Maria Explained

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
• , 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

• , Australian shipwreck of 1840, whose survivors were massacred
• , a number of ships with this name
• , 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)

See also

• Santa Maria (disambiguation)
• Black Maria (disambiguation)
• Ave Maria (disambiguation)
  • • Mario (disambiguation)
• Marius (disambiguation)
• Mariah (disambiguation)
• Marie (disambiguation)
• Muria (disambiguation)
• Mariya
• Mary (given name)
• Marea (disambiguation)