Meg is a feminine given name, often a short form of
Megatron,
Megan
Megan is a Welsh feminine given name, originally a diminutive form of Margaret. Margaret is from the Greek μαργαρίτης (''margarítēs''), Latin ''margarīta'', "pearl". Megan is one of the most popular Welsh-language names for women in ...
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Megumi
is a Japanese feminine given name. In Japanese, the word megumi means "blessing; grace."
Possible writings
While the word megumi means blessing and can be written using that kanji, it may also be spelled using other kanji, such as the kanji for ...
(Japanese), etc. It may refer to:
People
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Meg (singer), a Japanese singer
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Meg Cabot (born 1967), American author of romantic and paranormal fiction
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Meg Burton Cahill (born 1954), American politician and former Arizona state senator
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Meg Foster (born 1948), American actress
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Meg Greenfield (1930-1999), American Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial writer and columnist
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Meg Frampton
Meg & Dia is an American rock band formed in 2004. It was founded by sisters Meg and Dia Frampton before becoming a five-piece act (renamed Cowards Courage and released the CD ''Straight Out of a Story Book in Las Vegas'') where they started, w ...
(born 1985), guitarist and back-up singer for the band Meg & Dia
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Meg Hutchins
Meg Hutchins (born 3 February 1982) is an Australian rules footballer who played for the Collingwood Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW).
Early life and state football
In her early teens, she reverted to other sports when football was no l ...
(born 1982), Australian rules footballer
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Meg Kelly, American television soap opera screenwriter
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Meg Lanning (born 1992), Australian cricketer
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Meg Lee Chin, Taiwanese-American singer-songwriter, best known as a member of the group Pigface
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Meg LeFauve, American screenwriter (co-nominated for the Academy Award for ''Inside Out'') and producer
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Meg Lees (born 1948), Australian politician
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Meg Mallon (born 1963), American LPGA golfer
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Meg Morris (born 1992), American National Women's Soccer League player
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Meg Ryan (born 1961), American actress
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Meg Tilly, Canadian-American actress born Margaret Elizabeth Chan in 1960
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Meg Turney, American YouTube personality
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Meg White (born 1974), American drummer, half of the rock duo The White Stripes (with former husband Jack White)
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Meg Whitman (born 1956), former CEO of eBay and California gubernatorial candidate
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Meg Wolitzer (born 1959), American author
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Meg Wyllie (1917–2002), American actress
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Long Meg of Westminster (16th-century) English tavern keeper
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Margarete Pioresan, known as ''Meg'' (born 1956), Brazilian football goalkeeper
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Meg Donnelly (born 2000), American actress mostly known for her work with Disney Channel
*Meg (Maria Di Donna), an Italian singer and former member of band
99 Posse and duo Nous
Fictional characters
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The Meg, the titlular megalodon shark in the 2018 action movie ''The Meg''
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Meg Griffin
Meg Griffin is a fictional character in the animated television series ''Family Guy''. Meg is the eldest child of Peter Griffin, Peter and Lois Griffin and older sister of Stewie Griffin, Stewie and Chris Griffin, Chris, but is also the family ...
, one of the main characters on the animated television show ''Family Guy''
*Margaret March, in Louisa May Alcott's novels ''
Little Women
''Little Women'' is a coming-of-age novel written by American novelist Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888).
Alcott wrote the book, originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869, at the request of her publisher. The story follows the lives ...
'', ''
Little Men'' and ''
Jo's Boys''
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Meg Masters, on the television show ''Supernatural''
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Meg Murry, in Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quintet novels
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Meg Snyder, on the American soap opera ''As the World Turns''
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Meg!
Meg! (with the exclamation mark) is a comic strip by Greg Curfman and distributed by United Feature Syndicate. The main characters are Meg, an elementary-age soccer player, her little brother Mike (victim of Meg's pranks), their parents, and Meg' ...
'', a comic strip
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Megara (Disney)
Megara, also known as Meg, is a fictional character who appears in the Walt Disney Pictures 35th animated film ''Hercules'' (1997). Voiced by actress Susan Egan, Meg is introduced as a cynical young woman enslaved by Hades, god of the underworl ...
in Disney's 1997 film ''Hercules''
*Meg, a minor character in ''
Xena: Warrior Princess''
*Meg, a supporting character in
the Trials of Apollo
''The Trials of Apollo'' is a pentalogy of fantasy adventure and mythological fiction novels written by American author Rick Riordan that collectively form a sequel to the ''Heroes of Olympus'' series. It is set in the same world as the Riordan ...
by
Rick Riordan
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Assassination Classroom
is a Japanese science fiction comedy manga series written and illustrated by Yusei Matsui. The series follows the daily life of an extremely powerful octopus-like being working as a junior high homeroom teacher, and his students dedicate ...
manga'' and anime series
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