Margarita (disambiguation)
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Margarita may refer to:
- The margarita, an alcoholic beverage made with tequila
- Margarita Island, a Caribbean Island off the coast of Venezuela
- Infanta Margarita, a 1659 painting by Diego Velázquez of Margaret Theresa of Spain
- Margaritaville, a 1977 song by Jimmy Buffett
- The Master and Margarita, a novel by Soviet author Mikhail Bulgakov
- Felis margarita, the scientific name for the Sand Cat
- The Latin word for "pearl"
- Margaritas (restaurant)
- Pizza Margherita, a pizza made with tomatoes, mozzarella, and basil
- Margarita (TV series), a 2007 TV series of ABS-CBN
- 'Margarita', a chartreuse-foliaged cultivar of sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)
- Margarita Surprise a character in the video game Grim Grimoire.
[edit] Persons
"Margarita" is a Spanish variant of the English name Margaret. Persons with this name include:
- Infanta Margarita, Duchess of Soria, b. 1939
- Margarita Aliger, a Soviet poet and journalist
- Margarita Armstrong-Jones, b 2002 and fourteenth in line for the British throne
- Margarita Beatriz Luna, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Mexico
- Princess Margarita Maria Beatriz of Bourbon-Parma, Countess of Colorno, a Dutch princess
- Margarita Carmen Cansino, the birth name of American actress Rita Hayworth
- Margarita Gomez-Acebo y Cejuela, the consort of Tsar Simeon II of Bulgaria
- Margarita Lopez, a politician in New York City, USA
- Margarita of Austria, 1584-1611
- Princess Margarita of Romania (b. 1949)
- Margarita Ponomaryova (b. 1963), a Russian hurdler
- Margarita Prakatan, a Brazilian singer
- Margarita Starkevičiūtė, a Lithuanian politician
- Margarita Xirgu, a Spanish stage actress
- Nitza Margarita Cintron, Chief of Space Medicine at NASA's Johnson Space Center
[edit] Places
- 310 Margarita, a Main Belt asteroid
- Isla Margarita, an island in the Venezuelan state of Nueva Esparta
- Margarita (CN), a small town in Italy
- Rancho Santa Margarita, California, a city in the United States
- Margarita, Panama, in the former Canal Zone