Black Maria may refer to:

Art and literature

  • Black Mariah, 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)