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 (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 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 Cameron Gray (1902–1979), Scottish mathematician
 * 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 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


 * 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 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