Madge (given name)
Appearance
Madge is a female given name, a short form of Margaret, Marjorie, Jeroen, and Maggie.[1] Madge may refer to:
Actresses:
- Madge Bellamy (1899–1990), American movie actress born Margaret Derden Philpott
- Madge Blake (1899–1969), American character actress most famous for her role as Aunt Harriet Cooper on the TV series Batman
- Madge Evans (born Margherita Evans; 1909–1981), American film actress who began her career as a child actress and model
- Dame Madge Kendal (1848–1935), English actress and theatre manager
- Madge Lessing (1873–1966), English singer and actress
- Madge Sinclair (1938–1995), Jamaican-born American actress
- Madge Titheradge (1887–1961), Australian actress
Singers:
- Madonna, American singer, actress and activist; known as "Madge" in the British tabloids
In other fields:
- Madeleine Albright (born 1937), first female Secretary of State in the United States
- Madge Bester (1963–2018), formerly the world's shortest living woman
- Madeline McDowell Breckinridge (1872–1920), women's suffragette leader and reformer
- Madge Gill (1882–1961), English outsider and visionary artist
- Madge Miller Green (1900-1989), American politician and educator
- Madge Knight (1895–1974), English artist
- Madge Oberholtzer (1896–1925), American woman raped and murdered by the Grand Dragon of the Indiana Klan
- Madge Oliver (1875–1924), British artist
- Margaret and Mary Shelton (1510/15–1570/71), once thought to be sisters, but now believed to be the same person; may have been a mistress of King Henry VIII of England
- Madge Syers (born Florence Madeline Syers; 1881–1917), British figure skater, first woman to compete at the World Figure Skating Championships
- Madge Tennent (1889–1972), British-American painter considered the greatest individual contributor to 20th-century Hawaiian art [2]
Fictional characters:
- Madge, a long-running advertising character for Palmolive dishwashing detergent portrayed by Jan Miner
- Madge Allsop, long-suffering bridesmaid and longtime companion of Dame Edna Everage (played by actress Emily Perry)
- Madge Bishop, one of the matriarchs of the Australian soap opera Neighbours
- Madge Harvey, on the ITV programme Benidorm
- Madge Madsen, a character in the TV show The Office.
- Madge Owens, in the play Picnic and the 1955 film Picnic
- Madge Undersee, a character in the Hunger Games trilogy
- Madge Weinstein, fictional Internet personality, creation and alter ego of underground filmmaker Richard Bluestein
- Madge Wildfire, in Sir Walter Scott's novel The Heart of Midlothian
References
- ^ Behind the Name
- ^ "The History of Today: 150 Years". Honolulu Advertiser. February 5, 2006.