Marlene (given name)
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Marlene
Gender: Female
Female
Female is the sex of an organism, or a part of an organism, which produces non-mobile ova .- Defining characteristics :The ova are defined as the larger gametes in a heterogamous reproduction system, while the smaller, usually motile gamete, the spermatozoon, is produced by the male...

Origin: German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

Meaning: A combination of names Maria
Maria
Maria is a female given name in many diverse cultures, including Mexican, African, Arab, Armenian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, English, Finnish, German, Greek, Italian, Maltese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Romanian, Pakistani, Afghan, Serbian, Swedish, Spanish.In Roman Empire the...

 "beloved/love" and Magdalene
Magdalene
Magdalene or Magdalen may refer to:*Mary Magdalene, a disciple of Jesus*Magdalene , a feminine given name *Magdalene , a character in Marvel Comics...

 "of Magdala"
Related Names: Maria
Maria
Maria is a female given name in many diverse cultures, including Mexican, African, Arab, Armenian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, English, Finnish, German, Greek, Italian, Maltese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Romanian, Pakistani, Afghan, Serbian, Swedish, Spanish.In Roman Empire the...

, Magdalene
Magdalene
Magdalene or Magdalen may refer to:*Mary Magdalene, a disciple of Jesus*Magdalene , a feminine given name *Magdalene , a character in Marvel Comics...

, Marlena, Marleen, Marlen


Marlene is a female German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

 given name
Given name
A given name, in Western contexts often referred to as a first name, is a personal name that specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name...

. It is derived from the female
Female
Female is the sex of an organism, or a part of an organism, which produces non-mobile ova .- Defining characteristics :The ova are defined as the larger gametes in a heterogamous reproduction system, while the smaller, usually motile gamete, the spermatozoon, is produced by the male...

 given names Maria and Magdalene
Magdalene
Magdalene or Magdalen may refer to:*Mary Magdalene, a disciple of Jesus*Magdalene , a feminine given name *Magdalene , a character in Marvel Comics...

. People with this name include:

In politics

  • Marlene Cowling
    Marlene Cowling
    Marlene Cowling was a member of the Canadian House of Commons from 1993 to 1997 in the Dauphin—Swan River electoral district. By career, she is a farmer....

  • Marlene Johnson
    Marlene Johnson
    Marlene Johnson was the 42nd Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota and the first woman to hold that office. She was elected as the running mate of Governor Rudy Perpich, and held the position from 1983 – 1991....

  • Marlene Catterall
    Marlene Catterall
    Marlene Catterall is a former Canadian politician. Catterall was a member of the Liberal Party of Canada in the Canadian House of Commons, representing the riding of Ottawa West—Nepean from 1997 to 2005 and previously representing the riding of Ottawa West from 1988 to 1997. Catterall is a former...

  • Marlene Graham
    Marlene Graham
    Marlene Graham is a judge and a former provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. She served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1997 until 2004.-Political career:...

  • Marlene Jennings
    Marlene Jennings
    Marlene Jennings, PC, MP is a Canadian politician. She was a member of the Liberal Party of Canada in the Canadian House of Commons, and represented the riding of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Lachine from 1997 to 2011....


In academia

  • Marlene Belfort
    Marlene Belfort
    Marlene Belfort is an American biochemist. She is Professor at the Wadsworth Center at the New York State Department of Health. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine in 1972 and did postdoctoral research at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem...

    , who helped discover self-splicing introns in bacteriophage DNA
  • Marlene Scardamalia
    Marlene Scardamalia
    Marlene Scardamalia is an education researcher, professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.-Contributions:She is considered one of the pioneers in Computer-supported collaborative learning...

    , education researcher

In sports

  • Marlene Hagge
    Marlene Hagge
    Marlene Hagge , also known as Marlene Bauer before her marriage, is an American professional golfer. She was one of the thirteen founders of the LPGA and was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2002....

  • Marlene Ahrens
    Marlene Ahrens
    Marlene Ahrens Ostertag is a female Chilean athlete. She won the silver medal in Javelin throw at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne with a distance of 50.38 metres. She remains the only Chilean woman to have won an Olympic medal. She is the mother of the journalist Karin Ebensperger.-References:...

  • Marlene Elejarde
    Marlene Elejarde
    Marlene Elejalde Díaz was a retired sprinter from Cuba. At the 1968 Summer Olympics she helped win a silver medal in 4 x 100 metres relay, the first Olympic medal ever won by Cuban women. At the 1972 Summer Olympics she won another relay medal, this time a bronze. She died in a car accident in...

  • Marlène Harnois
    Marlène Harnois
    Marlène Harnois is a French taekwondo practitioner.She was born in Montreal, Canada.She won a bronze medal at the 2011 World Taekwondo Championships in Women's featherweight .- References :...

     (born 1986), French taekwondo practitioner
  • Marlene Matthews
    Marlene Matthews
    Marlene Judith Mathews AO is a former Australian Olympic sprinter. She has been described as 'one of Australia's greatest and unluckiest' champions.-Early career:...

  • Marlene Streit
    Marlene Streit
    Marlene Stewart Streit, OC, O.Ont is a Canadian amateur golfer, and a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame.She was born in Cereal, Alberta. She learned golf from Gordon McInnis Sr. at the Lookout Point Golf Club in Fonthill, Ontario...

  • Marlene Weingärtner
    Marlene Weingärtner
    Marlene Weingärtner is a former German professional tennis player. Weingärtner retired in late 2005 after suffering several first round losses due to ongoing physical problems....

    , a tennis player
  • Marlene Thomsen
    Marlene Thomsen
    Marlene Thomsen is a former badminton player from Denmark.-1992 Summer Olympics:Thomsen competed in badminton at the 1992 Summer Olympics in women's doubles with Lisbet Stuer-Lauridsen. In the first round, they defeated Denyse Julien and Doris Piche of Canada 15-7, 15-7...

    , a badminton player

In entertainment

  • Marlene Daudén
    Marlene Daudén
    Marlene Daudén is considered one of the greatest Filipina drama actresses of all time. She achieved her legendary status as a film thespian during her film career that spanned from the 1950s up to the 1970s...

    , Filipina drama actress
  • Marlene Dietrich
    Marlene Dietrich
    Marlene Dietrich was a German-American actress and singer.Dietrich remained popular throughout her long career by continually re-inventing herself, professionally and characteristically. In the Berlin of the 1920s, she acted on the stage and in silent films...

    , German actress and entertainer
  • Marlene Warfield
    Marlene Warfield
    Marlene Warfield is an American actress.She has acted in films and American television. She portrayed the underground revolutionary Laureen Hobbs in the 1976 film Network and played the character of Victoria Butterfield on the television sitcom Maude...

    , American actress
  • Marlene Callahan, also known as Marlene Wallace
  • Marlene Charell
    Marlene Charell
    Marlene Charell is a German entertainer and was the leading dancer and superstar at Le Lido in Paris from 1968 until the end of 1970...

    , German entertainer
  • Marlene Janssen, American model
  • Marlene Lawston
    Marlene Lawston
    Marlene Lawston is an American child actress.-Career:Lawston's acting debut was in the 2005 movie Flightplan, where she played Julia, the six-year-old daughter of Kyle Pratt who was kidnapped onboard a plane. In 2006 she played Julie Grant in the Law & Order episode "Thinking Makes It So"...

    , child actress
  • Marlene Morrow, American model
  • Marlene Schmidt
    Marlene Schmidt
    Marlene Schmidt , a professional Engineer, came to fame as winner of the 1961 Miss Universe pageant. Later she had a career in the movie industry....

    , Miss Universe in 1961
  • Marlene van Niekerk
    Marlene van Niekerk
    Marlene van Niekerk is a South African author who is best known for her novel Triomf. Her graphic and controversial descriptions of a poor Afrikaner family in Johannesburg brought her to the forefront of a post-apartheid society, still struggling to come to terms with all the changes in South...

    , a writer
  • Marlene Favela
    Marlene Favela
    Silvia Marlene Favela Meraz is a Mexican actress. She studied at "Centro de Educación Artística de Televisa in Mexico City and is also a model...

    , Mexican actress

Others

  • Marlene Lehnberg
    Marlene Lehnberg
    Marlene Lehnberg is a South African murderer more commonly known as The Scissor Murderess. She was 18 years old in 1974, when she and hired killer Marthinus Choegoe stabbed Susanna Magdalena van der Linde, the wife of her 47-year old lover, Christiaan van der Linde, to death with a pair of scissors...

    , also known as The Scissor Murderess
  • Marlene Garcia-Esperat
    Marlene Garcia-Esperat
    Marlene Garcia-Esperat was a Filipina whistleblower and investigative journalist who wrote a weekly anti-graft column for local newspapers. As a result of her anti-corruption work, she was murdered in her own home...

    , murder victim

Fictional characters

  • Marlene (Final Fantasy VII)
  • Marlene Alraune
    Marlene Alraune
    Marlene Alraune is a fictional human character in the Marvel Universe.-Fictional character biography:Marlene is in the Sudan with her father, archaeologist Dr. Peter Alraune Sr., when he is killed by the mercenary Raoul Bushman. Another mercenary, Marc Spector, saves Marlene's life, but Bushman...

    , of the Marvel Universe
  • Marlene Kratz
    Marlene Kratz
    Marlene Kratz is a fictional character from the Australian Network Ten soap opera Neighbours, played by Moya O'Sullivan. She made her first on-screen appearance on 5 July 1994 and remained in the show until 14 October 1997, when the character went on a three month cruise and never returned....

    , from Australian soap opera Neighbours
    Neighbours
    Neighbours is an Australian television soap opera first broadcast on the Seven Network on 18 March 1985. It was created by TV executive Reg Watson, who proposed the idea of making a show that focused on realistic stories and portrayed adults and teenagers who talk openly and solve their problems...

  • Marlene Rush, from the Robotech Series
  • Marlene the otter, a character in the animated TV show “The Penguins of Madagascar
    The Penguins of Madagascar
    The Penguins of Madagascar is an American CGI animated television series airing on Nickelodeon. It stars nine characters from the DreamWorks Animation animated film Madagascar: The penguins Skipper , Kowalski , Private , and Rico ; the lemurs King Julien , Maurice , and Mort...

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