Mercedes

Mercedes from License to Drive.

Mercedes Rose (born March 22nd, 1972) is an American voice actress and actress. She’s best known for voicing Rosalina in Super Mario Galaxy, Mario Kart Wii, and Super Mario Galaxy 2 until Mario Kart 7, the first game that Kerri Kane voiced Rosalina and replacing Mercedes Rose who voiced her in 2007 to 2010.

Mercedes is a character in the television show, Glee.

Mercedes Cortez is Tommy Vercetti's love interest in Grand Theft Auto Vice City.

Mercedes Kaestner-Varnado is an American professional wrestler currently signed to WWE, where she performs on the Raw brand under the ring name Sasha Banks. She previously wrestled on the independent circuit, most notably for Chaotic Wrestling, where she once held the Chaotic Wrestling Women's Championship. Between WWE and their developmental brand NXT, Banks has had four championship reigns – being a former NXT Women's Champion and a three-time Raw Women's Champion. Her match against Bayley at NXT TakeOver: Respect on October 7, 2015 was the first women's match to ever headline a WWE event, the first women's Iron Man match, and the longest women's match in WWE history at the time with a length of 30 minutes. Their match was voted by Pro Wrestling Illustrated as the "Match of the Year", with Banks being voted as the "Woman of the Year" as well, while their NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn in August 2015 won the NXT Year-End Award for "Match of the Year".

Mercedes Brignone was a Spanish-born Italian stage, film and television actress. She was the daughter of the actor Giuseppe Brignone. She often played divas, and appeared in numerous silent films for Milano Films during the 1910s. In later years she played largely supporting roles. She was the older sister of film director and actor Guido Brignone and the aunt of actress Lilla Brignone.

Mercedes Cabanillas Bustamante is a Peruvian Congresswoman of the Peruvian Aprista Party representing the Electoral District of Lima. Minister of Interior of Peru. Her parents were Armando Cabanillas Olaechea and Emma Bustamante, both members of the Peruvian Aprista Party. She entered the Party in 1961, exercising various offices such as member of the National Command of the Youth Wing Juventud Aprista Peruana, National Secretary of Women Affairs, and in 1982, the Political Action Committee of Women.

Mercedes Trujillo Callealta, best known as Merche, is a Spanish singer. When she was a child, she acted in school plays and wished to be a singer, and received her first guitar as a gift at age six. She finished school, high school and university, and became a music teacher. At this time also sang in an orchestra named Bahia Azul, and worked as and direction assistant in Astilleros de Cádiz.

Mercedes Marten is the name of an NPC who appears in the game 'Dragon's Dogma'.

Haydée Mercedes Sosa (9 July 1935[1] – 4 October 2009), known as La Negra (literally: The Black One), was an Argentine singer who was popular throughout Latin America and many countries outside the continent. With her roots in Argentine folk music, Sosa became one of the preeminent exponents of nueva canción. She gave voice to songs written by both Brazilians and Cubans. She was best known as the "voice of the voiceless ones".
Sosa performed in venues such as the Lincoln Center in New York City, the Théâtre Mogador in Paris and the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City, as well as sell-out shows in New York's Carnegie Hall and the Roman Coliseum during her final decade of life. Her career spanned four decades and she was the recipient of several Grammy awards and nominations, including a posthumous Latin Grammy award for Best Folk Album. She served as an ambassador for UNICEF.

María Mercedes Milá Mencos (born 4 April 1951) is a Spanish television presenter and journalist, most notable for her work on Spain's Telecinco's Gran Hermano, the Spanish version of the reality television series Big Brother.

Maria de las Mercedes of Orléans (24 June 1860 – 26 June 1878) was Queen of Spain as the first wife of King Alfonso XII. She was born in Madrid, Spain, the daughter of Antoine of Orléans, Duke of Montpensier and of Infanta Luisa Fernanda of Spain.

María de las Mercedes, Princess of Asturias (11 September 1880 – 17 October 1904), was the eldest daughter of King Alfonso XII of Spain and his second wife, Maria Christina of Austria. She was for all 24 years of her life, Princess of Asturias, the heiress presumptive to the Crown of Spain.
For a period from 25 November 1885 to 17 May 1886, she was the extant Head of the State of Spain. Had her younger sibling, unborn at the death of Alfonso XII, been a daughter, Mercedes would have become queen regnant of Spain. The sibling proved to be a boy, Alfonso XIII of Spain, and on his birth in 1886, Mercedes lost her latent queenship. She returned to the position of heiress presumptive of Spain, which she held until her own death, and was succeeded in it by her own infant son Alfonso, Alfonso XIII having not yet fathered a child.
Princess Mercedes married in Madrid on 14 February 1901, her second cousin, Prince Carlos of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, a nephew of the King of the then-defunct Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, who was elevated to the rank of Infante of Spain. The marriage was highly controversial due to the Prince's father ties with the Carlist. She died three years later from complication while giving birth to her third child.

Mercedes de Acosta (March 1, 1893 – May 9, 1968) was an American poet, playwright, and novelist. Four of de Acosta's plays were produced, and she published a novel and three volumes of poetry. She was professionally unsuccessful but is known for her many lesbian affairs with famous Broadway and Hollywood personalities and numerous friendships with prominent artists of the period.

Mercedes Bresso (born 12 July 1944) is an Italian politician and former President of the Piedmont Region. She is a member of the Democratic Party (coming from Democrats of the Left). After her election as governor of Piedmont, she resigned from the office as Member of European Parliament. She is a Grand Officer of the Italian Republic. She is the first woman to serve as President of Piedmont.

Mercédès Adrienne Manuela Ramona Jellinek, called Mercédès (September 16, 1889 – February 23, 1929) was the daughter of Austrian automobile entrepreneur Emil Jellinek and his wife Rachel Goggmann Cenrobert. She was born in Vienna on September 16, 1889.
She is best known for her father having Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft's line of Mercedes cars named after her, beginning with the Mercedes 35 hp model of 1901. Also, at the 1902 Paris Automobile exhibition, her father hung a large picture of her.
Mercédès lived in Vienna, and was notorious for marrying twice scandalously.
She had a magnificent wedding in 1909 in Nice, on the Côte d'Azur, with Baron von Schlosser. The couple lived in Vienna until World War I, which ruined them. They had two children Elfriede (b. 1912) and Hans-Peter (b. 1916).
In 1918, Mercédès was begging for food in the streets. A little later, leaving her husband and her two children, she married Baron Rudolf von Weigl, a talented but poor sculptor. She played music and had a good soprano voice, but never shared her father's passion for automobiles. She died in Vienna from bone cancer in 1929, at the age of 39, and was buried in Vienna in the familial grave near her grandfather, the former chief rabbi of Vienna, Adolf Jellinek.

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In 1926 the Daimler company merged with the Benz company. Although the company traded as Daimler-Benz it gave the name Mercedes-Benz to its cars to preserve the respected Mercedes marque.

Mercedes Lackey (born June 24, 1950) is a American author of fantasy novels. Many of her novels and trilogies are interlinked and set in the world of Velgarth, mostly in and around the country of Valdemar. Her Valdemar novels form a complex tapestry of interaction between human and non-human protagonists with many different cultures and social mores.

Mercedes Sherida Lander (born January 25, 1984) is the drummer and backing vocalist for the Canadian alternative metal group Kittie.

Carlotta Mercedes McCambridge (March 16, 1916 – March 2, 2004) was an American actress of radio, stage, film, and television. Orson Welles called her "the world's greatest living radio actress."

Mercedes Alicia McNab (born March 14, 1980) is a Canadian-born actress perhaps best known for playing Harmony Kendall on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spinoff Angel. She is also well known for her role as Amanda Buckman in the Addams Family films and as Misty in the horror films Hatchet and Hatchet 2.

Mercedes Isabel Pérez Tigreros (born August 7, 1987 in Santa Marta, Magdalena) is a female weightlifter from Colombia. She won a gold medal at the 2008 Pan American Championships for her native South American country, and represented Colombia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, PR China, finishing in ninth place in her weight division.

Mercedes J. Ruehl (born February 28, 1948) is an American theater, television, and film actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1992 for The Fisher King.

Mercedes Noel "Tety" Sahores Rosauer (born September 24, 1974) is an Argentine ski mountaineer and mountain climber. She was the first Argentine woman, who climbed the summit of the Mount Everest, on May 19, 2009.

Mercedes Yvette Scelba-Shorte, also known as Mercedes Yvette, (born August 24, 1981, in New Jersey), is an American fashion model and actress. She was a contestant and finalist on Cycle 2 of America's Next Top Model.

Mercedes Masohn is an American actress.

Amber Riley plays the character Mercedes in the tv show GLEE.

This name was used for one of the five playable characters in the award-winning Playstation 2 role-playing game Odin Sphere.

Another famous bearer: actress Mercedes McNab. She is most famous for her role as Harmony Kendall on the shows Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Angel.

There's an indie rock band called 'Hey Mercedes', which formed after the dissolution of the band Braid. That band makes me think well of the name Mercedes.

Mercedes from the movie Pan's Labyrinth really fits that merciful picture. In the movie, Mercedes is brave and kind and so beautiful.

Wasn't Mercedes a character in 'The Call of the Wild', by Jack London?

Mercedes Lackey is a great, well known fantasy and science fiction author.

Mercedes McCambridge, American actress.

The German version of the name, "Merzedes", is the name of a car, because the founder of the car company named the car after his daughter. A real pitty! It's a beautiful name, I think, but the car thing makes it unusable for people. It's better with the Spanish pronunciation, though.

One of the main characters in Alexandre Dumas' book, The Count of Monte Cristo.

This is the name of a type of expensive car.

The car company was named after one of the founder's daughters, Mercedes.