Margaretta_(given_name)
Margaretta (given name)
Name list
Margaretta is a feminine given name. It derives from Latin, where it came from the Greek word margaritari (μαργαριτάρι), meaning pearl, which was borrowed from the Persians.[1] It is cognate with Margaret, Marguerite, and Margarita.[2]
People with the name include:
- Margaretta Brucker (1883–1958), American fiction author
- Margaretta Higford Burr, also known as Anne-Margaretta Burr (1817–1892), English watercolour painter
- Margaretta Parker Cox, née Blair (fl. 1910s–1950s), second wife of politician James M. Cox and First Lady of Ohio
- Margaretta Craig (1902–1963), American nurse and a missionary
- Margaretta D'Arcy (born 1934), Irish actress, writer, playwright, and activist
- Margaretta Dressler, née Park (f. 1890s), wife of William F. Dressler
- Margaretta Eagar (1863—1936), Irish woman who was a nanny to the daughters of the Emperor and Empress of Russia
- Margaretta Faugères (1771–1801), American playwright, poet, and political activist
- Margaretta Finch-Hatton, Countess of Winchilsea (1885–1952), American heiress
- Margaretta Forten (1806–1875), African-American suffragist and abolitionist
- Margaretta Foster, 1st Viscountess Ferrard (c. 1737–1824), Anglo-Irish peeress
- Margaretta Graddon (born 1804), British popular singer
- Margaretta Groark (fl. 2000s), The Amazing Race contestant
- Margaretta Hicks (fl. 1880s–1910s), British socialist activist
- Margaretta S. Hinchman (1876–1955), American artist, illustrator, photographer, and sculptor
- Margaretta Elizabeth La Mott (fl. 1820s), wife of Alfred V. du Pont
- Margaretta "Etta" Lemon (1860–1953), English bird conservationist and a founding member of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
- Margaretta M. Lovell (fl. 1980s–2020s), American art historian
- Margaretta Mitchell (born 1935), American photographer and writer
- Margaretta Morris (1797–1867), American entomologist
- Margaretta Palmer (1862–1924), American astronomer, one of the first women to earn a doctorate in astronomy
- Margaretta Angelica Peale (1795–1882), American painter
- Margaretta Riley (1804–1899), English botanist
- Margaretta "Happy" Rockefeller, née Fitler (1926–2015), philanthropist and wife of vice president Nelson Rockefeller
- Margaretta Salinger (1907–1985), American art historian and curator
- Margaretta Schwartz (fl. 1870s), one of the first distinguished female performers in Yiddish theater
- Margaretta Scott (1912–2005), English stage, screen and television actress
- Margaretta Taylor (born 1942), American billionaire heiress
- Margaretta Tuttle (1875–1958), American writer
- Margaretta Wade Campbell, birth name of Margaret Deland (1857–1945), American novelist, short story writer, and poet
- Margaretta Sully West (d. 1810), American stage actress and theater director
