Famous People with Name Maris

Maris Verpakovskis            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Maris Verpakovskis: is a striker currently playing for Ukrainian club Dynamo Kyiv and the Latvia national football team. Maris Verpakovskis started his career in Latvian club FK Liepajas Metalurgs, for which he played from 1995 till 2001 and scored 10 goals in 59 appearances

Maris Eltermanis            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Maris Eltermanis: is a football goalkeeper from Latvia. His current club is FK Ventspils.

Maris Riherts            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Maris Riherts: is a footballer. He plays for FS Metta-Latvijas Universitate Riga.

Maris Gailis            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Maris Gailis: is a Latvian political figure. He served as Prime Minister of Latvia between September 15, 1994 and December 21, 1995.

Maris Purgailis            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Maris Purgailis: is a Latvian politician. He was the mayor of Riga from 1994 to 1997.

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.