Madge is a female given name, a short form of Madeline (itself an anglicised version of 'Magdalene'), Marjorie, Jeroen, and Margaret. It is also a male surname common in Southwest England. Madge may refer to:
Actresses:
Madge Bellamy (1899-1990), American movie actress born Margaret Derden Philpott
Madge Blake (1899-1969), American character actress most famous for her role as Aunt Harriet Cooper on the TV series Batman
Margherita Madge Evans (1909-1981), American film actress who began her career as a child actress and model
Margaret Madge Kendal (1848-1935), English actress and theatre manager
Madge Sinclair (1938-1995), Jamaican-born American actress
Madge Titheradge (1887-1961), Australian actress
Singers:
Madonna (1958-), Queen of Pop, the nickname was given by the press in the UK
In other fields:
Madge Bester (born 1963), formerly the world's shortest living woman
Madeline McDowell Breckinridge (1872–1920), women's suffragette leader and reformer
Madge Gill (1882–1961), English outsider and visionary artist
Madge Oberholtzer (1896-1925), American woman raped and murdered by the Grand Dragon of the Indiana Klan
Margaret and Mary Shelton (1510/15–1570/71), once thought to be sisters, but now believed to be the same person; may have been a mistress of King Henry VIII of England
Florence Madeline Madge Syers (1881-1917), British figure skater, first woman to compete at the World Figure Skating Championships
Madge Tennent (1889-1972), British American painter considered Hawaii's most important artist
Fictional characters:
Madge, a long-running advertising character for Palmolive dishwashing detergent portrayed by Jan Miner
Madge Allsop, the bridesmaid and longtime companion of Dame Edna Everage
Madge Bishop, one of the matriarchs of the Australian soap opera Neighbours
Madge Harvey, on the ITV programme Benidorm
Madge Owens, in the play Picnic and the 1955 film Picnic
Madge Undersee, a character in the Hunger Games trilogy
Madge Weinstein, fictional Internet personality, creation and alter ego of underground filmmaker Richard Bluestein
Madge Wildfire, in Sir Walter Scott's novel The Heart of Midlothian
