All articles starting with M

Maria Kanellis

Maria Kanellis (Maria Kanellis-Bennett), American professional wrestler and manager from Illinois; 2004 WWE Diva Search finalist, Raw interviewer, Diva of the Year 2009, 24/7 Champion, Knockouts Champion, wife of Mike Bennett, left AEW/ROH in January 2025.

Maria Keller Siller

Maria Keller Siller, born Maria Keller, was an Austrian sprinter, high jumper, and long jumper who set Austrian records and a 60-meter world best of 8.2 seconds in 1919.

Maria Kirilenko (Мария Юрьевна Кириленко)

Maria Kirilenko (Мария Юрьевна Кириленко, born 1987, Moscow), Russian tennis player, career-high No. 10 singles and No. 5 doubles, 12 WTA doubles titles, 2012 Olympic doubles bronze with Petrova; distinct from basketball player Andrei Kirilenko.

Oct 10, 2026

Maria Klawe

Maria Klawe is a computer scientist and mathematician who led Harvey Mudd College from 2006 to 2023, where female computer science majors rose from about 10 to 40 percent.

Oct 22, 2026

Maria Konopnicka

Maria Konopnicka, born Maria Wasiłowska (1842–1910), was a leading Polish poet, short-story writer, and children's author of the positivist period, also known for the patriotic poem Rota.

Maria Kostyuk

Maria Kostyuk (Мария Фёдоровна Костюк) is governor of Russia's Jewish Autonomous Oblast since September 2025; formerly head of regional work at the Defenders of the Fatherland Foundation and the Time of Heroes program, appointed acting governor by Putin in November 2024.

María la del Barrio

María la del Barrio is a 1995 Televisa telenovela starring Thalía, Fernando Colunga, and Itatí Cantoral as villain Soraya Montenegro, the third of the 'Marías' trilogy, adapted from Inés Rodena radionovelas, aired 1995–1996 with 184 episodes.

María LaGuerta

María LaGuerta (Maria Esperanza di Alma LaGuerta) is the Cuban-born Miami Metro Homicide lieutenant and captain in Showtime's Dexter, played by Lauren Vélez and Christina Milian, killed by Debra Morgan in the season 7 finale.

Maria Laina Urso

Maria Laina Urso is an American research physiologist known for her work on skeletal muscle injury, inflammation, and regeneration, and for receiving a 2011 Presidential Early Career Award.

Maria Lehtinen

Maria K. Lehtinen is a developmental neuroscientist who studies choroid plexus and cerebrospinal fluid signaling in the developing brain, leading a laboratory at Boston Children's Hospital since 2012.

Maria Lenk

Maria Lenk was a Brazilian swimmer, the first South American woman to compete at the Olympics, in 1932, and the first woman to use the butterfly stroke in international competition.

Maria Leopoldina of Austria

Maria Leopoldina of Austria (Carolina Josefa Leopoldina, 1797–1826), Habsburg archduchess and first Empress of Brazil, wife of Pedro I; as regent she presided over the 2 September 1822 Council of State that decided Brazilian independence, and was a naturalist.

Maria Leptin

Maria Leptin is a developmental biologist and immunologist who has been President of the European Research Council since November 2021, after leading EMBO as its first female Director.

Maria Littomeritzky

Maria Littomericzky (Littomeritzky Mária, 1927-2017), Hungarian swimmer, 1952 Helsinki Olympic gold medalist in the 4x100 m freestyle relay, three-time Olympian, 1954 European relay champion, later pharmacist and coach.

Maria Lourdes Sereno

Maria Lourdes Sereno (Maria Lourdes Punzalan Aranal-Sereno) was the 24th Chief Justice of the Philippine Supreme Court, its first woman head, removed by quo warranto in 2018.

Sep 27, 2026

Maria Luís Albuquerque

Maria Luís Albuquerque, born in 1967, is a Portuguese politician who has served as European Commissioner for Financial Services and the Savings and Investments Union since 2024.

Oct 22, 2026

María Luisa Bombal

María Luisa Bombal (1910–1980) was a Chilean novelist and short-story writer born in Viña del Mar whose novels La última niebla (1935) and La amortajada (1938) brought avant-garde technique and women's inner lives into Chilean literature.

Sep 19, 2026

María Luisa Landín

María Luisa Landín (1921–2014) was a Mexican bolero and mariachi singer, born in Mexico City, whose 1949 recording of "Amor perdido" made her the Queen of the Bolero.

Maria Lukatskaya

Maria R. Lukatskaya is a Swiss-based energy materials scientist who joined ETH Zurich in 2019 and is known for her 2013 Science paper on MXene charge storage.

Maria Lvova-Belova (Мария Алексеевна Львова-Белова)

Maria Lvova-Belova (Мария Алексеевна Львова-Белова), born 1984 in Penza, is Russia's Presidential Commissioner for Children's Rights since 2021; the ICC issued an arrest warrant for her in March 2023 over deportation of Ukrainian children, and she rejects the charges.

Maria M. Mota

Maria M. Mota is a Portuguese malaria researcher who studies the liver stage of Plasmodium and leads the Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine in Lisbon.

Oct 22, 2026

María Maceo

María Maceo, born María Magdalena Cabrales Isaac in 1847, was a Cuban patriot of the independence wars and wife of Lieutenant General Antonio Maceo, honored as Hija Predilecta de Cuba.

Oct 10, 2026

Maria Madalena de Martel Patrício

Maria Madalena de Martel Patrício (1884–1947) was a Portuguese writer of fiction, poetry, and essay, the first Portuguese woman nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Maria Makiling

Maria Makiling (Mariang Makiling, Dayang Makiling) is the diwata or guardian spirit of Mount Makiling in Laguna, Philippines, famed for gifts of ginger turning to gold, Jose Rizal's 1890 La Solidaridad retelling, and a legend of withdrawal after mortals abused her generosity.