# Mary Lou (name)

Mary Lou, Mary-Lou, Marylou or Marilou is a feminine given name. It is a combination of the names Mary and Lou.
Notable people and fictional characters with this name include:

## People
### Arts and entertainment

* Marilou (singer) (Marilou Bourdon, born 1990), French-Canadian pop singer and cookbook author
* Marilou Awiakta (born 1936), American poet
* Mary Lou Belli (fl. 1984–present), American television director and author
* Marilou Berry (born 1983), French actress, film director and screenwriter
* Marylou Dawes (1933–2013), Canadian concert pianist
* Marilou Diaz-Abaya (1955–2012), Filipino film director
* Mary Lou Fallis (born 1948), Canadian opera singer
* Mary Lou Farrell (1942–2011), Canadian singer, actress and beauty queen
* Mary Lou Kolbenschlag (born 1992), American actress - see Mary Lou (actress)
* Mary Lou Lord (born 1965), American indie folk musician and busker
* Mary Lou Metzger (born 1950), American singer and dancer
* Mary Lou Turner (born 1947), American country music singer
* Mary Lou Williams (1910–1981), American jazz pianist, arranger and composer

### Journalism

* Mary Lou Finlay (born 1947), Canadian radio and television journalist
* Mary Lou Forbes (1926–2009), American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and commentator
* Mary Lou Foy (born 1944), American photojournalist

### Politics

* Mary Lou Baker (1914–1965), American member of the Florida House of Representatives, and women's rights activist
* Mary Lou Dickerson (born 1946), American politician, Democratic member of the Washington House of Representatives
* Mary Lou Freeman (1941–2006), American politician, Republican member of the Iowa House of Representatives
* Mary Lou Goertzen (1929–2020), American artist, peace activist and Mennonite
* Mary Lou Makepeace (born 1940), American politician, Mayor of Colorado Springs
* Mary Lou McDonald (born 1969), Irish politician, leader of Sinn Féin
* Mary Lou Rath (fl. 1978–present), American politician, Republican member of New York State Senate

### Science and medicine

* Mary Lou Clements-Mann (1946–1998), American biologist
* Mary L. McMaster, American oncologist and clinical trialist
* Mary Lou Soffa, American computer scientist
* Mary Lou Zoback (born 1952), American geophysicist

### Sport

* Mary Lou Beschorner (1929–2008), American player in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
* Mary Lou Crocker (1944–2016), American golfer
* Mary-Lou Daniels (born 1961), American retired tennis player
* Marilou Dozois-Prévost (born 1986), Canadian weightlifter
* Mary Lou Graham (born 1936), American player in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
* Mary Lou Petty (1915–2014), American swimmer
* Mary Lou Retton (born 1968), American retired gymnast, 1984 Olympic all-around champion
* Mary Lou Studnicka (1931–2014), American pitcher in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League

### Other fields

* Mary Lou Jepsen (born 1965), American entrepreneur, business executive and inventor
* Mary Lou Robinson (1926–2019), American federal judge
* Mary Lou Spiess (1931–1992), American disability advocate, teacher, and designer of disabled fashion
* Mary Louise Marylou Whitney (1925–2019), American philanthropist and socialite

## Fictional characters

* Mary Lou Collins, in The Larry Sanders Show
* Marylou, a character in the novel On the Road by American writer Jack Kerouac
* Marylou Ahearn, a character in the novel The Revenge of the Radioactive Lady by Elizabeth Stuckey-French
* Marylou, a character in the movie The Howling (film) played by Elizabeth Shé