Maria may refer to:

People

Mary, mother of Jesus Mary was a first-century Jewish woman of Nazareth, the wife of Saint Joseph, Joseph and the mother of Jesus. She is an important figure of Christianity, venerated under titles of Mary, mother of Jesus, various titles such as Perpetual virginity ...

Maria (given name) Maria is a feminine given name. It is given in many languages influenced by Christianity. It was used as the feminine form of the unrelated Roman name ''Marius (name), Marius'' (see Maria gens), and, after Christianity had spread across the Roma ...

, a popular given name in many languages

Place names

Extraterrestrial

* 170 Maria, a Main belt S-type asteroid discovered in 1877 * Lunar maria (plural of ''mare''), large, dark basaltic plains on Earth's Moon

Terrestrial

Maria, Maevatanana Maria is a town and commune () in Madagascar. It belongs to the Districts of Madagascar, district of Maevatanana District, Maevatanana, which is a part of Betsiboka Region. The population of the commune was estimated to be approximately 7,000 in 2 ...

, Madagascar * Maria, Quebec, Canada * Maria, Siquijor, the Philippines * María, Spain, in Andalusia * Îles Maria, French Polynesia *

María de Huerva María de Huerva is a municipality located in the Zaragoza (province), province of Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain. According to the 2004 censusInstituto Nacional de Estadística (Spain) the municipality has a population of 2,125 inhabitants. María de ...

, Aragon, Spain * Villa Maria (disambiguation)

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

* ''Maria'' (1947 film), Swedish film * ''Maria'' (1975 film), Swedish film * ''Maria'' (2003 film), Romanian film * ''Maria'' (2019 film), Filipino film * ''Maria'' (2021 film), Canadian film directed by Alec Pronovost *'' Being Maria'', 2024 French film released as ''Maria'' in France * ''Maria'' (2024 film), American film * ''Maria'' (Sinhala film), Sri Lankan upcoming film

Literature

* ''María'' (novel), an 1867 novel by Jorge Isaacs * ''Maria'' (Ukrainian novel), a 1934 novel by the Ukrainian writer Ulas Samchuk * ''Maria'' (play), a 1935 play by Isaac Babel *''Maria'', a poetic novel (1825) by

Antoni Malczewski Antoni Malczewski (3 June 1793 – 2 May 1826) was a Polish romantic poet, known for his only work, "a narrative poem of dire pessimism", ''Maria'' (1825). At the times, prominent and scandalizing was his autodestructive romance with a married ...

*'' Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman'', a 1798 unfinished novel by Mary Wollstonecraft * ''Maria'' (Philippine fairy tale)

Music

Artists *

Maria (band) Maria (stylized as MARIA) was an all female Japanese pop rock band signed onto Sony Music Japan. The band consists of six members. They released their first single on March 8, 2006, titled "Chiisa na Uta". This song is used as the 3rd opening ...

, a Japanese all-female band *

Maria (Danish singer) Maria Lumiere ( née ''Jensen'' on 13 May 1978), known as just Maria, is a Danish singer and songwriter. Born in Denmark, she grew up living in different parts of Europe. Despite her parents' initial hesitation and the fact that she did not co ...

, born 1978 *

Maria (South African singer) Carmélia Maria Neto Lopes Maria (March 4, 1945 − May 10, 1980), more commonly known as Maria, was a South African musician. Maria was born in Lourenço Marques (now known as Maputo) in Mozambique, then a prosperous Portuguese colony in S ...

, 1945–1980 *

Maria (Bulgarian singer) Mariya Panayotova Kirova (; born 13 January 1982), better known mononymously as Maria (), is a former Bulgarian pop-folk singer. Career Maria made her debut on a children's show for young talents, where she sang a Lili Ivanova's song ''Dete ...

, born 1982 *

Maria (Bruneian singer) Meria Aires (or popularly known as ''Maria'' or ''Meria Aires''; born February 16, 1989) is a Bruneian singer-songwriter. Biography She began her career in 2005 in a radio singing contest organized by Kristal FM in conjunction with His Majest ...

, born 1989 Albums * ''Maria'' (Jane Siberry album), 1995 * Maria (Carminho album), 2018 * ''María'' (EP), a 2020 EP by Hwasa Songs * "María" (Cátulo Castillo song), 1945 * "Maria" (''West Side Story'' song), from the musical ''West Side Story'' by 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 * "María" (Franco song), 1988 * "María" (Ricky Martin song), by Ricky Martin, 1995 * "Maria" (Blondie song), 1999 * "María" (Östen med Resten song), 2003 * "Maria" (US5 song), 2005 * María (Hwasa song), 2020 *" 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 Café Tacuba (), stylized as Café Tacvba, is a band from Naucalpan de Juárez, State of Mexico. The group gained popularity in the early 1990s. They were founded in 1989, before they had the current lineup of Rubén Albarrán, Rubén Isaac Albar ...

'' *"Maria", song by David Sylvian from the album '' Secrets of the Beehive'' *"Maria", a song by Dua Lipa from the album '' Radical Optimism'', 2024 *"Maria", by Gackt from '' Rebirth'' *"Maria", a song by Lorna Cordeiro with Mohammad Rafi *"Maria", by Green Day from '' International Superhits!'' *"Maria", by Guano Apes from '' Proud Like a God'' *"Maria", by The Jacksons from '' 2300 Jackson Street'' *"Maria", by Jean Ferrat *"Maria", by

Joe Dassin Joseph Ira Dassin (; November 5, 1938 – August 20, 1980) was an American–French singer-songwriter. In his career spanning sixteen years (1964–1980), he enjoyed numerous successes in France and the French-speaking world, as well as singing ...

*"Maria", by Justin Bieber from '' Believe'' *"Maria", by Kendji Girac *"Maria", by Kim Ah-joong from the Korean film '' 200 Pounds Beauty'' *"Maria", by Men at Work from '' Two Hearts'' *"María", by Pepe Aguilar from '' No Lo Había Dicho'' *"Maria", by Six Organs of Admittance from their self-titled album *"Maria", by Rage Against the Machine from ''

The Battle of Los Angeles The Battle of Los Angeles, also known as the Great Los Angeles Air Raid, is the name given by contemporary sources to a rumored attack on the continental United States by Imperial Japan and the subsequent anti-aircraft artillery barrage which ...

'' *"Maria", by Redgum from the album '' Virgin Ground'' *"Maria", by Robert Earl Keen from '' West Textures'' *"Maria", by Wu-Tang Clan from '' Wu-Tang Forever'' *"Oh Maria", by Louis Prima from '' The Wildest!'' *"O Marie", by Eduardo di Capua *"Maria (You Were the Only One)", by Michael Jackson from '' Got to Be There'' *" They Call the Wind Maria", a song from the musical ''Paint Your Wagon''

Operas

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

Television

* ''Maria'' (TV series), Kenyan drama series

Computing 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) * Maria reactor, a nuclear research reactor in Poland * MARIA XML, a model-based XML language for User Interfaces *

MariaDB MariaDB is a community-developed, commercially supported Fork (software development), fork of the MySQL relational database management system (RDBMS), intended to remain free and open-source software under the GNU General Public License. Developm ...

, a community-developed branch of the MySQL database

Languages

* Maria language (disambiguation) ** Maria language (India) (also ''Madiya''), Dravidian language of the Gondi group ** Maria language (Papua New Guinea)

Ships

*, Australian shipwreck of 1840, whose survivors were massacred *, a number of ships with this name *, a Danish cargo ship in service 1946–59

Other uses

* Maria 2.0, movement of Roman Catholic women *

Marie biscuit A Marie biscuit is a type of biscuit similar to a rich tea biscuit. It is also known (in various languages) as María, Mariebon and Marietta, amongst other names. Description The biscuit is round and usually has the name embossed upon its to ...

, a type of sweet biscuit similar to a Rich Tea biscuit * Tropical Storm Maria (disambiguation), one of several named storms **Most notably Hurricane Maria (2017)