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* ( English) * ( English)First half
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* ( English), (Nobility
Austria
* Margaret, Countess of Tyrol (1318–1369)Belgium and the Netherlands
* Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy (1480–1530), Princess of Asturias and Duchess of Savoy by her two marriages * Margaret of Parma (1522–1586), illegitimate daughter of Charles V and Johanna Maria van der Gheynst * Margaret of York (1446–1503), Duchess of Burgundy and wife of Charles the Bold, Regent of FranceDenmark
*England and Scotland
*France
*Hungary
* Margaret of Hungary (1175–1223), wife of Isaac II Angelos Byzantine EmperorNorway
*Romania
*Religion
* Margaret Brennan (nun), Margaret Brennan (1831–1887), Canadian nun * Margaret Sampson (1906–1988), English nunCanonized
* Margaret Clitherow (1556–1586) * Margaret the Barefooted (1325–1395) * Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647–1690) * Saint Margaret of Castello (1287–1320) * Saint Margaret of Cortona (1247–1297) * Saint Margaret of England (died 1192) * Saint Margaret of Hungary (1242–1270) *Beatified
*Artists and authors
* Maggie Smith (born 1934), British actress * Maisie Williams (born 1997), English actress. * 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 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 (Australian writer), Margaret Clark (born 1943), Australian author * Margaret Clarkson, English artist * Margaret Cleaves, American physician, writer * Margaret Deland, 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, 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), US 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 (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 artistEducators and scientists
* 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 (biologist), Margaret Frame, Scottish scientist, professor of molecular cell biology * Margaret Gurney (1908–2002), American mathematician, statistician, and computer programmer * Margaret Hamilton (software engineer), Margaret Hamilton, American computer scientist * Margaret Howe Lovatt, naturalist * Margaret Hutchinson, English educator, naturalist and author * Margaret Lin Xavier (1898–1932), Thai physician * Margaret Mead, American anthropologist * Margaret Read (anthropologist), Margaret Helen Read (1889–1991), British social anthropologist and academic * Margaret Warner Morley (1858–1923), American biologist, wrote children's books on biology * Margaret Wiecek, Polish-American operations researcherPolitics
* Margaret A. Davidson (1950–2017), American lawyer and coastal science pioneer * Ann Coffey, Margaret (Ann) Coffey (born 1946), former British Member of Parliament for Stockport * Margaret Beckett (born 1943), British Member of Parliament for Derby South * 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 * Margaret Ferrier (born 1960), British Member of Parliament for Rutherglen and Hamilton West * Margaret Greenwood (born 1959), British Member of Parliament for Wirral West * Maggie Hassan, 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 * Maggie Jones, Baroness Jones of Whitchurch, 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, Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick, 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 * Maggie Throup, Margeret (Maggie) Throup (born 1967), British Member of Parliament for ErewashSports
* 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 (bodybuilder), Margaret Martin (born 1979), American professional bodybuilder * Margaret Maughan (1928–2020), British Paralympic archer * Margaret McIver (1933–2020), Australian equestrianOther
* Margaret Barclay (accused witch), 1618 as a result of witch trials held in Irvine, Ayrshire * Margaret Catherine Blaikie (1823-1915), Scottish temperance reformer * Margaret Brent (), 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 Haughery (1813–1882), philanthropist known as "the mother of the orphans" * Margaret Jeffrey (police officer), 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 historianFictional characters
* Maggie Simpson, 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 * Kit Kittredge, Margaret Mildred "Kit" Kittredge, in the ''Kit Kittredge'' series of American Girl books and related toys * Margaret Moonlight, a boss in the Suda 51 game No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle * Peggy Bundy, Margaret "Peggy" Bundy, a character played by Katey Sagal in the 1987–97 Fox sitcom ''Married... with Children'' * Peggy Carter, Margaret "Peggy" Carter, a character featured in several storylines published by Marvel Comics * Margaret White (Stephen King), Margaret White, in the 1974 novel ''Carrie'' by Stephen King * Margaret, a character in the Cartoon Network animated series ''Regular Show'' * Mistress Margaret Page in ''The Merry Wives of Windsor'', by Shakespeare * Margaret SquarePants, SpongeBob's mother and Harold's wife in SpongeBob SquarePants * Maggie Horton, Margaret "Maggie" Horton, a character on the soap opera ''Days of Our Lives''See also
* Margaret (disambiguation)References
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