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Maria Gladys
Maria Gladys (Maria Gladys Mello da Silva, born 23 November 1939, Cachambi, Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian actress of theater, film, and TV; a muse of Cinema Marginal, the maid Lucimar in Vale Tudo (1988), and grandmother of Mia Goth.
Maria Goeppert Mayer
Maria Göppert Mayer was a German-born American physicist who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics for the nuclear shell model, becoming the second woman to win it.
Maria Goretti
Maria Goretti, also known as Saint Maria Goretti, was an Italian girl fatally stabbed during an attempted rape in 1902 who forgave her attacker and was canonized in 1950.
Maria Grace Y. Uy
Maria Grace Y. Uy is a Filipino businesswoman who co-founded Converge ICT Solutions with her husband Dennis Anthony Uy in 2007 and serves as its President.
Maria Grapini
Maria Grapini, born 1954 in Berești, Galați, is a Romanian politician of the Humanist Social Liberal Party and a Member of the European Parliament since 2014.
Maria Grazia Chiuri
Maria Grazia Chiuri (born 1964, Rome) is an Italian fashion designer, Fendi Chief Creative Officer since 2025 and Christian Dior's first female creative director (2016-2025), known for the Baguette, Rockstud, Book Tote, and feminist runway messaging.
Maria Grazia Roncarolo
Maria Grazia Roncarolo is an Italian-born physician-scientist in stem cell biology and gene therapy, a Stanford professor whose work produced the ADA-SCID therapy Strimvelis and the companies Graphite Bio, Kamau Therapeutics, and Tr1x.
Maria Gripe
Maria Gripe, born Maria Walter, was a leading Swedish author of children's and youth books whose 38 books, including Hugo och Josefin, were translated into more than 25 languages.
María Guardiola
María Guardiola, born in Cáceres in 1978, is a Spanish Partido Popular politician who has led the Junta of Extremadura since 2023, its first woman president.
Maria Harrison
Maria Harrison is a plant molecular biologist and professor at the Boyce Thompson Institute in Ithaca, New York, known for molecular analyses of the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis.
Maria Hartz Melling
Maria Hartz Melling, Norwegian cross-country skier (born 2002, Drammen; club Konnerud IL), 2020 Winter Youth Olympics gold medalist in the mixed youth team event, also a former youth track athlete with IF Sturla.
Maria Hasse
Maria Hasse, also known as Maria-Viktoria Hasse, was a German mathematician who held the algebra chair at TU Dresden and worked in graph theory and category theory.
Maria Hatzoglou
Maria Hatzoglou is a molecular biologist and professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, known for her 2003 Cell paper proposing the zipper model of translational control.
Maria Hill
Maria Hill is a Marvel Comics S.H.I.E.L.D. director, first appearing in New Avengers (2004) #4, and an MCU character played by Cobie Smulders from The Avengers (2012) until her death in Secret Invasion (2023).
Maria Holic
Maria Holic (まりう†ほりっく) is Minari Endo's yuri-parody comedy manga about Kanako, a lesbian student at a Catholic girls' school tormented by the cross-dressing boy Mariya. Serialized in Monthly Comic Alive 2006–2014, 14 volumes; two SHAFT anime seasons (2009, 2011); sequel began August 2026.
Maria Homem
Maria Homem, born 1969, is a Brazilian psychoanalyst and writer whose filmed classes and online courses made her a leading voice on subjectivity, gender, and culture.
Maria I of Portugal
Maria I of Portugal (1734–1816), called Maria the Pious or the Mad Queen, first queen regnant of Portugal (1777–1816) and first monarch of Brazil; her reign saw the viradeira against Pombal, regency from 1792, and exile in Rio de Janeiro.
Maria Iankovskaia
Maria Iankovskaia (Anna-Maria Yankovskaya, Анна-Мария Янковская), Russian child singer, blogger and actress born 2012 in Moscow, performer of the 2024 viral hit "Sigma Boy" with Betsy, which reached No. 7 on a Billboard chart.
Maria II of Portugal
Maria II (Maria da Glória, 1819–1853) was Queen of Portugal in 1826–1828 and 1834–1853, born in Brazil; her reign spanned the Miguelist usurpation, the civil war of 1832–1834, and liberal reforms.
Maria Ilyinichna Ulyanova
Maria Ilyinichna Ulyanova (Мария Ильинична Ульянова, 1878–1937), Bolshevik revolutionary and journalist, Lenin's youngest sister. Iskra agent, exiled to Vologda 1912; Pravda's de facto head editor 1917–1928 with Bukharin; Commission of Soviet Control member; buried at the Kremlin Wall.
Maria Inês Schmidt
Maria Inês Schmidt is a Brazilian epidemiologist who spent her career at UFRGS in Porto Alegre, described the dawn phenomenon, and led the EBDG and ELSA-Brasil studies.
María Izquierdo
María Izquierdo (1902–1955) was a Mexican painter from San Juan de los Lagos, Jalisco, and with Frida Kahlo one of the first Mexican women artists to gain international recognition.
Maria J. Wawer
Maria J. Wawer is an American physician-epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins who co-founded the Rakai Health Sciences Program in Uganda and led trials showing male circumcision reduces HIV risk.
Maria Jasin
Maria Jasin is an acclaimed molecular biologist at the Sloan Kettering Institute, known for discovering that double-strand breaks accelerate gene targeting and for her work on genomic integrity.
Maria Jose Alonso
María José Alonso Fernández is a Spanish pharmaceutical scientist, professor at the University of Santiago de Compostela, who pioneered nanomedicine and drug and vaccine delivery in Spain.
María José Llergo
María José Llergo is a Spanish singer from Pozoblanco who fuses flamenco with electronic and pop, known for "Niña de las Dunas" and her 2022 Goya win.
María José Pinto
María José Pinto (María José Pinto González), Ecuadorian textile businesswoman and politician, Vice President of Ecuador since 24 May 2025 on Daniel Noboa's ADN ticket; former child-malnutrition secretariat head, later assigned the health ministry amid a public health crisis.
María José Sáenz de Buruaga
María José Sáenz de Buruaga, born in 1968 in Suances, is a Spanish lawyer and politician of the Partido Popular who has served as President of Cantabria since 2023.
Maria Josefa Jaramillo Carson
Maria Josefa Jaramillo Carson (c. 1828–1868), Taos Hispana, married Kit Carson 6 February 1843; mother of eight, present at the 1847 Taos Revolt, died at Boggsville, reburied in Taos 1869.
Maria Jotuni
Maria Jotuni (1880–1943) was a Finnish writer and playwright, a pioneer of modernist prose and drama whose satirical plays included Miehen kylkiluu and Kultainen vasikka.