Famous People with Name Maris

Roger Eugene Maris            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Roger Eugene Maris: (September 10, 1934

Willem Maris            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Willem Maris: was a Dutch landscape painter.He got his first lessons in drawing from his brothers Jacob and Matthijs Maris. For a while he followed evening classes at the Hague Academy and later continued his studies with the cattle painter Stortenbeker. In the Mauritshuis in The Hague, Willem copied the work of the seventeenth-century animal painter Paulus Potter.

Mona Maris            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Mona Maris: was an Argentine film actress who was born in Buenos Aires.Maris' ambition to become an actress originated during World War I, when she was a pupil in Luders, France. Together with her classmates she wrote, directed, and presented short plays to entertain soldiers billeted near the school. After graduation Maris begged to go to England and her mother finally relented. In England she found a woman was given much more freedom than in either Spain or South America. She traveled to England under the indirect chaperonage of an Argentine family.