List of Famous people named Maria

Maria Helene Françoise Izabel Gräfin von Maltzan, Freiin zu Wartenberg und Penzlin was an aristocrat who, as part of the German Resistance against Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party, saved the lives of many Jewish people in Berlin.

Maria Penelope Katharine Aitken is an English theatre director, teacher, actress, and writer.

Maria of Anjou was a member of the Capetian House of Anjou who served as Queen of Majorca during her marriage to King Sancho. She was the daughter of Charles II of Naples and his wife, Maria of Hungary.

Maria Kurjo is a German diver. She competed in the 10 metre platform event at the 2012 Summer Olympics, finishing in 17th place. At the 2016 Summer Olympics, she competed in the 10 m platform event. She finished 21st in the preliminary round and did not advance to the semifinal.

Marie Thérèse Raphaëlle, Dauphine of France, born Infanta María Teresa Antonia Rafaela of Spain, was the daughter of King Philip V of Spain and Elisabeth Farnese and the wife of Louis, Dauphin of France, son of King Louis XV. The Dauphine died aged 20, three days after giving birth to a daughter who died in 1748.

Maria Luisa of Spain was a Spanish infanta, daughter of King Charles IV and his wife, Maria Luisa of Parma. In 1795, she married her first cousin Louis, Hereditary Prince of Parma. She spent the first years of her married life at the Spanish court where their first child, Charles, was born.

Maria of Masovia was a Duchess of Pomerania by marriage to Bogislaw IX, Duke of Pomerania, and regent of Pomerania from 1446 to 1449.

Maria Margaret La Primaudaye Pollen, known as Minnie, was a decorative arts collector. As Mrs John Hungerford Pollen, she became known during the early-twentieth century as an authority on the history of textiles, publishing Seven Centuries of Lace in 1908.

María Ana de Jesús Guerrero Torija, better known as María Guerrero, was a prominent Spanish theatre actor, producer and director.

Marie of Cleves was the third wife of Charles, Duke of Orléans, and the mother of his only son, King Louis XII of France. She was born a German princess, the last child of Adolph I, Duke of Cleves and his second wife, Marie of Burgundy.