Mary is a female given name which has various meanings. It was consistently popular in the United States for several decades during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Mary remains in the top 100 names for girls in Ireland. Other forms of the name are Maria (Latin) and Marie (French). Mary is also popular name for main, supporting, and minor characters in Dear America and its spin-offs. The following girls share the name Mary:
- Mary I, the Queen of England from 1553 to 1558 and daughter of Catherine of Aragon and Henry VIII.
- Mary, Queen of Scots, also known as Mary Stuart, was the Queen of Scotland. She is the heroine of Mary, Queen of Scots: Queen Without a Country.
- Mary Driscoll is the main character of Barry Denenberg's So Far from Home.
- Mary Kobayashi, a Japanese-Canadian girl whom is the heroine of Susan Aihoshi's Torn Apart.
- Mary Pope Osborne, author of Standing in the Light and My Secret War in Dear America as well as three My America books.
- Mary MacDonald, the heroine of With Nothing But Our Courage by Karleen Bradford.
- Mary Prince, heroine of the eponymous book Mary Prince.
- Mary Rodgers, usually known as Polly, is the heroine of Land of the Buffalo Bones.
- Mary Talence is the lead character of the My Australian Story book, Who Am I?
- Mary Wade, a convict girl and the main character of No Way Back.
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- Marie Antoinette was the Queen of France. Her name is the French form of Mary, while she was "Maria" (Latin form) in her homeland of Austria.