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María Domínguez (Spanish molecular biologist)
María Domínguez Castellano is a Spanish molecular biologist who studies how organs coordinate growth and how its loss causes cancer, using fruit flies, at the CSIC in Alicante.
Maria Doyle Kennedy
Maria Doyle Kennedy (Maria Josephine Doyle, born 1964, Dublin) is an Irish actress and singer: Katherine of Aragon in The Tudors, Siobhan Sadler in Orphan Black, Birdy in Kin; IFTA, Gemini and Canadian Screen Award winner, and Mermaid Records founder.
Maria Drokova (Мария Александровна Дрокова)
Maria Drokova, also known as Masha Drokova and later Masha Bucher, is a Russian-born Silicon Valley venture capitalist who founded Day One Ventures in 2018, pairing investment with public relations.
Maria Dufau
Maria L. Dufau is an Argentine-trained reproductive endocrinologist who headed the Section on Molecular Endocrinology at the NIH's child health institute, known for work on LH/hCG receptors and prolactin receptor genes.
Maria Edgeworth
Maria Edgeworth (1768–1849) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and children's writer whose Irish novels of 1800 to 1817, beginning with Castle Rackrent, pioneered the regional novel in English and influenced Walter Scott and Jane Austen.
Maria Elena Boschi
Maria Elena Boschi (born 1981, Montevarchi) is an Italian politician of Italia Viva, formerly PD; Renzi government minister for constitutional reforms 2014–2016, Gentiloni undersecretary 2016–2018, Chamber deputy and Italia Viva group leader.
María Elena Durazo
María Elena Durazo is an American Democratic politician representing California's 26th Senate district in Los Angeles, formerly a labor leader with UNITE-HERE and the LA County Federation of Labor.
María Elena Holly
María Elena Holly, born María Elena Santiago, is the Puerto Rican-born widow of Buddy Holly, married August 15, 1958; she secured the 1987 Texas Buddy Holly Law, co-founded his educational foundation, and sold his catalog to BMG.
Maria Elena Torres-Padilla
Maria Elena Torres-Padilla is a Mexican epigeneticist and stem cell biologist at Helmholtz Munich who studies totipotency in early embryos and won the 2025 Leibniz Prize.
María Elena Velasco
María Elena Velasco (1940–2015), Mexican actress, comedian, director, and screenwriter; creator and performer of La India María, the Indigenous comic character of roughly 15–16 films from Tonta, tonta, pero no tanto (1972) to La hija de Moctezuma (2014).
Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg
Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg (Maria Eleonora av Brandenburg, 1599–1655), queen consort of Gustavus II Adolphus of Sweden, married 1620, mother of Queen Christina, widow in conflict with the Riksrådet, one of the most libelled queens in Swedish historiography.
Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati
Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati is an Italian Forza Italia politician serving since 2022 as Minister for Institutional Reforms and Regulatory Simplification under Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
María Elvira Salazar
María Elvira Salazar, born 1961 in Miami to Cuban exiles, is a Republican U.S. Representative for Florida's 27th district since 2021 and a former Emmy-winning journalist.
María Enriqueta Camarillo
María Enriqueta Camarillo was a Mexican poet, novelist, and translator born in 1872 in Coatepec, Veracruz, who lived and published in Madrid for more than thirty years.
Maria Espinoza
María del Rosario Espinoza (Chayito), Mexican taekwondo heavyweight born 1987 in Guasave, Sinaloa; Olympic gold Beijing 2008, bronze London 2012, silver Rio 2016; world champion 2007; now coaches Mexico's para taekwondo team.
Maria Ewing
Maria Ewing (1950–2022), American mezzo-soprano and soprano from Detroit, famed for dramatically intense roles such as Carmen, Salome, Dorabella, and Rosine; Met debut 1976 as Cherubino, retired from opera 1997.
Maria Falkenberg
Maria Falkenberg is a Swedish molecular biologist and professor of medical biochemistry at the University of Gothenburg who studies mitochondrial DNA replication and transcription, and co-founded Pretzel Therapeutics.
Maria family
Maria asteroid family (FIN 506), an S-type Hirayama family in the inner main belt near the 3:1 Jupiter resonance, named for (170) Maria; a plausible source of mesosiderite meteorites and near-Earth asteroids.
María Félix
María Félix (María de los Ángeles Félix Güereña, 1914–2002), La Doña and María Bonita, Mexican film star of the Golden Age; debut El Peñón de las Ánimas (1942), 47 films, Enamorada, Río Escondido, Maclovia.
Maria Feodorovna
Maria Feodorovna (Мария Фёдоровна), born a Danish princess, was empress consort of Russia as the wife of Alexander III and mother of Nicholas II, and a leading patron of Russian charities.
Maria Feodorovna (Мария Фёдоровна) (Dagmar of Denmark)
Maria Feodorovna (Мария Фёдоровна), born Princess Dagmar of Denmark (1847–1928), was Empress consort of Alexander III of Russia, mother of Nicholas II, Russian Red Cross president, and an anti-German adviser.
Maria Feodorovna (Мария Фёдоровна) (Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg)
Maria Feodorovna (Мария Фёдоровна), born Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg (1759–1828), was the second wife of Paul I, mother of Alexander I and Nicholas I, and founder of about 500 charitable institutions; distinct from the Danish-born dowager empress of the same name.
Maria Fitzherbert
Maria Anne Fitzherbert (née Smythe, 1756–1837), twice-widowed English Catholic who secretly and illegally married George, Prince of Wales, in December 1785; long considered his true wife despite the 1787 Commons denial.
Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos
Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos was a Greek-born chemical engineer and Tufts University professor who pioneered single-atom metal catalysis and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2014.
Maria Forsyth
Maria Forsyth is an Australian electrochemist and Deakin Distinguished Professor known for work on ionic liquids, plastic crystals, and electrolytes for lithium and sodium batteries.
Maria Francisca, Duchess of Coimbra
Maria Francisca de Bragança, Duchess of Coimbra, is a Portuguese infanta of the House of Braganza, third in line to the defunct Portuguese throne since her 1997 birth.
Maria Franziska von Trapp
Maria Franziska von Trapp (1914–2014), also Baroness Maria Franziska Gobertina von Trapp, last surviving original von Trapp child; Louisa in The Sound of Music; sang second soprano 1934–1956, missionary in Papua New Guinea, died in Stowe, Vermont.
Maria Full of Grace
Maria Full of Grace (María, llena eres de gracia), a 2004 drama by Joshua Marston, stars Catalina Sandino Moreno as a pregnant Colombian teen drug mule; Sundance and Berlin winner, Oscar-nominated lead actress.
Maria G. Masucci
Maria G. Masucci (Maria Grazia Masucci) is an Italian-trained virologist and Senior Professor at Karolinska Institutet, known for her work on how Epstein-Barr virus evades immunity.
Maria Gaetana Agnesi
Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718–1799) was an Italian mathematician of Milan whose 1748 calculus textbook Instituzioni analitiche was acclaimed across Europe; the witch of Agnesi curve bears her name.