Mari is a feminine given name in the Breton, Japanese, Estonian, Hungarian, Finnish, Welsh, Swedish and Norwegian languages. It is also a devotional given name in Tamil. It can be seen as a cognate of Mary in Danish, Finnish, Norwegian or Swedish.
In Japanese it appears as Mari (まり, マリ), or can be written using different kanji characters so that it means, respectively:
真理, "truth"
万里, "long distance"
茉莉, "jasmine"
麻里, "hemp, village"
The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.
Mari Akasaka (真理, born 1964), Japanese novelist
Mari Amachi (真理, born 1951), Japanese singer and actress
Mari Eguro (真理, born 1972), a Japanese American actress, musician and model known as Marie Eguro in the U.S.
Mari Hamada (麻里, born 1962), Japanese rock singer
Mari Hamada (actress) (マリ, born 1968), Japanese singer and actress
Mari Hanafusa (まり, born 1974), Japanese actress in Takarazuka Revue
Mari Henmi (マリ, born 1950), Japanese singer and actress
Mari Hoshino (真里, born 1981), Japanese actress
Mari Iijima (真理, born 1963), Japanese singer-songwriter
Mari Kanō (茉莉), Japanese voice actress
Mari Kimura (born 1962), Japanese violinist and composer
Mari Kiviniemi (born 1968), Finnish politician and former Prime Minister of Finland
Mari Kodama (麻里), Japanese pianist
Mari Konishi, a Japanese musician
Mari Kotani (真理, born 1958), Japanese science fiction critic
Mari Lill (born 1945), Estonian actress
Mari Mashiba (摩利, born 1959), Japanese voice actress
Mari Matsuda (born 1956), American lawyer, activist, and law professor
Mari Motohashi (麻里, born 1986), Japanese curler
Mari Natsuki (マリ, born 1952), Japanese singer, dancer, and actress
Mari Ozaki (まり, born 1975), Japanese long-distance runner
Mari Ozawa (真理), Japanese manga artist
Mari Shirato (真理, born 1958), Japanese actress
Mari Yaguchi (真里, born 1983), former member of the Japanese idol group Morning Musume
Mari Yamaguchi (真理), a Japanese video game music composer
Mari Yonehara (万里, 1950–2006), Japanese translator, essayist, non-fiction writer and novelist
Mari Youngblood, American singer
Mori Mari (茉莉, 1903–1987), Japanese author and daughter of famed novelist Mori Ōgai
Annu Mari (真理, born 1948), Indo–Japanese actress
Mari Shiraishi (白石 真梨), Japanese voice actress
Mari Yamashita (マリ), a recurring character from the manga series Inubaka: Crazy for Dogs
Ayuki Mari (摩利), a supporting character in Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl
Mari Jiwe McCabe, also known as Vixen, a DC Comics character.
Mari Illustrious Makinami, a character in the Japanese animated film series Rebuild of Evangelion, a retelling of Neon Genesis Evangelion.
Mari Kurihara (栗原), a character from the manga and anime series Prison School
Mari Ohara (鞠莉), a character from the anime series Love Live! Sunshine!!
Mari Katsuki, a character from the anime series Yuri!!! on Ice
