Maria

Maria (given name) is a given name, usually for a female, but occasionally male.

Maria or María may also refer to:

• Maria (gens), a plebeian family of Ancient Rome
• Madia Gond or Maria, a people of Gadchiroli District, Maharashtra State, India
• María, Spain, a municipality of Andalusia, Spain
• Maria, Siquijor, a municipality in the Philippines
• Maria, Maevatanana
• Maria, Quebec
• Maria (daughter of Maurice), the name of a supposed daughter of Maurice, Byzantine Emperor

Contents 1 Language and literature 2 Science and technology 3 Ships 4 Music 4.1 Songs 4.2 Performers 4.3 Other 5 Other uses 6 See also

Language and literature

• Maria language (India)
• Maria language (Papua New Guinea)
• María (novel), a 1867 novel by Jorge Isaacs
• Maria (play), a 1935 play by Isaac Babel
• Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman, a 1798 unfinished novel by Mary Wollstonecraft

Science and technology

• 170 Maria, a Main belt S-type asteroid discovered in 1877
• Lunar maria, large, dark basaltic plains on Earth's Moon
• Maria (reachability analyzer), a reachability analyzer, used in computer science for concurrent systems
• Maria reactor, a nuclear research reactor in Poland
• Maria (storage engine), a storage engine for MySQL (renamed Aria in 2010)
• MariaDB, a community-developed branch of the MySQL database
• Tropical Storm Maria (disambiguation), one of several named storms
• MARIA XML, a model-based XML language for User Interfaces

Ships

• SS Maria, a number of ships with this name
• SS Maria Dan, a Danish cargo ship in service 1946-59

Music

Songs

• "María" (song), by Ricky Martin
• "Maria" (1956 song), from the musical West Side Story
• "Maria" (1959 song), from the musical The Sound of Music
• "Maria" (Blondie song), 1999
• "María" (Franco song), 1988
• "Maria" (US5 song), 2005
• "Maria", a 1980 song by Redgum from the album Virgin Ground
• "Maria (I Like It Loud)", by Scooter, a cover of "I Like It Loud" by Marc Acardipane
• "Maria", by Animal Liberation Orchestra from Roses & Clover
• "María", by Café Tacuba from Café Tacuba
• "Maria", by Gackt from Rebirth
• "Maria", a 1987 song by David Sylvian from the album Secrets of the Beehive
• "Maria", by Green Day from International Superhits!
• "Maria", by The Jacksons from 2300 Jackson Street
• "Maria", by Kim Ah-joong from the Korean film 200 Pounds Beauty
• "Maria", by Men at Work from Two Hearts
• "Maria", by Rage Against the Machine from The Battle of Los Angeles
• "Maria", by Robert Earl Keen from West Textures
• "Maria", by Wu-Tang Clan from Wu-Tang Forever

Performers

• Maria (band), a Japanese all-female band
• Maria (Bulgarian singer) (born 1982), Bulgarian pop/folk singer
• Maria (Japanese singer) (born 1987), Japanese pop singer
• Maria (singer) (born 1978), Danish R&B singer

Other

• Maria (Counting Crows), a recurring character in the songs written by Adam Duritz
• Maria (album), a 1995 album by Jane Siberry
• "Maria", a 1903-4 opera by Roman Statkowski (based on poem by Polish poet, Malczewski)

Other uses

• Maria (Silent Hill), a character from the video game Silent Hill 2
• Maria biscuit, a type of sweet biscuit similar to a Rich Tea biscuit
• María (film), a 1938 Mexican film directed by Chano Urueta
• Maria (goose), a goose in Los Angeles, in the news in 2011
• Maria (Twelfth Night), a fictional character in the play Twelfth Night

See also

• Marie (disambiguation)
• Mariah (disambiguation)
• Mary (given name)
• Ave Maria (disambiguation)
• Latin plural of 'mare': see lunar mare

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