Famous People with Name Marguerite

Marguerite Viby            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Marguerite Viby: was a Danish actress of stage, film and television. Considered one of the great comedy actresses of Danish cinema, Viby received honorary Bodil and Robert Awards in 2000 for lifetime achievement. She appeared in more than 50 films and television shows during a career that spanned from the silent film era in 1929 until a television series in 1983.

Marguerite Brunet            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Marguerite Brunet: was a French actress and theatre director. Having obtained through her liaison with the marquis de Saint-Contest the leadership of a small theatre on rue Satory in Versailles, she turned her attention to queen Marie-Antoinette and through her in 1775 gained the exclusive rights to balls and shows at the Palace of Versailles, followed in 1779 by rights over the theatres in Fontainebleau, Saint-Cloud, Marly, Compiègne, Rouen, Caen, Orléans, Nantes and Le Havre.

Marguerite Laugier            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Marguerite Laugier: was a French astronomer active at the Nice Observatory from the 1930s to the 1950s. Contemporary astronomical articles refer to her as "Madame Laugier". She discovered a number of asteroids. The asteroid 1597 Laugier[1] is probably named for her.

Marguerite Reuche            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Marguerite Reuche: was a French Olympic fencer. She competed in the individual women's foil competition at the 1928 and 1936 Summer Olympics.[1]

Marguerite-Élie Guadet            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Marguerite-Élie Guadet: was a French political figure of the Revolutionary period. As a supporter of the monarchist and liberal constitution of 1791 he joined the Jacobin Club, and here and in the Assembly became an eloquent advocate of all the measures directed against real or supposed traitors to the Constitution.

Lazare Nicolas Marguerite            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Lazare Nicolas Marguerite: the Organizer of Victory in the French Revolutionary Wars, was a French politician, engineer, and mathematician.