Midge (disambiguation)

The midge is a very small, two-winged flying insect.

Midge may also refer to:

Military

• Folland Midge, a British subsonic light fighter aircraft
• HMQS Midge, an Australian torpedo launch in service from 1887 to 1912
• Canadair CL-89, a surveillance drone called Midge in UK service

People

Given name or nickname

• Midge Bosworth (born 1941), Australian former racing driver
• Toughie Brasuhn (1923–1971), American roller derby skater
• Marjorie Frances Bruford (1902–1958), British painter
• Midge Costanza (1932–2010), American politician
• Midge Decter (born 1927), American neoconservative journalist and author of various books
• Midge Didham (born 1945), New Zealand retired jockey
• Mildred Gillars (1900–1988), American broadcaster of Nazi propaganda during World War II
• Midge Gillies, British journalist and biographer
• Marjorie Gladman (born c. 1900), American amateur tennis player
• Midge Mackenzie (1938–2004), Dublin born writer and film maker
• Midge Marsden (born 1945), New Zealand blues and R&B guitarist, harmonica-player, and singer
• Midge Miller (1922–2009), American politician
• Marjorie Moreman (1902–1987), British gymnast
• Midge Potts, transgender political activist
• Margaret Purce (born 1995), American soccer player
• Marjorie Rendell (born 1947), American jurist and first lady of Pennsylvania
• Midge Richardson (1930-2012), American nun and educator turned author and editor of Seventeen magazine
• Midge Ure (born 1953), Scottish guitarist, singer and songwriter
• Midge Williams (1915–1952), African-American Swing Jazz vocalist during the 1930s and 1940s

Surname

• Tiffany Midge, Native American poet

Fictional characters

• Midge (Barbie), a doll in the Barbie line
• Midge Klump, from Archie Comics
• Midge Carter, in the play I'm Not Rappaport and its adaptations
• Midge Maisel, in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, an American television series
• Midge Pinciotti, in That '70's Show, an American television series
• Midge, a pet mouse in Mary, Mungo and Midge, a British animated children's television series
• Marge Simpson, from the TV series The Simpsons is nicknamed "Midge" apparently exclusively by Moe Szyslak

Other uses

• Midge Lake, Livingston Island, Antarctica
• Midge the Sea Lion (1985-2010), a resident of the Oklahoma City zoo
• Midge Linux, a Linux mini-distribution for routers
• Midge (HBC vessel), operated by the HBC in 1877, see Hudson's Bay Company vessels
• JC Midge, a kit car

See also

• Midget
• "Mij", an Iraqi otter featured in the book Ring of Bright Water