List of Famous people named Maria

María Amparo Pascual López is a pharmacologist, medical doctor and clinical trial expert.

María Juliana Ruiz Sandoval is the First Lady of Colombia. She is married to Iván Duque Márquez, who became president of the country on August 7, 2018, succeeding Juan Manuel Santos.

Mariya Filippovna Limanskaya was a female soldier of the Red Army for three years during World War II. She became known as the Russian woman who directed traffic at the Brandenburg Gate in 1945 after the Battle of Berlin. She has since become a symbol of the Allied victory over Nazi Germany.

María Consuelo Porras Argueta is a Guatemalan lawyer. She served as Deputy Magistrate of the Constitutional Court since April 2016. She was appointed by President Jimmy Morales as the new Attorney General and Chief of the Public Prosecutor's Office to replace Thelma Aldana.

María Antonia Trujillo Rincón is a Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) politician.

María Pagés is a modern Spanish dancer and choreographer, considered the paramount representative of flamenco vanguard. Internationally renowned for her personal aesthetic concept of this dance, she has proved to be a pioneer in the understanding of this art as in evolution, contemporary and alive, making her a leading innovator of modern flamenco. She founded her own dance company in 1990, now based in Madrid, Spain while performing worldwide. In 2014 she was awarded with the Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts (Spain) by the Spanish State through the Ministry of Culture.

María Antonia de Paz y Figueroa was an Argentinian Roman Catholic nun who later established the Daughters of the Divine Savior. She later became known as "Mama Antula" and took as her religious name "María Antonia of Saint Joseph" upon becoming a professed religious.

Maria Sibylla Merian was a German-born naturalist and scientific illustrator, a descendant of the Frankfurt branch of the Swiss Merian family. Merian was one of the early European naturalists to observe insects directly.

María Clemencia "Tutina" Rodríguez Múnera is the wife of the 32nd President of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos Calderón, and served as First Lady of Colombia until August 2018.

Maria Anna of Neuburg, was Queen of Spain from 1689 to 1700 as the second wife of Charles II, last Habsburg King of Spain.