List of Famous people named Maria

Maria Del Rio is a Belgian comedian, radio and television presenter of Spanish descent.

Maria Clara Machado was a Brazilian playwriter, who specialized on plays for children. She was born in 1921, in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, and died in Rio de Janeiro in 2001, where she lived most of her life. Daughter of writer Aníbal Machado, she studied theater in Paris; on her return to Brazil, she founded the acting school O Tablado, in Rio de Janeiro. O Tablado was responsible for the formation of many Brazilian actors, and was the laboratory where she directed her own plays.

Maria Wiedmaier was a German political activist (KPD) who engaged in anti-fascist resistance during the twelve Nazi years. She spent most of that time in a succession of state detention institutions, ending the war as a survivor from the Ravensbrück concentration camp.

María San Gil Noain is a Spanish Basque politician.

Princess Maria Anna of Bavaria was Queen of Saxony from 1836 to 1854 as the second wife of King Frederick Augustus II of Saxony.

María Inés Guerra Núñez, commonly known as María Inés Guerra, is a Mexican TV hostess and singer.

Maria Velten was a German serial killer, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for three murders. Maria Velten died in 2008 in a nursing home after having been released from prison for health reasons.

Maria of Nassau or Maria of Orange-Nassau was a Dutch princess of the house of Orange and by marriage pfalzgräfin or countess of Simmern-Kaiserslautern.

Maria Caterina Farnese was a member of the Ducal House of Farnese. She was the Duchess of Modena as the first wife of Francesco I d'Este, Duke of Modena. In some sources she is known simply as Maria Farnese.