Mari is a feminine given name in the Breton, Japanese,

Armenian Armenian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Armenia, a country in the South Caucasus region of Eurasia * Armenians, the national people of Armenia, or people of Armenian descent ** Armenian Diaspora, Armenian communities across the ...

, Estonian, Georgian, Hungarian, Finnish,

Welsh Welsh may refer to: Related to Wales * Welsh, referring or related to Wales * Welsh language, a Brittonic Celtic language spoken in Wales * Welsh people People * Welsh (surname) * Sometimes used as a synonym for the ancient Britons (Celtic peopl ...

Swedish Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: * Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland ** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ...

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Norwegian language Norwegian ( no, norsk, links=no ) is a North Germanic language spoken mainly in Norway, where it is an official language. Along with Swedish and Danish, Norwegian forms a dialect continuum of more or less mutually intelligible local and regi ...

s. It is also a devotional given name in Tamil. It can be seen as a cognate of Mary in Danish, Finnish, Norwegian or Swedish. In the countries of Georgia and Armenia, Mari is a shortened version of the name Mariam. In Armenia, Mari (Մարի) was the 2nd-most-common female given name of 2013. In Japanese it appears as , or can be written using different

kanji are the logographic Chinese characters taken from the Chinese script and used in the writing of Japanese. They were made a major part of the Japanese writing system during the time of Old Japanese and are still used, along with the subse ...

characters so that it means, respectively: *真理, "truth" *万里, "long distance" *茉莉, "jasmine" *麻里, "hemp, village" *麻莉, "hemp, white jasmine" *愛莉, "love, white jasmine"(This kanji can also be read as Airi.) The name can also be written in

hiragana is a Japanese language, Japanese syllabary, part of the Japanese writing system, along with ''katakana'' as well as ''kanji''. It is a phonetic lettering system. The word ''hiragana'' literally means "flowing" or "simple" kana ("simple" ori ...

katakana is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, kanji and in some cases the Latin script (known as rōmaji). The word ''katakana'' means "fragmentary kana", as the katakana characters are derived f ...

People

Saint Mari Saint Mari, also known as Mares and originally named Palut, is a saint of the Church of the East. He was converted by Thaddeus of Edessa, or Addai, and is said to have had Mar Aggai as his spiritual director. Missionary work He is believed ...

, a 1st-century saint of the Church of the East and several other denominations * Mari of Seleucia-Ctesiphon, Patriarch of the Church of the East (987–999) * Mari ibn Suleiman (12th century), historian * Mari Abel (born 1975), Estonian actress * Mari Akasaka (真理, born 1964), Japanese novelist * Mari Alkatiri (born 1949), Prime Minister of East Timor from 2002 to 2006 * Mari Amachi (真理, born 1951), Japanese singer and actress *

Mari Ellis Mari Gwendoline Ellis (born Mary Gwendoline Headley, 21 July 1913 – 25 January 2015), was a Welsh writer and women's rights activist. Life She was born in Dylife, Montgomeryshire, the daughter of the Reverend Richard Llewelyn Headley. She gr ...

(1913-2015), Welsh writer and women's rights activist *

Mari Hamada is a Japanese heavy metal and pop rock singer. Since her debut in 1983, Hamada has been known as the "Heavy Metal Queen" of Japan. Throughout her career, she has released 25 singles and 23 studio albums. Biography Early history Mari Ha ...

(麻里, born 1962), Japanese rock singer *

Mari Hamada (actress) is a Japanese singer and actress who starred in numerous Japanese films and Japanese television dramas. and released two solo albums and solo singles in the 1990s, after being part of the Japanese band "Modern Choki Chokies". She was also par ...

(マリ, born 1968), Japanese singer and actress * Mari Hanafusa (まり, born 1974), Japanese actress in Takarazuka Revue * Mari Henmi (マリ, born 1950), Japanese singer and actress *, Japanese volleyball player *

Mari Hoshino is a Japanese actress and singer. Background She graduated from Aoyama Gakuin University. Most well known for her lead role as Otome Sakamoto in T.B.S. drama, ''Kinpachi-sensei'', Hoshino has starred in several dramas in recent years. Her main r ...

(真里, born 1981), Japanese actress * Mari Hulman George (1934–2018), American auto racing executive * Mari Iijima (真理, born 1963), Japanese singer-songwriter * Mari Jászai (1850–1926), Hungarian actress *

Mari Kalkun Mari Kalkun (born 1 April 1986) is an Estonian singer and musician who specializes in contemporary folk music. She has performed at home and abroad with the ensemble Runorum, releasing several recordings since 2007. In 2013, she was voted the be ...

(born 1986), Estonian singer and musician *

Mari Kurismaa Mari Kurismaa (born 19 April 1956 in Pärnu) is an Estonian interior architect and painter. In 1979 she graduated from Estonian State Art Institute in interior architecture. 1980s and 1990s she was focused on painting. In the late 1990s he focu ...

(born 1956u), Estonian artist and architect * Mari Kimura (木村まり, born 1962), Japanese violinist and composer *

Mari Kinsigo Mari Kinsigo ( Sammul; 12 July 1946 – 10 May 2014), was an Estonian chess player who received the title of Woman FIDE Master (WFM) in 1993. Biography In 1964 she graduated from secondary school in Viljandi. Her first chess coach was her fathe ...

(1946–2014), Estonian chess Woman FIDE Master *

Mari Kiviniemi Mari Johanna Kiviniemi (born 27 September 1968) is a Finnish politician, who served as the second female Prime Minister of Finland from 2010 to 2011. Since 25 August 2014, she is Deputy Secretary-General of the OECD. Life and career Kiviniemi ...

(born 1968), Finnish politician and former Prime Minister of Finland *

Mari Klaup Mari Klaup (born 27 February 1990) is an Estonian athlete who specialises in the heptathlon A heptathlon is a track and field combined events contest made up of seven events. The name derives from the Greek επτά (hepta, meaning "seven") an ...

(born 1990), Estonian heptathlete * Mari Kodama (麻里, born 1967), Japanese pianist * Mari Kotani (真理, born 1958), Japanese science fiction critic *

Mari Lill Mari Lill (born 21 December 1945) is an Estonian stage, film and television actress whose career began onstage in the late 1960s. Early life and education Mari Lill was born in Tallinn to Felix Lill and Asta Lill (''née'' Multer) just after ...

(born 1945), Estonian actress * Mari Mahr (born 1941) is a Hungarian-British photographer * Mari Mashiba (摩利, born 1959), Japanese voice actress * Mari Matsuda (born 1956), American lawyer, activist, and law professor * Mari Mori (茉莉, 1903–1987), Japanese author, daughter of novelist Mori Ōgai * Mari Motohashi (麻里, born 1986), Japanese curler *

Mari Must Mari Must (11 November 1920 Tartu – 20 February 2008) was an Estonian linguist. She was one of the most notable Estonian dialects researcher in Estonia.Eesti entsüklopeedia 14: Eesti elulood. Eesti Entsüklopeediakirjastus, 2000. Page 305 In 19 ...

(1920–2008), Estonian linguist * Mari Natsuki (マリ, born 1952), Japanese singer, dancer, and actress * Mari Ness (born c 1971) is an American poet and author *

Mari Ozaki Mari Ozaki in international Ladies Marathon 2013. is a Japanese long-distance runner who specializes in the marathon race. She was the 2002 winner of the Kagawa Marugame Half Marathon, taking the title in 1:09:33. She ran at the 2010 London Mar ...

(まり, born 1975), Japanese long-distance runner * Mari Ozawa (真理), Japanese manga artist * Mari Possa (born 1980), Salvadoran actress *

Mari Saat Mari Saat ( Mari Meel since 1975; born 27 September 1947 in Tallinn) is an Estonian writer. In 1970, Saat graduated from the Tallinn Polytechnical Institute's faculty of economics. Since 1976, she has been a member of the Estonian Writers' Union ...

(born 1947), Estonian writer *, Japanese actress * Mari Shirato (真理, born 1958), Japanese actress *

Mari Tarand Mari Tarand (14 January 1941 Tallinn – 5 October 2020) was an Estonian radio journalist. Her spouse was Andres Tarand. She is the mother of Indrek and Kaarel Tarand. In 1963 she graduated from Tartu State University in Estonian philology. 1963 ...

(1941–2020), Estonian journalist and radio personality *

Mari Törőcsik Mari Törőcsik (born Marián Törőcsik; 23 November 1935 – 16 April 2021) was a Hungarian stage and film actress. She appeared in more than 170 films from 1956 to 2020. She won the award for Best Actress at the 1976 Cannes Film Festiva ...

(1935–2021), Hungarian stage and film actress * Mari Wilson (born 1954), English pop and jazz singer * Mari Yaguchi (真里, born 1983), former member of the Japanese idol group Morning Musume *

Mari Yonehara was a Japanese translator, essayist, non-fiction writer, novelist, and simultaneous interpreter between Russian and Japanese, best known in Japan for simultaneous interpretation in 1980s and 1990s and writing in 2000s. Biography Yonehara was b ...

(万里, 1950–2006), Japanese translator, essayist, non-fiction writer and novelist

Fictional characters

* Mari Iyagi, in ''

My Beautiful Girl, Mari ''My Beautiful Girl, Mari'' (; lit. "The Story of Mari") is a 2002 South Korean animated film. It follows the story of a young boy during summer vacation and ascends into flights of surrealistic fantasy, which may or may not be dream sequences. Th ...

'' * , in the anime series '' Yuri!!! on Ice'' * , in the manga and anime series '' Prison School'' * Mari Jiwe McCabe, also known as Vixen, a DC Comics character * , in the Japanese animated film series ''Rebuild of Evangelion'' * , in the anime series ''Love Live! Sunshine!!'' * , in the anime series '' A Place Further Than The Universe'' * , in the manga and anime series ''

Rainbow Days is a Japanese ''shōjo'' manga series written and illustrated by Minami Mizuno, and published in Shueisha's '' Bessatsu Margaret'' magazine. A drama CD was released with the seventh volume of the manga in October 2014. A 24-episode anime ...

'' * , in the light novel series '' The Irregular at Magic High School'' * , in the tokusatsu television series '' Kamen Rider 555'' * , in the tokusatsu television series '' Kamen Rider Fourze'' * , in the manga series ''Inubaka: Crazy for Dogs'' * Maari, in the Tamil action comedy ''

Maari Maari may refer to: * ''Maari'' (film), a 2015 Indian Tamil-language action-comedy film by Balaji Mohan ** ''Maari'' (soundtrack), the soundtrack album for the 2015 film **''Maari 2'', its 2018 sequel * ''Maari'' (TV series), a 2022 Indian Tamil-la ...

'' * MARI, in the psychological horror RPG '' Omori'' * Mari, in the side-scrolling MMORPG '' Grand Chase''

People

Fictional characters

See also