Madge (given name) explained

Madge is a female given name, a short form of Margaret, Marjorie, and Maggie.^[1] Madge may refer to:

Actresses:

Madge Bellamy (1899–1990), American movie actress born Margaret Derden Philpott
Madge Blake (1899–1969), American character actress most famous for her role as Aunt Harriet Cooper on the TV series Batman
Madge Evans (born Margherita Evans; 1909–1981), American film actress who began her career as a child actress and model
Dame Madge Kendal (1848–1935), English actress and theatre manager
Madge Lessing (1873–1966), English singer and actress
Madge Sinclair (1938–1995), Jamaican-born American actress
Madge Titheradge (1887–1961), Australian actress

Singers:

In other fields:

Madeleine Albright (1937–2022), first female Secretary of State in the United States
Madge Easton Anderson (1896–1992), Scottish lawyer
Madge Bester (1963–2018), formerly the world's shortest living woman
Madeline McDowell Breckinridge (1872–1920), women's suffragette leader and reformer
Madge Gill (1882–1961), English outsider and visionary artist
Madge Miller Green (1900–1989), American politician and educator
Madge Knight (1895–1974), English artist
Madge Oberholtzer (1896–1925), American woman raped and murdered by the Grand Dragon of the Indiana Klan
Madge Oliver (1875–1924), British artist
Margaret and Mary Shelton (1510/15–1570/71), 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 (born Florence Madeline Syers; 1881–1917), British figure skater, first woman to compete at the World Figure Skating Championships
Madge Tennent (1889–1972), British-American painter considered the greatest individual contributor to 20th-century Hawaiian art ^[2]

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 (played by actress Emily Perry)
Madge Bishop, one of the matriarchs of the Australian soap opera Neighbours
Madge Harvey, on the ITV programme Benidorm
Madge, a character in the children's television show It's a Big Big World
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

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