List of Famous people named Maria

Maria Catalano is a female English snooker player. In the 2007 season she won the British Open and the Connie Gough National Championship. In December 2002, she was ranked number four in the world. She was ranked world number one for the 2013–14 season. In 2016 she described her ambition to win the Women's World Snooker Championship, to date she has been runner-up five times, the most recently in 2018.

María Lorena Ramírez Hernández is an indigenous long-distance runner belonging to the Rarámuri ethnic group, who lives in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico. She became known internationally after having won the Cerro Rojo UltraTrail in 2017, an ultra-distance race of 50 kilometers, in a time of 07:20, and for having also done it with huaraches, without shoes or sports equipment. She competes wearing traditional garb, including her trademark long skirt. Despite being a high-performance athlete, she does not receive government sports support. Her example influences Rarámuri children to develop as runners in the heights of the sierra in Chihuahua.

Maria Frances Lewis Miller is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Basingstoke since 2005.

Maria Isabel de Alcântara Bourbon was the third daughter of Emperor Pedro I of Brazil and his mistress, Domitila de Castro, Marchioness of Santos.