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