Marguerite (given name)

People

Nobility

• 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, bâtarde de France, illegitimate daughter of King Charles the Mad and his beloved mistress Odette de Champdivers, later legitimized by her half-brother Charles VII
• Margaret of Bourbon or Marguerite de Bourbon, Princess of Savoy by marriage
• Marguerite III de Neufchâtel, German-Roman monarch as Princess Abbess of the Imperial Remiremont Abbey in France
• Marguerite de Navarre, princess of France, Queen of Navarre and Duchess of Alençon and Berry
• Margaret of France, Duchess of Berry or Marguerite de Valois, daughter of King Francis I of France
• Margaret of France or Marguerite de Valois, wife of Henry IV of France and Navarre
• Marguerite of Lorraine, princess of Lorraine and Duchess of Orléans by marriage
• Marguerite Louise d'Orléans, Grand Duchess of Tuscany by marriage
• Princess Marguerite Adélaïde of Orléans, princess of France and, by marriage, princess of the House of Czartoryski

  Other

• Marguerite Bériza, French opera soprano
• Marguerite Bourgeoys, saint and founder of the Congregation of Notre Dame, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
• Maya Angelou, American author, poet, dancer, actress and singer, born Marguerite Annie Johnson
• 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 Derricks, American choreographer
• Marguerite Duras, French writer and film director
• Marguerite Frank, American−French mathematician
• Marguerite Georges, noted French actress who had an affair with Napoleon
• Marguerite Henry, American writer of children's books
• 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 Long, French pianist and teacher
• Peg Luksik, Pennsylvania politician
• Marguerite Moore, Irish-Catholic orator, patriot, activist
• Marguerite Moreau, American actress
• 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 Pindling, Governor-General of the Bahamas beginning 2014
• Marguerite Quinn, American politician elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 2006
• Marguerite de la Sablière, French salonist and polymath
• Marguerite Scypion, African-Natchez slave who filed the first "freedom suit" and ended Indian slavery in the state of Missouri in 1836
• Marguerite L. Smith, New York assemblywoman 1920–1921
• Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian-born French novelist and essayist, first woman elected to the Académie française
• Marguerite Zorach, American painter, textile artist and graphic designer
• Marguerite Porter Zwicker, Canadian watercolor painter and art promoter

  Fictional characters

• Marguerite, the heroine of Gounod's opera Faust
• Marguerite Gautier, the heroine in the Alexandre Dumas fils novel La Dame aux Camelias
• Marguerite St. Just, wife of the Scarlet Pimpernel in the novel by the same name
• Tomoe Marguerite, in the anime and manga My-Otome
• Marguerite Volant, main character of the 1996 Canadian mini-series by the same name
• Marguerite Caine, main protagonist and heroine of Claudia Gray's "Firebird Series" beginning with "A Thousand Pieces of You"
• Saison Marguerite, a supporting character in the web series The Most Popular Girls in School.