Maris may refer to:

Personal names

Māris (name) Māris is a Latvian language, Latvian masculine given name, a cognate of the English Maurice (name), Maurice and may refer to: *Māris Ārbergs (born 1962), Latvian politician *Māris Bogdanovičs (born 1991), Latvian cyclist *Māris Bičevskis (b ...

, a Latvian masculine given name, including a list of people with the name *

Maris (given name) Maris is a given name with various origins. It can be derived from the Latin phrase Stella Maris ("star of the sea"), an epithet for the Virgin Mary. Because of its derivation, the name Maris is also related to other names that connote the ocean. ...

, including a list of people and mythical or fictional characters *

Maris (surname) Maris is a surname with many origins. In Britain, the name (including ''De Maris'') may be of Old French origin (see Marais (surname)) Both the Greek and Dutch surnames can be matronymics from "Maria".Maris the Great Maris the Great is a promotional performance artist based in Denver, Colorado, and "undead" frontman for the punk rock band, Maris the Great and the Faggots of Death. He promotes bands through interviews on his website, MarisTheGreat.com. The int ...

, a promotional performance artist based in Denver, Colorado

Places

al-Maris azhagu Maris ({{langx, ar, المريس) was a Medieval Arabic name for Lower Nubia, the region of the Nile around the first and second cataracts, including Aswan. Because most of the sources for Nubian history during the period are in Arabic, it i ...

in medieval Nubia *

El Maris El Maris () is a suburb of al Uqsur, in Egypt. It is part of the Luxor Governorate Luxor () has been one of Egypt's governorates since 7 December 2009, when former president Hosni Mubarak announced its separation from the Qena Governorate ...

, Egypt *

Maris Nunatak Maris Nunatak () is a small coastal nunatak in Antarctica, east-northeast of Whisnant Nunatak at the junction of Rogers Glacier and the east side of the Amery Ice Shelf. It was delineated in 1952 by John H. Roscoe from air photos taken by U.S. N ...

, a small coastal nunatak in Antarctica *

Via Maris Via Maris, or Way of Horus () was an ancient trade route, dating from the early Bronze Age, linking Egypt with the northern empires of Syria, Anatolia and Mesopotamia – along the Mediterranean coast of modern-day Egypt, Israel, Turkey and S ...

, a trade route dating from the early Bronze Age, linking Egypt with Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Syria * Maris, the Latin name of the

Mureș River Mureș may refer to: * Mureș County, Romania * Mureș (river) in Romania and Hungary (''Maros'') * Mureș culture, a Bronze Age culture from Romania See also * Târgu Mureș, the capital of Mureș County * Ocna Mureș, a town in Alba Cou ...

, as mentioned by Herodotus in 484 BC

Mythology

Maris (mythology) Maris (or Mariś) was an Etruscan god often depicted as an infant or child and given many epithets, including ''Mariś Halna'', ''Mariś Husrnana'' ("Maris the Child"), and ''Mariś Isminthians''. He was the son of Hercle, the Etruscan equiv ...

, an Etruscan god of agriculture

Other uses

* the

Mari people The Mari ( ), also formerly known as the Cheremis or Cheremisses, are a Finno-Ugric peoples, Finno-Ugric people in Eastern Europe, who have traditionally lived along the Volga and Kama River, Kama rivers in Russia. They live mostly in the Mari E ...

* MARIS Maritime Archeological Research Institute at

Södertörn University Södertörn University (, abbreviated as SH), is a public university college () located in Flemingsberg in Huddinge Municipality, and the larger area called Södertörn, in Stockholm County, Sweden. In 2013, it had about 13,000 full-time and p ...

, Sweden * the planet

Mars Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun. It is also known as the "Red Planet", because of its orange-red appearance. Mars is a desert-like rocky planet with a tenuous carbon dioxide () atmosphere. At the average surface level the atmosph ...