Madge (given name)

Madge is a female given name, a short form of Margaret, Marjorie, and Maggie. 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 and actress, known as "Madge" in the British press.

In other fields:
 * Madeleine Albright (1937–2022), first female Secretary of State in the United States
 * Madge Easton Anderson (1896–1992), Scottish lawyer
 * 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

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, a character in the children's television show It's a Big Big World
 * 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