Margaret (first name)
Margaret or Margareth is a female given name .
Origin and meaning
The name is a form of the given name Margarete .
Name bearers
Margaret
- Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (1930-2002), sister of Queen Elizabeth II.
- Margaret, 10th Countess of Mar , Scottish noblewoman
- Margaret Abbott (1876–1955), American golfer
- Margaret Alexiou , British neo-Greekist and comparativeist
- Margaret Anderson (1886–1973), American writer and editor
- Margaret S. Archer (* 1943), British sociologist
- Margaret Atwood (* 1939), Canadian writer
- Margaret Avery (* 1944), American singer and actress
- Margaret Bailes (* 1951), American athlete
- Margaret Bakkes (1931–2016), South African writer
- Margaret Ball (1515–1584) Irish blessed and martyr
- Margaret Barrand (* 1940), English badminton player
- Margaret Beaufort (1427–1474) , English nobleman, wife of Humphrey Stafford, 7th Earl of Stafford
- Margaret Beaufort (1443–1509) , English noblewoman, ancestor of the House of Tudor, mother of Henry VII.
- Margaret Beck (* 1952), English badminton player
- Margaret Beckett (* 1943), British politician
- Margaret Booth (1898–2002), American film editor
- Margaret Bourke-White (1904–1971), American photo reporter
- Margaret Boxall (* 1945), English badminton player
- Margaret Claudia Brevoort (1825–1876), American mountaineer
- Margaret Burbidge (1919-2020), British astrophysicist
- Margaret Busby (* dert), Ghanaian author, editor and publisher
- Margaret Carroux (1912–1991), German translator
- Margaret Cavendish (1623–1673), English nobleman and writer
- Margaret Chan (* 1947), Chinese politician and diplomat
- Margaret Cho (* 1968), American comedian and actress
- Margaret Clap († 1726), English landlady for a gay club
- Margaret Cole (1893–1980), British socialist, politician, poet and author
- Margaret Colin (born 1958), American actress
- Margaret of Connaught (1882–1920), Crown Princess of Sweden
- Margaret Corbin (1751–1800), American soldier
- Margaret Court (born 1942), Australian tennis player
- Margaret Craven (1901–1980), American writer
- Margaret Curtis (1883–1965), American golf and tennis player
- Margaret Truman Daniel (1924–2008), American author and writer
- Margaret Davies (1884–1963), Welsh collector and patron
- Margaret Oakley Dayhoff (1925–1983), American chemist
- Margaret Delacourt-Smith, Baroness Delacourt-Smith of Alteryn (1916-2010), British politician
- Margaret Deland (1857–1945), American writer
- Margaret Douglas of Galloway (1435–1488), Scottish noblewoman
- Margaret Douglas (1515–1578), British nobleman, grandmother of King James I of England
- Margaret Downey (* dert), American civil rights activist
- Margaret Drabble (* 1939), British writer and literary critic
- Margaret Drummond (1340–1375), mistress and Queen of Scotland
- Margaret Dumont (1882–1965), American actress
- Margaret Osborne duPont (1918–2012), American tennis player
- Margaret Ekpo (1914–2006), Nigerian politician and women's rights activist
- Margaret Elphinstone (* 1948), British author, literary scholar and university lecturer
- Margaret Erskine († 1572), mistress of King James V of Scotland
- Margaret Fell (1614–1702), English Quaker
- Margaret Fishback Powers (born around 1944), Canadian writer
- Margaret Forster (1938-2016), English writer
- Margaret Fountaine (1862–1940), British butterfly researcher
- Margaret Fuller (1810–1850), American journalist, critic and suffragette
- Margaret Furse (1911–1974), British costume designer
- Margaret Garner (1834-1858), American slave
- Margaret Gatty (1809–1873), English writer
- Margaret Geller (* 1947), American astrophysicist
- Margaret George (* 1943), American historian and writer
- Margaret Dunlop Gibson (1843–1920), Scottish theologian and orientalist
- Margaret Gibson (writer) (1948-2006), Canadian writer
- Margaret Gorman (1905–1995), American beauty queen
- Margaret Peterson Haddix (* 1964), American writer
- Margaret Harrison (violinist) (1899–1995), British violinist
- Margaret Hassan (1945–2004), Irish-British-Iraqi director of the aid organization CARE International
- Margaret Heckler (1931–2018), American politician and diplomat
- Margaret of Hesse and near Rhine (1913–1997), German noblewoman
- Margaret Hoelzer (* 1983), American swimmer
- Margaret Lindsay Huggins (1848-1915), Irish astronomer
- Margaret Illmann (* 1965), Australian ballet dancer
- Margaret John (1926–2011), British-Welsh actress
- Margaret Johnson (1919–1939), American jazz musician
- Margaret Jones († 1648), midwife and victim of the witch hunt
- Margaret Jope (1913-2004), British biochemist
- Margaret Joslin (1883–1956), American actress
- Margaret Keita (* 1960), Gambian politician
- Margaret Kivelson (* 1928), American astrophysicist
- Margaret Klare (* 1932), German writer
- Margaret E. Knight (1838–1914), American inventor
- Margaret Ladd (born 1942), American actress
- Margaret Landon (1903-1993), American writer
- Margaret Ruthven Lang (1867–1972), American composer
- Margaret Laurence (1926–1987), Canadian writer
- Margaret Lee (born 1943), British actress
- Margaret Leighton (1922–1976), British actress
- Margaret Lindsay (1910–1981), American actress
- Margaret Livingston (1900–1984), American actress
- Margaret Lockley (born 1947), British marathon runner
- Margaret Lockwood (1916–1990), British actress
- Margaret Lowenfeld (1890–1973), English psychotherapist
- Margaret MacDonald Mackintosh (1864–1933), Scottish painter
- Margaret Mackworth (1883–1958), British nobleman and suffragette
- Margaret Mahler (1897–1985), American psychoanalyst of Hungarian origin
- Margaret Mahy (1936–2012), New Zealand writer
- Margaret Maltby (1860–1944), American physical chemist and suffragette
- Margaret Cambridge (1873–1929), member of the British royal family, Duchess of Teck in the Kingdom of Württemberg
- Margaret Maron , American writer
- Margaret Mazzantini (* 1961), Italian writer
- Margaret McCord (1916-2004), South African author
- Margaret Mead (1901–1978), American anthropologist and ethnologist
- Margaret Ménégoz (* 1941), German-French film producer and distributor
- Margaret Millar (1915–1994), Canadian writer
- Margaret Mitchell (1900–1949), American journalist and writer
- Margaret Molesworth (1894–1985), Australian tennis player
- Margaret Morton (* 1968), Scottish curler
- Margaret Wangari Muriuki (* 1986), Kenyan track and field athlete
- Margaret Alice Murray (1863–1963), British anthropologist and Egyptologist
- Margaret O'Brien (born 1937), American actress
- Margaret Okayo (* 1976), Kenyan long-distance runner
- Margaret Pole (1473–1541), English noblewoman and martyr
- Margaret Preston (1875–1963), Australian painter and printmaker
- Margaret Price (1941-2011), Welsh singer (soprano)
- Margaret Roper (1505–1544), English translator and author
- Margaret Rutherford (1892–1972), British actress
- Margaret A. Ryan (* 1964), American judge
- Margaret Sanger (1879–1966), American nurse and feminist
- Margaret Scriven (1912-2001), British tennis player
- Margaret Rhea Seddon (* 1947), American astronaut
- Margaret Seltzer (* 1974), American author
- Margaret Sheridan (actress) (1926–1982), American actress
- Margaret Simpson (* 1981), Ghanaian athlete
- Margaret Skjelbred (* 1949), Norwegian writer
- Margaret Chase Smith (1897–1995), American politician
- Margaret Spellings (* 1957), American politician
- Margaret Stocks (1895–1985), English badminton and tennis player
- Margaret Storm Jameson (1891–1986), English writer
- Margaret Sullavan (1909–1960), American actress
- Margaret Taylor (1788-1852), American first lady
- Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013), British politician
- Margaret Tragett (1885–1964), English badminton player
- Margaret Tucker (1904–1996), Aboriginal political activist
- Margaret Tudor (1489–1541), English princess, Queen Consort of Scotland
- Margaret Turnbull (* dert), American astronomer
- Margaret Varner (* 1927), American badminton, tennis, and squash player and riding stables owner
- Margaret Eriksdotter Wasa (1497–1536), Swedish noblewoman, sister of King Gustav I.
- Margaret Weis (* 1948), American writer
- Margaret Whiting (1924–2011), American singer
- Margaret Wild (* 1948), Australian writer
- Margaret Woodbridge (1902–1995), American swimmer
- Margaret H. Wright (* 1944), American mathematician
- Margaret Wycherly (1881–1956), British actress
- Margaret Yorke (1924–2012), British writer
Intermediate name
- Harriet Margaret Louisa Bolus (1877–1970), South African botanist
- Julia Margaret Cameron (1815–1879), British photographer
- Pamela Margaret Kilmartin (* dert), New Zealand astronomer
Double name
- Mary-Margaret Humes (born 1958), American actress
Margareth
- Margareth Kammerer (* 1966), jazz singer and guitarist
- Margareth Menezes (* 1962), Brazilian singer
- Margareth Obexer (* 1970), South Tyrolean author
See also
- Margaret (disambiguation)
- St. Margareth in Obervöls