Maria

Maria is a female given name. Maria may also refer to:

Contents 1 In politics and religion 2 In music 3 In language and literature 4 In food 5 In science and computing 6 In sports 7 In computer games 8 See also

In politics and religion

• Maria of Alania (1050 - after 1103), Byzantine Empress
• Maria of Georgia aka Mariam of Georgia (1768-1850), Queen of Georgia
• Maria I of Portugal (1734-1816), Queen of Portugal
• Maria II of Portugal (1819-1853), Queen of Portugal
• Maria al-Qibtiyya (d. 637), wife of Muhammad the founder of Islam
• Maria of Romania (1900-1961), Queen Consort of Yugoslavia
• Ave Maria, Latin for Hail Mary, a traditional Catholic prayer

In music

• Maria (singer), a Danish R&B singer
• Maria (Bulgarian singer)
• Maria (Japanese Band), all female band
• "Maria" (song) 1995, by Ricky Martin
• "Maria" (1956 song), from West Side Story
• "Maria" (1959 song), from The Sound of Music
• "Maria" (Blondie song) from 1999
• "Maria" (Green Day song)
• "Maria" (US5 song)
• "Maria Maria", song by Santana and The Product G&B
• "My Maria", song by B. W. Stevenson also recorded by Brooks & Dunn
• "Yassou Maria", song by Sarbel in 2007
• Maria from "M" (song) 2000 by Ayumi Hamasaki
• "Maria", song on Café Tacuba (album)
• "Maria", song by Men at Work on their Two Hearts album
• "Maria", song by The Jacksons on their album 2300 Jackson Street
• "Maria", song by Animal Liberation Orchestra on their 2007 Roses & Clover album
• "Maria", song by Rage Against the Machine from their 1999 album The Battle of Los Angeles
• "Maria (I Like it Loud)", song by Scooter (band) in 2003
• "Maria no Tsumeato", song by Janne da Arc in 2002
• "Maria, Shut Up and Kiss Me", song by Willie Nelson
• "They Call the Wind Maria", song from the Broadway musical Paint Your Wagon

In language and literature

• Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman, an unfinished novelistic sequence by Mary Wollstonecraft
• María (novel), by Jorge Isaacs
• Maria language (India), a Dravidian language spoken in India
• Maria language (Papua New Guinea), a language spoken in Papua New Guinea

In food

• Maria-mole, dessert popular in Brazil, similar to a marshmallow
• Maria, aka Marie biscuit, a type of sweet biscuit similar to a Rich Tea biscuit

In science and computing

• 170 Maria, a Main belt S-type asteroid discovered in 1877
• Lunar maria, the large, dark basaltic plains on Earth's Moon
• Maria (reachability analyzer), used in computer science for concurrent systems within high-level variants of Petri nets
• Maria (Silent Hill), a character from the video game Silent Hill 2
• Tropical Storm Maria, one of several named storms

In sports

• Maria Kanellis, American professional wrestler

In computer games

• Maria Robotnik, a character in the game Sonic Adventure 2

See also

• Mariah
• Mary
• Marie
• Maria (given name)