Magda (given name)

Magda is a feminine given name. It is a short form of the names Magdalena and Magdalene. Notable people with the name include:

Arts

Magda Apanowicz, Canadian actress
Magda Danysz, French art curator and art dealer
Magda von Dolcke, Danish actress
Magda Femme, Polish pop singer and songwriter
Magda Gabor, Hungarian-American actress and socialite
Magda Giannikou, Greek composer, film scorer, singer and musician
Magda Guzmán, Mexican actress
Magda Ianculescu, Romanian opera singer and voice teacher
Magda Isanos, Romanian poet
Magda Konopka, Polish model and actress
Magda Kun, Hungarian actress
Magda László, Hungarian opera singer
Magda Mamet, Mauritian poet
Magda Olivero, Italian opera singer
Magda al-Sabahi, Egyptian actress
Magda Schneider, German actress and singer
Magda Szabó, Hungarian writer, poet and doctor of philology
Magda Szubanski, Australian actress, comedian and writer
Magda Tagliaferro, Brazilian pianist
Magda Umer, Polish singer

Sports

Magda Cazanga, Angolan handball player
Magda Genuin, Italian cross-country skier
Magda Ilands, Belgian long-distance runner
Magda Lenkei, Hungarian swimmer
Magda Linette, Polish tennis player
Magda Maros, Hungarian fencer
Magda Mihalache, Romanian tennis player
Magda Rurac, Romanian tennis player

Other

Magda Ádám, Hungarian historian
Magda B. Arnold, Canadian psychologist
Magda Berndsen, Dutch politician
Magda Gerber, Hungarian-American early childhood educator
Magda Goebbels, wife of Nazi Germany's Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels
Magda Lupescu, later Princess Elena of Romania, mistress and later wife of King Carol II of Romania
Magda Peligrad, Romanian mathematician and mathematical statistician
Magda Popeanu, Romanian-Canadian politician
Magda Wierzycka, South African businesswoman

Fictional characters

Magda Lehnsherr, deceased wife of Magneto (Marvel Comics), and mother of the Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver (Marvel Comics)
Magda Miłowicz, title character of Magda M., a Polish soap opera