Mary McCarthy may refer to:

The arts

* Mary Downing (1815–1881), Irish poet born Mary McCarthy * Mary Stanislaus MacCarthy (1849–1897), Irish poet and nun *

Mary MacCarthy Mary, Lady MacCarthy (August 1882 – 29 December 1953) was a British writer; known for her involvement in the "Bloomsbury Group", and commonly called Molly. She was born Mary Warre-Cornish in Lynton, Devon; the daughter of schoolmaster and m ...

(1882–1953), English writer and member of the Bloomsbury Group *

Mary Eunice McCarthy Mary Eunice McCarthy (March 4, 1899 – August 7, 1969) was an American screenwriter, playwright, journalist and author, perhaps best known today as the screenwriter of, and driving force behind, the biopic ''Sister Kenny'' (1946).Cohn, Victor ( ...

(1899–1969), American screenwriter, playwright, and journalist *

Mary McCarthy (author) Mary Therese McCarthy (June 21, 1912 – October 25, 1989) was an American novelist, critic and political activist, best known for her novel ''The Group'', her marriage to critic Edmund Wilson, and her storied feud with playwright Lillian Hellm ...

(1912–1989), American novelist, critic, and memoirist *

Mary McCarthy (screenwriter) Mary McCarthy (not to be confused with another screenwriter—Mary Eunice McCarthy) was an American screenwriter active in the 1930s and 1940s.

, American, screenwriter for movies ''Theodora Goes Wild'' (1936) and ''Sister Kenny'' (1946) * Mary McCarthy (fiction writer) (1951–2013), Irish novelist, teacher, book reviewer

Other

Mary McCarthy (activist) Mary Ann Recknall McCarthy (11 August 1866 – 13 October 1933) was a New Zealand teacher, temperance worker and political activist. She was born in Dunedin Dunedin ( ; mi, Ōtepoti) is the second-largest city in the South Island of New ...

(1866–1933), New Zealand temperance advocate and teacher *

Mary McCarthy Gomez Cueto Mary McCarthy Gomez Cueto (April 27, 1900 – April 3, 2009) was the widow of a wealthy Cuban businessman who died in poverty, unwilling to leave the island and unable to access her funds because of the US embargo on trade with Cuba. After her h ...

(1900–2009), wealthy Canadian expatriate who lived an impoverished life in Havana * Mary McCarthy (police officer) (1903–1978), Australian police officer *

Mary McCarthy (CIA) Mary O'Neil McCarthy (born 1945) is a former United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee who last worked in the Office of the Inspector General. In her career, she was an intelligence analyst and national intelligence officer for war ...

(born 1945), former CIA employee accused of leaking information * Mary Ann McCarthy, Irish orphan who fatally stabbed her husband {{hndis, Maccarthy, Mary