List of Famous people named Maria

María José Zaldívar Larraín is a Chilean lawyer and politician who currently serves as the Minister of Labour and Social Welfare in the second government of Sebastián Piñera.

María Julia Alsogaray was an Argentine politician and engineer convicted in 2004 for financial crimes against the state.

María Remedios del Valle also known as the "Madre de la Patria" was an Afro-Argentine camp follower turned soldier who participated in the Argentine War of Independence. Wounded in battle, captured, imprisoned and escaped, she lost her entire family during the war. When the war ended, she returned to Buenos Aires and eventually turned to begging. Discovered by one of the generals under whom she had fought, she was approved for a pension which was paid over the last decade of her life. Largely forgotten until the turn of the 21st century, when Argentine historians began including the contributions of black Argentines, she is now widely recognized for her contributions to the independence of the nation. The Argentine legislature declared 8 November as the National Day of Afro-Argentines and African Culture in 2013.

María Pujalte Vidal is a Spanish actress.

María Jesús Rosa Reina was a Spanish boxer, WIBF and four-time European flyweight champion.

María Eugenia Rodríguez Palop is a Spanish jurist, professor of Philosophy of Law at the Charles III University of Madrid (UC3M), specializing in human rights.

María Kosti is a Spanish actress. She has starred in many Spanish television series and horror films.

Maria Beig was a German school teacher and author.

María Mayor Fernández de Cámara y Pita (1565–1643), known as María Pita, was a heroine in the defense of Coruña, Galicia, against the English Armada attack, an English attack upon the Spanish mainland in 1589. She was born in Sigrás.

Saint Maria Mazzarello was the Italian founder of the Salesian Sisters.