# Maria

Maria may refer to:

## People

* Mary, mother of Jesus
* Maria (given name), a popular given name in many languages

## Place names
### Extraterrestrial

* 170 Maria, a Main belt S-type asteroid discovered in 1877
* Lunar maria (plural of mare), large, dark basaltic plains on Earth's Moon

### Terrestrial

* Maria, Maevatanana, Madagascar
* Maria, Quebec, Canada
* Maria, Siquijor, the Philippines
* María, Spain, in Andalusia
* Îles Maria, French Polynesia
* María de Huerva, Aragon, Spain
* Villa Maria (disambiguation)

## Arts, entertainment, and media
### Films

* Maria (1947 film), Swedish film
* Maria (1975 film), Swedish film
* Maria (2003 film), Romanian film
* Maria (2019 film), Filipino film
* Maria (2021 film), Canadian film directed by Alec Pronovost
* Being Maria, 2024 French film released as Maria in France
* Maria (2024 film), American film
* Maria (Sinhala film), Sri Lankan upcoming film

### Literature

* María (novel), an 1867 novel by Jorge Isaacs
* Maria (Ukrainian novel), a 1934 novel by the Ukrainian writer Ulas Samchuk
* 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
* Maria (Philippine fairy tale)

### Music

Artists
* Maria (band), a Japanese all-female band
* Maria (Danish singer), born 1978
* Maria (South African singer), 1945–1980
* Maria (Bulgarian singer), born 1982
* Maria (Bruneian singer), born 1989
Albums
* Maria (Jane Siberry album), 1995
* Maria (Carminho album), 2018
* María (EP), a 2020 EP by Hwasa
Songs
* "María" (Cátulo Castillo song), 1945
* "Maria" (West Side Story song), from the musical West Side Story by 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
* "María" (Franco song), 1988
* "María" (Ricky Martin song), by Ricky Martin, 1995
* "Maria" (Blondie song), 1999
* "María" (Östen med Resten song), 2003
* "Maria" (US5 song), 2005
* María (Hwasa song), 2020
* "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
* "María", by Café Tacuba from Café Tacuba
* "Maria", song by David Sylvian from the album Secrets of the Beehive
* "Maria", a song by Dua Lipa from the album Radical Optimism, 2024
* "Maria", by Gackt from Rebirth
* "Maria", a song by Lorna Cordeiro with Mohammad Rafi
* "Maria", by Green Day from International Superhits!
* "Maria", by Guano Apes from Proud Like a God
* "Maria", by The Jacksons from 2300 Jackson Street
* "Maria", by Jean Ferrat
* "Maria", by Joe Dassin
* "Maria", by Justin Bieber from Believe
* "Maria", by Kendji Girac
* "Maria", by Kim Ah-joong from the Korean film 200 Pounds Beauty
* "Maria", by Men at Work from Two Hearts
* "María", by Pepe Aguilar from No Lo Había Dicho
* "Maria", by Six Organs of Admittance from their self-titled album
* "Maria", by Rage Against the Machine from The Battle of Los Angeles
* "Maria", by Redgum from the album Virgin Ground
* "Maria", by Robert Earl Keen from West Textures
* "Maria", by Wu-Tang Clan from Wu-Tang Forever
* "Oh Maria", by Louis Prima from The Wildest!
* "O Marie", by Eduardo di Capua
* "Maria (You Were the Only One)", by Michael Jackson from Got to Be There
* "They Call the Wind Maria", a song from the musical Paint Your Wagon

### Operas

* Maria, a 1903-4 opera by Roman Statkowski (based on the poetic novel by Antoni Malczewski)

### Television

* Maria (TV series), Kenyan drama series

## Computing 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)
* 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

## Languages

* Maria language (disambiguation)
** Maria language (India) (also Madiya), Dravidian language of the Gondi group
** Maria language (Papua New Guinea)

## Ships

* Maria (brigantine), Australian shipwreck of 1840, whose survivors were massacred
* SS Maria, a number of ships with this name
* SS Maria Dan, a Danish cargo ship in service 1946–59

## Other uses

* Maria 2.0, movement of Roman Catholic women
* Marie biscuit, a type of sweet biscuit similar to a Rich Tea biscuit
* Tropical Storm Maria (disambiguation), one of several named storms
** Most notably Hurricane Maria (2017)