# Marion (given name)

Marion is a unisex given name.
As a feminine given name, it is a French diminutive of Marie that has been in use by English speakers since the Middle Ages. It was also occasionally considered a form of Margaret or Margery.
As a masculine given name, it derives from the Latin given name Marianus, a form of the name Marius.
It may refer to:

## Women

* Marion Adams-Acton (1846–1928), Scottish novelist
* Marion Adnams (1898–1995), English painter, printmaker, and draughtswoman
* Marion Aizpors (born 1961), German swimmer
* Marion Allemoz (born 1989), French ice hockey player
* Marion Angus (1865–1946), Scottish poet
* Marion Arnott, Scottish author
* Marion Aunor (born 1992), Filipino singer-songwriter
* Marion Aye (1903–1951), American actress
* Marion Bailey (born 1951), British actress
* Marion Bartoli (born 1984), French tennis player
* Marion Bauer (1882–1955), American composer, teacher, writer, and music critic
* Marion Barter (born 1945), Australian missing teacher who has not been seen since 1997
* Marion Babcock Baxter (1850–1910), American lecturer, author, financial agent
* Marion Howard Brazier (1850–1935), American journalist, editor, lecturer, clubwoman
* Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930–1999), American author
* Marion Corbett, pen name of the Misses Corbett
* Marion Cotillard (born 1975), French actress
* Marion Cunningham (author) (1922–2012), American cookbook author
* Marion Davies (1897–1961), American actress and mistress of William Randolph Hearst
* Marion Dönhoff (1909–2002), German journalist and publisher
* Marion Donovan (1917–1998), American inventor and entrepreneur
* Marion Moncure Duncan (1913–1978), American businesswoman and 25th president general of the NSDAR
* Marion Frater, New Zealand judge
* Marion Cameron Gray (1902–1979), Scottish mathematician
* Marion Goldman (born 1945), American sociologist
* Marion Hall (born 1972), Jamaican musician
* Marion Jones (born 1975), American sprinter
* Marion Jones Farquhar (1879–1965), née Jones, American tennis player
* Marion Kent (died 1500), English businessperson and property manager
* Marion Kracht (born 1962), German actress
* Marion Laboure, French economist, macro strategist and lecturer
* Marion Lüttge (born 1941), former East German javelin thrower
* Marion Mackenzie (born 1873) – British medical doctor and suffragette
* Marion Mann (singer) (1914–2004), American singer
* Marion Maréchal (born 1989), French politician
* Marion Marlowe (1929–2012), American singer and actress
* Marion Oberhofer (born 2000), Italian luger
* Marion Shilling (1910–2004), American actress
* Marion Simon Misch (1869–1941), American activist, teacher, writer and businesswoman
* Marion Stokes (1929–2012), American activist and archivist
* Marion Raven (born 1984), Norwegian singer and songwriter
* Marion Ross (born 1928), American actress
* Marion Ross (physicist) (1903–1994), Scottish physicist
* Marion Margery Scranton (1884–1960), American suffragist and Republican activist
* Marion Tuu'luq (1910–2002), Canadian Inuk artist
* Marion Tylee (1906–1969), New Zealand artist
* Marion Ballantyne White (1871–1958), American mathematician and university professor
* Marion Wiesel (born Mary Renate Erster; 1931–2025), Austrian-American Holocaust survivor, humanitarian, and translator

## Men

* Marion Barber Jr. (born 1959), American former National Football League player
* Marion Barber III (1983–2022), American former National Football League player, son of the above
* Marion Barry (1936–2014), former mayor of Washington, D.C.
* Marion M. Bradford (1946–2021), American scientist known for his protein quantification method
* Marion Broadstone (1906–1972), American National Football League player
* Marion Butts (born 1966), American National Football League player
* Marion Cox (1920–1996), NASCAR car owner
* Marion Knight Jr. (born 1965), birth name of Suge Knight, founder of Death Row Records
* Marion Mann (1920–2022), American physician and pathologist
* Marion Morrison (1907–1979), birth name of John Wayne, American film actor
* Marion Motley (1920–1999), American National Football League and All-America Football Conference player, member of the Pro Hall of Fame
* Marion Parsonnet (1905–1960), American screenwriter
* Marion Albert Pruett (1949–1999), American spree killer
* Marion Pugh (1919–1976), American National Football League player
* Marion Pat Robertson (1930–2023), American televangelist
* Marion Mike Rounds (born 1954), U.S. Senator from (and former Governor of) South Dakota
* Marion Silva Fernandes (born 1991), Brazilian footballer known simply as "Marion"
* Marion Spielmann (1858–1948), English journalist and art critic

## Fictional characters

* Marion (or Marian), a typical name for the shepherdess character in the pastourelle genre of Old French lyric poetry
* Marion, in the videogame Gunbird
* Marion, Harriet's rival in Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
* Marion, an anthropomorphic railway self-propelled steam shovel in the British preschool TV series Thomas & Friends
* Marion Chambers, a character in Halloween
* Lieutenant Marion "Cobra" Cobretti, in the movie Cobra, played by Sylvester Stallone
* Marion Cunningham, on the television show Happy Days
* Marion Crane, the female lead in Psycho, played by Janet Leigh
* Marion Dunby, a chief police officer in the video game Lego City Undercover and its prequel, Lego City Undercover: The Chase Begins
* Marion Hill, a former professional football player in the TV series In the House, played by L L Cool J
* Marion Moseby, played by Phill Lewis in The Suite Life of Zack & Cody and its spin-off, The Suite Life on Deck
* Marion Paroo, in The Music Man
* Marion Ravenwood, in the Indiana Jones franchise
* Marion St. Claire, in Bride Wars
* Marion Stimpleman, a minor character in Boy Meets World
* Marion Tweedy, maiden name of Molly Bloom in James Joyce's Ulysses
* Marion "Bill" Williamson, in the video games Red Dead Redemption and Red Dead Redemption 2