List of Famous people named Maria

Maria Mordasova was a Russian singer, known for her renditions of folk song and chastushkas. She was honoured as a People's Artist of the USSR in 1981 and Hero of Socialist Labour and the Order of Lenin in 1987.

Maria do Carmo Alves is a Brazilian politician. She has represented Sergipe in the Federal Senate since 1999. She is a member of the Democrats.

Maria Anna of Savoy was Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary by marriage to Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria.

María Lugones was an Argentine feminist philosopher, activist, and Professor of Comparative Literature and of women's studies at Carleton College in Northfield, MN and at Binghamton University in New York State. She identified as a U.S-based woman of color and theorized this category as a political identity forged through feminist coalitional work.

Pedro Álvarez de Toledo y Zúñiga, jure uxoris 2nd Marquis of Villafranca del Bierzo was a Spanish politician. The first effective Spanish viceroy of Naples, in 1532–1552, he was responsible for considerable social, economic and urban improval in the city and southern Italian kingdom in general. He was the father-in-law of Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany.

Princess Maria Czartoryska, also formerly known as Duchess Maria, Duchess Louis of Württemberg, was a Polish noble, writer, musician and philanthropist.

Maria Stanley, Baroness Stanley of Alderley was a British letter writer and liberal advocate.