María

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Maria is usually a female human name. In some places, it is used as a male human name. However, as a male name it usually occurs as a middle name (e.g. Jose Maria). The name is originally from the Hebrew name Miriam.

Contents

1 Names
2 People
3 Fictional characters
4 Songs
5 Novels
6 Languages
7 Other
8 See also

Names

Maria, Mary in Danish, Dutch, English, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian and Swedish
María, Mary in Dutch, Spanish
Μαρία, Maria in Greek
Mariah, an alternate form

People

Only name

Maria I, Portuguese queen
Maria II, Portuguese queen
Maria is a Danish R&B singer
Maria, Bulgarian singer
Maria, Lebanese singer
Maria, French supermodel

Given name

Roxann Maria Caballero, American actress and director
Maria Carrington, Dance Dance Revolution player who goes by the name of Ria and resides in Orlando, Florida
Maria Kanellis, diva in World Wrestling Entertainment
Maria Mena, Norwegian pop singer
Maria Sharapova, Russian tennis player, formerly world number one and Wimbledon 2004 Champion
Maria Kirilenko, Russian tennis player
Maria al-Qibtiyya (Maria the Copt), wife or concubine of the Islamic prophet Muhammad

Fictional characters

Maria, character in the musical West Side Story
Maria, character in the musical The Sound of Music
Maria Robotnik, character in the Sonic the Hedgehog universe who is Dr. Eggman's cousin
Maria, character from Final Fantasy II
Maria, character in the second installment of Konami's Silent Hill

Songs

"Maria (1956 song)", by Leonard Bernstein, in West Side Story
"Maria", song by Ricky Martin.
"Maria", song by Rage Against the Machine.
"Maria (Green Day song)", song by Green Day.
"Maria (1999 song)", song by Blondie.
"Maria", song in West Side Story.
"Maria Maria" , song by Carlos Santana
"Åh Maria", song by the swedish band Östern med resten.
"Maria (I Like it Loud)", song by Scooter

Novels

Maria, novel by Mary Wollstonecraft, published posthumously
María, Colombian costumbrist novel by Jorge Isaacs

Languages

Maria, Dravidian language spoken in India
Maria, language spoken in Papua New Guinea

Other

Ave Maria, a prayer
170 Maria, asteroid
Hurricane Maria, tropical cyclone which was active in the central Atlantic Ocean during the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season
Maria, Siquijor, Philippines
Maria mole, Brazilian dessert
Maria, plural of mare, a geological feature on the Moon
Maria, a reachability analyzer for concurrent systems
Maria is the name of a village in the gaspe peninsula in Quebec, Canada.