Maria
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Maria may refer to:
Places
- Maria, Maevatanana, Madagascar
- Maria, Quebec, Canada
- Maria, Siquijor, the Philippines
- María, Spain, in Andalusia
- María de Huerva, Aragon, Spain
- Îles Maria, French Polynesia
- Villa Maria (disambiguation)
People
Main article: Maria (given name)
(This page only includes persons or groups commonly known as only "Maria"; all other partial title matches are on the given name page)
- Maria (Bulgarian singer) (born 1982), a Bulgarian pop/folk singer
- Maria (Danish singer) (born 1978), a Danish R&B singer
- Maria (daughter of Maurice), a supposed daughter of Maurice, a Byzantine emperor
- Maria (gens), a plebeian family of ancient Rome
- Maria (Japanese singer) (born 1987), a Japanese pop singer
- Maria, an alternative name of the Madia Gond, a people of Gadchiroli District in the Indian state of Maharashtra
- Maria, pseudonym of Clemens Brentano nineteenth century German author
- MARiA Mai Mizuhashi (1982), a Japanese pop singer
- Maria Nalbandian, a Lebanese Armenian singer
Animals
- Maria (goose), a goose in Los Angeles, in the news in 2011
Art, entertainment, and media
Fictional entities
- Maria (Counting Crows), a recurring character in the songs written by Adam Duritz
- Maria (Silent Hill), a character from the video game Silent Hill 2
- 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, a fictional character in Fritz Lang’s film Metropolis
- María Álvarez, a fictional character in the movie Maria Full of Grace
- Maria Kurenai, a character from the anime and manga series Vampire Knight
- Maria Robotnik, a character from the video games Sonic Adventure 2 and Shadow The Hedgehog
- Maria Figueroa Rodriguez, Sesame Street human character
- Maria Ross, a character from the anime and manga series Fullmetal Alchemist
- Maria Ushiromiya, a character from the Umineko no Naku koro ni series
- Maria Wong, from Braceface
Film
- María (1938 film), a 1938 Mexican film directed by Chano Urueta
- Maria (1975 film), a 1975 Swedish film
Literature
- María (novel), an 1867 novel by Jorge Isaacs
- Maria (play), a 1935 play by Isaac Babel
- Maria, a poetic novel (1825) by Antoni Malczewski
- Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman, a 1798 unfinished novel by Mary Wollstonecraft
Music
Groups
- Maria (band), a Japanese all-female band
Albums
- Maria (album), a 1995 album by Jane Siberry
Operas
- Maria, a 1903-4 opera by Roman Statkowski (based on the poetic novel by Antoni Malczewski)
Songs
- "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", a Goan Konkani song sung By Mohammad Rafi & Lorna Cordeiro
- "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
- They Call the Wind Maria, from the musical Paint Your Wagon
Cooking
- Maria biscuit, a type of sweet biscuit similar to a Rich Tea biscuit
Languages
Science and technology
- Maria (reachability analyzer), a reachability analyzer, used in computer science for concurrent systems
- Maria (storage engine), a storage engine for MySQL (renamed Aria in 2010)
- 170 Maria, a Main belt S-type asteroid discovered in 1877
- Lunar maria, large, dark basaltic plains on Earth's Moon
- Maria reactor, a nuclear research reactor in Poland
- MARIA XML, a model-based XML language for User Interfaces
- MariaDB, a community-developed branch of the MySQL database
- Tropical Storm Maria (disambiguation), one of several named storms
Transport
- Maria (brigantine), Australian shipwreck of 1840, whose survivors were massacred
- Black Maria, a slang term for a police wagon used to transport
- SS Maria, a number of ships with this name
- SS Maria Dan, a Danish cargo ship in service 1946-59
See also
- Latin plural of 'mare': see lunar mare
- Ave Maria (disambiguation)
- Black Maria (disambiguation)
- Mariah (disambiguation)
- Marie (disambiguation)
- Mariya (disambiguation)
- Mary (given name)
- Santa Maria (disambiguation)
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