Marie Curie connection to Michael Currie
Marie Curie [1] (1867 - 1934) was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She is the only person to win the Nobel Prize in two different scientific fields.
Marie Curie got her last name from her marriage to Pierre Curie (1859 - 1906) [2], son of Eugene Curie (28 August 1827 – 25 February 1910).
Eugene Curie was "a doctor of French Huguenot Protestant origin from Alsace." [3]
Eugene's father was "Paul Curie (1799–1853), physician, humanist." [4]
Apparently the last name is from "French: from a reduced form of Old French éscuerie ‘stable’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a stable hand." [5]
Michael Currie's last name "Currie" is a habitational name derived from village of Currie, Scotland, which comes from either a Scottish Gaelic or Brythonic word for wet or boggy plain or a dell (a small secluded partially-wooded valley). See the entry for ? Currie.
Thus Marie Curie has no special connection to Michael Currie, beyond the fact they are both descended from European homo sapiens, despite their similar-sounding last names. So their most recent common ancestor is likely from about 1400, the same as for most other pairs of European individuals [6].