Marjorie Explained

Marjorie is a female given name derived from Margaret, which means pearl. It can also be spelled as Margery, Marjory or Margaery. Marjorie is a medieval variant of Margery, influenced by the name of the herb marjoram. It came into English from the Old French, from the Latin Margarita (pearl). After the Middle Ages this name was rare, but it was revived at the end of the 19th century.

Short forms of the name include Marge, Margie, Marj and Jorie.

People

• Marjorie, Countess of Carrick (also Margaret) (1253–1292), mother of Robert the Bruce
• Marjorie Abbatt (1899–1991), English toy maker and businesswoman
• Marjorie Acker (1894–1985), American artist
• Marjorie Agosín (born 1955), American writer, activist, and professor
• Marjorie Anderson (1913–1999), British actress and BBC radio broadcaster
• Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson (1909–2002), Scottish historian and paleographer
• Marjorie Arnfield (1930–2001), English landscape artist
• Marjorie Barnard (1897–1987), Australian writer, critic, and librarian
• Marjorie Barretto (born 1974), actress and politician from the Philippines
• Marjorie Bates (1882–1962), British painter
• Marjorie Bean (died 2001), first Bermudian woman to be appointed to its Legislative Council
• Marjorie Beaucage (born 1947), Métis filmmaker
• Marjorie Bennett (1896–1982), Australian actress
• Marjorie Best (1903–1997), American costume designer
• Marjorie Bick (1915–2013), Australian biochemist and environmental scientist
• Marjorie Blamey (1919–2019), English painter and illustrator
• Marjorie Blankstein (née Rady), Canadian fundraiser, community activist, and volunteer
• Marjorie Bonner (19th century actress), American actress
• Marjorie Bonner (Ziegfeld Follies), American dancer and actress
• Marjorie Boulton (1924–2017), British writer in English and Esperanto
• Marjorie Bowen (1885–1952), British author
• Marjorie Bransfield, American actress
• Marjorie Brown, American businesswoman and owner of the Boston Celtics
• Marjorie Browne (1910–1990), British actor
• Marjorie Lee Browne (1914–1979), African-American mathematics educator
• Marjorie Bruce or Marjorie de Brus (1296–1316), eldest daughter of Robert the Bruce, King of Scots
• Marjorie Cameron (1922–1995), American artist, occultist, and actress; wife of rocket pioneer Jack Parsons
• Marjorie Harris Carr (1915–1998), American conservationist
• Marjorie Constance Caserio (1929–2021), American chemist
• Marjorie Sewell Cautley (1891–1954), American landscape architect
• Marjorie Chibnall, English historian, medievalist and Latin translator
• Marjorie Clapprood (born 1949), Massachusetts politician and talk show host
• Marjorie Clark (1909–1993), South African track and field athlete
• Marjorie Clarke, American environmental scientist
• Marjorie Cohn, American professor of law
• Marjorie Kowalski Cole (1953–2009), American author
• Marjorie Cottle, British motorcycle sports rider
• Marjorie Cotton (1913–2003), Australian children's librarian
• Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer (1907–2004), South African museum official who in 1938 publicized the existence of the coelacanth
• Marjorie Cox Crawford, Australian tennis player
• Marjorie Critten, Miss Missouri in 1958
• Marjorie Crocombe (1930–2022), author and academic from the Cook Islands
• Marjorie Dannenfelser, American anti-abortion activist, president of the Susan B. Anthony List
• Marjorie Daw (actress) (1902–1979), American film actress of the silent era
• Marjorie de Sousa (born 1980), Venezuelan model and actress
• Marjorie Deane (1914–2008), British financial journalist and author
• Marjorie Deanne (1917–1994), American film actress
• Marjorie Housepian Dobkin (1922–2013), American author and professor of English
• Marjorie Dodd, American tennis player and golfer in the early 20th century
• Marjorie Dunn, British horn player
• Marj Dusay (1936–2020), American actress
• Marjorie Estiano (born 1982), Brazilian actress and singer
• Marjorie Evasco (born 1953), Filipino poet
• Marjorie Eyre (1897–1987), English opera singer
• Marjorie Fielding (1892–1956), British stage and film actress
• Marjorie Finlay (1928–2003), American opera singer and television personality
• Marjorie Flack (1897–1958), American artist and writer of children's picture books
• Marjorie Fleming (1803–1811), Scottish child writer and poet
• Marjorie Franklin, American conceptual artist and art professor
• Marjorie Franklin (1887-1975), British psychoanalyst
• Marjorie Garber (born 1944), American author and professor
• Marjorie Gateson (1891–1977), American character actress in films of the 1930s and 1940s
• Marjorie Gestring (1922–1992), American springboard diver and Olympic gold medallist
• Marjorie Gordon (1893–1983), English actress and singer
• Marjorie Graves (1884–1961), British civil servant, Conservative politician and writer
• Marjorie Grene (1910–2009), American philosopher
• Marjorie Griffin, Irish camogie player
• Marjorie Gross (1956–1996), Canadian television writer and producer
• Marjorie Gubelmann (born 1969), American businesswoman, owner and CEO of Vie Luxe International
• Marjorie Guthrie (1917–1983), American dancer and dance teacher
• Marjorie Hahn (born 1948), American mathematician and tennis player
• Marjorie Halpin (1937–2000), U.S.-Canadian anthropologist
• Marjorie Harris (born 1937), Canadian non-fiction writer
• Marjorie Harvey, Steve Harvey's third wife
• Marjorie Silliman Harris (1890–1976), American philosopher
• Marjorie Hall Harrison (1918–1986), British astronomer
• Marjorie Heins, American lawyer, activist, writer, and founder of the Free Expression Policy Project
• Marjorie Henzell (born 1948), Australian politician
• Marj Heyduck (1913–1969), American newspaper reporter, columnist and editor and radio show host
• Marjorie Hill (1886–1909), American, a founder of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. at Howard University
• Marjorie Holt (1920–2018), Republican U.S. Congresswoman for Maryland
• Marjorie Hughes (born 1925), American singer in the Frankie Carle Orchestra
• Marjorie Hume (1900–1976), English film actress
• Marjorie Husted (1892–1986), American home economist who helped develop the brand character Betty Crocker
• Marjorie Jackson-Nelson (born 1931), Governor of South Australia and Australian athlete
• Marjorie Johnson, American baker, the "Blue Ribbon Baker" from Minnesota
• Marjorie Joyner (1896–1994), African American inventor and businesswoman
• Marjorie Kane (1909–1992), American film actress
• Marjorie Keller (1950–1994), American experimental filmmaker, author, activist, and film scholar
• Marjorie Kellogg (1922–2005), American author
• Marjorie B. Kellogg, American writer, author of Dragon Quartet
• Marjorie Lajoie, Canadian ice dancer
• Marjorie Lane, American singer and Broadway performer of the 1920s and 1930s
• Marjorie Lawrence (1907–1979), Australian soprano
• Marjorie Leeming (1903–1987), Canadian tennis player, badminton player and teacher
• Marjorie Lewty (1906–2002), British author of romance novels
• Marjorie Linklater (1909–1997), Scottish campaigner of the arts and environment
• Marjorie Linton (1917–1994), Canadian backstroke and freestyle swimmer who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics
• Marjorie Liu, American author of paranormal romance and urban fantasy novels and comic books
• Marjorie Lord (1918–2015), American television and film actress
• Marjorie Luesebrink, American teacher and author of hypermedia fiction
• Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye (1928–2015), English/Kenyan novelist, essayist and poet
• Marjorie Main (1890–1975), American character actress
• Marjorie Margolies (born 1942), American women's rights activist and educator, member of the U.S. House of Representatives
• Marjorie Matthews (1916–1986), American Bishop of the United Methodist Church
• Marjorie Maxse (1891–1975), British political organiser and the first female chief organization officer of the Conservative Party
• Marjorie McIntosh (born 1940), American historian of Great Britain
• Marjorie Batchelder McPharlin (1903–1997), American puppeteer and authority on puppet theater
• Marjorie Merryman (born 1951), American composer, author, and music educator
• Marjorie Mikasen (born 1959), American painter
• Marj Mitchell (1948–1983), Canadian curler
• Marjorie Monaghan, American actress
• Marjorie Montgomery (1912–1991), American child dancer and actress
• Marjorie Morgan (1915–2007), Canadian writer and author
• Marjorie Hope Nicolson (1894–1981), American literary scholar
• Marjorie Noël (1945–2000), French pop singer, represented Monaco in the 1965 Eurovision Song Contest
• Marjorie Oelrichs (1908–1937), American socialite
• Marjorie Okell (1908–2009), track and field athlete from Great Britain
• Marjorie Ozanne (1897–1973), Guernsey author in Guernésiais, bird hospital founder
• Marjorie Parker (died 1991), Australian civic and political activist
• Marjorie Perloff (born 1931), Austrian-born U.S. poetry criticGuernésiais
• Marjorie Pickthall (1883–1922), Canadian writer born in England
• Marjorie Pierce (1900–1999), American architect
• Marjorie Pizer (1920–2016), Australian poet
• Marjorie Merriweather Post (1887–1973), American socialite and the founder of General Foods, Inc.
• Marjorie Pratt, Countess of Brecknock (died 1989), British peeress
• Marjorie Priceman (born 1958), American author and illustrator of children's books
• Marjorie Proops (1911–1996), British newspaper columnist and agony aunt
• Marjorie Quennell (1884–1972), British historian, illustrator and museum curator
• Marjorie Rambeau (1889–1970), American film and stage actress
• Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896–1953), American author
• Robert and Marjorie Rawlins, American philanthropists and patrons of the arts, particularly music
• Marjorie Rendell (born 1947), federal judge and former First Lady of Pennsylvania
• Marjorie Reynolds (1917–1997), American film actress
• Marjorie Rhodes (1897–1979), British actress
• Marjorie Rice (1923–2017), American amateur mathematician
• Marjorie Riordan (1920-1984), American actress and psychologist
• Marjorie Scardino (born 1947), American-British CEO of Pearson PLC
• Marjorie Schick (1941–2017), American jewelry artist and academic
• Marjorie Schwarzer (born 1957), American museum writer and educator
• Marjorie W. Sharmat (1928–2019), American children's writer
• Marjorie Shostak (1945–1996), American anthropologist
• Marjorie Lynette Sigley (1928–1997), British artist, writer, actress, teacher, choreographer, theatre director and television producer
• Marjorie Silcoff, Canadian actress, a cast member on the Canadian sketch comedy TV series You Can't Do That on Television
• Marjorie Sinclair, Baroness Pentland (1880–1970), daughter of Sir John Campbell Hamilton-Gordon
• Marjorie Parker Smith (1917–2009), American champion ice skater in dance and figure skating competitions
• Marjorie Spock (1904–2008), American environmentalist, author and poet
• Marjorie Strider (1934-2014), American painter, sculptor and performance artist
• Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki (born 1933), American author and emerita professor of theology
• Marjorie Sweeting, British geomorphologist specialising in karst phenomena
• Marjorie Tallchief (1926–2021), American ballerina of the Osage Nation
• Marjorie Taylor (1912–1974), British stage and film actress
• Marjorie Taylor Greene (born 1974), American politician, conspiracy theorist, and businesswoman
• Marjorie Thomas (1923–2008), English opera and oratorio singer
• Marjorie Thompson (1954–2014), American biologist and musician
• Marjorie Tipping MBE (1917–2009), Australian historian and patron of community services
• Marjorie Torrey (1891–1964), American illustrator and author of children's books
• Marjorie Tuite (1922–1986), Dominican nun from New York City
• Marjorie R. Turnbull (born 1940), representative in Florida's House of Representatives
• Marjorie van Vliet (1923–1990), American teacher and aviator
• Marjorie Vincent, former journalist and beauty contestant who was crowned Miss America 1991
• Marjorie Wallace (born 1954), American model turned television presenter
• Marjorie Wallace (SANE) (born 1945), British writer, broadcaster and investigative journalist; chief executive of SANE
• Marjorie Weaver (1913–1994), American film actress of the 1930s through the early 1950s
• Marjorie Welish (born 1944), American poet, artist, and art critic
• Marjorie Westbury (1905–1989), English radio actress and singer
• Marjorie Wheeler-Barclay, American historian and university professor
• Marjorie Whitaker (1895–1976) (pseudonym Malachi Whitaker), English writer noted for short stories and an autobiography
• Marjorie White (1904–1935), Canadian-born actress of stage and film
• Marjorie M. Whiteman (1898–1986), American expert on international law
• Marjorie Williams (1958–2005), American writer, reporter, and columnist
• Marjorie Williamson (1913–2002), British academic, physicist, and university administrator
• Marjorie Willison, Canadian author of books on gardening and a radio personality
• Marjorie Muir Worthington (1900–1976), American author of novels and short stories
• Marjorie Yang (born 1952), non-official member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong
• Marjorie Yates (born 1941), British actress known for role in the Channel 4 drama Shameless

Fictional characters

• Cheryl Marjorie Blossom, an Archie Comics and Riverdale TV show character
• Marj Brasch, on the New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street
• the imaginary title character of "Marjorie Daw", a short story by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
• Marjorie Dean, protagonist of a series of books for girls by Josephine Chase
• Marjorie Dursley, a character in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter
• Marjorie Lindon, a character in the 1919 British silent horror movie The Beetle
• Marjorie Morgenstern, title character of Marjorie Morningstar, a 1955 novel by Herman Wouk and the 1958 film adaptation of the same name
• Marjorie "Marge" Simpson, from the TV series The Simpsons

Other

• "Marjorie" (song), 2020 song by Taylor Swift

See also

• Margery (disambiguation)
• Marjory