# Marguerite (given name)

Marguerite is a French female given name, from which the English name Margaret is derived. Marguerite derives via Latin and Greek μαργαρίτης (margarítēs), meaning "pearl". It is also a French name for the ox-eye daisy flower. Those with the name include:

## People
### Nobility

* Margaret of Bourbon (1438–1483) or Marguerite de Bourbon, Princess of Savoy by marriage
* Margaret of France (1553–1615) or Marguerite de Valois, wife of Henry IV of France and Navarre
* Margaret of France, Duchess of Berry or Marguerite de Valois (1523–1574), daughter of King Francis I of France
* Margaret, Countess of Anjou or Marguerite d'Angou (1273–1299), Countess of Anjou and Maine in her own right and Countess of Valois, Alençon, Chartres and Perche by marriage
* Marguerite de Navarre (1492–1549), princess of France, Queen of Navarre and Duchess of Alençon and Berry
* Marguerite III de Neufchâtel (1480–1544), German-Roman monarch as Princess Abbess of the Imperial Remiremont Abbey in France
* Marguerite Louise d'Orléans (1645–1721), Grand Duchess of Tuscany by marriage
* Marguerite of Lorraine (1615–1672), princess of Lorraine and Duchess of Orléans by marriage
* Marguerite, Baroness de Reuter (1912–2009), European aristocrat and member of the family that founded the Reuters news service
* Marguerite, bâtarde de France (1407–1458), illegitimate daughter of Charles VI and Odette de Champdivers, legitimized by Charles VII
* Marguerite, Duchess of Rohan (1617–1684), French noblewoman
* Princess Marguerite Adélaïde of Orléans (1846–1893), princess of France and, by marriage, princess of the House of Czartoryski
* Marguerite de Saint-Marceaux (1850–1930), French aristocrat and salonnière
* Marguerite Aimery Harty de Pierrebourg (1856–1943), French baroness, salonnière and writer published as Claude Ferval

### Other

* Marguerite Alibert (1890–1971), French socialite and courtesan, mistress of Edward VIII, acquitted of killing her husband at the Savoy Hotel in London.
* Marguerite Bériza (1880–after 1930), French opera soprano
* Marguerite Bourgeoys (1620–1700), saint and founder of the Congregation of Notre Dame, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
* Marguerite Broquedis (1893–1983), French tennis player
* Marguerite Carré (1880–1947), French opera soprano
* Marguerite Charpentier (1848-1904), French art collector and salonist
* Marguerite Davis (1887–1967), American chemist, co-discoverer of vitamins A and B
* Marguerite de Angeli (1889–1987), American writer and illustrator of children's books
* Marguerite De La Motte (1902–1950), American film actress
* Marguerite de la Sablière (c. 1640–1693), French salonist and polymath
* Marguerite Derricks (born 1961), American choreographer
* Marguerite Duras (1914–1996), French writer and film director
* Marguerite Fourrier (fl. 1900), French tennis player
* Marguerite Frank (born 1927), American−French mathematician
* Marguerite Gaut (1888–1967), American golfer
* Marguerite Georges (1787–1867), noted French actress who had an affair with Napoleon
* Marguerite Grépon (1891–1982), French journalist and writer
* Marguerite Henry (1902–1997), American writer of children's books
* Marguerite Henry (scientist) (1895–1982), Australian zoologist
* Marguerite Higgins Hall (1920-1966), American war correspondent and first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Foreign Correspondence for her coverage of the Korean War
* Marguerite Kirmse (1885–1954), British-American artist
* Marguerite L. Smith (1894–1985), New York assemblywoman 1920–1921
* Marguerite Vincent Lawinonkié (1783-1865), Huron-Wendat craftswoman
* Marguerite Long (1874–1966), French pianist and teacher
* Marguerite St. Leon Loud (1812-1889), American poet and writer
* Marguerite Louppe (1902–1989), French painter
* Marguerite Mareuse (1889–1964), French racing driver
* Marguerite Massart (1900–1979), first woman to graduate as an engineer in Belgium.
* Marguerite Moore (1849–?), Irish-Catholic orator, patriot, activist
* Marguerite Moreau (born 1977), American actress
* Marguerite Narbel (1918–2010), Swiss biologist and politician
* Marguerite Norris (1927–1994), Detroit Red Wings team president, first female NHL team executive, first woman to have her name engraved on the Stanley Cup
* Marguerite Perey (1909–1975), French physicist
* Marguerite Perrin, American Trading Spouses participant
* Marguerite Pindling (born 1932), Governor-General of the Bahamas beginning 2014
* Marguerite Porete (died 1310), French-speaking mystic
* Marguerite Porter Zwicker (1904–1993), Canadian watercolor painter and art promoter
* Marguerite Quinn, American politician elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 2006
* Marguerite Scypion (c. 1770s–after 1836), African-Natchez slave who filed the first "freedom suit" and ended Indian slavery in the state of Missouri in 1836
* Marguerite Yourcenar (1903–1987), Belgian-born French novelist and essayist, first woman elected to the Académie française
* Marguerite Zorach (1887–1968), American painter, textile artist and graphic designer
* Maya Angelou (1928–2014), American author, poet, dancer, actress and singer, born Marguerite Annie Johnson
* Saint Marguerite d'Youville (1701-1771), French Canadian widow who founded the Order of Sisters of Charity of Montreal

## Fictional characters

* Marguerite St. Just, wife of the Scarlet Pimpernel in the novel by the same name
* Marguerite Gautier, the heroine in the Alexandre Dumas fils novel La Dame aux Camelias
* Marguerite Volant, main character of the 1996 Canadian mini-series by the same name
* Marguerite Krux, financier of an expedition to a Lost World in the late 1990s TV series The Lost World based on a book by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
* Marguerite, the heroine of Gounod's opera Faust
* Marguerite Baker, an antagonist and member of the Baker family in the horror video game Resident Evil 7: Biohazard
* Marguerite Murphy; an elderly resident in Sunnyvale on the show Trailer Park Boys
* Marguerite Caine, main protagonist and heroine of Claudia Gray's "Firebird Series" beginning with "A Thousand Pieces of You"
* Margarita, main protagonist and heroine of Mikhail Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita.