Famous People with Name Marika

Marika Krevata            Origin/Culture/Country: Greek

Marika Krevata: was a Greek actress of theatre and film. Marika was the daughter of Stamatis Krevatas (musician) and Sofias (actress in Constantinople (now Istanbul), of the Panteliadis). She was born in Athens in 1910. Krevata lost her father and her little sister Thaleia when she was 2. Her childhood years were poor. She first appeared in theatre at an early age. In the beginning she took part in companies which toured the Greek outdoors along with children's acts including Daskalitsa (?as?a??tsa) by Nicodemi next to Marika Kotopouli.

Marika Nezer            Origin/Culture/Country: Greek

Marika Nezer: was a Greek actress. She was the daughter of Konstantinos Nezer, brother of Christoforos Nezer (1903-1996) and cousin of Christoforos Nezer (1887-1970) and granddaughter of Christoforos Nezer, fort chief of Athens and an aide-de-camp of King Otto of Greece.

Marika Papagika            Origin/Culture/Country: Greek

Marika Papagika: was a popular Greek singer in the early 20th century and one of the first Greek women singers to be heard on sound recordings. She had emigrated to America through Ellis Island in 1915 and in December 1918 recorded for Victor Records. In July, 1919, she also began recording for Columbia Records. Over the next ten years, she recorded more than two hundred performances of café-aman styled songs, including kleftiko demotik? (Greek traditional songs about Klephts, heroic brigands]), rebetiko, and light classical pieces, many of them overlapping with her chief rival in Greek music sales, in the United States, Koula Antonopoulos (known on her recordings as Kyria Koula or "Madame Coula").

Marika Zanforlin            Origin/Culture/Country: Italian

Marika Zanforlin: is an Italian pairs figure skater and roller skater. With partner Federico Degli Esposti, she is the 2003-2006 World Roller Skating Pair Champion. She and Degli Esposti switched to figure skating in 2007. They are the 2008 & 2009 Italian silver medalists.

Wandjuk Marika            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Wandjuk Marika: was an Australian Aboriginal painter, actor, composer and land rights activist. He was a member of the Riratjingu clan of the Yolngu people of north-east Arnhem Land, Northern Australia.[1] [2]His paintings expressed his people's traditional religious beliefs, and included Djang'kawu Story (1960) and Birth of the Djang'kawu Children of Yelangbara (1982).[3] [2] Djang'kawu is the founding ancestor of the Riratjingu in traditional stories.[1]He co-founded the Aboriginal Arts Board in 1973, and became Chairman in 1979.[3] He was awarded the Order of the British Empire that same year.[4]

Jasmine Marika            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Jasmine Marika: is American voice actress, singer and TV personality in Japan. Her first single with Japanese comedian Gorie topped the Japanese single chart for two weeks.

Seyed Mohamed Lebbe Marikar            Origin/Culture/Country: Sri-Lankan

Seyed Mohamed Lebbe Marikar: was a Sri Lankan civil servant and diplomat. He was a former Permanent Secretary to the President of Sri Lanka.Ahmed as he is affectionately referred to by friends and family, attended Trinity College, Kandy, an Anglican missionary school, for both his primary and secondary education. He gained entry into the University of Ceylon, Peradeniya Campus along with college mate Jayantha Dhanapala ( one of Sri Lanka's former ambassador to the United States of America), Dr Sarath Amunugama and N. G. Perera.