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Marina Inoue (井上 麻里奈)

Marina Inoue (井上麻里奈), born 1985 in Tokyo, is a Japanese voice actress and singer at Aoni Production. Known for Armin in Attack on Titan, Momo in My Hero Academia, Yoko in Gurren Lagann; 2004 debut via Sony Music audition.

Marina Joubert

Marina Joubert (Catherina Magdelena Joubert) is a South African science communication researcher and associate professor at Stellenbosch University known internationally for studies of visible scientists.

Marina Kaljurand

Marina Kaljurand is an Estonian Social Democratic Party politician, a Member of the European Parliament since 2019, Vice-Chair of its Civil Liberties committee, and a former Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Marina Kiehl

Marina Kiehl (born 1965, Munich) is a German former alpine skier for West Germany; Olympic downhill gold at Calgary 1988, World Cup giant slalom champion 1985 and Super G champion 1986, retired at 23. Not the swimmer Marina Jehl.

Marina Kielmann

Marina Kielmann (born 1968, Dortmund) is a German figure skater and roller skater, three-time German champion, 1992 European silver medalist, tenth at the 1988 and 1992 Olympics, later a Holiday on Ice star and coach.

Marina Klimova

Marina Klimova (Марина Владимировна Климова), Russian ice dancer born 1966 in Yekaterinburg; with husband Sergey Ponomarenko won Olympic bronze 1984, silver 1988, gold 1992, and three world titles.

Marina Koshevaya

Marina Koshevaya (Марина Владимировна Кошевая), Soviet breaststroke swimmer born 1960; 1976 Olympic 200 m breaststroke champion in world record 2:33.35 and 100 m bronze at Montreal.

Marina Kumysh

Marina Kumysh (Марина Евгеньевна Кумыш), born 1964 in Moscow, is a Soviet volleyball player, CSKA Moskva, who won gold in women's volleyball at the 1988 Seoul Olympics and the 1985 European Championship.

Marina Lubian

Marina Lubian (born 2000, Moncalieri) is an Italian middle blocker, Olympic gold medalist at Paris 2024, VNL champion 2022 and 2024, world silver 2018, and a multi-title player for Imoco Conegliano.

Marina Makeyeva

Marina Makeyeva, later Marina Stepanova, Soviet 400m hurdler born 1950 who set the women's 400m hurdles world record of 54.78 in Moscow on 27 July 1979, breaking Tatyana Zelentsova's 54.89, and regained the record in 1986 as Stepanova.

Marina Markova

Marina Markova (born 2001, St. Petersburg) is a Russian volleyball outside hitter, 1.99 m, for VakıfBank; ex-Syracuse and Florida All-American, ex-Novara, 2025-26 Kupa Voley final MVP.

Marina Marx

Marina Marx, real name Marina Mast, is a German rock-Schlager singer born in 1990 in Laupheim, best known for the 2019 streaming hit 'One Night Stand'.

Marina Mniszech

Marina Mniszech (Марина Мнишек) was a Polish noblewoman, daughter of voivode Jerzy Mniszech, crowned tsaritsa of Russia in 1606 as the bride of False Dmitry I.

Marina Nikulina Pankova

Marina Nikulina-Pankova (Марина Анатольевна Никулина-Панкова), Soviet and Russian volleyball setter; Olympic gold 1988, silver 1992; 1990 world and 1991, 1993 European champion; mother of Yekaterina Kosyanenko.

Marina Noris

Marina Noris is an Italian immunologist and human geneticist who heads the Center of Human Genetics at the Mario Negri Institute in Ranica, Bergamo, and established the genetic basis of atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome.

Marina Oswald Porter (Марина Николаевна Прусакова)

Marina Oswald Porter (Марина Николаевна Прусакова), Russian-born widow of Lee Harvey Oswald, married him in Minsk in 1961, testified first before the Warren Commission, and was cleared by the HSCA.

Marina Pluzhnikova

Marina Pluzhnikova, Soviet/Russian steeplechase runner born 1963, first Soviet 2000m steeplechase champion; her 6:11.84 (1994 Goodwill Games) was the world best until 2005 and remains the Russian record.

Marina Ratner

Marina Ratner (Марина Ратнер, 1938–2017) was a Russian-born American mathematician at UC Berkeley who worked in ergodic theory and proved the Raghunathan conjectures, a milestone in homogeneous dynamics.

Marina Rodnina

Marina V. Rodnina, born 1960 in Kiev, is a biochemist and biophysicist directing physical biochemistry at the Max Planck Institute in Göttingen, known for ribosome research.

Marina Ruy Barbosa

Marina Ruy Barbosa (Marina Souza Ruy Barbosa Negrão, born 1995, Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian actress and fashion entrepreneur, great-great-granddaughter of Ruy Barbosa, known for Globo telenovelas such as Império and Totalmente Demais and for playing Suzane von Richthofen in Tremembé (2025).

Marina Satti

Marina Satti (Μαρίνα Σάττι, born 1986) is a Greek singer, songwriter, and producer from Athens, best known for representing Greece at Eurovision 2024 with "ZARI".

Marina Shafir

Marina Shafir, Moldovan pro wrestler and former MMA fighter in AEW's Death Riders, nicknamed The Problem, known for judo-based style and WWE NXT past.

Marina Shmonina

Marina Shmonina (Марина Константиновна Шмонина), born 1965 in Tashkent, is a retired Russian 400 m sprinter; 1992 Olympic 4x400 relay gold for the Unified Team (heats only), 1990 European Indoor champion, banned four years for stanozolol in 1993.

Marina Sirtis

Marina Sirtis (born 1955, London) is a British-American actress famous as Counselor Deanna Troi on Star Trek: The Next Generation, its films, and Picard; also Demona in Gargoyles and Orli Elbaz in NCIS.

Marina Squerciati

Marina Squerciati (Marina Teresa Squerciati, born 1984, New York City) is an American actress, Northwestern theater graduate, Agnes Moorehead Award winner, and Officer Kim Burgess on NBC's Chicago P.D. since 2014.

Marina Sudakova

Marina Sudakova (Марина Владимировна Судакова, née Yartseva), born 1989 in Volgograd, Russian right wing handball player; Olympic gold medalist at Rio 2016, world champion 2009, played for Rostov-Don, Kuban, CSKA, and CSM Bucuresti.

Marina Sylvia Caprotti

Marina Sylvia Caprotti (born 1978) is an Italian business executive who has led Esselunga, one of Italy's largest supermarket chains, as executive chairman since 2020 and chief executive since 2021.

Marina Tsvetaeva (Марина Ивановна Цветаева)

Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva (Марина Ивановна Цветаева, 1892–1941), Russian Silver Age poet and prose writer, author of After Russia, Poema kontsa and Krysolov; suicide in Yelabuga 1941, Soviet rehabilitation from 1961.

Marina Viotti

Marina Viotti, Franco-Swiss mezzo-soprano, daughter of conductor Marcello Viotti and sister of Lorenzo Viotti; sang with Gojira at Paris 2024 Olympics, won a 2025 Grammy for Best Metal Performance, and sings Rosina, Carmen, and Charlotte worldwide.

Marina Vlady

Marina Vlady (Catherine Marina de Poliakoff-Baïdaroff), French actress, singer, and writer (1938–2026); Cannes Best Actress 1963 for The Conjugal Bed; nearly 100 films; wife of poet Vladimir Vysotsky.