# Marina (given name)

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".

## Religion

* Saint Marina (disambiguation), name of several Christian saints
* Marina of Omura (died 11 November 1634), one of the 16 Martyrs of Japan

## 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 Hanser. glass artist from Belgium
* 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 Brogi (born 1967), Italian economist and author
* 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