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Merle (given name)

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Merle is a given name used by both men and women. The name is a variant of Merrill or Muriel, influenced by the French word merle meaning blackbird (from the Latin merula).

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Female

  • Merle Keagle (1923–1960), player in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
  • Merle Louise (born 1934), American Broadway actress
  • Merle Oberon (1911–1979), Indo-English actress
  • Merle Park (born 1937), Royal Ballet prima ballerina
  • Merle Woo (born 1941), American academic and activist

    • Male

  • Merle Allin (born 1953), punk rock musician
  • Merle Boucher (born 1946), North Dakota politician
  • Merle Curti (1897–1997), American historian and Pulitzer Prize winner
  • Merle Haggard (1937–2016), American country-western musician
  • Merle Harmon (1926–2009), American sportscaster
  • Merle Kilgore (1934–2005), American singer, songwriter and manager
  • Merle Randall (1888–1950), American physical chemist
  • Merle Travis (1917–1983), American country music singer
  • Merle Tuve (1901–1982), American geophysicist
  • Merle Watson (1945–1985), American folk musician

    • Fictional

  • Merle Dixon, a character in AMC's TV series The Walking Dead
  • Merle, a character in The Vision of Escaflowne, a 1996 anime series

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