Meta is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:
Surname:
- Beqir Meta, Albanian historian
- Ilir Meta (born 1969), Albanian President
- Kenichiro Meta (born 1982), Japanese football player
- Ermal Meta (born 1981) Italian-Albanian singer
Given name:
- Meta Brevoort (1825–1876), American mountain climber
- Meta Davis Cumberbatch (1900–1978), Trinidad-born pianist, composer, writer and cultural activist
- Meta Elste-Neumann (1919–2010), German-American gymnast
- Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (1877–1968), African-American artist
- Meta Given (1888–1981), American nutritionist, home economist, and cookbook author
- Meta Golding (born 1971), Haitian-American actress and former figure skater
- Meta Luts (1905–1958), Estonian actress
- Meta Mayne Reid (1905–1991), Northern Irish children's writer
- Meta Orred (1845 or 1846–1925), Scottish author and poet
- Meta Ramsay, Baroness Ramsay of Cartvale (born 1936), British Labour Party member of the House of Lords
- Meta Seinemeyer (1895–1929), German operatic spinto soprano
- Margaret Tuke (1862–1947), British academic and educator
- Meta Vannas (1924–2003), Soviet Estonian politician
- Meta Vidmar (1899–1975), Slovene modern dancer