Maria Tecla Artemisia Montessori was an Italian physician and educator best known for her philosophy of education and her writing on scientific pedagogy. At an early age, Montessori enrolled in classes at an all-boys technical school, with hopes of becoming an engineer. She soon had a change of heart and began medical school at the Sapienza University of Rome, becoming one of the first women to attend medical school in Italy; she graduated with honors in 1896. Her educational method is in use today in many public and private schools globally.
Pyhä Maria Pariisilainen eli Äiti Maria (Skobtsova), syntymänimeltään Jelizaveta Jurjevna Pilenko oli alkuaan venäläinen aatelisnainen ja runoilija, sittemmin emigranttina Ranskassa elänyt nunna ja Ranskan vastarintaliikkeen aktiivinen jäsen. Hän ehti olla naimisissa kaksi kertaa: ensimmäisessä avioliitossa sukunimenä Kuzmina-Karavajeva, toisessa Skobtsova. Äiti Maria teki pitkän päivätyön köyhien ja unohdettujen hyväksi. Toisen miehensä kuoleman jälkeen hän vihkiytyi nunnaksi, mutta luostariin vetäytymisen sijaan hän omistautui venäläispakolaisten auttamiseen Ranskassa. Hän perusti Pariisiin kaksi köyhäintaloa. Natsimiehityksen aikana hän lähetti ruoka-apua vangeille ja auttoi juutalaisia pois maasta ja piilotti heitä kotiinsa. Hänet ilmiannettiin ja pidätettiin. Äiti Maria kuoli Ravensbrückin keskitysleirillä maaliskuussa 1945.
Maria Parloa was an American author of books on cooking and housekeeping, the founder of two cooking schools, a lecturer on food topics, and an early figure in the "domestic science" movement. A culinary pioneer, she was arguably America's first celebrity cook, considered "one of the innovative superstars of her field".
Maria Teresa Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska z d. Kossak, primo voto Bzowska, secundo voto Pawlikowska, tertio voto Jasnorzewska – polska poetka i dramatopisarka dwudziestolecia międzywojennego. Luźno związana ze Skamandrem.
Maria Rodziewiczówna ps. „Žmogus”, „Mario”, „Weryho” – polska pisarka, członkini Warszawskiego Towarzystwa Teozoficznego i Warszawskiego Stowarzyszenia Ziemianek.
Maria Thompson Daviess was an American artist and feminist author. She is best known for her popular novels written in the early 20th century, with a "Pollyanna" outlook, as well as several short stories, among them, “Miss Selina Sue and the Soap-Box Babies," "Sue Saunders of Saunders Ridge" and "Some Juniors.". Daviess was affiliated with the Equal Suffrage League in Kentucky, being the co-founder and vice-president of the chapter in Nashville and an organizer of the chapter in Madison.
Marian Ursyn Zdziechowski h. Rawicz – polski historyk idei i literatury, filolog, filozof, krytyk literacki i publicysta, rektor Uniwersytetu Stefana Batorego w Wilnie, członek Zjednoczenia Państwowego na Kresach w 1922 roku, założyciel Unii Narodowo-Państwowej w 1922 roku, w latach 1933–1938 prezes Towarzystwa Przyjaciół Nauk w Wilnie.
Mary Anne Hearn who wrote under the nom de plumes Marianne Farningham in The Christian World and for A Working Woman's Life, Eva Hope, and Marianne Hearn, was a British religious writer of poetry, biographies, prose and hymns. She was one of the few female writers in the Victorian period to emerge from the lower classes.
Mariano Azuela González was a Mexican writer and medical doctor, best known for his fictional stories of the Mexican Revolution of 1910. He wrote novels, works for theatre and literary criticism. He is the first of the "novelists of the Revolution," and he influenced other Mexican novelists of social protest.
Mariano José de Larra y Sánchez de Castro fue un escritor, periodista y político español. Es considerado, junto con Espronceda, Bécquer, José Zorrilla y Rosalía de Castro, la más alta cota del Romanticismo literario español.
