Top Celebrity Names Starting With Maria

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   Maria Sharapova

   Age 25 Female
   

   Tennis Player

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   Maria Yuryevna Sharapova is a Russian professional tennis player and former world no. 1. A United States resident since 1994, Sharapova has won 25 WTA singles titles, including three Grand Slam singles titles at the 2004 Wimbledon, 2006 US Open and 2008 Australian Open. She has also won the year-end WTA Tour Championships in 2004. The Women's Tennis Association has ranked Sharapova world no. 1 in singles on four separate occasions. She became the world no.… read more

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   Maria Menounos

   Age 33 Female
   

   Actress, Correspondent

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   Maria Menounos is a Greek-American actress, journalist, and television presenter known in America for her appearances as a correspondent for Today, Access Hollywood, Extra, and abroad for co-hosting the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 in Athens, Greece.… read more

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   Maria Shriver

   Age 56 Female
   

   Politician, Anchor, Producer

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   Maria Owings Shriver is an American journalist and author of six best-selling books. She has received a Peabody Award, and was co-anchor for NBC's Emmy-winning coverage of the 1988 Summer Olympics. As executive producer of The Alzheimer's Project, Shriver earned two Emmy Awards and an Academy of Television Arts & Sciences award for developing a "television show with a conscience".… read more

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   Maria Callas

   1923 - 1977 Female
   

   Born, Greek Soprano

   
   

   Maria Callas was an American-born Greek soprano and one of the most renowned opera singers of the 20th century. She combined an impressive bel canto technique, a wide-ranging voice and great dramatic gifts. An extremely versatile singer, her repertoire ranged from classical opera seria to the bel canto operas of Donizetti, Bellini and Rossini; further, to the works of Verdi and Puccini; and, in her early career, to the music dramas of Wagner.… read more

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   Maria Kirilenko

   Age 25 Female
   

   Tennis Player

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   Maria Yuryevna Kirilenko is a Russian professional tennis player. Kirilenko won her first WTA Tour title in 2005, defeating Anna-Lena Grönefeld in the China Open. Kirilenko reached no. 18, her career-high singles ranking, on the WTA tour in July 2008. She won the junior event at the 2002 Canadian Open, as well as the 2002 US Open junior tournament. She has reached one Grand Slam quarterfinal at the 2010 Australian Open.… read more

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   Maria Cantwell

   Age 53 Female
   

   Politician

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   Maria E. Cantwell is the junior United States Senator from the state of Washington and a member of the Democratic Party. She previously served in the Washington House of Representatives, and then in the United States House of Representatives from from 1993 to 1995, after which she worked as an executive for RealNetworks. She is Washington's second female senator, after Patty Murray.… read more

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   María Eugenia Llamas

   Age 68 Female
   

   Actress

   
   

   María Eugenia Llamas is best known for her roles as "La Tucita" in the Golden Age of Mexican cinema in the late 1940s and in the 1950s. She began appearing in these films in 1948 at the age of four. She is the winner of the Mexican equivalent of the Oscar, the Premio Ariel Mexicano. While she appeared in many movies after her childhood, she is less known for them.… read more

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   Maria Kanellis

   Age 30 Female
   

   Professional Wrestler, Valet, Singer-songwriter, Actress, and Model

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   Maria Louise Kanellis is a singer-songwriter, actress, model, and professional wrestler, also known simply as Maria. She is best known for her time with World Wrestling Entertainment, and is currently working for Ring of Honor as the valet of real life boyfriend Mike Bennett. Kanellis's career began as a contestant on the reality show Outback Jack in 2004. In the same year, she placed fifth in the Raw Diva Search, but was later hired by WWE as a backstage interviewer.… read more

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   Maria Theresa

   1796 - 1780 Female
   

   Holy Roman Empress Consort

   
   

   Maria Theresa Walburga Amalia Christina was the only female ruler of the Habsburg dominions and the last of the House of Habsburg. She was the sovereign of Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Bohemia, Mantua, Milan, Lodomeria and Galicia, the Austrian Netherlands and Parma. By marriage, she was Duchess of Lorraine, Grand Duchess of Tuscany and Holy Roman Empress. She started her 40-year reign when her father, Emperor Charles VI, died in October 1740.… read more

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    María Inés

    Age 28 Female
    

    Actress, Singer, Contestant

    
    

    María Inés Guerra Núñez, commonly known as María Inés, is a Mexican TV-hostess, actress, singer and former contestant in the First Generation of the popular Mexican reality television series La Academia.… read more

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    Maria Ozawa

    Age 26 Female
    

    Actress, Idol, Adult Actor

    
    

    , who used the name Miyabi early in her career, is a former Japanese adult video actress known in Japan as an AV idol.

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    Maria Montessori

    1870 - 1952 Female
    

    Italian Physician and Educator

    
    

    Maria Montessori was an Italian physician and educator, a noted humanitarian and devout Catholic best known for the philosophy of education which bears her name. Her educational method is in use today in public and private schools throughout the world.… read more

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    María Félix

    1914 - 2008 Female
    

    Actor

    
    

    María Félix was a Mexican actress and the most iconic leading lady of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, known for her larger-than-life, tough character in films. She was nominated for five Ariel Awards, of which she won three for Enamorada, Río Escondido, Doña Diabla and a special Golden Ariel Award for her contribution to cinema. She was more commonly known, particularly in her later years, by the honorific La Doña.… read more

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    María Guinand

    Age 59 Female
    

    Conductor, Musician

    
    

    Maria Guinand is an internationally renowned choral conductor. María Guinand received her bachelor's and master's degrees in music from the University of Bristol, England in 1976 and 1982, respectively. Guinand then earned a Choral Conductor Diploma from the Youth Orchestra Academy in Caracas in 1980. Her leadership positions have included being the dean of the Jose Angel Lamas Music School and of the University Simón Bolívar in Caracas where she is a professor of music.… read more

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    Maria Mena

    Age 26 Female
    

    Singer, Songwriter, Musician

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    Maria Viktoria Mena is a Norwegian pop artist.

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    María José

    Age 36 Female
    

    Singer, Songwriter, Dancer

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    María José is a singer, ballet and flamenco dancer, and athlete, she also has a B.A. in Communications. She is well known and established within the music industry since she was part of a very popular pop-singing band in Mexico, Kabah, from the mid to late 90's. Her first experience on stage was at age 14 debuting as a dancer in the Spanish Dance Company led by Maria Elena Anaya. She remained in the dance company participating with Flamenco songs as well.… read more

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    María Ruiz de Burton

    1832 - 1895 Female
    

    Writer

    
    

    María Amparo Ruiz de Burton was the first female Mexican-American author to write in English. In her career she published two books: Who Would Have Thought It? (1872), The Squatter and the Don (1885), and one play: Don Quixote de la Mancha: A Comedy in Five Acts: Taken From Cervantes' Novel of That Name (1876).… read more

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    Maria Yumeno

    Age 33 Female
    

    Japanese Pornographic Actress

    
    

    Maria Yumeno is a Japanese pink film and adult video actress. In 2003, she was called one of Japan's highest-earning AV performers and "probably its most famous. " Many of her movies emphasized her large bust and thin body.… read more

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    Maria Lawson

    Female
    

    Singer, Musician

    
    

    Maria Lawson is an English singer who finished in eighth place in the second UK series of television talent show The X Factor in 2005.

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    Maria Carolina of Austria

    1752 - 1814 Female
    

    Queen, King, Ruler

    
    

    Maria Carolina of Austria was Queen of Naples and Sicily as the wife of King Ferdinand IV & III. As de facto ruler of her husband's kingdoms, Maria Carolina oversaw the promulgation of many reforms, including the revocation of the ban on Freemasonry, the enlargement of the navy under her favourite, John Acton, 6th Baronet, and the expulsion of Spanish influence.… read more

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    Maria Nikiforova

    1885 - 1919 Female
    

    Revolutionary, Anarchist

    
    

    Maria Grigor'evna Nikiforova, was an anarchist partisan leader. A self-described terrorist from the age of 16, she was known widely by her nickname, Marusya. Through her exploits she became a renowned figure in anarchist movement of 1918- 1919 in Ukraine during Russian Civil War.… read more

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    Maria Cotera

    Age 47 Female
    

    Chicano Feminist, Activist, Author

    
    

    Maria Eugenia Cotera is a Chicana feminist, activist, author, researcher, and professor. Cotera spent most of her childhood in both Austin and El Paso, Texas due to her parents' work and involvement with the social movements during the 1960s and 70s. After editing her first novel Life Along the Border, Cotera went on to obtain her Ph.D. in Modern Thought & Literature at Stanford University in 2001.… read more

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    Maria Schneider

    1952 - 2011 Female
    

    Actress

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    Maria Schneider was a French actress. She was best known for playing Jeanne, opposite Marlon Brando, in the 1972 film Last Tango in Paris.

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    Maria Edgeworth

    1768 - 1849 Female
    

    Writer

    
    

    Maria Edgeworth was a prolific Irish writer of adults' and children's literature. She was one of the first realist writers in children's literature and was a significant figure in the evolution of the novel in Europe. She held advanced views, for a woman of her time, on estate management, politics and education, and corresponded with some of the leading literary and economic writers, including Sir Walter Scott and David Ricardo.… read more

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    Maria Feodorovna

    1847 - 1928 Female
    

    Princess, Empress, Emperor

    
    

    Maria Feodorovna, born Princess Dagmar of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, later styled Princess Dagmar of Denmark, was Empress consort of Russia as spouse of Emperor Alexander III. She was the second daughter of King Christian IX of Denmark and Louise of Hesse-Cassel. Among her children was the last Russian monarch, Emperor Nicholas II, whom she outlived by ten years.… read more