Margot (; ) is a feminine French given name, a variant of Marguerite. It is also occasionally a surname. Persons named Margot include the following: People with the given name Margot Margot Asquith, countess of Oxford and Asquith Marguerite de Valois, known as La Reine Margot, queen of France and of Navarre Margot Arce de Vázquez, Puerto Rican essayist and educator Margot Bennett (1912–1980), Scottish screenwriter and crime author Margot Boer (born 1985), Dutch speed skater Margot Bryant, British actress Margot Eskens (born 1939), German singer Margot Fonteyn, British ballerina Margot Franssen (born 1952), Dutch-born Canadian entrepreneur and activist Margot Frank (1926–1945), sister of German World War II diarist Anne Frank Margot van Geffen (born 1989), Dutch field hockey player Margot Heuman (born 1928), German-born American Holocaust survivor Margot Hielscher (1919–2017), German singer and actress Margot Honecker (1927–2016), German politician, former wife of Erich Honecker Margot Käßmann (born 1958), German theologist and writer Margot Kidder, Canadian-American actress known for playing Lois Lane in Superman Margot Lander, Danish ballerina Margot Lumb, British squash player Margot Marsman (born 1932), Dutch swimmer Margot Osmeña (born 1949), Filipino politician Margot Pardoe (1902–1996), British children's writer Margot Rojas Mendoza (1903–1996), Cuban pianist and teacher Margot Robbie (born 1990), Australian actress Margot Roosevelt, American journalist Małgorzata Szutowicz (born 1995), widely known as Margot, Polish non-binary LGBTQIA activist and co-founder of the Stop Bzdurom collective Margot Taulé, Dominican engineer and architect Margot Wallström (born 1954), Swedish politician and government minister Margot Wells, Scottish sprinter Margot Zemach, American illustrator People with the surname Margot Georges Margot (born 1902), French equestrian Jean-Luc Margot (born 1969), Belgian astronomer Manuel Margot (born 1994), Dominican baseball player In entertainment and culture Margot, 2009 film starring Anne-Marie Duff as ballerina Margot Fonteyn Margot at the Wedding, 2007 American film by Noah Baumbach La Reine Margot, 1845 novel by Alexandre Dumas La Reine Margot (1994 film), 1994 film based on the Dumas novel starring Isabelle Adjani Margot, a character in the movie Legally Blonde Margot Tenenbaum, a character in the film The Royal Tenenbaums Margot, the protagonist of Ray Bradbury's All Summer in a Day Margot Mary Wendice, a character in the 1954 Alfred Hitchcock film Dial M For Murder Margot Beste-Chetwynde, a character in Evelyn Waugh's novel Decline and Fall Margot Lane, assistant to Lamont Cranston, a character in the 1940 American film serial The Shadow French feminine given names Feminine given names