# Madge (given name)

Madge is a female given name, a short form of Margaret, Marjorie, and Maggie. Madge may refer to:
Actresses:
* Madge Bellamy (1899–1990), American movie actress born Margaret Derden Philpott
* Madge Blake (1899–1969), American character actress most famous for her role as Aunt Harriet Cooper on the TV series Batman
* Madge Brindley (1901–1968), British actress
* Madge Elliott (1896–1955), Australian dancer and actress
* Madge Evans (born Margherita Evans; 1909–1981), American film actress who began her career as a child actress and model
* Madge Hindle (born 1938), English actress
* Dame Madge Kendal (1848–1935), English actress and theatre manager
* Madge Kennedy (1891–1987), American actress
* Madge Kirby (1884–1956), English-born American actress
* Madge Lessing (1873–1966), English singer and actress
* Madge Meredith (1921–2017), American actress
* Madge Ryan (1919–1994), Australian actress
* Madge Sinclair (1938–1995), Jamaican-born American actress
* Madge Skelly, American actress and audiologist
* Madge Stuart (1895–1958), British silent film actress
* Madge Titheradge (1887–1961), Australian actress
* Madge Tree (1875–1947), British actress
* Madge Tyrone, American actress, film editor and screenwriter
Politics:
* Madge Biggs (1902–1985), Falkland Islands librarian and politician
* Madge Bradley (1904–2000), American judge
* Madge Enterline, American politician
Singers:
Sports:
* Madge Allan, English lawn bowler
* Madge Moulton (1917–?), British diver
* Madge Rainey, Irish camogie player
* Madge Stewart, Jamaican cricketer
* Madge Syers (born Florence Madeline Syers; 1881–1917), British figure skater, first woman to compete at the World Figure Skating Championships
Writers:
* Madge Jenison (1874–1960), American novelist
* Madge Morris Wagner (1862–1924), American poet and journalist
In other fields:
* Madge Adam (1912–2001), English astronomer
* Madeleine Albright (1937–2022), first female Secretary of State in the United States
* Madge Easton Anderson (1896–1992), Scottish lawyer
* Madge Bester (1963–2018), formerly the world's shortest living woman
* Madeline McDowell Breckinridge (1872–1920), women's suffragette leader and reformer
* Madge Connor (1874–1952), female police officer
* Madge Dawson, American educator, social worker, researcher and pioneering feminist
* Madge Dresser, English historian
* Madge Elder, Scottish gardener, writer and feminist
* Madge Gill (1882–1961), English outsider and visionary artist
* Madge Miller Green (1900–1989), American politician and educator
* Madge Knight (1895–1974), English artist
* Madge Macklin (1893–1962), American physician
* Madge Moore (1922–2016), American aviator
* Madge Oberholtzer (1896–1925), American woman raped and murdered by the Grand Dragon of the Indiana Klan
* Madge Oliver (1875–1924), British artist
* Margaret and Mary Shelton (1510/15–1570/71), once thought to be sisters, but now believed to be the same person; may have been a mistress of King Henry VIII of England
* Madge Smith (1898–1974), Canadian photographer
* Madge Tennent (1889–1972), British-American painter considered the greatest individual contributor to 20th-century Hawaiian art
Fictional characters:
* Madge, a long-running advertising character for Palmolive dishwashing detergent portrayed by Jan Miner
* Madge Allsop, long-suffering bridesmaid and longtime companion of Dame Edna Everage (played by actress Emily Perry)
* Madge Bishop, one of the matriarchs of the Australian soap opera Neighbours
* Madge Harvey, on the ITV programme Benidorm
* Madge, a character in the children's television show It's a Big Big World
* Madge Madsen, a character in the TV show The Office.
* Madge Owens, in the play Picnic and the 1955 film Picnic
* Madge Undersee, a character in the Hunger Games trilogy
* Madge Weinstein, fictional Internet personality, creation and alter ego of underground filmmaker Richard Bluestein
* Madge Wildfire, in Sir Walter Scott's novel The Heart of Midlothian