List of Famous people named Marguerite

Marguerite Olagnier (1844–1906) was a French vocalist, composer and poet who began her musical life singing at the Théâtre des Variétées in Paris.

Marguerite Porete was a French-speaking mystic and the author of The Mirror of Simple Souls, a work of Christian mysticism dealing with the workings of agape. She was burnt at the stake for heresy in Paris in 1310 after a lengthy trial, refusing to remove her book from circulation or recant her views.

Marguerite Catherine Perey was a French physicist and a student of Marie Curie. In 1939, Perey discovered the element francium by purifying samples of lanthanum that contained actinium. In 1962, she was the first woman to be elected to the French Académie des Sciences, an honor denied to her mentor Curie. Perey died of cancer in 1975.

Marguerite Monnot was a French songwriter and composer best known for having written many of the songs performed by Édith Piaf and for the music in the stage musical Irma La Douce.

Marguerite Renoir was a French film editor who worked on more than 60 films during her career. For many years, she and director Jean Renoir were lovers, and she edited many of his films. Although she and Renoir never married, she took his surname. She was a supporter of the French Communist Party.

Margaret of Bourbon was the daughter of Charles I, Duke of Bourbon (1401–1456) and Agnes of Burgundy (1407–1476).

Marguerite de la Sablière, was a French salonist and polymath, friend and patron of La Fontaine, was the wife of Antoine Rambouillet, sieur de la Sablière (1624–1679), a Protestant financier and poet entrusted with the administration of the royal estates, her maiden name being Marguerite Hessein.

Saint Marguerite Bays was a Swiss seamstress and Roman Catholic mystic who was a member of the Secular Franciscan Order. She lived a simple life as a Franciscan and adapted the tenets of the order's charism into her own life and social apostolate, especially after she was cured of bowel cancer on 8 December 1854. Pope John Paul II beatified her in 1995 after the recognition of a miracle attributed to her intercession. She was canonized by Pope Francis on October 13, 2019.

Marguerite MacIntyre is an American actress, writer and producer.

Marguerite of Lorraine, Duchess of Orléans, was the wife of Gaston, younger brother of Louis XIII of France. As Gaston had married her in secret in defiance of the King; Louis had their marriage nullified when it became known. On his deathbed, Louis permitted them to marry. After their remarriage, Marguerite and Gaston had five children. She was the stepmother of La Grande Mademoiselle.