Maruja (given name)
# Maruja (given name)

Maruja is a Spanish given name, a diminutive form of the baptismal name María.

## People with the name

* 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

* Maruja, a Filipino comic book character created by Mars Ravelo
* Tola y Maruja, a Colombian cross-dressing comedy duo
