List of Famous people named Maria

María Fernanda Aristizábal Urrea is a Colombian model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Señorita Colombia 2020. Aristizábal is the first delegate from Quindío to ever be crowned Miss Colombia. She will represent Colombia in Miss Universe 2022.

Maria Teresa Bassa Poropat is an Italian politician, who served as a President of the Province of Trieste from April 24, 2006 to December 31, 2016. She graduated in psychology at the University of Trieste, specialized in psychopedagogy at the University of Turin, and taught at the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Trieste. She was a private judge of the juvenile court of the province of Trieste. Then, she was Councilor for Education, Youth and Equal Opportunities of the Municipality of Trieste from 1996 to 2001. She was a Regional Councilor of Friuli Venezia Giulia from July 1, 2003 to April 27, 2006.

Marietta Baderna Giannini or Maria Baderna was an Italian ballerina, born in 1828, died c. 1892. At age 16 she was the principal dancer at La Scala in Milan, when the unusual lithograph of her, surrounded by 16 poses, was published. She appeared in Drury Lane, when Carlo Blasis was guest choreographer there. On her first appearance there, in a new ballet The Pretty Sicilian in 1847, one reviewer saw room for improvement:

"In form she is petite, her features are most expressive and pleasing. She wears her hair in the most trying of all fashions-- the Chinese, but, withal, looks sweetly pretty; as candid critics we are bound to say there was nothing astonishing in her execution - it wanted that neatness which her predecessor, Fuoco, so eminently possessed. Still, it must be remembered that she is very young, and practice will make perfect for she is most graceful, especially in the position of that most difficult portion of the human frame divine - her arms. Even as the ballet proceeded we thought we saw improvement, for in the pas de deux with the Count she was deservedly and enthusiastically applauded."

Maria Brignole Sale De Ferrari, Duchess of Galliera was an Italian noblewoman and philanthropist. She enabled the foundation of the first museums in her birthplace of Genoa, the Palazzo Rosso and Palazzo Bianco as well as the Galliera Hospital and the San Filippo children's hospital. A statue of her by Giulio Monteverde stands in the hospital gardens.