Margaret

Margaret is derived via French (Marguerite) and Latin (Margarita) from Ancient Greek: μαργαρίτης (margarítēs), via Persian murwārīd, meaning "pearl".[4][5][6] Margarita (given name) traces the etymology further as مروارید, morvārīd in modern Persian, derived from Sogdian marγārt, both meaning 'pearl'. It is ultimately traces its roots to Old Iranian -mr‌gāhrīta*, "derived from a shell".[1]

• Margaret (the Lame) of Magdeburg (c. 1210–1250), an anchoress of the St Albans Church in Magdeburg, present-day Germany
• Margaret Brennan (1831–1887), Canadian nun
• Margaret B. Denning (1856–1935), American missionary and temperance worker
• Margaret Sampson (1906–1988), English nun

• Maggie Smith (born 1934), British actress
• Maisie Williams (born 1997), English actress.
• Margaret Uyauperq Aniksak (1907–1993), Inuit sculptor
• Margaret Ashmore Sudduth (1859–1957), American educator, editor, temperance advocate
• Margaret Atwood (born 1939), Canadian novelist and poet
• Margaret Avison (1918–2007), Canadian poet
• Margaret Barnard (1898–1992), British painter and linocut maker
• Margaret Barr (choreographer) (1904–1991), Australian dance-drama choreographer
• Margaret Berger (born 1985), Norwegian singer-songwriter
• Margaret Bourke-White (1904–1971), American photojournalist
• Margaret Brouwer (born 1940), American composer and composition teacher
• Margaret Busby, Ghanaian British publisher and writer
• Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1623–1673), English writer, poet, and playwright.
• Margaret Cho (born 1968), American comedian and actress
• Margaret Clark (born 1943), Australian author
• Margaret Clarkson, English artist
• Margaret Cleaves (1848–1917), American physician, writer
• Margaret Colin, American actress
• Margaret Wootten Collier (1869–1947), American author
• Margaret Deland (1857–1945), American author
• Margaret Drabble, English author
• Margaret E. Winslow (1836–1936), American activist, editor, author
• Margaret Eleanor Parker (1827–1896), American social activist, social reformer, travel writer
• Margaret Elizabeth Sangster (1838–1912), American author, poet, editor
• Margaret Forster, British author
• Margaret Frame (1903–1985), Canadian painter
• Margaret Frances Sullivan (1847–1903), Irish-American writer, journalist, editor
• Margaret Fuller (1810–1850), American critic
• Margaret Gale (born 1930), British operatic soprano
• Margaret Harker (1920–2013), British photographer and historian of photography
• Margaret Hillis, American conductor
• Margaret Hunt Brisbane (1858–1925), American poet
• Margaret Lane (1907–1994), British journalist, biographer and novelist
• Margaret Larkin (1899–1967), American writer
• Margaret Laurence (1926–1987), Canadian novelist
• Margaret Leighton (1922–1976), English actress
• Margaret Lockwood (1916–1990), British actress
• Margaret Manton Merrill, British-American journalist, writer, translator, elocutionist
• Margaret Mazzantini (born 1961), Italian-Irish author
• Margaret McDonald Bottome (1827–1906), American reformer, organizational founder, author
• Margaret Mitchell (1900–1949), American author
• Margaret Ogden (born 1952), American fantasy author best known by the pen name Robin Hobb
• Margaret Oliphant (1828–1897), Scottish author
• Margaret Bloodgood Peeke (1838–1908), American traveler, lecturer, author
• Margaret Peterson Haddix (born 1964), American writer
• Margaret Randall (born 1936), American writer
• Margaret Roper (1505–1544), English writer, translator
• Margaret Rutherford (1892–1972), British actress of the stage and screen
• Margaret Scobie (born 1948), Australian indigenous Aboriginal painter
• Margaret Severin-Hansen, American ballerina
• Margaret (singer) (born 1991), Polish singer and songwriter
• Margaret Tracey (born 1967), American ballet dancer
• Margaret Travolta, American actress
• Margaret Walker (1915–1998), American author
• Margaret Whiting (1924–2011), American popular music and country music singer
• Margaret Wise Brown (1910–1952), American author
• Margaret Wynne Lawless (1847–1926), American poet, author, educator, philanthropist
• Margaret Keane (1927–2022), American painter
• Meg Stuart (born 1965), American choreographer, dancer, performing artist

• Margaret, Lady Moir (1864–1942), founding member of the Women's Engineering Society, Scotland
• Margaret Haley (1861–1939), American educator, promoted teacher's unions
• Margaret Becklake (1922–2018), Canadian academic and epidemiologist
• Margaret Burbidge (1919–2020), British astronomer
• Margaret Byers (1832–1912), Irish educator, activist, social reformer, missionary, writer
• Margaret Mordecai Jones Cruikshank (1878–1955), American educator and college president
• Margaret Elisabeth Felix (born 1937), Indian educator
• Margaret Floy Washburn (1871–1939), American psychologist
• Margaret Frame, Scottish scientist, professor of molecular cell biology
• Margaret Gurney (1908–2002), American mathematician, statistician, and computer programmer
• Margaret Hamilton, American computer scientist
• Margaret Keenan Harrais (1872–1964), American educator; first woman superintendent of schools in Fairbanks, Alaska
• Margaret Holden (died 1998), British botanist, biochemist
• Margaret Howe Lovatt, naturalist
• Margaret Hutchinson, English educator, naturalist and author
• Margaret Lin Xavier (1898–1932), Thai physician
• Margaret Mead, American anthropologist
• Margaret Helen Read (1889–1991), British social anthropologist and academic
• Margaret C. Roberts (1846–1926), American obstetrician
• Margaret Warner Morley (1858–1923), American biologist, wrote children's books on biology
• Margaret Wiecek, Polish-American operations researcher

• Margaret A. Davidson (1950–2017), American lawyer and coastal science pioneer
• Margaret (Ann) Coffey (born 1946), former British Member of Parliament for Stockport
• Margaret Beckett (born 1943), British Member of Parliament for Derby South
• Margaret Chase Smith (1897–1995), was the first woman to serve in both houses of the United States Congress, and the first woman to represent Maine in either.
• Margaret Curran (born 1958), former British Member of Parliament for Glasgow East
• Margaret Davidson (1871–1964), British wife of colonial governor of New South Wales, Australia
• Margaret Davidson (suffragist) (1879–1978), Scottish suffragist, teacher and WW1 nurse
• Margaret Ewing (1945–2006), Scottish politician
• Margrith von Felten (born 1944), Swiss politician
• Margaret Ferrier (born 1960), British Member of Parliament for Rutherglen and Hamilton West
• Margaret French McLean, First Lady of North Carolina
• Margaret Greenwood (born 1959), British Member of Parliament for Wirral West
• Margarett (Maggie) Hassan (born 1958), United States Senator for New Hampshire
• Margaret Hodge (born 1944), British Member of Parliament for Barking
• Margaret Hoover (born 1977), American political consultant and commentator, great-granddaughter of the former president
• Margaret Gardner Hoey (1875–1942), American political hostess and First Lady of North Carolina
• Margaret (Maggie) Jones, Baroness Jones of Whitchurch, British Labour Peer and trade union official
• Margaret Mitchell (Canadian politician) (1925–2017), New Democratic Party Member of Parliament for Vancouver East
• Margaret Mitchell (Scottish politician) (born 1952), Scottish Conservative politician
• Margaret Moran (born 1955), former Labour MP for Luton South who was convicted of the largest amount of fraud in the United Kingdom parliamentary expenses scandal
• Margaret Ritchie (born 1958), politician who served in the Northern Ireland Assembly and both British Houses of Parliament
• Margaret Rose Sanford (1918–2006), First Lady of North Carolina
• Margaret Selina Martei, Ghanaian Member of Parliament for Asamankese (1965–1966)
• Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013), first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom who served from 1979 to 1990
• Margeret (Maggie) Throup (born 1967), British Member of Parliament for Erewash

• Margaret Akidor (born 2000 or 2002), Kenyan runner
• Margaret Boyd (1913–1993), English lacrosse player and schoolteacher
• Margaret Court (born 1942), Australian tennis player
• Margaret Groos (born 1959), American long-distance runner
• Margaret Hoelzer (born 1983), American swimmer
• Margaret Jeffery (1920–2004), British swimmer and Olympian
• Margaret Martin (born 1979), American professional bodybuilder
• Margaret Maughan (1928–2020), British Paralympic archer
• Margaret McIver (1933–2020), Australian equestrian
• Margaret Purce (born 1995) American soccer player

• Margaret Barclay, died 1618 as a result of witch trials held in Irvine, Ayrshire
• Margaret Catherine Blaikie (1823–1915), Scottish temperance reformer
• Margaret Brent (c. 1601–1671), English immigrant colonial landowner
• Margaret Casely-Hayford (born 1959), British lawyer
• Margaret Cochran Corbin (1751–1800), fought in the U.S. Revolutionary War and was given a pension by Congress
• Margaret Douie Dougal (1858–1938), British chemical publication indexer
• Margaret Dye Ellis (1845–1925), American social reformer
• Margaret E. Kuhn (1905–1995), founder of the Gray Panthers organisation
• Margaret Elizabeth Douglas (1934–2008), English television producer and executive
• Margaret Feeny (1917–2012), founder and first director of London's Africa Centre
• Margaret Hampshire (1918–2004), British educator and civil servant
• Margaret Hanmer (c. 1362 – c. 1420), the wife of Welsh leader Owain Glyndŵr
• Margaret Haughery (1813–1882), philanthropist known as "the mother of the orphans"
• Margaret Kempe Howell (1806–1867), American planter and slave owner
• Margaret Irvine (1948–2023), British crossword compiler
• Margaret Jeffrey (1896–1977), Australian police officer
• Margaret Bischell McFadden, American philanthropist and social worker
• Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage (1828–1918), American philanthropist who established the Russell Sage Foundation
• Margaret Prior (1773–1842), American humanitarian, missionary, moral reform worker, writer
• Margaret Sanger (1879–1966), founder of the birth control movement in the United States
• Margaret Swain (1909–2002), English embroidery and textile historian

• Margaret Evelyn "Maggie" Simpson, in the TV show The Simpsons
• Margaret Fish, a chiropodist and a character in Bob and Margaret
• Margaret Hale, heroine in Elizabeth Gaskell's 1855 novel North and South
• Margaret Hooper, secretary to White House Chiefs of Staff Leo McGarry and CJ Cregg played by NiCole Robinson in the TV series The West Wing
• Margaret Houlihan, character in both the movie and television show M*A*S*H
• Margaret in Much Ado About Nothing, by Shakespeare
• Margaret "Meg" March, character in Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• Margaret Mildred "Kit" Kittredge, in the Kit Kittredge series of American Girl books and related toys
• Margaret "Maggie" Mathison, character in Homeland
• Margaret Moonlight, a boss in the Suda 51 game No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle
• Margaret "Peggy" Bundy, a character played by Katey Sagal in the 1987–97 Fox sitcom Married... with Children
• Margaret "Peggy" Carter, a character featured in several storylines published by Marvel Comics
• Margaret White, in the 1974 novel Carrie by Stephen King
• Margaret, a character in the Cartoon Network animated series Regular Show
• Margaret, a character who is Jake the Dog’s mother in the TV series Adventure Time
• Margaret Sawyer, fictional character in DC Comics and a supporting character in Superman and Batman
• Mistress Margaret Page in The Merry Wives of Windsor, by Shakespeare
• Margaret SquarePants, SpongeBob's mother and Harold's wife in SpongeBob SquarePants
• Margaret "Maggie" Horton, a character on the soap opera Days of Our Lives
• Peggy Woolley, a character in the BBC radio serial The Archers.

• Margaret (disambiguation)
• Lady Margaret (disambiguation)

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• "Margaret". Edgar’s Name Pages. 2001. Archived from the original on 21 October 2009.