List of Famous people named Maria

María Luisa Alcalá, also known as Ma. Luisa Alcalá, was a Mexican actress and director.

Maria Romanovna Sotskova is a retired Russian figure skater. She is the 2017 Grand Prix Final silver medalist, a two-time Internationaux de France silver medalist, the 2016 NHK Trophy bronze medalist, the 2017 CS Finlandia Trophy champion, and the 2018 Russian national silver medalist. She placed 8th at the 2017 and 2018 World Figure Skating Championships and at the 2018 Winter Olympics.

María Martha Serra Lima was an Argentine canción melódica singer.

María José Loyola Anaya, known professionally as María José is a Mexican singer, ballet and flamenco dancer, athlete and television personality. Her career started at age 15 when she joined the 90s famous Mexican band, Kabah as a vocalist. After leaving the band, in 2006, she continued her singing career solo and has released six studio albums. She currently is the main host of Esta historia me suena and coach of La Voz.

Maria Nicole Chappelle-Nadal is an American politician who served in the Missouri House of Representatives from the 86th district from 2019 to 2021. A Democrat from University City, Missouri. She represented district 14 in the Missouri Senate from 2011 to 2019. She previously served in the Missouri House of Representatives from district 72, a position which she held from 2005 to 2011. In 2010, Chappelle-Nadal was elected to the Senate to succeed fellow Democrat Rita Heard Days of St. Louis.

Maria do Rosário Nunes is a Brazilian teacher and politician. She graduated in pedagogy from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, and took a postgraduate degree at the University of São Paulo. As of 2012 she has served as the Secretary for Human Rights under the Rousseff administration.

María del Rosario Espinoza is a Mexican taekwondo practitioner.

Maria Giuseppa Robucci was a validated Italian supercentenarian who was, at the age of 116, the second-oldest living person in the world behind Kane Tanaka.

Maria Arloisia Fein was an Austrian actress who became a star of German theatre and film before the rise of the Nazis forced her departure. During her time in Germany she was largely associated with the theatrical producer/director Max Reinhardt and acted in plays by such writers as Christian Friedrich Hebbel, Friedrich Schiller, William Shakespeare, Aeschylus, and Ferdinand Bruckner.

Maria Vladimirovna of Staritsa was a Russian princess. She was the daughter of Prince Vladimir of Staritsa and his wife, Princess Eudoxia Romanovna Odoevskaya, and, through her father, descended from Sophia Palaiologina.