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Marilyn Ramenofsky
Marilyn Ramenofsky, born 1946 in Phoenix, Arizona, American swimmer; set the 400m freestyle world record three times in 1964 (best 4:39.5) and won 400m freestyle silver at Tokyo 1964 behind Ginny Duenkel.
Marilyn Raphael
Marilyn Raphael is a Trinidad and Tobago-born climatologist at UCLA known for research on Antarctic sea ice variability, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2025.
Marilyn Stovall
Marilyn Stovall is a radiation physicist and epidemiologist who spent 64 years at MD Anderson Cancer Center, known for quantifying second-cancer risk and reconstructing radiation doses for over 100,000 survivors.
Marilyn Strathern
Marilyn Strathern, born Ann Marilyn Evans in 1941, is a British social anthropologist whose work on gift exchange, gender, and personhood drew on decades of Papua New Guinea fieldwork.
Marilyn Strickland
Marilyn Strickland, born 1962, is the Democratic U.S. Representative for Washington's 10th district since 2021 and the first African American to represent Washington in Congress.
Marilyn vos Savant
Marilyn vos Savant (born Marilyn Mach, 1946), American Parade columnist of "Ask Marilyn"; Guinness "Highest IQ" record holder with a 228 childhood ratio-IQ score, retired 1990; famous for correctly answering the Monty Hall problem in 1990.
Marilyn Warren
Marilyn Warren AC KC, Australian jurist, first woman appointed Chief Justice of any Australian supreme court (Victoria, 25 November 2003, 11th Chief Justice, served 2003–2017) and Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria 2006–2017; ended courtroom wigs, drove Court Services Victoria.
Marilyn Wilson-Rutherford
Marilyn Wilson-Rutherford, born Marilyn Sandra Rovell, is an American singer of the Honeys and American Spring, first wife of Brian Wilson, and mother of Carnie and Wendy Wilson of Wilson Phillips.
Marilyne Stains
Marilyne Stains is a French-trained chemistry education researcher who studies what happens in university STEM classrooms, formerly at Nebraska and Virginia, and a PECASE recipient.
Marilynne Robinson
Marilynne Robinson (born 1943, Sandpoint, Idaho) is an American novelist and essayist, author of Housekeeping (1980) and the Gilead trilogy: Gilead (2005 Pulitzer Prize), Home (2009 Orange Prize), and Lila (2014).
Marimastat
Marimastat (BB-2516), British Biotech's oral broad-spectrum hydroxamate MMP inhibitor and batimastat analogue, failed phase III cancer trials (pancreatic, lung, breast) due to no survival benefit and dose-limiting musculoskeletal syndrome from ADAM-10/17 inhibition.
Marimba
Marimba: a tuned-bar keyboard percussion idiophone with wooden bars, mallets, and resonators, lower and warmer than the xylophone; national instrument of Guatemala and Costa Rica with African-derived Central American traditions.
Marimba Nandayapa
Marimba Nandayapa, also known as Marimba Nandayapa Hermanos, is a Mexican marimba ensemble founded in 1956 by Zeferino Nandayapa, perhaps the oldest continuously performing marimba band.
Marimbault Roman Villa
Marimbault Roman Villa: Gallo-Roman villa under the church and cemetery of Marimbault, Gironde, France; known from 4th-century mosaic fragments (seven, at Musée de Bazas) and wall traces, never fully excavated.
Marimbondo hydroelectric plant
The Marimbondo hydroelectric plant (Usina Hidrelétrica de Marimbondo) is a 1,440 MW dam on the Grande River between Minas Gerais and São Paulo, Brazil, operated by Furnas since 1975.
Marimo (毬藻)
Marimo (毬藻), Aegagropila linnaei/brownii, is a freshwater green alga forming velvet-like lake balls, famous at Lake Akan, Japan, a Special Natural Monument, now endangered worldwide.
Marin Alexe
Marin Alexe is a physicist who works on ferroelectricity and complex oxide thin films and holds the Chair of Functional Materials at the University of Warwick.
Marin Alsop
Marin Alsop, born 1956, is an American conductor who led the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra from 2007 to 2021, the first woman to head a major American orchestra.
Marin Barleti
Marin Barleti, also known as Marinus Barletius, was an Albanian priest and historian, considered the first Albanian historian, who wrote an eyewitness account of the 1478 siege of Shkodra.
Marin Čilić
Marin Čilić, Croatian tennis player born 1988 in Medjugorje, 2014 US Open champion, runner-up at Wimbledon 2017 and Australian Open 2018, career-high No. 3 in January 2018, 21 ATP titles, Davis Cup winner 2018.
Marin County, California
Marin County, California: Bay Area county north of San Francisco, established 1850 as one of the state's original 27 counties. Seat San Rafael; 520 square miles; 11 incorporated towns; Coast Miwok homeland; about 254,000 residents.
Marin Drinov (Марин Стоянов Дринов)
Marin Drinov (Марин Стоянов Дринов, 1838–1906), Bulgarian historian and philologist born in Panagyurishte, died in Kharkiv; first president of the Bulgarian Literary Society (1869), founder of Bulgarian historiography, creator of the Drinov spelling, and first Bulgarian Minister of Education.
Marin H. Kollef
Marin H. Kollef is an American critical care physician-scientist at Washington University School of Medicine, where he directs intensive care research at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and studies ventilator-associated pneumonia.
Marin Hinkle
Marin Hinkle (born 1966, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania) is an American actress known for Judy Brooks on Once and Again, Judith Harper on Two and a Half Men, and Emmy-nominated Rose Weissman on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, with a parallel stage career.
Marin Ireland
Marin Ireland (Marin Yvonne Ireland), American actress born 1979 in Camarillo, California; Tony-nominated for Reasons to Be Pretty, known for Sneaky Pete, Homeland, The Umbrella Academy, The Dark and the Wicked, and her play Pre-Existing Condition.
Marin Kitagawa (喜多川海夢)
Marin Kitagawa (喜多川海夢) is the main heroine of Shinichi Fukuda's manga My Dress-Up Darling, a gyaru otaku cosplayer; anime debut January 2022 (CloverWorks), manga ended March 2025, season 2 July 2025.
Marin Marais
Marin Marais (1656-1728), French viola da gamba virtuoso and composer, Ordinaire de la Chambre du Roy 1679-1725, five books of Pièces de viole, four operas including Alcyone, pupil of Sainte-Colombe and Lully.
Marin Mersenne
Marin Mersenne (1588–1648) was a French Minim friar, mathematician, and music theorist who compiled the first list of Mersenne primes and coordinated a vast scholarly correspondence network.
Marin Soljačić
Marin Soljačić, born 1974 in Zagreb, Croatia, is a Croatian-American MIT physicist known for the 2007 wireless-power demonstration behind WiTricity and for landmark experiments in topological photonics.
Marin Šotiček
Marin Šotiček, Croatian winger/midfielder born 2004 in Novo Mesto, Slovenia; Lokomotiva Zagreb youth, FC Basel 2024-2026 (Swiss Super League 2024-25), on loan at Hajduk Split since July 2026; Croatia U-21 regular.