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Script error: No such module "other uses". Maureen Template:IPAc-en is a female name, the female form of the male name Maurice. 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
- Maureen Anderman (born 1946), American actress
- Maureen Arthur (1934–2022), American actress
- Maureen Beattie (born 1953), Scottish actress
- Dame Maureen Brennan (born 1954), British educator
- Maureen Child (born 1951), American writer
- Maureen Connolly (1934–1969), American tennis player
- Maureen Cummins (born 1963), American artist
- Maureen Dowd (born 1952), American journalist
- Maureen Drake (born 1971), Canadian tennis player
- Maureen Duffy (born 1933), British writer
- Maureen Fitzgerald Terry, American politician
- Maureen Forrester (1930–2010), Canadian opera singer
- Maureen Guy (1932–2015), Welsh mezzo-soprano singer
- Maureen Hemphill (born 1937), Canadian politician
- Maureen Herman (born 1966), American rock musician
- Maureen Hingert (1937–2025), Sri Lankan dancer, model, and actress
- Maureen Hunter (born 1948), Canadian playwright
- Maureen Irwin (1934–2002), Canadian activist
- Maureen Johnson (born 1973), American writer
- Dame Maureen Lipman (born 1946), British actress
- Maureen Louys (born 1978), Belgian television presenter
- Maureen Maher, American television reporter
- Maureen McCormick (born 1956), American actress
- Maureen McGovern (born 1949), American singer
- Maureen McQuillan, American contemporary artist
- Maureen Medved, Canadian playwright
- Maureen Molloy (1925–2011), Australian pioneer of clinical neuropsychology, cognitive rehabilitation therapy and forensic neuropsychology
- Maureen Molloy (anthropologist), Canadian–New Zealand anthropologist
- Maureen Morris, New Zealand nurse
- Maureen O'Boyle (born 1963), American television reporter and news anchor
- Maureen O'Hara (1920–2015), Irish actress
- Maureen O'Sullivan (1911–1998), American actress
- Maureen Phillips, Trinidadian cricketer
- Maureen Riscoe (1921–2003), British actress and casting director
- Maureen Stapleton (1925–2006), American actress
- Maureen Starkey Tigrett (1946–1994), first wife of musician Ringo Starr
- Maureen Tucker (born 1944), American drummer
- Maureen Thelma Watson (1925–1994), Rhodesian politician
- Maureen Wroblewitz (born 1998), Filipino-German fashion model
- Maureen White, Canadian theatre actor, director, and playwright
Fictional characters
- Maureen Bullock, a character in the British sitcom Please Sir!
- Maureen Clinton, aka Mo, a character in the British children’s series Sooty & Co.
- Maureen Connor, aka Permafrost, a character from Static Shock
- Maureen Corley, a character in Full Throttle
- Maureen Johnson, a character in the musical and film Rent
- Maureen Johnson, a character in novels by Robert Heinlein
- Maureen Murphy, a character in the Netflix series F is for Family
- Maureen Prescott, Sidney Prescott’s mother in the Scream saga
- Maureen Robinson, mother of the Robinson family in Lost in Space