Marie (given name)

Marie
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

Marie is a feminine given name, a variation of the name Maria.

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.

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Feminine[]

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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 Célestine Amélie d'Armaillé (1830-1918), French writer, biographer, historian
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 Léopold-Lacour (1859-1942), French feminist activist, journalist, writer
Marie Léra (1864-1958), French journalist, novelist, translator
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