Maranta

Maranta is a family name for the following people:

• Bartolomeo Maranta (1500–1571), Italian doctor and botanist
  • the Maranta plant genus named after him
• Edgar Aristide Maranta (1897–1975), Swiss Capuchin, Archbishop of Dar es Salaam
• Renato Maranta (1920–1954), Swiss composer and writer

This is a disambiguation page for differentiating between several terms identified with the same word.