Margaret is a feminine
given name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a f ...
, which means "pearl". It is of
Latin
Latin ( or ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic languages, Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally spoken by the Latins (Italic tribe), Latins in Latium (now known as Lazio), the lower Tiber area aroun ...
origin, via
Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek (, ; ) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the classical antiquity, ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Greek ...
and ultimately from
Old Iranian
The Iranian languages, also called the Iranic languages, are a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages in the Indo-European language family that are spoken natively by the Iranian peoples, predominantly in the Iranian Plateau.
The Iranian language ...
.
It has been an
English name since the 11th century, and remained popular throughout the
Middle Ages
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the 5th to the late 15th centuries, similarly to the post-classical period of global history. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire and ...
. It became less popular between the 16th and 18th century, but became more common again after this period, becoming the second-most popular female name in the
United States
The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic of 50 U.S. state, states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 ...
in 1903. Since this time, it has become less common, but was still the ninth-most common name for women of all ages in the United States as of the
1990 census.
Margaret has many diminutive forms in many languages, including
Daisy,
Greta Greta may refer to:
Arts and entertainment Film
* ''Greta'' (2018 film), a thriller film directed by Neil Jordan
* ''Greta'' (2020 film), a documentary film about activist Greta Thunberg Music
* Greta (band), hard rock band
* Greta (song), ...
,
Gretchen,
Maggie
Maggie or Maggy is a common short form of the name Magdalena, Magnolia, Margaret, or Marigold.
People Maggie
* Maggie Adamson, Scottish musician
* Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock (born 1968), British scientist
* Maggie Alderson (born 1959), ...
,
Madge,
Maisie,
Marge
Marge is a feminine given name, a shortened form of Marjorie, Margot or Margaret. Notable Marges include:
People
* Marge (cartoonist) (1904–1993), pen name of Marjorie Henderson Buell, American cartoonist
* Marge Anderson (1932–2013), Ojibwe ...
,
Margie
Margie is a feminine given name, usually a short form (hypocorism) of the related names Margaret, Marjorie, or Margarita, all of which mean "pearl".
Margie may refer to:
People
* Margie Abbott (born 1958), Australian businesswoman
* Margie Ac ...
,
Margo,
Margot Margot ( , ) is a feminine given name, a French language, French diminutive of Marguerite (given name), Marguerite that has long been used as an independent name. Variant spellings in use include Margo (given name), Margo and Margaux (name), Margaux ...
,
Marnie,
Meg,
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 ...
,
Molly,
Peggy, and
Rita.
Etymology
Margaret is derived via French () and Latin () from (), via Persian ''murwārīd'', meaning "
pearl
A pearl is a hard, glistening object produced within the soft tissue (specifically the mantle (mollusc), mantle) of a living Exoskeleton, shelled mollusk or another animal, such as fossil conulariids. Just like the shell of a mollusk, a pear ...
".
Margarita (given name) traces the etymology further as مروارید, ''morvārīd'' in modern Persian, derived from
Sogdian ''marγārt'', both meaning '
pearl
A pearl is a hard, glistening object produced within the soft tissue (specifically the mantle (mollusc), mantle) of a living Exoskeleton, shelled mollusk or another animal, such as fossil conulariids. Just like the shell of a mollusk, a pear ...
'. It is ultimately traces its roots to
Old Iranian
The Iranian languages, also called the Iranic languages, are a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages in the Indo-European language family that are spoken natively by the Iranian peoples, predominantly in the Iranian Plateau.
The Iranian language ...
''-mrgāhrīta*'', "derived from a shell".
[Ilya Gershevitch, “Margarites, the Pearl,” Études irano-aryennes offertes à Gilbert Lazard, Studia Iranica 7, Paris, 1989, pp. 113-36.]
Name variants
Full name
* (
Scottish
Scottish usually refers to something of, from, or related to Scotland, including:
*Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family native to Scotland
*Scottish English
*Scottish national identity, the Scottish ide ...
)
* (
Scottish
Scottish usually refers to something of, from, or related to Scotland, including:
*Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family native to Scotland
*Scottish English
*Scottish national identity, the Scottish ide ...
)
* (
Irish)
* (
Irish)
* (
Irish)
* (
Dutch), (
German
German(s) may refer to:
* Germany, the country of the Germans and German things
**Germania (Roman era)
* Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language
** For citizenship in Germany, see also Ge ...
), (
Indonesian), (
Swedish)
* Małgorzata (Polish)
* Margaryta (Ukrainian)
* (
Dutch)
*
Margrit Margrit is a given name, an equivalent to the English name Margaret.
Notable people with this name include:
* Margrit Bolli (1919–2017), Swiss dancer
* Margrit Brückner (born 1946), German sociologist and professor
* Margrit Conrad (1918–2 ...
*
Margit
Margit is a feminine given name, a version of Margaret
Margaret is a feminine given name, which means "pearl". It is of Latin origin, via Ancient Greek and ultimately from Iranian languages, Old Iranian. It has been an English language, Engli ...
(
Hungarian)
* Margrith (
German
German(s) may refer to:
* Germany, the country of the Germans and German things
**Germania (Roman era)
* Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language
** For citizenship in Germany, see also Ge ...
)
* (
English)
* Morvarid مروارید (
Persian
Persian may refer to:
* People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language
** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples
** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...
)
Diminutives
* (
English)
* (
English)
* (
Scottish
Scottish usually refers to something of, from, or related to Scotland, including:
*Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family native to Scotland
*Scottish English
*Scottish national identity, the Scottish ide ...
)
* (
German
German(s) may refer to:
* Germany, the country of the Germans and German things
**Germania (Roman era)
* Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language
** For citizenship in Germany, see also Ge ...
)
First half
* Margot (
French)
* (
Welsh)
Second half
* (
English), (
German
German(s) may refer to:
* Germany, the country of the Germans and German things
**Germania (Roman era)
* Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language
** For citizenship in Germany, see also Ge ...
), (
Italian
Italian(s) may refer to:
* Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries
** Italians, a Romance ethnic group related to or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom
** Italian language, a Romance languag ...
), (
Lithuanian), (
Polish), (
Swedish),
* (
English), (
German
German(s) may refer to:
* Germany, the country of the Germans and German things
**Germania (Roman era)
* Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language
** For citizenship in Germany, see also Ge ...
),
* (
English), (
Estonian
Estonian may refer to:
* Something of, from, or related to Estonia, a country in the Baltic region in northern Europe
* Estonians, people from Estonia, or of Estonian descent
* Estonian language
* Estonian cuisine
* Estonian culture
See also ...
), (
Hungarian), (
Italian
Italian(s) may refer to:
* Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries
** Italians, a Romance ethnic group related to or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom
** Italian language, a Romance languag ...
), (
Indonesian)
* (
Estonian
Estonian may refer to:
* Something of, from, or related to Estonia, a country in the Baltic region in northern Europe
* Estonians, people from Estonia, or of Estonian descent
* Estonian language
* Estonian cuisine
* Estonian culture
See also ...
)
* (
Dutch)
* (
Dutch)
Nobility
Austria
*
Margaret, Countess of Tyrol
Margaret, nicknamed Maultasch (1318 – 3 October 1369), was the last Countess of Tyrol from the House of Gorizia (''Meinhardiner''), and an unsuccessful claimant to the Duchy of Carinthia. Upon her death, Tyrol became united with the Austrian h ...
(1318–1369)
Belgium and the Netherlands
*
Margaret, Marchioness of Namur (1194–1270)
*
Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy
Margaret of Austria (; ; ; ; 10 January 1480 – 1 December 1530) was Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands from 1507 to 1515 and again from 1519 until her death in 1530. She was the first of many female regents in the Netherlands. She was vario ...
(1480–1530), Princess of Asturias and Duchess of Savoy by her two marriages
*
Margaret of Parma
Margaret (; 5 July 1522 – 18 January 1586) was Duchess of Parma from 1547 to 1586 as the wife of Duke Ottavio Farnese and Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands from 1559 to 1567 and from 1578 to 1582. She was the illegitimate daughter of Ch ...
(1522–1586), illegitimate daughter of Charles V and Johanna Maria van der Gheynst, Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands
*
Margaret of York
Margaret of York (3 May 1446 – 23 November 1503), also known as Margaret of Burgundy, was Duchess of Burgundy from 1468 to 1477 as the third wife of Charles the Bold, and after his death (1477) acted as a protector of the Burgundian State. ...
(1446–1503), Duchess of Burgundy and wife of Charles the Bold, Regent of France
*
Margaret de La Marck-Arenberg (1527–1599), ruling countess of Arenberg
Denmark
*
Margaret I of Denmark
Margaret I (; March 1353 – 28 October 1412) was Queen regnant of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden (which included Finland) from the late 1380s until her death, and the founder of the Kalmar Union that joined the Scandinavian kingdoms together for ...
(1353–1412), founder of the Kalmar Union
*
Margrethe II of Denmark
Margrethe II (; Margrethe Alexandrine Þórhildur Ingrid, born 16 April 1940) is a member of the Danish royal family who reigned as Queen of Denmark from 14 January 1972 until Abdication of Margrethe II, her abdication on 14 January 2024. Ha ...
(born 1940)
*
Margaret Vinstarr, Danish courtier in Scotland to Anne of Denmark
England, Scotland, Wales, and Great Britain
*
Margaret Alexander, Countess Alexander of Tunis (1905–1977), British aristocrat and activist
*
Margaret Audley, 2nd Baroness Audley
Margaret de Audley, ''suo jure'' 2nd Baroness Audley and Countess of Stafford (c. 1318 – 7 September 1349G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, ''The Complete ...
(c. 1318–1349), English noblewoman
*
Margaret Audley, Duchess of Norfolk
Margaret Howard, Duchess of Norfolk (''née'' Audley) (1540 – 9 January 1564) was a 16th-century English noble. She was the sole surviving child of Thomas Audley, 1st Baron Audley of Walden, and Lady Elizabeth Grey, herself the daughter ...
(died 1564), English noblewoman
*
Margaret Beauchamp, Countess of Shrewsbury (c. 1404–1467), English noblewoman
*
Margaret Beaufort, multiple people
*
Margaret Bentinck, Duchess of Portland
Margaret Cavendish Bentinck, Duchess of Portland (11 February 1715 – 17 July 1785) was the richest woman in Kingdom of Great Britain, Great Britain of her time, styled Lady Margaret Harley before 1734, Duchess of Portland from 1734 to her ...
(1715–1785), British duchess
*
Margaret de Bohun, Countess of Devon
Margaret de Bohun, Countess of Devon (3 April 1311 – 16 December 1391) was the daughter of Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford, Lord High Constable of England and Elizabeth of Rhuddlan. She was the wife of Hugh de Courtenay, 2nd/10 ...
(1311–1391), English noblewoman and bibliophile
*
Margaret Bourchier, Countess of Bath (c. 1509–1561), English noblewoman
*
Margaret de Braose, Lady of Trim, Anglo-Welsh noblewoman
*
Margaret Brisbane, 5th Lady Napier, Scottish peer
*
Margaret Brooke
Margaret, Lady Brooke, White Ratuh Consort of Sarawak (born Margaret Alice Lili de Windt; 9 October 1849 – 1 December 1936) was the Ranee of the second White Rajah of Sarawak, Charles Anthony Johnson Brooke. She published her memoir, ''My ...
(1849–1936), white Ratuh Consort of Sarawak
*
Margaret Bryan
Margaret Bryan, Baroness Bryan (c. 1468 – c. 1551/52) was lady governess to the children of King Henry VIII of England, the future monarchs Mary I, Elizabeth I, and Edward VI, as well as the illegitimate Henry FitzRoy.She was also Lady Gover ...
, English noble
*
Margaret Butler, Countess of Ormond (died 1542), Irish countess
*
Margaret Cambridge, Marchioness of Cambridge (1873–1929), British peeress
*
Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll (1912–1993), socialite
*
Margaret Child Villiers, Countess of Jersey (1849–1945), English political hostess and philanthropist
*
Margaret de Clare
Margaret de Clare, Countess of Gloucester, Countess of Cornwall (12 October 1293 – 9 April 1342) was an English noblewoman, heiress, and the second eldest of the three daughters of Gilbert de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford and his wife Joan of ...
(1293–1342), English noblewoman
*
Margaret de Clare, Baroness Badlesmere (1287–1333/4), Anglo-Norman noblewoman and the wife of Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Baron Badlesmere
*
Margaret Clifford, Countess of Cumberland (1560–1616), English noblewoman
*
Margaret Clive
Margaret Clive, Baroness Clive (née Maskelyne; 26 October 1735 – 28 December 1817) was a British society figure. She went out to India to meet an admirer and married a military hero. She was in Bengal as their family became incredibly wealthy ...
(1735–1817), British society figure
*
Margaret Coke, Countess of Leicester (1700–1775), British peer
*
Margaret, Countess of Mar (died c. 1391), Scottish peeress who became Countess of Mar in her own right
*
Margaret de Crussol d'Uzès (1932–1977), English oil heiress
*
Margaret of Anjou
Margaret of Anjou (; 23 March 1430 – 25 August 1482) was Queen of England by marriage to King Henry VI from 1445 to 1461 and again from 1470 to 1471. Through marriage, she was also nominally Queen of France from 1445 to 1453. Born in the ...
(1430–1482), wife of King Henry VI of England
*
Margaret Douglas
Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox (8 October 1515 – 7 March 1578), born Lady Margaret Douglas, was the daughter of the Scottish queen dowager Margaret Tudor and her second husband Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus, and thus the granddau ...
(1515–1578), daughter of Margaret Tudor
*
Margaret Douglas, Countess of Arran, Scottish aristocrat
*
Margaret Douglas, Countess of Bothwell (died 1640), Scottish aristocrat and courtier
*
Margaret Douglas, Fair Maid of Galloway (c. 1427-c. 1474), Scottish noble
*
Margaret Drummond, Scottish noblewoman and mistress of King James IV of Scotland
*
Margaret Drummond, Queen of Scotland (c. 1340–1375), second queen of David II of Scotland
*
Margaret Mercer Elphinstone (1788–1867), Scottish society hostess
*
Margaret Erskine (1515–1572), mistress of Scottish King
*
Margaret Feilding, Duchess of Hamilton, 17th century Scottish noblewoman
*
Margaret Fiennes, 11th Baroness Dacre (1541–1612), English noblewoman
*
Lady Margaret Fortescue (1923–2013), one of the UK's largest private landowners
*
Margaret Fownes-Luttrell (1726–1766), British heiress
*
Margaret Godolphin
Margaret Godolphin (née Blagge; 2 August 1652 – 9 September 1678) was an English courtier. She chose John Evelyn as a mentor and died after childbirth. His account of her life was not published until 1847.
Life
Margaret Blagge was probably b ...
(1652–1678), British courtier
*
Margaret Goschen, Viscountess Goschen (1858–1943), British aristocrat
*
Margaret Graham, Countess of Menteith
Margaret Graham, Countess of Menteith (c. 1334 – c. 1376) was a Scottish noblewoman. She held the title Countess of Menteith in her own right, having inherited the title c. 1360 from her mother, Mary, Countess of Menteith, who was married to ...
, Scottish noblewoman
*
Margaret Grey, Cambro-Norman noblewoman
*
Margaret Hamilton, Lady Belhaven and Stenton, English Royalist conspirator
*
Lady Margaret Hay
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, name = Lady Margaret Hay
, title =
, image = Lady Margaret Katherine Hay (née Seymour).jpg
, caption = Lady Margaret Hay, '' Tatler and Bystander'', 1953
, alt = ...
(1918–1975), British courtier
*
Margaret Holland, Duchess of Clarence
Margaret Holland (1385 – 30 December 1439) was a medieval English noblewoman and a member of the powerful Holland family. Through her marriages she became Countess of Somerset and Duchess of Clarence. She was "at the very centre of royal powe ...
(c. 1385–1439), English noblewoman
*
Margaret Holles, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1661–1715), English noblewoman
*
Margaret Home, Countess of Moray
Margaret Home, Countess of Moray (died 1683) was a Scottish aristocrat and compiler of recipe books.
Family background
She was the eldest daughter of Alexander Home, 1st Earl of Home (died 1619) and Mary Sutton, Countess of Home (died 1644).
...
(died 1683), Scottish aristocrat and compiler of recipe books
*
Margaret Howard, 2nd Baroness Strathcona and Mount Royal (1854–1926), British peer and medical doctor
*
Margaret Howard, Countess of Nottingham (c. 1591–1639), British noble
*
Margaret Howard, Countess of Suffolk (1879–1968), American heiress
*
Margaret Innes-Ker, Duchess of Roxburghe (1918–1983), British duchess
*
Margaret Jones, Countess of Ranelagh (1672/1673–1728), English courtier
*
Margaret Kennedy, Countess of Cassilis (died 1580), Scottish aristocrat
*
Margaret Kennix (died 1585), Dutch woman who practiced medicine in London
*
Margaret Lee (lady-in-waiting)
Lady Margaret Lee ( Wyatt; ) was an English courtier. She was a sister of the poet Thomas Wyatt (poet), Thomas Wyatt and a friend of Queen Anne Boleyn, Wives of Henry VIII, second wife of King Henry VIII of England. Historians have speculated th ...
, English courtier and lady-in-waiting
*
Margaret Leslie, 8th Countess of Rothes (died 1700), Scottish noble
*
Margaret Longespée, 4th Countess of Salisbury
Margaret Longespée, 4th Countess of Salisbury (died 1309) was an English noblewoman.
Margaret was the only child of William III Longespée, son of William Longespée the Younger, and Maud de Clifford, granddaughter of the prince of North Wal ...
, English noblewoman
*
Margaret de Monthermer, 3rd Baroness Monthermer (1329–1394/1395), English heiress
*
Margaret Nairne, 2nd Lady Nairne (1669–1747), Scottish noblewoman
*
Margaret O'Carroll, 15th century Irish noblewoman
*
Margaret Ogilvy, Lady Ogilvy, 18th-century Scottish Jacobite
*
Margaret Percy, 15th century English noblewoman
*
Margaret Peverell, Countess of Derby, English noblewoman
*
Margaret Pole, born Princess Margaret of York and Clarence (1473–1541), Countess of Salisbury
*
Margaret de Quincy, Countess of Lincoln
Margaret is a feminine given name, which means "pearl". It is of Latin origin, via Ancient Greek and ultimately from Old Iranian. It has been an English name since the 11th century, and remained popular throughout the Middle Ages. It became l ...
(c. 1206–1266), English noblewoman
*
Margaret Radclyffe Livingstone Eyre
Lady Margaret Radclyffe Livingstone Eyre (''née'' Kennedy, 16 June 1800 – 3 September 1889), later incorrectly called the Countess of Newburgh, was a Scottish aristocrat and philanthropist. She was said to be an "archetype of the nineteenth-c ...
(1800–1889), Scottish aristocrat
*
Margaret Rhodes
Margaret Rhodes (; 9 June 1925 – 25 November 2016) was a British aristocrat and a first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon. From 1991 to 2002, she served as Woman of the Bedchamber to her aunt Queen E ...
(1925–2016), British aristocrat and a first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon
*
Margaret Rolle, 15th Baroness Clinton (1709–1781), British heiress
*
Margaret Russell, Baroness Ampthill (1874–1957), British noblewoman
*
Margaret Spencer (1472–1536), British noble
*
Margaret Stanley, Countess of Derby (1540–1596), English noblewoman
*
Margaret Haig Thomas, 2nd Viscountess Rhondda (1883 –1958), Welsh peeress and suffragette
*
Margaret Tudor
Margaret Tudor (28 November 1489 – 18 October 1541) was List of Scottish royal consorts, Queen of Scotland from 1503 until 1513 by marriage to King James IV. She then served as regent of Scotland during her son's minority, and fought to exte ...
(1489–1541), elder sister of Henry VIII of England, Queen of Scots by marriage to James IV of Scotland and regent for their son, James V of Scotland
*
Margaret de Vere (died 1398), English noblewoman
*
Margaret Wake, 3rd Baroness Wake of Liddell, English noblewoman
*
Margaret Wemyss, 3rd Countess of Wemyss
Margaret Wemyss, 3rd Countess of Wemyss and Countess of Cromarty (1 January 165911 March 1705) was a Scottish peer.
Margaret was the daughter of David Wemyss, 2nd Earl of Wemyss and Margaret Leslie, daughter of John Leslie, 6th Earl of Rothes. ...
(1659–1705), Scottish peer
*
Margaret Willoughby (c. 1401–1493), English heiress
*
Margaret Wotton, Marchioness of Dorset, English noblewoman
*
Princess Margaret of Connaught
Princess Margaret of Connaught (Margaret Victoria Charlotte Augusta Norah; 15 January 1882 – 1 May 1920) was Crown Princess of Sweden as the first wife of the future King Gustaf VI Adolf. She was the elder daughter of Prince Arthur, Duke of C ...
(1882–1920), elder daughter of Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught
*
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (Margaret Rose; 21 August 1930 – 9 February 2002) was the younger daughter of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. She was the younger sister and only sibling of Queen Elizabeth II.
Ma ...
(1930–2002), only sibling of Queen Elizabeth II and the younger daughter of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth
*
Saint Margaret of Scotland
Saint Margaret of Scotland (; , ), also known as Margaret of Wessex, was Queen of Alba from 1070 to 1093 as the wife of King Malcolm III. Margaret was sometimes called "The Pearl of Scotland". She was a member of the House of Wessex and was b ...
(), Queen of Scots
France
*
Margaret, Countess of Blois (died 1230)
*
Margaret, Countess of Brienne (born 1365)
*
Margaret of France, Queen of England
Margaret or Marguerite of France ( – 14 February 1318) was Queen of England as the second wife of King Edward I. She was a daughter of Philip III of France and Maria of Brabant.
Childhood
Margaret was the daughter of King Philip III of Fra ...
(1279–1318), Queen of England as the second wife of King Edward I
*
Margaret, Countess of Soissons (died 1350)
*
Margaret, Countess of Vertus (1406–1466)
*
Margaret of France, Duchess of Brabant
Margaret of France (1254–1271) was a member of the House of Capet and was Duchess of Brabant by her marriage to John I, Duke of Brabant.
Biography
Born in 1254, Margaret was a daughter of Louis IX of France and his wife Margaret of Provenc ...
(1254–1271)
*
Margaret of Provence
Margaret of Provence (; 1221 – 20 December 1295) was Queen of France by marriage to Louis IX of France, King Louis IX.
Early life
Margaret was born in the spring of 1221 in Forcalquier. She was the eldest of four daughters of Ramon Berenguer ...
(1221–1285), Queen of France
*
Margaret of Valois
Margaret of Valois (, 14 May 1553 – 27 March 1615), popularly known as , was List of Navarrese royal consorts, Queen of Navarre from 1572 to 1599 and Queen of France from 1589 to 1599 as the consort of Henry IV of France and III of Navarre.
Ma ...
(1553–1615), Queen of France
*
Margaret of Valois, Duchess of Berry
Margaret of Valois, Duchess of Berry (French: ''Marguerite de Valois'') (5 June 1523 – 15 September 1574) was Duchess of Savoy by marriage to Duke Emmanuel Philibert of Savoy. She was the daughter of King Francis I of France and Claude, Duche ...
(1523–1574), Duchess of Savoy by marriage to Duke Emmanuel Philibert of Savoy
*
Margaret, Countess of Vertus (1406–1466), ruling Countess of Vertus and Etampes
*
Margaret of York
Margaret of York (3 May 1446 – 23 November 1503), also known as Margaret of Burgundy, was Duchess of Burgundy from 1468 to 1477 as the third wife of Charles the Bold, and after his death (1477) acted as a protector of the Burgundian State. ...
(1446–1503), Duchess of Burgundy and wife of
Charles the Bold
Charles Martin (10 November 1433 – 5 January 1477), called the Bold, was the last duke of Burgundy from the House of Valois-Burgundy, ruling from 1467 to 1477. He was the only surviving legitimate son of Philip the Good and his third wife, ...
, Regent of France
*
Margaret de Fiennes, Baroness Mortimer of Wigmore, French noblewoman
*
Marguerite de Navarre
Marguerite de Navarre (, ''Marguerite d'Alençon''; 11 April 149221 December 1549), also known as Marguerite of Angoulême and Margaret of Navarre, was a princess of France, Duchess of Alençon and Berry, and Queen of Navarre by her second mar ...
(1492–1549)
Greece
*
Margaret, Lady of Lisarea (fl. 1276)
Hungary
*
Margaret of Hungary (1175–1223), wife of Isaac II Angelos Byzantine Emperor
*
Saint Margit (1242-1270), daughter of
King Béla IV of Hungary
*
Margit of Luxembourg (1335-1349´), Queen of Hungary
*
Margaret of Durazzo
Margaret of Durazzo ( 28 July 1347 – 6 August 1412) was Queen of Naples and Hungary and Princess of Achaea as the spouse of Charles III of Naples. She was regent of Naples from 1386 until 1393 during the minority of her son Ladislaus of Nap ...
(1347-1412), Queen of Naples and Hungary and Princess of Achaea
Italy
*
Margaret, Countess of Tyrol
Margaret, nicknamed Maultasch (1318 – 3 October 1369), was the last Countess of Tyrol from the House of Gorizia (''Meinhardiner''), and an unsuccessful claimant to the Duchy of Carinthia. Upon her death, Tyrol became united with the Austrian h ...
(1318–1369), present-day Italy
Norway
*
Margaret of Scotland (Maid of Norway) (1282–1290)
Portugal
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Margaret of Savoy, Vicereine of Portugal
Margaret of Savoy (28 April 1589 – 26 June 1655) was the last Habsburg Vicereine of Portugal from 1634 to 1640.Raviola, Blythe Alice (2016). "The three Lives of Margherita of Savoy-Gonzaga, Duchess of Mantua and Vicereine of Portugal." In Cruz ...
(1589–1655), the last Habsburg Vicereine of Portugal
Romania
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Margareta of Romania
Margareta, Custodian of the Crown of Romania (; born 26 March 1949) is the eldest daughter of King Michael I and Queen Anne of Romania. She assumed her father's duties in March 2016, upon his retirement, and has claimed the headship of the Hous ...
(born 1949)
Religion
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Margaret (the Lame) of Magdeburg (), an anchoress of the St Albans Church in Magdeburg, present-day Germany
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Margaret Arthur, 17th-century Irish abbess
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Margaret Aylward (1810–1889), Irish Roman Catholic nun
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Margaret Bane (1542–1597), Scottish midwife
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Margaret E. Barber, British missionary in China
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Margaret Beaton, Scottish courtier
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Margaret Bethune (1820–1887), Scottish midwife
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Margaret Bevan (c. 1894–1953), Welsh-born child evangelist and singer
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Margaret Brennan
Margaret Brennan (born March 26, 1980) is an American journalist who is the current moderator of ''Face the Nation, Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan'' on CBS News, the network's chief foreign affairs correspondent, and a fill-in and substitu ...
(1831–1887), Canadian nun
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Margaret E. Burton, American missionary
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Margaret Catchpole
Margaret Catchpole (14 March 1762 – 13 May 1819) was an English servant girl, chronicler, and Convicts in Australia, deportee to Australia. Born in Suffolk, she worked as a servant in various houses before being convicted of stealing a horse ...
(1762–1819), English servant girl, chronicler and deportee to Australia
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Margaret Chalmers (1763–1843), lifelong friend of Robert Burns
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Margaret Clement (1539–1612), English prioress
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Margaret Anna Cusack (1829–1899), Irish nun and religious sister
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Margaret B. Denning (1856–1935), American missionary and temperance worker
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Margaret Dixson (1877–1940), early Australian follower of the Bahá'í Faith in Melbourne, Victoria
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Margaret Durrell
Margaret Isabel Mabel "Margo" Durrell (4 May 1919 – 16 January 2007) was the younger sister of novelist Lawrence Durrell and elder sister of naturalist, author, and TV presenter Gerald Durrell, who lampoons her character in his Corfu trilo ...
(1919–2007), British memoirist
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Margaret Farley (born 1935), American Sister of Mercy and theologian
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Margaret Farren (died 1804), British actress
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Margaret Fell
Margaret Fell or Margaret Fox ( Askew, formerly Fell; 1614 – 23 April 1702) was a founder and leading member of the Religious Society of Friends
Quakers are people who belong to the Religious Society of Friends, a historically Prot ...
(1614–1702), founder of the Religious Society of Friends
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Margaret Fernseed (c. 1560–1608), English prostitute, brothel-keeper, and murderer
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Margaret Fleming, Countess of Atholl, Scottish courtier and landowner
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Margaret Fletcher (1862–1943), British founder Catholic Women’s League
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Margaret Forrest
Margaret Elvire Forrest, Lady Forrest (née Hamersley; 22 October 1844 – 13 June 1929 in Picton, Bunbury, Western Australia, Bunbury) was the wife of Sir John Forrest.
Personal life
Born in Le Havre, France, she was a member of the prom ...
(1844–1929), wife of John Forrest
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Margaret Kemble Gage, wife of General Thomas Gage
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Margaret Hallahan (1802–1868), English Catholic religious sister
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Margaret Hartsyde, Scottish servant and landowner, accused of a jewel theft
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Margaret Mary Healy Murphy (1833–1907), Irish-American nun, activist and educator
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Margaret Henley, friend of J. M. Barrie
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Margaret Herschel (1810–1884), British botanical artist and hostess
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Margaret Yandes Holliday (c. 1844–1920), American Presbyterian missionary
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Margaret Idahosa (born 1943), Nigerian preacher and the first African female Archbishop
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Margaret Jeans, British schoolteacher and businesswoman in Oman
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Margaret Stephen Kennedy (1814–1891), Scottish missionary
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Margaret Knox (1547–c. 1613), Scottish noblewoman and wife of John Knox
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Margaret Lambrun, Scottish woman who tried to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I
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Margaret Livingstone, Countess of Orkney, Scottish courtier and landowner
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Margaret MacDonald (1815–1840), Scottish visionary
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Margaret Macgregor (1838–1901), Scottish Catholic missionary
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Margaret MacRory (1862–1931), Australian religious sister
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Margaret Magennis, Viscountess Iveagh (c. 1673–1744), Irish viscountess
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Margaret Maher (1841–1924), Irish-American long-term domestic worker in the household of Emily Dickinson
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Margaret Mannah-Macarthy, Sierra Leonean midwife
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Margaret McEntee (born 1935), American Catholic nun and educator
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Margaret Isabelle McHenry (1860–1932), American-Canadian heiress
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Margaret McKellar (1861–1941), Canadian medical missionary
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Margaret McKenna, American religious sister and anti-war activist
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Margaret Mostyn (1625–1679), English Carmelite
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Margaret Myles (1892–1988), Scottish midwife
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Margaret Paleologa
Margaret Palaeologa (; 11 August 1510 – 28 December 1566), was the ruling Marquise regnant of Montferrat in her own right between 1533 and 1536. She was also Duchess of Mantua by marriage to Federico II, Duke of Mantua. Margaret acted as t ...
(1510–1566), marquise of Montserrat
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Margaret Purves
Margaret Purves George Cross, GC (née Vaughan; 25 November 1934 – 12 September 2021) was a British nurseAlderson, Andrew and Karyn Miller"For Valour: the bravest of the brave gather to mark the 150th anniversary of the Victoria Cross,"''The Te ...
(1934–2021), British George Cross recipient
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Margaret Radclyffe, English Elizabethan courtier
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Margaret Reid (1923–2018), New Zealand religious sister
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Margaret Sampson (1906–1988), English nun
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Margaret Peoples Shirer
Margaret Peoples Shirer (1897 – September 25, 1983) was one of the first American Pentecostal Christian missionaries to West Africa. With little formal education, at she traveled to Burkina Faso in 1919 at the age of 22, with the support of t ...
(1897–1983), American Pentecostal Christian missionaries to West Africa
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Margaret Sinclair (1900–1925), Scottish Roman Catholic nun
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Margaret Charles Smith (1906–2004), African-American midwife
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Margaret Stewart, Lady Gordon, illegitimate daughter of James IV in Scotland
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Margaret Stewart, Mistress of Ochiltree
Margaret Stewart, Mistress of Ochiltree (died 1627) was a courtier in the household of Anne of Denmark in Scotland and looked after her children Prince Henry, Princess Elizabeth, and Charles I of England
Career
Margaret was the daughter of He ...
(died 1627), courtier in the household of Anne of Denmark in Scotland
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Margaret Beveridge Stevenson (1865–1941), first New Zealand member of the Baháʼí Faith
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Margaret Stott Bhore (1884–1945), British missionary
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Margaret Young Taylor (1837–1919), American Church of Latter-Day Saints member and presidential plural wife
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Margaret Tebbit (1934–2020), English nurse and wife of Norman Tebbit
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Margaret Throckmorton
Margaret Throckmorton later Magdelan (religious name) (1591 – 26 October 1668) was an English prioress of St Monica's convent in Leuven. It was one of seven religious communities on the continent of English nuns escaping discrimination in Engla ...
(1591–1668), English prioress
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Margaret Towner (born 1925), American religious leader
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Margaret Traxler (1924–2002), American religious sister and feminist
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Margaret Newton Van Cott (1830–1914), first female Methodist Episcopal evangelist in America
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Margaret Louisa Vanderbilt Shepard (1845–1924), American heiress
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Margaret Vertue (born 1953), South African Anglican bishop
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Margaret Wake Tryon (c. 1732–1819), English heiress and wife of William Tryon
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Margaret Waterchief (died 2020), Blackfoot elder and Anglican priest
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Margaret Wenig, American rabbi
Canonised
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Margaret Clitherow
Margaret Clitherow (''née'' Middleton, ''c.'' 1556 – 25 March 1586) was an English Catholic recusant known as The Pearl of York. She was pressed to death for refusing to enter a plea to the charge of harbouring Catholic priests. She was can ...
(1556–1586)
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Margaret the Barefooted (1325–1395)
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Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647–1690)
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Margaret of Castello
Margaret of Città di Castello, TOSD (1287 – 12 April 1320) was an Italian Catholic educator and a Dominican tertiary. Margaret was both blind and had other physical disabilities and became known for her deep faith and holiness.
Her parents ...
(1287–1320)
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Saint Margaret of Cortona
Margaret of Cortona (1247 – 22 February 1297) was an Italian penitent order, penitent of the Third Order of Saint Francis. She was born in Castiglione del Lago, Laviano, near Perugia, and died in Cortona. She was canonized, canonised in 1728.
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(1247–1297)
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Saint Margaret of England
Saint Margaret of England (died 1192) was born in Hungary to an Englishwoman who was related to Thomas Becket, the murdered Archbishop of Canterbury.
When she was grown, Margaret took her mother with her on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and they t ...
(died 1192)
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Saint Margaret of Hungary (1242–1270)
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Saint Margaret of Scotland
Saint Margaret of Scotland (; , ), also known as Margaret of Wessex, was Queen of Alba from 1070 to 1093 as the wife of King Malcolm III. Margaret was sometimes called "The Pearl of Scotland". She was a member of the House of Wessex and was b ...
(1045–1093)
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Saint Margaret the Virgin (), the oldest and most prominent St. Margaret; also known as Margaret of Antioch
Beatified
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Margaret Mary Alacoque
Margaret Mary Alacoque (; 22 July 1647 – 17 October 1690) was a French Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary, Visitation nun and mysticism, mystic who promoted Catholic devotions, devotion to the Sacred Heart, Sacred Heart of Jesus in its moder ...
(1647–1690), Catholic Saint and Mystic
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Margaret Ball (1515–1584), Lady Mayoress of Dublin and Catholic martyr
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Margaret Cheyne (died 1537), English Catholic martyr
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Margaret Clitherow
Margaret Clitherow (''née'' Middleton, ''c.'' 1556 – 25 March 1586) was an English Catholic recusant known as The Pearl of York. She was pressed to death for refusing to enter a plea to the charge of harbouring Catholic priests. She was can ...
(1556–1586), English saint and martyr
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Margaret Fredkulla, queen of Denmark and Norway
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Margaret Leijonhufvud (1516–1551), queen of Sweden
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Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury
Margaret Plantagenet, Countess of Salisbury (14 August 1473 – 27 May 1541), was the only surviving daughter of George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence (a brother of Kings Edward IV and Richard III) and his wife Isabel Neville. As a result of M ...
(1473–1541)
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Margaret Polley
Margaret Polley (died July 1555) was an English Protestant martyr from Popingberry, Rochester, Kent. Her story is recorded in '' Foxe's Book of Martyrs''.
She was questioned by Maurice Griffith, Bishop of Rochester, condemned to death for her ...
, English Protestant martyr
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Margaret Sambiria
Margaret Sambiria (, ' or '; c. 1230 – December 1282) was Queen of Denmark by marriage to King Christopher I, and regent during the minority of her son, King Eric V from 1259 until 1264. She is the first woman confirmed to have formally rule ...
, queen of Denmark (1252–1259)
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Margaret Skulesdatter
Margaret Skulesdatter (Old Norse: ''Margrét Skúladóttir'') (1208–1270) was a Norwegian queen consort, spouse of King Haakon IV of Norway and queen consort of Norway from 1225 to 1263.
Biography
Margrete was the daughter of Jarl Skule Bårds ...
, queen of Norway
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Margaret Stewart, Dauphine of France
:''See also Margaret Stewart (disambiguation), Margaret Stewart.''
Margaret Stewart (; 25 December 1424 – 16 August 1445) was a princess of Kingdom of Scotland, Scotland and the dauphine of France. She was the firstborn child of King James I of ...
(1424–1445)
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Margaret Stewart, Duchess of Touraine (1370–1405), Scottish peeress
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Margaret Tudor
Margaret Tudor (28 November 1489 – 18 October 1541) was List of Scottish royal consorts, Queen of Scotland from 1503 until 1513 by marriage to King James IV. She then served as regent of Scotland during her son's minority, and fought to exte ...
, queen of Scotland (1503–1513)
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Margaret Ward (1550–1588), English Catholic martyr
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Margaret Wilson
Margaret Anne Wilson (born 20 May 1947) is a New Zealand lawyer, academic and former Labour Party politician. She served as Attorney-General from 1999 to 2005 and Speaker of the House of Representatives from 2005 to 2008, during the Fifth ...
, Scottish Presbyterian
Arts, actresses, writers and music
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Maggie Smith
Dame Margaret Natalie Smith (28 December 1934 – 27 September 2024) was a British actress. Known for her wit in both comedic and dramatic roles, she had List of Maggie Smith performances, an extensive career on stage and screen for over seve ...
(1934–2024), British actress
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Maisie Williams
Margaret Constance "Maisie" Williams (born 15 April 1997) is an English actress. Williams made her acting debut in 2011 as Arya Stark, a lead character in the HBO epic medieval fantasy television series ''Game of Thrones'' (2011–2019). She g ...
(born 1997), English actress
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Margaret Agnew Blennerhassett (c. 1771–1842), American poet
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Margaret Ahern (1921–1999), American cartoonist and illustrator
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Margaret Allen (1832–1914), Irish artist
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Margaret C. Anderson (1886–1973), American magazine editor
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Margaret Frances Andrews (1894–1945), American show dog breeder
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Margaret Anglin (1876–1958), Canadian stage actress, director and producer
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Margaret Uyauperq Aniksak (1907–1993), Inuk sculptor
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Margaret Armen (1921–2003), American screenwriter and author
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Margaret Armour (1860–1943), Scottish poet, novelist and translator
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Margaret Neilson Armstrong (1867–1944), American book cover designer, illustrator and author
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Margaret Ascham, 16th century English writer
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Margaret Ashcroft (1931–2016), British actress
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Margaret Ashmore Sudduth (1859–1957), American educator, editor, temperance advocate
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Margaret Ashmun (1875–1940), American writer
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Margaret Atwood
Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian novelist, poet, literary critic, and an inventor. Since 1961, she has published 18 books of poetry, 18 novels, 11 books of nonfiction, nine collections of short fiction, eight chi ...
(born 1939), Canadian novelist and poet
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Margaret Aull, New Zealand painter and curator
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Margaret Avery (born 1944), American actress
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Margaret Avison (1918–2007), Canadian poet
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Margaret Ayer (1894–1981), American author and illustrator
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Margaret Backhouse (1818–1888), British portrait and genre painter
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Margaret Jewett Bailey (c. 1812–1882), American poet
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Margaret L. Bailey (1812–c. 1888), American newspaper publisher and poet
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Margaret Baker Genovesi (c. 1933–2022), Australian soprano
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Margaret Bakkes (1931–2016), South African writer
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Margaret Balderson, Australian novelist and children’s writer
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Margaret Balfour (1892–1961), English classical soprano
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Margaret Ball (born 1947), American novelist
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Margaret Bannerman
Margaret Bannerman (born Marguerite Grand; December 15, 1896 – June 14, 1976) was a Canadian actress. She is known for her work in the English films '' The Gay Lord Quex'', ''Lady Audley's Secret'' and '' Hindle Wakes''. She had a successful ca ...
(1896–1976), Canadian actress
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Margaret Culkin Banning (1891–1982), American novelist
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Margaret Barbalet, Australian novelist and historian
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Margaret Barber (1869–1901), English Christian writer
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Margaret M. Barbour Stone (1841–1913), American writer
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Margaret Barker (1907–c. 2003), British artist
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Margaret Barnard (1898–1992), British painter and linocut maker
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Margaret Ayer Barnes (1886–1967), American dramatist
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Margaret Campbell Barnes (1891–1963), English writer
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Margaret Barr (1904–1991), Australian dance-drama choreographer
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Margaret Barrington (1896–1982), Irish writer and journalist
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Margaret Barry (1917–c. 1989), Irish musical artist
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Margaret Barton (born 1926), British actress
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Margaret Baskerville (1861–1930), Australian sculptor
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Margaret Baxtresser (1922–2005), American pianist
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Margaret Beale (1886–1969), British artist
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Margaret Beames
Margaret Beames (18 October 1935 – 9 February 2016) was an author of children's books who lived in Feilding, New Zealand. Her first book was ''The Greenstone Summer'', published in 1977. She had 42 books published, including one posthumously.
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(1935–2016), New Zealand children’s book author
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Margaret Bechard (born 1953), American writer
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Margaret Becker (born 1959), American singer
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Margaret Bell-Byars (born 1962), American musical artist
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Margaret Benn Walsh
Margaret, Lady Walsh or Margaret Benn born Margaret Fowke (13 July 1758 – 29 September 1836) was a British collector of Indian songs. Her uncle and de facto guardian, John Walsh, left his fortune to her first born son. She lived at Warfield P ...
(1758–1836), British collector of Indian songs
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Margaret Bennett (born 1946), British musician, broadcaster and writer
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Margaret Benson (1865–1916), British author and Egyptologist
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Margaret Bent
Margaret Bent CBE , (born Margaret Hilda Bassington; 23 December 1940) is an English musicologist who specialises in music of the late medieval and Renaissance eras. In particular, she has written extensively on the Old Hall Manuscript, Engli ...
(born 1940), English musicologist
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Margaret Berger (born 1985), Norwegian singer-songwriter
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Margaret Bert (1896–1971), American actress
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Margaret Bhatty
Margaret Ruth Bhatty (, 5 October 1930 – 20 July 2012) was an Indian schoolteacher, freelance journalist and writer of children's books and short stories for adults.
Biography Early life
Margaret Ruth Bhatty was born on 5 October 1930 to ...
(1930–2012), Indian writer
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Margaret Bicknell (c. 1695–1723), Scottish actress
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Margaret Biggs (born 1929), British writer
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Margaret Bingham
Margaret Bingham, Countess of Lucan (1740 – 27 February 1814)Ernest Radford, "Bingham, Margaret, Countess of Lucan (c. 1740–1814)", rev. V. Remington, ODNB, Oxford University Press, 200Retrieved 4 October 2014/ref> was an English painter, co ...
(1740–1814), English artist
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Margaret Moyes Black (1853–1935), Scottish novelist and biographer
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Margaret Blair Young, American novelist
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Margaret Blake-Alverson, American musician
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Margaret Blanche, Danish actress
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Margaret Bland (1898–1996), American playwright and poet
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Margaret Blundell (1907–1996), British artist
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Margaret Boden
Margaret Ann Boden (born 26 November 1936) is a British academic who is a Research Professor of Cognitive Science in the Department of Informatics at the University of Sussex, where her work embraces the fields of artificial intelligence, psyc ...
(1913–2001), Scottish artist
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Margaret Jones Bolsterli (born 1931), American writer
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Margaret Wander Bonanno (1950–2021), American writer
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Margaret Bonds (1913–1972), American composer and pianist
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Margaret Bonham, British writer
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Margaret Booth
Margaret Booth (January 16, 1898 – October 28, 2002) was an American film editor. In a career lasting seven decades, Booth was most associated with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM).
Born in Los Angeles, Margaret was the younger sister of actor E ...
(1898–2002), American film editor
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Margaret Boozer
Margaret A Boozer (born 1966) is an American ceramist and sculpture artist, best known for her clay and ceramic compositions, or landscapes, that focus on the individuality, history, and geology of the clay used as subject matters.
Education
Boo ...
, American ceramist and sculpture artist
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Margaret Bottome (1827–1906), American reformer, author and magazine editor
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Margaret Bourke-White
Margaret Bourke-White (; June 14, 1904 – August 27, 1971) was an American documentary photography, documentary photographer and photojournalist. She was known as an architectural and commercial photographer for the first half of her career, ...
(1904–1971), American photojournalist
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Margaret Bowman (1928–2018), American actor
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Margaret Breen (1907–1960), American actress
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Margaret Brennan
Margaret Brennan (born March 26, 1980) is an American journalist who is the current moderator of ''Face the Nation, Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan'' on CBS News, the network's chief foreign affairs correspondent, and a fill-in and substitu ...
(born 1980), American journalist
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Margaret Sutton Briscoe (1864–1941), American writer
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Margaret Brouwer (born 1940), American composer and composition teacher
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Margaret Brown
Margaret Brown (née Tobin; July 18, 1867 – October 26, 1932), posthumously known as the "Unsinkable Molly Brown", was an American socialite and philanthropist. She was a survivor of the RMS ''Titanic'', which sank in 1912, and she unsuccess ...
, American film director
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Margaret Oliver Brown (1912–1990), Scottish painter and illustrator
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Margaret Bruce Wells (1909–1998), British woodcutter
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Margaret Brundage (1900–1976), American illustrator and painter
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Margaret Bryant
Margaret Bryant (15 April 1870–14 February 1942) was an English writer, literary "devil", and contributor to the British Encyclopædia Britannica.
Life
Margaret Anne Bryant was born in Lincolnshire in 1871, the daughter of T. W. Bryant. She ...
(1870–1942), British writer
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Margaret Warriner Buck (1857–1929), American botanical and scientific artist
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Margaret Buechner (1922–1998), American composer
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Margaret Buffie (born 1945), Canadian young adult fiction writer
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Margaret Agnes Bunn
Margaret Agnes Bunn (26 October 1799 – 1883) was a British actress.
Early life
She was born Margaret Somerville in Lanark, Scotland in October 1799. Her father, John Somerville, was a biscuitmaker. The family lived in Marylebone. She att ...
(1799–c. 1883), British actress
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Margaret Burke Sheridan (1889–1958), Irish opera singer
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Margaret Burton (1924–1984), English actress
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Margaret Busby
Margaret Yvonne Busby, , Hon. FRSL (born 1944), also known as Nana Akua Ackon, is a Ghanaian-born publisher, editor, writer and broadcaster, resident in the UK. She was Britain's then youngest publisher as well as the first black female book p ...
, Ghanaian British publisher and writer
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Margaret Lesley Bush-Brown (1857–1944), American painter and etcher
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Margaret Butler (1883–1947), New Zealand sculptor
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Margaret Cabourn-Smith
Margaret Alice Cabourn-Smith (born 1975) is an English comedy actress and podcaster with appearances on '' Catastrophe'', ''The IT Crowd'', '' Psychoville'', ''Peep Show'', ''Fresh Meat'', ''Motherland'', ''Daddy Issues'' and '' Cheaters''.
H ...
, English comedy actress
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Margaret Calkin James (1895–1985), British artist
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Margaret Calvert (born 1936), British typographer and graphic designer
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Margaret Cameron (1867–1947), American writer and musician
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Margaret Campbell (1883–1939), American actress
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Margaret Canovan (1939–2018), English political theorist
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Margaret Carlson (born 1988), American journalist
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Margaret Carnegie (1910–2002), Australian writer, collector and patron of the arts
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Margaret Sarah Carpenter (1793–1872), English portrait painter
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Margaret Seymour Carpenter (1893–1987), American novelist
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Margaret Carr (writer) (1913–2008), Canadian columnist and food editor
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Margaret Carr (novelist) (born 1935), British novelist
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Margaret Carroux
Margaret Carroux (31 May 1912 – 22 July 1991) was a German translator who translated from English and French into German. Born in Berlin into an international family, she studied economy, English and French before working as a commercial cler ...
(1912–1991), German translator
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(1623–1673), English writer, poet, and playwright
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Margaret Cezair-Thompson (born 1956), Jamaican writer
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Margaret Chalmers, Scottish poet
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Margaret Chapman
Eileen Margaret Chapman ( Duxbury; 18 November 1940 – 28 July 2000) was an English illustrator and painter. Born in Darwen, Lancashire, her skill at painting was obvious from an early age, and she studied at Liverpool College of Art al ...
(1940–2000), English painter
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Margaret Cheer, American actress
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Margaret Chen (born 1951), Jamaican sculptor
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Margaret Chilton, British stained glass artist and instructor
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Margaret Cho
Margaret Moran Cho (born December 5, 1968) is an American stand-up comedian, actress and musician. In her Stand-up comedy, stand-up routines she critiques social and political problems, especially about race and sexuality. She starred in the Ame ...
(born 1968), American comedian and actress
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Margaret Christakos (born 1962), Canadian poet
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Margaret Christensen (1921–2009), Australian radio hostess and actress
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Margaret Christl, Canadian musical artist
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Margaret Chung (born 1976), Canadian actress
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Margaret Cilento (1923–2017), Australian artist
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Margaret Clancey (1897–1989), American film editor and actress
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Margaret Clark (born 1943), Australian author
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Margaret Goff Clark
Margaret Goff Clark (1913–2003) was an American author of children's books. She is best known for her book ''Freedom Crossing''.
Clark ''née'' Goff was born on March 7, 1913, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. She attended the State Teachers Colle ...
(1913–2003), American children’s book author
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Margaret Clarke (1881–1961), Irish portrait painter
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Margaret Clarkson (born 1941), English artist
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Margaret Cleaves (1848–1917), American physician, writer
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Margaret Clunie (born 1987), English actress
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Margaret Cockburn Conkling (1814–1890), American writer
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Margaret Coe (born 1941), American painter
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Margaret Cogswell (born 1947), American artist
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Margaret Colin (born 1958), American actress
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Margaret Wootten Collier (1869–1947), American author
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Margaret Cookhorn, English contrabassoonist
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Margaret Cooper (1877–1922), English music hall performer
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Margaret Cossaceanu (1899–1980), French sculptor
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Margaret Costa (1917–1999), British food writer and restaurateur
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Margaret Courtenay (1923–1996), Welsh actress
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Margaret Courtney-Clarke (born 1949), Namibian photographer
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Margaret Cousins
Margaret Elizabeth Cousins (''née'' Gillespie, also known as Gretta Cousins; 7 November 1878 – 11 March 1954) was an Irish-Indian educationist, suffragist and Theosophist, who established All India Women's Conference (AIWC) in 1927. She was ...
(1905–1996), American editor, journalist and writer
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Margaret Covey Chisholm (1909–1965), American painter
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Margaret Coxe, American writer and educator
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Margaret Craig (born 1966), American artist
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Margaret Craske (1892–1990), British ballet dancer, choreographer and teacher
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Margaret Craven (1901–1980), American author
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Margaret French Cresson (1889–1973), American sculptor
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Margaret Croker, English poet and novelist
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Margaret Crosland (1920–2017), English literary biographer and translator
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Margaret Cullen (c. 1767–1837), Scottish novelist
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Margaret Cunningham, Scottish memoirist and strong protestant
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Margaret Curran
Margaret Patricia Curran, Baroness Curran (born 24 November 1958), is a Scottish Labour Party politician. She served in the House of Commons as the member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow East from 2010 and 2015, and was Shadow Secretary of S ...
, Australian writer
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Margaret Dale (actress) (1876–1972), American stage and film actress
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Margaret Dale (dancer)
Margaret Dale (30 December 1922 – 28 January 2010) was a British dancer who later became a producer and Director of Dance for BBC television.
Early life and career
She was born as Margaret Elisabeth Bolam in Newcastle-upon-Tyne to John Howde ...
(1922–2010), British dancer
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Margaret Danner
Margaret Danner (1915–1984) (Margaret Esse Danner, Margaret Danner Cunningham) was an American poet, editor and cultural activist known for her poetic imagery and her celebration of African heritage and cultural forms.
Early life and Chicago y ...
, American poet
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Margaret Dare (1902–1976), Scottish composer and cellist
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Margaret Darrell (1891–1984), American film editor
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Margaret May Dashiell (1867–1958), American artist and writer
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Margaret Daum (1906–1977), American opera singer
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Margaret Miller Davidson (1823–1838), American poet
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Margaret Davies (c. 1700–1778/1785), Welsh poet and manuscript collector
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Margaret Thomson Davis (1926–2016), Scottish novelist
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Margaret Day Blake (1876–1971), American art collector and philanthropist
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Margaret Deland (1857–1945), American author
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Margaret Deneke, English pianist, musicologist, choirmaster and benefactor
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Margaret DePriest (born 1931), American actress
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Margaret Rebecca Dickinson (1821–1918), British botanical artist
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Margaret Isabel Dicksee (1858–1903), British painter
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Margaret Diesendorf (1912–1993), Australian poet, editor and translator
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Margaret Dillard, Native American artist and painter
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Margaret Dilloway, Japanese American author
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Margaret Dobson (1888–1981), American painter
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Margaret Stirling Dobson, Scottish printmaker
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Margaret Dodd, Australian artist and filmmaker
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Margaret Fernald Dole (1896–1970), American painter
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Margaret Doody (born 1939), Canadian author
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Margaret Dovaston (1884–1954), British painter
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Margaret Doyle (c. 1920–2002), Australian newsreader
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Margaret Drabble
Dame Margaret Drabble, Lady Holroyd, (born 5 June 1939) is an English biographer, novelist and short story writer.
Drabble's books include '' The Millstone'' (1965), which won the following year's John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize, and '' Je ...
(born 1939), English author
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Margaret Draper (1916–2011), American actress
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Margaret Dredge (1928–2001), Australian artist
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Margaret Webb Dreyer (1911–1976), American painter
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Margaret Drynan (1915–1999), Canadian musician and writer
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Margaret Duley (1894–1968), Canadian writer
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Margaret Dumont
Margaret Dumont (born Daisy Juliette Baker; October 20, 1882 – March 6, 1965) was an American stage and film actress. She is best remembered as the comic foil to the Marx Brothers in seven of their films; Groucho Marx called her "practically ...
(1882–1965), American actress
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Margaret Dunn, Irish musician
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Margaret Early
Margaret Early (December 25, 1919 – November 29, 2000) was an American film actress who was active in Hollywood during the 1930s and 1940s. She is best remembered for her endearing Southern charm.
Life and career
Born on Christmas Day 191 ...
(1919–2000), American actress
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Margaret Easley (born 1970), American actress and television writer
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Margaret Edson (born 1961), American playwright
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Margaret Eliot
Margaret Augusta Eliot (26 February 1914 – 27 February 2011) was an English music teacher and musician. She was a professor of oboe at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and her best-known student (from 1948) was George Martin; in 2011, j ...
(1914–2011), English music teacher and musician
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Margaret Elphinstone (born 1948), Scottish author
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Margaret Essex, English composer
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Margaret Evangeline, American artist
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Margaret Evans Price (1888–1973), American artist and toy designer
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Margaret Evans, Canadian journalist
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Margaret Winship Eytinge (1832–1916), American writer
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Margaret Fane (1887–c. 1962), Australian poet and novelist
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Margaret Farrand Thorp (1891–1970), American journalist
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Margaret Farrar (1897–1984), journalist and crossword puzzle editor
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Margaret Feinberg
Margaret Feinberg is an author and public speaker based in Salt Lake City, Utah. She creates books, Bible studies, and video curriculum aimed at people of faith.
Biography
Feinberg's father was a Jewish convert to Christianity. She spent the fir ...
, American writer
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Margaret Hart Ferraro
Margaret Hart Ferraro (September 28, 1913 – January 30, 2000), better known as Margie Hart, was a New York City stripteaser, in American burlesque theatre.
Biography
Hart was born Margaret Bridget Bryan on September 28, 1913, in Edgerton, ...
(1913–2000), American burlesque performer
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Margaret Fiedler McGinnis, American musician
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Margaret Field (1922–2011), American actress
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Margaret Cross Primrose Findlay (1902–1968), British artist
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Margaret Fingerhut (born 1955), British classical pianist
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Margaret Fink
Margaret Fink (born Margaret Elliott on 3 March 1933) is an Australian film producer, noted for her important role in the revival of Australian cinema in the early 1970s.
She was educated at Sydney Girls' High School, East Sydney Technical Col ...
(born 1933), Australian film producer
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Margaret Firth (1898–1991), English painter
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Margaret Fishback (1900–1985), American poet
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Margaret Fisher (born 1948), American performance and media artist
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Margaret Fisher Prout (1875–1963), British painter
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Margaret Fitchett (1875–1956), New Zealand artist
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Margaret Fitton (1902–1988), British artist
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Margaret Fitts (1923–2011), American screenwriter
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Margaret Fitzhugh Browne
Margaret Fitzhugh Browne (June 7, 1884 – January 11, 1972) was an American painter of portraits, indoor genre scenes, and still lifes.
Family
Browne was the second child of Cordelia Brooks Browne and James Maynadier Browne. She had three si ...
(1884–1972), American artist
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Margaret Flockton (1861–1953), Anglo-Australian artist and botanical illustrator
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Margaret Anne Florence (born 1978), American actress, singer and model
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Margaret Foley, 19th-century American sculptor, carver and miniature painter
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Margaret Foote Hawley (1880–1963), American painter
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Margaret Ford-Taylor, American actress
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Margaret Formby
Margaret Clark Formby (July 12, 1929 – April 10, 2003) was an American educator best known as the founder of the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame
The National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame is located in Fort Worth, Texas, US. E ...
(1929–2003), American journalist
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Margaret Forster
Margaret Forster (25 May 1938 – 8 February 2016) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, historian and critic, best known for the 1965 novel ''Georgy Girl'', made into a successful film of the same name, which inspired a hit song by T ...
(1938–2016), British author
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Margaret Taylor Fox (1857–1942), American painter, illustrator and etcher
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Margaret Frame (1903–1985), Canadian painter
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Margaret Frankel (1902–1997), New Zealand artist
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Margaret Frazer (1946–2013), American novelist
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Margaret French (1906–1998), American artist
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Margaret Fuller
Sarah Margaret Fuller (May 23, 1810 – July 19, 1850), sometimes referred to as Margaret Fuller Ossoli, was an American journalist, editor, critic, translator, and women's rights advocate associated with the American transcendentalism movemen ...
(1810–1850), American critic
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Margaret Fulton (1924–2019), Australian food writer
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Margaret Gale (1930–2025), British operatic soprano
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Margaret Garcia (born 1951), Mexican-American visual artist
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Margaret Gardiner (1904–2005), British patron of artists
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Margaret Garland, British artist
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Margaret Garrett
Margaret Garrett (born 1965), is an American artist and dancer. Her artistic practice includes painting, printmaking, collage, and video work. She lives and maintains a studio in Shelter Island, New York with her husband, the composer and pianist ...
(born 1965), American artist and dancer
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Margaret Garwood (1927–2015), American composer
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Margaret C. Gates, American painter
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Margaret Geddes (writer) (born 1949), an Australian writer, journalist and historian
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Margaret Geddes (artist) (1914–1998), a British artist
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Margaret Gere (1878–1965), British artist
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Margaret Gibson (actress) (1894–1964), American actress
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Margaret Gibson (writer) (1948–2006), Canadian novelist and short story writer
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Margaret Gibson (poet) (born 1944), American poet
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Margaret Gilbert (born 1942), British philosopher
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Margaret Giles (1868–1949), British painter, sculptor and medalist
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Margaret Gillies (1803–1887), Scottish painter
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Margaret Girvin Gillin (1833–1915), Canadian-born American painter
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Margaret Gilmore (born 1956), British journalist, broadcaster, writer and analyst
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Margaret Glaspy (born 1989), American singer-songwriter
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Margaret L. Goldsmith, American novelist
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Margaret Gordon (illustrator) (1939–1989), British illustrator
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Margaret Gordon (singer) (1880–1962), Welsh singer
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Margaret Gove Camfferman (1881–1964), American painter
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Margaret Nowell Graham (1867–1942), American artist
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Margaret Graves (1901–1962), British writer and journalist
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Margaret Green (1925–2003), British painter
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Margaret Greville
Dame Margaret Helen Greville, ( Anderson; 20 December 1863 – 15 September 1942), was a British society hostess and philanthropist. She was the wife of the Hon. Ronald Greville (1864–1908).
Family background
Born Margaret Helen Anderson, s ...
(1863–1942), British socialite and philanthropist
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Margaret Ross Griffel
Margaret Ross Griffel (born 9 July 1943) is an American musicologist and author.
Biography
Griffel graduated from High School of Music & Art, in Manhattan, New York in 1961. She earned a B.A. from Barnard College in 1965, M.A. in European and Am ...
(born 1943), American musicologist and author
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Margaret Christian Grigor (1912–1981), American sculptor and medalist
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Margaret Gurney, Australian artist
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Margaret Gwenver (1926–2010), American stage and television actress
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Margaret Bernadine Hall (1863–1910), English painter
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Margaret Halsey (1910–1997), American writer
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Margaret Halstan (1879–1967), British actress
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Margaret Hamerik (1867–1942), Danish musician
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Margaret Hamilton (publisher) (1941–2022), Australian children’s literature publisher
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Margaret Hamilton (actress)
Margaret Brainard Hamilton (December 9, 1902 – May 16, 1985) was an American actress, vaudevillian and educator, whose fifty-year career in entertainment spanned theater, film, radio and television. She often played villains and was best kno ...
(1902–1985), American film actress
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Margaret Harker
Margaret Florence Harker (17 January 1920 – 16 February 2013), was a British photographer and historian of photography. She was the UK's first woman professor of photography, founded the country's first photography degree course, and was the f ...
(1920–2013), British photographer and historian of photography
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Margaret Harkness (1854–1923), English radical journalist and writer
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Margaret Rosezarian Harris (1943–2000), American musician, conductor, composer and educator
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Margaret Harrison (1899–1995), British violinist
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Margaret Harshaw (1909–1997), American opera singer
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Margaret Harvey, Australian actress
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Margaret Hasse, American poet and writer
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Margaret Hayes
Margaret Hayes (born Florette Regina Ottenheimer; December 5, 1913 – January 26, 1977) was an American film, stage, and television actress.
Early years
A native of Baltimore, Maryland, Hayes was one of four children born to Clara Bussey a ...
(1913–1977), American actress
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Margaret G. Hays (1874–1925), American writer
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Margaret Hazzard
Margaret Hazzard (Ivy Margaret Hazzard) 1910 – 19 January 1987 was an Australian author born in Hertfordshire, England.
Hazzard immigrated to Melbourne, Australia in 1960 and established a career as a freelance writer, publishing in The Sydney ...
, Australian writer
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Margaret H'Doubler (1889–1982), American dance instructor
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Margaret Healy (born 1969), Irish singer-songwriter
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Margaret Henderson Floyd
Margaret Henderson Floyd (1932 – 18 October 1997) was Professor of architectural history, Architectural History at Tufts University. She was an expert on Boston architecture. Her writing includes several titles on the work of late 19th-centur ...
(1932–1997), American art historian
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Margaret Hendrie
Margaret Hendrie (née Griffith, 1935–1990) was a writer from the Oceanian nation of Nauru. Hendrie wrote the Nauruan language lyrics for "Nauru Bwiema", the country's national anthem. In preparation for the country's independence ceremonies c ...
(1935–1990), Nauruan writer
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Margaret Herrera Chávez, American painter and printmaker
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Margaret A. Hickey (1902–1994), American journalist
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Margaret Hicks (1923–2006), American painter
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Margaret Higonnet (born 1941), American author and historian
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Margaret Hill (1929–1975), British ballerina
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Margaret Hillert
Margaret Hillert (January 22, 1920 – October 11, 2014) was an American author, poet and educator. Hillert, a lifelong resident of the state of Michigan, was known for her children's literature, having written over eighty books for beginning re ...
(1920–2014), American writer
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Margaret Hillis (1921–1998), American conductor
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Margaret Hine, British studio potter
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Margaret Hislop (1894–1972), Scottish painter
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Margaret Hoard, American painter
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Margaret Hoberg Turrell
Margaret B. Hoberg Turrell (1890 – 1948) was an American composer and organist who published her music under the name Margaret Hoberg. She was also a philanthropist who co-founded the Turrell Fund with her husband.
Early life
Hoberg was born i ...
, American composer
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Margaret Hodges (1911–2005), American writer
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Margaret Holford
Margaret Holford (1778–1852) (also published as Margaret Hodson) was an English poet and translator. Her most successful work was a historical verse romance, ''Wallace, or, The Fight of Falkirk'' (1809).
Life
Her mother, also Margaret Holfo ...
(1778–1852), English poet and translator
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Margaret Holford (the elder) (1757–1834), English novelist, playwright and poet
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(born 1942), Canadian writer
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Margaret Brenda Holloway, New Zealand watercolour artist
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Margaret Lindsay Holton (born 1955), Canadian artist
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Margaret Hooks (1945–2021), Irish-born author and journalist
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Margaret Horder (1903–1978), Australian artist and book illustrator
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Margaret Bell Houston (c. 1877–1966), American writer and suffragist
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Margaret Hsing (1944–c. 2009), Chinese actress from Hong Kong
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Margaret Hubble (1914–2006), British radio broadcaster
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Margaret Hughes
Margaret Hughes (29 May 1630 – 1 October 1719), also Peg Hughes or Margaret Hewes, was an English actress who is often credited as the first professional actress on the English stage, as a result of her appearance on 8 December 1660.The nat ...
(1630–1719), British actress
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Margaret Hunt Brisbane (1858–1925), American poet
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Margaret Illington (1879–1934), American actress
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Margaret Irving
Margaret Irving (January 18, 1898 – March 5, 1988) was an American stage and film actress.
Biography
Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1898, Irving is best remembered today for her roles as Aunt Gus in the 1950s sitcom '' The People's Choic ...
(1898–1950), American actress
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Margaret Irwin (1889–1967), English historical novelist
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Margaret Ismay, British opera singer
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Margaret Jacobs, Native American artist
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Margaret Thomson Janvier, American poet
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Margaret Jenkins (born 1942), American choreographer
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Margaret Jepson (1907–2003), English author
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Margaret Alison Johansen (1896–1959), American novelist
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Margaret Johansen (1923–2013), Norwegian novelist
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Margaret John
Margaret John (14 December 1926 – 2 February 2011) was a Welsh, BAFTA award-winning actress, known for her role as Doris O'Neill in ''Gavin & Stacey''.
Early life
Born in Swansea, as a child she wanted to be a nurse or vet, but she could n ...
(1926–2011), Welsh actress
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Margaret Johnson (artist), Australian portrait artist
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Margaret Johnson (pianist), American jazz musician
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Margaret Johnson (vocalist), American jazz musician
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Margaret Johnston (1914–2002), Australian actress
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Margaret Jones (journalist) (1923–2006), Australian journalist
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Margaret Jones (writer) (1842–1902), Welsh travel writer
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Margaret Jordan Patterson
Margaret Jordan Patterson (1867–1950) was an American woodblock printmaker and painter.
Early life and education
The daughter of a Maine sea captain, Patterson was born on board her father's ship near Surabaya, Java. She then grew up in Bost ...
, American painter
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Margaret Joslin (1883–1956), American actress
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Margaret Jourdain (1876–1951), English writer
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Margaret Jowett, British children’s writer
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Margaret Atwood Judson (1899–1991), American historian and author
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Margaret Judson, American actress
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Margaret Jull Costa
Margaret Elisabeth Jull Costa OBE, OIH (born 2 May 1949) is a British translator of Portuguese- and Spanish-language fiction and poetry, including the works of Nobel Prize winner José Saramago, ith which ..., Eça de Queiroz">ith which .. ...
(born 1949), British translator
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Margaret Junkin Preston (1820–1897), American poet
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Margaret Juntwait (1957–2015), American radio announcer
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Margaret Kahn, American writer and linguist
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Margaret Brassler Kane (1909–2006), American sculptor
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Margaret Keane
Margaret D. H. Keane (born Peggy Doris Hawkins), September 15, 1927 – June 26, 2022) was an American artist known for her paintings of subjects with big eyes. She mainly painted women, children, or animals in oil or mixed media. The work ach ...
(1927–2022), American painter
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Margaret Kelly (1910–2004), Irish dancer
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Margaret Kemp-Welch (1874–1968), British artist
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Margaret Stickney Kendall, American painter and sculptor
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Margaret Kennedy (1896–1967), English novelist and playwright
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Margaret Kerry
Margaret Kerry (born Peggy Lynch; May 11, 1929) is an American screen actress, dancer, voice artist, camera double, radio producer, director and host and media personality, best known for her work as a model for Walt Disney Pictures, where she se ...
(born 1929), American actress and radio host
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Margaret Keys, Irish classical soprano
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Margaret Kiddle (1914–1958), Australian writer and historian
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Margaret Kilgallen
Margaret Leisha Kilgallen (October 28, 1967 – June 26, 2001) was a San Francisco Bay Area artist who combined graffiti art, painting, and installation art. Though a contemporary artist, her work showed a strong influence from folk art. She was ...
(1967–2001), American artist
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Margaret Killjoy
Margaret Killjoy is an American author, musician, and podcast host. She is best known for her speculative fiction in the fantasy and folk horror genres, in particular for her two-book Danielle Cain series. Killjoy is involved in several musical p ...
(born 1982), American author and musician
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Margaret King, Anglo-Irish writer
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Margaret Williamson King
Margaret Williamson King (1861–1949) was a Scottish author born in Ardrossan Road, Saltcoats, Ayrshire Scotland. She used various pen names, including Veronica King and Madge King, and with her husband, William A. Rivers.
Early life
Margare ...
, Scottish author
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Margaret Kitchin (1914–2008), Swiss classical pianist
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Margaret Klenck (born 1953), American actress
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Margaret Lacey (1911–1988), British actress
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Margaret Ladd (born 1945), American actress
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Margaret Landis (1891–1981), American actress
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Margaret Landon (1903–1993), American writer
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Margaret Lane (1907–1994), British journalist, biographer and novelist
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Margaret Ruthven Lang (1867–1972), American composer
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Margaret Langrick (born 1971), Canadian writer and retired actress
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Margaret Lanzetta (born 1957), American artist
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Margaret Larkin
Margaret Larkin (July 7, 1899 – May 7, 1967) was an American writer, poet, singer-songwriter, researcher, journalist and union activist.
She wrote ''The Six Days of Yad Mordechai'' on a kibbutz in Israel and its stand against the Egyptian Army i ...
(1899–1967), American writer
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Margaret Larson (born 1958), American broadcast journalist
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Margaret Laurence (actress) (born 1950), Australian actress
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Margaret Laurence
Jean Margaret Laurence (née Wemyss; July 18, 1926 – January 5, 1987) was a Canadian novelist and short story writer, and is one of the major figures in Canadian literature. She was also a founder of the Writers' Trust of Canada, a non-pr ...
(1926–1987), Canadian novelist
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Margaret Moffett Law (1871–1956), American artist
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Margaret Lawlor-Bartlett (born 1929), New Zealand artist
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Margaret Lawrence (1889–1929), American actress
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Margaret Lazarus (born 1949), American film producer
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Margaret Leahy (1902–1967), English actress
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Margaret Lee (1943–2024), British actress
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Margaret Lee (born 1970), Singaporean actress
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Margaret Lefranc (1907–1998), American painter, illustrator and editor
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Margaret Leigh (1894–1973), English writer
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Margaret Carver Leighton (1896–1987), American children’s author
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Margaret Leighton (1922–1976), English actress
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Margaret Leiteritz (1907–1976), German painter
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Margaret Lemon (born c. 1614), English artist’s model
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Margaret Leng Tan, Singaporean musical artist
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Margaret Leroy, British novelist
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Margaret Lewis (1939–2019), American singer-songwriter
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Margaret Lim (1947–2011), Malaysian writer
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Margaret Lindsay
Margaret Lindsay (born Margaret Kies; September 19, 1910 – May 9, 1981) was an American film actress. Her time as a Warner Bros. contract player during the 1930s was particularly productive. She was noted for her supporting work in successf ...
(1910–1981), American actress
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Margaret H. Lippert (born 1942), American writer
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Margaret Lloyd (dance critic) (1887–1960), American dance critic
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Margaret Lloyd (soprano) (born 1973), American operatic soprano
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Margaret Lockwood
Margaret Mary Day Lockwood, CBE (15 September 1916 – 15 July 1990), was a British actress. One of Britain's most popular film stars of the 1930s and 1940s, her film appearances included ''The Lady Vanishes'' (1938), '' Night Train to Munich ...
(1916–1990), British actress
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Margaret Loomis (1893–1969), American film actress
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Margaret Lowengrund, American artist
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Margaret Lowrie, American journalist
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Margaret Lyons (1923–2019), Canadian public broadcasting executive
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Margaret Macadam (1902–1991), British illustrator
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Margaret MacArthur (1935–2006), American musician
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Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh
Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh (5 November 1864 – 7 January 1933) was a British artist who worked in Scotland, and whose design work became one of the defining features of the Glasgow Style during the 1890s to 1900s.
Biography
Born Margaret M ...
(1864–1933), British artist
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Margaret Mackay (1802–1887), Scottish writer
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Margaret Mackie Morrison (1897–1973), British novelist
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Margaret Maclay Bogardus, American miniature painter
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Margaret Macnamara, British playwright
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Margaret Campbell Macpherson, Canadian painter
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Margaret MacPherson (1895–1974), New Zealand journalist, editor and writer
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Margaret Maddocks (1906–1993), British writer
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Margaret Mahy
Margaret Mahy (21 March 1936 – 23 July 2012) was a New Zealand author of children's and young adult books. Many of her story plots have strong supernatural elements but her writing concentrates on the themes of human relationships and growi ...
(1936–2012), New Zealand children’s writer
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Margaret Malandruccolo
Margaret Malandruccolo is a Canadian photographer and music video director primarily living in Los Angeles who specializes in portraiture, album photography, and fashion photography. She has directed over a hundred music videos and has won two Jun ...
, Canadian photographer and music video director
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Margaret Malcolm
Margaret Lilian Malcolm ( Graham, 17 January 1900 – 11 December 1980) was a British writer of over 100 romance novels published by Mills & Boon from 1940 to 1981.
Bibliography
* ''Love Without Wings'' (1940) a.k.a. ''Surgeon's Wife''
* ''L ...
(1900–1980), British writer
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Margaret Mann
Margaret Mann (4 April 1868 – 4 February 1941, in Los Angeles, California), was a Scottish-American actress.
Early years
Mann was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, one of 10 children in her family. The family moved to South Africa when she was 12 ...
(1868–1941), Scottish-American actress
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Margaret Manning (died 1984), American journalist
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Margaret Hartman Markoe Bache (1770–1836), American printer and editor
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Margaret Markov
Margaret Mary Markov (born November 22, 1948) is an American retired actress. She had a supporting role in the romantic drama ''The Sterile Cuckoo'' (1969) with Liza Minnelli and co-starred in ''There Is No 13'' (1974), as well as appearing in ot ...
(born 1948), American actress
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Margaret Maron (1938–2021), American crime fiction writer
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Margaret Marquis
Margaret Alice Marquis (August 19, 1919 – January 19, 1993) was a Canadian-American film actress.
Marquis was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leon Marquis.
Personal life
On November 1, 1937, Marquis married Universal Studios publicist David c. ...
(1919–1993), American actress
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Margaret Marshall Saunders (1861–1947), Canadian author
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Margaret Anne Marshall (born 1949), Scottish soprano
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Margaret Martyr (c. 1762–1807), British singer and actress
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Margaret Mascarenhas (died 2019), American novelist and poet
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Margaret Mason (1940–1999), American actress
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Margaret Matzenauer (1881–1963), American opera singer
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Margaret Maxwell Inglis (1774–1843), Scottish poet
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Margaret Mayo (novelist) (born 1936), British author of romance novels
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Margaret Mayo (playwright)
Margaret Mayo, born Lillian Elizabeth Slatten, was an American actress, playwright, and screenwriter.
Life and career
She was raised on a farm near Brownsville, White County, Illinois, Brownsville, Illinois. Later, she was educated at the Girl� ...
(1882–1951), American playwright, actress and early screenwriter
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Margaret Mayo (children's author) (born 1935), British writer, mostly of children’s books
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Margaret Mazzantini (born 1961), Italian-Irish author
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Margaret Hill McCarter (1860–1938), American novelist
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Margaret McCartney, general practitioner, writer and broadcaster
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Margaret McClure Stitt
Margaret Lorna McClure Stitt (September 10, 1886 – December 10, 1979) was an American composer, lecturer, and playwright whose compositions were performed at the White House in 1936.
Life and career
Margaret McClure was born in Rarden, Ohio ...
(1886–1979), American dramatist
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Margaret McConnell Holt, American artist
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Margaret McDonald Bottome
Margaret Bottome ( McDonald; December 29, 1827 – November 14, 1906), also known as the author Margaret McDonald Bottome, was an American reformer, organizational founder, and author. She was engaged in religious work in Brooklyn, and for more th ...
(1827–1906), American reformer, organizational founder, author
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Margaret McDonald (born 1988), American voice actress
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Margaret Dixon McDougall (1828–1899), Irish-born writer
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Margaret McWade
Margaret McWade (born Margaret May Fish; September 3, 1871 – April 1, 1956) was an American stage and film actress. She began her career in vaudeville in the early 1890s. Her most memorable role was as one of the Pixilated Sisters, a comedic ...
(1871–1956), American actress
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Margaret Medlyn (born 1955), New Zealand soprano
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Margaret Mee (1909–1988), British botanical artist
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M. R. D. Meek (1918–2009), Scottish author
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Margaret Meen (1751–1834), British painter
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Margaret Mellis (1914–2009), British artist
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Margaret Ménégoz (1941–2024), French film producer
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Margaret Manton Merrill, British-American journalist, writer, translator, elocutionist
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Margaret Michaelis-Sachs (1902–1985), Australian photographer
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Margaret Michaels (born 1952), American actress
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Margaret Millar
Margaret Ellis Millar (née Sturm; February 5, 1915 – March 26, 1994) was a Canadian-American mystery and suspense writer.
Born in Berlin, Ontario (the city would change its name to Kitchener in 1916), she was educated at the Kitchener-Wate ...
(1915–1994), American-Canadian writer
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Margaret Miller Brown (1903–1970), Canadian pianist and musical educator
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Margaret Mills, British stage actress
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Margaret Olive Milne-Redhead (1904-1997), British artist and botanical illustrator
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Margaret Milne (1917–2005), New Zealand potter
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Margaret Minifie (1734–1803), British writer
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Margaret Mitchell (photographer), Scottish photographer
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Margaret Mitchell
Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (November 8, 1900 – August 16, 1949) was an American novelist and journalist. Mitchell wrote only one novel that was published during her lifetime, the American Civil War-era novel ''Gone With the Wind (novel), Gone ...
(1900–1949), American author
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Margaret Modlin (1927–1998), American painter
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Margaret Moncrieff (1921–2008), Scottish cellist and author
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Margaret Prescott Montague (1878–1955), American novelist
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Margaret Moore (novelist) (born 1956), Canadian author
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Margaret Morris (actress) (1898–1968), American actress
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Margaret Morris (dancer) (1891–1980), British dancer, choreographer, artist and teacher
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Margaret Morrison, American fine art painter and professor
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Margaret Morton (1948–2020), American photographer
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Margaret Moscheles, British painter
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Margaret Moser
Margaret Moser (May 16, 1954 – August 25, 2017), or Margaret Moser Malone, was an American journalist, music enthusiast, critic and historian, groupie, and backup singer. She was best known for her work as the director of the Austin Music Awa ...
(1954–2017), American music journalist
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Margaret Moth (1951–2010), New Zealand photojournalist
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Margaret Mulvihill (born 1954), Irish writer
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Margaret Murphy (born 1959), British crime writer
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Margaret "Ma" Murray (1888–1982), Canadian journalist and newspaper editor
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Margaret Nagle
Margaret Nagle is a screenwriter, producer, and activist. She has been nominated for three Emmy Awards and won three Writers Guild of America Awards.
Her first script, HBO's ''Warm Springs (film), Warm Springs'' received 16 Emmy nominations an ...
(born 1961), American film producer
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Margaret Nasmyth (1791–1869), Scottish painter
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Margaret Nichols (1930–2012), American animator and television director
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Margaret Nielsen (1933–2023), New Zealand pianist and music teacher
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Margaret Nisbett (1929–2023), Australian singer
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Margaret Graeme Niven
Margaret Graeme Niven (1906–1997) was a British painter of landscapes, portraits and flowers.
Biography
Niven was born in Marlow in Buckinghamshire. Her father was the artist William Niven and she attended the Winchester School of Art, the H ...
(1906–1997), British artist
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Margaret Noble (born 1972), American conceptual artist
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Margaret Nolan
Margaret Ann Nolan (29 October 1943 – 5 October 2020) was an English actress, visual artist and glamour model. She appeared in '' Goldfinger'', '' A Hard Day's Night'' and six '' Carry On'' films, and also regularly appeared on screen from t ...
(1943–2020), English model, actress and artist
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Margaret Noodin, American poet
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Margaret Ó hÓgartaigh (1967–2014), Irish author
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Margaret Obank, British publisher
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Margaret O'Brien
Angela Maxine O'Brien (born January 15, 1937), known professionally as Margaret O'Brien, is an American actress. Beginning a career in feature films for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer at age four, O'Brien became a child star and received a Juvenile Acade ...
(born 1937), American film, television and stage actress
* Margaret Ogden (born 1952), American fantasy author best known by the pen name
Robin Hobb
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Margaret Ogola (1958–2011), Kenyan author
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Margaret Oliphant (1828–1897), Scottish author
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Margaret Olley
Margaret Hannah Olley (24 June 192326 July 2011) was an Australian painter. She held over ninety solo exhibitions during her lifetime.
Early life
Margaret Olley was born in Lismore, New South Wales. She was the eldest of three children of J ...
(1923–2011), Australian artist
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Margaret Oppen (1890–1975), Australian artist
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Margaret Ortega (born 1993), Hong Kong singer
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Margaret Osborne, English actress
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Margaret Cushing Osgood, American writer and poet
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Margaret Packham Hargrave (born 1941), American poet and writer
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Margaret Paice (1920–2016), Australian children’s writer and illustrator
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Margaret Paraskos, English-born artist
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Margaret Pardee
Margaret Pardee Butterly (May 10, 1920 – January 26, 2016) was an American violinist and violin teacher.
Life and career
Pardee was born in 1920 and grew up in Valdosta, Georgia. She graduated from the Juilliard School where she studied with ...
(1920–2016), American violinist
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Margaret Pargeter (1925–2023), 20th century romance novelist
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Margaret Eleanor Parker
Margaret Eleanor Parker (1827–1896) was a British social activist, social reformer, and travel writer who was involved in the temperance movement. She was a founding member of the British Women's Temperance Association (BWTA) in 1876, and serv ...
(1827–1896), American social activist, social reformer, travel writer
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Margaret Colby Getchell Parsons (1891–1970), American writer
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Margaret Parton, American journalist
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Margaret Patrick, American musician
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Margaret Agnes Paul (1829–1905), Scottish novelist
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Margaret Bucknell Pecorini, American painter
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Margaret Pedler
Margaret Pedler (1877 – 28 December 1948) was a British novelist, who wrote popular works of romance novel, romantic fiction.
Biography
Initially Pedler studied piano and singing at the Royal Academy of Music, and published several songs for ...
(1877–1948), British novelist
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Margaret Bloodgood Peeke (1838–1908), American traveler, lecturer, author
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Margaret Pellegrini
Margaret Pellegrini (' Williams; September 23, 1923 – August 7, 2013) was an American actress, vaudeville performer and dancer, best known for playing one of the Munchkins from the 1939 film '' The Wizard of Oz.'' Until her death in 2013, she ...
(1923–2013), American actress, vaudeville performer and dancer
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Margaret Pennyman (bap. 1685–1733), English poet
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Margaret Peterson Haddix
Margaret Peterson Haddix (born April 9, 1964) is an American writer known best for the two children's series, Shadow Children (series), ''Shadow Children'' (1998–2006) and The Missing (novel series), ''The Missing'' (2008–2015). She also wro ...
(born 1964), American writer
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Margaret Peterson (artist) (1902–1997), American artist
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Margaret Peterson (1883–1933), English novelist
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Margaret Philbrick (1914–1999), American artist
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Margaret Phillips (1923–1984), Welsh-born actress
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Margaret Pieroni
Margaret Pieroni (born 1936) is a Western Australian botanical artist, photographer and botanist
Botany, also called plant science, is the branch of natural science and biology studying plants, especially Plant anatomy, their anatomy, Pl ...
, Western Australian botanical illustrator and artist
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Margaret Pilkington (1891–1974), British printmaker
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Margaret Pokiak-Fenton (1936–2021), Inuvialuk author
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Margaret Pomeranz
Margaret Pomeranz (born Margeret Anne Jones-Owen, 15 July 1944) is an Australian film critic, writer, producer, and television personality.
Early life
Pomeranz was born Margeret Anne Jones-Owen on 15 July 1944 in Waverley, a suburb of Sydney ...
(born 1944), Australian film critic
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Margaret Pospiech, Polish writer and filmmaker
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Margaret Potter (1926–1998), British writer
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Margaret Horton Potter
Margaret Horton Potter (pseudonym, Robert Dolly Williams; May 20, 1881 – December 22, 1911) was an American novelist, specializing in historical fiction. Her first novel, ''A Social Lion'', was published while she was still a teenager.
Early l ...
(1881–1911), American novelist
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Margaret Powell (1907–1984), English writer
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Margaret Preece, British operatic soprano
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Margaret Press (born 1947), American novelist
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Margaret Preston (1875–1963), Australian artist
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Margaret Price (1941–2011), Welsh operatic soprano
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Margaret Purcell (1914–1991), American composer
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Margaret Quainoo (1941–2006), Ghanaian actress
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Margaret Qualley (born 1994), American actress
* Margaret Quimby (1904–1965), American actress
* Margaret Raia (1929–2003), American actress
* Margaret Randall (born 1936), American writer
* Margaret Rawlings (1906–1996), English actress
* Margaret Read MacDonald (born 1940), American writer
* Margaret Read (musician), Margaret Read (1905–1996), musical artist
* Margaret Renkl, American writer
* Margaret Rhee, American poet
* Margaret Foster Richardson (1881–1945), American painter
* Margaret Riley (1965–2024), American film and television producer
* Margaret Rinkovsky (born 1950), American landscape painter
* Margaret Rizza (born 1929), English composer
* Margaret Roach (1921–1964), American actress
* Margaret Roc (born 1945), Australian children’s writer
* Margaret Agnes Rope (1882–1953), British stained glass artist
* Margaret Roper (1505–1544), English writer, translator
* Margaret Roscoe, English botanical illustrator and author
* Margaret Rose (lyricist), Margaret Rose (1888–1958), English lyricist
* Margaret Rowlett, American writer and fabric designer
* Margaret Rutherford (1892–1972), British actress of the stage and screen
* Margaret Ryan (1944–2019), Scottish children’s writer
* Margaret Ryder, British artist
* Margaret Salmon, American film director
* Margaret Sandbach (1812–1852), English poet and novelist
* Margaret Vardell Sandresky (born 1921), American composer
* Margaret Sangster (radio writer), Margaret Sangster (1894–1981), American writer
* Margaret Elizabeth Sangster (1838–1912), American author, poet, editor
* Margaret Santry (died 1975), American journalist and radio host
* Margaret Sarfo (1957–2014), Ghanaian author and journalist
* Margaret Holland Sargent (born 1927), American artist
* Margaret Saunders, British actress
* Margaret Scobie (born 1948), Australian indigenous Aboriginal painter
* Margaret Scott (Australian author) (1934–2005), Australian poet
* Margaret Scott (dancer) (1922–2019), Australian ballerina
* Margaret Scott (New Zealand author) (1928–2014), New Zealand author and Katherine Mansfield scholar
* Margaret Scoville (1944–c. 1978), American composer of chamber, electronic and piano music
* Margaret Ann Scruggs Carruth, 20th-century Texan artist
* Margaret Scudamore (1881–1958), British theatre and film actress
* Margaret Seddon (1872–1968), American actress
* Margaret Seguier (1795–1870), British miniature painter
* Margaret Senior (1917–1995), Australian wildlife illustrator
* Margaret Severin-Hansen, American ballerina
* Margaret Severn (1901–1997), American dancer
* Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, American novelist
* Margaret Shelby (1900–1939), American actress
* Margaret Shelton (artist), Margaret Shelton (1915–1984), Canadian artist
* Margaret Sheridan (actress) (1926–1982), American actress
* Margaret Sheridan (writer) (1912–1980), British writer
* Margaret Sherratt Keys (1856-1942), British-born American artist, china painter, store proprietor
* Margaret Shulock (1949–2021), American cartoonist
* Margaret Simons, Australian academic, journalist and author
* Margaret Singana (1938–2000), South African musician
* Margaret Sixel, Australian and South African film editor
* Margaret Skjelbred (born 1949), Norwegian writer
* Margaret Smith (comedian), American comedian and actress
* Margaret Smith (poet), American poet
* Margaret Bayard Smith (1778–1844), American writer
* Margaret Spicer-Simson (1874–1968), American artist
* Margaret St. Clair (1911–1995), American speculative fiction writer
* Margaret Stallard (born 1929), British actress
* Margaret Stanley-Wrench (1916–1974), English poet and novelist
* Margaret Starbird (born 1942), American writer
* Margaret Stevenson, Australian writer
* Margaret Stoddart (1865–1934), New Zealand artist
* Margaret Stohl, American author
* Margaret Stokes (1832–1900), Irish antiquarian
* Margaret Stones (1920–2018), Australian botanical illustrator
* Margaret Storey (children's writer), Margaret Storey (1926–2022), British writer
* Margaret Stratton, American photographer and video artist
* Margaret Sullavan (1909–1960), American actress
* Margaret Frances Sullivan (1847–1903), Irish-American writer, journalist, editor
* Margaret Sullivan (journalist), Margaret Sullivan, American media columnist
* Margaret Sutermeister (1875–1950), American photographer
* Margaret Sutherland (1897–1984), Australian composer
* Margaret Sutton (1903–2001), American writer
* Margaret Jane Mussey Sweat (1823–1908), American poet
* Margaret Sweatman (born 1953), Canadian writer
* Margaret Tafoya (1904–2001), Native American potter
* Margaret Tait (1918–1999), Scottish filmmaker and poet
* Margaret Talbot, American essayist and non-fiction writer
* Margaret Tallichet (1914–1991), American actress
* Margaret Tarrant (1888–1959), English painter
* Margaret Taylor-Burroughs (1915–2010), American writer, artist and educator
* Margaret Thomas (painter) (1916–2016), British painter
* Margaret Thomas (hymnwriter), Welsh hymnwriter
* Margaret Thomas (1842–1929), Australian writer, painter and sculptor
* Margaret Thomson (1910–2005), Australian-born documentary filmmaker
* Margaret Throsby, Australian radio broadcaster
* Margaret Tomkins (1916–2002), American painter
* Margaret Tomlinson (1905–1997), British photographer
* Margaret Towner (actress), Margaret Towner (1920–2017), British actress
* Margaret Tracey (born 1967), American ballet dancer
* Margaret Traherne (1919–2006), British artist
* Margaret Travolta (born 1946), American actress
* Margaret Trist (1914–1986), Australian short story writer and novelist
* Margaret Truman (1924–2008), American writer and daughter of President Harry S. Truman
* Margaret Tu Chuan (1942–1969), Hong Kong actress
* Margaret Turnbull (screenwriter), Margaret Turnbull (1872–1942), Scottish screenwriter
* Margaret Tyler, English writer and translator
* Margaret Tynes (1919–2024), American opera singer
* Margaret Tyzack (1931–2011), British actress
* Margaret Urlich (1965–2022), New Zealand singer
* Margaret Vale (1878–1947), American actress
* Margaret Vance Shelley (1925–2008), American composer and music educator
* Margaret Vandercook (1877–1958), American writer
* Margaret Elizabeth Vanderhaeghe (1950–2012), Canadian artist
* Margaret Britton Vaughn, American poet
* Margaret Veley (1843–1887), British author and poet
* Margaret Rose Vendryes (1955–2022), Jamaican American visual artist
* Margaret Verble, American author
* Margaret Vines (1907–1997), British actress
* Margaret Visser (born 1940), Canadian writer and broadcaster
* Margaret Winifred Vowles (1882–1932), English author on science
* Margaret Vyner (1914–1993), Australian-born model and actress
* Margaret Walker (1915–1998), American author
* Margaret Walthour Lippitt (1872–1964), American painter and teacher
* Margaret Ward (journalist), Margaret Ward, Irish journalist
* Margaret E. Ward, Irish journalist
* Margaret Warner (born 1950), American journalist
* Margaret Helen Waterfield (1863–1953), English watercolor artist
* Margaret Way (1935–2022), Australian novelist
* Margaret Ely Webb (1877–1965), American illustrator
* Margaret Webster (1905–1972), American actress and director
* Margaret Weis (born 1948), American fantasy novelist
* Margaret Wendell Huntington, American painter
* Margaret Wente (born 1950), Canadian journalist
* Margaret Wertheim (born 1958), Australian science writer
* Margaret Wettlin (c. 1907–2003), American journalist
* Margaret Matilda White (1868–1910), New Zealand photographer
* Margaret Whiting (1924–2011), American popular music and country music singer
* Margaret Whiting (actress) (1936–2023), British actress
* Margaret C. Whiting (1860–1946), American artist
* Margaret Whitton (1949–2016), American actress
* Margaret Whyte (born 1940), Uruguayan artist
* Margaret Widdemer (1884–1978), American poet and novelist
* Margaret Jones Wiles (1911–2000), American composer, conductor and violinist
* Margaret Wetherby Williams (1901–1984), British mystery writer
* Margaret Wild, Australian children’s writer
* Margaret Lindsay Williams (1888–1960), Welsh artist
* Margaret Williams (film director), Margaret Williams (1950–2024), British film director
* Margaret Wilson (novelist) (1882–1973), American novelist
* Margaret Wilson (Australian writer), Australian television writer
* Margaret J. Winkler (1895–1990), American film producer
* Margaret Winser (c. 1868–1944), English sculptor and artist
* Margaret E. Winslow (1836–1936), American activist, editor, author
* Margaret Wise Brown (1910–1952), American author
* Margaret Ann Withers (born 1965), American painter, sculptor and poet
* Margaret Withers (1893–1977), British actress
* Margaret Wolfe Hungerford (1855–1897), Irish novelist
* Margaret Wolfson, American storyteller and writer
* Margaret Louisa Woods (1855–1945), English novelist and poet
* Margaret Worth, Australian artist
* Margaret Jane Wray, American dramatic soprano
* Margaret Wrightson, English artist
* Margaret Wrinkle, American novelist
* Margaret Wycherly (1881–1956), English stage and film actress
* Margaret Wylie, Western Australian author
* Margaret Wynne Lawless (1847–1926), American poet, author, educator, philanthropist
* Margaret Yarde (1878–1944), British actress
* Margaret Yorke (1924–2012), English crime fiction writer
* Margaret Young (1891–1969), American singer
* Margaret Zhang, Australian fashion editor
* Margaret Scully Zimmele (1872–1964), American artist
* Meg Stuart (born 1965), American choreographer, dancer, performing artist
Education, science, and technology
* Margaret, Lady Moir (1864–1942), founding member of the Women's Engineering Society, Scotland
* Margaret Abraham, professor of sociology
* Margaret Ackerman, American engineer
* Margaret F. Alexander, Scottish nurse, educator, researcher and writer
* Margaret Alington (1920–2012), New Zealand historian
* Margaret Allemang (1914–2005), Canadian nurse and academic
* Margaret Allen (born 1948), American surgeon and academic
* Margaret Allen (historian), Margaret Allen (born 1947), Australian historian
* Margaret Alston-Garnjost (1929–2019), British physicist
* Margaret Altmann (1900–1984), German-American biologist
* Margaret Amidon (1827–1869), American educator
* Margaret Amosu (1920–c. 2005), British-Nigerian librarian
* Margaret Anderson (indexer), Margaret Anderson (1900–c. 1997), British biochemist and scientific indexer
* Margaret L. Anderson (born 1941), American historian
* Margaret Andrew (1908–2000), American experimental engineer
* Margaret Archer (1943–2023), English sociologist
* Margaret Armstrong (geostatistician), Margaret Armstrong, Australian geostatistician
* Margaret Ashley-Towle (1902/1903–1985), American archaeologist
* Margaret Aston (1932–2014), British historian and academic
* Margaret Atack (1948–2023), scholar of French literature and academic
* Margaret Atherton (born 1943), American historian
* Margaret Baird (1945–2016), New Zealand immunologist
* Margaret Barker, British biblical scholar
* Margaret Barnes (marine biologist), Margaret Barnes (1919–2009), British marine biologist
* Margaret Baron (c. 1915–1996), British mathematics educator and history of mathematics
* Margaret Elizabeth Barr-Bigelow (1923–2008), Canadian mycologist
* Margaret Scolari Barr, American art historian
* Margaret Stuart Barry (1927–2022), British writer
* Margaret Bastock (1920–1982), British biologist
* Margaret Battin (born 1940), philosopher and medical scientist
* Margaret Bayer, American mathematician
* Margaret Bayne Wilson (1775–1835), British missionary
* Margaret Becklake (1922–2018), Canadian academic and epidemiologist
* Margaret Armstrong Beckman (1925–2008), Canadian librarian
* Margaret Belcher (1936–2016), New Zealand literary scholar
* Margaret Bell Douglas (1880–1963), Canadian botanist and horticulturalist
* Margaret Bemister (1877–1984), Canadian writer and educator
* Margaret Bender, American anthropologist
* Margaret Bennell (1893–1966), British educator, adult educator and anthroposophist
* Margaret Jane Benson (1859–1936), English botanist
* Margaret Benston, Canadian scientist and feminist
* Margaret A. Berger (1932–2010), professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School
* Margaret Berry (1832–1918), Australian educationalist
* Margaret Beznak (c. 1914–1999), Hungarian-born Canadian medical researcher
* Margaret Billingham (1930–2009), Kenyan-born American pathologist
* Margaret Birley (1910–2000), British archaeologist
* Margaret Katherine Black (1921–1999), food historian and author
* Margaret B. Blackman, American anthropologist
* Margaret Blackwood (1909–1986), Australian botanist and geneticist
* Margaret Boden (born 1936), researcher in the field of artificial intelligence
* Margaret G. Bradbury (1927–2010), American ichthyologist
* Margaret Bradford Boni (1892–1974), American educator
* Margaret E. Bradshaw (born 1926), British botanist and conservationist
* Margaret Bradshaw (born 1941), British-born New Zealand geologist
* Margaret Brandeau, American management scientist and engineer
* Margaret Brazier (1950–2025), British academic
* Margaret W. "Hap" Brennecke, American metallurgist
* Margaret Briggs, New Zealand law professor
* Margaret Brimble (born 1961), New Zealand chemist
* Margaret Bromhall (1890–1967), English radio therapist
* Margaret Sibella Brown (1866–1961), Canadian botanist
* Margaret Brown (ichthyologist) (1918–2009), British ichthyologist
* Margaret Brown (mathematics educator), British mathematics educator
* Margaret Bryan (philosopher), Margaret Bryan (c. 1759–1836), British natural philosopher and educator
* Margaret M. Bryant (1900–1993), American linguist
* Margaret Buchanan Cole (1885–1959), American mathematician
* Margaret Elizabeth Buchanan (1865–1940), British pharmacist
* Margaret Buckingham (born 1945), French-British biologist
* Margaret Bullock (physiotherapist), Margaret Bullock (born 1933), American academic
* Margaret Burbidge (1919–2020), British astronomer
* Margaret Burchinal (born 1951), quantitative psychologist
* Margaret Burnett (born 1949), American computer scientist
* Margaret F. Butler (1861–1931), American physician
* Margaret K. Butler (1924–2013), American mathematician
* Margaret Byers (1832–1912), Irish educator, activist, social reformer, missionary, writer
* Margaret Byrne, Australian geneticist
* Margaret Callahan, American nursing administrator
* Margaret Cameron (librarian), Margaret Cameron (1937–2023), Australian amateur ornithologist, librarian and educator
* Margaret Cameron (philosopher), Margaret Cameron, Canadian philosopher
* Margaret C. Campbell, American marketing academic
* Margaret I. Carman (1890–1976), American teacher and historian
* Margaret Carnegie Miller (1897–1990), American philanthropist
* Margaret Carr, New Zealand early childhood education academic
* Margaret Chan (born 1947), Chinese-Canadian physician
* Margaret Cheney (born 1955), American mathematician
* Margaret E. Chisholm (1921–1999), American librarian and educator
* Margaret Chung (1889–1959), American-born Chinese female physician
* Margaret Church (1889–1976), American mycologist
* Margaret Clapp (1910–1974), American educator
* Margaret Clark (American writer), Margaret Clark, American historian, writer and educator
* Margaret Clark (political scientist), Margaret Clark (born 1941), New Zealand political scientist
* Margaret Clark (psychologist), Margaret Clark, American psychologist
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Margaret Cleaves (1848–1917), American physician
* Margaret Clement (1508–1570), English mathematician
* Margaret C. Cobb (1892–1975), American geologist
* Margaret V. Cobb, educational psychologist
* Margaret Coel (born 1937), American historian and mystery writer
* Margaret Coit (1919–2003), American historian
* Margaret S. Collins (1922–1996), African-American child prodigy and entomologist
* Margaret Collinson, paleobotanist
* Margaret Colquhoun (1947–2017), evolutionary biologist
* Margaret P. Colvin (1820–1894), 19th-century inventor
* Margaret Conkey, American archaeologist
* Margaret Conrad, Canadian historian
* Margaret Darst Corbett (1889–1962), American vision educator
* Margaret Georgina Corrick (1922–2020), Australian botanist
* Margaret Cote (1950–2021), Canadian academic and author
* Margaret Cox (academic), Margaret Cox (born 1939), English physicist
* Margaret Craighill (1898–c. 1977), American psychiatrist
* Margaret Crane, American biochemist
* Margaret Creighton, American historian
* Margaret Crofoot (born 1980), American anthropologist
* Margaret Crosby (1902–1972), American classical archaeologist
* Margaret Crosfield (1859–1952), British paleontologist
* Margaret Mordecai Jones Cruikshank (1878–1955), American educator and college president
* Margaret Cruickshank (1873–1918), New Zealand medical practitioner
* Margaret Crum (1921–1986), British scholar of English poetry and music
* Margaret Cuninggim (1914–1986), American university professor and administrator
* Margaret Cuomo (born 1955), American radiologist
* Margaret Dalziel (1916–2003), English literature scholar
* Margaret Daube-Witherspoon, American biomedical engineer
* Margaret A. Davidson (1950–2017), American scientist
* Margaret M. Davies (born 1944), Australian herpetologist
* Margaret Davies (conservationist), Margaret Davies (1914–1982), English conservationist and archaeologist
* Margaret Davis Bowen (1894–1976), American educator
* Margaret Bryan Davis (1931–2024), American paleoecologist
* Margaret Oakley Dayhoff (1925–1983), American biophysicist
* Margaret Deanesly (1885–1977), English historian
* Margaret Defeyter, British psychologist
* Margaret Delaney, marine biologist
* Margaret Dick (1918–2008), Australian microbiologist
* Margaret A. Dix (1939–2025), British botanist
* Margaret Dix (1902–1991), British neurologist
* Margaret Donaldson (1926–2020), British psychologist
* Margaret Stefana Drower (1911–2012), British Egyptologist
* Margaret Dryburgh (1890–1945), English educator
* Margaret A. Edwards (1902–1988), American librarian
* Margaret Elizabeth Egan (1905–1959), American librarian
* Margaret Ensign Lewis (1919–2017), American botanist
* Margaret J. Eppstein, American complex systems scientist
* Margaret Escott (1908–1977), New Zealand novelist, drama teacher and poet
* Margaret C. Etter (1943–1992), American chemist and crystallographer
* Margaret Fairlie, British gynecologist
* Margaret Faul, Irish American chemist
* Margaret Faull (born 1946), Australian archaeologist and museum director
* Margaret Elisabeth Felix (born 1937), Indian educator
* Margaret Ferguson (political scientist), Margaret Ferguson (born 1968), American political scientist
* Margaret Clay Ferguson (1863–1951), American botanist
* Margaret M. H. Finch (1878–1958), American historian
* Margaret Fischl, American physician
* Margaret Fishenden (1889–1977), British meteorologist
* Margaret Flamsteed, English astronomer
* Margaret Florey, Australian linguist
* Margaret Floy Washburn (1871–1939), American psychologist
* Margaret D. Foster (1895–1970), American chemist
* Margaret Fountaine (1862–1940), British entomologist, scientific illustrator and diarist
* Margaret R. Fox (1916–2006), American electronics engineer
* Margaret Frame (biologist), Margaret Frame, Scottish scientist, professor of molecular cell biology
* Margaret B. Freeman (c. 1899–1980), American museum curator
* Margaret Friedel, Australian scientist
* Margaret Hannah Fulford (1904–1999), American botanist
* Margaret B. Fuller Boos (1892–1978), American geologist
* Margaret T. Fuller, American developmental biologist
* Margaret Gamalo, Filipino-American biostatistician and drug development executive
* Margaret Gardel, American biophysicist
* Margaret Gardner (born 1954), Governor of Victoria
* Margaret Garritsen de Vries (1922–2009), American economist
* Margaret Garson (1927–2020), Australian cytogeneticist, pathologist and educator
* Margaret Gatz, American psychologist, gerontologist and researcher
* Margaret Geller (born 1947), American astrophysicist
* Margaret Gelling (1924–2009), English toponymist
* Margaret George, American historical novelist
* Margaret Giannini (1921–2021), American physician
*Margaret Dunlop Gibson (1843–1920), British orientalist
*Margaret Gibson (historian), Margaret Gibson (1938–1994), British medieval historian and academic
* Margaret Clark Gillett, British botanist
* Margaret Sylvia Gilliland (1917–1990), Australian biochemist
* Margaret Glyn (1865–1946), English music historian
* Margaret Goodell (born 1965), American scientist
* Margaret Gowing (1921–1998), English historian
* Margaret Dorothy Green, British nurse and educator
* Margaret Cicely Langton Greene (1913–2007), British speech and language therapist
* Margaret Greig (1922–1999), English mathematician
* Margaret Grey Porter, Irish philanthropist
* Margaret Storrs Grierson (1900–1997), American archivist and philosophy professor
* Margaret E. Grigsby (1923–2009), African-American physician
* Margaret Grimshaw (1905–1990), English mathematician
* Margaret Gurney (1908–2002), American mathematician, statistician, and computer programmer
* Margaret Jarman Hagood (1907–1963), statistician, sociologist and demographer
* Margaret Haley (1861–1939), American educator, promoted teacher's unions
* Margaret Hamburg (born 1955), American public health administrator
* Margaret Hamilton Storey (1900–1960), U. S. zoologist
* Margaret Hamilton (software engineer) (born 1936), American computer scientist
* Margaret Hamilton (educator) (1871–1969), teacher
* Margaret Hamilton (nurse) (1840–1922), American nurse
* Margaret Irving Handy (1889–1977), American pediatrician
* Margaret Murray Hanson, American astronomer and educator
* Margaret Harding (born 1960), Australian scientist
* Margaret Hurlstone Hardy Fallding (1920–2004), developmental biologist
* Margaret Hilda Harper (1879–1964), Australian pediatrician
* Margaret Helen Harper (1919–2014), American computer programmer
* Margaret Harvey (c. 1768–1858), English poet and scholar
* Margaret Harwood (1885–1979), American astronomer
* Margaret Gentle Harwood, British educator
* Margaret Hastings (1910–1979), American medievalist
* Margaret Haughery, American philanthropist
* Margaret Fordyce Dalrymple Hay (1889–1975), Australian University of Sydney Law School administrator
* Margaret Hayes Grazier (1916–1999), American librarian
* Margaret Hayes-Robinson (1876–1930), British historian
* Margaret Hayman (1923–1994), British mathematics educator
* Margaret Heavey (1907–1980), Irish polyglot and classics scholar
* Margaret Heffernan (linguist), Margaret Heffernan (born 1944), Australian indigenous linguist, author and interpreter
* Margaret Henson (1924–2001), American historian
* Margaret Hermann (born 1938), American political psychologist
* Margaret Herrick (1902–1976), American librarian
* Margaret Hewett (1934–2022), South African academic and author
* Margaret Hewitt (sociologist), Margaret Hewitt (1928–1991), British sociologist
* Margaret Hodgen (1890–1977), American sociologist
* Margaret Holden (1920–1998), British botanist, biochemist
* Margaret Holtrust (1925–2011), Dutch-American political scientist
* Margaret Horsburgh, New Zealand academic
* Margaret Hotchkiss, American microbiologist
* Margaret Howe Lovatt, naturalist
* Margaret Hubbard (1924–2011), British classical philologist
* Margaret Hume (1887–1968), English nutritionist
* Margaret Hunt Hill (1915–2007), American philanthropist and heiress
* Margaret Hutchins (1884–1961), American librarian and educator
* Margaret Hutchinson (1904–1997), English educator, naturalist and author
* Margaret Hyland, New Zealand chemist and professor
* Margaret Ingels (1892–1971), mechanical engineer
* Margaret Ives (1903–2000), American psychologist
* Margaret Jackson (physician), Margaret Jackson (1898–1987), family planning pioneer
* Margaret Jacob, American historian of science
* Margaret D. Jacobs (born 1963), American historian
* Margaret Jacobsohn, Namibian environmentalist
* Margaret Janeway (1896–1981), American physician
* Margaret Jennings (bacteriologist), Margaret Jennings (1904–1994), British scientist
* Margaret Johnson (scientist), Margaret Johnson, British physician
* Margaret Jolly (born 1949), Australian anthropologist
* Margaret Ursula Jones (1916–2001), British archaeologist
* Margaret Jope, British biochemist and archaeologist
* Margaret Karembu, Kenyan science communication specialist and biotechnology advocate
* Margaret J. Kartomi, Australian ethnomusicologist
* Margaret Keay (1911–1998), South African-born British plant pathologist
* Margaret Keck (born 1949), American political scientist
* Margaret Keenan Harrais (1872–1964), American educator; first woman superintendent of schools in Fairbanks, Alaska
* Margaret Kelly (pharmacologist), Margaret Kelly (1906–1968), American pharmacologist
* Margaret Kennard (1899–1975), American neuropsychologist
* Margaret Keyes (1918–2015), American historian and educator
* Margaret Kidwell (born 1933), American biologist
* Margaret L. King, American historian of the Italian Renaissance
* Margaret King Robinson (1906–2006), American oceanographer
* Margaret G. Kivelson (born 1928), American geophysicist and planetary scientist
* Margaret E. Knight (1838–1914), American inventor
* Margaret L. Kripke, American immunologist
* Margaret Kuenne Harlow (1918–1971), American developmental psychologist
* Margaret Wade Labarge (1916–2009), Canadian historian
* Margaret Ladipo (born 1961), Nigerian academic and researcher
* Margaret Heather Laird (1933–2014), British teacher and senior laywoman
* Margaret Langdon (1926–2005), Native American languages and linguist
* Margaret Lartey, Ghanaian professor
* Margaret Law (1928–2017), British engineer
* Margaret Lawder (1899–1982), Irish and South African botanist
* Margaret Morgan Lawrence (1914–2019), American psychiatrist
* Margaret Leech (1893–1974), American historian and novelist
* Margaret Leinen (born 1946), American scientist
* Margaret Anne LeMone (born 1946), atmospheric scientist
* Margaret Lemos, American legal scholar
* Margaret Leshikar-Denton, marine archaeologist and museum director
* Margaret Campbell Mann Lesley (1891–1988), American cytologist and geneticist
* Margaret Levenstein, American economist
* Margaret Levi, American political scientist
* Margaret Levyns (1890–1975), South African phytogeographer, botanist and taxonomist
* Margaret Reed Lewis (1881–1970), American cell biologist
* Margaret Lewis (paleontologist), Margaret Lewis, Canadian paleontologist and professor
* Margaret Lin Xavier (1898–1932), Thai physician
* Margaret Lindsay Huggins (1848–1915), Irish astronomer
* Margaret Little (1901–1994), British psychoanalyst
* Margaret A. Liu (born 1956), physician scientist
* Margaret Livingstone (born 1950), American neuroscientist
* Margaret Lock (born 1936), Canadian anthropologist
* Margaret Loutit (1929–2020), New Zealand microbiologist
* Margaret D. Lowman (born 1953), American biologist and ecologist
* Margaret Lucas (engineer), Margaret Lucas, Scottish mechanical engineer
* Margaret Mac Curtain (1929–2020), Irish historian, writer, nun and educator
* Margaret MacDonald (philosopher), Margaret MacDonald, British analytic philosopher
* Margaret MacLean, British pulmonary pharmacologist
* Margaret MacMillan (born 1943), Canadian historian
* Margaret Macpherson Grant (1834–1877), Scottish philanthropist
* Margaret MacPherson (pharmacist), Margaret MacPherson (1875–1956), Australian pharmacist and benefactor
* Margaret Maden (born 1940), British educationalist
* Margaret Mahler, Austrian-born American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst
* Margaret Majer (1898–1990), American women’s physical education instructor
* Margaret Malamud, professor of Ancient History and Islamic Studies at New Mexico State University
* Margaret Eliza Maltby (1860–1944), American physicist
* Margaret Manion (1935–2024), Australian art historian and curator
* Margaret Marrs (1929–2022), English computer programmer
* Margaret Trevena Martin (1905–2000), British botanist
* Margaret E. Martin (1912–2012), American economist and statistician
* Margaret P. Martin (1915–2012), American statistician
* Margaret Martonosi, American computer scientist
* Margaret Maruani (1954–2022), French sociologist
* Margaret Masson, British academic
* Margaret Masterman (1910–1986), British linguist and philosopher
* Margaret T. May, British health sciences modeler
* Margaret Mayall (1902–1995), American astronomer
* Margaret McArthur, Australian nutritional anthropologist
* Margaret McCarthy (academic), Margaret McCarthy (born 1958), American neuroscientist and pharmacologist
* Margaret E. McCully, Canadian phycologist, microbiologist and plant biologist
* Margaret McFall-Ngai, American animal physiologist and biochemist
* Margaret McFarland (1905–1988), American psychologist
* Margaret M. McGowan (1931–2022), British historian of dance and France
* Margaret McLarty (1908–1996), British medical illustrator
* Margaret McLeod (1915–1993), Canadian teacher
* Margaret McNamara (1915–1981), American educator and nonprofit executive; wife of Robert McNamara
* Margaret Stovel McWilliams (1875–1952), Canadian historian
* Margaret Mead (1901–1978), American anthropologist
* Margaret Meek Spencer (1925–2020), British educationalist
* Margaret Melhase (1919–2006), American chemistry student and co-discover of cesium-137
* Margaret di Menna (1923–2014), New Zealand microbiologist
* Margaret Menzel (1924–1987), American geneticist
* Margaret Merrell (1900–1995), American biostatistician
* Margaret A. Meyer (born 1959), British economist
* Margaret Meyer (1862–1924), British mathematical astronomer
* Margaret R. Miles (born 1937), American theologian and historian
* Margaret Shandor Miles, American pediatric nurse
* Margaret C. Miller, classical archaeologist
* Margaret Millington (1944–1973), British mathematician
* Margaret Mills (folklorist), Margaret Mills (born 1946), American folklorist
* Margaret Mitchell (scientist), Margaret Mitchell, American computer scientist
* Margaret M. Mitchell, American biblical scholar and professor of early Christianity
* Margaret Howell Mitchell (1901–1988), Canadian ornithologist
* Margaret W. Moodey (1862–1948), American scientific curator
* Margaret Moore (academic), Margaret Moore, Canadian political theorist
* Margaret S. Morley (1938–2016), New Zealand malacologist and museum curator
* Margaret Warner Morley (1858–1923), American educator, biologist and author
* Margaret Shove Morriss (1884–1975), American academic historian
* Margaret Morrison (philosopher), Margaret Morrison (1954–2021), Canadian philosopher
* Margaret Morse, former professor at the University of California
* Margaret Veronica Moses (1940–1975), Australian teacher and orphanage administrator
* Margaret Mulholland, marine biogeochemist
* Margaret Mullett, British historian
* Margaret Mungherera (1957–2017), Ugandan physician
* Margaret Munn-Rankin (1913–1981), British archaeologist and historian
* Margaret Murie (1902–2003), American naturalist and author
* Margaret Murnane (born 1959), Irish physicist
* Margaret Murray Washington (1865–1925), American academic
* Margaret Murray (1863-1963), Anglo-Indian academic, Egyptologist, archaeologist, anthropologist and folklorist.
* Margaret Muthwii (born 1957), Kenyan academic administrator
* Margaret Mutu, Ngāti Kahu leader, author and academic
* Margaret Naumburg (1890–1983), American psychologist
* Margaret Ann Neale, American management academic
* Margaret F. Nelson (1922–2018), American Cherokee academic
* Margaret Ellen Newell (born 1962), American historian
* Margaret Newman (nurse), Margaret Newman (1933–2018), American nursing theorist
* Margaret Newton (1887–1971), Canadian phytopathologist and mycologist
* Margaret Morse Nice (1883–1974), American ornithologist
* Margaret Nygard (1925–1995), British educator and conservationist
* Margaret O'Flynn (1920–2014), British gynecologist
* Margaret A. Ohlson (1901–1996), American dietitian and writer
* Margaret O'Mahony, Irish civil engineer
* Margaret O'Mara (born 1970), American historian and professor
* Margaret Orbell (1935–2006), New Zealand author, editor and academic
* Margaret Ormsby (1909–1996), Canadian historian
* Margaret Orr, American meteorologist
* Margaret Osler (1942–2010), Canadian historian and philosopher
* Margaret Owen (plantswoman), Margaret Owen (1930–2014), English farmer and gardener
* Margaret A. Palmer, American ecologist
* Margaret Park Redfield (1898–1977), American anthropologist
* Margaret Parkes (1925–2007), British educationist
* Margaret Partridge (1891–1967), electrical engineer
* Margaret Sullivan Pepe (born 1961), Irish biostatistician
* Margaret Pereira (1928–2016), British forensic scientist
* Margaret Pericak-Vance (born 1951), American human geneticist
* Margaret M. Perry, British molecular geneticist and embryology researcher
* Margaret A. Phillips (born 1959), American biologist
* Margaret Pittman (1901–1995), American bacteriologist
* Margaret Plant, Australian art historian
* Margaret Plass (1896–1990), American anthropologist and collector
* Margaret Plues, English botanist
* Margaret Una Poché (1912–1982), American educator
* Margaret Poloma (born 1943), American sociologist
* Margaret Price (scholar), Margaret Price, American academic
* Margaret Priest, Canadian artist and educator
* Margaret Jane Radin (born 1941), American legal scholar
* Margaret Ransone Murray (1901–1986), American biologist
* Margaret Byrd Rawson (1899–2001), American dyslexia expert, educator and psychologist
* Margaret Rayner (1929–2019), British mathematician
* Margaret Read (anthropologist), Margaret Helen Read (1889–1991), British social anthropologist and academic
* Margaret Hiza Redsteer, Crow Nation geomorphologist and professor
* Margaret Reeson, Australian historian
* Margaret G. Reid (1896–1991), economist
* Margaret Reid (scientist), Margaret Reid, Australian physicist
* Margaret Rioch (1907–1996), American psychotherapist
* Margaret C. Roberts (1846–1926), American obstetrician
* Margaret E. Roberts, American political scientist
* Margaret M. Robinson, American mathematician
* Margaret Rock (1903–1983), British crypto-analyst
* Margaret Rockefeller (1915–1996), conservationist
* Margaret Rogers (nurse), Margaret Rogers (1887–1915), New Zealand nurse
* Margaret S. Rood (1908–1984), American occupational therapist
* Margaret Cool Root, American professor
* Margaret Rosario, American psychologist
* Margaret Ross (computer scientist), Margaret Ross, British computer scientist
* Margaret W. Rossiter (born 1943), American historian
* Margaret Hutchinson Rousseau (1910–2000), American chemical engineer
* Margaret Joyce Rowe (1926–2020), British historian
* Margaret Rule (1928–2015), British archaeologist
* Margaret Sabine (1928–2011), Australian virologist
* Margaret J. Safrit (1935–2023), American college professor
* Margaret Samu, art historian specializing in Russian art
* Margaret Sandford (1839–1903), English headmistress and author
* Margaret Satterthwaite (born 1969), American special rapporteur
* Margaret Schabas, Canadian philosopher
* Margaret Schoeninger, American anthropologist
* Margaret Scott-Wright (1923–2008), British nurse and academic
* Margaret Seltzer (born 1975), American writer
* Margaret Seward (1864–1929), British chemist
* Margaret Sewell (1852–1937), English educator
* Margaret Sharpe, Australian linguist
* Margaret Fay Shaw (1903–2004), American folklorist
* Margaret Shea (scientist), Margaret Shea, space scientist
* Margaret Sheil, Australian academic
* Margaret Pollock Sherwood (1864–1955), American literary scholar and writer
* Margaret Shipp, American oncologist
* Margaret Simms, 21st-century American economist
* Margaret E. B. Simpson (1906–1994), Scottish archaeologist
* Margaret P. Sinclair, Canadian mathematics educator
* Margaret Singer (1921–2003), American clinical psychologist
* Margaret Slade, Canadian economist
* Margaret Patrice Slattery (1926–2024), American college professor
* Margaret Smagorinsky (1915–2011), American meteorologist
* Margaret Smith (orientalist), Margaret Smith (1884–1970), British writer and scholar
* Margaret Gladys Smith (1896–1970), American pathologist
* Margaret Keiver Smith, American psychologist
* Margaret C. Snyder (1929–2021), American social scientist
* Margaret Somerville (born 1942), professor of Bioethics at University of Notre Dame Australia
* Margaret Sordahl, naturalist for the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
* Margaret Adebisi Sowunmi (born 1939), Nigerian botanist and environmental archaeologist
* Margaret Bailey Speer (1900–1997), American educator
* Margaret Beale Spencer, American academic
* Margaret Spittle (born 1939), British oncologist
* Margaret Spufford (1935–2014), British social historian
* Margaret Stacey (1922–2004), British sociologist
* Margaret Stanley (virologist), British virologist
* Margaret Evelyn Stanley (1875–1964), British philanthropist
* Margaret Stanley (ecologist), New Zealand ecologist
* Margaret Stansfeld (1860–1951), British teacher, educator and Principal of Bedford Physical Training College
* Margaret Stewart (herpetologist), Margaret Stewart (1927–2006), American herpetologist
* Margaret Bingham Stillwell (1887–1984), American librarian and bibliographer
* Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein (1882–1958), Austrian philanthropist
* Margaret Alison Stones, British academic
* Margaret Storkan (1919–2000), American dermatologist and clinical professor of dermatology
* Margaret Stoughton Abell (1908–2004), American forester
* Margaret Strobel, American historian
* Margaret Taber (1935–2015), American electrical engineer
* Margaret Alison Telfer (1904–1974), Australian university administrator
* Margaret Tennant, New Zealand historian
* M. B. W. Tent (1944–2014), American mathematics educator and writer
* Margaret E. Thompson (1911–1992), American numismatist
* Margaret W. Thompson (1920–2014), Canadian geneticist
* Margaret Thorsborne (1927–2018), Australian naturalist
* Margaret Tisdale (c. 1951–2015), Welsh clinical virologist
* Margaret Titcomb (1891–1982), American librarian and writer
* Margaret Julia Tobin (1952–2002), Australian psychiatrist
* Margaret Todd (doctor), Margaret Todd (1859–1918), Scottish medical doctor, schoolteacher and writer
* Margaret A. Tolbert, American atmospheric chemist
* Margaret Tolbert (born 1943), American chemist
* Margaret Torn, biogeochemist
* Margaret Trask (1928–2002), Australian librarian and academic
* Margaret A. Tucker, American oncologist and physician scientist
* Margaret Tupper True (1858–1926), American educator
* Margaret Turnbull, American astronomer
* Margaret Kemarre Turner (1938–2023), Arrernte linguist
* Margaret Turner-Warwick (1924–2017), British medical doctor and thoracic specialist
* Margaret Urban Walker (born 1948), American philosopher and academic
* Margaret Valadian (1936–2023), Australian Aboriginal educator
* Margaret Verrall (1857–1916), English parapsychologist
* Margaret Mary Vojtko (1930–2013), American linguist, educator, polyglot and labor unionist
* Margaret C. Waites (1883–1923), American classical scholar
* Margaret Sellers Walker (1935–2020), American state and city official
* Margaret Waller, American French literature scholar
* Margaret Walshaw (born 1950), New Zealand education academic
* Margaret Warner Morley (1858–1923), American biologist, wrote children's books on biology
* Margaret Weir (born 1952), American sociologist and political scientist
* Margaret Werner-Washburne, American molecular biologist
* Margaret Weston (1926–2021), British director of the Science Museum, curator and electrical engineer
* Margaret Wetherell (born 1954), New Zealand academic
* Margaret Wheat (1908–1988), American anthropologist
* Margaret Collingridge Wheeler (1916–1990), Australian archaeologist
* Margaret Whinney (1897–1975), English art historian
* Margaret Moore White (1902–1983), English gynecologist
* Margaret Whitehead (born 1948), British public health official
* Margaret Whyte (medical doctor), Margaret Whyte (1868–1946), Australian medical doctor
* Margaret Wiecek, Polish-American operations researcher
* Margaret A. Wilcox (1838–1912), American inventor
* Margaret Wileman (1908–2014), British academic administrator and lecturer
* Margaret Williamson Rea (c. 1875–1954), Irish botanist
* Margaret Willerding (1919–2003), American mathematician
* Margaret Dauler Wilson (1939–1998), American philosopher
* Margaret Wood Bancroft (1893–1986), American naturalist and explorer
* Margaret Wood (archaeologist), Margaret Wood, British archaeologist
* Margaret Woodhouse (1927–1990), Australian bookseller
* Margaret Wooldridge, American combustion engineer
* Margaret H. Wright (born 1944), American computer scientist and applied mathematician
* Margaret Wu, Australian statistician and psychometrician
* Margaret C. Wu, American biostatistician
* Margaret M. Wu (born 1950), Taiwanese-American industrial chemist and inventor
* Margaret Buckner Young (1921–2009), American educator and author
* Margaret Paulin Young (1864–1953), Scottish educator
* Margaret Zacharin, Australian endocrinologist and academic
* Margaret A. Zahn, American sociologist and criminologist
Politics and activists
* Margaret Abela (born 1949), 8th First Lady of Malta
* Margaret Ackman (died 2013), Guyanese politician
* Margaret Adamson, Australian diplomat
* Margaret Aldersley, British suffragist and feminist
* Margaret Aldrich Smith (1863–1929), American First Lady of Guam
* Margaret Aachilla Aleper (born 1963), Ugandan politician
* Margaret Alva (born 1942), Indian politician
* Margaret Amoakohene (born 1960), Ghanaian academic and diplomat
* Margaret Anderson Kelliher (born 1968), American politician
* Margaret Dawn Anderson (born 1967), Canadian politician
* Margaret Arney (born 1969), American politician
* Margaret Ashton (1856–1937), English suffragist, politician, pacifist and philanthropist
* Margaret Auld (1932–2010), Scottish nurse, Matron and Chief Nursing Officer
* Margaret Austin (born 1933), New Zealand politician
* Margaret Baba Diri (1954–2025), Ugandan politician
* Margaret Backhouse (Quaker), Margaret Backhouse (1887–1977), British humanitarian activist
* Margaret Ballinger (1894–1980), South African politician
* Margaret H. Barden, was a New Hampshire state legislator
* Margaret Barkley, American politician
* Margaret Bazley (born 1938), New Zealand public servant
* Margaret Beazley (born 1951), Governor of South New Wales
* Margaret Beckett (born 1943), British Member of Parliament for Derby South
* Margaret Behan (born 1948), American activist
* Margaret Birch (1921–2020), Canadian politician
* Margaret Blackwood (activist), Margaret Blackwood (1924–1994), Scottish activist
* Margaret Catherine Blaikie (1823–1915), Scottish temperance reformer
* Margaret Bloodworth, Canadian lawyer and civil servant
* Margaret Bondfield (1873–1953), first woman Cabinet minister in the United Kingdom
* Margaret Bridgman (1940–2009), Canadian politician
* Margaret Bryan (diplomat), Margaret Bryan (born 1929), British diplomat
* Margaret Buckley (1879–1962), Irish politician
* Margaret Burgess (born 1949), Scottish politician
* Margaret Campbell (politician), Margaret Campbell (1912–1999), Canadian politician
* Margaret W. Campbell (1827–1908), American suffragist
* Margaret Carpenter (born 1950), American politician
* Margaret Carter (born 1935), American politician
* Margaret Chant-Papandreou (born 1923), Greek-American politician
* Margaret Chase (1905–1997), American Red Cross worker
* 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 Cheney (politician), Margaret Cheney (born 1952), American politician
* Margaret Chin (born 1953), American politician
* Margaret Clarke (Northern Ireland politician), Margaret Clarke (born 1940), former High Sheriff Belfast
* Margaret Clarke-Kwestie, Ghanaian politician
* Ann Coffey, Margaret (Ann) Coffey (born 1946), former British Member of Parliament for Stockport
* Margaret Collins-O'Driscoll (1876–1945), Irish politician
* Margaret Commodore, Canadian politician
* Margaret Conditt (born 1953), American politician
* Margaret Conlon (born 1967), Irish former politician
* Margaret Cousins (1878–1954) Irish-Indian suffragist who established All India Women's Conference (AIWC)
* Margaret Cox (born 1963), Irish politician
* Margaret Craven (politician), Margaret Craven, American politician
* Margaret Croke, American politician
* Margaret Brackenbury Crook (1886–1972), British Unitarian minister, a women's suffrage and peace activist
* Margaret Crooks (died 2014), former deputy Lord Mayor of Belfast
* Margaret Curran (born 1958), former British Member of Parliament for Glasgow East
* Margaret L. Curry (1898–1986), American parole officer and social worker
* Margaret Daly (born 1938), British Conservative Party politician
* 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 A. Davidson (1950–2017), American lawyer and coastal science pioneer
* Margaret Davis (politician), Margaret Davis (1933–2022), Australian politician
* Margaret Dayton (born 1949), American politician
* Margaret Delacourt-Smith, Baroness Delacourt-Smith of Alteryn (1916–2010), British Labour politician
* Margaret Delisle (born 1946), Canadian politician
* Margaret Dennison (1920–2010), American politician
* Margaret H. Dickson (born 1949), American politician from North Carolina
* Margaret Doherty, American politician
* Margaret Dongo, Zimbabwean politician
* Margaret Doud (born 1943), American politician
* Margaret Drye, American politician
* Margaret E. Dungan (1884–1982), American Quaker suffrage, peace and hunger activist
* Margaret Dunkle (born 1947), American activist who created Title IX
* Margaret Dyer-Howe (1941–2019), Montserratian politician and businesswoman
* Margaret Eaton, Baroness Eaton (born 1942), British Conservative politician
* Margaret Ekpo (1914–2006), Nigerian women’s rights activist and social mobilizer
* Margaret Ekua Prah, Ghanaian diplomat
* Margaret Evans (mayor), Margaret Evans, New Zealand mayor
* Margaret Everson, acting director of the U. S. National Park Service
* Margaret Ewing (1945–2006), Scottish politician
* Margaret Farquhar, Scottish political pioneer
* Margaret Milne Farquharson (1884–after 1936), Scottish suffragette and MP candidate
* Margaret Farrow (1934–2022), American politician
* Margrith von Felten (born 1944), Swiss politician
* Margaret Ferrier (born 1960), British Member of Parliament for Rutherglen and Hamilton West
* Margaret Fitzherbert (born 1969), Australian politician
* Margaret Flory (born 1948), American politician
* Margaret Foley (suffragist), Margaret Foley (1873–1957), Irish-American labor organizer, suffragist, and social worker
* Margaret French McLean (1879–1959), First Lady of North Carolina
* Margaret Gardner Hoey (1875–1942), American political hostess and First Lady of North Carolina
* Margaret H. George (1928–2021), American politician
* Margaret Skirving Gibb (1877–1954), Scottish suffragette
* Margaret Gibb (1892–1984), English political activist
* Margaret V. Gillespie (born 1969), American politician
* Margaret Good (born 1976), American politician
* Margaret Greenwood (born 1959), British Member of Parliament for Wirral West
* Margaret Guilfoyle (1926–2020), Australian politician
* Margaret Gunn (1889–1989), Canadian activist
* Margaret Hance (1923–1990), American politician
* Margaret Harrington (born 1945), Canadian politician
* Maggie Hassan, Margarett (Maggie) Hassan (born 1958), United States Senator for New Hampshire
* Margaret Hawkins (1877–1969), African-American activist
* Margaret Heckler (1931–2018), American politician
* Margaret Heneghan, Irish barrister and judge
* Margaret Rose Henry (born 1944), American politician
* Margaret Hewitt (suffragette), Margaret Hewitt, British suffragette
* Margaret Hill (social reformer), Margaret Hill (1885–1970), British social reformer
* Margaret E. Hillestad (born 1961), Norwegian politician
* Margaret Hills, British politician, suffragist, feminist and teacher
* Margaret Hobbs (1909–1997), Canadian politician and educator
* Margaret Hodge (born 1944), British Member of Parliament for Barking
* Margaret Holmes (1909–2009), Australian peace activist
* Margaret Hoover (born 1977), American political consultant and commentator, great-granddaughter of the former president
* Margaret Leslie Hore-Ruthven (1901–1970), British socialite
* Margaret Lea Houston (1819–1867), First Lady of the Republic of Texas
* Margaret Huang, American human rights advocate
* Margaret Hughes (Los Angeles), Margaret Hughes, American politician
* Margaret Humphreys (born 1944), British social worker and author
* Margaret Hunter (jurist), Australian jurist
* Margaret Hunter (1922–1986), Scottish communist activist and trade unionist
* Margaret Hurley (1909–2015), American politician
* Margaret Irwin (trade unionist), Margaret Irwin (1858–1940), Scottish women’s labor activist
* Margaret J. Jackson (died 2003), American politician
* Margaret Jackson (secretary), Margaret Jackson (1917–2013), British government secretary
* Margaret Jamieson (born 1953), Scottish politician
* Margaret Jay, Baroness Jay of Paddington (born 1939), British baroness
* Margaret Jobson (born 1955), Jamaican diplomat
* Margaret Johnson (politician), Margaret Johnson, Canadian politician
* Maggie Jones, Baroness Jones of Whitchurch, Margaret (Maggie) Jones, Baroness Jones of Whitchurch, British Labour Peer and trade union official
* Margaret Kaiser, American politician
* Margaret Kamar (born 1959), Kenyan politician
* Margaret Keech (born 1954), Australian politician
* Margaret Keita, Gambian politician
* Margaret Kelly (civil servant), Margaret Kelly, American civil servant
* Margaret B. Kelly (born 1935), American politician
* Margaret Rose Kelsick, Montserratian politician
* Margaret Kennedy (American politician), Margaret Kennedy, American politician
* Margaret L. Kennedy (1892–1953), Irish politician
* Margaret Kenyatta (mayor) (1928–2017), Kenyan politician
* Margaret Kenyatta (born 1964), former First Lady of Kenya (2013–2022)
* Margaret G. Kibben (born 1960), American chaplain
* Margaret D. Klein, United States Navy admiral
* Margaret Kobia (born 1955), Kenyan civil servant
* Margaret Komuhangi (born 1970), Ugandan politician
* Margaret Konantz (1899–1967), Canadian politician
* Margaret Kouvelis, New Zealand politician
* Margaret B. Laird (1871–1968), American politician
* Margaret Currie Neilson Lamb (1907–1992), Scottish nurse and Council Chair
* Margaret Lamwaka Odwar (born 1969), Ugandan politician
* Margaret Laurino (born 1952), American politician
* Margaret Legum (1933–2007), South African anti-apartheid activist and social reformer
* Margaret S. Lewis (born 1954), American politician
* Margaret Lloyd George (1864–1941), Welsh humanitarian
* Margaret Long (born 1938), American politician
* Margaret Lord (born 1948), Canadian politician
* Margaret Bright Lucas (1818–1890), British suffragist and reformer
* Margaret Ludwig (1933–2017), American politician
* Margaret MacDiarmid, Canadian politician
* Margaret MacDonald (politician), Margaret MacDonald (born 1951), American politician
* Margaret Macfarlane, Scottish suffragette in Dundee
* Margaret A. Mahoney (1893–1981), American politician
* Margaret Markey (born 1941), American politician
* Margaret Marland (born 1934), Canadian politician
* Margaret Selina Martei, Ghanaian Member of Parliament for Asamankese (1965–1966)
* Margaret E. Morton (1924–2012), American politician
* Margaret May (born 1950), Australian politician
* Margaret Mbeiza Kisira (born 1973), Ugandan politician
* Margaret McAleer (1930–1999), Australian politician
* Margaret McCain (born 1934), 27th lieutenant governor of New Brunswick
* Margaret McCulloch (born 1952), Scottish labor politician
* Margaret McDonagh, Baroness McDonagh (1961–2023), British politician
* Margaret McFadden (1870–1932), American community leader
* Margaret McGovern (1924–2009), American politician
* Margaret McIntyre (1886–1948), Australian politician
* Margaret McKenzie (Northern Ireland politician), Margaret McKenzie, former High Sheriff of Belfast
* Margaret McLean (1845–1923), Australian suffragist
* Margaret McPhun (1876–1960), Scottish suffragette
* Margaret Meagher (1911–1999), Canadian diplomat
* Margaret Sara Meggitt (1866–1920), British political activist and suffragette
* Margaret Mensah-Williams (born 1961), Namibian diplomat
* Margaret Millard, New Zealand rural community leader
* Margaret Miller (politician), Margaret Miller, Canadian politician
* 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 Ghogha Molomo, South African environmental activist
* 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 Mullane, British politician
* Margaret "Peggy" Murphy (1930–2016), American politician
* Margaret Murphy O'Mahony (born 1969), Irish politician
* Margaret Mylne (1806–1892), Scottish suffragette and writer
* Margaret D. Nadauld (born 1944), American church leader
* Margaret Nakashuk, Canadian politician
* Margaret Nakikus, Papua New Guinean government planner
* Margaret Neckles, Grenadian politician
* Margaret Nevinson (1858–1932), English suffragist
* Margaret Norrie (1905–1983), Canadian politician
* Margaret Nosek (1952–2020), American activist
* Margaret Nyagahura, Rwandan politician
* Margaret O'Brien (politician), Margaret O'Brien (born 1973), American politician
* Margaret O'Connor Wilson (1856–1942), American civic leader
* Margaret Ocran, Ghanaian politician
* Margaret Ogg (1863–1953), Australian feminist advocate
* Margaret O'Neil, American politician
* Margaret O'Riordan, American politician
* Margaret Pageler (born 1940), American politician
* Margaret Mary Pearse (1878–1968), Irish politician
* Margaret Pearse (1857–1932), Irish politician
* Margaret B. Peeke (1838–1908), American traveler, lecturer, author and Martinist leader
* Margaret L. Plunkett (1906–2000), American diplomat
* Margaret Porter, American politician
* Margaret Prescod, Barbadian activist, author and journalist
* Margaret Prosser, Baroness Prosser (born 1937), British politician
* Margaret Pyke (1893–1966), British activist
* Margaret Quirk (born 1957), Australian politician
* Margaret Rajbally (born 1932), South African politician and trade unionist
* Margaret Ransone (born 1973), American politician
* Margaret Ray (Australian politician), Margaret Ray (1933–2017), Australian politician
* Margaret Rayburn (1927–2013), American politician
* Margaret Reid (politician), Margaret Reid (born 1935), Australian politician
* Margaret Renwick (1920–2012), Canadian politician
* Margaret Reynolds (born 1941), Australian politician
* Margaret Rideout (1923–2010), Canadian politician
* 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 Rogers (politician), Margaret Rogers (born 1949), American politician
* Margaret Rothwell (1938–2022), British diplomat
* Margaret Rowe (1949–2022), Australian politician
* Margaret Ruhl (born 1956), American politician
* Margaret Rwabushaija (born 1956), Ugandan politician
* Margaret Rwebyambu, Ugandan politician and legislator
* Margaret Rose Sanford (1918–2006), First Lady of North Carolina
* Margaret Scarsdale, American politician
* Margaret Schweinhaut (1903–1997), American politician
* Margaret Scobey, American diplomat
* Margaret Scrivener (1922–1997), Canadian politician
* Margaret Semple (1876–1967), New Zealand politician and socialist
* Margaret Shields (1941–2013), New Zealand politician
* Margaret Shonekan (born 1941), First Lady of Nigeria
* Margaret Sievwright (1844–1905), New Zealand feminist, political activist and community leader
* Margaret Simwanza Sitta (born 1946), Tanzanian politician
* Margaret Sitte, American politician
* Margaret Skok, Canadian diplomat
* Margaret Sloan-Hunter (1947–2004), American feminist
* Margaret Smith (Illinois politician) (died 2005), American politician
* Margaret Smith (Scottish politician) (born 1961), Scottish politician
* Margaret Smith (West Virginia politician), American politician
* Margaret Snyder (1940–2010), American politician
* Margaret Jane Spear, American politician
* Margaret Anne Staggers (born 1945), American politician
* Margaret Jane Steele Rozsa (1867–1949), American politician
* Margaret Stock, American politician
* Margaret Strachan, American politician
* Margaret Strelow, Australian politician
* Margaret Rockefeller Strong (1897–1985), American activist
* Margaret Sullivan (civil servant), Margaret Sullivan (born 1962), American chief of staff
* Margaret Sutton (politician), Margaret Sutton, American politician
* Margaret Tanner (1817–c. 1905), English social reformer
* Margaret Tartaglione (1933–2019), Philadelphia politician
* Margaret Tate (died 2006), American politician
* Margaret Taylor (1788–1852), First Lady of the U. S. (1849–1850)
* Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013), first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom who served from 1979 to 1990
* Margaret Thom, Canadian politician
* Marguerite Thomas-Clement (1886–1979), Luxembourger politician
* Margaret Thorp (1892–1978), Australian welfare worker
* Maggie Throup, Margeret (Maggie) Throup (born 1967), British Member of Parliament for Erewash
* Margaret Joy Tibbetts (1919–2010), American diplomat
* Margaret Tor-Thompson (1962–2007), Liberian politician
* Margaret Torrie (1912–1999), British social worker and charity founder
* Margaret Travers Symons, British suffragette
* Margaret Trowe (born 1948), American politician and women’s rights activist
* Margaret Tucker (1904–1996), Australian Aboriginal activist and writer
* Margaret D. Tutwiler (born 1950), American politician
* Margaret Twomey (born 1963), Australian diplomat
* Margaret Tynan (1930–2007), Irish politician
* Margaret Utinsky (1900–1970), American humanitarian
* Margaret A. Uyehara, American diplomat
* Margaret Vanderhye (born 1948), American politician
* Margaret P. Varda (1917–2011), American politician
* Margaret Vogt (1950–2014), Nigerian diplomat
* Margaret Wall, Baroness Wall of New Barnet (1941–2017), British trade unionist
* Margaret Wanjiru, Kenyan politician
* Margaret Waring (1887–1968), politician from Northern Ireland
* Margaret Weichert, American government executive
* Margaret Weissinger Castleman (c. 1880–1945), American suffragist and campaigner
* Margaret Wheeler, Baroness Wheeler (born 1949), British life peer
* Margaret Whitlam (1919–2012), Australian social campaigner and athlete
* Margaret Fay Whittemore (1884–1937), American suffragist
* Margaret Ray Wickens (1843–1918), American public affairs organizer, social reformer, and charitable organization leader
* Margaret Bush Wilson (1919–2009), American activist
* Margaret Wilson (born 1947), New Zealand politician
* Margaret Wingfield (1912–2002), British Liberal Party politician
* Margaret Wintringham (1879–1955), British politician
* Margaret Wirrpanda (c. 1939–2013), Australian Aboriginal activist in Victoria
* Margaret Woodgate (born 1935), Australian politician
* Margaret Woodrow Wilson (1886–1944), First Lady of the United States (1914–15)
* Margaret Wright (American politician), Margaret Wright (1921–1996), American politician
* Margaret Zziwa, Ugandan politician
Sports
* Margaret Abbott (1878–1955), American golfer
* Margaret Adeoye (born 1985), British sprinter
* Margaret Aka, Papua New Guinean soccer player and coach
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* Margaret Austen, English diver
* Margaret Auton (born 1951), British swimmer
* Margaret Bamgbose (born 1993), Nigerian track and field sprinter
* Margaret Barrand, English badminton player
* Margaret Beacham (born 1946), British middle-distance runner
* Margaret Bean (born 1953), Guamian cyclist
* Margaret Beck (1952–2023), English badminton player
* Margaret Belemu (born 1997), Zambian footballer
* Margaret Bell (athlete) (1917–1996), Canadian high jumper
* Margaret Bell (gymnast) (1945–2024), British gymnast
* Margaret Bennett (figure skater), Margaret Bennett (1910–1984), American figure skater
* Margaret Bertasi (born 1992), American rower
* Margaret Birtwistle (1925–1992), British discus thrower and shot putter
* Margaret Bisbrown (1919–2009), British diver
* Margaret Varner Bloss (born 1927), American athlete and professor
* Margaret Bourke (1945–2021), Australian bridge player
* Margaret Boxall, English badminton player
* Margaret Boyd (1913–1993), English lacrosse player and schoolteacher
* Margaret Buck (born 1940), Australian canoeist
* Margaret Burvill (1941–2009), Australian sprinter
* Margaret Caldow (born 1941), Australian netball international and coach
* Margaret Callender (born 1939), English javelin thrower
* Margaret Castro (born 1959), American judoka and trainer
* Margaret Coomber (born 1950), British middle-distance runner
* Margaret Court (born 1942), Australian tennis player
* Margaret Cremen (born 1999), Irish rower
* Margaret Critchley (born 1949), British sprinter
* Margaret Crosland (1939–2024), Canadian figure skater
* Margaret Crowley (speed skater), Margaret Crowley (born 1986), American speed skater
* Margaret Curtis (1883–1965), American tennis player and golfer
* Margaret Danhauser (1921–1987), American baseball player
* Margaret Darvall (1909–1996), British mountaineer
* Margaret Dingeldein (born 1980), American water polo player
* Margaret Donahue (1892–1978), American baseball executive
* Margaret Edwards (born 1939), English swimmer
* Margaret Erskine (athlete), Margaret Erskine (1925–2006), British long jumper
* Margaret Etim (born 1992), Nigerian sprinter
* Margaret Fettes, Canadian international lawn bowls player
* Margaret Filippini (1946–2003), New Zealand netball player
* Margaret Swan Forbes (1919–2010), American swimmer
* Margaret Forsyth (1961–2021), New Zealand netball player and coach
* Margaret Foster, New Zealand netball player and coach
* Margaret Franks, British table tennis player
* Margaret Gast (1876–1968), German-born American racing cyclist
* Margaret Gayen (born 1994), Australian long jumper and sprinter
* Margaret Gibson (rower) (born 1961), Zimbabwean Olympic rower
* Margaret Gibson (swimmer) (born 1938), Australian swimmer
* Margaret Girvan (1932–1979), Scottish swimmer
* Margaret Gisolo (1914–2009), baseball player
* Margaret Gleghorne, Great Britain and Ireland women’s hockey player
* Margaret Gomm (1921–1974), British swimmer
* Margaret Grant (boccia), Margaret Grant, Irish boccia player
* Margaret Groos (born 1959), American long-distance runner
* Margaret Grundy (born 1938), English swimmer
* Margaret Harding (swimmer), Margaret Harding (born 1948), Puerto Rican swimmer
* Margaret Harriman (1928–2003), South African Paralympic athlete
* Margaret Hedeman (born 2000), American rower
* Margaret Hellyer (born 1937), Australian tennis player
* Margaret Hemsley (born 1971), Australian cyclist
* Margaret Hoelzer (born 1983), American swimmer
* Margaret Hoffman (1911–1991), American swimmer
* Margaret Holgerson (1927–1990), American baseball player
* Margaret Howe (squash player) (1897–1989), American squash player
* Margaret Howe (athlete) (born 1958), Canadian sprinter
* Margaret Hughes (sportswriter), Margaret Hughes (1919–2005), English sportswriter
* Margaret Hunt (tennis), Margaret Hunt (born 1942), South African tennis player
* Margaret Indakala (born 1962), Kenyan volleyball player
* Margaret Iwasaki (born 1942), Canadian swimmer
* Margaret Jackson (climber), Margaret Jackson (1843–1906), English mountain climber
* Margaret Jeffery (1920–2004), British swimmer and Olympian
* Margaret Jenkins (athlete), Margaret Jenkins (1903–1996), American discus thrower
* Margaret Jennings (cricketer), Margaret Jennings (born 1949), Australian cricketer
* Margaret Jessee (1921–2007), American tennis player and a Napa Valley vintner
* Margaret de Jesús (born 1957), Puerto Rican sprinter
* Margaret Johnson (athlete), Margaret Johnson (1937–2015), Australian long jumper
* Margaret Johnston (bowls), Margaret Johnston (born 1943), Northern Irish bowler
* Margaret Jude (born 1940), Australian cricketer
* Margaret Jurgensmeier (1934–2020), American baseball player
* Margaret Kelly (swimmer), Margaret Kelly (born 1956), English swimmer
* Margaret Kipkemboi (born 1993), Kenyan long-distance runner
* Margaret Knickle, Canadian curler
* Margaret Knighton (born 1955), New Zealand equestrian
* Margaret Langford (born 1970), Canadian slalom canoeist
* Margaret Lennan, Scottish female snooker and billiards player
* Margaret Letham (born 1956), British lawn bowler
* Margaret Lockwood (bowls) (1927–2020), English international lawn bowler
* Margaret Lockwood (cricketer) (1911–1999), English cricketer
* Margaret Lu (born 1994), American fencer
* Margaret Macchiut (born 1974), Italian hurdler
* Margaret Macrae, New Zealand swimmer
* Margaret Marks (1918–2014), New Zealand cricketer
* Margaret Markvardt (born 2000), Estonian swimmer
* Margaret Martin (bodybuilder), Margaret Martin (born 1979), American professional bodybuilder
* Margaret Matangi (1911–1990), New Zealand netball player
* Margaret Matthews (born 1935), American track and field athlete
* Margaret Maughan (1928–2020), British Paralympic archer
* Margaret Maury (born 1974), French long-distance runner
* Margaret McIver (1933–2020), Australian equestrian
* Margaret McKenzie (rugby union), Margaret McKenzie (born 1970), New Zealand rugby union player
* Margaret Mills (bowls), Margaret Mills, Zimbabwean international lawn bowler
* Margaret Molesworth (1894–1985), Australian tennis player
* Margaret Moore (tennis), Margaret Moore (1861–1940), English tennis player
* Margaret Morphew (1916–1987), South African tennis player
* Margaret Morton (born 1968), Scottish curler
* Margaret Mukoya (born 1973), Kenyan volleyball player
* Margaret Murdock (born 1942), American sports shooter
* Margaret Muriuki (born 1986), Kenyan runner
* Margaret Murphy (Olympian) (born 1944), Irish hurdler
* Margaret Murphy (Paralympian), Australian Paralympic athlete
* Margaret Murray (baseball), Margaret Murray (1948–2006), American baseball player
* Margaret Nankabirwa (born 1987), Ugandan badminton player
* Margaret Ngoche (born 1981), Kenyan cricketer
* Margaret Ngotho (born 1970), Kenyan long-distance runner
* Margaret Northrop (born 1934), Kenyan swimmer
* Margaret H. O'Donnell, Australian tennis player
* Margaret R. O'Donnell, British tennis player
* Margaret Okayo (born 1976), Kenyan marathon runner
* Margaret O'Leary, Irish camogie player and trainer
* Margaret Osborne (table tennis), Margaret Osborne (1913–c. 1987), British table tennis player
* Margaret Owens (1922–1955), American barrel racer
* Polly Palfrey Woodrow, Margaret "Polly" Palfrey Woodrow (1906-1997), American tennis player
* Margaret Parker (archer), British athlete
* Margaret Parker (javelin thrower) (born 1949), Australian athlete
* Margaret Pawson (1940–1997), New Zealand netball player
* Margaret Peden (1905–1981), Australian cricketer
* Margaret Peear (born 1955), English cricketer
* Margaret Pomeroy, British lawn bowler
* Margaret Osborne duPont (1918–2012), American table tennis player
* Margaret Purce (born 1995) American soccer player
* Margaret Purdy (born 1995), Canadian pair skater
* Margaret Ramsbotham, Papua New Guinean international lawn bowler
* Margaret Ravoir (1907–1973), American swimmer
* Margaret Richardson (curler), Margaret Richardson, Scottish curler and coach
* Margaret Robb (born 1942), Canadian speed skater
* Margaret Rodriguez (born 1977), American retired soccer player
* Margaret Roney (1899–1983), British Olympic sailor
* Margaret Ross (Paralympian), Margaret Ross, Australian Paralympic archer
* Margaret Russo (1931–2006), baseball player
* Margaret Rutherford (cricketer), Margaret Rutherford (born 1935), English cricketer
* Margaret Satupai (born 1992), Samoan athlete
* Margaret Saurin (born 1978), Irish association footballer and coach
* Margaret Scriven (1912–2001), British tennis player
* Margaret Simpson (born 1981), Ghanaian heptathlete
* Margaret Stafford (born 1931), British fencer
* Margaret Stefani (1917–1964), American baseball player
* Margaret Stocks (1895–1985), English badminton and tennis player
* Margaret Stone (swimmer), Margaret Stone (1919–2001), Canadian swimmer
* Margaret Storrar (born 1971), American field hockey player
* Margaret Stride (born 1954), Canadian sprinter
* Margaret Stuart (athlete), Margaret Stuart (1934–1999), New Zealand sprinter
* Margaret Sumner (1941–2022), Australian lawn bowls player
* Margaret Sweeney (swimmer), Margaret Sweeney, New Zealand swimmer
* Margaret Thomas (sport shooter), Margaret Thomas, British sport shooter
* Margaret Todd (golfer), Margaret Todd (1918–2019), Canadian golfer
* Margaret Tollerton (born 1958), Irish equestrian
* Margaret Toscano (born 1956), Indian field hockey player
* Margaret Tosh (born 1937), Canadian javelin thrower
* Margaret Tragett (1885–1964), English badminton player
* Margaret Tumusiime (born 1962), Ugandan archer
* Margaret Wade (basketball), Margaret Wade (1912–1995), American college basketball player and coach
* Margaret Wagar (1902–1990), American bridge player
* Margaret Walker (athlete), Margaret Walker (1925–2016), British athlete
* Margaret Wambui (born 1995), Kenyan middle distance runner
* Margaret Watson (born 1986), Australian rugby union player
* Margaret Weedon (1853–1930), British archer
* Margaret Wellington (1926–2015), British swimmer
* Margaret Wenzell (1925–2014), baseball player
* Margaret White Wrixon (born 1944), British swimmer
* Margaret Wigiser (1924–2019), American baseball player
* Margaret Wilks (born 1950), English cricketer
* Margaret Wilson (tennis), Australian tennis player
* Margaret Wilson (cricketer) (born 1946), Australian cricketer
* Margaret Wiseman, Scottish curler
* Margaret Woodbridge (1902–1995), American swimmer
* Margaret Woodlock (born 1938), Australian shot putter
* Margaret Zachariah, Australian squash player
Other
* Margaret Q. Adams (1874–1974), American law enforcement officer
* Margaret Adams (pilot), Margaret Adams, Australian aviator
* Margaret Agee, New Zealand mental health researcher
* Margaret Aitken (1906–1980), Canadian author, columnist, journalist, and politician
* Margaret Alcorn (1868–1967), New Zealand interior decorator
* Margaret Irene Anderson (1915–1995), Australian Army nurse
* Margaret Jean Anderson (1915–2003), Canadian businesswoman and politician
* Margaret Anderson (museum creator), Margaret Anderson (1834–1910), Scottish museum founder
* Margaret J. Anderson, American hotel owner, businesswoman and socialite
* Margaret Anderson Watts (1832–1905), American social reformer, writer and clubwoman
* Margaret Ansei, Ghanaian business executive and politician
* Margaret Anstee (1926–2016), British diplomat and writer
* Margaret Arlen (1916–2000), American talk show host
* Margaret Arnstein (1904–1972), American nurse and public health researcher
* Margaret E. Bailey (1915–2014), African-American nurse
* Margaret H. Bair, U. S. Air Force general
* Margaret Ida Balfour (1866–1945), Scottish doctor and campaigner
* Margaret Barbour, British businesswoman and philanthropist
* Margaret Barclay, 1618 as a result of witch trials held in Irvine, Ayrshire
* Margaret Bartlett Thornton (1901–1981), American woman pilot and poet
* Margaret Bartley (born 1959), American judge
* Margaret Battye (1909–1949), Australian lawyer
* Margaret Beavan (1875–1931), English welfare worker and local politician
* Margaret Bechstein Hays (1887–1956), American survivor of the titanic sinking
* Margaret Bedggood (born 1939), New Zealand professor at University of Waikato and Chief Human Rights Commissioner
* Margaret Benn, Viscountess Stansgate (1897–1991), British theologian and advocate of women’s rights
* Margaret Olofsson Bergman (1872–1948), American weaver, teacher and designer
* Margaret Binley, British silversmith
* Margaret Bird, American economist and activist
* Margaret Blackshere (died 2019), American labor organizer and leader
* Margaret Catherine Blaikie (1823–1915), Scottish temperance reformer
* Margaret Blatch (1886–1963), English vegetarian chef, restaurateur, and cookbook writer
* Margaret Bonga Fahlstrom (c. 1797–1880), mixed-race woman of African and Ojibwe descent
* Margaret Booth (judge), Margaret Booth (1933–2021), British judge
* Margaret Borland (1824–1873), American pioneer
* Margaret Braun, American baker
* Margaret Brayne, 16th century London theatre owner
* Margaret Brent (), English immigrant colonial landowner
* Margaret A. Brewer (1930–2013), United States Marine Corps general
* Margaret Brooke (Canadian naval officer), Margaret Brooke (1915–2016), nursing sister of the Royal Caribbean Navy
* Margaret Brown (1867–1932), survivor of the sinking of the Titanic
* Margaret Brownlow (1916–1968), English gardener and writer
* Margaret Bullock (journalist), Margaret Bullock (1845–1903), New Zealand writer and feminist
* Margaret W. Burcham, brigadier general of the United States Army
* Margaret Burges, Scottish woman executed for witchcraft
* Margaret Burnham Geddes (1907–1995), American architect
* Margaret Burnham (born 1944), American lawyer and academic
* Margaret Burns, Edinburgh prostitute
* Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn (1829–1928), British-Indian ornithologist and artist
* Margaret Just Butcher (1913–2000), American educator and civil rights activist
* Margaret Menzies Campbell (1893–1990), Scottish surgeon
* Margaret Anne Cargill (1920–2006), American philanthropist
* Margaret Caro (1848–1938), New Zealand dentist and social reformer
* Margaret Casely-Hayford (born 1959), British lawyer
* Margaret Casson (1913–1999), British architect
* Margaret Center Klingelsmith (1852–1931), American suffragist, lawyer, translator, and law librarian
* Margaret Chabot, American hotel owner
* Margaret Bailey Chandler (1929–1997), American community leader
* Margaret Chanler Aldrich (1870–1963), American nurse and author
* Margaret Chiara (born 1943), American lawyer
* Margaret Chutich (born 1958), American judge
* Margaret Clap, English innkeeper
* Margaret Turner Clarke, Australian nurse
* Margaret G. Cobb (1907–2010), American musicologist and archivist
* Margaret Cochran Corbin (1751–1800), fought in the U.S. Revolutionary War and was given a pension by Congress
* Margaret Cole (1893–1980), English politician and poet
* Margaret Collier (1719–1794), English companion and correspondent
* Margaret Cooper (nurse) (1922–2013), English nurse
* Margaret Cooper (WRNS officer) (1918–2016), member of the Women's Royal Naval Service
* Margaret Isobel Cooper (1915–2015), British naval auxiliary officer
* Margaret Corbin (1751–1800), American combatant in the American Revolutionary War
* Margaret Cowie Crowe (1882–1973), Scottish nurse who served in Serbia and Russia during World War I
* Margaret Crang (1910–1992), Canadian lawyer, teacher, journalist and activist
* Margaret Crawford, urban planner and professor
* Margaret Cunneen (born 1959), Australian barrister, prosecutor and commissioner
* Margaret Cunnison (1914–2004), Scottish aviator and flying instructor
* Margaret E. Curran, American lawyer
* Margaret Cuyler (1758–1814), actress and courtesan
* Margaret Llewelyn Davies (1861–1944), general secretary of the Cooperative Women’s Guild
* Margaret Damer Dawson (1873–1920), English animal rights activist, anti-vivisectionist and philanthropist
* Margaret De Patta (1903–1964), American jewelry designer and educator
* Margaret Dilke (1857–1914), British writer and campaigner for women’s rights
* Margaret Dobbs (1871–1962), Irish scholar and playwright
* Margaret Dockrell (1849–1926), Irish suffragist, philanthropist and councillor
* Margaret Elizabeth Douglas (1934–2008), English television producer and executive
* Margaret Douie Dougal (1858–1938), British chemical publication indexer
* Margaret Dunning (1910–2015), American businesswoman
* Margaret Dye Ellis (1845–1925), American social reformer
* Margaret Fairchild (1911–1989), British homeless woman
* Margaret Fairley (1885–1968), Canadian educator, writer and political activist
* Margaret Fairweather (1901–1944), British aviator
* Margaret Feeny (1917–2012), founder and first director of London's Africa Centre
* Margaret Feilman (1921–2013), Australian architect, landscape designer and town planner
* Margaret Findlay (1916–2007), Australian architect
* Margaret Flagg Holmes (1886–1976), Alpha Kappa Alpha founder
* Margaret Forbes (c. 1807–1877), New Zealand innkeeper and land protestor
* Margaret Hadley Foster (1843–1920), American journalist, clubwoman and librarian
* Margaret Frere (1863–1961), British school manager and welfare worker
* Margaret Fritsch (1899–1993), American architect
* Margaret Furse (1911–1974), British costume designer
* Margaret Gaj (1919–2011), restaurant owner and political activist
* Margaret Gardiner (Miss Universe), Margaret Gardiner (born 1959), South African journalist, beauty queen and Miss Universe
* Margaret Garner, U. S. fugitive slave
* Margaret Garnett (born 1971), American judge
* Margaret Gatty (1809–1873), British writer and botanist
* Margaret Getchell (1841–1880), American retail executive
* Margaret Gorman (1905–1995), American model and beauty queen
* Margaret Manson Graham (1860–1933), Scottish nurse and missionary
* Margaret Graham (matron) (1860–1942), Australian nursing sister and army matron
* Margaret Graham (balloonist), British aeronaut
* Margaret Greenall, English businesswoman
* Margaret Grubb (1907–1963), American aviator
* Margaret R. Guzman (born 1960), American judge
* Margaret Hamilton Brown (1858–1952), Scottish-born school founder and headmistress
* Margaret Hamilton Reid (1912–2010), Irish businesswoman
* Margaret Hampshire (1918–2004), British educator and civil servant
* Margaret Hanmer (c. 1362 – c. 1420), the wife of Welsh leader Owain Glyndŵr
* Margaret Harkett, English woman executed for witchcraft
* Margaret Harris Amsler (1908–2002), American lawyer and law professor
* Margaret Harris (1904–2000), English theatre costume designer
* Margaret Harrison (born 1940), British feminist and artist
* Margaret Havinden (1895–1974), Scottish advertising executive
* Margaret Jane Scott Hawthorne (1869–1958), New Zealand tailor, trade unionist and factory inspector
* Margaret Hebblethwaite (born 1951), British writer, journalist, activist and religious worker
* Margaret Heffernan (Irish businesswoman) (born 1942), Irish businesswoman and CEO of retailer Dunnes Stores
* Margaret Heffernan (born 1955), American entrepreneur, CEO, writer and keynote speaker
* Margaret Heitkemper, American nurse
* Margaret Heitland (1860–1938), British journalist and suffragist
* Margaret Helfand (1947–2007), American architect and urban planner
* Margaret Heng (born 1961), Singaporean businesswomen
* Margaret Hicks (architect), Margaret Hicks, American architect
* Margaret Hicks Williams (1899-1972), American government official, writer, political expert
* Margaret Hitchcock (1883–1967), New Zealand nurse
* Margaret Hockaday (1907–1992), American advertising executive
* Margaret Emily Hodge (1858–1938), British educator and suffragist
* Margaret Holmes (ecumenist), Margaret Holmes, Australian community worker and refugee resettlement officer
* Margaret Howell (born 1946), British fashion designer
* Margaret Hutton, early settler colonist in southwestern Pennsylvania and the largest enslaver in the state at the time of the first federal census
* Margaret Huxley (1854–1940), English nurse
* Margaret Hyndman (1901–1991), Canadian lawyer
* Margaret Inequane, Manx woman who executed for witchcraft
* Margaret Ireri, Kenyan businesswoman and market research professional
* Margaret Irvine (1948–2023), British crossword compiler
* Margaret Isely (1921–1997), American businesswoman
* Margaret Jackson (executive), Margaret Jackson (born 1953), Australian corporate executive
* Margaret Jarvie (1928–2004), Scottish swimmer and counselor
* Margaret Jeffrey (1896–1977), Australian police officer
* Margaret Johnstone (1851–1909), English missionary and educator in Hong Kong
* Margaret Josephs (born 1967), American fashion designer, entrepreneur and television personality
* Margaret M. Keane, American businesswoman
* Margaret Kempe Howell (1806–1867), American planter and slave owner
* Margaret Kidd (1900–1989), Scottish legal advocate, editor and politician
* Margaret Kirchner Stevenson (1920–1998), American pilot and educator
* Margaret K. Knight (1903–1983), British psychologist, secular humanist advocate and radio presenter
* Margaret E. Kuhn (1905–1995), founder of the Gray Panthers organisation
* Margaret Rebecca Lahee (1831–1895), Irish popular Lancashire dialect writer
* Margaret Lambert (1906–1995), British historian and art collector
* Margaret Lang (1893–1983), Australian nurse
* Margaret Leonard (1916–2004), American tax consultant and politician from Washington
* Margaret Livingston (1895–1984), American actress and businesswoman
* Margaret Loesch, American television producer and executive
* Margaret Looker (1910–1988), Australian hospital matron and nurse
* Margaret Lorimer (1866–1954), New Zealand school principal and mountaineer
* Margaret Louden (1910–1998), British surgeon
* Margaret Anne Lyons, Australian nurse activist
* Margaret MacDonald (nurse), Margaret MacDonald (1873–1948), Canadian military nurse
* Margaret MacKay (lawyer), Margaret MacKay, New Zealand lawyer
* Margaret Hope MacPherson (1908–2001), Scottish crofter, politician, author and activist
* Margaret Magill (1888–1962), New Zealand educator and politician
* Margaret H. Marshall (born 1944), American judge
* Margaret Maxfield (1926–2016), American mathematician and textbook author
* Margaret M. McChesney, American lawyer
* Margaret McCurry (born 1942), American architect
* Margaret Bischell McFadden, American philanthropist and social worker
* Margaret McKay (1907–1996), British trade unionist and politician
* Margaret McKelvy Bird (1909–1996), American socialite and archaeologist
* Margaret McMurdo (born 1954), Australian judge
* Margaret McMurray, the last native speakers of a Lowland dialect of Scottish Gaelic in the Galloway variety
* Margaret McNaughton, Scottish Canadian author and historian
* Margaret Mercer (1791–1846), American abolitionist and educator
* Margaret Stevenson Miller (1896–1979), British campaigner for women’s rights and lecturer
* Margaret Mitchell (chief executive), American lawyer and CEO
* Margaret Mittelheuser, Australian stockbroker
* Margaret Molloy, Irish businesswoman
* Margaret Ann Moore (born 1957), Canadian-American executive coach
* Margaret Pitt Morison (1900–1985), Australian architect
* Margaret M. Morrow (born 1950), American judge
* Margaret Mountford (born 1951), British lawyer, businessman and television personality
* Margaret A. Muir, 19th-century American schooner
* Margaret Munro (1914–2005), New Zealand architect
* Margaret Stuyvesant Murat (1891–1976), American heiress, dancer and actress
* Margaret Mwanakatwe (born 1961), Zambian accountant, bank executive and politician
* Margaret Naylor (1893–1967), British woman who became first female deep-sea diver
* Margaret Neill Fraser (1880–1915), First World War heroine and amateur golfer
* Margaret Ann Neve (1792–1903), Guernesey supercentenarian
* Margaret de Neville, English landowner
* Margaret Cross Norton (1891–1984), First Illinois State Archivist
* Margaret Nyakang'o, Kenyan accountant
* Margaret Nyland (born 1942), Australian writer
* Margaret Oliver (born 1955), English detective constable and whistleblower
* Margaret O'Rourke, Australian politician and academic administrator
* Margaret Penny (1812–1861), Scottish woman explorer
* Margaret Peterlin (born 1970), American lawyer and government official
* Margaret Phelan (1902–2000), President of the Kilkenny Archaeological Society
* Margaret Pilkington (Girl Guides), Margaret Pilkington (1906–1985), English Girl Guide leader
* Margaret Montgomery Pirrie (1857–1935), Irish public figure and philanthropist
* Margaret Poisal, Arapaho interpreter
* Margaret Pope (journalist and anticolonial activist), Margaret Pope (1918–?), British journalist and anti-colonial activist
* Margaret Prior (1773–1842), American humanitarian, missionary, moral reform worker, writer
* Margaret Puxon (1915–2008), English gynecologist, obstetrician and barrister
* Margaret Quass (1926–2003), British educationalist and activist
* Margaret Ramsay-Hale, Jamaican lawyer and judge
* Margaret Ratner Kunstler, civil rights attorney
* Margaret Mary Ray (1952–1998), American stalker
* Margaret Raymond, American lawyer
* Margaret Read, American architect
* Margaret Richards (architect), Margaret Richards (1928–2022), Scottish architect
* Margaret Richardson (lawyer), Margaret Richardson (1943–2021), American lawyer
* Margaret Ringenberg (1921–2008), American aviator
* Margaret M. Risk, Canadian nurse
* Margaret Zattau Roan (1905–1975), American music therapist
* Margaret S. Roberts (1872–1952), American librarian and suffragist
* Margaret Roberts (herbalist), Margaret Roberts (1937–2017), South African herbalist
* Margaret Dreier Robins (1868–1945), American labor leader and philanthropist
* Margaret Robinson (activist and scholar), Canadian activist
* Margaret Hayden Rorke (1883–1969), American color standards expert, actress and suffragist
* Margaret Dorothea Rowbotham (1883–1978), British engineer and women’s rights campaigner
* Margaret Roxan (1924–2003), British archaeologist and expert on Roman military diplomas
* Margaret Rudin (born 1943), American murderer
* Margaret Rudkin (1897–1967), American businesswoman
* Margaret Runcie (1925–2022), pony breeder
* Margaret Fane Rutledge (1914–2004), Canadian pioneering pilot
* Margaret A. Ryan (born 1964), American judge
* Margaret Sachs, American lawyer
* Margaret Klein Salamon, clinical psychologist and climate activist
* Margaret Sanger (1879–1966), founder of the birth control movement in the United States
* Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage (1828–1918), American philanthropist who established the Russell Sage Foundation
* Margaret Sayers Peden (1927–2020), American translator and historian
* Margaret Sekaggya, Ugandan lawyer and human rights activist
* Margaret Sentamu Masagazi (born 1960), Ugandan media entrepreneur
* Margaret B. Seymour (born 1947), American judge
* Margaret Sheehan Blodgett (1897–1987), American attorney
* Margaret George Shello (1942–1969), Assyrian guerilla and Peshmerga commander
* Margaret Sibthorp, English feminist activist, writer, magazine editor and theosophist
* Margaret J.A. Simpson (1920–1996), Scottish-born New Zealand botanist, botanical collector and mountaineer
* Margaret Skinnider (1892–1971), Irish-Scottish revolutionary and feminist
* Margaret Mary Smith (1916–1987), British ichthyologist and illustrator
* Margaret Sparrow (born 1935), New Zealand medical doctor, activist and author
* Margaret Elwyn Sparshott (1870–1940), British nurse
* Margaret Spellings (born 1957), American politician and educator
* Margaret Fulton Spencer (1882–1966), American architect and painter
* Margaret Stone (judge), Margaret Stone (died 2021), Australian judge
* Margaret Strickland (judge), Margaret Strickland (born 1980), American judge
* Margaret Stumpp, American executive
* Margaret Suckley (1891–1991), American archivist
* Margaret Swain (1909–2002), English embroidery and textile historian
* Margaret M. Sweeney (born 1955), American judge
* Margaret Synge Dryer, Canadian architect
* Margaret Thomson (medical doctor), Margaret Thomson (1902–1982), Scottish physician and prisoner of war
* Margaret Thorn (1897–1969), New Zealand bookkeeper, activist and welfare worker
* Margaret Townsend Jenkins (1843–1923), Welsh-born social reformer and educator
* Margaret Tracey (born 1967), American ballet dancer and educator
* Margaret Treuer (1943–2020), American judge and lawyer
* Margaret Trudeau (born 1948), ex-wife of the late Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau
* Margaret Van Alen Bruguiére (1876–1969), American socialite and art collector
* Margaret Van Pelt Vilas (1905–1995), American architect
* Margaret J. Vergeront (born 1946), American judge
* Margaret Wallace (born 1967), American entrepreneur
* Margaret Waters (c. 1835–1870), English murderer
* Margaret Wearne (1893–1967), Australian trade unionist
* Margaret Werner Tobien (1921–1997), American gulag survivor
* Margaret West (1903–1963), American heiress and vaudeville performer
* Margaret Frances Wheeler, British woman who was kidnapped
* Margaret Roach Wheeler, Native American weaver and fashion designer
* Margaret White (judge), Margaret White (born 1943), Australian judge
* Margaret Wilson (judge), Margaret Wilson (born 1953), Australian judge
* Margaret Windeyer (1866–1939), Australian librarian and feminist
* Margaret W. Wong (born 1950), American lawyer
* Margaret Wood (fashion designer), Margaret Wood, Navajo/Seminole fiber artist, fashion designer and quilt maker
* Margaret Woodbury Strong (1897–1969), American collector and philanthropist
* Margaret H. Woodward, U. S. Air Force general
* Margaret Workman (born 1947), American judge
* Margaret York (1941–2021), American police officer
Fictional characters
* Margaret, a character who is Jake the Dog’s mother in the TV series ''Adventure Time''
* Margaret in ''Much Ado About Nothing'' by William Shakespeare
* Margaret, a character in the Cartoon Network animated series ''Regular Show''
* Mary Margaret Blanchard, a main character in American Broadcasting Company, ABC TV show ''Once Upon a Time (TV series), Once Upon A Time'', played by Ginnifer Goodwin
* 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 Fish, a chiropodist and a character in ''Bob and Margaret''
*Magrat Garlick, a young witch in the Terry Pratchett Discworld novels
* Margaret Hale, heroine in Elizabeth Gaskell's 1855 novel ''North and South (Gaskell 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''
* Maggie Horton, Margaret "Maggie" Horton, a character on the soap opera ''Days of Our Lives''
* Margaret Houlihan, character in both the movie and television show ''M*A*S*H''
* Kit Kittredge, Margaret Mildred "Kit" Kittredge, in the ''Kit Kittredge'' series of American Girl books and related toys
* Margaret "Meg" March, character in ''Little Women'' by Louisa May Alcott
* Margaret "Maggie" Mathison, character in Homeland (TV series), ''Homeland''
* Margaret Moonlight, a boss in the Suda 51 game ''No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle''
* Peggy Olson, Margaret "Peggy" Olson, a central character in the AMC (TV channel), AMC series ''Mad Men''
* Mistress Margaret Page in ''The Merry Wives of Windsor'' by William Shakespeare
* Maggie Simpson, Margaret Evelyn "Maggie" Simpson in the TV show ''The Simpsons''
* Maggie Sawyer, Margaret Sawyer, fictional character in DC Comics and a supporting character in Superman and Batman
* Margaret SquarePants, SpongeBob's mother and Harold's wife in ''SpongeBob SquarePants''
* Margaret White (Stephen King), Margaret White, a character Stephen King's ''Carrie (franchise), Carrie''
* Peggy Woolley, Margaret "Peggy" Woolley, a character in the BBC radio serial ''The Archers''
*Peggy Hill, Margaret "Peggy" Hill, a character in the TV show "King of the Hill
See also
* Margaret (disambiguation)
* Lady Margaret (disambiguation)
References
External links
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