Marion (given name)

Marion

Gender	Unisex
Origin
Word/name	French, Latin
Meaning	Diminutive French form of Marie or a form of Marius

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 (1846–1928), Scottish novelist
• Marion Adnams (1898–1995), English painter, printmaker, and draughtswoman
• Marion Aizpors (born 1961), German swimmer
• Marion Allemoz (born 1989), French ice hockey player
• Marion Angus (1865–1946), Scottish poet
• Marion Arnott, Scottish author
• Marion Aunor (born 1992), Filipino singer-songwriter
• Marion Aye (1903–1951), American actress
• Marion Bailey (born 1951), British actress
• Marion Bartoli (born 1984), French tennis player
• Marion Bauer (1882–1955), American composer, teacher, writer, and music critic
• Marion Barter (born 1945), Australian missing teacher who has not been seen since 1997
• Marion Babcock Baxter (1850–1910), American lecturer, author, financial agent
• Marion Howard Brazier (1850–1935), American journalist, editor, lecturer, clubwoman
• Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930–1999), American author
• Marion Corbett, pen name of the Misses Corbett
• Marion Cotillard (born 1975), French actress
• Marion Cunningham (author) (1922–2012), American cookbook author
• Marion Davies (1897–1961), American actress and mistress of William Randolph Hearst
• Marion Dönhoff (1909–2002), German journalist and publisher
• Marion Donovan (1917–1998), American inventor and entrepreneur
• Marion Moncure Duncan (1913–1978), American businesswoman and 25th president general of the NSDAR
• Marion Frater, New Zealand judge
• Marion Cameron Gray (1902–1979), Scottish mathematician
• Marion Goldman (born 1945), American sociologist
• Marion Hall (born 1972), Jamaican musician
• Marion Jones (born 1975), American sprinter
• Marion Jones Farquhar (1879–1965), née Jones, American tennis player
• Marion Kent (died 1500), English businessperson and property manager
• Marion Kracht (born 1962), German actress
• Marion Laboure, French economist, macro strategist and lecturer
• Marion Lüttge (born 1941), former East German javelin thrower
• Marion Mann (singer) (1914–2004), American singer
• Marion Maréchal (born 1989), French politician
• Marion Marlowe (1929–2012), American singer and actress
• Marion Shilling (1910–2004), American actress
• Marion Simon Misch (1869–1941), American activist, teacher, writer and businesswoman
• Marion Stokes (1929–2012), American activist and archivist
• Marion Raven (born 1984), Norwegian singer and songwriter
• Marion Ross (born 1928), American actress
• Marion Ross (physicist) (1903–1994), Scottish physicist
• Marion Margery Scranton (1884–1960), American suffragist and Republican activist
• Marion Tuu'luq (1910–2002), Canadian Inuk artist
• Marion Tylee (1906–1969), New Zealand artist
• Marion Ballantyne White (1871–1958), American mathematician and university professor

Men

• Marion Barber Jr. (born 1959), American former National Football League player
• Marion Barber III (1983–2022), American former National Football League player, son of the above
• Marion Barry (1936–2014), former mayor of Washington, D.C.
• Marion M. Bradford (1946–2021), American scientist known for his protein quantification method
• Marion Broadstone (1906–1972), American National Football League player
• Marion Butts (born 1966), American National Football League player
• Marion Cox (1920–1996), NASCAR car owner
• Marion Knight Jr. (born 1965), birth name of Suge Knight, founder of Death Row Records
• Marion Mann (1920–2022), American physician and pathologist
• Marion Morrison (1907–1979), birth name of John Wayne, American film actor
• Marion Motley (1920–1999), American National Football League and All-America Football Conference player, member of the Pro Hall of Fame
• Marion Parsonnet (1905–1960), American screenwriter
• Marion Albert Pruett (1949–1999), American spree killer
• Marion Pugh (1919–1976), American National Football League player
• Marion Pat Robertson (1930–2023), American televangelist
• Marion Mike Rounds (born 1954), U.S. Senator from (and former Governor of) South Dakota
• Marion Silva Fernandes (born 1991), Brazilian footballer known simply as "Marion"
• Marion Spielmann (1858–1948), English journalist and art critic

Fictional characters

• Marion (or Marian), 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 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

See also

• Marian (given name), another unisex given name
• Marnie (given name), occasionally used as a diminutive form of Marion