Marita Aronson
Marita Aronson (born 10 May 1939 in Ljungby Municipality, Guddarp, Småland) is a Sweden, Swedish Liberal People's Party (Sweden), Liberal People's Party politician. She was a List of members of the Swedish Riksdag, member of the Riksdag from 2002 ...
(born 1939), Swedish politician
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Marita Bonner
Marita Bonner (June 16, 1899 – December 7, 1971), also known as Marieta Bonner, was an American writer, essayist, and playwright who is commonly associated with the Harlem Renaissance. Other names she went by were Marita Occomy, Marita Odette B ...
(1899–1971), African-American writer
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Marita Conlon-McKenna
Marita Conlon-McKenna (born 5 November 1956) is an Irish author of children's books and adult fiction. She is best known for her Famine-era historical children's book '' Under the Hawthorn Tree'', the first book of the ''Children of the Famine'' ...
(born 1956), Irish writer
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Marita Crawley
Marita Georgina Knight (''née'' Phillips; formerly Crawley; born 28 May 1954 in London, England) is a British songwriter and author.
Her lyrics have been recorded by artists such as Peter Skellern, Demis Roussos, William Lovelady and Art Garfu ...
(born 1954), British songwriter and playwright
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Marita Geraghty
Marita Geraghty is an American television and film actress. She had roles in several movies during the late 1980s and early 1990s, most notably as Nancy Taylor in ''Groundhog Day''.
Geraghty was born in Chicago, Illinois. She graduated from the ...
(born 1965), American television character actress
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Marita Grabiak
Marita Jane Grabiak is an American television director. She began her career as a production assistant on the film ''The Men's Club'' (1986) along with fellow Joss Whedon collaborator Tim Minear. She has directed episodes of several television s ...
, 21st century American television director
* Marita Johansson (born 1984), Swedish speed skater
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Marita Koch
Marita Koch (later Meier-Koch; born 18 February 1957) is a German former Sprint (running), sprint track and field athlete. During her career she set 16 List of world records in athletics, world records in outdoor sprints as well as 14 world re ...
(born 1957), East German sprinter
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Marita Lange
Marita Lange (born 22 June 1943 in Halle) is a former athlete from East Germany, who won the silver medal behind team mate Margitta Gummel in the shot put event at the 1968 Summer Olympics
The 1968 Summer Olympics (), officially known as th ...
(born 1943), East German shot putter
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Marita Liabø
Marita Burmann Liabø (born 26 July 1971) is a Norwegian author.
Hailing from Førde, she graduated with the cand.philol. degree in English from the University of Bergen in 1996. In her early career, she held various odd jobs, among others in ho ...
(born 1971), Norwegian author
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Marita Lindahl
Marita Lindahl (17 October 1938 – 21 March 2017) was a Finnish model and beauty queen who won Miss World 1957, after being crowned Miss Finland 1957 by Miss Finland 1956, Sirpa Helena Koivu. She became the first woman from Finland to win the ...
(1938–2017), Miss World 1957
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Marita Liulia
Marita Liulia (born 27 October 1957 in Perho, Finland) is a visual artist working primarily in interactive multimedia. Her debut CD-ROM ''Maire'' (1994) was among the first works of art published in this format in the world. Her production inclu ...
(born 1957), Finnish media artist and director
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Marita Lorenz
Ilona Marita Lorenz (18 August 1939 – 31 August 2019) was a German woman who had an affair with Fidel Castro in 1959 and in January 1960 was involved in an assassination attempt by the CIA on Castro's life.
In the 1970s and 1980s, she testif ...
(1939–2019), German woman who had an affair with Fidel Castro and betrayed a CIA assassination attempt against him
* Marita Mathijsen (born 1944), Dutch academic
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Marita Payne
Marita Payne-Wiggins (born October 7, 1960) is a Canadian former track and field athlete who competed in two consecutive Summer Olympics. She is the co- Canadian record holder in the 400 metres, along with Jillian Richardson, and previously held ...
(born 1960), Canadian sprinter
* Maria Perceval (born 1956), Argentine politician nicknamed "Marita"
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Marita Petersen
Marita Petersen () (née Johansen (); 21 October 1940 – 26 August 2001) was the first and to date only female Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands and the first female speaker of the Løgting (Parliament). She was elected to the Løgting in 1988 ...
(1940–2001), Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
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Marita Ruoho
Marita Ruoho (born 13 August 1949) is a Finnish orienteering competitor and World champion.Marita Skogum (born 1961), Swedish orienteer
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Marita Ulvskog
Marita Elisabet Ulvskog (born 4 September 1951) is a Swedish politician who served as Member of the European Parliament from 2009 until 2019. She is a member of the Social Democrats, part of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats.
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(born 1951), Swedish politician
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Marita Zobel
Mary Ann Blanch de Roxas (''née'' Blanch y Respall, born June 18, 1941), better known by her screen name Marita Zóbel, is a Filipina actress. She was an LVN Pictures
LVN Pictures, Inc. was a Filipino film studio that was considered one of ...
(born 1941), Filipina actress
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Fibriani Ratna Marita
Fibriani Ratna Marita (born February 24, 1994) is an Indonesian swimmer, who specialized in individual medley events. She represented her nation Indonesia at the 2008 Summer Olympics and the inaugural 2010 Summer Youth Olympics, and has also set ...
(born 1994), Indonesian swimmer
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Quinctia Marita
Quinctia Marita (fl. 1st century CE) was a Roman freedwoman from Caruntum. She is primarily known from an epitaph, which she had arranged in her will to have erected after death. She died at the age of 70. The epitaph inscription notes that she ...
(fl. 1st century), ancient Roman freedwoman
Fictional characters
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Marita (hippo)
This is a list of characters in the 1993 animated series ''Animaniacs'' and its 2020 revival.
The Warner Siblings (Animaniacs)
The Warner Siblings (also known as "the Animaniacs" by fans and the media) are small, silly, mischievous, anthropo ...
, on the television series ''Animaniacs''
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Marita Covarrubias
Marita Covarrubias is a fictional character on the American science fiction television series ''The X-Files''. She was initially introduced as an informant, leaking diplomatic information to Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI Special Agent Fox ...
, on the television series ''The X-Files''
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Operation Marita
The German invasion of Greece or Operation Marita (), were the attacks on Greece by Italy and Germany during World War II. The Italian invasion in October 1940, which is usually known as the Greco-Italian War, was followed by the German invasio ...