Mary Ward may refer to:
Scientists and academics
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Mary Ward (nurse) (1884–1972) English nurse to the boat people on the waterways
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Mary Ward (scientist)
Mary Ward (''née'' King; 27 April 1827 – 31 August 1869) was an Irish naturalist, astronomer, microscopist, author, and artist. She was killed when she fell under the wheels of an experimental steam car built by her cousins. As the event occ ...
(née King, 1827–1869) Irish amateur scientist, was killed by an experimental steam car
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Mary Alice Ward (1896–1972), Australian teacher and pastoralist
Writers
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Mary Ward (suffragist) (1851–1933) Irish-born Cambridge based Women's activist. lecturer and writer
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Mary Augusta Ward
Mary Augusta Ward (''née'' Arnold; 11 June 1851 – 24 March 1920) was a British novelist who wrote under her married name as Mrs Humphry Ward.
She worked to improve education for the poor and she became the founding President of the Women' ...
(1851–1920), British activist and novelist, known by her married name of Mrs Humphry Ward
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Mary Ward Centre
The Mary Ward Adult Education Centre is part of the Mary Ward Settlement, in Queen Square, London.
History
The centre was founded by Mary Augusta Ward, a Victorian novelist and founding president of the Women's National Anti-Suffrage League, be ...
, an adult education college located in London named for the above Mary Augusta Ward
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Mary Jane Ward
Mary Jane Ward (August 27, 1905 in Fairmount, Indiana—February 17, 1981, in Tucson, Arizona) was an American novelist whose semi-autobiographical book ''The Snake Pit'' was made into an Oscar-winning film.
Works
Ward authored eight books duri ...
(1905–1981), American novelist
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Mary Ward Brown (1917–2013), American writer
Entertainers
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Mary Ward (actress)
Mary Lorraine WardThe Illustrated Encyclopedia of Australian Showbiz (6 March 1915 – 19 July 2021), also known as Mary Ward Breheny, was an Australian actress of stage, television, and film, and a radio announcer and performer and commercial ...
(1915–2021), Australian actress and radio broadcaster
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Mary Mae Ward
Mary Mae Ward (maiden name Courtnee; previously Powers) is a fictional character from the ABC soap opera '' General Hospital'' from 1994–1995. Introduced as a grandmother character running an orphanage, it was revealed through backstory that ...
, a fictional character on the American ABC TV serial ''General Hospital'', played by Rosalind Cash
Other
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Mary Ward (nun)
Mary Ward, (I.B.V.M.) (23 January 1585 – 30 January 1645), was an English Catholic nun whose activities led to the founding of the Congregation of Jesus and the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary, less well known as the Sisters of Loreto. T ...
(1585-1645), English Catholic nun who founded the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary
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Mary Ward Catholic Secondary School
Mary Ward Catholic Secondary School (abbreviated Mary Ward C.S.S., MWCSS, MW, Mary Ward, or simply Ward) is a Catholic secondary school in Toronto Ontario, Canada. It is administered by the Toronto Catholic District School Board, formerly the Me ...
, an educational college in Scarborough, Canada, named for the English Catholic nun
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''Mary Ward'' (book), a biography of the nun Mary Ward by Ida Friederike Görres
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''Mary Ward'' (ship), a passenger and cargo steamer built in Montreal, Canada in 1865, wrecked in a storm in 1872
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