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Maya (given name)
Maya is a feminine given name found across many cultures, from Sanskrit māyā meaning "illusion" to the Greek Maia, and ranked #62 for US girls in 2025.
Maya (landform)
Maya (landform): chiefly the Maya River (Мая, маайа), a right tributary of the Aldan in Siberia, over 1,050 km long; also the Maya Mountains of Belize, Sudan's Mayas wetlands, and a Leyte stream.
Maya (religion)
Maya (माया), from Sanskrit mā 'to measure', is the power in Hindu and Buddhist thought by which ultimate reality appears as the diverse world; central to Advaita Vedanta as inexplicable illusion, distinct from avidya, and in Kashmir Shaivism Shiva's creative power.
Maya (மாயா) (2015 Tamil film)
Maya (மாயா), earlier titled Night Show, is a 2015 Tamil horror thriller and the directorial debut of Ashwin Saravanan, starring Nayanthara as a single mother haunted after watching a horror film; released 17 September 2015 by Potential Studios.
Maya & Samar
Maya & Samar is a 2025 Canadian-Greek queer romantic drama directed by Anita Doron, written by Tamara Faith Berger, starring Nicolette Pearse and Amanda Babaei Vieira; premiered at Thessaloniki, released in Canada March 20, 2026, noted for its NC-17 rating.
Maya Ali (مریم تنویر علی)
Maya Ali (Maryam Tanveer Ali, born 1989, Lahore) is a Pakistani actress and model. Known for Diyar-e-Dil, Mann Mayal (Lux Style Award winner), and films Teefa in Trouble and Parey Hut Love.
Maya and the Three
Maya and the Three (Maya y los tres) is a 2021 Netflix animated limited series in nine chapters by Jorge R. Gutiérrez, about a Mesoamerican warrior princess who recruits three warriors against the god of war; Metascore 90, Annie and Emmy winner.
Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou (Marguerite Annie Johnson, 1928–2014), American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist; author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and reader of "On the Pulse of Morning" at Clinton's 1993 inauguration, the second inaugural poet after Frost.
Maya Bazaar For Sale
Maya Bazaar For Sale (మాయా బజార్ ఫర్ సేల్) is a 2023 Telugu ZEE5 comedy-drama web series, 7 episodes, directed by Gautami Challagulla, produced under Rana Daggubati's Spirit Media, about families in a Hyderabad gated community declared illegally built.
Maya Biosphere Reserve
The Maya Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de la Biosfera Maya) is a UNESCO biosphere reserve in Guatemala's Petén region, Central America's largest protected area, created in 1990 and home to Maya archaeological sites.
Maya Boyd
Maya Boyd is an American actress from Ann Arbor, Michigan, who trained in Russian classical ballet. She is known for playing Juliet in & Juliet and Storm in X-Men.
Maya Brady
Maya Brady (Maya Ann Brady-Timmons, born 2001) is an AUSL professional softball utility player for the Oklahoma City Spark, a former UCLA star (71 HRs), 2025 AUSL champion, and US national team outfielder, niece of Tom Brady.
Maya calendar
The Maya calendar is a set of interlocking timekeeping systems developed by the Maya, combining a 260-day ritual count, a 365-day year, and the Long Count.
Maya Capital Ventures
Maya Capital Ventures is a São Paulo-based seed-stage venture capital firm founded in 2018 by Lara Lemann and Monica Saggioro Leal, backing founders' first institutional rounds across Latin America.
Maya ceramics
Maya ceramics: the hand-built pottery of the ancient Maya from the Preclassic to Postclassic, including Classic polychrome and codex-style vessels, type-variety classification, chocolate drinking, Maya blue pigment, and their central role in Maya chronology.
Maya Chintaman Ivnate
Maya Chintaman Ivnate is an Indian BJP politician who has represented Maharashtra in the Rajya Sabha since 2026 and was Mayor of Nagpur from 2007 to 2009.
Maya civilization
Maya civilization: Mesoamerican culture of southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras; Preclassic, Classic (250–950 CE), Postclassic periods; hieroglyphic writing, Long Count calendar, city-states, drought-linked Terminal Classic collapse, living descendants.
Maya codices
The Maya codices are the four surviving pre-Columbian screenfold books of the lowland Maya: the Dresden, Madrid, Paris, and Grolier Codices, painted in hieroglyphs on bark paper.
Maya corbel vault
The Maya corbel vault, also called the corbeled arch or false arch, is a stone roofing method of overlapping courses, used from 600 BC to 1500 AD.
Maya Corona
Maya Corona is a 225-km-diameter corona, a ring-fractured volcano-tectonic feature, on Venus at 23°N, 98°E in the Niobe Planitia quadrangle; IAU-named in 1994 for the Hindu mother earth goddess Maya, with an ambiguous corona-versus-impact origin.
Maya crude
Maya crude is a heavy, sour crude oil produced in Mexico by the state oil company Pemex, with an API gravity of 21 to 22 degrees and 3.4 percent sulfur.
Maya da Costa
Maya da Costa, Canadian actress of Portuguese and Vietnamese descent based in Vancouver; played Maya Longette in Under the Bridge (2024) and stars as Coley in Girls Like Girls (2026), with upcoming Paranormal Activity (2027) and The Social Reckoning roles.
Maya Darpan
Maya Darpan (Mirror of Illusion) is Kumar Shahani's 1972 Hindi debut feature, based on a Nirmal Verma story, a formalist landmark of Indian Parallel Cinema about Taran, a landlord's daughter, that failed in India but was acclaimed at Locarno 1973.
Maya Deren (Элеонора Деренковская)
Maya Deren (Элеонора Деренковская, born Eleanora Derenkowsky, 1917–1961), Ukrainian-born American avant-garde filmmaker, theorist, and ethnographer; maker of Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), first filmmaker Guggenheim fellow, Haiti Vodou researcher.
Maya DiRado
Maya DiRado, American swimmer, Stanford 2014, won four medals at Rio 2016: golds in the 200m backstroke (2:05.99) and 4x200m freestyle relay, silver 400m IM, bronze 200m IM, then retired to management consulting.
Maya Dolas
Maya Dolas, born Mahindra Dolas, was an Indian underworld gangster from Mumbai who worked for Dawood Ibrahim's D-Company and died in the 1991 Lokhandwala Complex shootout.
Maya Erskine
Maya Erskine is an American actress, writer, and producer, co-creator and star of Hulu's PEN15 with Anna Konkle, Emmy-nominated for writing and for playing Jane Smith in Prime Video's Mr. & Mrs. Smith.
Maya Forstater
Maya Forstater, British researcher whose gender-critical belief case Forstater v CGD Europe [2022] ICR 1 established such beliefs as protected philosophical beliefs under the UK Equality Act 2010.
Maya Gupta
Maya Gupta is an American machine learning researcher, a University of Washington professor who won the 2007 PECASE award and later founded Google's Glassbox Machine Learning team.
Maya Harris
Maya Lakshmi Harris (born 1967) is an American lawyer and policy advocate, sister of Kamala Harris, former ACLU of Northern California executive director, Ford Foundation vice president, and senior policy adviser to Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign.