Famous People with Name Margaret

Margaret Mead            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Margaret Mead: was an American cultural anthropologist who was frequently a featured writer and speaker in the mass media throughout the 1960s and 1970s.She was both a popularizer of the insights of anthropology into modern American and western life, and also a respected, if controversial, academic anthropologist.

Margaret Colin            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Margaret Colin: After graduating from Hofstra University, Colin began her acting career in the soap opera The Edge of Night, playing an heiress and former terrorist. In seven months on that show, her character survived seven murder attempts and ended up marrying her stepbrother. She followed that role with a longer stint on As the World Turns, originating the role of Margo Montgomery, a character that is still part of that show more than 20 years later.

Margaret O'Rene "Peggy" Ryan            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Margaret O'Rene "Peggy" Ryan: was an American dancer who starred in a series of movie musicals at Universal Studios, tapping and clowning with Donald O'Connor.Her parents were vaudevilleians, "The Merry Dancing Ryans", and Peggy joined them onstage before she was two years old. Her singing, acting, and dancing skills were noticed by George Murphy, who helped her get a role in 1937's Top of the Town. Her first pairing with O'Connor was 1942's What's Cookin'?, and they appeared in films together throughout World War II.

Margaret Unnewehr Schott            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Margaret Unnewehr Schott: was the controversial former managing general partner, president and CEO of the National League's Cincinnati Reds franchise from 1984 to 1999. She was the first woman to buy a baseball team rather than inheriting it. [1] She is perhaps most well known for her controversial behavior during her tenure as owner of The Reds, which included slurs towards African-Americans, Jews, the Japanese and gays. She was banned from managing the team by the MLB from 1996 through 1998 due to a series of statements sympathizing with Nazi party leader Adolf Hitler; shortly after, she sold the majority of her share in the team.

Margaret O'Brien            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Margaret O'Brien: is an Academy Award-winning American film actress, and although her career was brief, was one of the most highly regarded child actors in cinema history.