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 (margarítēs), 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 (1523–1574), daughter of King Francis I of France
• Margaret, Countess of Anjou or Marguerite d'Angou (1273–1299), Countess of Anjou and Maine in her own right and Countess of Valois, Alençon, Chartres and Perche by marriage
• Marguerite de Navarre (1492–1549), princess of France, Queen of Navarre and Duchess of Alençon and Berry
• Marguerite III de Neufchâtel (1480–1544), German-Roman monarch as Princess Abbess of the Imperial Remiremont Abbey in France
• Marguerite Louise d'Orléans (1645–1721), Grand Duchess of Tuscany by marriage
• Marguerite of Lorraine (1615–1672), princess of Lorraine and Duchess of Orléans by marriage
• Marguerite, Baroness de Reuter (1912–2009), European aristocrat and member of the family that founded the Reuters news service
• Marguerite, bâtarde de France (1407–1458), illegitimate daughter of Charles VI and Odette de Champdivers, legitimized by Charles VII
• Marguerite de Cambis (fl. 1550s), French noblewoman and translator
• Marguerite, Duchess of Rohan (1617–1684), French noblewoman
• Princess Marguerite Adélaïde of Orléans (1846–1893), princess of France and, by marriage, princess of the House of Czartoryski
• Marguerite de Saint-Marceaux (1850–1930), French aristocrat and salonnière
• Marguerite Aimery Harty de Pierrebourg (1856–1943), French baroness, salonnière and writer published as Claude Ferval

Other

• Marguerite (singer) (born 2000), French singer
• Marguerite Elizabeth Abbott (1870–1953), American painter and teacher
• Marguerite Alibert (1890–1971), French socialite and courtesan, mistress of Edward VIII, acquitted of killing her husband at the Savoy Hotel in London.
• Marguerite Bériza (1880–after 1930), French opera soprano
• Marguerite Bernes (1901–1996), Algerian nun recognised as Righteous Among the Nations
• Marguerite Bourgeoys (1620–1700), saint and founder of the Congregation of Notre Dame, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
• Marguerite Broquedis (1893–1983), French tennis player
• Marguerite Carré (1880–1947), French opera soprano
• Marguerite Charpentier (1848-1904), French art collector and salonist
• Marguerite Davis (1887–1967), American chemist, co-discoverer of vitamins A and B
• Marguerite de Angeli (1889–1987), American writer and illustrator of children's books
• Marguerite De La Motte (1902–1950), American film actress
• Marguerite de la Sablière (c. 1640–1693), French salonist and polymath
• Marguerite de Lussan (1682–1758), French historic novelist
• Marguerite Derricks (born 1961), American choreographer
• Marguerite Dilhan (1876–1956) was a French lawyer, first woman in France to open her own practice and plead in a criminal Cour d'assises
• Marguerite Duras (1914–1996), French writer and film director
• Marguerite Fourrier (fl. 1900), French tennis player
• Marguerite Frank (1927–2024), American−French mathematician
• Marguerite Gaut (1888–1967), American golfer
• Marguerite Genès (1868–1955), French woman of letters and teacher who wrote in Occitan and French
• Marguerite Georges (1787–1867), noted French actress who had an affair with Napoleon
• Marguerite Grépon (1891–1982), French journalist and writer
• Marguerite Henry (1902–1997), American writer of children's books
• Marguerite Henry (scientist) (1895–1982), Australian zoologist
• Marguerite Higgins Hall (1920-1966), American war correspondent and first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Foreign Correspondence for her coverage of the Korean War
• Marguerite Kirmse (1885–1954), British-American artist
• Marguerite Kofio (born 1955), Central African politician and women's rights activist.
• Marguerite L. Smith (1894–1985), New York assemblywoman 1920–1921
• Marguerite Vincent Lawinonkié (1783-1865), Huron-Wendat craftswoman
• Marguerite Long (1874–1966), French pianist and teacher
• Marguerite St. Leon Loud (1812-1889), American poet and writer
• Marguerite Louppe (1902–1989), French painter
• Marguerite Mareuse (1889–1964), French racing driver
• Marguerite Massart (1900–1979), first woman to graduate as an engineer in Belgium.
• Marguerite Moore (1849–?), Irish-Catholic orator, patriot, activist
• Marguerite Moreau (born 1977), American actress
• Marguerite McKee Moss, American socialite
• Marguerite Narbel (1918–2010), Swiss biologist and politician
• Marguerite Norris (1927–1994), Detroit Red Wings team president, first female NHL team executive, first woman to have her name engraved on the Stanley Cup
• Marguerite Oswald, mother of Lee Harvey Oswald
• Marguerite Courtright Patton (1889–1971), American civic leader and anti-communist
• Marguerite Perey (1909–1975), French physicist
• Marguerite Perrin, American Trading Spouses participant
• Marguerite Pindling (born 1932), Governor-General of the Bahamas beginning 2014
• Marguerite Porete (died 1310), French-speaking mystic
• Marguerite Porter Zwicker (1904–1993), Canadian watercolor painter and art promoter
• Marguerite Helen Power (1870–1957), Australian poet
• Marguerite Quinn, American politician elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 2006
• Marguerite Ramadan (born 1953), Central African politician and women's rights advocate
• Marguerite Scypion (c. 1770s–after 1836), African-Natchez slave who filed the first "freedom suit" and ended Indian slavery in the state of Missouri in 1836
• Marguerite Yourcenar (1903–1987), Belgian-born French novelist and essayist, first woman elected to the Académie française
• Marguerite Zorach (1887–1968), American painter, textile artist and graphic designer
• Maya Angelou (1928–2014), American author, poet, dancer, actress and singer, born Marguerite Annie Johnson
• Saint Marguerite d'Youville (1701-1771), 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 '
• 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.