There have been two singers with the name Marta. Marta Roure is an Andorran singer who represented her country in 2004 Eurovision with "Jugarem A Estimar-Nos". She did not qualify from the first ever semi final. Marta Verner (nee Jandova) is a Czech singer who represented her country with Vaclav Noid Barta with the song "Hope Never Dies" in the 2015 Eurovision. They did not make it past the semi final.
Marta Vieira da Silva, commonly known as Marta, is a Brazilian footballer who plays for FC Rosengård in the Swedish Damallsvenskan and the Brazil national team as a forward. With 15 goals, she holds the record for most goals scored at FIFA Women's World Cup tournaments, surpassing Birgit Prinz's previous record of 14 with a goal against South Korea in Brazil's first match of the 2015 edition in Canada.
Marta Domachowska is a Polish retired professional tennis player ranked World No. 37 in singles and World No. 62 in doubles. She reached the 2008 Australian Open fourth round in singles and won the 2006 Canberra International in doubles with Roberta Vinci. She also reached three WTA Tour singles finals at the 2004 Hansol Korea Open, the 2005 Internationaux de Strasbourg and the 2006 U.S. National Indoor Tennis Championships. She was the 2003 Australian Open finalist in girls' singles, represented Poland at the 2008 Summer Olympics and was a member of the Poland Fed Cup team. Domachowska was the best female Polish tennis player after Magdalena Grzybowska's retirement and before Agnieszka Radwańska's successes.
Marta Sánchez López is a Spanish vocalist who is often cited as the Queen of Spanish pop. Marta was born in La Coruña. Her father, Antonio Sánchez Camporro, was an Asturian opera singer. She began her musical career with the band Cristal Oskuro, but shortly after she was discovered by Tino Azores, a sound technician for the popular pop/rock group Olé Olé. In 1985, Marta became the band's lead singer replacing Vicky Larraz, which brought her to fame and made her one of the biggest sex symbols of the 1980s in Spain, during a time when the country was easing the traditional rigid moral values of Catholicism.
Marta Roure I Besolí is an Andorran singer and actress. She represented Andorra in the Eurovision Song Contest 2004 with her song "Jugarem a estimar-nos", earning the eighteenth place in the semifinal.
In Georgia they have a subway system called Marta.
― Anonymous User 1/2/2007
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Marta was used as the name of the fourth von Trapp daughter in the movie "The Sound of Music". Marta's character represented the real fourth daughter, who was named Johanna.