Madge (given name)

Madge is a female given name, a short form of Madeline (itself an anglicised version of 'Magdalene'), Marjorie, Jeroen, and Margaret.^[1] It is also a male surname common in Southwest England. 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
• Margherita Madge Evans (1909-1981), American film actress who began her career as a child actress and model
• Margaret Madge Kendal (1848-1935), English actress and theatre manager
• Madge Sinclair (1938-1995), Jamaican-born American actress
• Madge Titheradge (1887-1961), Australian actress

Singers:

• Madonna (1958-), Queen of Pop, the nickname was given by the press in the UK

In other fields:

• Madge Bester (born 1963), 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 Oberholtzer (1896-1925), American woman raped and murdered by the Grand Dragon of the Indiana Klan
• 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
• Florence Madeline Madge Syers (1881-1917), British figure skater, first woman to compete at the World Figure Skating Championships
• Madge Tennent (1889-1972), British American painter considered Hawaii's most important artist

Fictional characters:

• Madge, a long-running advertising character for Palmolive dishwashing detergent portrayed by Jan Miner
• Madge Allsop, the bridesmaid and longtime companion of Dame Edna Everage
• Madge Bishop, one of the matriarchs of the Australian soap opera Neighbours
• Madge Harvey, on the ITV programme Benidorm
• 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

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