Marilyn (given name)
Marilyn is a feminine given name.
Origin and meaning
Marilyn is a blend of the English given names Mary and Lynn.First record of the name
Marilyn: Marilyn Spencer Foster born 1510 in England. It began to be used increasingly in the 1920s, and it reached its peak of popularity in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s.
Variants of the name includes: Maralyn, Marelyn, Marilynn, Marlyn, Marylyn, Marrilyn, Marillyn, Merilyn, Merrelyn and Merrilyn.
Notable people
- Marilyn (singer), British entertainer
- Marilyn Agliotti, Dutch-South African field hockey player
- Marilyn Anderson, Australian scientist
- Marilyn Aschner, American professional tennis player
- Marilyn Avila, American politician
- Marilyn Bergman, American composer, songwriter and author
- Marilyn Borden, American singer and actress
- Marilyn Brick, Canadian politician
- Marilyn Burns (disambiguation), several people
- Marilyn Chambers, American pornographic actress
- Marilyn Churley, Canadian politician
- Marilyn Cole, Playboy magazine's January 1972 Playmate of the Month
- Marilyn Crispell, American pianist and composer
- Marilyn Duckworth, New Zealand novelist, poet and short story writer
- Marilyn Duke, American singer
- Marilyn Eastman, American actress
- Marilyn Erskine, American actress
- Marilyn Ferguson, American author, editor and public speaker
- Marilyn Fogel, American geo-ecologist
- Marilyn French, American author
- Marilyn Ghigliotti, American actress, producer, director and make-up artist
- Marilyn Gladu, Canadian politician
- Marilyn Gordon, Trinidad and Tobago politician
- Marilyn Hacker, American poet, critic and reviewer
- Marilyn Hagerty, American newspaper columnist
- Marilyn Hall, Canadian-born American producer and philanthropist
- Marillyn Hewson, executive of Lockheed Martin
- Marilyn Horne, American opera singer
- Marilyn Howard, American politician
- Marilyn Kaye, American children's writer
- Marilyn Kidd, Australian rower
- Marilyn Knowlden, American child actress
- Marilyn Kozak, American professor of biochemistry
- Marilyn Levine, Canadian ceramics artist
- Marilyn Lewis, American politician
- Marilyn Lloyd, American politician and businesswoman
- Marilyn Fisher Lundy, American businesswoman and philanthropist
- Marilyn Martino, Venezuelan politician
- Marilyn Maxwell, American actress
- Marilyn Mazur, American-born Danish percussionist
- Marilyn McCoo, American singer and actress
- Marilyn Milian, judge on the television show The People's Court
- Marilyn Miller, Broadway performer
- Marilyn Monroe, American actress
- Marilyn Mosby, American politician and lawyer
- Marilyn Nelson, American poet, translator, biographer, and author
- Marilyn Neufville, Jamaican sprinter
- Marilyn Norry, Canadian actress
- Marilyn Olinger, American baseball player
- Marilyn Pieronek, Canadian TikToker
- Marilyn Quayle, American lawyer, author and Second Lady of the United States
- Marilyn Ramenofsky, American freestyle swimmer
- Marilyn Scott, American singer
- Marilyn Singer, American author of children's books
- Marilyn Strickland, American politician
- Marilyn vos Savant, American columnist and author
- Marilyn Vann, Cherokee Nation engineer and activist
- Marilyn Waltz, Playboy magazine's February 1954, April 1954, April 1955 Playmate of the Month
- Marilyn Waring, New Zealand politician
- Marilyn Wilson-Rutherford, American singer
- Marilynn Webb, New Zealand artist
- Marilyn Ziering, American business executive and philanthropist from Los Angeles, California
Stage name
- Brian Hugh Warner, American musician and artist who goes by the stage name "Marilyn Manson"
Marylyn
- Marylyn Addo, German infectiologist
- Marylyn Chiang, Canadian swimmer
- Marylyn D. Ritchie, biologist
- Marylyn Dintenfass, American artist
Merrelyn
A variation of Marylin is Merrelyn, sometimes spelled as Merrilyn. Notable people with the name include:- Merrelyn Emery, Australian psychologist, co-refiner with Fred Emery of the Search Conference participative planning process
- Merrilyn Goos, Australian mathematician
- Merrilyn (Merri) Rose, Australian politician
Characters
- Marilyn Chambers, fictional character from the Australian soap opera, Home and Away
- Marilyn Chambers, minor fictional character in British television series, The Bill
- Marilyn Whirlwind, a character in the Northern Exposure TV series
- Marilyn Lee, a character from the book ''Everything I Never Told You''