List of Famous people named Margaret

Name Margaret is among the most common names in USA, England, Canada, Australia. Shortened forms: Maggie, Meg. Similar names: Maggie, Meg, Margarete, Margarita, Margareta, Margarethe, Margaretta, Margaretha, Margareth, Margarett. Here are some famous Margarets:

Margaret Qualley

First Name Margaret
Last Name Qualley
Born on October 23, 1994 (age 28)
Height 173 cm | 5'8

Sarah Margaret Qualley is an American actress. The daughter of actress Andie MacDowell, she trained as a ballerina in her youth and briefly pursued a career in modeling. She made her acting debut with a minor role in the 2013 drama film Palo Alto and gained recognition for playing a troubled teenager in the HBO drama series The Leftovers (2014–2017). Qualley then appeared in the dark comedy The Nice Guys (2016) and in Netflix's supernatural thriller Death Note (2017).

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Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Hilda Roberts
First Name Margaret
Last Name Thatcher
Born on October 13, 1925
Died on April 8, 2013 (aged 87)
Height 165 cm | 5'5

Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, was a British politician and stateswoman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She was the longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century and the first woman to hold that office. A Soviet journalist dubbed her the "Iron Lady", a nickname that became associated with her uncompromising politics and leadership style. As prime minister, she implemented policies that became known as Thatcherism.

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Margaret Hughes

First Name Margaret
Last Name Hughes
Died on October 1, 1719

Margaret Hughes, also Peg Hughes or Margaret Hewes, is often credited as the first professional actress on the English stage on 8 December 1660. Hughes was the mistress of the English Civil War general Prince Rupert of the Rhine.

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Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll

Ethel Margaret Whigham
First Name Margaret
Last Name Argyll
Born on December 1, 1912
Died on July 25, 1993 (aged 80)

Ethel Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll was a British socialite, best remembered for a celebrated divorce case in 1963 from her second husband, the 11th Duke of Argyll, which featured salacious photographs and scandalous stories.

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Margaret Keane

Peggy Doris Hawkins
First Name Margaret
Last Name Keane
Born on September 15, 1927
Died on June 26, 2022 (aged 94)

Margaret D. H. Keane is an American artist known for her paintings of subjects with big eyes. She mainly paints women, children, or animals in oil or mixed media. The work achieved commercial success through inexpensive reproductions on prints, plates, and cups. It has been critically acclaimed but also criticized as formulaic and cliché. The artwork was originally attributed to Keane's husband, Walter Keane. After their divorce in the 1960s, Margaret soon claimed credit, which was established after a court "paint-off" in Hawaii.

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Margaret Sanger

Margaret Louise Higgins
First Name Margaret
Last Name Sanger
Born on September 14, 1879
Died on September 6, 1966 (aged 86)

Margaret Higgins Sanger was an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse. Sanger popularized the term "birth control", opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, and established organizations that evolved into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

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Margaret Nolan

First Name Margaret
Last Name Nolan
Born on October 29, 1943
Died on October 5, 2020 (aged 76)

Margaret Ann Nolan was an English actress, visual artist and glamour model. She was best known for her appearances in Goldfinger, A Hard Day's Night and six Carry On films, and also regularly appeared on screen from the 1960s to the 1980s.

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Margaret Trudeau

Margaret Joan Sinclair
First Name Margaret
Last Name Trudeau
Born on September 10, 1948 (age 74)

Margaret Joan Trudeau is a Canadian author, actress, photographer, former television talk show hostess, and social advocate for people with bipolar disorder, with which she is diagnosed. She is the former wife of Pierre Trudeau, 15th Prime Minister of Canada; they divorced in 1984, during his final months in office. She is the mother of Justin Trudeau, the 23rd Prime Minister of Canada; the journalist and author Alexandre "Sacha" Trudeau; and the deceased Michel Trudeau. She is the first woman in Canadian history to have been both the wife and the mother of prime ministers.

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Margaret Court

Margaret Smith
First Name Margaret
Last Name Court
Born on July 16, 1942 (age 80)
Height 175 cm | 5'9

Margaret Court, also known as Margaret Smith Court, is an Australian retired tennis player and former world No. 1. She won 24 Grand Slam women's singles titles in her career, 19 Grand Slam doubles titles, and 21 Grand Slam mixed doubles titles. She won more Grand Slam titles than any other player in history, and is considered one of the greatest tennis players of all time. She is currently a Christian minister in Perth, Western Australia.

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Margaret Cuomo

First Name Margaret
Last Name Cuomo
Born on March 29, 1959 (age 64)

Margaret I. Cuomo is an American radiologist, author, philanthropist, advocate, and blogger on health issues, especially those related to cancer prevention. She is the oldest child of former New York Governor Mario Cuomo and former New York First Lady Matilda Cuomo, and sister to current New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and journalist Chris Cuomo. She resides in New York.

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Margaret Abbott

First Name Margaret
Last Name Abbott
Died on June 10, 1955
Born in India
Height 180 cm | 5'11

Margaret Ives Abbott was an American golfer. She was the first American woman to win an Olympic event: the women's golf tournament at the 1900 Paris Games.

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Margaret Atwood

Margaret Eleanor Atwood
First Name Margaret
Last Name Atwood
Born on November 18, 1939 (age 83)
Born in Canada, Ontario

Margaret Eleanor Atwood is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, and inventor. Since 1961, she has published 18 books of poetry, 18 novels, 11 books of non-fiction, nine collections of short fiction, eight children's books, and two graphic novels, as well as a number of small press editions of both poetry and fiction. Atwood has won numerous awards and honors for her writing, including the Booker Prize (twice), Arthur C. Clarke Award, Governor General's Award, Franz Kafka Prize, Princess of Asturias Awards, and the National Book Critics and PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Awards. A number of her works have been adapted for film and television.

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Margaret Fulton

First Name Margaret
Last Name Fulton
Born on October 10, 1924
Died on July 24, 2019 (aged 94)

Margaret Isobel Fulton was a Scottish-born Australian food and cooking writer, journalist, author and commentator. She was the first of this genre of writers in Australia.

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Margaret Guido

Cecily Margaret Preston
First Name Margaret
Last Name Guido
Born on August 5, 1912
Died on September 8, 1994 (aged 82)

Cecily Margaret Guido,, also known as Peggy Piggott, was an English archaeologist, prehistorian, and finds specialist. Her career in British archaeology spanned sixty years, and she is recognised for her field methods, her field-leading research into prehistoric settlements, burial traditions, and artefact studies, as well as her high-quality and rapid publication, contributing more than 50 articles and books to her field between the 1930s and 1990s.

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Margaret Rutherford

Margaret Taylor Rutherford
First Name Margaret
Last Name Rutherford
Born on May 11, 1892
Died on May 22, 1972 (aged 80)
Height 165 cm | 5'5

Dame Margaret Taylor Rutherford, was an English actress of stage, television and film.

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Margaret Brown

First Name Margaret
Last Name Brown
Born on July 18, 1867
Died on October 26, 1932 (aged 65)

Margaret ("Molly") Brown, posthumously known as "The Unsinkable Molly Brown", was an American socialite and philanthropist. She unsuccessfully encouraged the crew in Lifeboat No. 6 to return to the debris field of the 1912 sinking of RMS Titanic to look for survivors. During her lifetime, her friends called her "Maggie", but even by her death, obituaries referred to her as the "Unsinkable Molly Brown". The reference was further reinforced by a 1960 Broadway musical based on her life and its 1964 film adaptation which were both entitled The Unsinkable Molly Brown.

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Margaret Hamilton

First Name Margaret
Last Name Hamilton
Born on December 9, 1902
Died on May 16, 1985 (aged 82)

Margaret Brainard Hamilton was an American film character actress best known for her portrayal of the Wicked Witch of the West, and her Kansas counterpart Almira Gulch, in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's film The Wizard of Oz (1939).

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Margaret Tudor

First Name Margaret
Last Name Tudor
Born on November 28, 1489
Died on October 18, 1541 (aged 51)

Margaret Tudor was Queen consort of Scotland from 1503 until 1513 by marriage to James IV of Scotland and then, after her husband died fighting the English, she became regent for their son James V of Scotland from 1513 until 1515.

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Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury

First Name Margaret
Last Name Salisbury
Died on May 27, 1541

Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, was an English peeress. She was the daughter of George, Duke of Clarence, and the niece of kings Edward IV and Richard III. Margaret was one of two women in 16th-century England to be a peeress in her own right with no titled husband. One of the few surviving members of the Plantagenet dynasty after the Wars of the Roses, she was executed in 1541 at the command of Henry VIII, who was the son of her first cousin Elizabeth of York. Pope Leo XIII beatified her as a martyr for the Catholic Church on 29 December 1886.

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Margaret Hamilton

First Name Margaret
Last Name Hamilton
Born on August 17, 1934 (age 88)

Margaret Heafield Hamilton is an American computer scientist, systems engineer, and business owner. She was director of the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, which developed on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo program. She later founded two software companies—Higher Order Software in 1976 and Hamilton Technologies in 1986, both in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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