Margot
Appearance
Margot (/ˈmɑːrɡoʊ, -ɡət/; French: [maʁɡo]) is a French given name for a female, a short form of Marguerite. Persons named Margot include the following:
People with the given name Margot
- Margot Asquith, countess of Oxford and Asquith
- Marguerite de Valois, known as La Reine Margot, queen of France and of Navarre
- Margot Arce de Vázquez, Puerto Rican essayist and educator
- Margot Bennett (1912–1980), Scottish screenwriter and crime author
- Margot Boer (born 1985), Dutch speed skater
- Margot Bryant, British actress
- Margot Fonteyn, British ballerina
- Margot Franssen (born 1952), Dutch-born Canadian entrepreneur and activist
- Margot Frank (1926–1945), sister of World War II diarist Anne Frank
- Margot van Geffen (born 1989), Dutch field hockey player
- Margot Honecker, German politician, former wife of Erich Honecker
- Margot Kidder, actress famous for playing Lois Lane in Superman
- Margot Lander, Danish ballerina
- Margot Lumb, British squash player
- Margot Marsman (born 1932), Dutch swimmer
- Margot Rojas Mendoza (1903 – 1996), Cuban pianist and teacher
- Margot Pardoe (1902–1996), British children's writer
- Margot Robbie, Australian actress
- Margot Roosevelt, American journalist
- Margot Taule, Dominican engineer and architect
- Margot Wallström (born 1954), European Commissioner for Institutional Relations and Communication Strategy
- Margot Wells, Scottish sprinter
- Margot Zemach, American illustrator
In entertainment and culture
- Margot at the Wedding, a 2007 American film by Noah Baumbach
- La Reine Margot (novel) by Alexandre Dumas
- La Reine Margot (1994 film) a 1994 film based on the Dumas novel starring Isabelle Adjani
- Margot Tenenbaum, a fictional character in the film The Royal Tenenbaums
- Margot Mary Wendice, a fictional character in the 1954 Alfred Hitchcock film Dial M For Murder
- Margot Beste-Chetwynde, a fictional character in Evelyn Waugh's novel Decline and Fall
- Margot Lane, assistant to Lamont Cranston, a fictional character in the 1940 American film serial The Shadow