Famous People with Name Margaret

Margaret Eleanor Atwood,            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Margaret Eleanor Atwood,: is a Canadian writer. A prolific poet, novelist, literary critic, feminist and activist,she is best known for her work as a novelist, her poetry is noteworthy. Many of her poems have been inspired by myths, and fairy tales, which were an interest of hers from an early age. Atwood also published short stories in Playboy magazine.

Margaret Grace Denig            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Margaret Grace Denig: She is best known for her work as Shannon Rutherford on the television series Lost and for her role as Kim in the 2008 action film Taken where she starred alongside Liam Neeson, Famke Janssen and Holly Valance.Over the following years Maggie, under her stage name Maggie Grace, had guest appearances on several television shows, including CSI: Miami, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Oliver Beene, and portrayed Martha Moxley in the television movie Murder In Greenwich. In 2003, she played the Goth-influenced, estranged daughter of Tom Selleck and Wendy Crewson in the drama 12 Mile Road.It was in 2004 that Grace landed her big break when she won the role of the affluent, lazy and self-centered Shannon Rutherford on J. J. Abrams' television pilot Lost. When Lost was picked up for a full season by ABC Grace relocated to Oahu, Hawaii where the show is filmed.

Margaret Morse Nice            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Margaret Morse Nice: was an American ornithologist who made an extensive study of the life history of the Song Sparrow and was author of Studies in the Life History of the Song Sparrow (1937).From 1913 to 1927 she studied the birds of Oklahoma which were published as the "Birds of Oklahoma" in 1931. During the time in Oklahoma, she also became very interested in child psychology on which she published 18 articles. She studied her own children, their vocabulary, sentence length and speech development. In 1927 she moved to Columbus, Ohio, where Blaine had accepted a professorship at the Ohio State University. Here she carried out the study of sparrows that established her as one of the leading ornithologists in the world, recording the behavior of individual birds over a long period of time. She studied two banded pairs of birds initially and later 69 banded pairs. Beginning in 1929, she spent eight years studying these birds and focused on interactions

Margaret Floy Washburn            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Margaret Floy Washburn: American psychologist in the early 20th century, was best known for her experimental work in animal behavior and motor theory development. She was the first woman to be granted a Ph.D in psychology (1894).

Margaret Ethridge Knight            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Margaret Ethridge Knight: was an American inventor. She was born in York, Maine to James Knight and Hannah Teal and was a cotton mill worker from ages nine through 56. In 1868, while living in Springfield, Massachusetts, Knight invented a machine that folded and glued paper to form the brown paper bags familiar to shoppers today.Knight built a wooden model of the device, but needed a working iron model to apply for a patent. Charles Annan, who was in the machine shop where Knight's iron model was being built, stole her design and patented the device. Knight filed a successful patent interference lawsuit and was awarded the patent in 1873. With a Massachusetts business man, Knight established the Eastern Paper Bag Co. and received royalties.