Maria Kownacka (b. September 11th 1894, Słup, d. February 27th 1982, Warsaw) was a Polish writer, an author of children's magazines, performing arts, radio plays and books aimed for children.
Maria Konopnicka (b. May 23rd 1842, Suwałki, d. October 8th 1910, Lviv) was a Polish poet and novelist. She was one of the greatest writers in Polish literature’s history.
Maryla Rodowicz, actually Maria Antonina Rodowicz (b. December 8th 1945, Zielona Góra) is a Polish pop singer, one of the most famous singers in Polish light music’s history, an icon of aforementioned music and the biggest star of Polish show business.
Maria Chaykovskaya (also spelt Mariya Tchaikovskaya) is a Ukrainian singer-songwriter. She is known for her hit, which also went viral on TikTok, Целуй Меня (Romanized - Tseluy Menya/Kiss Me) and the other pop styled version of the same song, В комнате цветых пелерин (Romanized - V komnate tsvetyh pelerin/In a room of colored pelerines).
Maria is a Spanish idol from the game Love Live! School Idol Festival. Her name is written in katakana (マリア). She is in her first year in high school, her birthday is August 6th and her attribute is cool. She is unvoiced, doesn't have a voice actress.
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This is the middle name of the Czech artist, Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939). He had an important influence on the Art Nouveau movement.
H.I. H Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna Romanova of Russia (1899-1918) was the third daughter of Emperor Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra Fedorovna of Russia.
Maria Haukaas Storeng is an Norwegian singer who represented her country in the 2008 Eurovision with the song "Hold On, Be Strong". She qualified from the semi final and cracked the top 10.
Maria Reynolds was Alexander Hamilton’s mistress between 1791 and 1792. She married James Reynolds at fifteen and had two other marriages to men whose names I do not remember. She is a minor character in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hit musical Hamilton. EDIT: Maria, in this case, is pronounced ma-RYE-ah.
Grand Duchess Maria Kirillovna of Russia (1907–1951) was the daughter of Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich of Russia and Grand Duchess Victoria Feodorovna.
Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (1853-1920) was the daughter of Emperor Alexander II of Russia and the wife of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh.
Maria Owings Shriver is an American journalist, activist, author of six best-selling books, former First Lady of California, and the estranged wife of former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. She has received a Peabody Award and was co-anchor for NBC's Emmy-winning coverage of the 1988 Summer Olympics. As executive producer of The Alzheimer's Project, Shriver earned two Emmy Awards and an Academy of Television Arts & Sciences award for developing a "television show with a conscience". She is a member of the Kennedy family. Shriver is currently a special anchor and correspondent for NBC News.
Maria Odete Brito de Miranda, known as Gretchen; born May 29, 1959 in Rio de Janeiro is a Brazilian singer, reality television personality, actress, and businessman. She achieved popularity by the movie Night of the Living Dead, Gretchen, that tells the story of a German Brazilian transgender ladyman. Gretchen is known for reinventing both her music and representation, and for maintaining her autonomy within the recording industry. She has a vast musical repertory, and has been a source of some controversy throughout her career. Referred to as the Rainha do Bumbum, Gretchen is often cited as an influence by other artists.
Maria Menounos is an American actress, journalist, television host, and occasional professional wrestler of Greek descent. She is known in the United States for her appearances as a TV correspondent for Today, Access Hollywood, Extra, and abroad for co-hosting the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 in Athens, Greece.
Maria Eliane Jesus Mascarenhas, an orphaned girl adopted by rural farm workers after her mother died in childbirth, gave birth by cesarean section to a 7 lb (3.2 kg) girl named Diane in Jequié.
Maria Ilinca Băcilă, also known as simply Ilinca, is a Romanian singer and yodeler. Along with Alex Florea, she will represent Romania in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 with the song "Yodel It!". She also participated in the season 4 of Vocea Romaniei, for the second season of Românii au talent and for the third season of X Factor with Trupa Quattro. She is well known for her unique yodel.
Maria Yuryevna Kirilenko-Stepanova is a Russian tennis player. Kirilenko won the 2002 U.S. Open Girls' Singles and won her first WTA Tour title in 2005, defeating Anna-Lena Grönefeld in the China Open. She has reached three Grand Slam singles quarterfinals, at the 2010 Australian Open the 2012 Wimbledon Championships and the 2013 French Open. In doubles, she has reached two Grand Slam doubles finals, at the 2011 Australian Open and the 2012 French Open, won the 2012 WTA Tour Championships and was a bronze medalist at the 2012 London Olympics. In June 2013, Kirilenko reached her career high ranking of World No. 10.
Maria Odete Brito de Miranda, known as Gretchen is a Brazilian singer and actress. She became notorious as the Rainha do Bumbum in the late 1970s. Her stage name was taken from 1976 film Aleluia, Gretchen that tells the story of a German Brazilian immigrant family.
Maria Yuryevna Sharapova is a Russian professional tennis player. A United States resident since 1994, Sharapova has competed on the WTA tour since 2001. She has been ranked world No. 1 in singles by the WTA on five separate occasions, for a total of 21 weeks. She is one of ten women, and the only Russian, to hold the career Grand Slam. She is also an Olympic medalist, having earned silver for Russia in women's singles at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
Maria Menounos is an American actress, journalist, television host, and occasional professional wrestler of Greek descent. She is known in the United States for her appearances as a TV correspondent for Today, Access Hollywood, Extra, and abroad for co-hosting the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 in Athens, Greece.
Maria Thayer is an American actress and comedian. She first earned public recognition for her portrayal of Tammi Littlenut on the cult series Strangers With Candy in 1999. Thayer has also had supporting roles in the comedy films Hitch (2005), Accepted (2006), and Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008).She has appeared in numerous television series, including a recurring role on the Adult Swim series Eaglehart (2011–14), and a lead role as Abbey Logan on the comedy series Those Who Can't.
Maria da Graça Meneghel commonly known as Xuxa is a Brazilian television presenter, film actress, singer, and businesswoman. Her various shows have been broadcast in Portuguese, English, and Spanish worldwide. She is a two-time winner of the Latin Grammy award for Best Children's Album, and is also known for her epithet, "Queen of the Shorties".
Maria Christina "Tina" Aumont was an American actress. She was of French Jewish and Dominican descent, born in Hollywood to actors Jean-Pierre Aumont and Maria Montez. She married actor and film director Christian Marquand in 1963, at the age of 17.
Maria Elena Kyriakou is a Greek Cypriot singer best known for winning the first season of The Voice of Greece under the mentorship of Despina Vandi. She represented Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 with her song "One Last Breath".
Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718-99), was an Italian linguist, mathematician, and philosopher. Agnesi is credited with writing the first book discussing both differential and integral calculus. Maria could speak both French and Italian at the age of 5. By age 13, she had acquired Greek, Hebrew, Spanish, German, Latin. At age 9, she composed and delivered, in Latin, women's right to be educated, an hour-long speech to an academic gathering. At age 15, her father Pietro, a mathematics professor, regularly gathered a circle of the most learned men in Bologna, before whom she read and maintained a series of theses on the most abstruse philosophical questions. By age 20, it is said she had a strong desire to enter a convent. Her wish was not granted and she lived from that time on in an almost conventual semi-retirement, avoiding all interactions with society and devoting herself entirely to the study of mathematics.
Maria Jackson (played by Yasmin Paige) is a main character on the Doctor Who spin-off series The Sarah Jane Adventures. The character departs at the beginning of the second season.
Maria Anna Mozart was the older sister of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Like her brother, she was also a talented musician. Their father showed off their talent as children by having them perform around Europe as child prodigies.
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Maria Antonia Ender (1912-1986) was the mother of "Venus" singer Mariska Veres of Shocking Blue, and incidentally, she was German, not Hispanic. Mariska's given name was also Maria, but she went by the Hungarian diminutive form of her name as her father was from Hungary.
Maria Arkhipova, (Russian: Мари́я Архипова) (Born January 9, 1983, in Moscow, Russia) singer of Russian metal band Arkona, she is known by her stage name Masha Scream.
Maria (1528-1603) was the daughter of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and his wife Isabel of Portugal. She later married Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II.
Maria (1853-1920) was the daughter of Emperor Alexander II of Russia and his wife Maria. She was married to Alfred, the son of Queen Victoria of Great Britain. Her oldest daughter Marie was the Queen of Romania.
Maria Callas -one of the greatest singers of all time! Born in the U.S. but of Greek parentage.
― Anonymous User 3/9/2010
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Taro Maria Sekiutsu is the illegal immigrant girl in Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei.Also, I would like to point out to carenmuffin and Emilie007 that Maria Teresa was Marie Antoinette's mother, but she had a child named Marie Therese to honor her.
Maria Sue Chapman (2003-2008), the youngest adopted daughter of Christian singer and songwriter Steven Curtis Chapman. The special needs orphan facility the Chapmans recently opened in China is called Maria's Big House of Hope. Maria was a special needs orphan born in China, and the facility will serve 120 children like her every month.
Maria (pronounced "Ma-rie-a") is the name of a character in William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. As was often the case with variants of names in Shakespeare's day (and before and for sometime afterwards), this was evidently regarded as interchangeable with Mary. (At one point, Maria says, "My name is Mary, sir.")
A famous bearer is French actress Maria Schneider (born March 27, 1952). She is best known for appearing as Jeanne in the 1972 film "Last Tango in Paris", opposite Marlon Brando.
The world's second set of surviving quintuplets (after the Dionne sisters) are born in Buones Ares, Argentina, on July 15, 1943. The five babies are three girls, Maria Ester, Maria Fernanda, and Maria Christina, and two boys Carlos Alberto and Franco.
Maria Ouspenskaya (Ìàðèÿ Óñïåíñêàÿ, July 29, 1876 – December 3, 1949) was a Russian actress. She achieved success in Russian theater as a young woman. As she aged, she began performing in Hollywood films, particularly her Academy Award-nominated roles in 'Dodsworth' (1936) and 'Love Affair' (1939).
María Esther de Capovilla was the oldest living person, she was the last remaining documented person born in the 1880's. She died on August 27, 2006. She was 116 years, 347 days old.
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In Jane Austen's novel Mansfield Park, Sir Thomas Bertram's eldest daughter Maria marries Mr. Rushworth and then elopes with Henry Crawford. (Her name is pronounced ma-RYE-a)
― Anonymous User 3/23/2007
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In Jane Austen's novel Pride & Prejudice, Charlotte Lucas' younger sister is named Maria. (Her name is pronounced ma-RYE-a)
― Anonymous User 3/23/2007
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Maria Sharapova and Maria Kirilenko are Russian tennis players in the top 100!
The Grand Duchess Maria may have possibly escaped the Romanov's masssacre instead of Anastasia. Scientists disagree on which grand duchesses's body is missing.
This is the name of two members of the famous von Trapp family, whose story was immortalised in the musical "The Sound of Music". As well as the name of the main character, Maria von Trapp, it was also the name of one of the children. Maria F. von Trapp (born 1914), nicknamed "Mitzi" by her family, was the second daughter of the family and is represented in the movie by the character Louisa.
Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova bears this name.
― Anonymous User 6/14/2006
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One of the children of Agathe Whitehead von Trapp & George von Trapp. Also one of the original Trapp family singers founded in 1936.
― Anonymous User 6/7/2006
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In "The Sound of Music," Maria was the name of the governess played by Julie Andrews. The nuns sang a cute song "How do you Solve a Problem Called Maria?"
A famous bearer is Princess Maria Carolina of Bourbon-Parma. She's the daughter of prince Carlos Hugo of Bourbon-Parma and Princess Irene of Lippe-Biesterfeld (sister of queen Beatrix of the Netherlands).
― Anonymous User 11/16/2005
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The heroine of the musical West Side Story bears this name, and the show includes a beautiful song called "Maria" dedicated to her.
I’m sure there’s plenty, but she’s one of the historical ones to come to mind.