Marilyn (given name)

Origin and meaning

Notable people

• Marilyn , British entertainer
• Marilyn Agliotti, Dutch-South African field hockey player
• Marilyn Anderson, Australian scientist
• Marilyn Bergman, American composer, songwriter and author
• Marilyn Borden, American singer and actress
• Marilyn Brick, Canadian politician
• Marilyn Chambers, American pornographic actress
• Marilyn Cole, Playboy magazine's January 1972 Playmate of the Month
• Marilyn French, American author
• Marilyn Hacker, American poet, critic and reviewer
• Marilyn Hall, Canadian-born American producer and philanthropist
• Marillyn Hewson, executive of Lockheed Martin
• Marilyn Horne, American opera singer
• Marilyn Kidd, Australian rower
• Marilyn Maxwell, American actress
• Marilyn McCoo, American singer and actress
• Marilyn Milian, judge on the television show The People's Court
• Marilyn Miller, Broadway performer
• Marilyn Monroe, American actress
• Marilyn Quayle, American lawyer, author and Second Lady of the United States
• Marilyn Ramenofsky, American freestyle swimmer
• Marilyn Scott, American singer
• Marilyn Singer, American author of children's books
• Marilyn vos Savant, American columnist and author
• Marilyn Waltz, Playboy magazine's February 1954, April 1954, April 1955 Playmate of the Month
• Marilyn Wilson-Rutherford, American singer
• Marilyn Ziering, an American business executive and philanthropist from Los Angeles, California
• Marilynn Webb, New Zealand artist

  Stage name

• Brian Hugh Warner, an American musician and artist who goes by the stage name "Marilyn Manson"

  Merrelyn

• Merrelyn Emery, Australian psychologist, co-refiner with Fred Emery of the Search Conference participative planning process
• Merrilyn Gann, Canadian actress
• Merrilyn Goos, Australian mathematician
• Merrilyn Rose, Australian politician

  Characters

• Marilyn Whirlwind, a character in the Northern Exposure TV series
• Marilyn, a character in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
• Marilyn Lee, a character from the book Everything I Never Told You