Marjorie

Marjorie is a female given name derived from Margaret, which means pearl. It can also be spelled as Margery or Marjory. Marjorie is a medieval variant of Margery, influenced by the name of the herb marjoram. It came into English from the Old French, from the Latin margarita (pearl).

After the Middle Ages this name was rare, but it was revived at the end of the 19th century.

Marge, Margie, Marj, Jorie, MJ, Mar, Majoy and Maggie are common nicknames of Marjorie.

People with the name Marjorie

Marjorie, Countess of Carrick (also Margaret) (1253–1292), mother of Robert the Bruce
Marjorie Abbatt (1899–1991), English toy maker and businesswoman
Marjorie Acker (1894–1985), American artist
Marjorie Agosín (born 1955), award-winning writer, activist, and professor
Marjorie Anderson (1913–1999), BBC radio broadcaster
Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson (1909–2002), Scottish historian and paleographer
Marjorie Arnfield (1930–2001), English landscape artist
Marjorie Barnard AO (1897–1987), Australian writer, critic, and librarian
Marjorie Barretto (born 1974), actress and politician from the Philippines
Marjorie Bates R.A. (1882–1962), Derbyshire painter
Marjorie Bean (died 2001), first Bermudian woman to be appointed to its Legislative Council
Marjorie Bennett (1896–1982), Australian actress
Marjorie Best (1903–1997), American costume designer
Marjorie Blamey OBE (born 1919), English painter and illustrator
Marjorie Blankstein, CM (née Rady), Canadian fundraiser, community activist, and volunteer
Marjorie Boulton (born 1924), British writer in English and Esperanto
Marjorie Bowen (1885–1952), British author
Marjorie Bransfield, actress
Marjorie Brown, American businesswoman and owner of the Boston Celtics
Marjorie Browne (1910–1990), British actor
Marjorie Lee Browne (1914–1979), African-American mathematics educator
Marjorie Bruce or Marjorie de Brus (1296–1316), eldest daughter of Robert the Bruce, King of Scots
Marjorie Cameron (1922–1995), artist, occultist, and actress; wife of rocket pioneer Jack Parsons
Marjorie Harris Carr (1915–1998), American conservationist
Marjorie Constance Caserio (born 1929), American chemist
Marjorie Sewell Cautley (1891–1954), American landscape architect
Marjorie Cevallos (born 1986), Miss World Ecuador 2008
Marjorie Chibnall, English historian, medievalist and Latin translator
Marjorie Clapprood (born 1949), Massachusetts politician and talk show host
Marjorie Clark (born 1909), South African former track and field athlete
Marjorie Clarke, environmental scientist
Marjorie Cohn, professor of law
Marjorie Kowalski Cole (1953–2009), author
Marjorie Cottle, motorcycle sports rider
Marjorie Cotton (1913–2003), Australian children's librarian
Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer (1907–2004), South African museum official who in 1938 publicised the existence of the coelacanth
Marjorie Cox Crawford, Australian tennis player
Marjorie Critten, Miss Missouri in 1958
Marjorie Crocombe (born 1930), author and academic from the Cook Islands
Marjorie Dannenfelser, chairman of the Susan B. Anthony List
Marjorie Daw (actress) (1902–1979), American film actress of the silent era
Marjorie de Sousa (born 1980), Venezuelan model and actress
Marjorie Dean, protagonist of series of books for girls written by Josephine Chase
Marjorie Deane (1914-2008), British financial journalist and author
Marjorie Deanne (1917–1994), American film actress
Marjorie Housepian Dobkin (1922-2013), professor of English at Barnard College
Marjorie Dodd, early 20th century amateur tennis player
Marjorie Dunn, British horn player
Marjorie Estiano (born 1982), Brazilian actress and singer
Marjorie Evasco (born 1953), Filipino poet
Marjorie Eyre (1897–1987), English opera singer
Marjorie Fielding (1892–1956), British stage and film actress
Marjorie Flack (1897–1958), artist and writer of children's picture books
Marjorie Fleming (1803–1811), Scottish child writer and poet
Marjorie Franklin, conceptual artist and art professor
Marjorie Garber (born 1944), author and professor
Marjorie Gateson (1891–1977), character actress in films of the 1930s and 1940s
Marjorie Gestring (1922–1992), springboard diver and Olympic gold medallist
Marjorie Gordon (1893–1983), English actress and singer
Marjorie Graves (1884–1961), British civil servant, Conservative politician and writer
Marjorie Grene (1910–2009), American philosopher
Marjorie Griffin, camogie player
Marjorie Gross (1956–1996), television writer and producer
Marjorie Gubelmann (born 1969), owner and CEO of Vie Luxe International
Marjorie Guthrie (1917–1983), dancer and dance teacher
Marjorie Hahn (born 1948), American mathematician and tennis player
Marjorie Halpin (1937–2000), U.S.-Canadian anthropologist
Marjorie Harris (born 1937), Canadian non-fiction writer
Marjorie Silliman Harris (1890–1976), American philosopher
Marjorie Hall Harrison (born 1915), British astronomer
Marjorie Heins, activist, writer, and founder of the Free Expression Policy Project
Marjorie Henzell (born 1948), Australian politician
Marjorie Hill (died 1909), a founder of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. at Howard University
Marjorie Holt (born 1920), Republican U.S. Congresswoman for Maryland
Marjorie Hughes, singer in the Frankie Carle Orchrestra
Marjorie Hume (1900–1976), English film actress
Marjorie Husted (1892–1986), home economist who helped develop the brand character Betty Crocker
Marjorie Jackson-Nelson, AC, CVO, MBE (born 1931), former Governor of South Australia and former Australian athlete
Marjorie Johnson, the "Blue Ribbon Baker" from Minnesota
Marjorie Joyner (1896–1994), African American inventor and businesswoman
Marjorie Kane (1909–1992), American film actress
Marjorie Keller (1950–1994), experimental filmmaker, author, activist, and film scholar
Marjorie Kellogg (1922–2005), American author
Marjorie B. Kellogg, American writer, author of Dragon Quartet
Marjorie Lane, American singer and Broadway performer of the 1920s and 1930s
Marjorie Lawrence CBE (1907–1979), Australian soprano
Marjorie Lewty (1906–2002), author of romance novels
Marjorie Linton (1917–1994), Canadian backstroke and freestyle swimmer who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics
Marjorie Liu, author of paranormal romance and urban fantasy novels and comic books
Marjorie Lord (1918–2015), American television and film actress
Marjorie Luesebrink, author of hypermedia fiction
Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye (1928–2015), English/Kenyan novelist, essayist and poet
Marjorie Main (1890–1975), American character actress
Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky (born 1942), women's right activist and educator
Marjorie Matthews (1916–1986), American Bishop of the United Methodist Church
Marjorie Maxse (1891–1975), political organiser and the first female chief organization officer of the Conservative Party
Marjorie McIntosh (born 1940), American historian of Great Britain
Marjorie Batchelder McPharlin (1903–1997), American puppeteer and authority on puppet theater
Marjorie Merryman (born 1951), American composer, author, and music educator
Marjorie Mikasen (born 1959), painter working in Lincoln, Nebraska
Marjorie Monaghan, American actress
Marjorie Montgomery (born 1912), child dancer and actress
Marjorie Morgan (1915–2007), Canadian writer and author
Marjorie Hope Nicolson (1894–1981), American literary scholar
Marjorie Noël (1945–2000), French pop singer, represented Monaco in the 1965 Eurovision Song Contest
Marjorie Oelrichs (1908–1937), American socialite
Marjorie Okell (1908–2009), track and field athlete from Great Britain
Marjorie Ozanne (1897–1973), writer
Marjorie Parker, DBE (died 1991), Australian civic and political activist
Marjorie Perloff (born 1931), Austrian-born U.S. poetry critic
Marjorie Pickthall (1883–1922), Canadian writer born in England
Marjorie Pierce (1900–1999), American architect
Marjorie Pizer (born 1920), Australian poet
Marjorie Merriweather Post (1887–1973), American socialite and the founder of General Foods, Inc.
Marjorie Pratt, Countess of Brecknock DBE, JP (died 1989), British peeress
Marjorie Priceman (born 1958), author and illustrator of children's books
Marjorie Proops (1911–1996), newspaper columnist in the United Kingdom
Marjorie Quennell (1884–1972), British historian, illustrator and museum curator
Marjorie Rambeau (1889–1970), American film and stage actress
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896–1953), American author who lived in rural Florida
Robert and Marjorie Rawlins, American philanthropists and patrons of the arts, particularly music
Marjorie Rendell (born 1947), federal judge and former First Lady of Pennsylvania
Marjorie Reynolds (1917–1997), American film actress
Marjorie Rhodes (1897–1979), British actress
Marjorie Rice (born 1923), American amateur mathematician
Marjorie Newell Robb (1889–1992), survivor of the sinking of the RMS Titanic
Marjorie Scardino, DBE, FRSA (born 1947), American-British CEO of Pearson PLC
Marjorie Schick (1941–2017), American jewelry artist and academic
Marjorie Schwarzer (born 1957), American museum writer and educator
Marjorie W. Sharmat (born 1928), American children's writer
Marjorie Shostak (1945–1996), American anthropologist
Marjorie Lynette Sigley (1928–1997), British artist, writer, actress, teacher, choreographer, theatre director and television producer
Marjorie “Marge” Simpson, fictional character from the TV series The Simpsons
Marjorie Sinclair, Baroness Pentland (1880–1970), daughter of Sir John Campbell Hamilton-Gordon
Marjorie Parker Smith (1917–2009), American champion ice skater in dance and figure skating competitions
Marjorie Spock (1904–2008), environmentalist, author and poet
Marjorie Strider (1934-2014), American painter, sculptor and performance artist
Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki (born 1933), author and emerita professor of theology
Marjorie Sweeting, geomorphologist specialising in karst phenomena
Marjorie Tallchief (born 1927), ballerina of the Osage Nation
Marjorie Thomas (1923–2008), English opera and oratorio singer
Marjorie Thompson, vice-chair and chair of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
Marjorie Tipping MBE (1917–2009), Australian historian and patron of community services
Marjorie Torrey (born 1899), award-winning illustrator
Marjorie Tuite (1922–1986), Dominican nun from New York City
Marjorie R. Turnbull (born 1940), representative in Florida's House of Representatives
Marjorie van Vliet (1923–1990), teacher from Warwick, Rhode Island
Marjorie Vincent, former journalist and beauty contestant who was crowned Miss America 1991
Marjorie Wallace (born 1954), former United States model turned television presenter
Marjorie Wallace (SANE) CBE (Countess Skarbek) (born 1945), British writer, broadcaster and investigative journalist; chief executive of SANE
Marjorie Weaver (1913–1994), American film actress of the 1930s through the early 1950s
Marjorie Welish (born 1944), American poet, artist, and art critic
Marjorie Westbury (1905–1989), English radio actress and singer
Marjorie Wheeler-Barclay, American historian and university professor
Marjorie Whitaker (1895–1976) (pseudonym Malachi Whitaker), English writer noted for short stories and an autobiography
Marjorie White (1904–1935), Canadian-born actress of stage and film
Marjorie M. Whiteman (1898—1986[1]), American expert on international law
Marjorie Williams (1958–2005), writer, reporter, and columnist
Marjorie Williamson (1913–2002), British academic, physicist, and university administrator
Marjorie Willison, author of books on gardening and a radio personality
Marjorie Muir Worthington (1900–1976), American author of novels and short stories
Marjorie Yang (born 1952), non-official member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong
Marjorie Yates (born 1941), British actress known for role in the Channel 4 drama Shameless

People with the name Marjorie

See also