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:
“Mary McDonald, you giggled as you passed—
I wondered what the boy with hairy chest
Carved on the wall of his inexpensive spirit
Memorial to your infinite unrest.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
“One can think of life after the fish is in the canoe.”
—Hawaiian saying no. 23, ‘lelo No’Eau, collected, translated, and annotated by Mary Kawena Pukui, Bishop Museum Press, Hawaii (1983)