List of Famous people named Maria

María Ignacia Benítez was the Chilean Minister of the Environment, between 2010 and 2014.

María Belén Pérez Maurice is an Argentinian sabre fencer, Pan American champion in 2014. She was the only representative of the sport from Argentina at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, and at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.

María del Pilar Hurtado was the chief of Colombia's Administrative Department of Security under President Álvaro Uribe. After her political asylum in Panama was revoked, she turned herself in to Colombian authorities and was sentenced to 14 years in prison for illegal wiretapping and abusing public office.

Maria Wittek served in the Polish Army and associated organizations from age 18 and, following retirement, in 1991 became the first Polish woman to be promoted to brigadier-general.

Marià Josep Maria Bernat Fortuny i Marsal, known more simply as Marià Fortuny or Mariano Fortuny, was the leading Spanish painter of his day, with an international reputation. His brief career encompassed works on a variety of subjects common in the art of the period, including the Romantic fascination with Orientalist themes, historicist genre painting, military painting of Spanish colonial expansion, as well as a prescient loosening of brush-stroke and color.

Maria Segui Gomez is a Spanish physician and Public Health expert. She led the Directorate-General for Traffic until she resigned over an accusation of conflict of interest which was later found to be groundless.

Maria José Martínez-Patiño is a Spanish former hurdler, whose dismissal from the Spanish Olympic team in 1986 for failing the gender test is a notable moment in the history of sex verification in sports.

Dulce Nombre de María Urdiaín Muro, better known as María Asquerino, was a Spanish film actress.

Maria Aleksandrovna Alexandrova is a Russian principal dancer of the Bolshoi Ballet, People’s Artist of Russia.

Maria Alexandrovna Spiridonova was a Narodnik-inspired Russian revolutionary. In 1906, as a novice member of a local combat group of the Tambov Socialists-Revolutionaries (SRs), she assassinated a security official. Her subsequent abuse by police earned her enormous popularity with the opponents of Tsarism throughout the empire and even abroad.