amount of fraud in the United Kingdom parliamentary expenses scandal Margaret Ritchie (born 1958), politician who served in the Northern Ireland Assembly and both British Houses of Parliament Margaret Rose Sanford (1918–2006), First Lady of North Carolina Margaret Selina Martei, Ghanaian Member of Parliament for Asamankese (1965–1966) Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013), first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom who served from 1979 to 1990 Margeret (Maggie) Throup (born 1967), British Member of Parliament for Erewash Sports Margaret Boyd (1913–1993), English lacrosse player and schoolteacher Margaret Court (born 1942), Australian tennis player Margaret Groos (born 1959), American long-distance runner Margaret Hoelzer (born 1983), American swimmer Margaret Jeffery (1920–2004), British swimmer and Olympian Margaret Martin (born 1979), American professional bodybuilder Margaret Maughan (1928–2020), British Paralympic archer Margaret McIver (1933–2020), Australian equestrian Other Margaret Barclay (accused witch), 1618 as a result of witch trials held in Irvine, Ayrshire Margaret Catherine Blaikie (1823-1915), Scottish temperance reformer Margaret Brent (), English immigrant colonial landowner Margaret Casely-Hayford (born 1959), British lawyer Margaret Cochran Corbin (1751–1800), fought in the U.S. Revolutionary War and was given a pension by Congress Margaret Douie Dougal (1858-1938), British chemical publication indexer Margaret Dye Ellis (1845-1925), American social reformer Margaret E. Kuhn (1905–1995), founder of the Gray Panthers organisation Margaret Elizabeth Douglas (1934–2008), English television producer and executive Margaret Feeny (1917–2012), founder and first director of London's Africa Centre Margaret Hampshire (1918–2004), British educator and civil servant Margaret Haughery (1813–1882), philanthropist known as "the mother of the orphans" Margaret Jeffrey (1896–1977), Australian police officer Margaret Bischell McFadden, American philanthropist and social worker Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage (1828–1918), American philanthropist who established the Russell Sage Foundation Margaret Prior (1773–1842), American humanitarian, missionary, moral reform worker, writer Margaret Sanger (1879–1966), founder of the birth control movement in the United States Margaret Swain (1909–2002), English embroidery and textile historian Fictional characters Margaret Evelyn "Maggie" Simpson, in the TV show The Simpsons Margaret Fish, a chiropodist and a character in Bob and Margaret Margaret Hale, heroine in Elizabeth Gaskell's 1855 novel North and South Margaret Hooper, secretary to White House Chiefs of Staff Leo McGarry and CJ Cregg played by NiCole Robinson in the TV series The West Wing Margaret Houlihan, character in both the movie and television show M*A*S*H Margaret in Much Ado About Nothing, by Shakespeare Margaret "Meg" March, character in Little Women by Louisa May Alcott Margaret Mildred "Kit" Kittredge, in the Kit