Meaning of name Margaret

The names of some famous persons by the name Margaret (or its variants) are:

Margaret Thatcher, born on 13 October, a famous writer. Margaret Thatcher's background: Former British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She is the first and to date only woman to hold either post. She is also the oldest living British Prime minister. Thatcher's tenure as Prime Minister was the longest since that of Lord Salisbury and was the longest continuous period in office since the tenure of Lord Liverpool who was Prime Minister in the early 19th century. She was the first woman to lead a major political party in the UK, and the first of only three women to have held any of the four great offices of state. She currently has a life peerage as Baroness Thatcher, of Kesteven in the County of Lincolnshire, which entitles her to sit in the House of Lords. During her tenure as Prime Minister she was said to need just four hours' sleep a night.

Margaret Mead, born on 16 December, a famous anthropologist. Margaret Mead's background: An American cultural anthropologist who was frequently a featured writer and speaker in the mass media throughout the '60s and '70s. She was both a populariser of the insights of anthropology into modern American and western life, and also a respected, if controversial, academic anthropologist. Her reports about the purportedly healthy attitude towards sex in South Pacific and Southeast Asian traditional cultures amply informed the '60s 'sexual revolution'. At the end of her career, her propositions were — albeit controversially — challenged by a fellow anthropologist and literate members of societies on whom she had long before studied and reported. Mead was a champion of broadened sexual mores within a context of traditional western religious life.

Margaret Edith Weis, born on 16 March , a famous novelist. Margaret Edith Weis's background: A fantasy novelist who, along with Tracy Hickman, is one of the original creators of the Dragonlance game world and has written numerous novels and short stories set in the world of Krynn. She graduated from the University of Missouri–Columbia and now lives in southern Wisconsin in a converted barn. Most recently, she has completed the third novel in the Dragonvarld trilogy for TOR, Master of Dragons. Her second novel in the Dark Disciple series, Amber and Iron, was released to stores on February 1, 2006. She has finished work on the first novel in the Lost Chronicles series with co-author Hickman, entitled Dragons of the Dwarven Depths, which was released in July 2006.