Margot

Margot (/ˈmɑːrɡoʊ, -ɡət/; French: [maʁɡo]) is a French given name for a female, a short form of Marguerite. It is also occasionally a surname. 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 Eskens (born 1939), German singer
• 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 Hielscher (1919–2017), German singer and actress
• Margot Honecker, German politician, former wife of Erich Honecker
• Margot Käßmann (born 1958), German theologist and writer
• 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 (born 1990), 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

People with the surname Margot

• Georges Margot (born 1902), French equestrian
• Jean-Luc Margot (born 1969), Belgian astronomer
• Manuel Margot (born 1994), Dominican baseball player

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, a character in the movie Legally Blonde
• 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