Mary McCarthy may refer to:
- Mary McCarthy (author) (1912–1989), novelist, critic, and memoirist
- Mary McCarthy (CIA) (born 1945), former CIA employee accused of leaking information
- Mary McCarthy (screenwriter), wrote screenplays for movies Theodora Goes Wild (1936) and Sister Kenny (1946)
- Mary McCarthy (fiction writer) (born 1951), novelist, teacher, book reviewer
- Mary Stanislaus MacCarthy (1849–1897), Irish poet and nun
- Mary (Molly) MacCarthy (1882–1953), English writer and member of the Bloomsbury Group
- Mary McCarthy Gomez Cueto (1900–2009), Wealthy Canadian expatriate widow who lived an impoverished life in Havana
Famous quotes containing the words mary mc and/or mary:
“The Crucifixion and other historical precedents notwithstanding, many of us still believe that outstanding goodness is a kind of armor, that virtue, seen plain and bare, gives pause to criminality. But perhaps it is the other way around.”
—Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)
“Flower picking.”
—Hawaiian saying no. 2710, ‘lelo No’Eau, collected, translated, and annotated by Mary Kawena Pukui, Bishop Museum Press, Hawaii (1983)