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Meg, Peg, Margie, Maggie, Madge, Maisie, Greta, Gretchen, Megan, May, Maj, Meta, Marge, Peggy, Margo, Daisy, Marty, Marti,Mags,Mag

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Margaret Atwood, author (she goes by Peggy)
Margaret Bourke-White, American photographer
Margaret Cho, comedienne
Margaret "Maggie" Grace, actress (Lost)
Margaret Mead, anthropologist
Margaret Mitchell, author (Gone with the Wind)
Margaret More Roper, daughter of Sir Thomas More, reputed to be one of the most learned women in Tudor England
Margaret Thatcher, first female Prime Minister in the UK (1979-1990)
Princess Margaret, sister of Queen Elizabeth II
Margaret Smith Taylor, First Lady and wife of Zachary Taylor
Margaret Heffernan, Irish businesswoman & owner of Dunnes Stores
Margaret Rutherford, actress
Queens Margrethe I & Margrethe II of Denmark

Margaret in song, story & screen: | Edit

"Are You There God? It's Me Margaret," a book by Judy Blume
Meg March from the book "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
Meg (Margaret) Murry, from the book A Wrinkle in Time (and others) by Madeleine L'Engle
"The Abduction of Margaret", song by the Decemberists
"Won't Want for Love (Margaret in the Taiga)", song by the Decemberists
"Margaret in Captivity", song by the Decemberists
"Margaret vs. Pauline," song by Neko Case
"Margaret," song by Jill Sobule