Mari (given name)

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Mari is a feminine given name in the Breton, Japanese, Estonian, Georgian, Hungarian, Finnish, Welsh, Swedish and Norwegian languages. 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 country of Georgia, Mari is a shortened version of the name Mariam.

In Japanese it appears as Mari (まり, マリ), or can be written using different kanji 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 or katakana.

People

• Mari Akasaka (真理, born 1964), Japanese novelist
• Mari Amachi (真理, born 1951), Japanese singer and actress
• Mari Eguro (真理, born 1972), Japanese American actress, musician and model known as Marie Eguro in the US
• Mari Ellis (1913-2015), Welsh writer and women's rights activist
• Mari Hamada (麻里, born 1962), Japanese rock singer
• Mari Hamada (actress) (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
• Mari Horikawa (堀川 真理, born 1992), Japanese volleyball player
• Mari Hoshino (真里, born 1981), Japanese actress
• Mari Iijima (真理, born 1963), Japanese singer-songwriter
• Mari Kimura (born 1962), Japanese violinist and composer
• Mari Kinsigo (1946–2014), Estonian chess Woman FIDE Master
• Mari Kiviniemi (born 1968), Finnish politician and former Prime Minister of Finland
• Mari Klaup (born 1990), Estonian heptathlete
• Mari Kodama (麻里), Japanese pianist
• Mari Kotani (真理, born 1958), Japanese science fiction critic
• Mari Lill (born 1945), Estonian actress
• Mari Mashiba (摩利, born 1959), Japanese voice actress
• Mari Matsuda (born 1956), American lawyer, activist, and law professor
• Mari Motohashi (麻里, born 1986), Japanese curler
• Mari Natsuki (マリ, born 1952), Japanese singer, dancer, and actress
• Mari Ozaki (まり, born 1975), Japanese long-distance runner
• Mari Ozawa (真理), Japanese manga artist
• Mari Shirato (真理, born 1958), Japanese actress
• Mari Takahashi, a member of the Smosh crew
• Mari Yaguchi (真里, born 1983), former member of the Japanese idol group Morning Musume
• Mari Yonehara (万里, 1950–2006), Japanese translator, essayist, non-fiction writer and novelist
• Mari Youngblood, American singer
• Mari Wilson, English pop and jazz singer
• Mori Mari (茉莉, 1903–1987), Japanese author, daughter of novelist Mori Ōgai

• Mari Possa (born 1980), Salvadoran actress
• Mari Alkatiri (born 1949), Prime Minister of East Timor from 2002 to 2006
• Marianne Steinbrecher, known as Mari (born 1983), Brazilian volleyball player

Fictional characters

• Mari Iyagi, in My Beautiful Girl, Mari
• Mari Katsuki (勝生 真利), in the anime series Yuri!!! on Ice
• Mari Kurihara (栗原 万里), in the manga and anime series Prison School
• Mari Jiwe McCabe, also known as Vixen, a DC Comics character
• Mari Illustrious Makinami, in the Japanese animated film series Rebuild of Evangelion
• Mari Ohara (小 原 鞠 莉), in the anime series Love Live! Sunshine!!
• Mari Tamaki (玉木 マリ), in the anime series A Place Further Than The Universe
• Mari Tsutui (筒井 まり), in the manga and anime series Rainbow Days
• Mari Watanabe (渡辺 摩利), in the light novel series The Irregular at Magic High School
• Mari Sonoda (園田 真理), in the tokusatsu television series Kamen Rider 555
• Mari Yamamoto (山本 麻里), in the tokusatsu television series Kamen Rider Fourze
• Mari Yamashita (マリ), in the manga series Inubaka: Crazy for Dogs

See also

• Mari (disambiguation)
• Temari (toy), "hand ball" in Japanese