List of Famous people named Maria

María Alejandra Vicuña Muñoz is an Ecuadorean politician who served as the Vice President of Ecuador under President Lenin Moreno between January and December 2018, previously as the Housing and Urban Development Minister of Ecuador.

María Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat was an Argentine executive and philanthropist.

María José Rienda Contreras is a former World Cup alpine ski racer. She served as the President of the Consejo Superior de Deportes and Secretary of State for Sports of Spain from June 2018 to January 2020.

Maria Gladys Mello da Silva, known as Maria Gladys, is a Brazilian actress.

Maria Flor Leite Calaça, usually known as Maria Flor, is a Brazilian actress.

María Teresa Fernández de la Vega Sanz is a Spanish politician and magistrate of the Socialist Party. She currently serves as President of the Spanish Council of State since 2018. From 18 April 2004 to 20 October 2010, she was the first deputy prime minister, minister of the Presidency and cabinet spokesperson in the government of Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. She is the first female deputy prime minister and president of the Council of State in Spanish history.

Maria Grazia Cucinotta is an Italian actress who has featured in films and television series since 1990. She has also worked as a film producer, screenwriter and model. Internationally she is best known for her roles in Il Postino, as Isabella from HBO television series The Sopranos, and as the Bond girl, credited as a Cigar Girl, in the James Bond film The World Is Not Enough.

María de Maeztu Whitney was a Spanish educator, feminist, founder of the Residencia de Señoritas and the Lyceum Club in Madrid. She was sister of the writer, journalist and occasional diplomat, Ramiro de Maeztu and the painter Gustavo de Maeztu.

Archduchess Maria of Austria was the empress consort and queen consort of Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Bohemia and Hungary. She served as regent of Spain in the absence of her father Emperor Charles V from 1548 until 1551, and in the absence of her brother Philip II, from 1558 to 1561.

María Rachid is a politician, social leader of the human rights area and the collective LGBT community in Argentina. She served as vice-president of the National Institute Against Discrimination, Xenophobia and Racism from December 2010, until June 10, 2011 when she was elected into the Buenos Aires City Legislature in the elections of July 10, 2011, and took office on December 10.