Marion (given name)
Marion is a unisex given name.
As a feminine given name, it is a French diminutive of Marie that has been in use by English speakers since the Middle Ages. It was also occasionally considered a form of Margaret or Margery.
As a masculine given name, it derives from the Latin given name Marianus, a form of the name Marius.
It may refer to:
Women
- Marion Adams-Acton, Scottish novelist
- Marion Adnams, English painter, printmaker, and draughtswoman
- Marion Aizpors, German swimmer
- Marion Allemoz, French ice hockey player
- Marion Angus, Scottish poet
- Marion Arnott, Scottish author
- Marion Aunor, Filipino singer-songwriter
- Marion Aye, American actress
- Marion Bailey, British actress
- Marion Barter, Australian missing teacher who has not been seen since 1997
- Marion Bartoli, French tennis player
- Marion Bauer, American composer, teacher, writer, and music critic
- Marion Babcock Baxter, American lecturer, author, financial agent
- Marion Zimmer Bradley, American author
- Marion Howard Brazier, American journalist, editor, lecturer, clubwoman
- Marion Bryce, Scottish-born Canadian educator and community leader
- Marion Corbett, pen name of the Misses Corbett
- Marion Cotillard, French actress
- Marion Cunningham (author), American cookbook author
- Marion Davies, American actress and mistress of William Randolph Hearst
- Marion Dönhoff, German journalist and publisher
- Marion Donovan, American inventor and entrepreneur
- Marion Moncure Duncan, American businesswoman and 25th president general of the NSDAR
- Marion du Faouët, Breton bandit leader
- Marion Frater, New Zealand judge
- Marion Goldman, American sociologist
- Marion Cameron Gray, Scottish mathematician
- Marion Hall, Jamaican musician
- Marion Jones, American sprinter
- Marion Jones Farquhar, née Jones, American tennis player
- Marion Kent, English businessperson and property manager
- Marion Kracht, German actress
- Marion Laboure, French economist, macro strategist and lecturer
- Marion Lüttge, former East German javelin thrower
- Marion Mackenzie – British medical doctor and suffragette
- Marion Mann (singer), American singer
- Marion Maréchal, French politician
- Marion Marlowe, American singer and actress
- Marion Oberhofer, Italian luger
- Marion Raven, Norwegian singer and songwriter
- Marion Ross, American actress
- Marion Ross (physicist), Scottish physicist
- Marion Rothman, American film editor
- Marion Scott, English violinist, musicologist, writer, music critic, editor, composer and poet
- Marion Margery Scranton, American suffragist and Republican activist
- Marion Scrymgour, Australian politician
- Marion Shilling, American actress
- Marion Simon Misch, American activist, teacher, writer and businesswoman
- Marion Stokes, American activist and archivist
- Marion Thees, German retired skeleton racer
- Marion True, American archeologist
- Marion Tuu'luq, Canadian Inuk artist
- Marion Tylee, New Zealand artist
- Marion Verbruggen, Dutch recorder player and teacher
- Marion Wagner, German retired sprinter
- Marion Walsmann, German politician and Member of the European Parliament
- Marion Ballantyne White, American mathematician and university professor
- Marion Wiesel, Austrian-American Holocaust survivor, humanitarian, and translator
- Marion Yorck von Wartenburg, German activist and judge
Men
- Marion Barber Jr., American former National Football League player
- Marion Barber III, American former National Football League player, son of the above
- Marion Barry, former mayor of Washington, D.C.
- Marion M. Bradford, American scientist known for his protein quantification method
- Marion Broadstone, American National Football League player
- Marion Butts, American National Football League player
- Marion Cox, NASCAR car owner
- Marion Knight Jr., birth name of Suge Knight, founder of Death Row Records
- Marion Mann, American physician and pathologist
- Marion Morrison, birth name of John Wayne, American film actor
- Marion Motley, American National Football League and All-America Football Conference player, member of the Pro Hall of Fame
- Marion Parsonnet, American screenwriter
- Marion Albert Pruett, American spree killer
- Marion Pugh, American National Football League player
- Marion Pat Robertson, American televangelist
- Marion Mike Rounds, U.S. Senator from South Dakota
- Marion Silva Fernandes, Brazilian footballer known simply as "Marion"
- Marion Spielmann, English journalist and art critic
- Marion Zioncheck, American politician
Fictional characters
- Marion, a typical name for the shepherdess character in the pastourelle genre of Old French lyric poetry
- Marion, in the videogame Gunbird
- Marion, Harriet's rival in Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
- Marion, an anthropomorphic railway self-propelled steam shovel in the British preschool TV series Thomas & Friends
- Marion Chambers, a character in Halloween
- Lieutenant Marion "Cobra" Cobretti, in the movie Cobra, played by Sylvester Stallone
- Marion Cunningham, on the television show Happy Days
- Marion Crane, the female lead in Psycho, played by Janet Leigh
- Marion Dunby, a chief police officer in the video game Lego City Undercover and its prequel, Lego City Undercover: The Chase Begins
- Marion Hill, a former professional football player in the TV series In the House, played by L L Cool J
- Marion Kerby, character in the movie Topper and its first sequel, played by Constance Bennett
- Marion Moseby, played by Phill Lewis in The Suite Life of Zack & Cody and its spin-off, The Suite Life on Deck
- Marion Paroo, in The Music Man
- Marion Ravenwood, in the Indiana Jones franchise
- Marion St. Claire, in Bride Wars
- Marion Stimpleman, a minor character in Boy Meets World
- Marion Tweedy, maiden name of Molly Bloom in James Joyce's Ulysses
- Marion "Bill" Williamson, in the video games Red Dead Redemption and ''Red Dead Redemption 2''