Mamie

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Mamie or Maimie is a feminine given name and nickname (often of Mary) which may refer to:

Given name[edit]

  • Mamie Claflin (1867-1929), American temperance and suffrage leader
  • Mamie Clark (1917–1983), African-American psychologist
  • Mamie Eisenhower (1896–1979), wife of President Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Mamie Johnson (1935–2017), first female pitcher in the Negro leagues
  • Mamie Locke (born 1954), Democratic member of the Virginia Senate
  • Maimie McCoy, English actress
  • Mamie Smith (1883–1946), American vaudeville singer, dancer, pianist and actress
  • Mamie Thurman (1901–1932), American murder victim
  • Mamie Till (1921–2003) African-American educator and civil rights activist, mother of teenage lynching victim Emmett Till
  • Mamie Van Doren, American actress and sex symbol born Joan Lucille Olander (born 1931)
  • Mamie Jones, pseudonym of American singer Aileen Stanley (1897–1982)

Nickname[edit]

Fictional characters[edit]

  • Mamie Dubcek, on the American sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun
  • Maimie Flanagan, in the play The Field by John B. Keane
  • Mamie Johnson, on the American soap opera The Young and the Restless
  • Maimie Mannering, a love interest of Peter Pan, considered the literary predecessor of Wendy Darling
  • the title character of The Revolt of Mamie Stover, a 1951 novel by William Bradford Huie
  • Miss Mamie Baldwin, on the 1970s television series The Waltons

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