Mariam

Mariam is an alternative transliteration of Maryam, the Aramaic and Arabic name for Mary, the mother of Jesus (see Mary in Islam).

Notable people with this name

• Mariam of Vaspurakan, first wife of King George I of Georgia and regent for her son, Bagrat IV, in the 11th century
• Mariam Amash (1888?–2012), a claimant to the title of the oldest living person
• Mariam Aslamazian (1907-2006), Armenian painter
• Mariam Baouardy (1846-1878), Melkite Greek Catholic Carmelite nun canonized by Pope Francis
• Mariam Aladji Boni Diallo (born 1952?), politician and former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Benin
• Mariam Doumbia, half of Amadou & Mariam, a musical duo from Mali
• Mariam Fakhr Eddine (born 1933), Egyptian actress
• Mariam Hakobyan (born 1949), Armenian sculptor
• Mariam Hasan, Pakistani cricketer
• Mariam Nazarian (born 1983), concert pianist and producer
• Mariam Nour (born 1936), Lebanese television personality
• Mariam Omar (politician), Zanzibari politician and member of the Sauti ya Umma party
• Mariam Tsitsishvili (1768–1850), wife of George XII of Georgia
• Mariam Usman, Nigerian weightlifter
• Mariam Vardanian (1864-1941), Armenian political activist and revolutionary in the Russian Empire
• Mariam Wafa, Afghan singer
• Mariam-uz-Zamani (1542–1622), wife of Mughal Emperor Akbar
• Mengistu Haile Mariam (born 1937), head of state of Ethiopia from 1977 to 1991

Fictional character

• Mariam, protagonist of the Jacobean era play The Tragedy of Mariam

See also

• MV Mariam, a Bolivian-flagged passenger ferry
• Maryam (name)
• Maryam (disambiguation)
• Miriam (disambiguation)