Marina (given name)

Marina
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.

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 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 Khan (bowls) (born 1965), New Zealand bowls player
• Marina Kuptsova (born 1981), Russian high jumper
• Marina Radu (born 1984), Canadian water polo player
• Marina Sheshenina (born 1985), Russian volleyball player
• Marina Tumas (born 1981), Belarusian volleyball player

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)