Mariana of Austria (1634-1696) was Queen of Spain. She was the daughter of Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III and his wife, Maria Anna of Spain. She married Philip IV of Spain and was the mother of Princess Margaret Theresa, Prince Philip Prospero and King Charles II, the Bewitched. Queen Mariana ruled Spain as regent after her husband's death and was an influential figure until her death. The Mariana Islands are named after her.
Mariana Popova is a Bulgarian singer who represented her country in the 2006 Eurovision with the song "Let Me Cry". She did not make it past the semi finals.
Mariana Seoane is a Mexican actress, model and singer. Seoane was born June 10, 1976, from an Argentinian mother and a Cuban-Mexican father, Seoane demonstrated an interest in becoming an entertainer since a very early age. She began acting and singing professionally as a teenager. It is the former career, however, that has brought her much fame in Mexico and Latin America.
One of the characters in Shakespeare's 'Measure for Measure' is named Mariana. The poet Tennyson also wrote a poem which he named 'Mariana' which was inspired by Shakespeare's play. Additionally, inspired by both Shakespeare and Tennyson, the pre-raphaelite painter John Everett Millais painted his famous work 'Mariana'.
Actor Boleslav Polívka and Marcela Černá have a daughter Mariana Polívková (b. 2007). She measured 50 centimeters and she weighed 3.48 kilograms at the birth.
Not quite "people" related, but the Mariana Trench is the deepest location on the surface of the Earth's crust, and is located in the western North Pacific Ocean.
Mariana is the subject of a poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson and pre-Raphelite paintings based on the poem. "She only said, 'The night is dreary, He cometh not, ' she said; She said, 'I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead!' "