Margit
Margit is a feminine given name .
Origin and meaning of the name
Margit is the Nordic short form of Margarete meaning pearl .
Well-known namesake
- Margit Auer (* 1967), German journalist and writer
- Margit Bendokat (* 1943), German film and theater actress
- Margit Borg (* 1969), Swedish badminton player
- Margit Carstensen (* 1940), German theater and film actress
- Margit Fischer (* 1943), wife of the former Austrian Federal President Heinz Fischer
- Margit Geissler-Rothemund (1958-2016), German actress
- Margit Kaffka (1880–1918), Hungarian writer and poet
- Margit Kern (* 1968), German art historian
- Margit Kraker (* 1960), Austrian lawyer
- Margit Müller (* 1952), German national hockey player
- Margit Orlogi (* 1958), German stone sculptor and painter
- Margit Paar (* 1970), German luge athlete
- Margit Ruile (* 1967), German author for children and young people
- Margit Saad (* 1929), actress and director
- Margit Sandemo (1924–2018), Swedish-Norwegian author
- Margit Schönberger (* 1948), German journalist and non-fiction author
- Margit Schreiner (* 1953), Austrian writer
- Margit Schumann (1952–2017), German luge athlete
- Margit Slachta (1884–1974), founder of the Hungarian order
- Margit Sponheimer (* 1943), German pop singer and actress
- Margit Stumpp (* 1963), German politician (Alliance 90 / The Greens)
- Margit Symo (1913–1992), Hungarian-Austrian actress and dancer
- Margit Werner (* 1951), German politician (PDS, later FDP)
- Margit Zinke (1914–1945), German communist resistance fighter and Nazi victim
Individual evidence
- ^ The large first name lexicon , FA Brockhaus GmbH, Gütersloh / Munich, 2013, ISBN 978-3-577-09057-5 , p. 139.