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 Lin Xavier

First Name Margaret
Last Name Xavier
Born on May 29, 1898
Died on January 1, 1932 (aged 33)

Margaret Lin Xavier or Khun Ying Srivisanvaja, known colloquially as Dr. Lin, was a Thai physician. She was the first Thai woman to receive a degree in medicine.

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Margaret Wise Brown

First Name Margaret
Last Name Brown
Born on May 23, 1910
Died on November 13, 1952 (aged 42)

Margaret Wise Brown was an American writer of children's books, including Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny, both illustrated by Clement Hurd. She has been called "the laureate of the nursery" for her achievements.

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Margaret Woodrow Wilson

First Name Margaret
Last Name Wilson
Born on April 16, 1886
Died on February 12, 1944 (aged 57)

Margaret Woodrow Wilson was the eldest child of President Woodrow Wilson and Ellen Louise Axson. Her two siblings were Jessie and Eleanor. After her mother's death in 1914, Margaret served her father as the White House social hostess, the title later known as First Lady. Her father remarried in 1915.

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Margaret Ogola

First Name Margaret
Last Name Ogola
Born on June 2, 1958
Died on September 22, 2011 (aged 53)

Margaret Atieno Ogola was a Kenyan novelist who wrote The River and the Source and its sequel, I Swear by Apollo. The River and the Source follows four generations of Kenyan women in a rapidly changing country and society. The book has been on the KCSE syllabus for many years, and it won the 1995 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for best first book, Africa Region. Ogola completed on her final book, titled Mandate of the people, before her death and it is set to be released posthumously. She was also the recipient of the Familias Award for Humanitarian Service of the World Congress of Families.

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Margaret Avery

First Name Margaret
Last Name Avery
Born on January 20, 1944 (age 82)

Margaret Avery is an American actress and singer. She began her career appearing on stage and later had starring roles in films including Cool Breeze (1972), Which Way Is Up? (1977), Scott Joplin (1977), and The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh (1979).

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Margaret Maughan

First Name Margaret
Last Name Maughan
Born on June 19, 1928
Died on April 30, 2020 (aged 91)

Margaret Maughan was a British competitive archer, dartcher and bowls competitor. She was Britain's first gold medallist at the Paralympic Games, and won four gold and two silver medals at the Games. She lit the cauldron at the Olympic Stadium in London at the opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Paralympics.

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Margaret Lockwood

Margaret Mary Day Lockwood
First Name Margaret
Last Name Lockwood
Born on September 15, 1916
Died on July 15, 1990 (aged 73)
Born in Pakistan, Sindh

Margaret Lockwood, CBE, was an English actress. One of Britain's most popular film stars of the 1930s and 1940s, her film appearances included The Lady Vanishes (1938), Night Train to Munich (1940), The Man in Grey (1943), and The Wicked Lady (1945). She was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best British Actress for the 1955 film Cast a Dark Shadow. She also starred in the television series Justice (1971–74).

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Margaret Chan

馮富珍
First Name Margaret
Last Name Chan
Born on August 22, 1947 (age 78)

Margaret Chan Fung Fu-chun, is a Chinese-Canadian physician, who served as the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) delegating the People's Republic of China for 2006–2017. Chan has previously served as Director of Health in the Hong Kong Government (1994–2003), representative of the WHO Director-General for Pandemic Influenza and WHO Assistant Director-General for Communicable Diseases (2003–2006). In 2014, Forbes ranked her as the 30th most powerful woman in the world. In early 2018 she joined the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).

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Margaret Mary Ray

First Name Margaret
Last Name Ray
Born on January 1, 1952
Died on October 5, 1998 (aged 46)

Margaret Mary "Peggy" Ray was an American woman who had schizophrenia and erotomania. She received much media attention for stalking American late night television talk show host David Letterman and retired astronaut Story Musgrave.

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Margaret Scott

First Name Margaret
Last Name Scott
Born on April 26, 1922
Died on February 24, 2019 (aged 96)

Dame Catherine Margaret Mary Scott, was a South African-born pioneering ballet dancer who found fame as a teacher, choreographer, and school administrator in Australia. As the first director of the Australian Ballet School, she is recognised as one of the founders of the strong ballet tradition of her adopted country.

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