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Margot Fenring
Lady Margot Fenring is a Dune character, a Bene Gesserit sister and wife of Count Hasimir Fenring who warned Lady Jessica and bore Feyd-Rautha's daughter; played by Léa Seydoux in Dune: Part Two.
Margot Fonteyn
Margot Fonteyn (Margaret Hookham, 1919–1991), English Prima Ballerina Assoluta of the Royal Ballet, muse of Frederick Ashton, famed for her 1962–1979 partnership with Rudolf Nureyev and marriage to Roberto Arias.
Margot Frank
Margot Betti Frank (1926–1945), older sister of diarist Anne Frank; German-born, raised in Amsterdam, hid in the Secret Annex from July 1942, arrested August 1944, died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen in February 1945; her own diary was lost.
Margot Käßmann
Margot Käßmann, born in 1958, is a German Lutheran theologian who served as bishop of Hanover and chaired the EKD Council until her 2010 resignation.
Margot Kidder
Margot Kidder (1948–2018), Canadian-American actress born in Yellowknife, played Lois Lane opposite Christopher Reeve in Superman (1978) and its sequels; also known for Sisters, Black Christmas, mental health advocacy, and activism.
Margot Moles
Margot Moles (Margarita Moles Piña, 1910-1987), Spanish multi-sport pioneer: discus and hammer record-holder, hockey champion with Atlético Madrid, and one of the first two Spanish women at the 1936 Winter Olympics.
Margot Robbie
Margot Robbie (born 1990, Dalby, Queensland) is an Australian actress and producer, known for The Wolf of Wall Street, Harley Quinn in Suicide Squad, Oscar-nominated I, Tonya and Bombshell, and Barbie (2023, $1.45 billion), and co-founder of LuckyChap Entertainment.
Margot Robbie filmography
Margot Robbie filmography: Australian actor and producer born 1990, known for Naomi in The Wolf of Wall Street, Harley Quinn in three DC films, I, Tonya, and starring in and producing Barbie (2023, over $1.4 billion).
Margot S. Damaser
Margot S. Damaser is an American biomedical engineer who studies pelvic floor disorders, including stress urinary incontinence, and received the 2000 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
Margot Thien
Margot Thien is an American former synchronized swimmer, born 1971 in San Diego, who won team gold at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and world titles in 1993 and 1994.
Margot van Geffen
Margot van Geffen, Dutch field hockey defender and midfielder (born 1989, Tilburg), 265 caps for Oranje; Olympic gold 2012 and 2020, silver 2016; three World Cup titles; left the national team in 2024 under Paul van Ass.
Margrave
Margrave (German Markgraf) was the title of the military governor of a frontier march in the Carolingian empire and Holy Roman Empire, later a hereditary princely title, e.g. Margrave of Brandenburg; distinct from the French marquis.
Margravial Opera House Bayreuth
The Margravial Opera House Bayreuth, or Markgräfliches Opernhaus, is a Baroque court opera house built 1745–1750 by Margravine Wilhelmine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth and named a World Heritage Site in 2012.
Margraviate of Austria
The Margraviate of Austria (Markgrafschaft Österreich) was a Babenberg frontier march on the Danube, first recorded under a Leopold in 976 and elevated to the Duchy of Austria in 1156.
Margraviate of Brandenburg
Margraviate of Brandenburg (Mark Brandenburg): Holy Roman Empire frontier principality founded 1157 by Albert the Bear, an electorate after 1356, ruled by the Hohenzollerns from 1415 and grown into Prussia by 1918.
Margraviate of Lusatia
The Margraviate of Lusatia (Markgrafschaft Lausitz) was a 10th-century march of the Holy Roman Empire covering Lower Lusatia, later a territory of the Bohemian Crown.
Margraviate of Moravia
The Margraviate of Moravia (Markrabství moravské) was a historical state entity on Moravian territory, created in 1182 when Emperor Frederick Barbarossa made Conrad Otto margrave, lasting until 1918.
Margrethe II of Denmark
Margrethe II (Margrethe Alexandrine Þórhildur Ingrid), Queen of Denmark 1972–2024, first sovereign under the 1953 Act of Succession; abdicated 14 January 2024 for Frederik X, Europe's longest-serving monarch, artist and Tolkien illustrator.
Margriet de Moor
Margriet de Moor, pen name of Margaretha Maria Antonette Neefjes, is a Dutch novelist born in 1941 whose work has been translated into more than twenty languages.
Margriet Zegers
Margriet Zegers (Inge Margriet Zegers-de Ruiter), Dutch field hockey player born in Heerenveen, won gold with the Netherlands at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics and later managed the Dutch women's national team, 2012-2014.
Margrit von Braun
Margrit von Braun is an American environmental engineer who spent three decades on the University of Idaho faculty and co-founded TerraGraphics, a hazardous waste remediation firm, in 1984.
Marguerite Alibert
Marguerite Alibert (Maggie Meller, Marguerite Fahmy), French courtesan and mistress of Edward, Prince of Wales; acquitted at the 1923 Old Bailey trial for shooting her Egyptian husband Ali Kamel Fahmy Bey at the Savoy Hotel; died 1971.
Marguerite and Armand
Marguerite and Armand is a one-act Frederick Ashton ballet, to Liszt music, created for Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev, premiered by The Royal Ballet in London in 1963.
Marguerite Bay (landform)
Marguerite Bay, a large bay on the western Antarctic Peninsula at 68°30′S 68°30′W, discovered and named by Charcot in January 1909; known for raised beaches, a 1,600 m deep trough, Rothera Research Station, and the Wordie Ice Shelf.
Marguerite Broquedis Billout
Marguerite Broquedis Billout (1893-1983), French tennis player, won the 1912 Stockholm Olympic women's singles gold and mixed doubles bronze, the first Frenchwoman Olympic champion, and last defeated Suzanne Lenglen in 1914.
Marguerite de Carrouges
Marguerite de Carrouges, née de Thibouville, Norman noblewoman whose 1386 rape accusation against Jacques Le Gris triggered the last judicial duel authorized by the Parlement of Paris, fought by her husband Jean de Carrouges on 29 December 1386.
Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Duras, pen name of Marguerite Donnadieu (1914–1996), French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker; author of L'Amant (1984), the Hiroshima mon amour screenplay, and India Song (1975).
Marguerite LeHand
Marguerite "Missy" LeHand was Franklin D. Roosevelt's personal secretary for two decades, the first woman in the role and his de facto White House chief of staff after 1936.
Marguerite Perey
Marguerite Catherine Perey (1909–1975) was a French radiochemist who discovered francium, element 87, in 1939, and remains the only woman to have discovered a chemical element as sole author.
Marguerite Radideau
Marguerite Radideau (Radideau-Schoebel), French sprinter and basketball player (1907-1978); 1926 world record holder at 60 m, 80 m, and 100 yards, 1928 Olympian, and 1930 European basketball champion with France.