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Marianly Tejada

Marianly Tejada (Marianly Tejada Burgos), Dominican-American actress and Miss Mundo Dominicana 2011, known for Bronwyn Rojas in Peacock's One of Us Is Lying and Ellie Estevez in Netflix's Ransom Canyon.

Mariann Bienz

Mariann Bienz is a molecular biologist known for her work on Wnt signal transduction, the Wnt enhanceosome, and Dishevelled polymerisation; she worked at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge.

Mariann Budde

Mariann Edgar Budde is an American Episcopal bishop, the first woman elected to lead the Diocese of Washington in 2011, known for asking President Trump for mercy in 2025.

Marianna

Marianna (Cinquecento, 500 in Sicily) is an Italian four-player partnership trick-taking game related to Briscola, where declaring king-queen marriages scores 40-100 points and sets or changes the trump suit; game to 501.

Marianna Fontana

Marianna Fontana is an Italian cardiologist and Professor of Cardiology at University College London, known for cardiac MRI mapping of amyloidosis and 2024 NEJM trials.

Marianna Hill

Marianna Hill, born Marianna Schwarzkopf, is an American character actress known for starring roles in High Plains Drifter (1973), El Condor, and the cult horror film Messiah of Evil.

Marianna Palka

Marianna Palka (Marianna Bronislawa Barbara Palka, born 1981, Glasgow) is a Scottish actress, writer, director, and producer. Known for Good Dick (Sundance 2008), Bitch, Egg, Reggie Walsh in GLOW, and The Lion's Mouth Opens.

Marianne

Marianne, national personification of the French Republic since 1792: Phrygian cap, bust in every mairie, on stamps, coins and identity cards; celebrity models from Bardot (1969) to Deneuve and Casta.

Marianne (2019 TV series)

Marianne is a 2019 French Netflix supernatural horror series created by Samuel Bodin with Quoc Dang Tran, starring Victoire Du Bois as novelist Emma Larsimon. Eight episodes, 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, canceled after one season.

Marianne (Fontaines D.C. song)

"Marianne" is a 2026 song by Irish rock band Fontaines D.C., released 18 August 2026 as lead single of their fifth album Dopamine Chamber on XL Recordings. Produced by James Ford, nearly cut before manager Trevor Dietz intervened, it promises escape with the line "I can help you disappear."

Marianne Adam

Marianne Adam (born 1951, Luckenwalde) is a German former shot putter for East Germany; two-time Olympian (5th 1972, 4th 1976), 1974 European silver medallist, and world record holder at 21.60 m (1975) and 21.67 m (1976).

Marianne Bachmeier

Marianne Bachmeier (1950–1996), West German woman who on 6 March 1981 shot dead Klaus Grabowski, on trial for murdering her 7-year-old daughter Anna, in a Lübeck courtroom; convicted of manslaughter, six years, released after three.

Marianne Bertrand

Marianne Bertrand is a Belgian-born labor economist at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, known for a 2004 field experiment on hiring discrimination.

Marianne Brandt

Marianne Brandt, born Marianne Liebe, was a German designer and metalworker who led the Bauhaus metal workshop from 1928; her tea infuser MT49 and Kandem lamps became Bauhaus classics.

Marianne Bronner

Marianne Bronner is an American developmental biologist at Caltech known for research on neural crest development and evolution, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2015.

Marianne Buttenschon

Marianne Buttenschon is an American Democratic member of the New York State Assembly from the 119th district, covering Utica and Rome, first elected in 2018.

Marianne Faithfull

Marianne Faithfull (Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfull, 1946–2025) was an English singer, songwriter, and actress, discovered in 1964 and known for As Tears Go By and the 1979 comeback album Broken English.

Marianne Fatton

Marianne Fatton, Swiss ski mountaineering racer born 1995 in Neuchâtel; first Olympic champion in the sport, winning the women's sprint at Milano Cortina 2026 plus mixed relay silver; 2025 sprint world champion at Morgins and 2020 overall World Cup winner.

Marianne Florman

Marianne Florman (Marianne Florman Christensen), Danish handball player born 1964 in Frederiksberg; won women's handball gold for Denmark at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, later TV host, author, and horse-therapy leadership coach.

Marianne Frankenhaeuser

Marianne Frankenhaeuser (1925–2005) was a psychologist associated with Finland and Sweden, based in Stockholm, who showed that catecholamine secretion follows effort while cortisol follows distress, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1989.

Marianne Grunberg-Manago

Marianne Grunberg-Manago (1921–2013) was a French biochemist who, with Severo Ochoa, discovered polynucleotide phosphorylase, the enzyme that enabled deciphering the genetic code, and became the first woman president of the French Academy of Sciences.

Marianne Hafting Fyhn

Marianne Hafting Fyhn is a Norwegian neuroscientist who co-discovered grid cells, the brain's spatial-map neurons, and leads the Centre for Integrative Neuroplasticity at the University of Oslo.

Marianne Hansson

Marianne Hansson is a Swedish biochemist and life-science executive who co-founded the Stockholm proteomics company ProteomEdge AB and spent 12 years as chief executive of Atlas Antibodies.

Marianne Heemskerk

Marianne Heemskerk (Marianne Yvonne Heemskerk-Oudkerk), Dutch butterfly swimmer born 1944 in Rotterdam; 1960 Rome Olympic silver in 100 m butterfly and 1960 world record 200 m butterfly (2:34.4).

Marianne Ihlen

Marianne Christine Ihlen (1935-2016), Norwegian artist from Larkollen, lover and muse of Leonard Cohen on Hydra from 1960 to about 1972; muse of So Long, Marianne, first wife of Axel Jensen, later wife of Jan Stang; subject of a 2019 documentary and 2024 drama series.

Marianne Jean-Baptiste

Marianne Jean-Baptiste, British actress from Peckham and RADA graduate, first Black British woman Oscar-nominated for Secrets & Lies (1996); starred in Without a Trace and Mike Leigh's Hard Truths (2024).

Marianne Legato

Marianne Legato (born 1935) is an American cardiologist, Columbia professor emerita, and founder of gender-specific medicine, the Partnership for Gender-Specific Medicine (1997), the Foundation for Gender-Specific Medicine (1998), and the Blakeslee Award-winning book The Female Heart.

Marianne Mendt

Marianne Mendt, born Marianne Krupicka in 1945, is an Austrian singer and actress whose 1970 Viennese-dialect hit "Wie a Glock'n" is widely called the birth hour of Austropop.

Marianne Moore

Marianne Moore (1887–1972) was an American modernist poet known for precisely observed, quotation-rich poems on animals and art, and for acting editor of The Dial from 1925 to 1929.

Marianne Pettersen

Marianne Pettersen (Marianne Iren Pettersen), Norwegian striker born 1975 in Oslo; 1995 Women's World Cup and 2000 Olympic champion with Norway, 98 caps and 66 goals, and record 122-goal scorer in the Norwegian Toppserien.