Maria
Appearance
Maria may refer to:
People
- Maria (daughter of Maurice), the name of a supposed daughter of Maurice, Byzantine Emperor
- Maria (gens), a plebeian family of Ancient Rome
Fictional characters
- Maria (Twelfth Night), a fictional character in Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night
- 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
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
- María de Huerva, a municipality in Aragon, Spain
Villa Maria
Language and literature
- Maria language (India)
- Maria language (Papua New Guinea)
- 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
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
- Maria (brigantine) Australian shipwreck of 1840 whose survivors were massacred.
Music
Songs
- "Maria" (1956 song), from the musical West Side Story
- "Maria" (1959 song), from the musical The Sound of Music
- "Maria" (Blondie song), 1999
- "Maria" (US5 song), 2005
- "María" (song), by Ricky Martin
- "María" (Franco song), 1988
- "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
- "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
- "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
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 (1938 film), a 1938 Mexican film directed by Chano Urueta
- Maria (1975 film), a 1975 Swedish film
- Maria (goose), a goose in Los Angeles, in the news in 2011
- Black Maria, a dated slang term in some countries for a police wagon