Black Maria

Black Maria may refer to:

Art and literature

• Black Mariah (comics), a character in the Luke Cage comics series
• Black Maria, a character in the manga series One Piece
• Black Maria (novel), a 1991 novel by Diana Wynne Jones
• Black Maria, a 1960 anthology of drawings by Charles Addams
• Black Maria, a book of poetry by Kevin Young
• The Black Maria, a 2016 book of poetry by Aracelis Girmay

Music

• The Black Maria, a Canadian rock band
• "Black Maria", a song by Todd Rundgren from the 1972 album Something/Anything?
• "Big Black Mariah", a song by Tom Waits from the 1985 album Rain Dogs
• "The Black Maria", a song by The Decemberists from the 2024 Album As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again

Transportation

• Black Maria (horse), an American racehorse
• Black Maria (IFF), a fighter aircraft IFF (identification friend or foe) interrogator
• ALCO DL-202-2 and DL-203-2, experimental diesel-electric locomotives known informally as the Black Maria
• Black Maria, the airplane flown by Canadian World War I ace Raymond Collishaw
• "Black Maria", the first parking meter
• Black Maria, an informal nickname for a police van

Card games

• Black Maria (card game)
• Black Lady, a card game also sometimes known as Black Maria

Other

• Black Madonna, depictions of the Blessed Virgin Mary with dark skin
• Edison's Black Maria, a film studio created by Thomas Edison
• Maria Chernaya, a cavalry commander in the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine

See also

• Maria (disambiguation)
• Black (disambiguation)