List of Famous people named Maria

Maria Guinot was a Portuguese singer, best known for her participation in the 1984 Eurovision Song Contest.

Maria Dobroniega of Kiev, was a Kievian Rus princess of the Rurikid dynasty and by marriage Duchess of Poland.

Maria Sashide is a Japanese voice actress from Saitama Prefecture. She is affiliated with the agency With Line.

María Ángeles Durán Heras is a Spanish sociologist best known for being a pioneer in research on unpaid work, the social situation of women and their social and work environment, health economics, and inequality in the use of time. She was the first woman to attain a chair of sociology in Spain, in 1982. She was one of the first researchers in her field who carried out works with a feminist perspective in the Spanish academic world. In 1979, she was the founder and director of the Women's Studies Seminar of the Autonomous University of Madrid, the first university institute for women's studies created in Spain. In 2002 she received the Pascual Madoz National Research Award in Economic and Legal Sciences. Retired in 2012, she is currently active at the Center for Human and Social Sciences of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) as an ad honorem researcher.

Maria Theresa of Austria was the second wife of Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies. She was the eldest daughter of Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen and Princess Henrietta of Nassau-Weilburg.

Maria Lynn Schneider is an American composer and jazz orchestra leader who has won multiple Grammy Awards.

María Luisa Ponte Mancini was a Spanish actress. She appeared in over 135 films and television shows between 1952 and 1995. She appeared in the 1977 film Black Litter, which was entered into the 27th Berlin International Film Festival.

Maria Eichhorn is a German artist based in Berlin. She is best known for site-specific works and installations that investigate political and economic systems, often revealing their intrinsic absurdity or the extent to which we normalize their complex codes and networks.

Maria Cristina of Naples and Sicily was a Princess of Naples and Sicily and later Queen of Sardinia as wife of King Charles Felix.

Archduchess Maria Luisa of Austria, Princess of Tuscany was a Princess of Tuscany, and later Princess of Isenburg and Büdingen.