- Justinian Marina
Justinian Marina (born Ioan Marina was a Romanian Orthodox prelate. He was the third patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, serving between 1948 and 1977.
- Francisco Martínez Marina
Francisco Xavier Martinez Marina was a noted Spanish jurist, historian and priest. Born in Oviedo, capital city of the Principality of Asturias in northern Spain, he was director of the Real Academia de la Historia, an institution dedicated to the study of Spain's political, civilian, ecclesiastical and military history. He also served as director of the Real Academia Española (Royal Spanish Academy), an institution responsible for regulating the Spanish language.
- Anya Marina
Anya Marina is a singer-songwriter and radio disc jockey based in San Diego, Calif. Her music has been featured on the ABC television drama "Grey's Anatomy" (and its second soundtrack) and on shows such as MTV's "The Real World". Anya deejays on KBZT (FM94/9) in San Diego from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. every Monday through Saturday.
- Princess Marina
Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent was a member of the British Royal Family; the wife of Prince George, Duke of Kent, the fourth son of George V and Queen Mary. Princess Marina was the last foreign-born princess to marry into the British royal family; subsequent brides have been commoners.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Carlos Ruiz Zafón is a Spanish novelist. Born in Barcelona in 1964, he has lived in Los Angeles, United States, since 1994. His first novel, "El príncipe de la niebla" ("The Prince of Mist", 1993), earned the Edebé literary prize for young adult fiction. He is also the author of three more young-adult novels, "El palacio de la medianoche" (1994), "Las luces de septiembre" (1995) and "Marina" (1999).
- Eddy Wally
Eddy Wally is a singer from Ertvelde (Flanders, Belgium), and is the self-proclaimed "Voice Of Europe". He is most known for his songs "Chérie" and "Ik spring uit een vliegmachien" (I jump out of an airplane), and usually wears flashy, shiny outfits, characterized by camp and kitsch reminiscent of Liberace. Eddy Wally's fanbase consists mostly of older people, but recently his popularity amongst youngsters has increased.
- Susana Dosamantes
Susana Dosamantes (born Susana Rue Riestra) is a Mexican actress born on January 9 1948 in Guadalajara Mexico. She is mother of singer Paulina Rubio and has worked in around 50 movies and TV series'. She is divorced from Enrique Rubio, the father of her daughter Paulina Rubio and son Enrique Rubio. She has been on many TV shows and novelas (Spanish soap-operas). She is currently working on the soap-opera "Marina"
- Umberto Giordano
Umberto Giordano (August 28, 1867 - November 12, 1948) was an Italian composer, mainly of opera. He was born in Foggia in Puglia, Italy and studied under Paolo Serrao at the Conservatoire of Naples. His first opera "Marina", was written for the competition staged by the music publishers Casa Sonzogno for the best one-act opera, remembered today because it marked the beginning of Italian "verismo"; the winner was Mascagni's "Cavalleria Rusticana".
- Sandra Echeverría
Sandra Echeverría is a Mexican actress and singer, who is best known for her starring role in the Telemundo series " Marina". She is slated to star in another Telemundo project, "La Traición".
- Aylín Mújica
Aylín Mújica is a Cuban-born actress, model, and ballet dancer who currently lives in Mexico City, Mexico. She posed nude in the Spanish magazine "Interviu" and appeared in a sexy photoshoot at the "H para Hombres" magazine as well. Mújica also appeared in several Mexican TV shows, including TV Azteca's morning weekend TV Show "Tempranito" and the telenovela "Amor en Custodia".
- Ilean Almaguer
Ilean Almaguer Ochoa ís a Mexican actress best known for her roles in telenovelas and dozens of TV commercials. She played Patty Alarcon on the Telemundo series "Marina"
- Azhar Mansor
Dato' Azhar Mansor is the first Malaysian solo sailor. He sailed around the world in 104 days during 1999 using the sailing ship called "Jalur Gemilang". It is widely believed that he renounced Islam, and that he is now a Christian living in Australia. This rumour is false, however, as he is still in charge of the Telaga Harbour marina in Langkawi, Malaysia. Azhar has repeatedly denied all rumors in nearly every local paper as of 10 November, 2006, …
- Prince Nicholas Of Greece And Denmark
Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark, of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, was the third son of George I (1845-1913), King of the Hellenes, and of Grand Duchess Olga Constantinovna (1851-1926) of Russia. He was known as "Greek Nicky" in the family to distinguish him from his cousin Nicholas II of Russia (1868 - 1918).
- Risë Stevens
Risë Stevens (first name properly spelled Risë and pronounced "REE-sah") was an American mezzo-soprano who captured a wide popular audience at the height of her career (1940 - 1960). She studied at New York’s Juilliard School of Music for three years. She went to Vienna, where she was trained by Marie Gutheil-Schoder and Herbert Graf. She made her début as Mignon in Prague in 1936 and stayed there until 1938, …
- Marina Ricolfi Doria
Marina, Princess of Naples (nee Marina Ricolfi Doria) (born February 12, 1935) is a Swiss-born water skier who married to Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples. Although the titles and distinctions of the Italian royal family have been legally abolished, she is often styled "HRH Crown Princess Marina, Princess of Naples" out of courtesy, particularly by supporters of the former monarchy. Marina Doria is the daughter of Renee Ricolfi Doria and Iris Benvenuti, …
- Marina Hedman
Marina Hedman, also known as Marina Lotar is a Swedish former porn star and model. Hedman used to live in Sweden where she worked as a model and stewardess. In late 1960s, she married RAI reporter Paolo Frajese and settled in Italy. The couple had a son named Paolo Attilio and a daughter named Liselotte. Hedman saw her marriage with Frajese as an obstacle to her future aspirations and they divorced in 1975.
- Marina Berlusconi
Marina Berlusconi ("Maria Elvira Berlusconi", born August 10, 1966 in Milan) is the daughter of Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's billionaire former prime minister. Marina Berlusconi holds several posts in her father's media empire. She is chairman of Italy's largest magazine publisher, Mondadori, and deputy chairman of the family's investment arm, Fininvest, the media holding company her father founded and built.
- Marina Karaseva
Marina Karaseva (born August 8 1958, Moscow) is a Russian musicologist, Professor of Moscow Conservatory, Department of Music Theory, Grand Doctor in Art, Ph.D. in Musicology, Member of Russian Composers Union, Fulbright Scholar.
- José Dizon
Jose Matanza Dizon was a Filipino patriot who was among those who founded the Katipunan that sparked the Philippine Revolution against Spain in 1896. Dizon was born in Binondo, Manila and was married to Roberta Bartolomé, who died in March 1876, eight months after giving birth to their daughter Marina. Dizon entrusted Marina to his sister Josefa Dizon Jacinto and her son Emilio Jacinto while he worked as an engraver in the mint in Manila.
- Emma Waller
Emma Waller (1819 - February 28 1899) was an English actress who achieved fame in America. Waller made her first appearance at Drury Lane in 1856 as Pauline in "The Lady of Lyons". Earlier, she had acted in provincial theatres, and there is a record of her appearance at Melbourne, in 1855, with Gustavus Vaughan Brooke, in "Macbeth". On October 19, 1857 she appeared in Philadelphia, playing Ophelia, and on April 5, 1858, she debuted on the New York Stage, …
- Honorata de la Rama
Honorata “Atang” de la Rama was a singer and vaudeville performer who became the first Filipina film actress. Atang de la Rama was born in Manila, the Philippines on January 11, 1905. By the age of 7, she was already starring in Spanish "zarzuelas" such as "Mascota", "Sueño de un Vals", and "Marina". At the age of 15, she starred in the sarsuela "Dalagang Bukid", where she became known for the singing the song, …
- Beatriz Parra Durango
Ecuador's foremost classical soprano, Beatriz Parra Durango was born in Guayaquil, 1940. Her first studies took place at the Conservatory Antonio Neumane in the city of Guayaquil, where she became the soloist of the Conservatory's choir. In 1957 she received her first prize when she participated in the competition "Searching for a Voice in Ecuador", organized by the House of Culture and Radio CRE.
- Princess Elizabeth Elizabeth Countess of Toerring-Jettenbac
Princess Elizabeth of Greece and Denmark (24 May 1904-11 January 1955) was the middle daughter of Prince Nicholas of Greece and Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna of Russia. Elizabeth was born on 24 May 1904 at Tatoi. Like her sisters, Olga and Marina, Elizabeth was considered a great beauty. Her family nicknamed her 'Woolly' because her dark brown hair was thicker and more difficult to manage than that of her sisters.
- Maurice Herriott
Maurice Herriott (born 8 October,1939) was a British athlete who competed mainly in the 3000 metre steeple chase. He competed for Great Britain in the 1964 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan in the 3000 metre steeple chase where he won the silver medal.
- Ivana Milicevic
Ivana Milicevic was born on April 26, 1974, in Sarajevo, Bosnia, (part of Yugoslavia at that time) into an ethnic Croatian family of Tonka and Damir Milicevic. Ivana has a younger brother, Tomo Milicevic. The family emigrated to the United States, and young Ivana Milicevic was raised in Michigan. She attended Athens High school in Troy, Michigan, and worked as a model during her school years. She became a naturalized citizen of the United States. In 1992 Milicevic graduated from high...
- Athena Starr
Sister of Mindy Rae.
- Víctor Mariña
- Blanca Soto La Marina
- Imca Marina
- Armando Soto La Marina
- Craig Marina
- Sabina Marina
- Sebastian Marina
- Salvador Marina
- Marina Cherkasova
Marina Cherkasova was a Russian figure skater. She won the silver medal in pair skating with her partner Sergei Shakrai. Cherkasova and Shakrai trained in Moscow with Stanislav Zhuk. They won the European title in 1979 and the World title in 1980, as well as the silver at the 1980 Winter Olympics. Cherkasova was only 15 years old when she competed at the Olympics. Their main rivals included fellow Soviets Irina Rodnina & Alexander Zaitsev, whom they never defeated, …
- Marina Verenikina
Marina Verenikina (also known as Marina V to her fans) is a Russian singer/musician. She was born in Soviet Russia to a nuclear physicist father and a child psychologist mother.
- Marina Baker
Marina Baker (born Marina Augusta Baker on 8 December 1967) is an English former model and actress turned journalist, children's book author and local politician (now known as Marina Pepper). She was chosen as "Playboy"'s Playmate of the Month for March 1987. Originally from Taplow, near Slough in south-east England, she and her older brother Martin "moved around a lot" until they reached Norfolk.
- Marina Semenova
Marina Timofeyevna Semyonova (born in Saint-Petersburg on June 12, 1908) is the first Soviet-trained prima ballerina. She was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1975. The first great dancer formed by Agrippina Vaganova, she graduated from the Vaganova School in 1925, which "is registered in the annals of Soviet ballet as the year of the unprecedented triumph of Marina Semyonova".
- Marina The Monk
Saint Marina the Monk (sometimes known as Pelagia, Mary of Alexandria, Marinus, Marinos, Marina the Syrian) (6th century?) is venerated as a saint. She is considered a female "Desert Father". Her legend may be a pious fiction: it states that her father Eugene (Eugenius), a Bithynian who wanted to become a monk, took both himself and his daughter Marina (whom he disguised as a boy) to a monastery.
- Marina Klimova
Marina Vladimirovna Klimova (born June 28, 1966 in Sverdlovsk) is a Russian figure skater in ice dancing. Her skating partner and husband is Sergei Ponomarenko. She trained at Spartak in Moscow. In addition to winning three World Championships and four European Championships, Klimova and Ponomarenko are the only figure skaters in any discipline to have won Olympic medals in three different colors. They won the bronze medal in 1984 Sarajevo, …