Margrethe
title: "Margrethe" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["feminine-given-names", "given-names-derived-from-gemstones"] topic_path: "general/feminine-given-names" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margrethe" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::callout[type=note] the given name ::
Margret(h)e is an alternate spelling of the feminine given name Margaret.
People so named include:
- Margrete or Margaret I of Denmark (1353–1412), Queen of Denmark and Queen of Norway and Sweden by marriage
- Margrethe II of Denmark (born 1940), queen regnant of Denmark from 1972 to 2024
- Margaret of Sweden, Queen of Norway (c. 1155–1209), in Norwegian "Margrete", queen consort of Norway
- Margaret Skulesdatter (1208–1270), in Old Norse "Margrét", queen consort of Haakon IV of Norway
- Princess Margaret of Denmark (1895–1992), in Danish "Margrethe"
- Margrete Auken (born 1945), Danish politician
- Margrete Aamot Øverland (1913–1978), journalist and member of the Norwegian Resistance during World War II
- Margrethe Christiansen (1895–1971), Danish folk high school teacher
- Margrethe Lasson (1659–1758), first novelist in Denmark
- Margrethe Munthe (1860–1931), Norwegian teacher, children's writer, songwriter and playwright
- Margrethe Schall (1775–1852), Danish ballerina
- Margrethe Schanne (1921–2014), Danish ballerina
- Margrethe Vestager (born 1968), Danish politician
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