Marie (given name)
Marie is a feminine given name, a variation of the name Maria.
| Pronunciation | French: [maʁi] Czech: [ˈmarɪjɛ] |
|---|---|
| Origin | |
| Word/name | Biblical Hebrew, via Syro-Aramaic, Greek, Latin |
| Meaning | "bitter", "beloved", "rebelliousness", "wished-for child", "marine", “drop of the sea” |
| Other names | |
| Related names | Mary, Maria, Mariah |
It is also the standard form of the name in Czech, and is also used, either as a variant of Mary or Maria or a borrowing from French, in Danish, English, German, Norwegian, and Swedish.
Compound names
Female compound given names
Masculine
French Marie, just as Italian/Spanish Maria, is traditionally also used in masculine compound names or more rarely as a middle name, especially in Catholic families.
People
- Marie-Anne Rousselet (1732–1826), French engraver and illustrator.
- Marie Antoinette (1755–1793), Queen of France and Archduchess of Austria, who was decapitated by a guillotine during the French Revolution
- Marie Avgeropoulos (born 1986), Greek-Canadian actress
- Marie Bell (1922–2012), New Zealand educationalist, lecturer and teacher
- Marie Besnier Beauvalot (born c. 1981), French billionaire heiress
- Marie Cahill (1866–1933), American Broadway stage actress
- Marie-Christine Deurbroeck (b. 1957), Belgian long-distance runner
- Marie Claire Ross (born 1975 to 1976), Canadian para-swimmer
- Marie Curie (1867–1934), Polish-French physicist and wife of Pierre Curie
- Marie D. Eldridge (1926–2009), American statistician
- Marie de France, 12th-century French poet
- Marie de' Medici (1575–1642), Queen consort of France
- Marie Dressler (1868–1934), Canadian-American actress
- Marie Fredriksson (1958–2019), Swedish pop singer-songwriter
- Marie Grice Young (1876–1959), passenger on the RMS Titanic and a piano teacher
- Marie Helvin (born 1952), Japanese-American supermodel
- Marie-Henri Beyle aka Stendhal (1783 – 1842), French writer
- Marie Jose of Belgium (1906–2001), Belgian princess and last Queen consort of Italy
- Marie Laforêt (1939–2019), born Maïtena Marie Doumenach, French singer and actress
- Marie Laveau (1801–1881), New Orleans voodoo practitioner
- Marie Lloyd (1870–1922), English Music Hall singer
- Marie Louise Jensen (born 1964), British children's author
- Marie Louise Marguerite Belèze (1851–1913), French botanist, taxonomist, and explorer
- Marie-Louise von Franz (1915 – 1998), Swiss Jungian psychologist and scholar
- Marie Lu (born 1984), American author
- Marie-Lucie Tarpent (born 1941), French born Canadian linguist
- Marie Moore (born 1967), Canadian butterfly swimmer
- Marie of Edinburgh (1875–1938), Queen consort of Romania (1914–1927)
- Marie Orav (1911–1994), Estonian chess player
- Marie Osmond (born 1959), American entertainer and sister of the Osmond Brothers
- Marie Penny (died 1970), Canadian businesswoman
- Marie Prevost (1896–1937), Canadian actress
- Marie Rasmussen (born 1972), Danish pole vaulter
- Marie Robinson Wright (1853–1914), American journalist, traveler, historian, author
- Marie Saine-Firdaus (born 1973), Gambian lawyer and politician
- Marie Schlei (1919–1983), German politician
- Marie Serneholt (born 1983), Swedish singer/actress/model
- Marie Tussaud (1761–1850), French artist known for her wax sculptures
- Marie Wann (1911–1996), American statistician
- Marie Wilson (1916–1972), American actress
- Marie Zdeňka Baborová-Čiháková (1877–1937), Czech botanist and zoologist
Fictional characters
- Marie (Onegai), an anime character
- Marie Barone, a fictional character in the popular sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond
- Marie Calvet, Megan Calvet Draper's mother in Mad Men
- Marie, the lover of Meursault who is the main character in Albert Camus' novel The Stranger
- Marie, the daughter of Duchess in the 1970 Disney animated film The Aristocats
- Marie, fictional supporting character in the long-running soap opera EastEnders
- Marie, fictional character in the movie Paulie
- Marie, fictional character in the Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water anime series
- Marie, name attributed to fictional X-Men character Rogue in the films X-Men, X2: X-Men United, and X-Men: The Last Stand
- Marie Parfacy, real name of the fictional character Soma Peries in the Gundam anime series, Mobile Suit Gundam 00
- Marie Schrader, fictional character in the television series Breaking Bad
- Marie Kanker, character in Ed, Edd n Eddy
- Marie, the teenage occupant of the Velvet Room in Persona 4: The Golden
- Marie, character in the video game Splatoon and its sequel Splatoon 2, who is Callie's cousin and one of the two members of the Squid Sisters
- Marie Jones, a character from the movie Reviving Ophelia
See also
- Duchess Marie (disambiguation)
- Maarja, a given name
- Mary (given name)
- Máire, the Irish language form of the English language name Mary
- Maria (disambiguation)
- Marié
- Princess Marie (disambiguation)
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