Marguerite (given name)
Marguerite is a French female given name, from which the English name Margaret is derived. Marguerite derives via Latin and Greek μαργαρίτης , meaning "pearl". It is also a French name for the ox-eye daisy flower. Those with the name include:
People
Nobility
- Margaret of Bourbon (1438–1483) or Marguerite de Bourbon, Princess of Savoy by marriage
- Margaret of France (1553–1615) or Marguerite de Valois, wife of Henry IV of France and Navarre
- Margaret of France, Duchess of Berry or Marguerite de Valois, daughter of King Francis I of France
- Margaret, Countess of Anjou or Marguerite d'Angou, Countess of Anjou and Maine in her own right and Countess of Valois, Alençon, Chartres and Perche by marriage
- Marguerite de Navarre, princess of France, Queen of Navarre and Duchess of Alençon and Berry
- Marguerite III de Neufchâtel, German-Roman monarch as Princess Abbess of the Imperial Remiremont Abbey in France
- Marguerite Louise d'Orléans, Grand Duchess of Tuscany by marriage
- Marguerite of Lorraine, princess of Lorraine and Duchess of Orléans by marriage
- Marguerite, Baroness de Reuter, European aristocrat and member of the family that founded the Reuters news service
- Marguerite, bâtarde de France, illegitimate daughter of Charles VI and Odette de Champdivers, legitimized by Charles VII
- Marguerite de Cambis, French noblewoman and translator
- Marguerite, Duchess of Rohan, French noblewoman
- Princess Marguerite Adélaïde of Orléans, princess of France and, by marriage, princess of the House of Czartoryski
- Marguerite de Saint-Marceaux, French aristocrat and salonnière
- Marguerite Aimery Harty de Pierrebourg, French baroness, salonnière and writer published as Claude Ferval
Other
- Marguerite (singer), French singer
- Marguerite Elizabeth Abbott, American painter and teacher
- Marguerite Alibert, French socialite and courtesan, mistress of Edward VIII, acquitted of killing her husband at the Savoy Hotel in London.
- Marguerite Bériza, French opera soprano
- Marguerite Bernes, Algerian nun recognised as Righteous Among the Nations
- Marguerite Bourgeoys, saint and founder of the Congregation of Notre Dame, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Marguerite Broquedis, French tennis player
- Marguerite Carré, French opera soprano
- Marguerite Charpentier, French art collector and salonist
- Marguerite Davis, American chemist, co-discoverer of vitamins A and B
- Marguerite de Angeli, American writer and illustrator of children's books
- Marguerite De La Motte, American film actress
- Marguerite de la Sablière, French salonist and polymath
- Marguerite de Lussan, French historic novelist
- Marguerite Derricks, American choreographer
- Marguerite Duras, French writer and film director
- Marguerite Fourrier, French tennis player
- Marguerite Frank, American−French mathematician
- Marguerite Gaut, American golfer
- Marguerite Genès, French woman of letters and teacher who wrote in Occitan and French
- Marguerite Georges, noted French actress who had an affair with Napoleon
- Marguerite Grépon, French journalist and writer
- Marguerite Henry, American writer of children's books
- Marguerite Henry (scientist), Australian zoologist
- Marguerite Higgins Hall, American war correspondent and first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Foreign Correspondence for her coverage of the Korean War
- Marguerite Kirmse, British-American artist
- Marguerite Kofio, Central African politician and women's rights activist.
- Marguerite L. Smith, New York assemblywoman 1920–1921
- Marguerite Vincent Lawinonkié, Huron-Wendat craftswoman
- Marguerite Long, French pianist and teacher
- Marguerite St. Leon Loud, American poet and writer
- Marguerite Louppe, French painter
- Marguerite Mareuse, French racing driver
- Marguerite Massart, first woman to graduate as an engineer in Belgium.
- Marguerite Moore, Irish-Catholic orator, patriot, activist
- Marguerite Moreau, American actress
- Marguerite Narbel, Swiss biologist and politician
- Marguerite Norris, Detroit Red Wings team president, first female NHL team executive, first woman to have her name engraved on the Stanley Cup
- Marguerite Perey, French physicist
- Marguerite Perrin, American Trading Spouses participant
- Marguerite Pindling, Governor-General of the Bahamas beginning 2014
- Marguerite Porete, French-speaking mystic
- Marguerite Porter Zwicker, Canadian watercolor painter and art promoter
- Marguerite Helen Power, Australian poet
- Marguerite Quinn, American politician elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 2006
- Marguerite Ramadan, Central African politician and women's rights advocate
- Marguerite Scypion, African-Natchez slave who filed the first "freedom suit" and ended Indian slavery in the state of Missouri in 1836
- Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian-born French novelist and essayist, first woman elected to the Académie française
- Marguerite Zorach, American painter, textile artist and graphic designer
- Maya Angelou, American author, poet, dancer, actress and singer, born Marguerite Annie Johnson
- Saint Marguerite d'Youville, French Canadian widow who founded the Order of Sisters of Charity of Montreal
Fictional characters
- Marguerite St. Just, wife of the Scarlet Pimpernel in the novel by the same name
- Marguerite Gautier, the heroine in the Alexandre Dumas fils novel La Dame aux Camelias
- Marguerite Volant, main character of the 1996 Canadian mini-series by the same name
- Marguerite Krux, financier of an expedition to a Lost World in the late 1990s TV series The Lost World based on a book by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Marguerite, the heroine of Gounod's opera Faust
- Marguerite Baker, an antagonist and member of the Baker family in the horror video game Resident Evil 7: Biohazard
- Marguerite Murphy; an elderly resident in Sunnyvale on the show Trailer Park Boys
- Marguerite Caine, main protagonist and heroine of Claudia Gray's "Firebird Series" beginning with "A Thousand Pieces of You"
- Margarita, main protagonist and heroine of Mikhail Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita.