Marjory

Marjory Stephenson, MBE, FRS, ARRC (1885 – 1948), was a British biochemist. In 1945, she was one of the first two women elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, the other being Kathleen Lonsdale.

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She wrote Bacterial Metabolism (1930), which ran to three editions and was a standard textbook for generations of microbiologists. A founder of the Society for General Microbiology, she also served as its second president. In 1953, the Society established the Marjory Stephenson Memorial Lecture (now the Marjory Stephenson Prize Lecture) in her memory. This is the Society's principal prize, awarded biennially for an outstanding contribution of current importance in microbiology.

Marjory Fainges (née Ratcliffe) is an Australian researcher and historian on the subject of the Australian toy industry over the last 100 years in particular the commercial manufacture of dolls. She has written 16 books and is a doll judge of antique, collectible, modern and artist dolls and she has lectured internationally.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas was a feminist and environmentalist who campaigned to protect the Florida Everglades from draining.

Marjory is the name of the all-wise Madame Trash Heap on Fraggle Rock.