Maren is a Germanic feminine given name. Originally, it has been a Danish variation of the name Marina. It has also been used as a surname. Notable people with the name include:

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Maren Ade Maren Ade (; born 12 December 1976) is a German film director, screenwriter and producer. Ade lives in Berlin, teaching screenwriting at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg in Ludwigsburg. Together with Janine Jackowski and Jonas Dornbach, she ...

(born 1976), German film director, screenwriter and producer * Maren Elisabeth Bang (1797–1884), Norwegian cookbook writer * Maren Baumbach (born 1981), German handball player *

Maren Brinker Maren Fromm (née Brinker; born 10 July 1986) is a retired German volleyball player, a member of Germany women's national volleyball team. Personal life On 24 June 2017 she married Christian Fromm, German national team volleyball player. Car ...

(born 1986), German volleyball player * Maren Derlien (born 1975), German rower *

Maren Eggert Maren Eggert (born 30 January 1974) is a German actress. She is best known for playing the role of Frieda Jung in the German TV series ''Tatort''. Another notable appearance of her is the role of Dora in the 2001 film '' Das Experiment'', opposi ...

(born 1974), German actress *

Maren Hammerschmidt Maren Hammerschmidt (born 24 October 1989) is a former German biathlete. She has won a bronze and a gold medal with the German Women's Relay team at the Biathlon World Championships 2016 and 2017 2017 was designated as the International ...

(born 1989), German biathlete *

Maren Hassinger Maren Hassinger (born Maren Louise Jenkins in 1947) is an African-American artist and educator whose career spans four decades. Hassinger uses sculpture, film, dance, performance art, and public art to explore the relationship between the natural ...

(born 1947), African-American sculpture artist *

Maren Haugli Maren Haugli (born 3 March 1985) is a Norway, Norwegian retired long track speed skating, long track speed skating, speed skater who participated in international competitions. She represents the sports club Jevnaker IF and is the granddaughter ...

(born 1985), Norwegian long track speed skater *

Maren Jensen Maren Jensen is an American former model and actress, best known for portraying Lieutenant Athena in the 1978–79 television series ''Battlestar Galactica (1978 TV series), Battlestar Galactica''. Jensen also made guest appearances in several US ...

(born 1956), American model and actress *

Maren Juel Maren Juel (18 March 1749 – 20 February 1815) was a Norwegian landowner, regarded as the wealthiest woman in Norway at her time. She was born in Christiania (now Oslo) as the daughter of timber trader and civil servant Hans Juel (1702– ...

(1749–1815), Norwegian landowner *

Maren Kaminski Maren Kaminski (born 15 February 1979) is a German politician from Die Linke. She was elected to the Bundestag in the 2025 German federal election. Life Kaminski studied social sciences at the Leibniz University Hannover. She then became union ...

(born 1979), German politician * Maren Knebel (born 1985), German sprint canoer * Maren Kock, (born 1990), German middle-distance runner *

Maren Kroymann Maren Kroymann (; born 19 July 1949) is a German actress, comedian and singer. Career Kroymann was born in Walsrode. She studied English, Roman studies, and American studies at University of Tübingen. After spending time in Paris and the ...

(born 1949), German actress and singer *

Maren Lundby Maren Lundby (born 7 September 1994) is a retired Norwegian ski jumper. She is one of the most successful ski jumpers in the history of the sport, having won three consecutive World Cup overall titles (an all-time record shared with Adam Małysz ...

(born 1994), Norwegian ski jumper *

Maren Meinert Maren Meinert (born 5 August 1973) is a German football coach and former player who played as a midfielder and striker. She was most recently the head coach of Germany women's national under-20 football team. As a player, Meinert played for Ge ...

(born 1973), German footballer *

Maren Mjelde Maren Nævdal Mjelde (; born 6 November 1989) is a Norwegian professional footballer who plays as a defender or midfielder for Women's Super League club Everton and captains the Norway national team. She has won several titles while playing ...

(born 1989), Norwegian footballer *

Maren Morris Maren Larae Morris (born April 10, 1990) is an American singer-songwriter. Rooted in the country genre, her music blends in elements of pop and R&B. Her accolades include a Grammy Award, an American Music Award, five Country Music Associatio ...

(born 1990), American country singer, songwriter, and record producer * Maren Niemeyer (born 1964), German journalist, author and documentary filmmaker * Maren Ord (born 1981), Canadian singer-songwriter of rock and pop music * Maren-Sofie Røstvig (1920–2014), Norwegian literary historian *

Maren Sars Maren Cathrine Sars (née Welhaven; 17 August 1811 – 27 December 1898) was a Norwegian socialite. Personal life She was born in Bergen as a daughter of priest Johan Ernst Welhaven (1775–1828) and Else Margrethe Cammermeyer (1785–1853), the ...

(1811–1898), Norwegian socialite * Maren Schwerdtner (born 1985), German heptathlete * Maren Seidler (born 1951), American track and field athlete *

Maren Skjøld Maren Rotstigen Skjøld (born 29 September 1993) is a Norwegian retired alpine skier. At the 2014 Junior World Championships she participated in five events, with 11th place in super combined as her best result. She made her FIS Alpine Ski Wor ...

(born 1993), Norwegian alpine skier * Maren Ueland (died 2018), Norwegian female murder victim

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Jerry Maren Jerry Maren (born Gerard Marenghi; January 24, 1920 – May 24, 2018) was an American actor who played a Munchkin member of the Lollipop Guild in the 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film ''The Wizard of Oz.'' He became the last surviving adult Munchkin ...

(1920–2018), American actor *

Juan Marén Juan Luis Marén Delis (born August 20, 1971) is a Cuban wrestler in the Greco-Roman style, who has won three medals at the Olympic Games. He was born in Santiago de Cuba Santiago de Cuba is the second-largest city in Cuba and the capital ci ...

(born 1971), Cuban wrestler *

Michael Maren Michael Maren (born November 15, 1955) is an American journalist, screenwriter, and director. He spent seventeen years as a foreign correspondent based in Africa, writing for magazines like ''The Village Voice'', ''Newsweek'', ''The New Republ ...

(born 1955), American journalist and screenwriter *

Thomas H. Maren Thomas H. Maren (1918 – August 15, 1999) was an American professor of medicine at the University of Florida. He was the founding father for the University of Florida College of Medicine, and he invented Trusopt to help people with glaucoma ...

(1918–1999), American professor of medicine at the University of Florida

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