Maria

Maria may refer to:

People

• Maria (daughter of Maurice), a supposed daughter of Maurice, Byzantine Emperor
• Maria (gens), a plebeian family of Ancient Rome
• Maria, an alternative name of the Madia Gond, a people of Gadchiroli District, Maharashtra State, India
• Maria, pseudonym of Clemens Brentano nineteenth century German author

Fictional characters

• Maria (Twelfth Night), a fictional character in Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night
• María Álvarez, a fictional character in the movie Maria Full of Grace
• Maria Figueroa Rodriguez, Sesame Street human character
• Maria, a fictional character in Fritz Lang’s film Metropolis
• Maria Ushiromiya, a character from the Umineko no Naku koro ni series
• Maria (West Side Story), a character in the musical West Side Story
• Maria (Counting Crows), a recurring character in the songs written by Adam Duritz
• Maria Robotnik, a character from the video games Sonic Adventure 2 and Shadow The Hedgegog
• Maria Ross, a character from the anime and manga series Fullmetal Alchemist
• Maria (Silent Hill), a character from the video game Silent Hill 2
• Maria Kurenai, a character from the anime and manga series Vampire Knight
• Maria Wong, from Braceface

Animals

• Maria (goose), a goose in Los Angeles, in the news in 2011

Places

• Maria, Quebec, Canada
• Maria, Maevatanana, Madagascar
• Maria, Siquijor, the Philippines
• María, Spain, in Andalusia
• María de Huerva, Aragon, Spain
• Îles Maria, French Polynesia
• Villa Maria (disambiguation)

Languages

• Maria language (India)
• Maria language (Papua New Guinea)

Science and technology

• 170 Maria, a Main belt S-type asteroid discovered in 1877
• Lunar maria, large, dark basaltic plains on Earth's Moon
• Maria (reachability analyzer), a reachability analyzer, used in computer science for concurrent systems
• Maria reactor, a nuclear research reactor in Poland
• Maria (storage engine), a storage engine for MySQL (renamed Aria in 2010)
• MariaDB, a community-developed branch of the MySQL database
• Tropical Storm Maria (disambiguation), one of several named storms
• MARIA XML, a model-based XML language for User Interfaces

Transport

• SS Maria, a number of ships with this name
• SS Maria Dan, a Danish cargo ship in service 1946-59
• Maria (brigantine) Australian shipwreck of 1840 whose survivors were massacred.
• Black Maria, a slang term for a police wagon used to transport prisoners

Cooking

• Maria biscuit, a type of sweet biscuit similar to a Rich Tea biscuit

Books

• Maria, a poetic novel (1825) by Antoni Malczewski
• María (novel), an 1867 novel by Jorge Isaacs
• Maria (play), a 1935 play by Isaac Babel
• Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman, a 1798 unfinished novel by Mary Wollstonecraft

Film and TV

• María (1938 film), a 1938 Mexican film directed by Chano Urueta
• Maria (1975 film), a 1975 Swedish film

Music

• "Maria", a 1903-4 opera by Roman Statkowski (based on the poetic novel by Antoni Malczewski)

Performers

• Maria (band), a Japanese all-female band
• Maria (Danish singer) (born 1978), Danish R&B singer
• Maria (Bulgarian singer) (born 1982), Bulgarian pop/folk singer
• Maria (Japanese singer) (born 1987), Japanese pop singer
• MARiA Mai Mizuhashi (1982), Japanese pop singer
• Maria Nalbandian, a Lebanese Armenian singer

Albums

• Maria (album), a 1995 album by Jane Siberry

Songs

• They Call the Wind Maria, from the musical Paint Your Wagon
• "Maria" (West Side Story song), from the musical West Side Story Sondheim, Bernstein, 1956 covered by Gene Pitney, The Delta Rhythm Boys, P. J. Proby and others
• "Maria" (Rodgers and Hammerstein song), from the musical The Sound of Music 1959
• "Maria", a 1980 song by Redgum from the album Virgin Ground
• "María" (Franco song), 1988
• María, tango sung by Cátulo Castillo written by Aníbal Troilo
• "María" (Ricky Martin song), by Ricky Martin, 1995
• "Maria" (Blondie song), 1999
• "María" (Östen med Resten song), 2003
• "Maria" (US5 song), 2005
• "Maria (I Like It Loud)", by Scooter, a cover of "I Like It Loud" by Marc Acardipane
• "Maria", by Animal Liberation Orchestra from Roses & Clover
• "Maria", by Justin Bieber from Believe
• "Maria", by Robert Earl Keen from West Textures
• "Maria", by Gackt from Rebirth
• "Maria", by Green Day from International Superhits!
• "Maria", by The Jacksons from 2300 Jackson Street
• "Maria", by Kim Ah-joong from the Korean film 200 Pounds Beauty
• "Maria", by Men at Work from Two Hearts Colin Hay, Greg Ham
• "Maria", by Six Organs of Admittance from their self-titled album
• "Maria", by Rage Against the Machine from The Battle of Los Angeles
• "Maria", a 1987 song by David Sylvian from the album Secrets of the Beehive
• "Maria", by Wu-Tang Clan from Wu-Tang Forever
• "María", by Café Tacuba from Café Tacuba
• "Maria", by Joe Dassin, P. Delanoë, Cl. Lemesle, P. Massara, J. Mocchetti 1977
• "Maria", by Jean Ferrat, J. C. Massoulier, J. Ferrat
• "Maria", by Guano Apes from Proud Like a God

See also

• Marie (disambiguation)
• Mariah (disambiguation)
• Mariya (disambiguation)
• Mary (given name)
• Ave Maria (disambiguation)
• Latin plural of 'mare': see lunar mare
• Santa Maria (disambiguation)
• Black Maria (disambiguation)