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Mary Denise Rand, MBE (née Bignal; born 10 February 1940) is a British former track and field athlete. She won the long jump at the 1964 Summer Olympics by breaking the world record, the first British female to win an Olympic gold medal in track and field.
USS Congress was a nominally rated 38-gun wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy frigate launched on 15 August 1799. She was one of the original six frigates of the newly formed United States Navy and, along with her sister ships, was larger and more heavily armed than standard frigates of the period.
Mary English may refer to: Mary English (Anglo-Colombian) (1789–1846), Anglo-Colombian adventurer, landowner, trade representative, farmer and businesswoman;
Mary Courthope English (22 March 1789 – 30 September 1846), also commonly remembered as Mary Ballard, Mary Greenup and the Belle of Bogota, was an Anglo-Colombian adventurer, landowner, trade representative, farmer and businesswoman in Colombia. [1] Her personality and connections gave her financial and political agency in Colombia and Britain.
Mary Phyllis English (10 April 1919 – 11 October 2009) was a British mycologist and historian. Her first career was in medical mycology , researching fungal infections such as tinea pedis (Athlete's foot) as well as zoonotic fungal transmissions.
Mary Randolph (August 9, 1762 – January 23, 1828) was a Southern American cook and author, known for writing The Virginia House-Wife; Or, Methodical Cook (1824), [1] one of the most influential housekeeping and cook books of the 19th century.
Mary Stanley Low (14 May 1912 – 9 January 2007) was a British-Cuban political activist, Trotskyist, surrealist poet, artist and Latin teacher. [1] She is most known for the book Red Spanish Notebook: the first six months of revolution and the civil war .
Mary Fischer (née Gainsborough; 31 January 1750 – 2 July 1826) was the eldest daughter of English painter Thomas Gainsborough and his wife, Margaret Burr. She suffered from a mental disorder and was prone to fits of mental aberrations.