List of Famous people named Maria

Maria Sergeyevna Motuznaya is a Russian blogger and activist. She came to public attention in late July, when she explained on Twitter, why she is on Russia's official list of extremists and terrorists.

María Guggiari Echeverría – in religion María Felicia de Jesús Sacramentado – was a Paraguayan Catholic professed religious from the Discalced Carmelite Order who also served in her adolescence as a member of Catholic Action. Echeverría entered the order despite the opposition of her parents and was a close friend of Saua Angel – a friend from Catholic Action who became a priest.

Maria Fernanda Cândido is a Brazilian actress and model.

Maria bint Shamʿūn, better known as Maria al-Qibtiyya, Maria Qubtiyya, or Maria the Copt, was an Egyptian who, along with her sister Sirin, were sent to the Islamic prophet Muhammad in 628 as a gift by Muqawqis, a Christian governor of Alexandria, Egypt during the territory's Persian occupation. She and her sister were slaves. She spent the rest of her life in Medina where she embraced Islam and lived with Muhammad when she bore a son, Ibrahim. The son would die as an infant and then she died almost five years later.

Maria Cole was an American jazz singer and the wife of singer Nat King Cole; mother of the singer Natalie Cole.

María Zambrano Alarcón was a Spanish essayist and philosopher associated with the Generation of '36 movement. Her extensive work between the civic engagement and the poetic reflection started to be recognised in Spain over the last quarter of the XX century after living many years in exile. She was awarded the Prince of Asturias Award (1981) and the Miguel de Cervantes Prize (1988).

Maria Teresa Rivera is a woman human rights defender, working an abortion rights, from El Salvador. She was sentenced to 40 years in prison for aggravated homicide in 2011 after having a miscarriage. She served 4 and a half years of her sentence before being released. In March 2017, Rivera and her 12-year-old son were given asylum by the Swedish Migration Agency in fear that a prosecutor's appeal of the decision to release her might lead to her returning to prison.

Maria da Penha Maia Fernandes is a Brazilian biopharmacist and women human rights defender. She advocates for women rights, particularly against domestic violence. Born in 1945 in Fortaleza, in the Brazilian state of Ceará, Maria da Penha was a victim of domestic violence by her husband. She brought a case against her attacker to be condemned, first in the Federal Court of Brazil and later in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

María Sorté is a Mexican actress and singer.

María Gabriela de Jesús Isler Morales is a Venezuelan TV host, fashion model and beauty queen who represented Venezuela and was crowned Miss Universe 2013, gaining placement as the seventh Miss Universe of her country.