List of Famous people named Maria

Maria da Conceição de Almeida Tavares is a Portuguese naturalized Brazilian economist. She is also a titular professor at the State University of Campinas (Unicamp) and professor emerita of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ).

Antonia María Teresa Mirabal Reyes de Guzmán was a surveyor and political activist from the Dominican Republic. She was one of three sisters assassinated together at the direction of the country's dictator Rafael Leónidas Trujillo.

Dulce Nombre de María Magdalena de los Remedios Barranco García better known as María Barranco is a Spanish actress, who has won two Goya Awards for Best Supporting Actress.

Mariia Valeryevna Butina is a Russian who was convicted in 2018 of acting as an unregistered foreign agent of Russia within the United States.

Maria Ehrich is a German actress. She appeared in more than twenty films since 2003 including her role as Gwendolyn "Gwen" Shepard in the Ruby Red film series based on the book.

Maria Altmann was an Austrian-American Jewish refugee from Austria, who fled her home country after it was occupied by the Nazis. She is noted for her ultimately successful legal campaign to reclaim from the Government of Austria five family-owned paintings by the artist Gustav Klimt which were stolen by the Nazis during World War II.

Maria Margarethe Anna Schell was an Austrian-Swiss actress. She ranged among the stars of German cinema in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1954, she was awarded the Cannes Best Actress Award for her performance in Helmut Käutner's war drama The Last Bridge, and in 1956, she won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival for Gervaise.

María Eugenia Vidal is an Argentine politician who served as Governor of the Buenos Aires Province, being the first woman in the office, and the first non-Peronist since 1987.

María León Barrios is a Spanish actress from Seville, Andalusia. She is best known for her performances as Leti in SMS and Carmen in Allí abajo.

María Belón is a Spanish physician and motivational speaker, known for surviving the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami when she was on vacation in Thailand with her husband Enrique (Quique) Álvarez and three sons Lucas, Simón and Tomás. She was severely injured in the tsunami and nearly died.