All articles starting with M

Maria Sakkari (Μαρία Σάκκαρη)

Maria Sakkari (Μαρία Σάκκαρη) is a Greek professional tennis player who peaked at No. 3 in 2022, finished two straight years in the WTA top 10, and reached the 2026 Athens final.

Sep 27, 2026

María Sandra Moneo Díez

María Sandra Moneo Díez is a Spanish politician of the Partido Popular who serves as deputy for Burgos and chairs the Science, Innovation and Universities Committee of the Congress of Deputies.

María Santos Gorrostieta Salazar

María Santos Gorrostieta Salazar (1976–2012), Mexican physician and mayor of Tiquicheo, Michoacán, 2008–2011, first for the PRI then PRD; survived repeated cartel assassination attempts, publicly displayed her wounds, and was kidnapped and killed in November 2012.

Maria Schell

Maria Schell (Maria Margarete Anna Schell, 1926-2005), Austro-Swiss actress, star of 1950s German cinema; Cannes and Venice award winner for The Last Bridge and Gervaise; sister of Maximilian Schell.

Maria Schicklgruber

Maria Anna Schicklgruber (1795–1847), Austrian peasant of Strones, mother of Alois Hitler and grandmother of Adolf Hitler; her 1876 posthumous legitimization by Johann Georg Hiedler and the debunked Frankenberger Jewish-grandfather myth define her historical notability.

Maria Schneider (actress)

Maria Schneider (Marie Christine Gélin, 1952–2011), French actress famous at 19 for Last Tango in Paris (1972) opposite Brando; known for The Passenger, the coerced butter scene, addiction, and posthumous reappraisal.

Maria Schneider (musician)

Maria Schneider (born 1960, Windom, Minnesota) is an American jazz composer, arranger, and bandleader of the 18-member Maria Schneider Orchestra; seven-time Grammy winner, 2019 NEA Jazz Master, ArtistShare pioneer, and streaming critic.

Maria Sekora

Maria (Marie) Sekora, Austrian shot putter of club Danubia, Vienna; set a 7.50 m world best with the 5 kg shot on 28 April 1918 in the early women's shot put record progression; not the athlete Maria Sykora (born 1946).

Oct 10, 2026

Maria Selmer

Maria Selmer is a structural biologist and Professor of Structural Biology at Uppsala University, studying bacterial ribosome function and antibiotic resistance mechanisms with cryo-EM and X-ray crystallography.

Maria Sharapova (Мария Юрьевна Шарапова)

Maria Sharapova (Мария Юрьевна Шарапова), Russian tennis champion born 1987 in Nyagan; five Grand Slam titles, career Grand Slam, 2004 Wimbledon win at 17, 15-month meldonium ban, retired 2020, Hall of Fame 2025.

Maria Shriver

Maria Shriver (born 1955, Chicago) is an American journalist, author, and former First Lady of California (2003-2010), wife of Arnold Schwarzenegger; NBC/CBS correspondent, Shriver Report producer, Peabody and Emmy winner.

Maria Sibilia

Maria Sibilia is an Austrian cancer biologist who heads the Center for Cancer Research at the Medical University of Vienna and studies how EGFR signaling drives tumor development.

Maria Skeppstedt

Maria Skeppstedt is a Swedish computational linguist and senior lecturer at Stockholm University, known for negation detection in Swedish clinical text and the Stockholm EPR Corpus.

Maria Spies

Maria Spies is a biophysicist and professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of Iowa, known for single-molecule dissection of DNA repair machines and for her HHMI Early Career Scientist Award.

Sep 24, 2026

Maria Spiridonova

Maria Spiridonova, also known as Мария Александровна Спиридонова, was a Russian revolutionary and Left SR leader who shot a tsarist official in 1906 and was executed in 1941.

Maria Stefan Mihoreanu

Maria Ștefan-Mihoreanu (born 1954, Jurilovca, Romania), also known as Maria Cosma, is a Romanian canoe sprinter who won K4 500 m gold at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics and took nine world championship medals, one silver and eight bronze, from 1973 to 1983.

Maria Sykora

Maria Sykora, born 1946, is an Austrian former track and field athlete and handball player who competed in athletics at the 1972 Olympics and handball in 1984.

María T. Diaz‐Meco

María T. Diaz-Meco is a Spanish cancer biologist who studies how p62/SQSTM1 signaling drives cancer metabolism and therapy resistance, co-leading a lab with Jorge Moscat at Weill Cornell Medicine.

Maria T. Zuber

Maria T. Zuber is an American planetary geophysicist at MIT who maps the gravity and topography of the Moon, Mars, and Mercury, and led NASA's GRAIL lunar mission.

Maria Tallchief

Maria Tallchief (Elizabeth Marie Tall Chief, Ki He Kah Stah Tsa, 1925–2013), Osage ballerina from Fairfax, Oklahoma; first major American prima ballerina, New York City Ballet star, Balanchine's Firebird, 2023 U.S. quarter honoree.

Maria Tanasa Fricioiu

Maria Tănasă-Fricioiu (Maria Fricioiu), Romanian rower born 1960 in Grădinari, Iași; Olympic gold in the women's coxed four at Los Angeles 1984 and World silver in 1983 and 1985.

Maria Taylor (sportscaster)

Maria Taylor (born 1987) is an American sportscaster, NBC host of Football Night in America and lead NBA/WNBA studio host, formerly ESPN's College GameDay and NBA Countdown host from 2014 to 2021.

Mária Telkes

Mária Telkes (1900–1995) was a Hungarian-born physical chemist and inventor known as the Sun Queen, who built the first solar-heated home and a wartime solar still.

Sep 27, 2026

Maria Teresa Bellucci

Maria Teresa Bellucci, born in Rome in 1972, is an Italian politician who has served as Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Policies in Giorgia Meloni's government since 2022.

Maria Teresa, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg

Maria Teresa, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (born 1956, Havana), Cuban-born consort of Grand Duke Henri since 7 October 2000; UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador (1997), UNICEF Eminent Advocate (2007), mother of five.

Maria Thayer

Maria Thayer (born 1975, Boring, Oregon) is an American actress and comedian known as Tammi Littlenut in Strangers with Candy, Susie Wagner in Eagleheart, and Abbey Logan in Those Who Can't.

Maria Theresa

Maria Theresa (1717–1780), Habsburg ruler 1740–1780 under the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713; defended her throne in the War of the Austrian Succession, lost Silesia to Prussia, and reformed the Habsburg Monarchy with Haugwitz and Kaunitz.

Maria Theresa of Spain

Maria Theresa of Spain (María Teresa de Austria, 1638–1683), Infanta of Spain and daughter of Philip IV, was Queen of France and Navarre as wife of Louis XIV from 1660; her renunciation of the Spanish succession, unpaid 500,000-crown dowry, and descent led to the War of Devolution and the War of the Spanish Succession.