Marina (given name)
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Ma-ri-na |
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Marina is a female given name, the feminine of Latin Marinus, from marinus "of the sea", occurring in many European languages. A female given name Marina is also used in Japanese.
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", British 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 Khan (born 1962), Pakistani TV actress
- 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 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
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, 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