Peggy (given name)
Peggy is a female first name derived from Meggy, a diminutive version of the name Margaret. It is occasionally also a male nickname.People
Writers
- Peggy Dunstan, New Zealand poet and writer
- Peggy Frew, Australian author
- Peggy Kornegger, American writer
- Peggy McIntosh, American writer and activist
- Peggy Noonan, American author and commentator
- Peggy Parish, American author
In entertainment
- Peggy Ashcroft, English actress
- 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
- Baby Peggy, American child actress
- Peggy Joyce, American actress
In music
- JPEGMafia, abbreviated to Peggy, birth name Barrington DeVaughn Hendricks, American rapper and record producer
- Peggy Gordon, American musical theatre singer
- Peggy Lee, American jazz singer
- Peggy March, American pop singer
- Peggy Seeger, American folk singer
- Peggy Zina, Greek 'laika' singer
- Peggy Gou, South Korean DJ and musician
In sports
- Peggy Assinck, Canadian ice sledge hockey player and neuroscientist
- Peggy Büchse, German long-distance swimmer
- Peggy Fleming, American figure skater
- Jim O'Neil , Canadian ice hockey player
- George Peggy Parratt, American football player
In politics
- Peggy Cabral, Dominican politician, diplomat and TV presenter
- Peggy Duff, British political activist
- Peg Luksik, Pennsylvania politician
- Peggy Nash, Canadian politician
Other
- Peggy Ahwesh, American video artist
- Peggy Eaton, wife of John Henry Eaton and figure in the Petticoat affair
- Peggy Fairbairn-Dunlop, Samoan-New Zealand academic
- Peggy Hård, Swedish clerk
- Peggy Hettrick, American woman who was murdered
- Peggy Johnson, American female murder victim
- Margaret "Peggy" Shippen, American Loyalist spy for the British and second wife of Benedict Arnold
- Peggy Spicer, New Zealand painter
- Margarita "Peggy" Schuyler Van Rensselaer, sister in law of Alexander Hamilton
- 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
- Peg Gallagher, a character from the TV show Shameless
- Peggy Hill, in the American animated TV series King of the Hill
- Peggy Matsuyama, in Himitsu Sentai Gorenger
- Peggy Mitchell, in the British soap opera EastEnders
- Peggy Ollerenshaw, 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 villain/murderer in Tales from the Crypt.