Marina (given name)

Marina
	Marina Singing Before Pericles, a scene from From Act V, Scene 1 of William Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre by Thomas Stothard, 1825.
Pronunciation	/məˈriːnə/
Gender	Female
Other names
Related names	Marinus, Marius, Marnie

Marina is a feminine given name. It is the female version of the Roman family name Marinus, which is a form of the Latin name Marius. The meaning of Marius might be connected to Mars, the Roman god of war, or with the Latin word maris, meaning virile. It also later became associated with the Latin word marinus, meaning "of the sea".^[1]

Religion

Saint Marina (disambiguation), name of several Christian saints

Arts

Marina (Japanese singer) (born 1987)
Marina (Polish singer) (born 1989)
Marina Kaye (born 1998), French singer
Marina Abramović (born 1946), Serbian performance artist
Marina Berti (1924–2002), Italian film actress
Marina de Tavira (born 1974), Mexican actress
Marina Devyatova (born 1983), Russian singer and interpreter of Russian traditional music
Marina Diamandis (born 1985), known as "Marina" and formerly "Marina and the Diamonds", Welsh-Greek singer-songwriter
Marina Giordana (born 1955), Italian actress
Marina Golbahari (born 1989), Tajik-Afghan actress
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 Kuroki (born 1988), Japanese actress and gravure idol
Marina Kuroki (born 1988), Japanese actress and gravure idol
Marina Latorre (born 1925), Chilean writer, journalist and gallerist
Marina Lewycka (born 1946), British-Ukrainian novelist
Marina Lima (born 1955), Brazilian singer and songwriter
Marina Lizorkina (born 1983), Russian singer and former member of girl group Serebro
Marina Mayoral (1942), Spanish writer
Marina Ōno (born 1972), Japanese voice actress
Marina Orsini (born 1967), Canadian actress
Marina Pierro (born 1960), Italian actress
Marina Poplavskaya (born 1977), Russian opera singer
Marina Prior (born 1963), Australian singer and actress
Marina Ripa Di Meana (1941–2018), Italian writer, actress, director, stylist and TV personality
Marina Ruy Barbosa (born 1995), Brazilian actress
Marina Salandy-Brown, Trinidadian broadcaster, journalist and cultural activist
Marina Satti (born 1986), Greek singer, songwriter, actress and music producer
Marina Semyonova (1908–2010), Soviet ballerina
Marina Shiraishi (born 1986), Japanese singer
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 Tucaković (1953–2021), Serbian lyricist
Marina Vlady (born 1938), French actress
Marina Warner (born 1946), English writer, historian and mythographer
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 Ferrari (born 1973), French politician
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 Mukabenova (born 1982), Russian politician
Marina Orgeyeva (born 1959), Russian politician
Marina Ovsyannikova (born 1978), Russian journalist and TV producer
Marina Silva (born 1958), Brazilian politician and environmentalist
Marina Weisband (born 1987), German politician
Marina van Zyl, South African politician
Marina Vondeling (born 1986), Dutch politician
Marina Yannakoudakis (born 1956), British politician

Sports

Marina Akulova (born 1985), Russian volleyball player
Marina Canetti (born 1983), Brazilian water polo player
Marina Dmitrović (born 1985), Serbian handball player
Marina Erakovic (born 1988), New Zealand tennis player
Marina Granovskaia (born 1975), Russian-Canadian director of Chelsea Football Club
Marina Karaflou (born 1980), Greek shooter
Marina Khan (bowls) (born 1965), New Zealand bowls player
Marina Kiehl (born 1965), German skier and Olympic gold medalist
Marina Klimova (born 1966), Russian figure skater
Marina Kuptsova (born 1981), Russian high jumper
Marina Laurencon (born 1960), French alpine skier
Marina Maljković (born 1981), Serbian basketball coach
Marina Malpica (born 2000), Mexican rhythmic gymnast
Marina Radu (born 1984), Canadian water polo player
Marina Rajčić (born 1993), Montenegrin handball player
Marina Sheshenina (born 1985), Russian volleyball player
Marina Tumas (born 1981), Belarusian volleyball player
Marina Vasarmidou (born 1972), Greek sprinter

Others

Marina, better known as 'La Malinche', Nahua interpreter, advisor, and paramour of Hernán Cortés (d. 1529)
Marina Butovskaya, Russian ethologist and cultural anthropologist
Marina Diamandis (born 1985), Welsh singer-songwriter and record producer
Marina Galina, Venetian dogaressa (d. 1420)
Marina Nani, Venetian dogaressa (d. 1473)
Marina Orlova (born 1980), Russian internet celebrity with the show on YouTube, HotForWords
Marina Papaelia, Greek-Egyptian Miss World contestant
Marina Oswald Porter (born 1941), widow of Lee Harvey Oswald, the presumed assassin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy
Marina Raskova (1912–1943), Russian Navigator
Marina Vega (1923–2011), Spanish spy for the French Resistance

Fictional characters

Marina, principal love interest of Howard in the BBC sitcom series Last of the Summer Wine
Marina, the daughter of the leading character Prince Pericles of Tyre in the play Pericles, Prince of Tyre (1608) by William Shakespeare and (probably) George Wilkins
Marina, title character in George Lillo's play Marina (1738), based on the preceding
Marina (aka "Number Seven"), one of the main protagonists in the Lorien Legacies series by Pittacus Lore
Marina, an octopus villager from the video game series Animal Crossing
Marina Liteyears, the main protagonist of Treasure's Mischief Makers video game
Marina, the young mermaid in the TV series Stingray
Marina, title character in telenovela Marina
Marina Ismail, a Middle-Eastern princess 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, in the 1975 animated film Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid
Marina Ferrer, a minor character in The L Word
Marina Green, a Fishtronaut character
Marina Cooper Lewis, a character on the television soap opera Guiding Light
Marina, one of the members of the fictional band Off The Hook from the video game Splatoon 2
Marina Romanova, a main character appearing in season 3 and season 6 of a detective-themed video game Criminal Case
Marina Tsukishima, in the anime BanG Dream! and in the game BanG Dream! Girls Band Party!
Marina (aka "Water Pirate"), in the Disney Junior animated series Jake and the Never Land Pirates
Marina, in the online game Pixie Hollow and the TV special Pixie Hollow Games
Marina, an NPC (Non-Player Character) in Hypixel's MMORPG gamemode, Skyblock
Marina, an anthropomorphic penguin in the 1995 animated film The Pebble and the Penguin
Marina, in the 2011 film Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Marina, a main character in the French animated series Zig & Sharko

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Notes

^ Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006). Oxford Dictionary of First Names. Oxford University Press. pp. 184–85. ISBN 0-19-861060-2.

[1] Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006). Oxford Dictionary of First Names. Oxford University Press. pp. 184–85. ISBN 0-19-861060-2.

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