Maria

Maria may refer to:

People

Maria (given name) is a given name, usually for a female:

• Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark)
• Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia
• Maria (daughter of Maurice), the name of a supposed daughter of Maurice, Byzantine Emperor
• Maria Prophetissa, Mary the Jewess, reputed founder of alchemy first mentioned by Zosimus
• Maria (gens), a plebeian family of Ancient Rome

Fictional characters

• Maria (Twelfth Night), a fictional character in Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night
• 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 (Sonic The Hedgehog), a character from the video games Sonic Adventure 2 and Shadow The Hedgegog
• Maria (Silent Hill), a character from the video game Silent Hill 2

Places

• Madia Gond or Maria, a people of Gadchiroli District, Maharashtra State, India
• María, Spain, a municipality of Andalusia, Spain
• Maria, Siquijor, a municipality in the Philippines
• Maria, Maevatanana
• Maria, Quebec

Language and literature

• Maria language (India)
• Maria language (Papua New Guinea)
• María (novel), a 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

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

Ships

• SS Maria, a number of ships with this name
• SS Maria Dan, a Danish cargo ship in service 1946-59

Music

Songs

• "María" (song), by Ricky Martin
• "Maria" (1956 song), from the musical West Side Story
• "Maria" (1959 song), from the musical The Sound of Music
• "Maria" (Blondie song), 1999
• "María" (Franco song), 1988
• "Maria" (US5 song), 2005
• "Maria", a 1980 song by Redgum from the album Virgin Ground
• "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
• "María", by Café Tacuba from Café Tacuba
• "Maria", by Gackt from Rebirth
• "Maria", a 1987 song by David Sylvian from the album Secrets of the Beehive
• "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
• "Maria", by Rage Against the Machine from The Battle of Los Angeles
• "Maria", by Justin Bieber from Believe
• "Maria", by Robert Earl Keen from West Textures
• "Maria", by Wu-Tang Clan from Wu-Tang Forever
• "Maria", a bonus track by Justin Bieber on Believe

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

Other

• They Call the Wind Maria, from the musical Paint Your Wagon
• Maria (album), a 1995 album by Jane Siberry
• "Maria", a 1903-4 opera by Roman Statkowski (based on poem by Polish poet, Malczewski)

Other uses

• Maria biscuit, a type of sweet biscuit similar to a Rich Tea biscuit
• María (film), a 1938 Mexican film directed by Chano Urueta
• Maria (goose), a goose in Los Angeles, in the news in 2011

See also

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