Maria is a German artist. The name is shared by several different acts and performers, including a Japanese girl band, a Japanese female hip hop artist, and other singers and groups from a range of countries. One entry linked to the name is a German singer associated with the Neue Deutsche Welle movement of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Another is a Japanese pop solo singer who performs under the name MARIA and is also known for playing electric guitar and writing her own lyrics after several years of prior singing experience.

Because the name is used by many unrelated artists, the available details under this name cover a broad set of acts rather than one clearly identifiable project. Among the other Maria entries are a Danish R&B singer known for the album My Soul and later Oh So Full Of Promise, an Armenian-Lebanese singer known for the single “Elaab” or “El'ab”, a Bosnian Eurovision 2007 representative, a Finnish goth rock/post-punk trio, a Japanese electronic and laptop artist connected to the Atak label, and a Japanese pop rock duo member known as MARiA (formerly Mai Mizuhashi) from GARNiDELiA.