Marian (given name)

Marian is a given name, either derived from Maria (female) or Marius (male). In Slovak, and sometimes in Czech, the name is spelled Marián.

The Latin meaning refers to Marian as “Rose Petal”.

The Hebrew meaning of Marian is "the precious one" or "unique" from the word "Mariam".

Marian

Gender	female/male
Origin
Word/name	Hebrew/Latin

Female

• Maid Marian, legendary companion of Robin Hood
• Marian (or Marion), a typical name for the shepherdess character in the pastourelle genre of Old French lyric poetry
• Marian Anderson (1897–1993), African-American contralto opera singer
• Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg (born 1965), Dutch scientist
• Marian Bell (economist) (born 1957), British economist
• Marian Bell (field hockey) (born 1958), former Australian field hockey player
• Marie Booth (1864–1937), third daughter of William and Catherine Booth, the founders of the Salvation Army
• Marian Dawkins (born 1945), British biologist
• Marian Hobson (born 1941), British scholar of French
• Marian Keyes (born 1963), Irish writer
• Marian Pritchard (1869-1945), British fashion writer and journalist
• Marian Pour-El (1928–2009), American mathematician
• Marian Rivera (born 1984), Spanish born-Filipino actress and model
• Marian Scott (statistician) (born 1956), Scottish statistician and academic
• Marian Shields Robinson (born 1937), mother of First Lady of the United States Michelle Obama
• Marian “Tyger” Trimiar (born 1953), American pioneering women's boxer

Male

• Marian von Bardowick (died 782), German deacon and saint
• Marián Čalfa (born 1946), ethnic Slovak former Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia
• Marian Cozma (1982–2009), Romanian handball player
• Marian Czura, Polish-German filmmaker
• Marian Foik (1933–2005), Polish sprinter
• Marián Gáborík (born 1982), Slovak professional ice hockey player
• Marian Gold (born 1954), German singer from the synth pop band Alphaville
• Marian Heitger (1927–2012), German educationalist
• Marián Hossa (born 1979), Slovak professional ice hockey player
• Marian Hristov (born 1973), Bulgarian footballer
• Marian Jaworski (born 1926), Catholic archbishop
• Marián Kochanský (1955–2006), Slovak singer
• Marián Kočner (born 1963), Slovak entrepreneur
• Marian Kudera (1923–1944), Polish resistance fighter against the Nazis
• Marián Labuda (born 1944), Slovak actor
• Marián Lapšanský (born 1947), Slovak pianist
• Marian Moszoro, (born 1974), Polish economist
• Marian Orzechowski, (born 1931), Polish economist and politician
• Marian Oprea (born 1982), Romanian triple jumper
• Marian Rejewski (1905–1980), Polish mathematician and cryptologist who solved the Nazi Enigma machine
• Marian Sârbu (born 1958), Romanian trade unionist and politician
• Marian Smoluchowski (1872–1917), Polish physicist
• Marian Spychalski (1906–1980), Polish military leader and politician
• Marian Tumler (1887–1987), Austrian theologian and Grand Master of the Teutonic Order
• Marian Vanghelie (born 1968), Romanian politician
• Marián Varga (born 1947), Slovak musician

See also

• Marion (given name), another unisex given name