Marie-Claire is a

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 fa ...

. It is a combination of the names

Marie Marie may refer to: People Name * Marie (given name) * Marie (Japanese given name) * Marie (murder victim), girl who was killed in Florida after being pushed in front of a moving vehicle in 1973 * Marie (died 1759), an enslaved Cree person in Tro ...

and

Claire Clair or Claire may refer to: *Claire (given name), a list of people with the name Claire *Clair (surname) Places Canada * Clair, New Brunswick, a former village, now part of Haut-Madawaska * Clair Parish, New Brunswick * Pointe-Claire, Que ...

, which are both of

French French (french: français(e), link=no) may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to France ** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents ** French people, a nation and ethnic group identified with Franc ...

origin. It may refer to: *

Marie-Claire Alain Marie-Claire Geneviève Alain-Gommier (10 August 1926 – 26 February 2013) was a French organist, scholar and teacher best known for her prolific recording career, with 260 recordings, making her the most-recorded classical organist in the world ...

(1926–2013), organist and organ teacher *

Marie-Claire Baldenweg Marie-Claire Baldenweg (born 27 March 1954) is a Swiss-Australian contemporary artist. Life and work Marie-Claire Baldenweg was born in Switzerland. Since the early seventies almost all of her oil paintings feature the motif of a plastic shopp ...

(born 1954), contemporary artist *

Marie-Claire Blais Marie-Claire Blais (5 October 1939 – 30 November 2021) was a Canadian writer, novelist, poet, and playwright from the province of Québec. In a career spanning seventy years, she wrote novels, plays, collections of poetry and fiction, newspa ...

(1939–2021), author and playwright *Marie-Claire Cremers, better known as

Amber Amber is fossilized tree resin that has been appreciated for its color and natural beauty since Neolithic times. Much valued from antiquity to the present as a gemstone, amber is made into a variety of decorative objects."Amber" (2004). In Ma ...

(born 1970), Dutch-German singer-songwriter *

Marie-Claire D'Ubaldo Marie Claire D'Ubaldo is an Argentine singer / musician and a prolific songwriter; she has appeared as a guest vocalist on many albums. She had her biggest success with "Falling Into You" which was covered by Celine Dion, who also named her alb ...

, singer *

Marie-Claire Foblets Marie-Claire, Baroness Foblets is a Belgian lawyer and anthropologist, who is currently Director of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology and Professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Her research interests are interculturalism, ...

, Belgian lawyer and anthropologist *

Marie-Claire Houart Marie-Claire Houard is a Belgian civil servant from the city of Liège committed to preserving the unity of Belgium amidst the ongoing political crisis. She organized a protest march of 35,000 on 18 November 2007 and her petition supporting Belgia ...

, civil servant *

Marie-Claire Heureuse Félicité Empress Marie-Claire Heureuse Félicité Bonheur, Empress of Hayti (1758 – 8 August 1858) was the Empress of Haiti (1804–1806) as the spouse of Jean-Jacques Dessalines. Background She was born in Léogâne to a poor but free family ...

(1758–1858), Empress of Haiti *

Marie-Claire Kirkland Marie-Claire Kirkland-Casgrain, (September 8, 1924 – March 24, 2016) was a Quebec lawyer, judge and politician. She was the first woman elected to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec, the first woman appointed a Cabinet minister in Quebec, t ...

(1924–2016), judge and politician *

Marie-Claire Restoux Marie-Claire Restoux (born 9 April 1968 in La Rochefoucauld, Charente) is a French judoka, world champion and Olympic champion. She won a gold medal in the ''half lightweight division'' at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.

(born 1968), judoka *

Marie-Claire Schanne-Klein Marie-Claire Schanne-Klein is a French physicist who is a professor at the French National Centre for Scientific Research. She is based in the Laboratory for Optics and Biosciences, where she studies the nonlinear optics of chiral molecules. E ...

, French physicist *the ''nom de guerre'' of

Mary Lindell Gertrude Mary Lindell (11 September 1895 – 8 January 1987), Comtesse de Milleville, code named Marie-Claire and Comtesse de Moncy, was an English woman, a front-line nurse in World War I and a member of the French Resistance in World War II. S ...

, Comtesse de Milleville, a prominent resistance agent in Nazi-occupied France

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