Marlene (given name)
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| 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... |
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| 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.... |
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| 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" |
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| 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 |
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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 CowlingMarlene CowlingMarlene 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 JohnsonMarlene JohnsonMarlene 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 CatterallMarlene CatterallMarlene 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 GrahamMarlene GrahamMarlene 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 JenningsMarlene JenningsMarlene 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 BelfortMarlene BelfortMarlene 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 ScardamaliaMarlene ScardamaliaMarlene 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 HaggeMarlene HaggeMarlene 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 AhrensMarlene AhrensMarlene 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 ElejardeMarlene ElejardeMarlene 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 HarnoisMarlène HarnoisMarlène 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 MatthewsMarlene MatthewsMarlene 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 StreitMarlene StreitMarlene 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 WeingärtnerMarlene WeingärtnerMarlene 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 ThomsenMarlene ThomsenMarlene 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 DaudénMarlene DaudénMarlene 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 DietrichMarlene DietrichMarlene 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 WarfieldMarlene WarfieldMarlene 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 CharellMarlene CharellMarlene 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 LawstonMarlene LawstonMarlene 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 SchmidtMarlene SchmidtMarlene 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 NiekerkMarlene van NiekerkMarlene 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 FavelaMarlene FavelaSilvia 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 LehnbergMarlene LehnbergMarlene 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-EsperatMarlene Garcia-EsperatMarlene 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 AlrauneMarlene AlrauneMarlene 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 KratzMarlene KratzMarlene 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 NeighboursNeighboursNeighbours 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 MadagascarThe Penguins of MadagascarThe 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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