Máel Muire or Máelmuire or Maolmhuire is an Irish unisex name meaning "devotee of

Mary Mary may refer to: People * Mary (name), a female given name (includes a list of people with the name) Religion * New Testament people named Mary, overview article linking to many of those below * Mary, mother of Jesus, also called the Blesse ...

". It was often Anglicized as

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, Miler,

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, or Myles. Notable people with the name include:

Men

Máel Muire (bishop of the Scots) Máel Muire is the fifth alleged bishop of St Andrews, though at that period the bishop of the Scots did not necessarily have one episcopal seat. He is mentioned in the bishop-list of the 15th-century historian Walter Bower as the successor of Ce ...

, possible 10th-century bishop of Cennrígmonaid, modern-day St Andrews *

Máel Muire mac Céilechair Máel Muire ("servant of Mary") mac Céilechair (died 1106) was an Irish cleric of the monastery of Clonmacnoise, County Offaly, and one of the principal scribes of the manuscript ''Lebor na hUidre''. He came from a prominent clerical family wi ...

(died 1106), Irish cleric and scribe at the monastery of Clonmacnoise *

Máel Muire, Earl of Atholl Máel Muire of Atholl was Mormaer of Atholl at the beginning of the 12th century, until sometime perhaps in the 1130s. According to the Orkneyinga Saga, Máel Muire was a son of king Donnchad I and a younger brother of King Máel Coluim III. A ...

, early 12th century Scot ruler * Maolmhuire Mag Raith (c. 1523 – 1622), Irish prelate also known by the Anglicized name Miler or Miles Magrath

Women

* Máel Muire ingen Cináeda, daughter of

Kenneth MacAlpin Kenneth MacAlpin (; ; 810 – 13 February 858) or Kenneth I was King of Dál Riada (841–850), and King of the Picts (848–858), of likely Gaelic origin. According to the traditional account, he inherited the throne of Dál Riada from his fa ...

and wife of two Irish kings, died 913 * Máel Muire ingen Neill, died 966 * Máel Muire bean Flainn, fl. late 9th century * Máel Muire ingen Amlaíb, Queen of Ireland, died 1021

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