Maia (disambiguation)

Maia /ˈmaɪ.ə/ is the eldest of the Pleiades in Greek mythology, also identified with an Ancient Italic goddess of spring. Maia may also refer to:

Place names

New Zealand

Maia, New Zealand, a suburb of the city of Dunedin, New Zealand

Portugal

Maia, Portugal, municipality
Cidade da Maia, a city in the municipality above
Maia (Ribeira Grande), a parish in Ribeira Grande Municipality in the Azores, Portugal

Romania

Maia, Ialomița, a commune in Ialomiţa County
Maia, a village in Bobâlna Commune, Cluj County
Maia, a village in Bereni Commune, Mureş County

United Kingdom

Maia, a Roman fort located in Bowness-on-Solway, England

United States

Fitiuta, also known as Maia, a town in American Samoa

People

Maia (given name), a feminine given name
Maia (surname), a Portuguese surname
Maia (singer), stage name of Colombian singer Mónica Andrea Vives Orozco
Maia (nurse), wet-nurse of ancient Egyptian king Tutankhamun
mxmtoon (a.k.a. Maia), a singer-songwriter and social media personality

Literature, fiction and entertainment

Maia (novel), a fantasy novel by Richard Adams
Os Maias or "The Maias", a realist novel by Eça de Queirós, named after the protagonist family
Maia (Middle-earth), one of a race of beings in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth writings
Maia Skouris (née Rutledge), a character on the USA Network science fiction TV show The 4400
Maia Jeffries, a character on the New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street
Maïa, a 1910 opera by Ruggero Leoncavallo
Maia Sterling, a character from the Robotech anime series
Maia, the name given to Thumbelina by her newlywed husband, the King of the Spirit of the Flowers, in Hans Christian Andersen's original fairy tale "Thumbelina"
Maia, Queen of Hallasar and reincarnation of the goddess Laharah in the video game Summoner 2
Maia Mizuki, the protagonist of the anime Daphne in the Brilliant Blue
Maia, a werewolf character in The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare
Maia, a fictional asteroid in The Last Policeman and its sequels by Ben H. Winters
Maia (video game) a science fiction video game

Other uses

Maia people, an indigenous tribe of Western Australia
Maia (star), the fourth-brightest star in the Pleiades open-star cluster
F.C. Maia, a Portuguese football club
Short S.21 Maia, a piggyback long-range flying boat combination
"-maia" or "maia-", an affix derived from the mythological Maia, used to describe maternal roles in taxonomy
Multi-Angle Imager for Aerosols, a future NASA earth-orbiting instrument operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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