Madge (given name)

Madge is a female given name, a short form of Margaret, Marjorie, Jeroen, and Maggie.[1] Madge may refer to:

Actresses:

• Madge Bellamy (1899–1990), American movie actress born Margaret Derden Philpott
• Madge Blake (1899–1969), American character actress most famous for her role as Aunt Harriet Cooper on the TV series Batman
• Madge Evans (born Margherita Evans; 1909–1981), American film actress who began her career as a child actress and model
• Dame Madge Kendal (1848–1935), English actress and theatre manager
• Madge Lessing (1873–1966), English singer and actress
• Madge Sinclair (1938–1995), Jamaican-born American actress
• Madge Titheradge (1887–1961), Australian actress

Singers:

• Madonna, American singer, actress and activist; known as "Madge" in the British tabloids

In other fields:

• Madeleine Albright (born 1937), first female Secretary of State in the United States
• Madge Bester (1963–2018), formerly the world's shortest living woman
• Madeline McDowell Breckinridge (1872–1920), women's suffragette leader and reformer
• Madge Gill (1882–1961), English outsider and visionary artist
• Madge Miller Green (1900-1989), American politician and educator
• Madge Knight (1895–1974), English artist
• Madge Oberholtzer (1896–1925), American woman raped and murdered by the Grand Dragon of the Indiana Klan
• Madge Oliver (1875–1924), British artist
• Margaret and Mary Shelton (1510/15–1570/71), once thought to be sisters, but now believed to be the same person; may have been a mistress of King Henry VIII of England
• Madge Syers (born Florence Madeline Syers; 1881–1917), British figure skater, first woman to compete at the World Figure Skating Championships
• Madge Tennent (1889–1972), British-American painter considered the greatest individual contributor to 20th-century Hawaiian art [2]

Fictional characters:

• Madge, a long-running advertising character for Palmolive dishwashing detergent portrayed by Jan Miner
• Madge Allsop, long-suffering bridesmaid and longtime companion of Dame Edna Everage (played by actress Emily Perry)
• Madge Bishop, one of the matriarchs of the Australian soap opera Neighbours
• Madge Harvey, on the ITV programme Benidorm
• Madge Madsen, a character in the TV show The Office.
• Madge Owens, in the play Picnic and the 1955 film Picnic
• Madge Undersee, a character in the Hunger Games trilogy
• Madge Weinstein, fictional Internet personality, creation and alter ego of underground filmmaker Richard Bluestein
• Madge Wildfire, in Sir Walter Scott's novel The Heart of Midlothian

References

1. Behind the Name
2. "The History of Today: 150 Years". Honolulu Advertiser. February 5, 2006.