Peggy (given name)

Peggy is a female first name (often curtailed to "Peg") derived from Meggy, a diminutive version of the name Margaret.

Writers

 * Peggy Dunstan (1920–2010), New Zealand poet and writer
 * Peggy Frew (born 1976), Australian author
 * Peggy Kornegger, American writer
 * Peggy McIntosh (born 1934), American writer and activist
 * Peggy Noonan (born 1950), American author and commentator
 * Peggy Parish (1927–1988), American author

In entertainment

 * Peggy, a dog actor
 * Peggy Ashcroft, English actress
 * Peggy Bacon (radio producer) aka "Aunty Peggy" - BBC radio and television producer and radio presenter
 * Peggy Cass, American actress
 * Peggy Cummins, Irish actress
 * Peg Entwistle, English actress
 * Peggy Knudsen, American actress
 * Peggy Lipton, American actress
 * Peggy McIntaggart, Canadian model
 * Peggy Mount, English actress
 * Peggy Ryan, American dancer and actress
 * Peggy Shannon, American actress
 * Peggy Wood, American actress
 * Peggy Joyce, American actress
 * Diana Serra Cary, known as Baby Peggy, American child actress

In music

 * Peggy Gordon (singer), American musical theatre singer
 * Peggy Gou, South Korean DJ and musician
 * Peggy Lee, American jazz singer
 * Peggy Lennon, American singer, one of the Lennon Sisters
 * Peggy March, American pop singer
 * Peggy Seeger, American folk singer
 * Peggy Zina, Greek 'laika' singer
 * JPEGMAFIA, American Hip-Hop Rapper

In sports

 * Peggy Assinck, Canadian ice sledge hockey player and neuroscientist
 * Peggy Büchse, German long-distance swimmer
 * Peggy Fleming, American figure skater

In politics

 * Peggy Cabral, Dominican politician, diplomat and TV presenter
 * Peggy Duff, British political activist
 * Peggy Nash, Canadian politician
 * Peggy Schierenbeck, German politician
 * Peggy Hessen Følsvik, Norwegian trade unionist.

Other professions

 * Peggy Ahwesh (born 1954), American video artist
 * Peggy Eaton (1799–1879), American, wife of John Henry Eaton and figure in the Petticoat affair
 * Peggy Fairbairn-Dunlop, Samoan-New Zealand academic
 * Peggy Guggenheim (1898-1979), American art collector and socialite
 * Peggy Hård (1825–1894), Swedish clerk
 * Peggy Hettrick (died 1987), American murder victim
 * Peggy Johnson (1976–1999), American murder victim
 * Margaret "Peggy" Shippen (1760–1804), American Loyalist spy for the British and second wife of Benedict Arnold
 * Peggy Spicer (1908–1984), New Zealand painter
 * Margarita "Peggy" Schuyler Van Rensselaer (1758–1801), sister in law of Alexander Hamilton
 * Peggy Whitson (born 1960), American astronaut

Fictional characters

 * Peggy Biggs, in the American TV series Mike & Molly
 * Peggy Blackett, a character in Arthur Ransome's "Swallows and Amazons" books
 * Peggy Bundy, in the American sitcom Married... with Children
 * Peggy Carter, a Marvel Comics character
 * Peg Gallagher, from the TV show Shameless
 * Peggy Hill, in the American animated TV series King of the Hill
 * Peggy Matsuyama (aka Momoranger), in Himitsu Sentai Gorenger
 * Peggy Mitchell, in the British soap opera EastEnders
 * Peggy Ollerenshaw, in the British TV comedy series Hi-De-Hi!
 * Peggy Olson, in the American TV series Mad Men
 * Peggy Patch, a rag doll puppet in the BBC children's TV series Playdays
 * Peggy, a Hunter × Hunter character
 * Peggy, a classmate of Wanda in the children's book The Hundred Dresses
 * Peggy Blumquist, character from season 2 of American TV series Fargo