Famous People with Name Marius

Marius Hofmeyr Hurter            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Marius Hofmeyr Hurter: is a former South African rugby union player who played for the South Africa national rugby union team between 1995 and 1997.

Marius Charl Joubert            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Marius Charl Joubert: is a South African rugby union player who plays as a centre for ASM Clermont Auvergne in the French Top 14. He has previously played for the Boland Cavaliers, Free State Cheetahs and Western Province in the Currie Cup and the Stormers and the Central Cheetahs in the Super 14. Joubert was educated at Paarl Gimnasium, alongside current Springboks and former Western Province and Stormers teammates De Wet Barry and Jean de Villiers. A few years later, the same school produced another current Springbok star in Schalk Burger.

Marius Jaccard            Origin/Culture/Country: Swedish

Marius Jaccard: was a Swiss ice hockey player who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics and in the 1924 Winter Olympics. In 1920 he participated with the Swiss ice hockey team in the Summer Olympics tournament.

Marius Holtet            Origin/Culture/Country: Norwegian

Marius Holtet: is a Norwegian professional ice hockey forward. He signed a contract with the Färjestads BK in Sweden prior to the 2008/09 season. In 2006 he played with Norway at the Ice Hockey World Championship in Latvia. He also represented Norway at the 2008 IIHF Wo

Marius Trygg            Origin/Culture/Country: Norwegian

Marius Trygg: is a Norwegian ice hockey forward. He is currently playing for Stavanger Oilers in the GET-ligaen. He has played four seasons with the Swedish Elitserien club Färjestads BK and won the Swedish Championship with them in 2002. His twin brother, Mats Trygg,

Simon Marius            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Simon Marius: was a German astronomer. He was born in Gunzenhausen near Nuremberg, but most of his lifetime he spent in the city of Ansbach.In 1614 Marius published his work Mundus lovialis describing the planet Jupiter and its moons. Here he claimed to have discovered the planet's four major moons some days before Galileo. This led to a dispute with Galileo, who showed that Marius provided only one observation as early as Galileo's, and it matched Galileo's diagram for the same date, as published in 1610. It is considered possible that Marius discovered the moons independently, but at least some days later than Galileo.

Clinton Marius            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Clinton Marius: is a South African writer and performer. He made his first professional appearance singing the lead role in Menotti’s opera, Amahl and the Night Visitors at age twelve. His poetry has been published internationally, while he is also known for penning several plays and collections of short stories, as well as the fictional biography of a guru, Sunshine - The Booklet of the Biography.