Marita may refer to:

People

* Marita Aronson (born 1939), Swedish politician * Marita Bonner (1899–1971), African-American writer * Marita Conlon-McKenna (born 1956), Irish writer * Marita Crawley (born 1954), British songwriter and playwright * Marita Geraghty (born 1965), American television character actress * Marita Grabiak, 21st century American television director * Marita Johansson (born 1984), Swedish speed skater * Marita Koch (born 1957), East German sprinter * Marita Lange (born 1943), East German shot putter * Marita Liabø (born 1971), Norwegian author * Marita Lindahl (1938–2017), Miss World 1957 * Marita Liulia (born 1957), Finnish media artist and director * Marita Lorenz (1939–2019), German woman who had an affair with Fidel Castro and betrayed a CIA assassination attempt against him * Marita Mathijsen (born 1944), Dutch academic * Marita Payne (born 1960), Canadian sprinter * Maria Perceval (born 1956), Argentine politician nicknamed "Marita" * Marita Petersen (1940–2001), Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands * Marita Ruoho (born 1949), Finnish orienteer * Marita Skogum (born 1961), Swedish orienteer * Marita Ulvskog (born 1951), Swedish politician * Marita Zobel (born 1941), Filipina actress * Fibriani Ratna Marita (born 1994), Indonesian swimmer * Quinctia Marita (fl. 1st century), ancient Roman freedwoman

Fictional characters

* Marita (hippo), on the television series ''Animaniacs'' * Marita Covarrubias, on the television series ''The X-Files''

Other uses

* Operation Marita (''Unternehmen Marita''), the German World War II invasion of Greece * Mariţa (disambiguation), various things in Romania * Marita (gastropod), ''Marita'' (gastropod), a genus of sea snails {{disambiguation, given name Feminine given names hu:Marita pl:Marita