Maitreya may refer to:
- Maitreya, the future Buddha in Buddhist eschatology
- Maitreya (Mahābhārata), a rishi in the Indian epic Mahabharata
- Maitreya (Benjamin Creme), an interpretation and further elaboration of Maitreya (Theosophy) promoted by Benjamin Creme
- Maitreya (Theosophy), a being in the Theosophical Spiritual Hierarchy of the so-called Masters of the Ancient Wisdom
- Maitreya Great Tao (Wang Hao-te), a splinter sect of the 20th-century Chinese religious movement I-Kuan Tao
- Maitreya-nātha, the reputed author, along with Asanga, of a number of Yogacara Buddhist treatises
- Sananda Maitreya (Terence Trent D'Arby), an American singer-songwriter
See also
- Maitreya Project – About an international organization set up to construct a 500ft-high statue of Maitreya in Uttar Pradesh, India