Peggy (given name)
Peggy is a female first name derived from Meggy, a diminutive version of the name Margaret.
People
Writers
- Peggy Adam, French comic book artist and illustrator
- Peggy Adler, American writer
- Peggy Anderson, American author and journalist
- Peggy Carr, Vincentian poet
- Peggy Pond Church, American writer
- Peggy Dennis, American Russian journalist, author and Communist activist
- Peggy Dern, American novelist
- Peggy Dunstan, New Zealand poet and writer
- Peggy Fortnum, English illustrator
- Peggy Frew, Australian author
- Peggy Goodin, American novelist
- Peggy Hull, American journalist
- Peggy Bennette Hume, British playwright and children’s author
- Peggy Kornegger, American writer
- Peggy McIntosh, American writer and activist
- Peggy Moreland, American novelist
- Peggy Noonan, American author and commentator
- Peggy Orenstein, American writer
- Peggy O'Shea, American screenwriter
- Peggy Parish, American author
- Peggy Parnass, German-Swiss journalist, author and actress
- Peggy Payne, American writer
- Peggy Peterman, American journalist
- Peggy Pettitt, American dramatist
- Peggy Rathmann, American writer
- Peggy Shaw, American dramatist
- Peggy Sloane, American writer
- Peggy Fletcher Stack, American journalist, editor and author
- Peggy Thompson, Canadian screenwriter, producer, playwright and professor
- Peggy Vining, American poet laureate
- Peggy Webb (writer), American novelist
- Peggy Webling, British playwright, novelist and poet
- Peggy Wehmeyer, American journalist
In entertainment
- Peggy Ahern, American child actress
- Peggy Allenby, American actress
- Peggy Ashcroft, English actress
- Peggy Bacon (radio producer) aka "Aunty Peggy" - BBC radio and television producer and radio presenter
- Peggy Baker, Canadian dancer, choreographer and teacher
- Peggy Bernier, American comedian and actress
- Peggy Blow, Latina German-American actress
- Peggy Carlisle, British actress
- Peggy Cartwright, Canadian silent film actress
- Peggy Cass, American actress
- Peggy Ann Clifford, English character actress
- Peggy Conklin, American film, television and theatre actress
- Peggy Converse, American actress
- Peggy Cummins, Irish actress
- Peggy Dolan, American actress
- Peggy Dow, American actress
- Peggy Drake, American actress
- Peg Entwistle, English actress
- Peggy Evans, British actress
- Peggy Fears, American actress
- Peggy Feury, American actress
- Peggy Ann Garner, American child actress
- Peggy George, American actress
- Peggy Hopkins Joyce, American actress, model and dancer
- Peggy Hyland, British actress
- Peggy Knudsen, American actress
- Peggy Lipton, American actress
- Peggy Lloyd, American actress
- Peggy Lu, American actress
- Peggy Maley, American actress
- Peggy McCay, American actress
- Peggy McIntaggart, Canadian model
- Peggy Miley, American actress and writer
- Peggy Moffitt, American model and actress
- Peggy Mondo, American actress
- Peggy Montgomery, American actress
- Peggy Moran, American actress
- Peggy Mount, English actress
- Peggy Novak, British actress
- Peggy O'Dare, American actress
- Peggy O'Day, American actress
- Peggy O'Neal, American voice actress
- Peggy O'Neill, Irish-American Vaudeville actress
- Peggy Ovire, Nigerian actress
- Peggy Pearce, American actress
- Peggy Phango, South African actress and singer
- Peggy Pope, American actress
- Peggy van Praagh, British ballerina
- Peggy Rajski, American filmmaker
- Peggy Ramsay, Australian-born British theatrical agent
- Peggy Rea, American actress
- Peggy Ryan, American dancer and actress
- Peggy Shannon, American actress
- Peggy Shanor, American actress in silent films
- Peggy Shaw, American silent film actress
- Peggy Siegal, American entertainment publicist
- Peggy Simpson, British actress
- Peggy Sinclair, English actress
- Peggy Stewart, American actress
- Peggy Taylor, American actress
- Peggy Thorpe-Bates, British actress
- Peggy Vrijens, Dutch actress
- Peggy Walton-Walker, American film and television actress
- Peggy Webber, American actress
- Peggy Wood, American actress
- Peggy Ann Wood, British actress, director and theatre manager
- Diana Serra Cary, known as Baby Peggy, American child actress
In music
- JPEGMafia, sometimes referred to as Peggy, American rapper, singer, and record producer
- Peggy Cochrane, English musician, singer and composer
- Peggy Connelly, American singer and actress
- Peggy Gilbert, American jazz musician and bandleader
- Peggy Glanville-Hicks, Australian composer and music critic
- Peggy Gou, South Korean DJ and musician
- Peggy Hayama, Japanese singer
- Peggy Jones, American musician
- Peggy King, American singer
- Peggy Lee, American jazz singer
- Peggy Lennon, American singer, one of the Lennon Sisters
- Peggy Little, American singer-songwriter
- Peggy March, American pop singer
- Peggy Mann, American jazz musician
- Peggy O'Keefe, Australian-Scottish musical artist
- Peggy Pryde, British music hall performer
- Peggy Santiglia, American pop singer
- Peggy Scott-Adams, American pop singer
- Peggy Seeger, American folk singer
- Peggy Stern, American jazz musician
- Peggy Stuart Coolidge, American classical composer
- Peggy Sue, American country singer
- Peggy Zina, Greek 'laika' singer
In sports
- Peggy Antonio, Australian cricketer
- Peggy Assinck, Canadian ice sledge hockey player and neuroscientist
- Peggy Babin, French athlete
- Peggy Beer, German heptathlete
- Peggy Kirk Bell, American golfer and golf instructor
- Peggy Büchse, German long-distance swimmer
- Peggy Butler, British fencer
- Peggy Clarke, British chess player
- Peggy Clasen, American speed skater
- Peggy Conley, American professional golfer
- Peggy Cramer, American baseball player
- Peggy Crowe, American speed skater
- Peggy Dawson-Scott, British tennis player
- Peggy Dickens, French slalom canoeist
- Peggy Fairweather, Jamaican cricketer
- Peggy Fenton, American baseball player
- Peggy Fleming, American figure skater
- Peggy Flournoy, American football and baseball player and coach
- Peggy Frair, American luger
- Peggy Griffin, Irish camogie player
- Peggy Hardwiger, German sailor
- Peggy Ichkoff, American table tennis player
- Peggy Kaplan, American bridge player
- Peggy Sita Kihoue, Congolese long jumper
- Peggy Lee Leather, American wrestler
- Peggy Llewellyn, American motorcycle racer
- Peggy Lokando, English-born Congolese footballer
- Peggy McCarthy (rower), American rower
- Peggy McLean, American table tennis player
- Peggy Michel, American tennis player
- Peggy Michell, British tennis player
- Peggy Morgan, American mixed martial arts fighter
- Peggy Nietgen, German footballer
- Peggy Parratt, American football player and coach
- Peggy Provost, French footballer
- Peggy Regenwetter, Luxembourgish table tennis player
- Peggy Schoolcraft, American bodybuilder
- Peggy Schwarz, German pair skater
- Peggy Solomon, American bridge player
- Peggy Sonntag, German Paralympic swimmer
- Peggy Steedman, Scottish chess player
- Peggy Sutherlin, American bridge player
- Peggy de Villiers, South African swimmer
- Peggy Waleska, German rower
- Peggy Wilson, American professional golfer
In politics
- Peggy Balboni, American politician
- Peggy Bennett, American politician
- Peggy Blackford, American diplomat
- Peggy Blair, Canadian lawyer
- Peggy Butts, Canadian politician
- Peggy Cabral, Dominican politician, diplomat and TV presenter
- Peggy Chew Howard, First Lady of Maryland
- Peggy R. Cook, American politician
- Peggy Davis-Mullen, American politician
- Peggy Duff, British political activist
- Peggy Farrell,, Irish businesswoman and Fianna Fáil politician
- Peggy Fenner, British politician
- Peggy Flanagan, American politician
- Peggy Hessen Følsvik, Norwegian trade unionist
- Peggy Gibson, American politician
- Peggy Gossett-Seidman, American politician and Florida State Legislative Representative
- Peggy Herbison, British politician
- Peggy Jay, English Labour politician
- Peggy Johnson, American businesswoman
- Peggy Judd, American politician
- Peggy Kerns, Colorado politician
- Peggy Krusick, American politician
- Peggy Lamm, American politician
- Peggy Lehner, American politician
- Peggy Leppik, American politician
- Peggy Littleton, American politician
- Peggy Smith Martin, american politician
- Peggy Mast, American politician
- Peggy Maxie, American politician
- Peggy Mayfield, American politician
- Peggy McGaugh, American politician
- Peggy Middleton, British politician
- Peggy Nash, Canadian politician
- Peggy Nkonyeni, South African politician
- Peggy Palmer, American politician
- Peggy Pendleton, American politician
- Peggy Pierce, American politician
- Peggy Quince, American judge
- Peggy Rosenzweig, American politician
- Peggy Rosson, Texas politician
- Peggy Rotundo, American politician
- Peggy Sattler, Canadian politician
- Peggy Sayers, American politician
- Peggy Schierenbeck, German politician
- Peggy Scott, American politician
- Peggy Serame, Motswana politician
- Peggy Simone, American politician from Florida
- Peggy Stevenson, American politician
- Peggy Wallace, American politician
- Peggy Webb, American politician
- Peggy Wilson, American politician
- Peggy Wright, Canadian politician from Alberta
- Peggy Yu, Chinese businesswoman
Other professions
- Peggy Ahwesh, American video artist
- Peggy Angus, British painter, designer and educator
- Peggy Antrobus, Grenadian activist, author and scholar
- Peggy Bacon, American artist
- Peggy Bauer, American wildlife photographer
- Peggy Boyd, one of Scotland's first air ambulance nurses; served during World War II.
- Peggy Brock, Australian historian
- Peggy Brunache, Haitian American food historian and archaeologist
- Peggy Bulger, American folklorist
- Peggy Cebe, professor of physics
- Peggy Charren, American activist
- Peggy Cherng, American billionaire businesswoman
- Peggy Cooper Cafritz, American civil rights activist, educator, philanthropist and art collector
- Peggy Cowley, American painter
- Peggy Crewe-Milnes, 20th-century English justice of the peace
- Peggy Cripps, English debutante and author
- Peggy Cyphers, American painter
- Peggy Deamer, American architect
- Peggy DesAutels, American philosopher
- Peggy Detmers, American sculptor
- Peggy Dulany, American philanthropist
- Peggy Eaton, American, wife of John Henry Eaton and figure in the Petticoat affair
- Peggy Eisenhauer, American lighting designer
- Peggy Fairbairn-Dunlop, Samoan-New Zealand academic
- Peggy Farrell,, American costume designer
- Peggy Ferro, American activist
- Peggy Fogelman, American museum director
- Peggy Gale, Canadian curator
- Peggy Giordano, American criminologist
- Peggy Guggenheim, American art collector and socialite
- Peggy Guido, English archaeologist
- Peggy Hamilton, American fashion and costume designer
- Peggy Hård, Swedish clerk
- Peggy Hartanto, Indonesian fashion designer
- Peggy Hay, New Zealand designer
- Peggy Hettrick, American murder victim
- Peggy Hodges, British engineer
- Peggy Jackson, Welsh archdeacon
- Peggy Johnson, American murder victim
- Peggy Napangardi Jones, Australian artist
- Peggy Kelman, American aviation pioneer
- Peggy A. Kidwell, American historian of science
- Peggy J. Kleinplatz 21st century, Canadian clinical professor, psychologist and sexologist
- Peggy Koopman-Boyden, New Zealand gerontologist
- Peggy Lemaux, American plant biologist
- Peggy Luhrs, American women’s rights activist
- Peggy McIntosh, American academic and anti-racism activist
- Peggy McKercher, Canadian conservationist and academic
- Peggy McDowell Curlin, American women’s health advocate
- Peggy Mulambya-Kabonde, Zambian feminist theologian
- Peggy Brewer Musgrave, economist
- Peggy Nadramia, American editor and administrator
- Peggy Rockman Napaljarri, Australian artist
- Peggy Noland, American fashion designer
- Peggy Oki, American skateboarder, surfer, artist and environmental activist
- Peggy Oti-Boateng, Ghanaian biochemist
- Peggy Papp, American family therapist
- Peggy Pascoe, American historian
- Peggy Phelan, American feminist scholar
- Peggy Piesche, German literary and cultural scientist
- Peggy Robertson, English professional assistant and script supervisor for Albert Hitchcock
- Peggy Rae Sapienza, American science fiction convention organizer
- Peggy Sager, Australian dancer and educator
- Margarita "Peggy" Schuyler Van Rensselaer, sister in law of Alexander Hamilton
- Peggy Shepard, American local government and environmentalist
- Margaret "Peggy" Shippen, American Loyalist spy for the British and second wife of Benedict Arnold
- Peggy Speas, American linguist
- Peggy Spicer, New Zealand painter
- Peggy Sullivan, American librarian and educator
- Peggy Jo Tallas, American bank robber
- Peggy Weil, American artist working in digital media
- Peggy Welch, American nurse and politician from Indiana
- Peggy Whitson, American astronaut
- Peggy Willis-Aarnio, American choreographer, historian, author and teacher
Animals
- Peggy, a dog actor
Fictional characters
- Peggy Biggs, in the American TV series Mike & Molly
- Peggy Blackett, a character in Arthur Ransome's "Swallows and Amazons" books
- Peggy Bundy, in the American sitcom Married... with Children
- Peggy Carter, a Marvel Comics character
- Peg Gallagher, from the TV show Shameless
- Peggy Hawkins from Carry On Cabby
- Peggy Hill, in the American animated TV series King of the Hill
- Peggy Matsuyama, in Himitsu Sentai Gorenger
- Peggy Mitchell, in the British soap opera EastEnders
- Peggy Ollerenshaw, in the British TV comedy series Hi-De-Hi!
- Peggy Olson, in the American TV series Mad Men
- Peggy Patch, a rag doll puppet in the BBC children's TV series Playdays
- Peggy, a Hunter × Hunter character
- Peggy, a classmate of Wanda in the children's book The Hundred Dresses
- Peggy Blumquist, character from season 2 of American TV series Fargo
- Peggy, a character in the TV series Californication