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Margaret Leighton
Margaret Leighton (1922–1976), British stage and screen actress from Barnt Green, Worcestershire; two-time Tony winner (Separate Tables, The Night of the Iguana), Oscar-nominated for The Go-Between, Emmy winner for Hamlet.
Margaret Levi
Margaret Levi is an American political scientist, emerita professor at Stanford and the University of Washington, known for her theory of quasi-voluntary compliance and the 2019 Johan Skytte Prize.
Margaret Lockwood
Margaret Lockwood (1916–1990), Karachi-born British actress and RADA graduate, was Britain's biggest female film star of the 1940s, starring in Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes and the Gainsborough melodramas The Man in Grey and The Wicked Lady.
Margaret M. Garnett
Margaret M. Garnett is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Southern District of New York since 2024, appointed by President Biden.
Margaret M. Redfield
Margaret M. Redfield is an American cardiologist and physician-scientist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, whose research has defined the epidemiology and treatment of HFpEF.
Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh
Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh (1864–1933) was a Scottish artist and designer, a founding member of "The Four" whose gesso panels helped define the Glasgow Style of Art Nouveau.
Margaret Mead
Margaret Mead, also known as Margaret Bateson, was an American cultural anthropologist best known for Coming of Age in Samoa (1928) and her studies of Oceania.
Margaret Melhase
Margaret Melhase, later Margaret Melhase Fuchs, was an American nuclear chemist who discovered cesium-137 in 1941 as a 20-year-old UC Berkeley undergraduate under Glenn Seaborg; wartime secrecy kept her credit unknown until 1994.
Margaret Mitchell
Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949), Atlanta journalist and author of Gone With the Wind (1936), the 1,037-page Civil War novel that won the 1937 Pulitzer Prize, sold over 30 million copies, and became a 1939 Oscar-winning film.
Margaret Mitchell (computer scientist)
Margaret Mitchell is an American AI researcher who pioneered Model Cards, developed Seeing AI, co-led Google's Ethical AI team until 2021, and is now Chief Ethics Scientist at Hugging Face.
Margaret Morton
Margaret Morton (born 1968), Scottish curler from Mauchline, Ayrshire; alternate on Rhona Martin's British rink that won the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic women's curling gold, beating Switzerland 4-3; later Scottish senior and mixed champion and coach.
Margaret Murdock
Margaret Thompson Murdock, American sport shooter born 1942 in Topeka, Kansas; first woman to win an Olympic shooting medal, taking 1976 Montreal silver in 50m three-position rifle after tying Lanny Bassham at 1,162; multi world champion and record-setter.
Margaret Murnane
Margaret M. Murnane is an Irish-born optical physicist and professor at the University of Colorado Boulder and JILA, known for tabletop X-ray sources from ultrafast lasers and the 2022 Isaac Newton Medal.
Margaret Murray
Margaret Alice Murray (1863–1963), British Egyptologist, first full-time woman in Egyptology, UCL teacher under Flinders Petrie, excavator in Malta and Minorca, and author of the discredited witch-cult hypothesis that shaped Wicca.
Margaret Nolan
Margaret Nolan (Vicky Kennedy), British actress and artist (1943–2020), gold-painted model in Goldfinger's title sequence and Dink in the film; also A Hard Day's Night and six Carry On films.
Margaret O. Dayhoff
Margaret O. Dayhoff (1925–1983) was an American biochemist often called the founder of bioinformatics, who built the first protein sequence database and the PAM matrices.
Margaret O'Brien
Margaret O'Brien (born Angela Maxine O'Brien, January 15, 1937) is an American actress, MGM's leading 1940s child star, Tootie in Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), winner of the 1944 Academy Juvenile Award, later a stage and television performer with two 1960 Walk of Fame stars.
Margaret of Anjou
Margaret of Anjou (Marguerite d'Anjou, 1430–1482), queen consort of Henry VI of England and leader of the Lancastrian cause in the Wars of the Roses; foundress of Queens' College Cambridge, later cast by Shakespeare as the 'She-Wolf of France'.
Margaret of Hungary
Margaret of Hungary (Árpád-házi Szent Margit, 1242–1270) was a Hungarian princess of the Árpád dynasty who became a Dominican nun and was canonized in 1943.
Margaret of Valois
Margaret of Valois, also called Marguerite de Valois or Queen Margot (1553–1615), daughter of Henry II and Catherine de' Medici, first wife of Henry IV of France; married 1572, annulled 1599, memoirist and patron of letters, distinct from Marguerite de Navarre.
Margaret of York
Margaret of York (1446–1503), Duchess of Burgundy, sister of Edward IV and Richard III; wife of Charles the Bold from 1468, later Yorkist focal point against Henry VII, Caxton patron, and supporter of Simnel and Warbeck.
Margaret Oliphant
Margaret Oliphant, known as Mrs. Oliphant, was a Scottish novelist, biographer, and historian (1828–1897) who published about 98 novels and wrote for Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine for nearly fifty years.
Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury
Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury (1473–1541), Plantagenet noblewoman, daughter of George, Duke of Clarence, governess to Princess Mary, attainted and beheaded by Henry VIII in the Tower on 27 May 1541, later beatified.
Margaret Pomeranz
Margaret Pomeranz (born 1944) is an Australian film critic who co-hosted SBS's The Movie Show and ABC's At the Movies with David Stratton for 28 years, and was arrested in 2003 over a screening of banned film Ken Park.
Margaret Qualley
Margaret Qualley (Sarah Margaret Qualley, born 1994, Kalispell, Montana), American actress and former ballet dancer; Emmy-nominated for Fosse/Verdon and Maid, Golden Globe-nominated for The Substance, daughter of Andie MacDowell.
Margaret R. Guzman
Margaret Rose Guzman, born 1960, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge in Massachusetts since 2023, formerly first justice of the Ayer District Court.
Margaret Rhodes
Margaret Rhodes (née Elphinstone, 1925–2016), Queen Elizabeth II's first cousin, MI6 wartime secretary, 1947 royal wedding bridesmaid, and Woman of the Bedchamber to the Queen Mother 1991–2002, memoirist of The Final Curtsey.
Margaret River, Western Australia
Margaret River, Western Australia: a river and town 267 km south of Perth, named in 1831 by John Bussell for Margaret Whicher, shaped by Group Settlement dairy farming, timber milling, surfing and a premium wine region begun in 1967.
Margaret Rudkin
Margaret Rudkin (1897–1967) was an American businesswoman who built Pepperidge Farm from her Fairfield, Connecticut farm kitchen, beginning in 1937, into the largest independent baking company in the United States.
Margaret Rutherford
Dame Margaret Taylor Rutherford (1892-1972), English comic character actress; Madame Arcati in Blithe Spirit, MGM's Miss Marple from Murder She Said (1961), Oscar for The VIPs, DBE 1967, married to Stringer Davis.