List of Famous people named Marie
Marie Martinod
Marie Martinod is a French freestyle skier. She won two silver medals in the halfpipe at the 2014 and 2018 Winter Olympics. She also won three medals in the superpipe event at the Winter X Games : one gold in 2017 and two bronze in 2006 and 2014.
Marie Desplechin
Marie Desplechin is a French writer. She studied literature and journalism before becoming a writer. She is the author of several children's novels and Taking it to Heart, a collection of short stories. Sans Moi, her first novel, has been a great success in France, where it has sold over 120,000 copies. She won the Prix Médicis in 2005 for her book, La vie sauve.
Marie NDiaye
Marie NDiaye is a French novelist and playwright. She published her first novel, Quant au riche avenir, when she was 17. She won the Prix Goncourt in 2009. Her play Papa doit manger is the sole play by a living female writer to be part of the repertoire of the Comédie française.
Marie Mouté
Marie Mouté is a French actress best known for starring in the French TV-series La vie devant nous, from 2002 to 2006.
Marie Laurencin
Marie Laurencin was a French painter and printmaker. She became an important figure in the Parisian avant-garde as a member of the Cubists associated with the Section d'Or.
Marie Heim-Vögtlin
Marie Heim-Vögtlin was the first female Swiss physician, a writer and a co-founder of the first Swiss gynaecological hospital.
Marie Bashkirtseff
Marie Bashkirtseff was a Russian artist. She lived and worked in Paris for many years, and died at age 25.
Princess Marie Marguerite de Bourbon
Marie Marguerite, Duchess of Anjou is a Venezuelan heiress and wife of Louis Alphonse of Bourbon, Duke of Anjou, who is considered by Legitimists to be the head of the French Royal House, making her the Legitimist titular Queen Consort of France and Navarre.
Marie Schmolka
Marie Schmolka née Eisner (1893–1940) was a Czechoslovak Jewish activist and social worker who helped political refugees and Jewish adults and children escape the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in the lead-up to World War II. She was a member of WIZO and WILPF. She had previously helped refugees from Germany who fled to Czechoslovakia after the Nazi rise to power. Schmolka headed the newly founded Czechoslovak Refugee Committee, and also chaired local HICEM. In July 1938, she represented Czechoslovakia at the Évian conference.
Marie Kai
Marie Kai is a Japanese actress who has been represented by the talent agencies Cent Force, then Staff-up, and later Oscar Promotion.