HOME

TheInfoList



OR:

Margarete is a German feminine given name. It is derived from
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 ...
''margarites'' (μαργαρίτης), meaning "the pearl". Via the
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 ...
''margarita'', it arrived in the German sprachraum. Related names in English include Daisy, Greta, Gretchen, Madge, Mae, Mag, Magee, Magdy, Magga, Maggie, Maggy, Maidie, Maisie, Marg,
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, English name since the 11th century, and remained popular thro ...
, Marguerite, Margarita, Margareta, Margarida, Marge, Margery, Marget, Margo, Margot, Marjorie, Marjory, Matge, May, Meg, Megan, Mairead, Mer, Meta, Rita, Molly, Peg and Peggy.


People named Margarete

* Margarete Weißkirchner (1460–1500), commoner and common-law spouse of Philip I, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg * Margarete of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1516 or 1517–1580), a princess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel by birth, Duchess of Münsterberg, Oels and Bernstadt by marriage * Princess Margarete Karola of Saxony (1900–1962), Duchess of Saxony, Princess of Hohenzollern by marriage * Archduchess Margarete Sophie of Austria (1870–1902), Archduchess of Austria and Princess of Bohemia, Hungary, and Tuscany by birth, Duchess of Württemberg by marriage * Archduchess Margarethe Klementine of Austria (1870–1955), Archduchess of Austria and Princess of Bohemia, Hungary, and Tuscany by birth, Princess of Thurn and Taxis by marriage * Margarete Adler (1896–1990), Austrian freestyle swimmer, diver and gymnastics teacher, first Austrian woman Summer Olympics medalist (with her relay teammates) * Margarete Bagshaw (1964–2015), American painter and potter * Margarete Bieber (1879–1978), Jewish German art historian, classical archaeologist and professor, the second woman university professor in Germany * Margarete Böhme (1867–1939), German writer * Margarete Bonnevie (1884–1970), Norwegian author, feminist and politician * Margarete Buber-Neumann (1901–1989), German writer, communist and later anti-communist * Margarete Cranmer (d. c. 1571), second wife of the reformation Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer   * Margarete Depner (1885–1970), Romanian sculptor, painter and illustrator * Margarete Dessoff (1874–1944), German choral conductor, singer and voice teacher * Margarete Gussow (1896–?), German astronomer * Margarete Haagen (1889–1966), German stage and film actress * Margarete Haimberger-Tanzer (1916–1987), Austrian lawyer, prosecutor and judge * Margarete Heymann (1899–1990), German ceramic artist * Margarete Hilferding (1871–1942), Austrian Jewish teacher, doctor, individual psychologist and first woman admitted into the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society * Margarete Himmler (1893–1967), wife of Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler * Margarete Kahn (1880–1942?), German mathematician and Holocaust victim * Grete Keilson (1905–1999), German communist politician * Margarete Klose (1899–1968), German operatic mezzo-soprano * Margarete Kollisch (1893–1979), Austrian writer and poet * Margarete Kupfer (1881–1953), German actress * Margarete Lanner (1896–1981), German stage and film actress * Margarete Mitscherlich-Nielsen (1917–2012), German psychoanalyst * Margarete Neumann (1917–2002), German writer and lyrical poet * Margarete Pioresan (born 1956), Brazilian former football goalkeeper * Margarete Robsahm (born 1942), Norwegian model, actress and director * Margarete Schlegel (1899–1987), German actress * Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky (1897–2000), first female Austrian architect and communist anti-Nazi resistance member * Margarete Schön (1895–1985), German stage and film actress * Margarete Seeler (1909–1996), German-born American artist, designer, educator, and author; known for her cloisonné work. * Margarete Sommer (1893–1965), German Catholic social worker and lay Dominican who saved Jews from the Holocaust * Margarete Steffin (1908–1941), German actress and writer, one of Bertold Brecht's lovers and closest collaborators * Margarete Steiff (1847–1909), German seamstress who founded Margarete Steiff GmbH, the toy stuffed animal manufacturer * Margarete Teschemacher (1903–1959), German operatic soprano * Margarete Wallmann (1901 or 1904–1992), ballerina, choreographer, stage designer and opera director in Austria * Margarete von Wrangell (1877–1932), Baltic German agricultural chemist, the first female full professor at a German university {{given name Feminine given names German feminine given names Given names derived from gemstones