Mallory

For other uses, see Mallory (disambiguation).

Mallory is an English surname thought to be derived from a French word meaning "beautiful" or alternately a different French word for Mail (armour) . Spelling variants include Mallary, Mallery, Malorie, and Malory. Mallory is also a given name derived from the surname. Its meaning is 'unlucky' or 'unfortunate' .

Notable people with the surname

• Anna Margarethe "Molla" Bjurstedt Mallory (1892–1959), Norwegian-American tennis player, wife of stockbroker Franklin Mallory
• Arenia C. Mallory (1904–1977), founder and head of what is now Saints Academy in Lexington, Mississippi
• Benajah Mallory (c. 1764-1853), farmer, merchant and political figure in Upper Canada
• Bradley L. Mallory, Chief Executive Officer, President, Director and Member of Executive Committee, Michael Baker Corporation
• Caitlin Mallory (1987-) is an American ice dancer who competes internationally for Estonia
• Carole Mallory is an American film actress and former model who appeared in Looking for Mr. Goodbar and the The Stepford Wives
• Clare Mallory is the penname under which author Winifred Constance McQuilkan Hall (1913–1991) wrote ten children's books published between 1947 and 1951
• Charles Henry Mallory (1818–1892), founder of C.H. Mallory & Co., parent company of New York & Texas Steamship Company; son of Charles Mallory of Mystic, Connecticut
• Charles Mallory (1796–1882), patriarch of the family sailmaking, shipbuilding, steamboat and shipping business which originated in Mystic, Connecticut
• Edward "Eddie" Mallory (ca. 1905-1961), trumpet and saxophone player, orchestra leader and booking agent who toured, recorded with, and married Ethel Waters between 1935–1939
• Edward Mallory, born Edward Ralph Martz (1930–2007), American actor who played Dr. Bill Horton on NBC's soap opera, Days of our Lives from 1966 to 1980
• Francis Bolton Mallory (1898–1958), reporter, advertising man, instructor of English at Princeton University, Life (magazine) editor-in-chief and Screenwriter
• Francis Mallory (1807–1860), American naval officer, physician, railroad executive and Representative from Virginia
• Frank Burr Mallory (1862–1941), American pathologist for whom the Mallory body is named
• George Herbert Leigh Mallory (1886–1924), British mountaineer who died attempting to climb Mount Everest
• George Kenneth Mallory (1900–1986), American physician for whom Mallory-Weiss syndrome is named; son of Frank Burr Mallory
• Henry Rogers Mallory (1848–1919), president of The New York & Texas Steamship Company, also known as the Mallory Lines.
• James Patrick "JP" Mallory, Irish-American archaeologist and Indo-Europeanist
• James Russell Mallory (1916–2003), Canadian academic and constitutional expert
• James Welch Mallory (1807–1877) wrote the agricultural journal published under the title, Fear God & Walk Humbly
• Jay Mallory is the penname of Arthur Joyce Lunel Cary (1888–1957), novelist and playwright
• Jeremy Mallory and Neal Potischman from Swarthmore were the 1995 American Parliamentary Debate Association National Champions
• Katie Mallory (b. Kathleen Stephanie Mallory), American painter who helped many African Americans rediscover their roots by creating the Yoruba collection. She is also an interior designer.
• Lark Mallory ( -1881), lynched by a mob in Robertson County, Tennessee 18 February 1881
• Laura Mallory unsuccessfully attempted to have Harry Potter books removed from the Gwinnett County, Georgia school system's library
• Llewellyn Bell Mallory (1871–1933) was the 28th Chief Clerk of the California Assembly
• Louis Clifford "Louie" Mallory (1891–1985), Commander of 73d Pursuit and 73d Attack Squadrons, Commanding Officer of Columbus Air Field, Sioux Falls Army Airfield and Langley Field
• Mae Mallory was a leading figure in the movement for Black liberation, Workers World Party
• Mark L. Mallory, Ohio politician; elected Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio in 2005
• Mike Mallory is a former American football linebacker who is currently Assistant Special Teams Coach for the New Orleans Saints
• Michael Mallory, American author and journalist
• Patricia "Boots" Mallory (1913–1958), American film actress, dancer and model
• Penny Mallory, UK National Ladies Champion Rally Driver in 1993 and UK television presenter
• Peter Mallory (c. 1623-1699), immigrant, signer of 1644 "the planters' oath" in New Haven County, Connecticut and direct paternal ancestor of thousands of Mallory descendants in North America
• Philip Rogers Mallory (1885–1975), one of the original founders of Duracell; son of Henry Rogers Mallory
• Ransom B. Mallory (1792–1853) was a partner in Birge, Mallory and Company, manufacturing fine mantle clocks in Bristol, New Haven County, Connecticut from 1838 to 1843
• Richard C. Mallory, co-founder of California's premier real estate law firm, Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis, LLP
• Richard Mallory (1938–1989), Pinellas County, Florida store owner and first victim of serial killer, Aileen Wuornos
• Robert Mallory (1815–1885), U.S. Representative from Kentucky
• Roger Mallory, Capt. (c. 1637-c. 1696), English immigrant, holder of 1660 patent on 2,514 acres (10.17 km²) in New Kent County, Virginia and direct paternal ancestor of thousands of Mallory descendants in North America
• Roger P. Mallory, Jr., was a United States Antarctic Research Program meteorologist at South Pole Station, 1962, and at Wilkes Station, 1963
• Ronald Mallory is an American painter, holographer and sculptor whose kinetic work is included in many permanent collections including the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
• mallory is a stupid hoe Rufus Mallory (1831–1914), U.S. Representative from Oregon
• Smith Henderson Mallory (1835–1903), banker, railroad man and U.S. Representative from Iowa
• Stephen Russell Mallory (c. 1812–1873), U.S. Senator from Florida and Confederate Secretary of the Navy during the American Civil War
• Stephen Russell Mallory II (1834–1907), U.S. Senator and U.S. Representative from Florida; son of Stephen Russell Mallory
• Thomas Malory (c. 1399-1471), compiler of Le Morte d'Arthur, a book of French and English Arthurian romances
• Trafford Leigh-Mallory (1892–1944), senior Royal Air Force officer during WWII, younger brother of George Mallory
• Victoria Mallory is the stage name of the American singer and actress, Vicki Morales (1949-)
• Virgil Sampson Mallory (1888–1959), Montclair State University Mathematics Department head, prolific textbook author and National Council of Teachers of Mathematics officer
• William Guy "Bill" Mallory, football head coach at four NCAA Division I-A programs
• William George "Lee" Mallory (1945–2005), singer, songwriter and guitarist and part of The Millennium and Sagittarius projects
• William L. Mallory, Sr., the first African-American to serve as Ohio House of Representatives Majority Floor Leader
• William Neely Mallory, Jr., Chairman and CEO of The Mallory Group, Memphis, Tennessee
• William Neely Mallory, III, President of Memphis, Tennessee based Mallory Alexander International Logistics
• Wyatt Mallory (1879–1901), hanged by a mob in the last lynching in Robertson County, Tennessee 22 April 1901
• Zachariah Mallory (about 1730-after 12 October 1773) was a Colonial Virginia resident and the first patient in the first public building built in North America for the treatment of the mentally ill

Fictional characters with the surname

• Arthur Mallory is a fictional character played by Raymond Burr in an NBC program development project about a lawyer with a tarnished reputation which aired 8 February 1976 on NBC Mystery Movie
• Brian Mallory is a fictional Irish-born chauffeur, played by Paul Ryan Rudd in the 1975 CBS television series, Beacon Hill
• Capt. Keith Mallory is a fictional World War II mountaineer-turned-commando from New Zealand in Alistair MacLean's 1957 novel, The Guns of Navarone and portrayed by Gregory Peck in Columbia Pictures' 1961 motion picture
• Doctor Fred Mallory is a fictional character played by Edwin Stanley in the 1939 serial, The Phantom Creeps
• Edward "Leviathan" Mallory, a fictional paleontologist and explorer from The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling
• Justin Mallory is described as a 12-year-old epileptic in an e-mail forwarding hoax claiming to raise funds for his medical care which was first circulated in 1999
• Katie Mallory is a fictional character played by Marsha Hunt in the 1943 film, Lost Angel
• Kathleen "Kathy" Mallory is a fictional New York City police detective featured in nine dark mystery novels by author Carol O'Connell
• Kyler Mallory, fictional London stock broker played by Alycia Delmore in Her Interactive video game, Nancy Drew: The Haunting of Castle Malloy
• Lieutenant Colonel Greg D. Mallory is a fictional character in The Boys, an American creator-owned comic book series written by Garth Ennis and illustrated by Darick Robertson
• Lou Mallory is a fictional innkeeper portrayed by Patricia Blair in several episodes of the Western television series, The Rifleman on ABC in 1962 and 1963
• Madame Mallory, a fictional French chef and proprietor of Le Saule Pleureur in the 2010 novel, The Hundred-Foot Journey by Richard C. Morais
• Maree Mallory and Nick Mallory are fictional characters in Diana Wynne Jones' novels Deep Secret and The Merlin Conspiracy
• Quinn Mallory and Colin Mallory are fictional characters in the FOX Network television series, Sliders
• Steven Mallory is a fictional young sculptor who is hired by and becomes a close friend of Architect Howard Roark in Ayn Rand's 1943 novel, The Fountainhead

Fictional characters who are often known just by the name

• Mallory Danielson is a fictional character played by Laura Allen in the FX television series Dirt
• Mallory Dent is a fictional character played by Sydney Tamiia Poitier in The CW television series,Veronica Mars, which debuted in 2004
• Mallory Grace is a fictional character in The Spiderwick Chronicles
• Mallory is a Brother of Dragons in fantasy author Mark Chadbourn's series, The Dark Age and Kingdom of the Serpent
• Mallory is a fictional character played by Robert Floyd in the FOX Network television series, Sliders
• Mallory is a fictional character portrayed by Olivia Bonamy in the 2002 French film, Bloody Mallory
• Mallory is a fictional stripper portrayed by Kristen Stewart in the 2010 American independent drama film, Welcome to the Rileys
• Mallory is an animated duck in Mighty Ducks: The Animated Series, a cartoon by Walt Disney Television
• Mallory Keaton is a fictional character played by Justine Bateman in the popular 1980s sitcom, Family Ties
• Mallory Knox is a fictional character portrayed by Juliette Lewis 1994 film, Natural Born Killers
• Mallory is the conventional name for an attacker in cryptographic examples; see Alice and Bob
• Mallory "Mal" Pike, a "junior member" of The Baby-sitters Club in a series of children's books, written by Ann M. Martin and published by Scholastic between 1986–2000
• Mallory O'Brien is a fictional character portrayed by Allison Smith on the NBC television drama, The West Wing
• Princess Mallory, an animated character from the 1987 television series, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, voiced by Renae Jacobs

See also

• List of places named Mallory, a list of places categorized by region and fictional places
• List of places named Mallory (historical), a list of historical places named Mallory which no longer exist or are known by other names

Other

• A Mallory is also a unit of measurement. It equals roughly 5 feet (1.5 m).
• Mallory is also a girl's name that became popular in 1983. That was the year that the teenage character Mallory was introduced on the television show Family Ties. The Mallory character was named after teenager Mallory Prestlien, daughter of actors Robert Ivers (Prestlien) and Marcia Henderson. Mallory Prestlien went on to graduate from the University of Southern California and become managing producer at A & E Television Network before her death in 2005. From 1983-2009, 45,772 girls in the United States have been named Mallory.

External links

• Mallory Cemeteries at Find A Grave
• The Mallory Genealogy Forum
• The Mallory Surname DNA Study