Maude (name)

Maude is a surname, and also a feminine given name, and may refer to:

People

  • Empress Matilda (1101–1167), also called Empress Maud or Maude, first female ruler of England, mother of Henry II

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  • Maude Adams (1872–1953), American actress
  • Maude Allen (1879–1956), American character actress
  • Maude Brown Dawson (1874–1946), wife of former Governor of West Virginia William M. O. Dawson and served as that state's First Lady, 1909-1913
  • Maude Cary (1878–1967), Christian American missionary to North Africa, specifically Morocco
  • Maude Duncan, an American newspaperwoman and a former mayor of Winslow, Arkansas
  • Maude Eburne (1875–1960), Canadian character actress of stage and screen, known for playing eccentric roles
  • Maude Farris-Luse (1887–2002), American supercentenarian
  • Maude Fay (1878–1964), American operatic soprano who was known for singing dramatic roles
  • Maude Fealy (1883–1971), American stage and film actress
  • Maude Frazier (1881–1963), American politician from Nevada
  • Maude Fulton (1881–1950), Broadway stage actress who later became a Hollywood screenwriter
  • Maude Garrett (born 1986), Australian broadcater
  • Maude George (1888–1963), American actress of the silent era
  • Maude Kaufman Eggemeyer (1877–1959), early 20th Century painter associated with the Richmond Group of artists in Richmond, Indiana
  • Maude Kegg (1904–1996), Ojibwa writer, folk artist, and cultural interpreter
  • Maude Kerns (1876–1965), American artist
  • Maude Lloyd (1908–2004), South African ballerina and dance critic
  • Maude Meagher (1895–1977), novelist, author of Fantastic Traveller
  • Maude Nugent (1877–1958), American songwriter
  • Maude Robinson (1859–1950), Quaker writer of short stories
  • Maude Royden (1876–1956), British preacher and suffragist
  • Maude Storey (1930–2003), British nurse, nursing administrator and writer, as well as President of the Royal College of Nursing from 1988 to 1990
  • Maude Turner Gordon (1868–1940), American actress
  • Maude C. Waitt, American politician, former member of the Ohio Senate
  • Maude Valérie White (1855–1937), French-born English composer

Characters

  • Maude Findlay, a fictional character on the controversial 1970s sitcom Maude
  • Maude Flanders, a fictional character from The Simpsons
  • Maude Frickett, a fictional character from the repertoire of comedian Jonathan Winters
  • Maude Lebowski, a fictional character played by Julianne Moore in the 1998 film "The Big Lebowski"
  • Dame Marjorie "Maude" Chardin, a fictional character in the 1971 film Harold and Maude
gollark: - It's important to me that women aren't forced to have children they don't want or may not be able to take care of.- which is why I support mandatory sterilization for all - children would be grown in vats and raised by the government instead.
gollark: - I support the right to privacy!- In light of governments' large-scale mass surveillance campaigns which they do not seem inclined to stop, I would support an open and transparent volunteer spying agency using open source software and hardware to gather and process data in order to act as a competitor.
gollark: These are hard...
gollark: - which is why I think all government workers should be randomly selected, similarly to jury duty
gollark: - which is why I think anyone in government who makes a mistake of any kind should be immediately fired

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