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 as well as Japanese.

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 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 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 flautist
• 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 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 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 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 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 Maljković (born 1981), Serbian basketball coach
• 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,' was the Nahua interpreter, advisor, and paramour of Hernán Cortés (d. 1529)
• 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), former widow of Lee Harvey Oswald, the presumed assassin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy
• Marina Raskova (1912-1943), Russian Navigator

Fictional characters

• 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
• 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 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, the other being Pearl
• Marina Tsukishima, a staff member at CiRCLE in the anime BanG Dream! and in the game BanG Dream! Girls Band Party!
• Marina (aka "Water Pirate"), a mermaid pirate in the Disney Junior animated series Jake and the Never Land Pirates
• Marina, the water-talent fairy in the shutdown 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 who is a love interest to Hubie in the 1995 animated film The Pebble and the Penguin
• Marina, one of the Mermaids of Whitecap Bay in the 2011 film Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides