Marilyn

This article covers the first name. See also: Marilyn (mountain) .

Marilyn is a female given name .

Origin and meaning

Marilyn is a combination of the English first names Mary and Lynn .

Name bearers

• Marilyn Bergman (* 1929), American composer
• Marilyn Black (born 1944), Australian athlete
• Marilyn Bowering (* 1949), writer, poet and playwright
• Marilyn Burns (1949-2014), American actress
• Marilyn Chambers (1952-2009), American porn actress
• Marilyn Cochran (* 1950), American ski racer
• Marilyn Crispell (* 1947), American jazz pianist and composer
• Marilyn Eastman (born 1933), American actress
• Marilyn Ferguson (1938-2008), American writer
• Marilyn French (1929–2009), American writer
• Marilyn Hassett (born 1947), American actress
• Marilyn Horne (born 1934), American singer
• Marilyn Jess (* 1959), French porn actress
• Marilyn Lerner (* 1957), Canadian jazz pianist and composer
• Marilyn Mazur (* 1955), Danish jazz musician
• Marilyn Middleton Pollock (born 1947), American singer
• Marilyn Miller (1898-1936), American dancer
• Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962), American actress
• Marilyn Musgrave (* 1949), American politician
• Marilyn Neufville (born 1952), Jamaican athlete
• Marilyn Okoro (* 1984), British athlete
• Marilyn Quayle (* 1949), American lawyer
• Marilyn Schmiege (* 1948), American-German singer
• Marilyn Scott (gospel singer) , American gospel and blues singer
• Marilyn Scott (jazz singer) (born 1949), American jazz singer
• Marilyn Strathern (* 1941), British anthropologist
• Marilyn Strickland (* 1962), American politician
• Marilyn vos Savant (* 1946), American columnist and author
• Marilyn Waring (* 1952), New Zealand politician and feminist

stage name

• Marilyn (singer) (* 1962), stage name of the singer Peter Robinson
• Marilyn Manson , American rock band and pseudonym of front man Brian Hugh Warner

Others

• Marilyn (mountain) , categorization of mountains in the British Isles
• (1486) Marilyn , a minor planet
• Mount Marilyn, a nickname of Mount Secchi Theta on the moon , which is part of the Montes Secchi mountain range and was named by astronaut Jim Lovell during the Apollo 8 lunar mission .
• Marilyn Diptych , screen print by Andy Warhol from 1962
• Marilyn - Your Life , 1996 US-British biography about Marilyn Monroe
• Marilyn (potato) , a type of potato

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Patricia Hanks, Flavia Hodges: A concise dictionary of first names. 2nd, revised edition. Oxford University Press, Oxford / New York 1997, ISBN 0-19-860094-1 .
2. ↑ Jim Lovell, Jeffrey Kluger: Apollo 13. Houghton Mifflin, Boston 2000, ISBN 0-618-61958-5 , p. 52.