–2011), Australian pioneer of clinical neuropsychology, cognitive rehabilitation therapy and forensic neuropsychology
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Maureen Molloy (anthropologist), Canadian–New Zealand anthropologist
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Maureen Morris, New Zealand nurse
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Maureen Murphy (born 1999), American ice hockey player
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Maureen O'Boyle (born 1963), American television reporter and news anchor
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Maureen O'Brien (born 1943), English actress
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Maureen O'Hara (1920–2015), Irish actress
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Maureen Orth (born 1943), American journalist
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Maureen O'Sullivan (1911–1998), American actress
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Maureen Paley (born 1953), American owner of an art gallery
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Maureen Phillips, Trinidadian cricketer
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Maureen Pugh (born 1958), New Zealand politician
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Maureen Raymo (born 1959), American paleoclimatologist and marine geologist
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Maureen Reagan (1941–2001), American political activist and child of Ronald Reagan
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Maureen Riscoe (1921–2003), British actress and casting director
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Maureen Stapleton (1925–2006), American actress
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Maureen Starkey Tigrett (1946–1994), first wife of musician Ringo Starr
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Maureen Swanson (1932–2011), British actress
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Maureen Tucker (born 1944), American drummer
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Maureen Watson (1931–2009), Aboriginal Australian rights activist
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Maureen Thelma Watson (1925–1994), Rhodesian politician
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Maureen Wroblewitz (born 1998), Filipino-German fashion model
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Maureen White, Canadian theatre actor, director, and playwright
Maurene
Fictional characters
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Maureen Bullock, a character in the British sitcom Please Sir!
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Maureen Clinton, aka Mo, a character in the British children’s series Sooty & Co.
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Maureen Connor, aka Permafrost, a character from Static Shock
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Maureen Corley, a character in Full Throttle
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Maureen Holdsworth, a character in Coronation Street
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Maureen Johnson, a character in the musical and film Rent
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Maureen Johnson, a character in novels by Robert Heinlein
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Maureen Murphy, a character in the Netflix series F is for Family
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Maureen Prescott, Sidney Prescott’s mother in the Scream saga
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Maureen Robinson, mother of the Robinson family in Lost in Space
See also
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Maureen (disambiguation)
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Maurine (disambiguation)