Peggy (given name)

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Field	Value
name	Peggy
pronunciation
gender	Feminine
language	English
origin	nickname for Margaret
meaning	'pearl'
related names	Margaret, Margarita
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| name = Peggy | image = | caption = | romanisation = | pronunciation = | gender = Feminine | masculine = | feminine = | motto = | language = English | languageorigin = | origin = nickname for Margaret | derivation = | meaning = 'pearl' | region = | alternative spelling = | nickname = | shortform = | petname = | variant forms = | related names = Margaret, Margarita | cognate = | anglicisation = | name day = | derived = | derivative = | seealso = | popularity = | footnotes = Peggy is a female first name (often curtailed to "Peg") derived from Meggy, a diminutive version of the name Margaret.

People

Writers

• Peggy Adam, French comic book artist and illustrator
• Peggy Adler (born 1942), American writer
• Peggy Anderson (1938–2016), American author and journalist
• Peggy Carr, Vincentian poet
• Peggy Pond Church (1903–1986), American writer
• Peggy Dennis, American Russian journalist, author and Communist activist
• Peggy Dern, American novelist
• Peggy Dunstan (1920–2010), New Zealand poet and writer
• Peggy Fortnum (1919–2016), English illustrator
• Peggy Frew (born 1976), Australian author
• Peggy Goodin (1923–1983), American novelist
• Peggy Hull (1889–1967), American journalist
• Peggy Bennette Hume, British playwright and children’s author
• Peggy Kornegger, American writer
• Peggy McIntosh (born 1934), American writer and activist
• Peggy Moreland, American novelist
• Peggy Noonan (born 1950), American author and commentator
• Peggy Orenstein (born 1961), American writer
• Peggy O'Shea (1922–2014), American screenwriter
• Peggy Parish (1927–1988), American author
• Peggy Parnass (born 1927), German-Swiss journalist, author and actress
• Peggy Payne, American writer
• Peggy Peterman (c. 1936–2004), American journalist
• Peggy Pettitt (born 1950), American dramatist
• Peggy Rathmann (born 1954), American writer
• Peggy Shaw (born 1944), American dramatist
• Peggy Sloane (1943–2009), American writer
• Peggy Fletcher Stack (born 1951), American journalist, editor and author
• Peggy Thompson, Canadian screenwriter, producer, playwright and professor
• Peggy Vining (1929–2017), American poet laureate
• Peggy Webb (writer) (born 1942), American novelist
• Peggy Webling (1871–1949), British playwright, novelist and poet
• Peggy Wehmeyer, American journalist

In entertainment

• Peggy Ahern (1917–2012), American child actress
• Peggy Allenby (1896–1966), American actress
• Peggy Ashcroft (1907–1991), English actress
• Peggy Bacon (radio producer) aka "Aunty Peggy" - BBC radio and television producer and radio presenter
• Peggy Baker (born 1952), Canadian dancer, choreographer and teacher
• Peggy Bernier (1907–2001), American comedian and actress
• Peggy Blow (born 1952), Latina German-American actress
• Peggy Carlisle, British actress
• Peggy Cartwright (1912–2001), Canadian silent film actress
• Peggy Cass (1924–1999), American actress
• Peggy Ann Clifford (1921–1986), English character actress
• Peggy Conklin, American film, television and theatre actress
• Peggy Converse, American actress
• Peggy Cummins (1925–2017), Irish actress
• Peggy Dolan, American actress
• Peggy Dow (born 1928), American actress
• Peggy Drake (1922–2014), American actress
• Peg Entwistle (1908–1932), English actress
• Peggy Evans (1921–2015), British actress
• Peggy Fears (1903–1994), American actress
• Peggy Feury (1924–1985), American actress
• Peggy Ann Garner (1932–1984), American child actress
• Peggy George (c. 1908–1978), American actress
• Peggy Hopkins Joyce (1893–1957), American actress, model and dancer
• Peggy Hyland (1884–1973), British actress
• Peggy Knudsen (1923–1980), American actress
• Peggy Lipton (1946–2019), American actress
• Peggy Lloyd (1913–2011), American actress
• Peggy Lu, American actress
• Peggy Maley (1923–2007), American actress
• Peggy McCay (1927–2018), American actress
• Peggy McIntaggart, Canadian model
• Peggy Miley (born 1941), American actress and writer
• Peggy Moffitt (1937–2024), American model and actress
• Peggy Mondo (1927–1991), American actress
• Peggy Montgomery (1904–1989), American actress
• Peggy Moran (1918–2002), American actress
• Peggy Mount (1915–2001), English actress
• Peggy Novak (1907–1969), British actress
• Peggy O'Dare (1898–1959), American actress
• Peggy O'Day (1900–1964), American actress
• Peggy O'Neal (born 1963), American voice actress
• Peggy O'Neill (1799–1879), Irish-American Vaudeville actress
• Peggy Ovire, Nigerian actress
• Peggy Pearce (1894–1975), American actress
• Peggy Phango (1928–1998), South African actress and singer
• Peggy Pope (1929–2020), American actress
• Peggy van Praagh (1910–1990), British ballerina
• Peggy Rajski, American filmmaker
• Peggy Ramsay (1908–1991), Australian-born British theatrical agent
• Peggy Rea (1921–2011), American actress
• Peggy Ryan (1924–2004), American dancer and actress
• Peggy Shannon (1907–1941), American actress
• Peggy Shanor (1895–1935), American actress in silent films
• Peggy Shaw (1905–1990), American silent film actress
• Peggy Siegal (born 1947), American entertainment publicist
• Peggy Simpson (1913–1994), British actress
• Peggy Sinclair, English actress
• Peggy Stewart (1923–2019), American actress
• Peggy Taylor (1927–2002), American actress
• Peggy Thorpe-Bates (1914–1989), British actress
• Peggy Vrijens (born 1976), Dutch actress
• Peggy Walton-Walker (born 1943), American film and television actress
• Peggy Webber (born 1925), American actress
• Peggy Wood (1892–1978), American actress
• Peggy Ann Wood (1912–1998), British actress, director and theatre manager
• Diana Serra Cary, known as Baby Peggy (1918–2020), American child actress

In music

• JPEGMafia, sometimes referred to as Peggy (born 1989), American rapper, singer, and record producer
• Peggy Cochrane (1902–1988), English musician, singer and composer
• Peggy Connelly (1931–2007), American singer and actress
• Peggy Gilbert (1905–2007), American jazz musician and bandleader
• Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912–1990), Australian composer and music critic
• Peggy Gou (born 1991), South Korean DJ and musician
• Peggy Hayama (1933–2017), Japanese singer
• Peggy Jones (1940–2015), American musician
• Peggy King (born 1930), American singer
• Peggy Lee (1920–2002), American jazz singer
• Peggy Lennon, American singer, one of the Lennon Sisters
• Peggy Little (born 1942), American singer-songwriter
• Peggy March (born 1948), American pop singer
• Peggy Mann (1919–c. 1988), American jazz musician
• Peggy O'Keefe (1928–2019), Australian-Scottish musical artist
• Peggy Pryde (1867–1943), British music hall performer
• Peggy Santiglia (born 1944), American pop singer
• Peggy Scott-Adams (1948–2023), American pop singer
• Peggy Seeger (born 1935), American folk singer
• Peggy Stern (born 1948), American jazz musician
• Peggy Stuart Coolidge (1913–1981), American classical composer
• Peggy Sue (born 1943), American country singer
• Peggy Zina (born 1975), Greek 'laika' singer

In sports

• Peggy Antonio (1917–2002), Australian cricketer
• Peggy Assinck (born 1983), Canadian ice sledge hockey player and neuroscientist
• Peggy Babin (born 1976), French athlete
• Peggy Beer (born 1969), German heptathlete
• Peggy Kirk Bell (1921–2016), American golfer and golf instructor
• Peggy Büchse (born 1972), German long-distance swimmer
• Peggy Butler (1897–1971), British fencer
• Peggy Clarke (1926–2018), British chess player
• Peggy Clasen (born 1969), American speed skater
• Peggy Conley, American professional golfer
• Peggy Cramer (1937–2016), American baseball player
• Peggy Crowe (1956–2012), American speed skater
• Peggy Dawson-Scott, British tennis player
• Peggy Dickens (born 1975), French slalom canoeist
• Peggy Fairweather, Jamaican cricketer
• Peggy Fenton (1927–2013), American baseball player
• Peggy Fleming (born 1948), American figure skater
• Peggy Flournoy (1904–1972), American football and baseball player and coach
• Peggy Frair (born 1950), American luger
• Peggy Griffin, Irish camogie player
• Peggy Hardwiger (born 1967), German sailor
• Peggy Ichkoff, American table tennis player
• Peggy Kaplan, American bridge player
• Peggy Sita Kihoue, Congolese long jumper
• Peggy Lee Leather (1959–2023), American wrestler
• Peggy Llewellyn (born 1972), American motorcycle racer
• Peggy Lokando (born 1989), English-born Congolese footballer
• Peggy McCarthy (rower) (born 1956), American rower
• Peggy McLean (1926–2013), American table tennis player
• Peggy Michel (born 1949), American tennis player
• Peggy Michell (1905–1941), British tennis player
• Peggy Morgan (born 1981), American mixed martial arts fighter
• Peggy Nietgen (born 1986), German footballer
• Peggy Parratt (1883–1959), American football player and coach
• Peggy Provost (born 1977), French footballer
• Peggy Regenwetter (born 1971), Luxembourgish table tennis player
• Peggy Schoolcraft (born 1960), American bodybuilder
• Peggy Schwarz (born 1971), German pair skater
• Peggy Solomon (1908–1995), American bridge player
• Peggy Sonntag (born 1999), German Paralympic swimmer
• Peggy Steedman, Scottish chess player
• Peggy Sutherlin, American bridge player
• Peggy de Villiers (born 1993), South African swimmer
• Peggy Waleska (born 1980), German rower
• Peggy Wilson (born 1934), American professional golfer

In politics

• Peggy Balboni, American politician
• Peggy Bennett (born 1958), American politician
• Peggy Blackford (1942–2024), American diplomat
• Peggy Blair, Canadian lawyer
• Peggy Butts, Canadian politician
• Peggy Cabral (born 1947), Dominican politician, diplomat and TV presenter
• Peggy Chew Howard (1760–1824), First Lady of Maryland
• Peggy R. Cook (1939–2011), American politician
• Peggy Davis-Mullen, American politician
• Peggy Duff (1910–1981), British political activist
• Peggy Farrell, (1920–2003), Irish businesswoman and Fianna Fáil politician
• Peggy Fenner (1922–2014), British politician
• Peggy Flanagan (born 1979), American politician
• Peggy Hessen Følsvik (born 1960), Norwegian trade unionist
• Peggy Gibson (born 1949), American politician
• Peggy Gossett-Seidman, American politician and Florida State Legislative Representative
• Peggy Herbison (1907–1996), British politician
• Peggy Jay (1913–2008), English Labour politician
• Peggy Johnson, American businesswoman
• Peggy Judd (born 1962), American politician
• Peggy Kerns, Colorado politician
• Peggy Krusick (born 1956), American politician
• Peggy Lamm, American politician
• Peggy Lehner, American politician
• Peggy Leppik (born 1943), American politician
• Peggy Littleton, American politician
• Peggy Smith Martin (1931–2012), american politician
• Peggy Mast (born 1948), American politician
• Peggy Maxie (1936–2024), American politician
• Peggy Mayfield (born 1963), American politician
• Peggy McGaugh, American politician
• Peggy Middleton, British politician
• Peggy Nash (born 1951), Canadian politician
• Peggy Nkonyeni (born 1961), South African politician
• Peggy Palmer (born 1945), American politician
• Peggy Pendleton (born 1946), American politician
• Peggy Pierce (1954–2013), American politician
• Peggy Quince (born 1948), American judge
• Peggy Rosenzweig (born 1936), American politician
• Peggy Rosson (born 1935), Texas politician
• Peggy Rotundo (born 1949), American politician
• Peggy Sattler, Canadian politician
• Peggy Sayers (born 1941), American politician
• Peggy Schierenbeck, German politician
• Peggy Scott (born 1961), American politician
• Peggy Serame, Motswana politician
• Peggy Simone, American politician from Florida
• Peggy Stevenson (1924–2014), American politician
• Peggy Wallace (1947–2020), American politician
• Peggy Webb, American politician
• Peggy Wilson (born 1945), American politician
• Peggy Wright, Canadian politician from Alberta
• Peggy Yu (born 1965), Chinese businesswoman

Other professions

• Peggy Ahwesh (born 1954), American video artist
• Peggy Angus (1904–1993), British painter, designer and educator
• Peggy Antrobus, Grenadian activist, author and scholar
• Peggy Bacon (1895–1987), American artist
• Peggy Bauer (1932–2004), American wildlife photographer
• Peggy Boyd (1905–1999), one of Scotland's first air ambulance nurses; served during World War II.
• Peggy Brock (1948–2023), Australian historian
• Peggy Brunache, Haitian American food historian and archaeologist
• Peggy Bulger, American folklorist
• Peggy Cebe, professor of physics
• Peggy Charren (1928–2015), American activist
• Peggy Cherng, American billionaire businesswoman
• Peggy Cooper Cafritz (1947–2018), American civil rights activist, educator, philanthropist and art collector
• Peggy Cowley (c. 1890–1970), American painter
• Peggy Crewe-Milnes, 20th-century English justice of the peace
• Peggy Cripps (1921–2006), English debutante and author
• Peggy Cyphers (born 1954), American painter
• Peggy Deamer (born 1950), American architect
• Peggy DesAutels (born 1955), American philosopher
• Peggy Detmers, American sculptor
• Peggy Dulany, American philanthropist
• Peggy Eaton (1799–1879), American, wife of John Henry Eaton and figure in the Petticoat affair
• Peggy Eisenhauer, American lighting designer
• Peggy Fairbairn-Dunlop, Samoan-New Zealand academic
• Peggy Farrell, (1932–2021), American costume designer
• Peggy Ferro (1949–1998), American activist
• Peggy Fogelman, American museum director
• Peggy Gale (born 1944), Canadian curator
• Peggy Giordano, American criminologist
• Peggy Guggenheim (1898-1979), American art collector and socialite
• Peggy Guido (1912–1994), English archaeologist
• Peggy Hamilton (c. 1894–1984), American fashion and costume designer
• Peggy Hård (1825–1894), Swedish clerk
• Peggy Hartanto (born 1988), Indonesian fashion designer
• Peggy Hay (1924–2016), New Zealand designer
• Peggy Hettrick (died 1987), American murder victim
• Peggy Hodges (1921–2008), British engineer
• Peggy Jackson, Welsh archdeacon
• Peggy Johnson (1976–1999), American murder victim
• Peggy Napangardi Jones (1951–2014), Australian artist
• Peggy Kelman (1909–1998), American aviation pioneer
• Peggy A. Kidwell, American historian of science
• Peggy J. Kleinplatz 21st century, Canadian clinical professor, psychologist and sexologist
• Peggy Koopman-Boyden (born 1943), New Zealand gerontologist
• Peggy Lemaux, American plant biologist
• Peggy Luhrs (1945–2022), American women’s rights activist
• Peggy McIntosh (born 1934), American academic and anti-racism activist
• Peggy McKercher (born 1929), Canadian conservationist and academic
• Peggy McDowell Curlin (1940–2005), American women’s health advocate
• Peggy Mulambya-Kabonde, Zambian feminist theologian
• Peggy Brewer Musgrave, economist
• Peggy Nadramia, American editor and administrator
• Peggy Rockman Napaljarri (born 1940), Australian artist
• Peggy Noland, American fashion designer
• Peggy Oki (born 1956), American skateboarder, surfer, artist and environmental activist
• Peggy Oti-Boateng, Ghanaian biochemist
• Peggy Papp, American family therapist
• Peggy Pascoe (1954–2010), American historian
• Peggy Phelan (born 1948), American feminist scholar
• Peggy Piesche, German literary and cultural scientist
• Peggy Robertson (1916–1998), English professional assistant and script supervisor for Albert Hitchcock
• Peggy Rae Sapienza (1944–2015), American science fiction convention organizer
• Peggy Sager (1924-2002), Australian dancer and educator
• Margarita "Peggy" Schuyler Van Rensselaer (1758–1801), sister in law of Alexander Hamilton
• Peggy Shepard, American local government and environmentalist
• Margaret "Peggy" Shippen (1760–1804), American Loyalist spy for the British and second wife of Benedict Arnold
• Peggy Speas, American linguist
• Peggy Spicer (1908–1984), New Zealand painter
• Peggy Sullivan (1929–2020), American librarian and educator
• Peggy Jo Tallas (1944–2005), American bank robber
• Peggy Weil, American artist working in digital media
• Peggy Welch (born 1955), American nurse and politician from Indiana
• Peggy Whitson (born 1960), American astronaut
• Peggy Willis-Aarnio (1948–2016), American choreographer, historian, author and teacher

Animals

• Peggy, a dog actor

Fictional characters

• Peggy Biggs, in the American TV series 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, from the TV show Shameless
• Peggy Hawkins from Carry On Cabby
• 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, in the British TV comedy series 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 classmate of Wanda in the children's book The Hundred Dresses
• Peggy Blumquist, character from season 2 of American TV series Fargo
• Peggy, a character in the TV series Californication

References

References

1. "Behind the Name: Meaning, origin and history of the name Peggy".

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