Margot ( , ) is a feminine given name, a French diminutive of Marguerite that has long been used as an independent name. Variant spellings in use include Margo and Margaux. It is also occasionally a surname.

Usage

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.https://www.behindthename.com/name/margot/top/england-wales?type=percent Persons named Margot include the following:

People with the given name Margot

* Marguerite de Valois (1553–1615), known as ''La Reine Margot'', queen of France and of Navarre * Margot Abad, Argentine film actress *

Margot Adler Margot Susanna Adler (April 16, 1946 – July 28, 2014) was an American author, journalist, and lecturer. She worked as a correspondent for National Public Radio for 35 years, became bureau chief of the New York office, and could be heard frequen ...

(1946–2014), American journalist * Margot Anand, French author, teacher, seminar leader and public speaker * Margot Arce de Vázquez (1904–1990), Puerto Rican essayist and educator * Margot Arnold (1925–2016), British-born American novelist *

Margot Asquith Emma Alice Margaret Asquith, Countess of Oxford and Asquith (' Tennant; 2 February 1864 – 28 July 1945), known as Margot Asquith, was a British socialite and author. She was married to British Prime Minister H. H. Asquith from 1894 to his ...

(1864–1945), countess of Oxford and Asquith *

Margot Austin Margot Austin (September 18, 1907 – June 25, 1990) was an American children's book illustrator. She was born in Portland, Oregon and attended the National Academy of Design in New York. She illustrated many children's books and contributed to ...

(1907–1990), American children’s book illustrator * Margot Badran (born 1936), scholar of Middle Eastern history and women's studies * Margot Bailet (born 1990), French alpine skier * Margot Bærentzen (1907–1983), Danish fencer *

Margot Becke-Goehring Margot Becke-Goehring (born 10 June 1914 in Allenstein; died 14 November 2009 in Heidelberg) was a Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Heidelberg and she was the first female rector of a university in West Germany - the Heidelb ...

(1914–2009), German chemist *

Margot Benacerraf Margot Benacerraf (14 August 1926 – 29 May 2024) was a Venezuelan film director. She studied at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques (Institute for Advanced Cinematographic Studies, IDHEC) in Paris and is best known for her 195 ...

(1926–2024), Venezuelan film director *

Margot Bengtsson Margot Bengtsson (born 1943) is a Swedish psychologist and Reader in Psychology at Lund University. She is known for her research in developmental, social, feminist Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideology, ideol ...

, Swedish psychologist * Margot Bennett, several people *

Margot von Beroldingen Margot Marie Norris ( Stone, ''formerly'' Countess von Beroldingen) (14 October 1878 – 1968) was an American heiress who married an Austrian aristocrat. Early life Margot Marie Stone was born in Paris, France on 14 October 1878. She was the youn ...

(1878–1968), American heiress *

Margot Bettauer Dembo Margot Bettauer Dembo (10 January 1928 – 10 July 2019) was a German-born American translator of fiction and non-fiction. She translated writing from German to English, and is known for her translations of works by Judith Hermann, Robert Gernhar ...

(1928–2019), German-born American translator *

Margot Béziat Margot Béziat (born 30 July 2001) is a French female canoeist who won four medals at senior level at the Wildwater Canoeing World Championships. Medals at the World Championships ;Senior References External links * 2001 births Livin ...

(born 2001), French canoeist *

Margot Bingham Margot Bingham is an American actress and singer-songwriter. She is best known for her role as jazz singer Daughter Maitland in the HBO period drama series, '' Boardwalk Empire''. In 2015, Bingham began starring as one of lead characters in the ...

(born 1987), American actress and singer-songwriter *

Margot Blakely Margot Blakely later Margot Hawley (born 1950) is an alpine skier from New Zealand. She competed for New Zealand at the 1968 Winter Olympics at Grenoble, but was disqualified in the slalom. She is a sister of 1976 and 1980 Events Jan ...

(born 1950), New Zealand alpine skier *

Margot Blanche Margot Blanche Moussempes (born August 29, 1983) is a French/Filipino singer and songwriter Early life Blanche was born in Hong Kong on August 29, 1983, to Nicolas Moussempes and Patricia Muassab. Blanche's father was born in Paris, France, whil ...

(born 1983), French/Filipino singer and songwriter * Margot Boer (born 1985), Dutch speed skater * Margot Bogert, American Scouting leader * Margot Botsford (born 1947), American judge * Margot Boulet (born 1990), French rower *

Margot Boyd Margot Boyd (born Beryl Billings, 24 September 1913 – 20 May 2008) was an English stage, television and radio actress. She grew up in Bath and trained as an actor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). Here Boyd acted in a production ...

(1913–2008), English actress * Margot Bryant (1897–1988), British actress * Margot Chevrier (born 1999), French pole vaulter * Margot Ciccarelli, Brazilian jiu jitsu practitioner from Italy * Margot Clyne (born 1995), American cyclist * Margot Comstock, American computer magazine editor * Margot Cottens (1922–1999), Uruguayan actress * Margot Dalton, American novelist * Margot Day, American singer-songwriter * Margot Debén (1922–2010), Nicaraguan-Puerto Rican actress, singer, musician, show host and magician * Margot Desvignes (born 2000), French ice hockey player * Margot Dittmeyer (born 1935), German tennis player * Margot Donald, Australian photographer * Margot Dorenfeldt, Norwegian chemist * Margot Douaihy, American writer * Margot Drake (1899–1948), English actress * Margot Dreschel, nazi concentration camp guard * Margot Duhalde (1920–2018), Chilean aviator * Margot Eates (1913–1994), British art historian and curator * Margot Eskens (1936–2022), German singer * Margot Fassler, American historian * Margot Finn, British historian and academic * Margot Flemming, Canadian curler *

Margot Fonteyn Dame Margaret Evelyn de Arias Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, DBE ( Hookham; 18 May 191921 February 1991), known by the stage name Margot Fonteyn (), was an English ballerina. She spent her entire career as a dancer with th ...

(1919–1991), British ballerina * Margot Forde (1935–1992), New Zealand botanist * Margot Foster (born 1958), Australian rower *

Margot Frank Margot Betti Frank (16 February 1926 – ) was the elder daughter of Otto Frank and Edith Frank and the elder sister of Anne Frank. Margot's deportation order from the Gestapo hastened the Frank family into hiding. According to the diary of her ...

(1926–1945), sister of German World War II diarist Anne Frank * Margot Franssen (born 1952), Dutch-born Canadian entrepreneur and activist * Margot Friedländer (1921–2025), German survivor of the Holocaust and public speaker * Margot Garabedian, Cambodian triathlete * Margot Gayle (1908–2008), American historian preservationist * Margot van Geffen (born 1989), Dutch field hockey player * Margot Glockshuber (born 1949), German pair skater * Margot Gore (1913–1993), British aviator and osteopath * Margot Grahame (1911–1982), British actress * Margot Guilleaume (1910–2004), German operatic soprano * Margot Hartman (1933–2020), American actress * Margot Hellwig (born 1941), German volksmusik singer * Margot Heuman (1928–2022), German-born American Holocaust survivor *

Margot Hielscher Margot Hielscher (29 September 1919 – 20 August 2017) was a German singer and film actress. She appeared in over fifty films between and 1939 and 1994. Hielscher was born in Berlin. In 1957, she was chosen to represent Germany at the Eurovis ...

(1919–2017), German singer and actress * Margot Hilton (born 1947), British-born Australian author * Margot Honecker (1927–2016), German politician, wife of Erich Honecker * Margot Horspool, British jurist * Margot Hutcheson (born 1952), Australian artist * Margot Isaacs, Marchioness of Reading (1919–2015), British aristocrat and campaigner *

Margot James Margot Cathleen James (born 28 August 1957) is a British politician who served as Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, Minister of State for Digital and Creative Industries from 2018 to 2019. She was Member of Parliament (United Kin ...

(born 1957), British Conservative politician * Margot Janse (born 1969), Dutch chef * Margot Jefferys, British sociologist and professor * Margot Kalinke (1909–1981), German politician * Margot Kaminski, American AI and privacy professor * Margot Käßmann (born 1958), German theologist and writer * Margot Kelly (1894–1983), Australian hotel manager and restaurateur *

Margot Kidder Margaret Ruth Kidder (October 17, 1948 – May 13, 2018) was a Canadian and American actress and activist. She amassed List of Margot Kidder performances, several film and television credits in her career spanning five decades, including her bes ...

(1948–2018), Canadian-American actress known for playing Lois Lane in ''Superman'' * Margot Klestil-Löffler (born 1954), Austrian diplomat * Margot Knight, Australian actress * Margot Kober (born 1965), Austrian cross-country skier * Margot Kraneveldt (born 1967), Dutch politician * Margot Lambert (born 1999), French badminton player * Margot Lander (1910–1961), Danish ballerina * Margot Leicester (born 1949), British actress * Margot Lemire (1946–2024), Canadian poet and playwright * Margot Leverett, American clarinet player * Margot Livesey, Scottish-born writer * Margot Llobera (born 1996), Andorran footballer * Margot Lovejoy (1930–2019), American artist and art historian * Margot Lumb (1912–1998), British squash player * Margot MacGibbon, Australian violinist and teacher * Margot Machol, American writer and government official * Margot Mahler (1948–1997), German actress * Margot Marshall, British soldier * Margot Marsman (1932–2018), Dutch swimmer * Margot Mayo (1910–1974), American dance instructor * Margot Moe (1899–1988), Norwegian figure skater * Margot Moles (1913–1987), Spanish alpine skier * Margot Neville, pseudonym of Margot Goyder and Ann Goyder * Margot O'Neill (born 1958), Australian journalist, writer and producer * Margot Osmeña (born 1949), Filipino politician * Margot Pardoe (1902–1996), British children's writer * Margot Parker (born 1943), British politician * Margot Peet (1903–1995), American painter * Margot Perryman, British artist * Margot Peters (1933–2022), American novelist and biographer * Margot Pfannstiel (1926–1993), German journalist * Margot Philips (1902–1988), New Zealand painter * Margot Pilz, Austrian visual artist * Margot Prior (1937–2020), Australian psychologist and autism researcher * Margot von Renesse (1940–2022), German politician * Margot Rhys (1914–1996), Australian actress * Margot Rojas Mendoza (1903–1996), Cuban pianist and teacher * Margot Robbie (born 1990), Australian actress * Margot Robinne (born 1991), French footballer * Margot Römer (1938–2005), Venezuelan artist * Margot Roosevelt (born 1950), American journalist *

Margot Rose Margot Rose is an American television and film actress, composer and lyricist. Background She attended Interlochen Arts Academy, the Yale School of Drama and the North Carolina School of the Arts. Margot began her career in 1975 working in th ...

(born 1956), American actress * Margot Ruddock (1907–1951), English actress, poet and singer * Margot Sanger-Katz, American journalist * Margot von Schlieffen (1921–2014), German film editor *

Margot Lee Shetterly Margot Lee Shetterly (born June 30, 1969) is an American nonfiction writer who has also worked in investment banking and media startups. Her first book, '' Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Who Helped Win ...

(born 1969), American nonfiction writer * Margot Shiner (1923–1998), German-British gastroenterologist *

Margot Shumway Margot Shumway (born August 2, 1979) is an American rower. She was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. She competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she place fifth in quadruple sculls. She competed in double sculls together with Sarah Trowb ...

(born 1979), American rower * Margot Siegel (1923–2015), American journalist * Margot Sikabonyi (born 1982), Italian actress * Margot Singer, American short story writer and novelist * Margot Smith (1966–2011), Australian musical artist * Margot Sponer (1898–1945), German philologist and resistant fighter *

Margot Stern Strom Margot Stern Strom (October 20, 1941 – 28 March 2023) was an American teacher. She was the cofounder of Facing History and Ourselves Facing History & Ourselves is a global non-profit organization founded in 1976. The organization's mission is ...

(1941–2023), American educator * Margot Stevenson (1912–2011), American actress * Margot Sunderland, British psychologist * Małgorzata Szutowicz (born 1995), widely known as

Margot Margot ( , ) is a feminine given name, a French language, French diminutive of Marguerite (given name), Marguerite that has long been used as an independent name. Variant spellings in use include Margo (given name), Margo and Margaux (name), Margaux ...

, Polish non-binary LGBTQIA activist and co-founder of the Stop Bzdurom collective * Margot Taulé (1920–2008), Dominican engineer and architect * Margot Thien (born 1971), American synchronized swimmer * Margot Tomes (1917–1991), American artist and illustrator * Margot Trooger (1923–1994), German actress * Margot Turner (1910–1993), British nurse * Margot Vanpachtenbeke (born 1999), Belgian cyclist * Margot Vella, Australian dual-code rugby player * Margot Walle (1921–1990), Norwegian figure skater * Margot Wallström (born 1954), Swedish politician * Margot Walter (1903–1994), German actress *

Margot Wells Margot Wells (née Wilkie; born 10 October 1952) is a Scottish sprint and fitness coach based in Guildford, Surrey and a former Scottish champion sprinter. Early career Wells started her coaching career by helping her husband Allan Wells wi ...

(born 1952), British athlete * Margot Werner (1937–2012), Austrian ballet dancer, singer and actress * Margot Wicki-Schwarzschild (1931–2020), German Holocaust witness * Margot Wikström (1936–2010) Swedish politician of the Social Democratic Party * Margot Williams, American botanist *

Margot Yerolymos Margot Yerolymos (born 19 April 1997) is a French former professional tennis player. Yerolymos has career-high WTA rankings of 306 in singles and 348 in doubles. She won five singles titles and three doubles titles in tournaments of the ITF Wom ...

(born 1997), French tennis player * Margot Zemach (1931–1989), American illustrator * Margot Zuidhof (born 1992), Dutch field hockey player

People with the surname Margot

* Georges Margot (1902–1998), French equestrian *

Jean-Luc Margot Jean-Luc Margot (born 1969) is a Belgian-born astronomer and a UCLA professor with expertise in planetary sciences and SETI. Career Margot has discovered and studied several binary asteroids with radar and optical telescopes. His discoveries ...

(born 1969), Belgian astronomer * Manuel Margot (born 1994), Dominican baseball player

In entertainment and culture

* ''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'', '' Nemesis: Rogues' Gallery'', and '' Nemesis: Forever'' * Margot Tenenbaum, a character in the film ''

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'' * Margot, the protagonist of

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'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 ''

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