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Peggy (given name)

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Gender
  
Female

Related names
  
Margaret

Meaning
  
nickname for Margaret

Peggy is a female first name (often curtailed to "Peg") derived from Meggy, a diminutive version of the name Margaret. It is occasionally also a male nickname. It may refer to:

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Writers

  • Peggy Kornegger, American writer
  • Peggy Noonan, author
  • Peggy Parish, author

    • In entertainment

  • Peggy Ashcroft, actress
  • Peggy Cummins, actress
  • Peg Entwistle, actress
  • Peggy Knudsen, actress
  • Peggy Lipton, actress
  • Peggy McIntaggart, model
  • Peggy Mount, actress
  • Peggy Ryan, dancer
  • Peggy Shannon, actress
  • Peggy Wood, actress
  • Baby Peggy, child actress of the silent film era
  • Peggy Gallagher, Character from the TV show "Shameless"

    • In music

  • Peggy Gordon (singer), musical singer
  • Peggy Lee, jazz singer
  • Peggy March, pop singer
  • Peggy Zina, Greek 'laika' singer

    • In sports

  • Peggy Büchse, German long-distance swimmer
  • Peggy Fleming, figure skater
  • Jim O'Neil (ice hockey) (1913-1997), Canadian National Hockey League player
  • George Peggy Parratt (1883-1959), professional football player

    • Pedro (Peggy) Milard- famous xc runner and space racer

    In politics

  • Peg Luksik, Pennsylvania politician
  • Peggy Nash, Canadian politician

    • Other

  • Peggy Ahwesh, American video artist
  • Peggy Hård, Swedish clerk
  • Peggy Whitson, American astronaut

    • Fictional characters

  • Peggy Biggs, 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
  • 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 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

    • References

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