Peggy_(given_name)
Peggy (given name)
Name list
Peggy is a female first name (often curtailed to "Peg") derived from Meggy, a diminutive version of the name Margaret.[1]
Writers
- Peggy Dunstan (1920–2010), New Zealand poet and writer
- Peggy Frew (born 1976), Australian author
- Peggy Kornegger, American writer
- Peggy McIntosh (born 1934), American writer and activist
- Peggy Noonan (born 1950), American author and commentator
- Peggy Parish (1927–1988), American author
In entertainment
- Peggy, a dog actor
- Peggy Ashcroft, English actress
- Peggy Bacon (radio producer) aka "Aunty Peggy" - BBC radio and television producer and radio presenter
- Peggy Cass, American actress
- Peggy Cummins, Irish actress
- Peg Entwistle, English actress
- Peggy Knudsen, American actress
- Peggy Lipton, American actress
- Peggy McIntaggart, Canadian model
- Peggy Mount, English actress
- Peggy Ryan, American dancer and actress
- Peggy Shannon, American actress
- Peggy Wood, American actress
- Peggy Joyce, American actress
- Diana Serra Cary, known as Baby Peggy, American child actress
In music
- Peggy Gordon (singer), American musical theatre singer
- Peggy Gou, South Korean DJ and musician
- Peggy Lee, American jazz singer
- Peggy Lennon, American singer, one of the Lennon Sisters
- Peggy March, American pop singer
- Peggy Seeger, American folk singer
- Peggy Zina, Greek 'laika' singer
- JPEGMAFIA, American Hip-Hop Rapper
In sports
- Peggy Assinck, Canadian ice sledge hockey player and neuroscientist
- Peggy Büchse, German long-distance swimmer
- Peggy Fleming, American figure skater
In politics
- Peggy Cabral, Dominican politician, diplomat and TV presenter
- Peggy Duff, British political activist
- Peggy Nash, Canadian politician
- Peggy Schierenbeck, German politician
- Peggy Hessen Følsvik, Norwegian trade unionist.
Other professions
- Peggy Ahwesh (born 1954), American video artist
- Peggy Eaton (1799–1879), American, wife of John Henry Eaton and figure in the Petticoat affair
- Peggy Fairbairn-Dunlop, Samoan-New Zealand academic
- Peggy Guggenheim (1898-1979), American art collector and socialite
- Peggy Hård (1825–1894), Swedish clerk
- Peggy Hettrick (died 1987), American murder victim
- Peggy Johnson (1976–1999), American murder victim
- Margaret "Peggy" Shippen (1760–1804), American Loyalist spy for the British and second wife of Benedict Arnold
- Peggy Spicer (1908–1984), New Zealand painter
- Margarita "Peggy" Schuyler Van Rensselaer (1758–1801), sister in law of Alexander Hamilton
- Peggy Whitson (born 1960), American astronaut
- 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 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
- "Behind the Name: Meaning, origin and history of the name Peggy". Retrieved 21 January 2016.
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