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Marina (given name)

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Pronunciation
  
Ma-ri-na

Gender
  
Female

Marina is a female given name, the feminine of Latin Marinus, from marinus "of the sea", occurring in many European languages.

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Marina is also a Japanese name, with several variations on the kanji spelling and thus the meaning can vary.

Religion

  • Saint Marina (disambiguation), name of several Christian saints

    • Arts

  • Marina (Japanese singer) (born 1987), Japanese singer
  • Marina Abramović (born 1946), Serbian performance artist
  • Marina Abrosimova (born 1983; better known as MakSim), Russian singer
  • Marina Berti (1924–2002), Italian film actress
  • Marina Diamandis (born 1985), also known by her stage name "Marina and the Diamonds", Welsh-Greek singer-songwriter
  • Marina Giordana (born 1955), Italian actress
  • Marina Golbahari (born 1989), Tajik-Afghan actress
  • Marina Ann Hantzis (born 1988), real name of porn star Sasha Grey
  • Marina Inoue (born 1985), Japanese singer and voice actress
  • Marina Karella (born 1940), Greek artist
  • Marina Keegan (1989-2012), American author and playwright
  • Marina Khan (born 1962), Pakistani TV actress
  • Marina Lewycka (born 1946), British-Ukrainian novelist
  • Marina Lima (born 1955), Brazilian singer and songwriter
  • Marina Ōno, (born 1972), Japanese voice actress
  • Marina Orsini (born 1967), Canadian actress
  • Marina Piccinini (born 1968), Italian American virtuoso flautist
  • Marina Pierro (born 1960), Italian actress
  • Marina Poplavskaya (born 1977), Russian opera singer
  • Marina Prior (born 1963), Australian singer and actress
  • Marina Semyonova (1908-2010), Soviet ballerina
  • Marina Sirtis (born 1955), British-American actress
  • Marina Suma (born 1959), Italian actress
  • Marina Tsintikidou (born 1971), Greek fashion model and TV presenter
  • Marina Tsvetaeva (1892–1941), Russian poet and writer, frequently referred to by her first name
  • Marina Vlady (born 1938), French actress
  • Marina Watanabe (born 1970), Japanese singer and actress

    • Politics and journalism

  • Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent (1906–1968), member of the British Royal family, formerly a Greek princess
  • Marina Hyde (born 1974), British journalist
  • Marina Kaljurand (born 1962), Estonian diplomat
  • Marina Mahathir, Malaysian journalist, daughter of Mahathir bin Mohamad
  • Marina Mniszech (1588–1614), Polish political adventurer
  • Marina Silva (born 1958), Brazilian politician and environmentalist
  • Marina Weisband (born 1987), German politician
  • Marina Yannakoudakis (born 1956), British politician

    • Sports

  • Marina Akulova (born 1985), Russian volleyball player
  • Marina Canetti (born 1983), Brazilian water polo player
  • Marina Erakovic (born 1988), New Zealand tennis player
  • Marina Karaflou (born 1980), Greek shooter
  • Marina Khan (bowls) (born 1965), New Zealand bowls player
  • Marina Kuptsova (born 1981), Russian high jumper
  • Marina Papadopoulou (born 1988), Greek gymnast
  • Marina Radu (born 1984), Canadian water polo player
  • Marina Sheshenina (born 1985), Russian volleyball player
  • Marina Tumas (born 1981), Belarusian volleyball player
  • Marina Vasarmidou (born 1972), Greek sprinter

    • Others

  • Marina Orlova (born 1980), Russian internet celebrity with the show on YouTube, HotForWords
  • Marina Oswald Porter (born 1941), former widow of Lee Harvey Oswald, the presumed assassin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy
  • Marina Papaelia, Greek-Egyptian Miss World contestant
  • Doña Marina (c.1496/c.1505–c.1529; better known as La Malinche), Nahua woman, who acted as interpreter, advisor, lover and intermediary for Hernán Cortés

    • Characters

  • Marina, aka 'Number Seven' is one of the main protagonists in the Lorien Legacies series by Pittacus Lore.
  • Marina Liteyears, the main protagonist of Treasure's Mischief Makers video game
  • Marina the mer-girl in Stingray (TV series)
  • Marina, a character of the 1983 film Local Hero, played by Jenny Seagrove
  • Marina, daughter of Prince Pericles of Tyre in the play Pericles, Prince of Tyre by William Shakespeare and (probably) George Wilkins (1608)
  • Marina, title character in George Lillo's play, Marina (1738), based on the preceding
  • Marina, title character in telenovela Marina
  • Marina Ismail, a Middle-Eastern ruler from the anime Mobile Suit Gundam 00
  • Marina (Peggle), one of the Peggle Masters that was first seen in Peggle Nights
  • Marina, a main character in the Nickelodeon TV series The Fresh Beat Band and its spin-off Fresh Beat Band of Spies
  • Marina, the main villainess from The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning
  • Princess Marina; the seventh and youngest mermaid in the 1975 animated film Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid
  • Marina Ferrer, a minor character in The L Word. Jenny Schechter's first lesbian relationship in the show takes place with this character
  • Marina, a Fishtronaut character
  • Marina Cooper Lewis, a character on the now cancelled CBS soap opera Guiding Light
  • Marina Gardner, antagonist of Amelia Mangan's novel Release (2015)

    • References

    Marina (given name) Wikipedia
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