List of Famous people named Marguerite

Similar names: Marguerita. Here are some famous Marguerites:

Marguerite de Carrouges

First Name Marguerite
Last Name Carrouges
Born on January 1, 1362
Died on January 1, 1419 (aged 57)

Marguerite de Carrouges born De Thibouville was a French noblewoman. She married Jean de Carrouges in 1380. The only daughter of Jeanne de Bois Héroult and of the highly controversial Robert de Thibouville, a Norman lord who had twice sided against the French king in territorial conflicts, betrayals he was lucky to survive, albeit in reduced circumstances. By the union of Marguerite and Carrouges, de Thibouville hoped to restore his family's status while Carrouges was hoping for an heir from the young Marguerite, whom contemporaries described as “young, noble, wealthy, and also very beautiful".

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Marguerite Duras

Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu
First Name Marguerite
Last Name Duras
Born on April 4, 1914
Died on March 3, 1996 (aged 81)

Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu, known as Marguerite Duras, was a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker. Her script for the film Hiroshima mon amour (1959) earned her a nomination for Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards.

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Marguerite Moreau

First Name Marguerite
Last Name Moreau
Born on April 25, 1977 (age 46)
Height 157 cm | 5'2

Marguerite C. Moreau is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Jesse Reeves in the fantasy horror film Queen of the Damned, Katie in the comedy Wet Hot American Summer, and her role in The Mighty Ducks series of films. She has also made appearances on the popular television series Smallville, Lost, Cupid and The O.C.

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Marguerite Yourcenar

Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie Ghislaine Cleenewerck de Crayencour
First Name Marguerite
Last Name Yourcenar
Died on December 17, 1987 (aged 17)

Marguerite Yourcenar was a French novelist and essayist born in Brussels, Belgium, who became a US citizen in 1947. Winner of the Prix Femina and the Erasmus Prize, she was the first woman elected to the Académie française, in 1980, and the seventeenth person to occupy seat 3.

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Marguerite LeHand

Marguerite Alice LeHand
First Name Marguerite
Last Name LeHand
Born on September 13, 1896
Died on July 31, 1944 (aged 47)

Marguerite Alice "Missy" LeHand was private secretary to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) for 21 years. According to LeHand's biographer Kathryn Smith in "The Gatekeeper," she eventually functioned as White House Chief of Staff, the only woman in American history to do so.

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Marguerite Steinheil

First Name Marguerite
Last Name Steinheil
Died on July 17, 1954

Marguerite Jeanne "Meg" Japy Steinheil, Baroness Abinger was a French woman famous for her many love affairs with important men. She became notorious when it became known that she was present at the death of President Félix Faure, who allegedly had a seizure while having sex with her. She was later charged with the murder of her husband and mother.

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Marguerite Louise d'Orléans

First Name Marguerite
Last Name D'Orléans
Born on July 28, 1645
Died on September 17, 1721 (aged 76)

Marguerite Louise d'Orléans was a Princess of France who became Grand Duchess of Tuscany, as the wife of Grand Duke Cosimo III de' Medici.

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Marguerite Blais

First Name Marguerite
Last Name Blais
Born on September 12, 1950 (age 73)
Born in Canada, Quebec

Marie Josephine Marguerite Blais is a Canadian politician, journalist, radio host and television host from Quebec. She is currently a Coalition Avenir Québec Member of the National Assembly of Québec and is the current Minister Responsible for Seniors and Informal Caregivers and Member of the Comité ministériel des services aux citoyens since October 2018. She was a Liberal Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for the electoral division of Saint-Henri–Sainte-Anne in Montreal from 2007 to 2015, and served as the Minister responsible for Seniors, vice-chair of the Comité ministériel du développement social, éducatif et culturel and member of the Conseil du trésor.

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Marguerite Higgins

First Name Marguerite
Last Name Higgins
Born on September 3, 1920
Died on January 3, 1966 (aged 45)

Marguerite Higgins Hall was an American reporter and war correspondent. Higgins covered World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War, and in the process advanced the cause of equal access for female war correspondents. She had a long career with the New York Herald Tribune (1942–1963), and later, as a syndicated columnist for Newsday (1963–1965). She was the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for Foreign Correspondence awarded in 1951 for her coverage of the Korean War. In Phil Pisani's book "Maggie's Wars" the main character is based on the life of Marguerite Higgins.

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Margaret of Valois-Angoulême

Marguerite de Valois-Angoulême
First Name Margaret
Last Name Valois-Angoulême
Born on April 11, 1492
Died on December 21, 1549 (aged 57)

Marguerite de Navarre, also known as Marguerite of Angoulême and Margaret of Navarre, was the princess of France, Queen of Navarre, and Duchess of Alençon and Berry. She was married to Henry II of Navarre. Her brother became King of France, as Francis I, and the two siblings were responsible for the celebrated intellectual and cultural court and salons of their day in France. Marguerite is the ancestress of the Bourbon kings of France, being the mother of Jeanne d'Albret, whose son, Henry of Navarre, succeeded as Henry IV of France, the first Bourbon king. As an author and a patron of humanists and reformers, she was an outstanding figure of the French Renaissance. Samuel Putnam called her "The First Modern Woman".

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