Maris (surname)

Maris is a surname with many origins. In Britain, the name (including De Maris) may be of Old French origin (see Marais (surname))[1] Both the Greek and Dutch surnames can be matronymics from "Maria".[2] The name can also represent respellings: the American baseball player Roger Maris was born with the Croatian name Maras,[3][4] while the Dutch painting brothers Jacob, Matthijs and Willem Maris were grandchildren of Wenzel Maresch of Bohemia.[2] People with the surname Maris include:

• Ada Maris (born 1957), Mexican-American actress
• Albert Branson Maris (1893–1989), United States federal judge
• Bart Maris (born 1965), Belgian trumpet player
• Bernard Maris (1946–2015), French economist, writer and journalist
• Bill Maris, American entrepreneur
• Demetris Maris (born 1979), Greek footballer
• Ellen van Maris (born 1958), Dutch bodybuilder
• George Maris (born 1996), English football midfielder
• Georgios Maris (1882–1949), Greek politician, minister of the interior 1923/1933
• Humphrey Maris (born 1939), British physicist
• Hyllus Maris (1933–1986), Aboriginal Australian activist, poet and educator
• Jacob Maris (1837–1899), Dutch painter, brother of Willem and Matthijs
• Matthijs Maris (1839–1917), Dutch painter, etcher and lithographer, brother of Willem and Jacob
• Merrill De Maris (1898–1948), American writer who worked on Disney Comic Strips
• Mona Maris (1903–1991), Argentine film actress
• Peter Maris (born 1950s), Greek-born American film director and producer
• Roger Maris (1934–1985), American baseball player
• Simon Maris (1873–1935), Dutch painter and art dealer, son of Willem
• Willem Maris (1844–1910), Dutch landscape painter of the Hague School, brother of Matthijs and Jacob

In legend and fiction:

• Hector de Maris, Knight of the Round Table in Arthurian legend
• Nicole Maris, a major character in the 1999 film Drive Me Crazy