Marion_(given_name)
Marion (given name)
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Marion is a 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.[1]
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Gender | Unisex |
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Word/name | French, Latin |
Meaning | Diminutive French form of Marie or a form of Marius |
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It may refer to:
- 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 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 Cameron Gray (1902–1979), Scottish mathematician
- 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 Lüttge (born 1941), former East German javelin thrower
- Marion Mann (singer) (1914–2004), American singer
- Marion Maréchal (born 1989), French politician
- Marion Marlowe (1929–2012), American singer and actress
- 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 Tuu'luq (1910–2002), Canadian Inuk artist
- Marion Tylee (1906–1969), New Zealand artist
- 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 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
- 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
- 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 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
- Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006). Oxford Dictionary of First Names. Oxford University Press. p. 184. ISBN 0-19-861060-2.
- Marian (given name), another unisex given name
- Marnie (given name), occasionally used as a diminutive form of Marion
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