List of Famous people named Maria

María Díaz de Padilla was the mistress of King Peter of Castile.

Maria Adelaide Amaral is a Portuguese Brazilian playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. A good deal of her plays concern disaffected urban professionals. She has been classed as among the two major women playwrights of Brazil, the other being Leilah Assunção.

María Paula Romo is an Ecuadorian politician. She was removed from office for human rights violations during 2019 protests against government cuts while she served as Interior Minister under President Lenin Moreno.

María José Prieto Larraín is a Chilean film and television actress.

Maria, Countess of Nassau, Katzenelnbogen, Vianden and Dietz, was a Dutch noblewoman.

Maria Isabella of Spain was an infanta of Spain and Queen consort of the Two Sicilies.

Maria de Lourdes Ruivo da Silva de Matos Pintasilgo was a Portuguese chemical engineer and politician. She was the first and to date only woman to serve as Prime Minister of Portugal, and the second woman to serve as Prime Minister in Western Europe, after Margaret Thatcher.

Maria, Countess of Nassau, Katzenelnbogen, Vianden and Dietz was a noblewoman from the Low Countries. She was the second and youngest daughter of Johann V of Nassau-Vianden-Dietz and Elisabeth of Hesse-Marburg. She was the aunt of William the Silent.

Maria of Nassau-Dillenburg (1568-1625) was a daughter of Count John VI "the Elder" of Nassau-Dillenburg and his first wife, Countess Elisabeth of Leuchtenberg.

Maria Josepha of Austria was the Queen of Poland by marriage to Augustus III. From 1711 to 1717, she was heir presumptive to the Habsburg Empire. Her sister Maria Amalia became Electress of Bavaria.