The Resume

(September 23, 1869-November 11, 1938)
Birth name is Mary Mallon
Worked as a cook for hire (1900-1906)
Spread typhoid fever to at least 33 people (1906-1915)

Why she might be annoying:

She had an extremely violent temper.
Mary worked as a cook for the Warren family in 1906.
After she left, the Warrens fell ill with typhoid fever.
An investigation found Mary to be source of the typhoid. She was still working as a cook, spreading the disease when investigators found her.
She was exiled to the Riverside Hospital on North Brother Island and spent three years there.
She was released in 1910, even though she still had typhoid fever, and was told not to work as a food preparer anymore.
Five years later, Mary was caught working as a cook at a hospital spreading typhoid once again.
She was sent to Riverside Hospital once again and spent the rest of her life there.
Her typhoid spreading resulted in the deaths of at least three people.
Her name is synonymous with someone who willingly spreads sickness.

Why she might not be annoying:

She suffered a stroke (1932).
She may or may not have known she was spreading typhoid.
Although she carried typhoid, she mysteriously never became sick with the disease herself.
She was probably not the evil, conniving disease spreader she is made out to be.

Credit: Ratman

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• I am a Karen
• I Died in 1938 (Ranked: 69)
• I Died on Veteran's Day [November 11th] (Ranked: 1938)
• I Had a Stroke [Cerebral Vascular Accident]
• Look at Me, My Picture Is Art
• People with John or Mary in their Names
• Pissed off Chicks
• Profiles 10751-11000 (Ranked: 10986)
• Ratman's Profiles [Series 1]
• Short Fuses
• Subjects of 'Drunk History'

Year In Review:

For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2023, Out of 8 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 10 Votes: 90.0% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 8 Votes: 87.50% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 7 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 9 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 9 Votes: 44.44% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 9 Votes: 44.44% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 14 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 15 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 29 Votes: 58.62% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 21 Votes: 61.90% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 19 Votes: 52.63% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 106 Votes: 66.98% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 144 Votes: 36.81% Annoying
In 2008, Out of 46 Votes: 63.04% Annoying
In 2007, Out of 89 Votes: 64.04% Annoying
In 2006, Out of 149 Votes: 69.13% Annoying
In 2005, Out of 242 Votes: 69.42% Annoying
In 2004, Out of 298 Votes: 69.13% Annoying