Mary Ward Explained

Mary Ward may refer to:

Scientists and academics

• Mary Ward (nurse) (1884–1972) English nurse to the boat people on the waterways
• Mary Ward (scientist) (née King, 1827–1869) Irish amateur scientist, was killed by an experimental steam car
• Mary Alice Ward (1896–1972), Australian teacher and pastoralist

Writers

• Mary Ward (suffragist) (1851–1933) Irish-born Cambridge based Women's activist. lecturer and writer
• Mary Augusta Ward (1851–1920), British activist and novelist, known by her married name of Mrs Humphry Ward
• Mary Behrendsen Ward (1894–1985), American poet and fiction writer
  • Mary Ward Centre, an adult education college located in London named for the above Mary Augusta Ward
• Mary Jane Ward (1905–1981), American novelist
• Mary Ward Brown (1917–2013), American writer

Entertainers

• Mary Ward (actress) (1915–2021), Australian actress and radio broadcaster
• Mary Mae Ward, a fictional character on the American ABC TV serial General Hospital, played by Rosalind Cash

Other

• Mary Ward (nun) (1585-1645), English Catholic nun who founded the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary
  • Mary Ward Catholic Secondary School, an educational college in Scarborough, Canada, named for the English Catholic nun
• Mary Ward (book), a biography of the nun Mary Ward by Ida Friederike Görres
• Mary Ward (ship), a passenger and cargo steamer built in Montreal, Canada in 1865, wrecked in a storm in 1872