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Margaret E. O’Kane
Margaret E. O'Kane, known as Peggy O'Kane, is an American health care quality expert who founded NCQA in 1990 and pioneered HEDIS and health plan accreditation.
Margaret Edwards
Margaret Edwards (Margaret Wilding), born 28 March 1939, British backstroke swimmer; 1956 Olympic 100 m backstroke bronze medalist, 1958 world record holder (1:12.4), and 1958 Cardiff Commonwealth Games medley relay gold medalist.
Margaret Fell
Margaret Fell, born Margaret Askew and later Margaret Fox, was an English religious leader called the mother of Quakerism, who made Swarthmoor Hall its early center.
Margaret Field
Margaret Field (Margaret Joy Morlan, 1922–2011), also credited as Maggie Mahoney, American film and TV actress, Paramount contract player, star of The Man from Planet X (1951); mother of actress Sally Field; died of cancer in Malibu.
Margaret Floy Washburn
Margaret Floy Washburn was an American experimental psychologist at Vassar College, the first woman to earn a psychology doctorate in 1894, known for The Animal Mind and the motor theory of consciousness.
Margaret Fuller
Margaret Fuller (Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli, 1810–1850), American Transcendentalist journalist, critic, and feminist. First full-time American literary critic at the New-York Tribune, editor of The Dial, author of Woman in the Nineteenth Century, first US woman foreign war correspondent, covering the 1848–49 Roman Republic; drowned in the Fire Island shipwreck of 1850.
Margaret G. Stineman
Margaret G. Stineman, also known as Margaret Grace Stineman, was an American physiatrist and epidemiologist at the University of Pennsylvania whose patient classification underlies Medicare's rehabilitation payment system.
Margaret Geller
Margaret Geller is an American astrophysicist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, known for mapping the cosmic web and discovering the Great Wall of galaxies.
Margaret Grey
Margaret Grey is an American nurse scientist who studies self-management of chronic illness, especially type 1 diabetes in youth, and was dean of the Yale School of Nursing from 2005 to 2015.
Margaret H. Wright
Margaret H. Wright is an American mathematician and computer scientist known for numerical optimization, including the barrier trajectory method, and for serving as SIAM's first woman President.
Margaret Hamburg
Margaret (Peggy) Hamburg is an American physician and public health leader who served as the 21st FDA commissioner from 2009 to 2015, and earlier as New York City health commissioner.
Margaret Hamilton (actress)
Margaret Hamilton (1902–1985), American character actress from Cleveland, the Wicked Witch of the West and Miss Gulch in The Wizard of Oz (1939); 75-plus films, Maxwell House's Cora, died in Salisbury, Connecticut.
Margaret Hamilton (software engineer)
Margaret Hamilton, born Margaret Heafield Hamilton in 1936, is an American computer scientist who led the MIT team that wrote the Apollo program's onboard flight software, credited with coining "software engineering."
Margaret Hodge
Margaret Hodge, Baroness Hodge of Barking, British Labour politician; former Islington Council leader (1982-92), MP for Barking 1994-2024, first Children's Minister, and first elected chair of the Public Accounts Committee (2010-15), now a Lords peer and Anti-Corruption Champion.
Margaret Hoelzer
Margaret Hoelzer (Margaret Josephine Hoelzer), born 1983 in Huntsville, Alabama, is a retired American swimmer, two-time Olympian, and three-time 2008 Beijing medalist who set the 200m backstroke world record in 2008 and later became a child sexual abuse advocate.
Margaret Hoover
Margaret Hoover, American political commentator and author of American Individualism (2011), hosts PBS's Firing Line (launched 2018) and is the great-granddaughter of President Herbert Hoover, with Bush White House and campaign roots.
Margaret Howe Lovatt
Margaret Howe Lovatt, American volunteer naturalist on Saint Thomas who in 1965 lived with the dolphin Peter in John Lilly's NASA-funded Dolphin House experiment attempting to teach a bottlenose dolphin English; ended when funding was cut and Peter died in Miami.
Margaret Hughes
Margaret (Peg) Hughes, died 1719, English Restoration actress and mistress of Prince Rupert, long claimed as the first professional English actress; recent archival research argues she was not on stage before 1668.
Margaret I of Denmark
Margaret I of Denmark (Margrete Valdemarsdatter, 1353–1412), daughter of Valdemar IV, ruled Denmark, Norway, and Sweden as regent and founded the Kalmar Union of 1397 under Erik of Pomerania.
Margaret I. Strickland
Margaret I. Strickland, born 1980 in Denton, Texas, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge in New Mexico since 2021, appointed by President Biden.
Margaret III of Flanders
Margaret III of Flanders (Marguerite de Flandre, 1350-1405), countess of Flanders, Artois, and Burgundy, only child of Louis de Male; her 1369 marriage to Philip the Bold brought Flanders into the Burgundian state.
Margaret J. McFall-Ngai
Margaret J. McFall-Ngai is an American biologist known for developing the Hawaiian bobtail squid and its luminous symbiont Vibrio fischeri into a model of animal–bacterial mutualism.
Margaret Jenkins
Margaret H. Jenkins (1903–1996), American discus thrower and javelin world record holder; first woman from Santa Clara County at the Olympics, competing in 1928 and 1932.
Margaret Jennings (bacteriologist)
Margaret Jennings (1904–1994) was a British physician and bacteriologist who carried out the biological testing and animal experiments in the Oxford penicillin project, and became Howard Florey's second wife in 1967.
Margaret Josephs
Margaret Josephs, American fashion designer and TV personality; founder of Macbeth Collection (1999) and star of The Real Housewives of New Jersey (2017-2026); also Candie Couture, Caviar Dreams, Tuna Fish Budget, and Soirée mocktails.
Margaret K. Hostetter
Margaret K. Hostetter, also known as Margaret Kendrick Hostetter, is an American pediatric infectious diseases physician-scientist and the first woman to chair pediatrics at Yale and Cincinnati Children's.
Margaret Karcher
Margaret Heinz Karcher was an American businesswoman who co-founded the Carl's Jr. fast-food chain with her husband Carl Karcher, beginning with a hot dog cart in Los Angeles in 1941.
Margaret Keane
Margaret Keane (1927–2022), American painter of big-eyed waifs; husband Walter Keane claimed her work until her 1970 revelation and Hawaii courtroom paint-off; subject of Tim Burton's Big Eyes.
Margaret Kivelson
Margaret Kivelson (born 1928) is an American space physicist at UCLA who used spacecraft magnetometers to discover Ganymede's magnetic field and hidden oceans on Jupiter's moons.
Margaret Laurence
Margaret Laurence (1926-1987) was a Canadian novelist, born Jean Margaret Wemyss in Neepawa, Manitoba, whose Manawaka fiction, above all The Stone Angel and The Diviners, made her a central figure in Canadian literature.