Nanno (Ourania) Marinatos (Greek: Ναννώ (Ουρανία) Μαρινάτου; born 1950) is Professor Emerita of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago, whose research focuses on the Minoan civilisation, especially Minoan religion.
[1][2] Named Ourania after her grandmother, she was nicknamed "Nanno" by her father after a woman associated by ancient sources with the poet Mimnermus.
[3] She studied classical philology and archaeology at the University of Colorado at Boulder, receiving her PhD in 1979.
[2][3][4] Marinatos is Professor Emerita of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago, where she was previously Head of Department.
[15][16] She has been described as 'a leading figure in the area of interconnections between the ancient Aegean and the wider world of the Eastern Mediterranean, the Near East, and Egypt'.