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

(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