Maruja is a Spanish given name, a diminutive form of the baptismal name María.[1][2]
People with the name edit
- Maruja Bustamante (born 1978), Argentine actress and playwright
- Maruja Callaved (1928–2018), Spanish television director
- Maruja Carrasco (1944–2018), Spanish botanist and academic
- Maruja Fuentes (1978–2010), Puerto Rican architect and designer
- Maruja Grifell (1907–1968), Mexican actress
- Maruja Mallo (1902–1995), Spanish painter
- Maruja Montes (1930–1993), Brazilian-Argentine actress and vedette
- Maruja Pachón Castro (born 1948), Colombian kidnapping victim and Minister for Education
- Maruja Pibernat (fl. 1934–2004), Spanish-Argentine film and radio actress
- Maruja Torres (born 1943), Spanish writer and journalist
- Maruja Troncoso Ortega (born 1937), Spanish singer and professor
Fictional characters edit
- Maruja, a Filipino comic book character created by Mars Ravelo
- Tola y Maruja, a Colombian cross-dressing comedy duo
See also edit
References edit
- ^ Montrose Ramsey, Marathon (1894). A text-book of modern Spanish, as now written and spoken in Castile and the Spanish-American republics. H. Holt. p. 490. Retrieved 21 October 2018 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ Velázquez de la Cadena, Mariano; Simonné, Théodore (1854). Ollendorff's New Method of Learning to Read, Write, and Speak, the Spanish Language. D. Appleton & Company. p. 432. Retrieved 21 October 2018 – via Internet Archive.
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