Marinus
Marinus is a male given name of Latin origin.
Origin and meaning
Marinus means "the one who comes from the sea" or is a variant of Marius .
Name variants
Well-known namesake
Marinus is the first name of:
Ancient and Middle Ages
- Marinus (saint) (3rd century), national saint of San Marino
- Marinus I (882-884), Pope
- Marinus II (942-946), Pope
- Marinus (Wilparting) († 697), traveling bishop and saint from Wilparting am Irschenberg
- Marinus of Bomarzo , mentioned between 942 and 958, Bishop of Bomarzo, papal legate and librarian
Cognomen
- Publius Valerius Marinus , Roman suffect consul (91)
Modern times
- Marinus Bester (* 1969), a former German soccer player
- Marinus Boeseman (1916-2006), a Dutch ichthyologist
- Marinus Anton Donk (1908–1972), Dutch botanist and mycologist
- Marinus de Fregeno († 1482; also Marino de Fregeno), Italian Roman Catholic theologian
- Marinus van der Goes van Naters (1900-2005), a Dutch politician
- Marinus (photo mechanic) (1884–1964), a Danish photographer and art photo mechanic
- Marinus Adrianus Koekkoek the Elder (1807–1868), Dutch landscape and marine painter
- Marinus Adrianus Koekkoek the Younger (1873–1944), Dutch animal painter
- Marinus Kraus (* 1991), German ski jumper
- Marinus van der Lubbe (1909–1934), a Dutch worker who is considered by most historians to be the arsonist in the Reichstag fire in Berlin on February 27, 1933
- Marinus Jan Granpré Molière (1883–1972), a Dutch architect and town planner
- Marinus van Reymerswaele (~ 1497–1567), a Flemish painter during the Renaissance
- Marinus Schöberl (1985–2002), victim of a murder case
- Marinus Willem de Visser (1875–1930), Dutch Japanologist and sinologist
- Marinus Voorberg (1920–1985), Dutch pianist and conductor
- Marinus Willett (1740-1830), American revolutionary
Intermediate name
- Willem Marinus Dudok (1884–1974), an architect from the Netherlands
- Søren Marinus Jensen (1879–1965), Danish wrestler
- Daniel Marinus Kan , a mathematician who works in the field of homotopy theory
- Wilhelmus Marinus van Rossum (1854–1932), a curia cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
Marinus is the family name of:
- Hennie Marinus (1938–2018), Dutch racing cyclist
- Johann Romuald Marinus (1800–1874), Dutch physician
swell
- Hans Bahlow - German Name Lexicon. Family and first names explained according to their origin and meaning. , Gondrom, Bindlach 1990, ISBN 3-8112-0294-4
- Günther Drosdowski - Duden lexicon of first names: origin, meaning and use of several thousand first names , Bibliographisches Institut (Dudenverlag), Mannheim / Vienna / Zurich 1974
- Margit Eberhard-Wabnitz & Horst Leisering - Knaur's first name book -, Droemersche Verlagsanstalt 1985, ISBN 3-426-26189-8