List of Famous people named Marija

Mariya Aleksandrovna Lugovaya is a Russian actress and theater star, best known for playing Tasya Lapina in 2008 television series Ginger, and her lead role as Marusya Klimova in the 2017 television series Murka (ru).

Marija Gimbutas was a Lithuanian-American archaeologist and anthropologist known for her research into the Neolithic and Bronze Age cultures of "Old Europe" and for her Kurgan hypothesis, which located the Proto-Indo-European homeland in the Pontic Steppe.

Macha Rolnikas was a Lithuanian writer and Holocaust survivor. Rolnikas' family were Jewish and prominent in the local community, and when the Wehrmacht took control of Lithuania in 1941, her father joined the underground resistance. Rolnikas and the remainder of her family were sent to the Vilna Ghetto, and subsequently moved to Stutthof concentration camp for employment as an undertaker. As a result of her "employment", she survived in the camp until the Red Army liberated Stutthof in 1944. She was reunited in Vilnius with her older sister and father; her younger siblings and mother were most probably killed in Paneriai after the liquidation of the Vilna Ghetto. Following the end of the war, Rolnikas moved to the Soviet Union, first to study at the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute, and later to Leningrad after she was married. Her concentration camp diary was later adapted into a book, I Must Tell, that was published in the USSR in 1964 in Yiddish, Hebrew and Lithuanian, and in Paris in French in 1966. Translated into English by Daniel H. Shubin.

Marija Šerifović is a Serbian singer and record producer. She won the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest for Serbia with "Molitva" (Prayer), and is to date Serbia's only Eurovision winner. Since 2015, she has been a judge on televised singing competition Zvezde Granda.

Marija Pejčinović Burić is a Croatian politician of the centre-right Croatian Democratic Union party who has worked as the 14th Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of Croatia and Deputy Prime Minister of Croatia from 19 June 2017 to 19 July 2019. She is the third woman to hold the post of foreign minister, following Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović and Vesna Pusić. Pejčinović Burić previously served as a Member of Parliament during its Sixth Assembly (2008–2011), representing the 6th electoral district.

Marija Golubeva is a Latvian politician, political scientist, and historian. She is a member of the 13th Saeima and leader of the Development/For! Saeima fraction, and she also was elected by the Presidium of the Saeima to serve in the Saeima Secretariat. Since 3 June 2021 she is serving as Minister of the Interior of Latvia. In her academic work, she specializes in the politics of education and immigration.

Marija Naumova is a Latvian singer. Under the stage name Marie N, she sings a broad range of music ranging from pop to musical theatre and jazz, and has recorded several albums, with songs in Latvian, French, English, Russian and Portuguese. In 2002, she won the Eurovision Song Contest for Latvia with her song "I Wanna".

Marija Šestić is a Bosnian singer and musician. She is most known for representing Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 in Helsinki, Finland. Performing the song "Rijeka bez imena", Šestić collected a total of 106 points, placing eleventh out of twenty-four entries.

Marija Vukčević is a Montenegrin football striker currently playing for ASD Res Roma in the Italian first tier. She formerly played in the Serbian First League for Mašinac Niš, with whom she also played the European Cup, and after that she played for ASD Real Marsico.