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Maria Martinez‐Lage
Maria Martinez-Lage Alvarez is a Spanish-trained neuropathologist and Assistant Professor of Pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for research on the immune microenvironment of gliomas.
Maria McKee
Maria McKee (Maria Luisa McKee, born 1964, Los Angeles) is an American singer-songwriter, former Lone Justice frontwoman, UK No. 1 with "Show Me Heaven", and solo artist behind La Vita Nuova (2020).
Maria Mena
Maria Mena (Maria Viktoria Mena, born 1986, Oslo) is a Norwegian pop singer-songwriter who broke through at 16 with "My Lullaby" and has released nine studio albums, charted on the Billboard Hot 100, and won a 2009 Spellemannprisen.
María Mendiola
María Mendiola (1952–2021), Madrid-born Spanish singer and dancer, co-founder of disco duo Baccara with Mayte Mateos; sang 1977 hit "Yes Sir, I Can Boogie", represented Luxembourg at Eurovision 1978, later led New Baccara.
Maria Menounos (Μαρία Μενούνου)
Maria Menounos (Μαρία Μενούνου), born 1978, American TV host and journalist of Greek descent; ET, Access Hollywood, Extra and E! News host, AfterBuzz TV co-founder, brain tumor and pancreatic cancer survivor, Heal Squad podcaster.
Maria Miloslavskaya
Maria Miloslavskaya, or Мария Ильинична Милославская, was a Russian tsaritsa, first wife of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich and mother of Feodor III, Ivan V, and Sophia.
Maria Montessori
Maria Montessori (1870–1952), Italian physician and educator, developed the Montessori method of child-centered, self-directed education, opening the first Casa dei Bambini in Rome in 1907 and founding AMI in 1929.
Maria Muldaur
Maria Muldaur (Maria Grazia Rosa Domenica D'Amato, born 1942) is an American roots-music singer from Greenwich Village, ex-Jim Kweskin Jug Band, whose 1974 million-selling hit "Midnight at the Oasis" earned a Record of the Year Grammy nomination; six nominations, 40-plus albums.
Maria New
Maria New (1928–2024) was an American pediatric endocrinologist who delineated congenital adrenal hyperplasia, discovered steroid disorders, and developed newborn screening for CAH used in all 50 states.
Maria O'Brien (actress)
Maria O'Brien (1950-2026), American actress and acting coach, daughter of Edmond O'Brien and Olga San Juan; known for Protocol, Smile, Matlock, and 15 years coaching Days of Our Lives. Distinct from the British actress of the same name.
Maria Olaru
Maria Olaru, Romanian artistic gymnast born 1982 in Fălticeni; 1999 world all-around champion at Tianjin and 2000 Sydney Olympic team gold and all-around silver medalist; retired after 2000.
Maria Ozawa (小澤マリア)
Maria Ozawa (小澤マリア) is a Japanese model and former adult video actress of mixed Japanese and French-Canadian heritage who later worked in mainstream film and television in Asia.
Maria Palasis
Maria Palasis is a chemical engineer and medical-technology executive who has led Lyra Therapeutics since 2015 and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2021.
Maria Paseka (Мария Валерьевна Пасека)
Maria Paseka, or Мария Пасека, is a retired Russian artistic gymnast who specialized in vault, winning four international titles and two Olympic medals between 2012 and 2019.
Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska
Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska (1891–1945) was a Polish lyric poet and playwright of the interwar Skamander group, born in Kraków and died in exile in Manchester, England.
Maria Pereira
Maria Pereira is a Portuguese-trained bioengineer who co-founded the Paris medical technology company Tissium in 2013, where she is Deputy CEO and Chief Innovation Officer developing light-activated tissue repair polymers.
Maria Pia Cosma
Maria Pia Cosma is an Italian cell biologist and ICREA Research Professor at the Centre for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona, where since 2010 she has led research on somatic cell reprogramming and tissue regeneration.
Maria Pia Solèr
Maria Pia Solèr is a mathematician and later actuary known for Solèr's theorem, the 1995 result that certain orthomodular spaces are real, complex, or quaternionic Hilbert spaces.
Maria Pitillo
Maria Pitillo, born 1966, in Elmira, New York, is an American retired actress best known as Audrey Timmonds in Godzilla (1998) and Tina Calcatera on Providence (2001-2002); she retired from acting in 2008.
Maria Prymachenko
Maria Prymachenko (Марія Примаченко) was a self-taught Ukrainian folk artist from Bolotnya who painted fantastic beasts and flowers for over 60 years, winning the Taras Shevchenko Prize in 1966.
María Raquel Adler
María Raquel Adler was an Argentine mystical poet of Jewish descent who converted to Catholicism, published about eleven collections, and was nominated for the 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Maria Rasputin
Maria Rasputin (Matryona Grigorievna Rasputina, 1898-1977), daughter of Russian mystic Grigori Rasputin; emigre memoirist, Paris cabaret dancer, and American circus lion tamer who wrote three books defending her father.
María Rescigno
Maria Rescigno is an Italian immunologist working in mucosal immunology and microbiota, known for showing that gut dendritic cells sample bacteria and for discovering the gut-vascular barrier.
Maria Ressa
Maria Ressa (Maria Angelita Ressa, born 1963, Manila) is a Filipino-American journalist, CNN Manila and Jakarta bureau chief, ABS-CBN news head, and co-founder of Rappler; she won the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize with Dmitry Muratov and fought Philippine cyber-libel and tax cases.
Maria Reumert Gjerding
Maria Reumert Gjerding is a Danish Socialist People's Party politician serving as Minister for the Environment, earlier president of the Danish Society for Nature Conservation.
Maria Reynolds
Maria Reynolds, wife of swindler James Reynolds, was Alexander Hamilton's mistress in the 1791-1792 Reynolds Affair, America's first major political sex scandal, exposed in the 1797 Reynolds Pamphlet.
Maria Riva
Maria Riva (Maria Elisabeth Sieber, 1924-2025), German-born American actress and writer, only child of Marlene Dietrich; CBS live-television star of the 1950s, two-time Emmy nominee, and author of the 1993 biography Marlene Dietrich.
María Rosa Oliver
María Rosa Oliver (1898–1977) was an Argentine essayist, short story writer, critic, and activist who co-founded the magazine Sur in 1931 and later led the world peace movement.
Maria S. Soengas
María S. Soengas, known as Marisol Soengas, is a Spanish cancer biologist who heads the Melanoma Group at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre in Madrid.
María Sabina
María Sabina, born María Sabina Magdalena García (1894–1985), was a Mazatec wise woman of Huautla de Jiménez, Oaxaca, whose sacred mushroom ceremonies gained worldwide fame after 1957.