Mallory is an English surname derived from an French word meaning "unfortunate"; spelling variants include Mallary, Mallery, Malorie, and Malory. Mallory is also a given name derived from the surname. Also meaning "I'll Omen", abiding to the way it is spelled.

Notable people with the surname

• Anna Margarethe "Molla" Bjurstedt Mallory (1892?1959), Norwegian-American tennis player
• Arenia C. Mallory, founder and head of what is now Saints Academy in Lexington, Mississippi
• Clare Mallory is the penname under which author Winifred Constance McQuilkan Hall (1913-1991) wrote ten children's books published between 1947 and 1951
• Carole Mallory is an American film actress and former model who appeared in Looking for Mr. Goodbar and the The Stepford Wives
• Edward Mallory, born Edward Ralph Martz (1930-2007), was an American actor who played Dr. Bill Horton on NBC's soap opera, Days of our Lives from 1966 to 1980
• George Herbert Leigh Mallory (1886?1924), British mountaineer who died attempting to climb Mount Everest
• James Patrick "JP" Mallory, Irish-American archaeologist and Indo-Europeanist
• James Russell Mallory (1916-2003), was a Canadian academic and constitutional expert
• Laura Mallory unsuccessfully attempted to have Harry Potter books removed from the Gwinnett County, Georgia school system's library
• Mark L. Mallory, Ohio politician; elected Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio in 2005
• Patricia "Boots" Mallory (1913-1958) was an American film actress, dancer and model
• Penny Mallory, UK National Ladies Champion Rally Driver in 1993 and UK television presenter
• Philip Rogers Mallory (1885-1975), one of the original founders of Duracell
• Richard C. Mallory (1945?Present), co-founder of California's premier real estate law firm, Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis, LLP
• Robert Mallory (1815?1885), a politician and lawyer from Kentucky
• Rufus Mallory (1831?1914), was a Representative from the U.S. state of Oregon
• Stephen Mallory (c. 1812?1873), Confederate Secretary of the Navy during the American Civil War
• Thomas Malory (c. 1399-1471), the 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
• William G. "Bill" Mallory, football head coach at four NCAA Division I-A programs
• William George "Lee" Mallory (1945-2005), a singer, songwriter and guitarist was part of The Millennium and Sagittarius projects

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
• Capt. Keith Mallory, is a fictional WWII 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
• Julia Mallory is a fictional character on the FX television series Dirt, played by Laura Allen
• Kathleen (Kathy) Mallory is a fictional New York City police detective featured in nine dark mystery novels by author Carol O'Connell
• Quinn Mallory, Colin Mallory, and Mallory (Sliders), 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
• Edward "Leviathan" Mallory, a paleontologist and explorer from The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling.

Fictional characters who are often known just by the name

• A conventional name for an attacker in cryptographic examples; see Alice and Bob
• Mallory is a Brother of Dragons in fantasy author Mark Chadbourn's series, The Dark Age and Kingdom of the Serpent
• Mallory, a female animated duck from Mighty Ducks: The Animated Series, a cartoon by Walt Disney Television
• Mallory Dent is a fictional character played by Sydney Tamiia Poitier in The CW television series,Veronica Mars, which debuted in 2004
• Mallory Grace, The Spiderwick Chronicles character
• Mallory Keaton is a fictional character played by Justine Bateman in the popular 1980s sitcom, Family Ties

See also

• List of places named Mallory, a list of places categorized by region, historical places and fictional places

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