Maia (disambiguation)

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

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, Mureș County

United Kingdom

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

United States

 * Fitiuta, American Samoa, also known as Maia

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 or Marina Le Cille (JP ver.), is a character in the game Phantasy Star III: Generations of Doom for Genesis/Mega Drive
 * 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 and Marco, one of a artificial intelligence sportscaster pair
 * 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
 * Maia, a reusable launch vehicle by MaiaSpace, subsidiary of ArianeGroup