Madge (given name)
Madge is a female given name, a short form of Margaret, Marjorie, Jeroen, and Maggie. Madge may refer to:
Actresses:
Singers:
- Madonna, American singer, actress and activist; known as "Madge" in the British tabloids
In other fields:
- Madeleine Albright, first female Secretary of State in the United States
- Madge Bester, formerly the world's shortest living woman
- Madeline McDowell Breckinridge, women's suffragette leader and reformer
- Madge Gill, English outsider and visionary artist
- Madge Knight, English artist
- Madge Oberholtzer, American woman raped and murdered by the Grand Dragon of the Indiana Klan
- Madge Oliver, British artist
- Margaret and Mary Shelton, once thought to be sisters, but now believed to be the same person; may have been a mistress of King Henry VIII of England
- Madge Syers, British figure skater, first woman to compete at the World Figure Skating Championships
- Madge Tennent, British-American painter considered the greatest individual contributor to 20th-century Hawaiian art
Fictional characters:
- Madge, a long-running advertising character for Palmolive dishwashing detergent portrayed by Jan Miner
- Madge Allsop, long-suffering 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 Madsen, a character in the TV show The Office.
- 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