Maria Jane Jewsbury was an English writer, poet and reviewer. Her Phantasmagoria of poetry and prose, Letters to the Young and The Three Histories were highly popular. While bringing up brothers and sisters, she wrote for the Manchester Gazette in 1821. She also made friends with many authors. Her religious advice tended towards dogmatism and a feeling of Christian right. Phantasmagoria was noticed by William Wordsworth and Dorothy, whom she visited in Lancashire. Other friends were Felicia Hemans, with whom she stayed in Wales in summer 1828, Barbara Hofland, Sara Coleridge, the Henry Roscoes, the Charles Wentworth Dilkes, the Samuel Carter Halls, the Henry Chorleys and Thomas De Quincey. Through its editor, Dilke, she began writing for the Athenaeum in 1830. She married at Penegoes, Montgomeryshire, in 1832 Rev. William Kew Fletcher. They sailed for India, but she kept a journal and had poetry printed in the Athenaeum as "The Oceanides".
Maria Antonina Kazecka-Morgenrot was a Polish poet and independence activist, best remembered for her poetry collections Kędy milczy słońce (1903), and Akwarelle (1904). She took part in the Battle of Lemberg in 1918, and was the recipient of the Cross of Valour in 1922, and the Cross of Independence in 1933.
Maria Osipovna (Iosifovna) Knebel was a Soviet and Russian actress, theatre practitioner and acting theorist. Having trained with Konstantin Stanislavski, Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, and Michael Chekhov, her work integrated the approaches and emphases of all three, with a particular focus on Stanislavski's technique of "active analysis" in the rehearsal of plays. She worked as a character actor, a theatre director, and a teacher. Her students included the actor Oleg Yefremov, the playwright Viktor Rozov, and the directors Anatoly Vasiliev, Leonid Heifetz, Alexander Burdonsky, Beno Axionov, Joseph Raihelgauz, Sergei Artsibashev and Adolf Shapiro. In 1958, she was named a People's Artist of the RSFSR.
Maria Konnikova is a Russian-American writer. Konnikova has worked as a television producer, poker player, podcaster and written three New York Times best-seller list books, including Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes.
Maria Konopnicka was a Polish poet, novelist, children's writer, translator, journalist, critic, and activist for women's rights and for Polish independence. She used pseudonyms, including Jan Sawa. She was one of the most important poets of Poland's Positivist period.
Maria Kovrigina (1910–1995) was a Russian physician who served as the minister of health between 1953 and 1959. She was the only woman who headed the ministry in the Soviet Union.
Maria Kownacka (1894–1982) was a Polish writer, translator and editor, specializing in children's literature. She was a long-time writer of Płomyk. Her best-known work is the series of books about "Plastuś", that began with Plastusiowy pamiętnik (1936).
