Marguerite (first name)
Marguerite is a female and male given name .
Origin and meaning
The name is the French form of the given name Margarete .
Well-known namesake
First name
- Marguerite of Anjou-Sicily (1273–1299), Countess of Anjou and Maine
- Marguerite Audoux (1863–1937), French novelist
- Marguerite Barankitse (* dert), Burundian development worker
- Marguerite, Countess of Blessington (1789–1849), British-Irish writer, gossip columnist and salonière
- Marguerite Boulc'h (1891–1951), French chanson singer and actress
- Marguerite de Bourbon (1438–1483), French noblewoman from the House of Bourbon
- Marguerite Broquedis (1893-1983), French tennis player
- Marguerite Canal (1890–1978), French composer
- Marguerite Charpentier (1848–1904), French salonnière
- Marguerite Clark (1883-1940), American actress
- Marguerite Donlon (* 1966), Irish dancer
- Marguerite Durand (1864–1936), French actress, journalist and suffragette
- Marguerite Duras (1914–1996), French writer, screenwriter and film director
- Marguerite Frey-Surbek (1886–1981), Swiss painter
- Marguerite Friedlaender (1896–1985), German-English ceramist, head of the ceramics department at the Burg Gieb State Art School
- Marguerite Gérard (1761–1837), French painter and etcher
- Marguerite Élie Guadet (1758–1794), French revolutionary leader
- Marguerite Higgins (1920–1966), American journalist and war correspondent
- Marguerite Kuczynski (1904–1998), German literary and economist
- Marguerite Laugier (1896–1976), French astronomer
- Marguerite Long (1874–1966), French pianist
- Marguerite MacIntyre (born 1965), American actress
- Marguerite Monnot (1903–1961), French composer and concert pianist
- Marguerite Moreau (born 1977), American actress
- Marguerite Nicolas (1916– ??), French high jumper
- Marguerite Louise d'Orléans (1645–1721), by marriage Grand Duchess of Tuscany
- Marguerite Perey (1909–1975), French chemist and physicist
- Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall (1880–1943), British writer
- Marguerite Roberts (1905–1989), American screenwriter
- Marguerite Roesgen-Champion (1894–1976), Swiss composer and harpsichordist
- Marguerite de Sassenage (dert – 1471), mistress of King Louis XI.
- Marguerite Sikabonyi (* 1982), Italian actress
- Marguerite Steen (1894–1975), English writer
- Marguerite Steiger (1909–1990), Swiss entrepreneur
- Marguerite Steinheil (1869–1954), French wife and mistress
- Marguerite de Valois-Angoulême (1523–1574), duchesse de Berry, Duchess of Berry, wife of Emanuel Philibert of Savoy
- Marguerite Wolff (1883–1964), German-British lawyer and head of department at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for foreign public
- Marguerite Yourcenar (1903–1987), French writer
Intermediate name
- Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot (1753–1823), politician, scientist and lieutenant
- Grace Marguerite Hay Drummond-Hay (1895–1946), first woman to circumnavigate the earth in an airship
Double name
- Louise-Marguerite Claret de la Touche (1868–1915), Salesian and mystic, founder of the Bethany of the Heart of Jesus
- Charlotte-Marguerite de Montmorency (1594–1650), Princess of Condé and mistress of the French King Henry IV.
- Marie-Marguerite Dufay (* 1949), French politician (Parti socialiste)
- Anne-Marguerite Petit DuNoyer (1663–1719), journalist
- Marguerite-Catherine Haynault (1736–1823), mistress of the French King Louis XV.
- Louise-Marguerite de Lorraine-Guise (1588–1631), princesse de Conti, French author and Princess of Conti by marriage