# Maisie (given name)

Maisie, also spelt Maisy or other minor variations, is a feminine given name. It is the pet form of the Scottish Gaelic name Mairead or the Irish name Mairéad, which are the equivalent of the English name Margaret. The -ie is a diminutive suffix used in Scottish as well as Northern England English.
Margaret is derived via French (Marguerite) and Latin (Margarita) from Ancient Greek: μαργαρίτης (margarítēs) meaning "pearl". The Greek is borrowed from Indo-Iranian languages (Persian).

## People
### Maisie

* Maisie Adam (born 1994), English stand-up comedian, writer and actress
* Maisie Carr (1912–1988), Australian botanist
* Maisie Gay (1883–1945), English actress
* Maisie Maxwell (1876–1977), Australian film actress
* Maisie McDaniel (1939–2008), Irish singer
* Maisie Methuen (born 2001), English artistic gymnast
* Maisie Mosco (1924–2011), English writer
* Maisie Nankivell (born 1999), Australian rules football player
* Maisie Peters (born 2000), English musician
* Maisie Potter (born 1997), Welsh snowboarder
* Maisie Renault (1907–2003), French resistance fighter
* Maisie Richardson-Sellers (born 1992), English actress
* Maisie Ringham (1924–2016), British trombonist
* Maisie Shiell (1916–2008), Canadian anti-nuclear activist
* Maisie Smith (born 2001), English actress
* Maisie Summers-Newton (born 2002), British swimmer
* Maisie Symonds, English footballer
* Maisie Trollette (born 1933), British drag queen
* Maisie Ward (1889–1975), British writer, publisher and speaker
* Maisie Williams (born 1997), British actress

### Maisy

* Maisy Barker, English footballer
* Maisy Collis (born 2000), English footballer
* Maisy Gibson (born 1996), Australian cricketer
* Maisy Ma (born 1999), Hong Kong figure skater
* Maisy Stella (born 2003), Canadian singer and actress

### Maysie

* Maysie Bestall-Cohen (born 1945), New Zealand modelling agent and fashion show producer
* Maysie Chalmers (1894–1982), British engineer, aviator and actress
* Maysie Coucher Greig (1901–1971), Australian writer of romantic novels
* Maysie Hoy (born 1949), Canadian actress and film editor
* Maysie Webb (1923–2005), British librarian and museum executive

### Mazie

* Mazie E. Clemens (1890s–1952), American journalist and WWI war correspondent
* Mazie Follette (fl 1901–1911), American dancer
* Mazie Gordon-Phillips (1896–1964), American movie theater owner
* Mazie Hirono (born 1947), American junior senator from Hawaii
* Mazie King (1888–1968), American toe dancer, vaudeville performer
* Mazie Turner (1954–2014), Australian artist
* Mazie O. Tyson (1900–1975), American geographer
* Mazie, pseudonym of Grace Christian, American pop star.

### Maisey

* Maisey Rika (born 1982/1983), New Zealand singer, songwriter and composer

### Maizie

* Maizie Williams (born 1951), British model and singer

## Fictional characters
### Maisie

* Maisie, in the British comic strip The Perishers (1959–2006)
* Maisie, the character loved by the protagonist in Rudyard Kipling's first novel, The Light That Failed (1891)
* Maisie, protagonist in the Rosa Mulholland novel Our Sister Maisie (1907)
* Maisie Dobbs, protagonist in an ongoing series of detective novels by Jacqueline Winspear, from 2003
* Maisie Farange, the protagonist in the Henry James novel What Maisie Knew (1897)
** Maisie, the same character in the 2012 film of the novel, played by Onata Aprile
* Maisie Lockwood, a supporting character in the Jurassic Park film franchise
* Maisie MacKenzie, the kitten in the 1980s Scottish children's books by Aileen Paterson
** Maisie Mac, the same character in the 2000-2003 British animated TV series Meeow! (Gaelic version: Meusaidh)
* Maisie Raine, the title character of the eponymous 1998-1999 British TV drama series
* Maisie Ravier, character played by Ann Sothern in ten films and a radio show (1939–1953) and by Janis Paige in a 1960 telemovie
* Maisie Wylde, in the British TV soap opera Emmerdale

### Other spellings

* Maisy Gibbons from Desperate Housewives
* Maisy Mouse, the titular character of the children's book series by Lucy Cousins and its animated adaptation
* Maizy Russell, a character in the 1989 film Uncle Buck