Rosemary (given name)
Rosemary is a feminine given name, a combination of the names Rose and Mary. It can also be used in reference to the herb named rosemary. Rosemary has been in steady use in the United States and has ranked among the top 1,000 for 110 years. It was ranked as the 754th most popular name for American girls born in 1992. Its greatest period of popularity in the United States was between 1925 and 1950, when it was ranked among the top 150 names for girls. Rosemarie is another variant, and Romy is a German nickname for the name.
Notable persons with the name include:
- Rosemary A. Bailey, British statistician
- Rosemary A. Stevens, historian of American medicine and health policy
- Rosemary Aitken, English author
- Rosemary Altea, British author
- Rosemary Anne Sisson, English television dramatist and novelist
- Rosemary Ashe, English stage actress and classically trained opera singer
- Rosemary Ashton, British literary scholar
- Rosemary Askin, New Zealand geologist
- Rosemary Aubert, Canadian-American author, poet, and critic
- Rosemary Bailey , British writer
- Rosemary Banks, former New Zealand diplomat
- Rosemary Barkett, Judge of the Iran–United States Claims Tribunal
- Rosemary Barnett, British sculptor
- Rosemary Barrow, art historian
- Rosemary Barton, Canadian political journalist
- Rosemary Beresford, American figure skater
- Rosemary Biggs, English haematologist
- Rosemary Blight, Australian film producer
- Rosemary Brown, various people
- Rosemary Bryant Mariner, American female military aviator
- Rosemary Butler, American singer
- Rosemary Butler , British politician
- Rosemary Byrne, Scottish politician and co-convenor of Solidarity
- Rosemary Campbell, New Zealand painter
- Rosemary Candlin, computer scientist
- Rosemary Carter, writer
- Rosemary Casals, former American professional tennis player
- Rosemary Catacalos, 2013 poet laureate of Texas
- Rosemary Church, British journalist
- Rosemary Clement-Moore, American author
- Rosemary Clooney, American singer
- Rosemary Conley, English businesswoman, author, and broadcaster on exercise and health
- Rosemary Corbin, longstanding Democratic public figure and former mayor of Richmond, California
- Rosemary Cove, American sculptor
- Rosemary Cramp, British archaeologist
- Rosemary Crossley, Australian author and advocate for disability rights and facilitated communication
- Rosemary Crowley, former Labor Senator for South Australia
- Rosemary Davies, American actress
- Rosemary De Angelis, American stage, screen, and television actress
- Rosemary DeCamp, American actress
- Rosemary Dempsey, former Vice President of The National Organization of Women
- Rosemary Dexter, Italian film actress
- Rosemary DiCarlo, American diplomat
- Rosemary Dinnage, British author and critic
- Rosemary Dobson, Australian poet, illustrator, editor, and anthologist
- Rosemary Dunleavy, American ballet dancer
- Rosemary Dunsmore, Canadian actress
- Rosemary E. Rodriguez, State Director for Senator Michael Bennet of Colorado
- Rosemary Eames, Australian swimmer with one arm
- Rosemary Edghill, American writer and editor
- Rosemary Edmonds, British translator of Russian literature
- Rosemary Edna Sinclair, Australian environmental and children's rights activist
- Rosemary Ellen Guiley, American writer and radio show host
- Rosemary Esehagu, Nigerian writer
- Rosemary Fadljevic, Australian basketball player
- Rosemary Feit Covey, American printmaker
- Rosemary Firth, British social anthropologist, and Sir Raymond Firth's wife
- Rosemary Follett, Australian politician
- Rosemary Foot , former Australian politician
- Rosemary Foot , Professor of International Relations and the John Swire Senior research Fellow in International Relations, St. Antony's College, Oxford
- Rosemary Forbes Kerry, American nurse, social activist, and John Forbes Kerry's mother
- Rosemary Forsyth, Canadian-born American actress and model
- Rosemary Frankau, British actress
- Rosemary Georgeson, Coast Salish and Sahtu Dene filmmaker and multi-media artist
- Rosemary Gill, British children's television producer for the BBC
- Rosemary Gillespie, Australian lawyer, human rights activist, author, and film producer
- Rosemary Gillespie, American evolutionary biologist
- Rosemary Gilliat, Canadian photojournalist
- Rosemary Gladstar, American herbalist
- Rosemary Glyde, American violist and composer
- Rosemary Godin, former Canadian politician and current writer and Christian minister
- Rosemary Goldie, Australian Roman Catholic theologian
- Rosemary Goodchild, English former cricketer
- Rosemary R. Gunning, American politician
- Rosemary Hall , Scottish political organiser
- Rosemary Harris, British actress
- Rosemary Harris , British author
- Rosemary Hayes, British author
- Rosemary Hennessy, American professor
- Rosemary Hill, British historian
- Rosemary Hinkfuss, American former Wisconsin State Assembly member, and Green Bay Packers Board of Directors member
- Rosemary Hollis, British political scientist
- Rosemary Homeister Jr., American jockey in thoroughbred horse racing
- Rosemary Horrox, English historian
- Rosemary Hughes, royal florist of Queen Elizabeth II
- Rosemary Hume, British cook and writer
- Rosemary Hunter, Australian academic
- Rosemary Hutton, British geophysicist and pioneer of magnetotellurics
- Rosemary Huxtable, senior Australian public servant
- Rosemary Jeffries, President of Georgian Court University, and Vice Chair of the New Jersey Presidents' Council Executive Board
- Rosemary Jenkinson , Irish poet, playwright, and short story writer
- Rosemary Johnson, British actress
- Rosemary Joshua, Welsh soprano
- Rosemary Joy Hendry, British cultural anthropologist
- Rosemary Joyce, American anthropologist and social archaeologist
- Rosemary Kennedy, oldest daughter of Joseph, Sr. and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, and a sister of President John F. Kennedy, and Senators Robert F. Kennedy and Ted Kennedy
- Rosemary Kilbourn, Canadian printmaker
- Rosemary Kirstein, American science fiction writer
- Rosemary Kuhlmann, American operatic mezzo-soprano and Broadway musical actress
- Rosemary Kurtz, American educator and politician
- Rosemary Kyburz, Australian member of the Queensland State Parliament as the Liberal Member for Salisbury
- Rosemary Laing, Australian photographer
- Rosemary LaPlanche, Miss America in 1941
- Rosemary Lauder, English historian
- Rosemary Lain-Priestley, Church of England priest
- Rosemary Lassig, Australian breaststroke swimmer
- Rosemary Leach, British stage, television, and film actress
- Rosemary Lehmberg, American attorney
- Rosemary Leona, businesswoman from Vanuatu
- Rosemary Leonard, British general practitioner and journalist
- Rosemary Little, Australian Paralympic athlete
- Rosemary Low, British aviculturist, ornithologist, conservationist, writer, and parrot expert
- Rosemary Lowe-McConnell, English ichthyologist, ecologist, and limnologist
- Rosemary M. Collyer, Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, and a United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court member
- Rosemary M. Wixom, former general president of the Primary of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Rosemary Madigan, Australian sculptor, stonecarver and woodcarver
- Rosemary Mahoney, American non-fiction writer
- Rosemary Manning, British author
- Rosemary Marcus, female Nigerian professional cyclist
- Rosemary Márquez, Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Arizona
- Rosemary Martin, English actress
- Rosemary Mayer, American visual artist
- Rosemary McAuliffe, American Democratic politician
- Rosemary McKenna, Scottish Labour Party politician
- Rosemary McLeod, New Zealand writer
- Rosemary Menkens, Australian politician
- Rosemary Milgate, Australian former swimmer
- Rosemary Morris, British water polo player
- Rosemary Mulligan, member of the Illinois House of Representatives from the 65th district
- Rosemary Murphy, American actress
- Rosemary Murray, British chemist
- , Brazilian singer
- Rosemary Museminali, Rwandan politician and diplomat
- Rosemary Neering, Canadian author and journalist
- Rosemary Nelson, Irish human rights solicitor
- Rosemary Nicols, British actress
- Rosemary Nixon, Canadian author and novelist
- Rosemary O'Day, professor emeritus of history at Open University
- Rosemary Odinga, Kenyan entrepreneur, advocate for alternative agriculture, and proponent of social equality
- Rosemary Okafor, Nigerian sprinter
- Rosemary O'Leary, Edwin O. Stene Distinguished Professor of Public Administration at the University of Kansas
- Rosemary Opala, Australian artist, writer, and nurse
- Rosemary Owens, Australian Dean of Law at the University of Adelaide Law School
- Rosemary Park, American scholar, academic leader, and advocate for women's education
- Rosemary Pattenden, British Emeritus Professor of University of East Anglia
- Rosemary Payne, British female discus thrower
- Rosemary Pollock, British writer
- Rosemary Potter, American former Wisconsin State Assembly member
- Rosemary Pratt, Marchioness Camden, British socialite and artist, best known as Group Captain Peter Townsend's first wife
- Rosemary Prinz, stage and television actress
- Rosemary Quispe, Bolivian long distance runner
- Rosemary R. Haggett, American Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Student Success for the University of North Texas System
- Rosemary Radcliffe, Canadian comic actress, writer, composer, and painter
- Rosemary Radford Ruether, American feminist scholar and Catholic theologian
- Rosemary Rapaport, English violinist and music teacher
- Rosemary Redfield, Canadian microbiologist at the University of British Columbia
- Rosemary Reed Miller, American business owner and historian
- Rosemary Ribeiro, former international butterfly swimmer from Brazil
- Rosemary Rice, American actress, singer, and voice-over artist
- Rosemary Riddell, actor, film director, and Family Court judge from New Zealand
- Rosemary Roberts, American statistics educator
- Rosemary Rodriguez, film and television director
- Rosemary Rogers, American author
- Rosemary Rue, British physician and civil servant
- Rosemary S. Pooler, American judge
- Rosemary Sage, British academic
- Rosemary Sandlin, American politician
- Rosemary Sassoon, English handwriting expert
- Rosemary Sayigh, British-born journalist and scholar of Middle Eastern history
- Rosemary Seninde, Ugandan educator and politician
- Rosemary Sexton, Canadian author and former columnist
- Rosemary Shrager, British chef
- Rosemary Siemens, violinist and singer
- Rosemarie Sonora, Filipino actress
- Lady Rosemary Spencer-Churchill, maid of honour to Queen Elizabeth II
- Rosemary Squire, English theatre producer
- Rosemary Squires, international jazz, big band, cabaret and concert singer, and recording artist
- Rosemary Llanchie Stevenson, African-American ballet dancer
- Rosemary Sutcliff, English novelist
- Rosemary Theby, American film actress
- Rosemary Thomas, British diplomat
- Rosemary Thompson, Director of Communications for Canada's National Arts Centre
- Rosemary Thomson, Canadian conductor and chorus master
- Rosemary Timperley, British writer
- Rosemary Tonks, English poet and author
- Rosemary Tumusiime, Ugandan marketing professional, public administrator, feminist, and politician
- Rosemary Turare, Papua New Guinean middle-distance runner
- Rosemary Uwemedimo, African stories writer of Nigerian origin
- Rosemary Valaire, ballet teacher, co-director, and dancer
- Rosemary Vandenbroucke, Hong Kong-born singer
- Rosemary Varty, Australian politician
- Rosemary Vercoe, British costume designer
- Rosemary Verey, English garden designer, lecturer, and prolific garden writer
- Rosemary Vodrey, former politician in Manitoba, Canada
- Rosemary Vrablic, American banker
- Rosemary Waring, honorary reader in human toxicology
- Rosemary Watson, American voice over artist, actress, and singer-songwriter
- Rosemary Wells, American writer and illustrator
- Rosemary West, English serial killer
- Rosemary Willis, close witness during U.S. President John F. Kennedy's assassination
- Rosemary Willis , American beauty pageant titleholder
- Rosemary Winslow, American poet, and academic
- Rosemary Woolf, English scholar of medieval literature
- Rosemary Wyse, Scottish astrophysicist and professor in physics and astronomy
- Rosemary Zwick, American printmaker and sculptor