Peggy (given name)
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Origin | |
| Meaning | nickname for Margaret |
| Other names | |
| Related names | Margaret, Margarita |
Peggy is a female first name (often curtailed to "Peg") derived from Meggy, a diminutive version of the name Margaret.[1] It is occasionally also a male nickname.
People
Writers
- Peggy Dunstan (1920–2010), New Zealand poet and writer
- Peggy Frew, Australian author
- Peggy Kornegger, American writer
- Peggy McIntosh, American writer and activist
- Peggy Noonan, American author and commentator
- Peggy Parish, American author
In entertainment
- Peggy Ashcroft, English actress
- Peggy Cass, American actress
- Peggy Cummins, Irish actress
- Peg Entwistle, English actress
- Peggy Knudsen, American actress
- Peggy Lipton, American actress
- Peggy McIntaggart, Canadian model
- Peggy Mount, English actress
- Peggy Ryan, American dancer and actress
- Peggy Shannon, American actress
- Peggy Wood, American actress
- Baby Peggy, American child actress
- Peggy Joyce, American actress
In music
- JPEGMafia, abbreviated to Peggy, birth name Barrington DeVaughn Hendricks, American rapper and record producer
- Peggy Gordon (singer), American musical theatre singer
- Peggy Lee, American jazz singer
- Peggy March, American pop singer
- Peggy Seeger, American folk singer
- Peggy Zina, Greek 'laika' singer
- Peggy Gou, South Korean DJ and musician
In sports
- Peggy Assinck, Canadian ice sledge hockey player and neuroscientist
- Peggy Büchse, German long-distance swimmer
- Peggy Fleming, American figure skater
- Jim O'Neil (ice hockey) (1913-1997), Canadian ice hockey player
- George Peggy Parratt (1883-1959), American football player
In politics
- Peggy Cabral, Dominican politician, diplomat and TV presenter
- Peggy Duff, British political activist
- Peg Luksik, Pennsylvania politician
- Peggy Nash, Canadian politician
Other
- Peggy Ahwesh, American video artist
- Peggy Eaton, wife of John Henry Eaton and figure in the Petticoat affair
- Peggy Fairbairn-Dunlop, Samoan-New Zealand academic
- Peggy Hård, Swedish clerk
- Peggy Hettrick (died 1987), American woman who was murdered
- Peggy Johnson (1976–1999), American female murder victim
- Margaret "Peggy" Shippen, American Loyalist spy for the British and second wife of Benedict Arnold
- Peggy Spicer, New Zealand painter
- Margarita "Peggy" Schuyler Van Rensselaer, sister in law of Alexander Hamilton
- Peggy Whitson, American astronaut
Fictional characters
- Peggy Biggs, Mike & Molly
- Peggy Blackett, a character in Arthur Ransome's "Swallows and Amazons" books.
- Peggy Bundy, in the American sitcom Married... with Children
- Peggy Carter, a Marvel Comics character
- Peg Gallagher, a character from the TV show Shameless
- Peggy Hill, in the American animated TV series King of the Hill
- Peggy Matsuyama (aka Momoranger), in Himitsu Sentai Gorenger
- Peggy Mitchell, in the British soap opera EastEnders
- Peggy Ollerenshaw, Hi-De-Hi
- Peggy Olson, in the American TV series Mad Men
- Peggy Patch, a rag doll puppet in the BBC children's TV series Playdays
- Peggy, a Hunter × Hunter character
- Peggy, a villain/murderer in Tales from the Crypt ( Lover come to hack me ).
References
- ^ "Behind the Name: Meaning, origin and history of the name Peggy". Retrieved 21 January 2016.
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