Margot
Appearance
(Redirected from Margot (disambiguation))
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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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Georges Margot (1902–1998), French equestrian
- Jean-Luc Margot (born 1969), Belgian astronomer
- Manuel Margot (born 1994), Dominican baseball player
In entertainment and culture
[edit]- 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