The school is named after Mary Ward, a seventeenth-century English Catholic nun who founded the Loreto Sisters.

Modwen, or Modwenna, was an English nun and saint, who founded Burton-on-Trent Abbey in Staffordshire, England, in the 7th century.

He played Todd, one of the fosterchildren under the care of Sister Kate, an English nun.

And in Kenneth Hope's "Superstition," she portrays an English nun and psychiatrist investigating whether a suspected arsonist is a witch or a murderess.

Sister Gregory Kirkus (November 9, 1910 - August 30, 2007) was an English Roman Catholic nun, educator, historian and archivist.

Mary Juliana Hardman (name in religion Sister Mary) (b. 26 April 1813; d. 24 March 1884) was an English nun.

Madre Isolina, an English nun Celia describes as "very intelligent and understanding" is Celia's favorite nun at the school because she sometimes helps her out of mischief.

Sister Ancilla Dent, OSB (born 3 June 1933) is an English Roman Catholic nun, ecological activist, and writer.

Catharine Burton (1668-1714) was an English Carmelite nun.

Mary Howard, of the Holy Cross (born 28 December 1653; died at Rouen, 21 March 1735) was an English nun of the Poor Clares.