Margot

Margot (/ˈmɑːrɡoʊ, ˈmɑːrɡət/ MAR-goh, MAR-gət, French: [maʁɡo]) is a feminine given name, a diminutive of Marguerite. It is also occasionally a surname. Persons named Margot include the following:

People with the given name Margot

  • Margot Asquith, countess of Oxford and Asquith
  • Marguerite de Valois, known as La Reine Margot, queen of France and of Navarre
  • Margot Arce de Vázquez, Puerto Rican essayist and educator
  • Margot Badran (born 1936), scholar of Middle Eastern history and women's studies
  • Margot Bennett (1912–1980), Scottish screenwriter and crime author
  • Margot Boer (born 1985), Dutch speed skater
  • Margot Bryant, British actress
  • Margot Eskens (1936–2022), German singer
  • Margot Fonteyn, British ballerina
  • Margot Franssen (born 1952), Dutch-born Canadian entrepreneur and activist
  • Margot Frank (1926–1945), sister of German World War II diarist Anne Frank
  • Margot van Geffen (born 1989), Dutch field hockey player
  • Margot Heuman (1928–2022), German-born American Holocaust survivor
  • Margot Hielscher (1919–2017), German singer and actress
  • Margot Honecker (1927–2016), German politician, former wife of Erich Honecker
  • Margot Käßmann (born 1958), German theologist and writer
  • Margot Kidder, Canadian-American actress known for playing Lois Lane in Superman
  • Margot Lander, Danish ballerina
  • Margot Lumb, British squash player
  • Margot Marsman (1932–2018), Dutch swimmer
  • Margot Osmeña (born 1949), Filipino politician
  • Margot Pardoe (1902–1996), British children's writer
  • Margot Rojas Mendoza (1903–1996), Cuban pianist and teacher
  • Margot Robbie (born 1990), Australian actress
  • Margot Roosevelt, American journalist
  • Małgorzata Szutowicz (born 1995), widely known as Margot, Polish non-binary LGBTQIA activist and co-founder of the Stop Bzdurom collective
  • Margot Taulé, Dominican engineer and architect
  • Margot Wikström (1936–2010) Swedish politician of the Social Democratic Party
  • Margot Wallström (born 1954), Swedish politician and government minister
  • Margot Wells, Scottish sprinter
  • Margot Zemach, American illustrator

People with the surname Margot

In entertainment and culture

  • Margot, 2009 film starring Anne-Marie Duff as ballerina Margot Fonteyn
  • Margot at the Wedding, 2007 American film by Noah Baumbach
  • La Reine Margot, 1845 novel by Alexandre Dumas
  • La Reine Margot (1994 film), 1994 film based on the Dumas novel starring Isabelle Adjani
  • Margot, a character in the film Legally Blonde
  • Margot, a character in the comic book Nemesis Reloaded
  • Margot Tenenbaum, a character in the film The Royal Tenenbaums
  • Margot, the protagonist of Ray Bradbury's All Summer in a Day
  • Margot Mary Wendice, a character in the 1954 Alfred Hitchcock film Dial M For Murder
  • Margot Beste-Chetwynde, a character in Evelyn Waugh's novel Decline and Fall
  • Margot Lane, assistant to Lamont Cranston, a character in the 1940 American film serial The Shadow
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