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Maya Hawke
Maya Ray Thurman Hawke (born 1998), American actress and indie folk singer-songwriter, daughter of Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman; breakout as Robin Buckley in Stranger Things season 3, debut as Jo March in the 2017 Little Women miniseries, voice of Anxiety in Inside Out 2, albums Blush, MOSS, Chaos Angel, and Maitreya Corso.
Maya Henry
Maya Henry, American model and writer from South Texas, daughter of lawyer Thomas J. Henry; ex-fiancée of Liam Payne; author of the 2024 debut novel Looking Forward, a fiction inspired by true events that drew attention after Payne's October 2024 death. Distinct from the Toronto actress and the Columbia journalist of the same name.
Maya Higa
Maya Higa is an American Twitch streamer, YouTuber, falconer, and conservationist who founded Alveus Sanctuary, a 501(c)(3) Texas wildlife sanctuary and virtual education center, in February 2021, raising over $7.5 million for conservation since 2019.
Maya Imamori (今森茉耶)
Maya Imamori (今森茉耶) is a Japanese actress and gravure idol from Miyazaki, born 2006, Miss Magazine 2023 Grand Prix winner and the first female Black warrior, Gozu Unicorn, in Super Sentai's Gozyuger.
Maya jadeite mosaic
A Maya jadeite mosaic is a funerary mask made of many small fitted jadeite tiles, placed over the faces of deceased Maya rulers to transform them into the maize god.
Maya Jama
Maya Jama is a British television and radio presenter, DJ, and entrepreneur who has hosted ITV2's Love Island since 2023, after earlier shows on BBC Radio 1 and MTV.
Maya Joint
Maya Joint, Australian tennis player born 2006 in Detroit, WTA pro. Two 2025 singles titles (Rabat, Eastbourne), career-high No. 28, 2026 wins over Serena Williams at Wimbledon and in US Open doubles.
Maya Kamaty
Maya Kamaty is a singer from Réunion, France, and the daughter of Ziskakan leader Gilbert Pounia, who fuses traditional maloya with folk, electro-pop, and urban rhythms.
Maya Kanan
Maya Kanan (মায়াকানন, "the enchanted forest") is the title of several Bengali works: Michael Madhusudan Dutt's unfinished five-act mythological play, written in 1873, and Hemendra Kumar Roy's juvenile adventure novels.
Maya Le Tissier
Maya Le Tissier (born 2002, Guernsey) is an English defender who captains Manchester United Women and plays for England; Euro 2025 winner, former Brighton player, not related to Matt Le Tissier.
Maya Lin
Maya Lin (born 1959, Athens, Ohio) is an American artist and architect, not the Maya software or Maya Angelou, who won the 1981 Vietnam Veterans Memorial competition and created the Civil Rights Memorial, Storm King Wavefield, and What Is Missing?.
Maya literature
Maya literature is the verbal art, writing, and recorded knowledge of Maya peoples, spanning ancient hieroglyphic inscriptions, colonial texts, and contemporary authors writing in Mayan languages.
Maya Lopez (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
Maya Lopez, aka Echo, is an MCU character portrayed by Alaqua Cox, debuting in Hawkeye (2021) as Tracksuit Mafia commander and starring in the 2024 Marvel Spotlight series Echo, set in Tamaha, Oklahoma, with powers differing from the comics' photographic reflexes.
Maya Massafera
Maya Massafera, born 1980, formerly Matheus Mazzafera, is a Brazilian fashion producer, TV presenter and influencer from Pouso Alegre who announced her gender transition in 2024, documented over 20 feminization surgeries, and returned to TV and São Paulo Fashion Week runways.
Maya Mavani
Maya Mavani is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party who serves as Mayor of Surat and is a councillor from Ward 14 (Umarwada-Matawadi).
Maya Memsaab (माया मेमसाब)
Maya Memsaab (माया मेमसाब), also released internationally as Maya, is Ketan Mehta's 1993 Hindi adaptation of Flaubert's Madame Bovary, starring Deepa Sahi, Farooq Shaikh, and Shah Rukh Khan; a National Award-winning box-office flop now streaming on Netflix.
Maya Moore
Maya Moore (Maya April Moore, born 1989) is an American basketball player: four-time WNBA champion and 2014 MVP with the Minnesota Lynx, two-time Olympic gold medalist, UConn's all-time scoring leader, and 2025 Naismith Hall of Fame inductee who retired to pursue criminal justice reform.
Maya Mountains
The Maya Mountains are a mountain range in west-central Belize extending into Guatemala, rising to 1,124 meters at Doyle's Delight, Belize's highest peak, and covering about 4,000 square kilometers.
Maya mythology
Maya mythology, the mythic corpus of the Maya peoples of Mesoamerica: Popol Vuh creation narrative, Hero Twins and Xibalbá, gods such as Chaak and K'awiil, the ceiba cosmos of nine underworld and thirteen heaven levels, and living Maya oral tradition.
Maya Naroliya
Maya Naroliya is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician who has represented Madhya Pradesh in the Rajya Sabha since 2024, after serving as chairperson of the Narmadapuram Municipality.
Maya Neelakantan
Maya Neelakantan, Chennai-born child guitar prodigy, blended Carnatic raga Natabhairavi with thrash metal on America's Got Talent season 19; went viral at 9 covering Tool's 7empest, gifted a Gibson by Adam Jones.
Maya numerals
Maya numerals, also called Mayan numerals, are the number symbols of the ancient Maya, a base-20 system using dots, bars, and a shell glyph for zero.
Maya oral literature
Maya oral literature is the body of myths, narratives, prayers, riddles, songs, and ritual speech performed by the Maya peoples of Mexico and Central America.
Maya Pedersen
Maya Pedersen (Pedersen-Bieri), Swiss-born skeleton racer, 2006 Turin Olympic champion and 2001 and 2005 world champion; competed for Switzerland at three Games, later for Norway, wife of Snorre Pedersen.
Maya peoples
Maya peoples: Indigenous speakers of about thirty Mayan languages, including K'iche', Q'eqchi', Kaqchikel, Mam and Yucatec, living in Guatemala, southern Mexico, Belize and Honduras; about 42% of Guatemala's 2018 census population.
Maya religion
Maya religion is the family of related religious traditions practiced by the Maya peoples of Guatemala, Mexico, Belize, Honduras, and El Salvador, with a history spanning some two thousand years.
Maya revolt of 1639
The Maya revolt of 1639 was an uprising of Maya communities in southeastern Yucatán, centered on Bacalar and Tipú, that broke Spanish authority over the frontier.
Maya Rockeymoore Cummings
Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, American political scientist and widow of Rep. Elijah Cummings; Purdue Ph.D., Global Policy Solutions founder, 2017 Maryland governor candidate, Maryland Democratic Party chair 2018-2019, and 2020 special-election candidate for Maryland's 7th District.
Maya Rudolph
Maya Rudolph (born 1972, Gainesville, Florida), daughter of singer Minnie Riperton, is an American actor and comedian: SNL cast member 2000–2007, Emmy-winning voice of Connie in Big Mouth, and acclaimed Kamala Harris impressionist on SNL.
Maya Saleh
Maya Saleh is a Canadian immunologist who studies innate immunity, inflammasomes, and cell death, and has been a Full Professor at INRS Armand-Frappier in Laval, Québec since 2023.