Maisie (given name)
Maisie, rarely spelled Maisy, is a feminine given name, long used in Scotland (since at least the 16th century) as a diminutive of Margaret. Notable people with the name include:
- Maisy Biden, daughter of Hunter and Kathleen Biden
- Maisy Collis, English footballer
- Maisie Cowell, British voice actress known for voicing Lola Sonner in Charlie and Lola
- Maisy Gibson, Australian cricketer
- Maisy James, Big Brother UK Series 12 contestant
- Maisy Ma (born 1999), Hong Kong figure skater
- Maisie Potter (born 1997), British snowboarder
- Maisie Richardson-Sellers (born 1992), English actress
- Maisie Shiell (1916–2008), Canadian anti-nuclear activist
- Maisie Smith (born 2001), English child actress
- Maisy Stella, Canadian singer from duo Lennon & Maisy
- Maisie Ward (1889–1975), British writer, publisher and speaker
- Maisie Williams (born 1997), British actress
Fictional characters
- Maisie Dobbs, protagonist in a series of detective novels by Jacqueline Winspear
- Maisy Gibbons from Desperate Housewives
- Maisie Farange, the protagonist in the Henry James novel What Maisie Knew (1897)
- Maisie MacKenzie, the kitten in the Scottish children's books by Aileen Paterson and (as Maisie Mac) in the animated broadcast Meeow!
- Maisie Ravier (Mary Anastasia O'Connor), played by actress Ann Sothern in ten films and a radio show
- the title character of Maisie Raine, a 1998-1999 British television drama series
- Maisie Wylde, in the soap opera Emmerdale
- Maisy Mouse, the titular character of the children's book series by Lucy Cousins and its animated adaptation.
- Maisie, in the British comic strip The Perishers
- Maisie, the character loved by the protagonist in Rudyard Kipling's first novel, The Light That Failed (1891)
- Maisie, protagonist in the Rosa Mulholland Gilbert novel Our Sister Maisie (1907)
See also
- Maizie Williams (born 1951), British model and singer
- Mazie Hirono (born 1947), American junior senator from Hawaii
- Mazie Turner (1954-2014), Australian artist
- Macy (given name)
- Maysie (given name)
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