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Margaret S. Herridge
Margaret S. Herridge is a Canadian critical care physician-scientist at the University of Toronto and University Health Network who studies long-term outcomes for ICU survivors and their caregivers.
Margaret S. Livingstone
Margaret S. Livingstone is a visual neuroscientist, the Takeda Professor of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, known for work on parallel processing in visual areas.
Margaret S. Torn
Margaret S. Torn is an American ecologist and biogeochemist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory who studies soil carbon storage and how warming and land use alter it.
Margaret Sanger
Margaret Sanger (1879-1966), American nurse and birth control activist, coined the term "birth control," opened the first U.S. birth control clinic (Brownsville, 1916), founded the American Birth Control League, precursor of Planned Parenthood, and helped spur the birth control pill.
Margaret Schwarze
Margaret L. "Gretchen" Schwarze is an American vascular surgeon and medical ethicist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for the Best Case/Worst Case tool for high-stakes surgical decisions.
Margaret Sixel
Margaret Sixel is a South African-born, Australian film editor, wife of George Miller, who won the 2016 Academy Award and BAFTA for Best Film Editing for Mad Max: Fury Road, her first action film, cut from roughly 470 hours of footage; she also edited Babe: Pig in the City, Happy Feet, Three Thousand Years of Longing, and Furiosa.
Margaret Sullavan
Margaret Sullavan (Margaret Brooke Sullavan, 1911-1960) was an American stage and screen actress known for Three Comrades (1938, Oscar nomination), The Shop Around the Corner (1940), and The Voice of the Turtle; married to Henry Fonda, William Wyler, and Leland Hayward.
Margaret Sze-Tai Y. Chu
Margaret Sze-Tai Y. Chu is an American nuclear waste management expert who led the Department of Energy's Yucca Mountain repository program and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
Margaret T. Fuller
Margaret T. Fuller is an American developmental geneticist at Stanford University School of Medicine whose laboratory identified the first known protein mediator of mitochondrial fusion.
Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher, the 'Iron Lady', Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven, was Britain's first female Prime Minister (Conservative, 1979–1990), its longest-serving PM in over 150 years, known for privatisation, union reform, the Falklands War, and the poll tax.
Margaret Theresa of Spain
Margaret Theresa (Margarita Teresa de Austria), 1651–1673, Spanish infanta and first wife of Emperor Leopold I; child of Las Meninas, four children, mother of Maria Antonia, Habsburg claim conduit.
Margaret Trudeau
Margaret Trudeau is a Canadian author and mental health speaker, known for her public disclosure of bipolar disorder and her marriage to Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.
Margaret Truman
Margaret Truman (Mary Margaret Truman, 1924-2008), only child of President Harry S. Truman, was a concert soprano, radio and TV personality, and author of the 23-book Capitol Crime mystery series and White House biographies.
Margaret Tudor
Margaret Tudor (1489–1541), queen of Scotland, eldest daughter of Henry VII, married James IV under the 1502 Treaty of Perpetual Peace, was regent for James V after Flodden, and was great-grandmother of James VI and I.
Margaret Whitton
Margaret Whitton (1949–2016), American actress, played Rachel Phelps in Major League and Major League II, starred in The Secret of My Success and Ironweed, then directed A Bird of the Air and ran Tashtego Films with husband Warren Spector.
Margaret Wise Brown
Margaret Wise Brown (1910–1952), also published as Golden MacDonald and Juniper Sage, American picture-book author of Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny; Bank Street 'here-and-now' pioneer who wrote over 100 children's books.
Margaret Woodbridge
Margaret Woodbridge was an American freestyle swimmer who won a 1920 Olympic gold medal in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay and silver in the 300 m freestyle.
Margaret Woodrow Wilson
Margaret Woodrow Wilson (1886–1944), eldest daughter of President Woodrow Wilson, was a professional soprano, White House hostess after Ellen Wilson's death, and later the ashram disciple Nishtha in Pondicherry, India.
Margaret Worthington
Margaret Worthington, also known as Margaret Leigh Worthington, is an American horticultural crop geneticist who directs the Arkansas Fruit Breeding Program and won a 2025 PECASE award.
Margaret, Maid of Norway
Margaret, Maid of Norway (Margrete Eiriksdotter, 1283–1290), Norwegian princess and recognized queen of Scotland 1286–1290; died in Orkney sailing to Scotland, causing the Great Cause succession crisis.
Margareta Blombäck
Margareta Blombäck (1925–2024) was a Swedish physician and hematologist, a pioneer of hemostasis research who led the Karolinska Hospital coagulation laboratory and held its coagulation research chair.
Margareta Magnusson
Margareta Magnusson was a Swedish artist and author whose debut book, The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning, published in 2017, turned döstädning into an international bestseller.
Margareta of Romania
Margareta of Romania (born 1949, Lausanne) is Custodian of the Crown and Head of the Royal House of Romania, eldest daughter of King Michael I; former UN official, returned 18 January 1990, appointed Custodian 30 December 2007.
Margareta Rylander
Margareta Rylander, known as Meta, is a Swedish swimmer who set the women's 1500 meters freestyle world record, 19:02.8, at age 14 in Uppsala in 1961.
MargaretA. Menser
Margaret A. Menser, later Margaret Anne Burgess, is an Australian immunologist and pediatrician who showed congenital rubella raises diabetes risk and ran Australia's first rubella vaccine trials.
Margarete Himmler
Margarete Himmler (Marga, née Boden, formerly Siegroth, 1893–1967) was a German nurse and the wife of SS chief Heinrich Himmler; her 1937–1945 diary and their 1927–1945 letters are key sources.
Margarethe von Trotta
Margarethe von Trotta (born 1942, Berlin) is a German director, screenwriter, and actress of New German Cinema. Known for The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum, Die bleierne Zeit (Golden Lion, Venice 1981), Rosa Luxemburg, and Hannah Arendt.
Margarida Balseiro Lopes
Margarida Balseiro Lopes, born in 1989 in Marinha Grande, is a Portuguese Social Democratic Party politician who has served as Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports since 2025.
Margarine
Margarine, invented in 1869 by Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès after a Napoleon III prize, is a butter substitute now made from vegetable oils, legally an emulsion of at least 80% fat with at most 3% dairy.
Margarine Reference
Margarine Reference, formally Reference re Validity of Section 5(a) Dairy Industry Act ([1949] SCR 1), a 1948 Supreme Court of Canada decision invalidating the federal margarine manufacture and sale ban while upholding import restrictions, and establishing the prohibition-penalty-purpose test for the federal criminal law power.